Boston’s Seaport District is about to get a sense of humor. The up-and-coming neighborhood boasts an array of corporate offices, restaurants, and residential options. But when John Tobin, …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:50PMA slew of Broadway talent will rock songs from RAZIAS SHADOW, the cult-sensation indie rock concept album making its stage debut at Joes Pub November 28-29.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44PMA revival of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at Studio 54 offers a chance to play detective and enjoy a cast, including Chita Rivera, that throws itself into the winking spirit of the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMAmerica's national elections may have come and gone, but the cast members of the Roundabout Theatre Company's pleasant revival of Rupert Holmes' 1986 Tony Award-winning musical The Mystery o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14PMNow that were down to the nitty-gritty of DANCING WITH THE STARS, or, at least as much grittiness as possible fan-favorites are all on the chopping-block. This late into the game, with next …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04PMRoundabout Theatre Company's sparkling new revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMIn “Golden Child,” a rural Chinese household’s fragile equilibrium, kept in place by tradition, is threatened when a husband returns from abroad with new ideas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBitchy is hardly the word you might associate with a play about the tumult created when a forward-thinking business man in 1918 China brings Western gadgetry and Christianity into the home h…
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The annual awards, honoring Los Angeles theater community, picked 36 winners out of 400 submitted stage productions in the last year.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:50PMLong before we all could vote people off the island for our own entertainment, there was "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Rupert Holmes wrote the book and the score for the 1985 show, which was…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 08:46PMAdditional casting has been announced for The New Group's upcoming production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Clive, which begins a limited Off-Broadway engagement Jan. 17, 2013, at The N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39PMCottesloe Theatre, LondonHow do you follow a big hit? Just as Jez Butterworth succeeded Jerusalem with the more modest The River, so Lucy Prebble follows her spectacular Enron with an intima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20PMNEW YORK (AP) — Hopefully, everyone managed to vote last week. It's one of our civic duties. But did you know there's some voting that needs to happen on Broadway, too? That might be calle…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:18PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production ofThe Mystery of Edwin Drood began previews on October 19th. The show opens officially tonight, November 13th, 2012 at Studio 54 on Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMThe swirl of history, as perceived through the lenses of both kin and country, is the atmosphere that pervades the new revival ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMI caught the original 1985 Public Theater production of Rupert Holmes’ musical version of Charles Dickens’ “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” in its initial run in Central …
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In Gregory S. Moss’s new play, “Billy Witch,” teenage summer campers comically experience sexual awakening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:57PMAt the very beginning of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” the well-designed revival of Rupert Holmes’ inventive musical cleverly adapted from Charles Dickens’ last and unfinished novel,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56PMPower, ambition and control: the King Lear sequel that's tackling today's world in a collaboration between the Almeida and Talawa Theatre Company.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32PMTingling with ensemble, the Bay Area performance group's latest asks what is a life-changing experience, can it happen on a cruise ship, and who gets hurt?
SOURCE: Culturebot at 07:30PMIn a fight scene during a recent rehearsal for “The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg,” a Kennedy Center world premiere production for young audiences, director Gregg Henry and his…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13PMAll the world's a stage, very literally, in Joe Wright's wildly theatrical adaptation of "Anna Karenina."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:12PMIt’s Folk Night all this month around the figurative fire at Camp Theater J, and all that’s missing are the s’mores. Enlivened by the tunes of the great troubadour of America’s disen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:07PMDebbie Marticio, owner of Ma Duke’s restaurant in Beverly, has been feeding the less fortunate free meals on Thanksgiving for six years. This year, she is getting some help from All Saints…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:02PMScience thrives on stage. In play after play, various scientific ideas seem to flourish in the warm, well-lit environment of the theatre, fed by a crew of artists and despite the threats of …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMThe Ovation Awards might have advanced Center Theatre Group's awareness of local talent. The best musical in a larger theater is yet another variation on Forbidden Broadway? Herbert Siguenza…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMIn 2007, I went to the Royal Court to see Free Outgoing, a play by Anupama Chandrasekhar, from Chennai. It was directed by the then rising star, Indhu Rubasingham, who has recently replaced …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIt’s been a busy time in New York theater, with major shows opening on and off Broadway like a row of falling dominoes. Happily, the percentage of good work has been high, and it just …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 07:00PMDramatist Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold certainly can't be accused of dodging difficult subject matter. They scored a huge success with Enron, which drew high praise for the vivid p…
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“Skin Tight,” a 60-minute play by New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson, is a portrait of a marriage. Essentially a two-hander (Dan Herrmann, playing the male character as a very…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:30PM“Skin Tight,” a 60-minute play by New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson, is a portrait of a marriage. Essentially a two-hander (Dan Herrmann, playing the male character as a very…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 06:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Burnt Part Boys" by the Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Burnt Part Boys" by the Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★&…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMIvanov is not as perfect a play as Chekhov’s Three Sisters or The Cherry Orchard, which came later, but I enjoyed it even more -- filled with fascinating and amusing characters, it spills …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:25PMGo back to a time where the morals were looser, shows were broader, and the liquor was cheaper as the Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University proudly presents COLE running openin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:19PMThis show nearly made the top of my head explode. It beings an entirely new meaning to the phrase Girls! Girls! Girls! This is a brilliant evening. Let me tell you a bit of how it all sh…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:13PMIn the austere surroundings of the Southwark Playhouse, this version of The Seagull dispenses with hysterics and melodrama. What we are given instead is a crystallised and understated produc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:05PMThe LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2012 season, were presented last night, November 12, at the Los Angeles Theatre in downtown…
