THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Toil and Trouble, Impact Theatre. By Sam Hurwitt What’s a young San Francisco hipster to do with a fancy degree and no motivation to get a real job? Well, how abou…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:34PMNew musical proves the TV host shouldn't give up her day job.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:30PMRichard Maxwell's acclaimed play had lost its final weekend due to flooding at the theater in the Kitchen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:23PMLife starts early in the Verona of “Romeo and Juliet,” which the San Francisco Ballet launched Thursday at the Kennedy Center Opera House. As dawn rises over the Italian city’s busy pu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:15PMI'd be a Grinch not to tip a tiara to Tim Tavcar, who gives a vanity-free performance as pot-bellied female impersonator Polly Esther. Tavcar, in a towering wig of ginger curls, the hair on …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:00PMArena Stage artistic director Molly Smith has long taken a non-traditional approach to American musical classics, so it's not surprising that for her new production of
My Fair Lady, Lerner a…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 07:27PM Playwright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:26PMThe fresh-faced approach to 'Hamlet' by the Shakespeare's Globe may not bring on the tears, but a good time is had by all at the Broad Stage.Tired of the pomp and circumstance of costume dra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:20PMLaura Osnes and co-stars discuss Douglas Carter Beane’s "snappy, fast and funny" new script for Cinderella. Find out exactly what to expect from this new take on the cla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PM“We Are Proud to Present a Presentation,” at SoHo Rep, puts the audience square in the middle of deliberations over how to put on this play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:11PMKiss Me Kate, LondonThe last time Kiss Me Kate hit London