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In “Coney,” David Johnston uses distinctive characters to paint a portrait of that urban island playground.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMThe LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2012 season, were presented last night, November 12, at the Los Angeles Theatre in downtown…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMNEW YORK — There are 400 possible permutations of endings for Rupert Holmes' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the overachieving 1985 musical that was popular for a decade or so, but then …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:49PMTwo-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello stars in the title role of the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson by Kathie Lee Gifford (book and lyrics) and compos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information Charlie CHAPLIN‘s bowler and cane to hit auction block…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMJudy Kuhn now has a strapping soldier to obsess over in the upcoming revival of Passion. Ryan Silverman is set join the Classic Stage Company's production of Stephen Sondheim and James L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:34PMComic actor Don McArt, visually memorable for his short stature and prominent ears, as well as his frequent appearances with his sister Jan McArt, died Tuesday in a hospice in Boca Raton.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:32PMSculpture is major work from the "Falling Man" series
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:32PMVelina Hasu Houston's most famous play, Tea, opened 25 years ago. Now a new version has arrived -- Tea, With Music, which features a score by Nathan Wang. But he stops short of calling it a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PMThe countdown to Christmas has begun on Broadway with A Christmas Story, The Musical, the jolly new stage adaptation of the classic 1983 holiday film favorite. Johnny Rabe stars as Christmas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:23PMCast members from the hit Broadway musical ELF will be joined by Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres, as they introduce the latest holiday creation, Cotton Headed Minty Muggins Hot Chocola…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMFrom the outdated (a medieval drinking horn) to the outlandish (a 30-hour comedy talk show marathon), Kickstarter is an increasingly popular way to fund projects. For fans of Broadway and/or…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 05:17PMNext month, Broadways Matt Dickson who just finished a run in Lincoln Centers War Horse and also appeared in all three parts of The Coast of Utopia will direct the premiere of THE MAN-MADE R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMJennifer Holliday really means it when she belts the anthem "And I'm Telling You (I'm Not Going)!" The Dreamgirls Tony winner will play Effie yet again in a Virginia produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:14PMMINING MEMORIES Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins remains the ultimate spelunking musical as it depicts a cave explorer entrapped by both hard rock and a media spectacle. The Burnt Part Boys, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:14PMMembers of the Naughton Family two-time Tony Award winner and Weston, Connecticut resident James Naughton, daughter Keira Naughton, son Greg Naughton, and Gregs wife Tony Award nominee Kell…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMFAR FROM WILD Thornton Wilder, especially as a playwright, looks to the commonality of all people to demonstrate the value in appreciating life, especially when the death of a loved one is i…
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New York City Center celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Tony Award–winning Encores! series Nov. 12 with a Gala Benefit starring Raúl Esparza and Kelli O’Hara and featu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PMRyan Silverman, who was set to star as Maxim De Winter in the now-scuttled Broadway production of Rebecca, will play the role of Giorgio in Classic Stage Company's revival of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMNew York City Center celebrated the 20th Anniversary of its Tony Awardwinning Encores series on November 12 with a Gala Benefit starring Ral Esparza and Kelli OHara, and featuring performers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMNEW YORK (AP) — "If everyone took antidepressants," a character says early in Christopher Durang's new play, "Chekhov would have had nothing to write about."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:48PMBroadway stars Emily Padgett and Matthew Hydzik will star as “Alex” and “Nick” in the world premiere of Flashdance-The Musical, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:43PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that Ryan Silverman has been cast as Giorgio, joining acclai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMP.S. Jones and The Frozen City, a new world-premiere play by acclaimed Hand to God playwright Robert Askins, will debut at the New Ohio Theatre Dec. 3. Joe Paulik, Bobby Moreno, Preston Mart…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMProducer Scott Siegel announced this morning that joining the previously announced CHEYENNE JACKSON The Performers and LAURA OSNES Cinderella as stars of BROADWAY UNPLUGGED on Monday, Decemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMHe will star as Giorgio in the Classic Stage Company revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:35PMAccording to Wlf Trap's official website, Jennifer Holliday, the Queen of Broadway Gospel returns to Dreamgirls, the six-time Tony-winning musical that recounts an all-girl groups rise to st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMCheck out photos from the 2012 Ovation Awards held Monday night at the historic Los Angeles Theatre in downtown LA. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:32PMT. Schreiber Studio and Theatre hosted a Salute to New York Theatre to honor a trio of New York theatre luminaries last night, November 12th, at the Maritime Hotel 363 West 16th Street at 9t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMJoin us this Thursday for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater culture an…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMThe last time I came to England, I was here on a ten day trip with my high school theater department. While we did hit up the Roman Baths and Stonehenge on that trip, a larger part of our ti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMThe School of Theatre at Florida State carries on its mission to engage the Tallahassee community with the Theatre for Young Audiences TYA presentation of Kevin Dyers The Monster Under the B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMThe legendary Liza Minnelli epitomizes Broadway flash and pop – and now she’ll sing and dance her way across the small screen in “Smash.”
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:23PMAFLOAT ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS Many positive things can and should be said about Sheila Callaghan’s Port Out, Starboard Home, a play about a three-day cruise at the end of which the passengers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PMThe Spanish government recently put a 21 tax on theater tickets, and Spanish theatres are fighting back to keep sales up. According to the NPR, the theatre owner in a small Spanish town is a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMThe co-artistic director of Metta Theatre tells Sophie Reynolds about Arab Nights, the company’s new production that brings together six new plays inspired by recent events in the Middle E…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:16PMAustin Pendleton will direct Harold Pinters two person, full length play, Ashes to Ashes with Diane Love and Kevin OBrien for a limited engagement at The Directors Studio, a division of The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMRyan Silverman, a handsome Raoul of Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera, will play the object of desire named Giorgio in Classic Stage Company's winter 2013 production of Stephen Son…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMTHEATER REVIEW: "I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'Em" by Teatro Vista ★★½
KERRY REID reviews "I Put the Fear of Mexico in 'Em" by Teatro Vista at Chicago Dramatists ★★½
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:08PMWe are pleased to announce the publication of The Director’s Voice, Volume 2, edited by Jason Loewith. A follow-up to the immensely popular first volume, this new collection of interviews,…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:01PMRECOMMENDED How rarely is Massenet’s “Werther,” the work many consider the crown jewel of French Romantic opera, done at Lyric Opera? Well, only twice prior in the company’s near six…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMGrammy Award winner Jennifer Holliday will reprise her Tony-winning performance as Effie White in Wolf Trap's summer staging of Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's Dreamgirls.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Disney’s Tony-winning musical The Lion King is celebrating 15 magical years on Broadway. The landmark production, which combined cutting edge technology with inventive new uses for mas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:56PMShe dressed elephants and Audrey Hepburn, and apparently preferred the elephants. Hollywood’s most legendary costume designer dishes the dirt in a nostalgic one-woman show, “A Co…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:46PMThe theatrical community turned out in force on November 12 to pay tribute to Hairspray co-author Mark O’Donnell, who died on August 6 at age 58. The Tony-winning librettist was honore…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:44PMHow Cusi Cram created her nuclear play “Radiance” The pair of watering holes in Cusi Cram’s new play Radiance will look familiar to fans of Labyrinth Theater Company. These…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:42PMAwards buzz is already swirling around Anne Hathaway for her sure to be devastating performance as Fantine in the Les Miserables film, but the actress was almost passed over for the project,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMThe Mystery of Edwin Drood hasn’t been seen on Broadway since its first production in 1985. Did our Word of Mouth panelists Brad, Phyllis and Yiping welcome this madcap musical revival…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMThe cast of the new Canadian production of London's popular The Wizard of Oz, featuring the classic movie score augmented with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, will feature…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PMIf, by the end of this world premiere you're not muttering "WTF", it’s likely that you had already checked out long before the final scene. Playright Matthew Paul Olmos’ work simply pro…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:22PMAre critics in mourning for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:21PMLeslie Uggman's is Bringing the House Down at 54 Below: Classic Uggams brings Leslie Uggman's career full swing. I fell in love with the talent of Ms. Uggams when I caught my first Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:18PM"Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter: a Memoir" (Weinstein Books), Melissa Francis
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:12PMFrom Bonnie Parker to Cinderella to 54 Below Laura Osnes: Broadway’s newest Cinderella Laura Osnes is the perfection of a Disney princess.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:07PMA year and a half was just the right amount of time before seeing The Book of Mormon musical again. If you’ve read my initial review of the production in previews back in February 2011, th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 03:06PMOpening night is tonight for Roundabout Theatre Company’s (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) new Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th St.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:05PMUnder the direction of Obie Award winner Jo Bonney this show has powerful moments, although it doesn’t break any fresh theatrical ground for its activist author.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:04PMFeaturing book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman, Scandalous began performances at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre 250 W. 52nd St. on October 13, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMRichard Nelson's Apple Family play unapologetically embraces the present moment in its set-the-table, clear-the-table daily trivialities and a lump-in-the-throat, clear-the-throat no-nonsens…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:01PMEvery day that I make preparations to visit China, I feel my world expand and contract and expand again. I’m afraid to make mistakes, but I know I will and that’s probably how I’ll lea…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:00PM
he story of Jewish immigrants is really the story of the American nation. After all, what could be more American than the film industry, Broadway and a lot of Yiddish words that have effortl…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:59PMThe Orginal Sweeney Tood Len Cariou Comes to 54 Below: I first saw Len Cariou in Applause.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:55PMThe hosts of CBSs THE TALK, network televisions fastest-growing daytime program, announced today that they will return to New York City for the series annual week of holiday shows. Throughou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMA parody of the Oscar-winning classic The Silence of the Lambs, this is an outrageous, vulgar musical in a perfect venue (Times Scare, 42nd and 8th) for those looking for a raunchier, adult-…
SOURCE: www.theateronline.com at 02:45PM2012 Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer recreates his Tony Award-winning role in the filmed adaptation of William Luce's Barrymore. Set in 1942, the story finds acclaimed thespian John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMThe new production of RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella will now open on Broadway on Sunday, February 24, 2013, with previews set to begin January 24. Originally scheduled to preview January…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMLiza Minnelli will play herself in a coming episode of "Smash," the NBC comedy-drama about the making of a Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:43PMThe Westport Country Playhouse's "Script in Hand" reading of The Philadelphia Story will be a family affair. Tony Award winner James Naughton, Keira Naughton, Greg Naughton and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMChristopher Plummer, the octogenarian Oscar winner, talks about his theatrical roots in Canada, his plays and movies, and his recent return to a favorite character John Barrymore in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMAn Evening with Sutton Foster, featuring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes) and her band, will kick off Annenberg Theater's 2012-13 concer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
The Roundabout's revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is a diverting and amiable entertainment.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:23PMLiza Minnelli is about to play the hardest role she's ever had to tackle, again...herself. Liza is said to perform an original song as a duet with Christian Borle's Tom. Will Liza's role as …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:22PMCraig SchwartzAlan Mandell in Waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper ForumCenter Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Cul…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:19PMOn November 13, Corey Cott and the rest of the Tony-nominated high-flying ensemble of Disney‘s Newsies will perform the show’s most iconic song – “Seize the Day̶…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:19PMBroadway.com offers stage fans the best video coverage anywhere, including reviews from theatergoers just like you, character portraits of Broadway’s most fascinating roles and exclusi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMAcademy Award winner and Broadway veteran F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) will join the cast of Terrence McNally's new play Golden Age, at Manhattan Theatre Club New York City Center – Stage I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMTony Award nominees Jill O'Hara (Promises, Promises) Tony Roberts (Play It Again, Sam), and Tony Sheldon (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) will be among the performers at the Third Annual Con…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMF. Murray Abraham already has an Oscar for playing a famed composer, and now the acclaimed actor is set to take on another music great. Abraham has joined the cast of Terrence McNally's …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:13PMTony Award and Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) will guest-star as herself on the second season of NBC's musical drama Smash, which returns to the air on February 5.In the episod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMOne of the most alienating experiences I have ever had was in a cinema studies class at NYU, during a screening of John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln. I revere Ford. I revere Lincoln. I a…
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Blythe Danner, edward Herrmann, James and Keira Naughton, TooTalk about a high profile cast -- and somewhat of a famikly affair, too...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:55PMShould we call it Smazh with a Z now? Legendary Broadway star Liza Minnelli will guest star—as herself—on during the upcoming second season of NBC’s musical theater dramedy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMTony and Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli will appear as herself in the upcoming second season of the NBC musical series "Smash," which will return to television Feb. 5, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company’s much-anticipated revival of the musical cult classic The Mystery of Edwin Drood officially opens at Studio 54 on November 13. This limited engagement…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:45PMBroadway kicks up a leg-lamp kickline as A Christmas Story, The Musical, the new stage production based on the beloved 1983 film and stories by Jean Shepherd, began previews Nov. 7 at the Lu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It), her father-in-law, Tony Award winner James Naughton (Chicago), her husband, singer and actor Greg Naughton, and sist…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMLiverpool Playhouse Studio: "It's mundane, but completely shattering," says David to his brother Simon while raging at the insanity of their mother Mary's descent into th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41PMYesterday, the Broadway at Birdland concert series welcomed Daisy Eagan in her concert, Daisy Eagan Fk Off. I Love You, and during the performance the Tony-winning actresssinger revealed to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMManhattan Theatre Club announces that Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham will join the cast of GOLDEN AGE, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, directed by Tony …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:39PMF. Murray Abraham, whose international fame came by playing Italian composer Antonio Salieri in the film of "Amadeus," will step into the stockings of Italian composer Rossini, tak…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMEntertainment superstar Liza Minnelli winner of an Oscar, two Golden Globes, a Grammy, an Emmy and multiple Tony Awards will guest-star as herself in NBCs musical drama SMASH in the upcomi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMMichael Fienstein, beloved by theatre and cabaret fans everywhere, announced earlier on his Facebook page that his father, Edward Feinstein, recently passed away. BroadwayWorld sends our con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMSadler's Wells, LondonPina Bausch's influence on contemporary dance theatre has always been a given. But in the wake of this summer's intensive Bausch season, we're more than usually attuned…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMThe Acting Company's 40th anniversary Ruby Ball will be held Dec. 3 at Capitale. James Houghton (founding artistic director of the Signature Theatre and the Richard Rodgers Director of J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMThe Diet Show, a new stage comedy co-written by comedian Gilbert Gottfried and featuring contestants from "The Biggest Loser," will begin performances Nov. 20 at Stage 72, formerly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMIn the final Lion King character study video, South African actor Andile Gumbi brings us behind the scenes as he transforms into the “energetic” Simba. Find out what similar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMThe LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2012 season, were presented on Monday, November 12, at the Los Angeles Theatre in downtown …
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:21PMSeven Minnesota architecture firms have won eight honor awards from the Minnesota chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:18PMManhattan Theatre Club announces that Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham will join the cast of GOLDEN AGE, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, directed by Tony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMSean Abley
Rob Ackerman
Liz Duffy Adams
Johnna Adams
Tony Adams
David Adjmi
Keith Josef Adkins
Nastaran Ahmadi
Derek Ahonen
Kathleen Akerley
Daniel…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:10PMIt’s likely a goodly number of actors, directors and certainly some playwrights slept in late this morning. They earned it. Many spent 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday being creative at gun…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:08PMTony winner Eve Ensler, author of the worldwide phenomenon The Vagina Monologues, addresses the issues faced by young women as they move from adolescence to adulthood in her newest work,&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMJoey Calveri, who will be starring as Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages on Broadway starting in December, and his band, The Machine Elves, will headline the Hate the Hate Benefit Concert Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMGate, LondonEuripides's great anti-war play has been constantly updated. But much as I relished the linguistic vigour and pugnacious wit of Caroline Bird's new version, descri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Sadler's Wells, London: Every time I think I have got the measure of Jasmin Vardimon she comes up with something that pulls the rug from beneath my preconceptions. Her latest work looks like…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PMValerie Eliot, the widow of poet T. S. Eliot and custodian of his literary estate, died on Nov. 9 in London. She was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe one-night-only performance of the eight little plays created for Naked Stage's 24-Hour Theatre Project 2012 has come and gone. Hopefully, the sleep-deprived playwrights are starting to f…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:56PMJayme McGhan
Timothy Nolan
Steve J. Spencer
Carolyn Kras
Scott T. Barsotti
Ike Holter
Chelsea M. Marcantel
Adam Hahn
Devon de Mayo
J. Julian Christopher
Aaron Bushkowsky
Brian Golden…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 12:54PMSay what you will about comedian/actor Andy Dick, but the man knows comedy. That’s why it should come as no shock to learn that he has seen the off-Broadway sensation Silence! The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:51PMRebecca Luker, Penny Fuller, Karen Mason and Alysha Umphress will perform the music of Jeff Blumenkrantz, Johnny Rodgers and Mary Liz McNamara as part of MAC Presents They Write the Songs, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMBuilding on the success of Golden Thread’s tenth anniversary festival in 2009, ReOrient 2012 will turn San Francisco into a Mecca for innovative, spirited, and thought-provoking theate…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:47PMSignature Theatre presents Golden Child by David Henry Hwang, directed by Leigh Silverman, playing through Sunday, December 16. The production opens tonight, November 13 in The Alice Griffin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMThe performances are raw and intense – but there’s something amiss in this staging of Euripides’ tragedy, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:43PMAccording to film-news.co.uk, the sequel to the highly successful comedy ANCHORMAN, will feature choreographed musical numbers. The comedy will once again star Will Ferrell as news anchorma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PMMike Boehm asks in the LA Times whether it would be possible to create Angels in America today: Can such great voyages still exist? Could five years, more than $2 million in today's currency…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 12:27PMKirsten Holly Smith and Christina Sajous blow the roof off of New World Stages as pop singer Dusty Springfield and her female lover in the off-Broadway musical Forever Dusty. Go inside rehea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMJonathan Groff, Cheyenne Jackson, Heidi Rodewald and members of the PigPen Theatre Company honor Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor as part of Sonnet Repertory Theatre's Nov. 12 be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMNow, a cable network insider tells us exclusively that the film will instead be an HBO television production, with a budget in the neighborhood of 15 million dollars. There is no word yet on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMBush Theatre artistic director Madani Younis has announced an overhaul of the London venue’s new writing policy. The company currently runs a policy where a playwright can submit an unsoli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMMoscow comes to Bucks County, PA, in Christopher Durang’s timely and hysterical Chekhovian comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In Lincoln Center Theater's off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:09PMNellie McKay and Cole Escola will be part of the Nov. 15 installment of Justin Sayre's The Meeting*, which will be devoted to film icon Marlene Dietrich, at the Duplex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMRumours are swirling that Rock of Ages will transfer to the Garrick Theatre following the closure of Loserville on 5 January 2013.Rock of Ages, which finishes at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 6…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMChristopher Durang's Chekhov-inspired comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which whips characters from the Russian playwright's catalogue into a frothy weekend of costumes, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMIn this week's roundup, Spike Milligan's gravestone joke takes a serious turn, the US samples HIGNFY and a new website gives black British comedy a pushThe famous epitaph on Spike Milligan's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMBROADWAY BOX OFFICEWeek #24; 32 ProductionsNovember 5 - 11, 2012The Mystery of Edwin Drood(Photo by Joan Marcus)In Previews:A Christmas Story - 7 previewsDead Accounts - 7 previewsGleng…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMSite-specific theatre company Dreamthinkspeak is to bring a new production to London’s Somerset House early next year. In the Beginning Was the End is inspired by an apocalyptic Leonardo D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonChekhov's tragicomedy transposed to the Isle of Man in the 21st century? It sounds like a Seagull that should get stuffed – but in fact it soars in this spritely…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMSilky perversity in Tales from Ovid. Photo by Jenni Wylie.I think what's most remarkable about the ArtsEmerson production of Whistler in the Dark's Tales from Ovid (through this weekend…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:00PMOn Monday, November 12, Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature made its Off-Broadway debut at the Pershing Square Signature Center, where it began performances on October 26 with direction
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Audiences will be captivated at what happens on stage when the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre presents 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' tonight through Nov. 17, in W.M. Turne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMThe SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam Street, NYC announced today that tickets are on sale for the next show in its fall 2012 lineup Ingenious Nature. Ingenious Nature is a new theatrical mix-tape, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMThe Bush's artistic director Madani Younis has relaunched the venue's new writing policy, to coincide with the current Radar 2012 season.
In his address at the Radar's opening platform eve…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:53AMPrepping American TriageI'll you'll recall I have a reading of American Triage on November 27th (6:30 pm for those of you in NYC and who are interested) at Repertorio Español. It's the fina…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:50AMThe new play, Grace, at the Cort on Broadway, is a revelation. For starters, it makes it clear that Paul Rudd is far more than a dimple and a charming smile. The lad can act, and though he&#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMA stroll up a staircase has never looked better. And Jessica Chastain’s ascent up the onstage staircase in the final scene of The Heiress, currently in performances at the Walter Kerr Thea…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:47AMRoger Hammond's special achievement as an actor was to spread great good humour and jollity among his colleagues, always optimistic and fun. He invariably became the comforting centre of a c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMStand Alone Songs About and Written By Losers, an evening of new songs by Sam Salmond, was presented last night, November 12 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for teh f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMEmotional Creature, the new play by Eve Ensler that had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in June, opened Off-Broadway on Nov. 12 following previews from Oct. 26. Ensler, the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMCharles Dickens may have died before finishing his novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, but the cast of Rupert Holmes’ screwball musical is bringing the story to a giddy resolution every …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMAt The Acting Companys 40th Anniversary Ruby Ball on Monday, December 3, 2012 at Capitale, James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director of the Signature Theatre and the Richard Rodgers Directo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMActor known for his roles as clergymen, favourite uncles and tragic-comic charactersThere is a great tradition in the rotundity of actors, and Roger Hammond, who has died aged 76 of cancer, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMThis production is an unpretentious and respectful reading of this 47-year-old comedy that provides a good opportunity for revisiting it, but just as importantly, an occasion for welcoming T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:33AMLondon’s Southwark Playhouse has confirmed that it will move to a nearby converted office and warehouse space at Elephant and Castle next year while its current venue undergoes redevelop…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will conclude its 50th anniversary season with Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the Wells, December 5-30 at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre. Bon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMOpeningwas last night for the Lincoln Center Theater production of VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, a new play by Christopher Durang, directed by Nicholas Martin at the Mitzi E. Newhouse…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMPost your questions for the Mock the Week host and superlative funnyman, who'll be joining us on Wednesday 14 NovemberMaybe you want to ask him about what Alan Sugar is like when the cameras…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28AMBARE begins previews Off-Broadway at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street on Monday, November 19, 2012. Opening Night is set for Sunday, December 9, 2012. The cast and creative team met the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMLauren Elder, who made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of Hair, will perform an evening of her original music and favorite songs Nov. 21 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMThe 12th annual The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway were presented by Montblanc Nov. 12 at 8 PM at the American Airlines Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMKelly Brook has extended her stint in cabaret show Forever Crazy until 22 November 2012 following "exceptionally high demand" for tickets.According to The Sun Brook, who plays 'Miss Bisou' i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:20AMOn November 13, David Mamet’s new play, The Anarchist, will begin previews at the Golden Theatre. A thrilling battle of wits two-hander starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, The Anar…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:18AMFrom Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Wicked, and 9 to 5 on Broadway to NBC's hit television show Smash, Americas newest star is the multi-talented Megan Hilty Over Thanksgiving weekend, she joins …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMThe Old Vic Theatre Company’s production of Noises Off is to tour the UK from March. The revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage farce opened at the Old Vic in December 2011, before…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMBilly Elliot: The Musical, featuring a score by Elton John and Lee Hall, opened on Broadway Nov. 13, 2008. In celebration of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Playbill.com looks back at B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMEvery week, the box office at the Marquis Theatre in New York’s Marriott Marquis pulls in another $1 million (or more) for the current revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMSome of Broadway's brightest stars will be among the 375 of New York's leading ladies to support the Citymeals-on-Wheels 26th Annual Power Lunch for Women at The Plaza Hotel on Friday, Novem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMLincoln Center Theater celebrated the opening of Christopher Durang's new play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, on Monday, November 12 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Th
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AMWar Horse and Forbidden Broadway were among the winners of the 2012 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, which honor the best in Los Angeles theater. A full list of winner…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMFollowing last year's news that Southwark Playhouse needs to move from its current premises to make room for the redevelopment of London Bridge Station, the venue has secured a new temporary…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:04AMOne day, Steve O'Donnell was walking around the Village with his brother, Mark O'Donnell, the Tony Award-winning bookwriter of Hairspray and Cry-Baby, when a tourist came up to them …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMMy acting teacher used to ask about my motivation in a thick Russian accent. “Kenneth! Why you . . . you do want do these things in scene?” (BTW, my mom, my dad, and my acting …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 1162012 - 11132012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMOne day, Steve O'Donnell was walking around the Village with his brother, Mark O'Donnell, the Tony Award-winning bookwriter of Hairspray and Cry-Baby, when a tourist came up to them …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
The raunchy lyrics, comedic dialogue and spot on character impersonations are what make this musical a SMASH!
SOURCE: www.macduffnyc.com at 10:51AMThe New Yorker has just announced that after twenty years as the publication's chief theatre critic, John Lahr will give up regular reviewing to focus on the profiles he also contributes to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMTelly Leung, the Broadway actor recently seen in the world premiere of the new musical Allegiance, will release his debut solo recording, "I'll Cover You," Dec. 4 on the Yellow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMToday in 2008, Billy Elliot opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1312 performances. Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Elt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMJayme McGhan Hometown: Minneapolis.
Current Town: Chicago. Technically, Elmwood Park, which is the first village over on the West side. I know a bunch of proud Chicagoans that…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:32AMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is thrilled to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Dance Company of the Week Mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMEmotional Creature, the new play written by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, gets a New York premiere this fall. Directed by O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMVictory Gardens Theater announces the first play of its 2013-14 Season: the Co-World Premiere ofAppropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Gary Griffin. Appropriate is prese…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:19AMVANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Absurdist extraordinaire Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy) tosses Chekhov (the playwright not the Star Trek character) into a blender, transplants it to…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:15AMThe madcap musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood officially opens at Broadway's Studio 54 on November 13. The first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony-winning musical is set to run through F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:14AMThe bonds of friendship and the power of art to transform lives are illustrated in The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, now receiving a lovely production at Thinking Cap Theatre in Fort Lauderd…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:13AMDavid Mamet’s new play The Anarchist begins previews November 13 at Broadway's Golden Theatre. The two-women show stars Oscar nominee Debra Winger and Tony winner Patti L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AMIt's the most wonderful time of the year! The Radio City Christmas Spectacular opens at the famed venue on November 13. Starring the legendary Rockette dancers and Santa Claus himse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AMSondheim Unplugged, the Bistro Award-winning series that features some of Broadway and cabaret's most dynamic voices accompanied by piano only, will continue Nov. 25 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMLast night, Sonnet Repertory Theatre presented their Eleventh Annual Benefit and Cabaret at 92YTribeca to honor award-winning director, Julie Taymor. Celebrating Taymors visionary career, th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMSignature Theatre Company's revival of David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child opens off-Broadway on November 13 at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Extended twice already, the play …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11AMRorschach Theatre will be conjuring one classic and one modern myth in its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last Monday. The modern myth will be Robert Kauzleric’s Neverwhere, an ad…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMThe Rockettes are celebrating their 85th year as part of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular this year. The musical revue, which also includes a live nativity, opened last Friday (November …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMAward-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney will direct a new -- and drastically different -- version of Shakespeare’s "Antony and Cleopatra." McCraney’s adaptation explores c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMLondon's Southwark Playhouse has found new temporary premises to replace its current home below London Bridge Station, which is being redeveloped. It has secured a new space in the heart…
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The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, begins selling standing-room tickets Nov. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMManhattan Theatre Clubs new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsens An Enemy of the People by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, begins the final 8 performances of its acc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:49AMJohn Scherer will star as Charlie Baker in the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of Larry Shue's comedy The Foreigner, which will begin performances Nov. 28 on the Browning Mains…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AMFedor Jeftichew, better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-face Boy, is undoubtedly one of the most famous of all sideshow performers. Born in 1868 in St, Petersburg, Russia, he was the second generatio…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:43AMThe Rath Brothers, Dick and George, were a classy, well-regarded acro-balancing act, invariably on short lists of critics, bookers and audiences of greatest vaudeville acts of all time R…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:31AMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, recently seen in the Public Theater's presentation of the new musical Fun Home, is at work on her latest solo recording.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMWhen I heard that Molly Smith was bringing My Fair Lady to Arena Stage this season, a friend of mine and I had a conversation of “Let’s cast the show.” When it came to the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMThe acclaimed 50th anniversary production of West Side Story is returning to Sadler's Wells next year as part of the venue's spring/summer season.Also returning next year will be the award-w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:19AMManhattan Theatre Club’s new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, begins the final 8 performances of i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:15AMDizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue, is back with there 2012 Capital Fringe hit THE BRONTES. Dizzy Miss Lizzie has brought audiences to their feet with productions of Finn McCool, The Orest…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMThe Sandy Spring Theatre Group brings their production of Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart to the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg. Director David Fialkoff has assembled a stellar cast for this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMAdditional artists have been announced for the 9th Annual Broadway Unplugged concert, which features Broadway stars performing without amplification and will be held Dec. 3 at 8 PM at The To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AMThe casts of the hit Broadway musicals “Once” and “Newsies” will be featured performers during this year’s 86th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. This year�…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMThe Anarchist, a new play written and directed by David Mamet will be presented on Broadway at the newly refurbished Golden Theatre. The production will star two-time Tony Award winner P…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:00AMStuck for present ideas for the theatre lover in your life? A Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club Membership is the ultimate gift for anyone who loves theatre giving them priority booking on our e…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:00AMOne of the most important things you can do to feed a project is to get out from behind your desk. Yes, there are planty of groups to join online, and plenty of websites to join, but none of…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 09:00AM
"Call Me Adam" chats with actor and singer Tommy Walker about starring in the smash hit comedy "NEWSical the Musical" as well as other details of his life and career!
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 08:54AMIt's the holiday musical that's head and shoulders above rest Based on the hilarious Hollywood hit, ELF follows Buddy, a larger-than-life orphan who mistakenly believes he's one of Santa's e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMArnold Wesker’s play The Kitchen and Harold Pinter’s final play Celebration are both set in restaurants — there must be something about taking meals in public that has the …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:38AMTheatres can't keep asking us to hang about in the dark while actors move house. We may as well go to the cinemaAll performers hope for applause – but the new London West End production of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMIn any piece, the remarkable pianist Jason Moran might go to the very edges of the harmonic movement, until he on the verge of free jazz.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AM“Clang! Clang! Clang! Went the trolley!” And you’d better jump on quick for the Damascus Theatre Company’s production of Meet Me In St. Louis. Directed by Chad Wheeler with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMIf Pregones Theater can emerge from the current recession far larger and stronger than they entered it, then why can't every arts organization in America?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:17AM
The world premiere of " The Last Days of the Old Wild Boy", written and directed by Rinde Eckert during his artist residency at Wesleyan University in Middletown will be presented on T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:56AMTalking to Wils Wilson, director of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, which starts tonight at the Bier Baron Tavern. What's special about performing in a tavern? "The audience sees th…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 07:55AMLouise Brealey, best known for playing Molly Hooper in hit BBC series Sherlock, stars in the Gate Theatre's new production of Euripides' The Trojan Women, in a new version by Caroline Bird.B…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:52AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
"Intimate Apparel" wears well. The Pasadena Playhouse revival of Lynn Nottage's award-winning 2003 drama, set at the turn of the century, boasts first a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:51AMIn his book Stage to Screen, A. Nicholas Vardac puts forth the impossible and yet so right and true thesis that theatre-makers on the eve of cinema’s birth in the late 19th century WAN…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:50AMFaye Tozer and Dylan Turner will star in The Tailor-Made Man, a new musical telling the true story of gay silent-screen star William Haines, who was fired by Louis B. Mayer for refusing to g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AMIn this show-within-a-show, audiences take a trip back in time to a Victorian music hall where a rowdy ensemble of actors mounts a staging of Charles Dickenss unfinished novel. Studio 54 has…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25AMChristopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike manages the neat trick of being both a sometimes uproarious send-up of Chekhov and an affectionately heartwarming modern-day va…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:23AMKANSAS CITY, Mo. • Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has loaned several of its Chinese landscape paintings to China's Shanghai Museum for an exhibition that's been drawing huge cr…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:15AMCreative Scotland’s project funding is stifling the development of independent artists, according to an internal report released this week by the arts quango. The Producers’ Hub …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 13 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Southwark Playhouse, London: Once past the initial small shock of seeing Masha as a goth, Anya Reiss's updating of Chekhov to the era of laptops and Ipods, and Russell Bolam's stag…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AMIt is summertime and the family and friends of Petrusha Sorin have gathered at his estate on the Isle of Man for a holiday. Sorin's nephew Konstantin has written a play and the company wait …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:36AMGate, London: Caroline Bird's powerful new version of Euripides transplants the tragedy to the mother and baby unit of a modern prison hospital, a stark clinical space cut off from the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:35AMIf you're reading this, it's most likely because: a) you read this blog regularly, and/or b) we're teaming up to create something together--a video, a blog post, a play, whatever.At this poi…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 04:15AMWoody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, a critical hit from last season in The West End and the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007, has been transplanted to Theater J with the same West End c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:07AM
Hello, and welcome to the Belly of the Beast. Once, I made a decision. Now, I live in what 94% of Ohio residents consider to be the worst place ever. But I don’t know. I kind of like it. T…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:59AMEven a cameo by Tamsin Greig cannot redeem this painful adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. For an hour and a half, it screams with anguish, verging at times on the parodic. The …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:53AMNOT IN THE CARDS Northlight audiences should cut the theater’s revival of The Odd Couple some slack. The production took a major hit when co-star George Wendt was forced to drop out of the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:35AMBy Peter Filichia --
At one point during my listening to the terrific reissue of the 1968 original London cast album of Cabaret, I suddenly thought of Gladys Troupin.
She was the pianist…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:12AMThe LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2012 season, were presented on Monday, November 12, at the Los Angeles Theatre in downtown …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMCenter Theatre Group's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Celebration Theatre's staging of The Color Purple: A Musical were the big winners at the 2012 LA Stage Alliance Ov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMCenter Theatre Group, as well as the national tour of War Horse and the Musical Theatre West production of Forbidden Broadway: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 are among the winners of the 2012 LA Stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMWinning plays include 'Waiting for Godot,' 'The War Horse,' 'The Convert,' 'The Color Purple: The Musical' and 'Forbidden Broadway: Greatest Hits, Volume 2.'Southern California's biggest the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMMarion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts Reveal Favorite American Things
Sacre bleu! The Studio gets a little dose of French-Belgian culture when Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and her 'Rust…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
The Top Twelve Live Rounds began tonight after last week, which was the first week of voting. The top twelve contestants from Teams CeeLo Green, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, and Blake Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48AMThe 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 12:30AMTonight, November 13th at 10PM over a dozen of Broadways brightest stars will be singing songs of hope, love, and, quite possibly, Grease to benefit the Friends of Marybeth and Cohort 3 help…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMDisneys landmark musical event, The Lion King, celebrates 15 years on Broadway today, November 13th at the Minskoff Theatre 200 West 45th Street, New York City. Virtually the entire creative…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams will make her 54 Below debut with the show tonight, November 13-17 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMToday, November 13, the record-breaking, Tony Award-winning worldwide musical smash Chicago celebrates 16 razzle-dazzle years on the Great White Way. With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMImage Entertainment, Inc. releases Company In Concert on DVD today, November 13, 2012 This production of Stephen Sondheims iconic tour de force on contemporary relationships features the New…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMYou can’t hide from Chekhov! Not only are his classics revived again and again — even “Ivanov” just came back to us — the long-dead Russian playwright is infiltrating new works, to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AMMy First TimeThe importance being exposedby Gaëtan L. CharleboisMy mother died when I was 13. You need to know that because it is important to the story of my first time.My mother was the k…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMSignature Theatre Company's revival of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, now extended to Dec. 16, opens Nov. 13, kicking off the Tony Award-winning playwrights 2012-13 residency with…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMBetsy Wolfe, who plays Rosa Bud in Roundabout's revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe world premiere of David Mamet's two-actor drama The Anarchist, starring Patti LuPone as an inmate serving a life sentence and Debra Winger as the woman who must determine whether she…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMBroadway audiences are transported to Victorian-era London to help resolve Charles Dickens' final, and unfinished tale, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which officially opens Nov. 13 at Stud…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFrom 2006: Putting aside for a moment the insurmountable problem of its content, it was the agonizingly slow pace of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"In the light of what has been said about persuasion-by-association and the enhancement of emotions by subliminal suggestion, let us...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMEpic Actors' Workshop and Bond Street Theatre will present the U.S. premiere of Rahul Varma's Bhopal, as part of the 2012 South Asian Theatre Festival, Nov. 18 at 4 PM at the Crossro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNova Y. Payton is Effie White, the most turbulent of the Dreamgirls, in the Signature Theatre's holiday-season revival of the 1981 musical, starting Nov. 13 in Arlington, VA. Associate a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPittsburgh Public Theater continues its "Made in America" season with the Pittsburgh premiere of Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire's 2011 Tony-nominated play set in contemporar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York Philharmonic concert production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert and Katie Finneran, is released o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStarvox Entertainment and Potted Productions' Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff plays Chicago beginning Nov. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA host of theatre talents join forces Nov. 13 for a concert to raise funds for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe cast of the new Broadway musical Newsies performs on the Nov. 13 episode of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars: All Stars."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King celebrates 15 years on Broadway Nov. 13 at the Minskoff Theatre. ABC's "Good Morning America" is broadcasting live from th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen star Peter Gallagher plays a limited engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency Nov. 13-17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPeter Billingsley, the child actor who played Ralphie in the film-favorite "A Christmas Story," is all grown up and serving as an above-the-title producer of the Broadway musical s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1833 Birthday of master actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), a major interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway's…
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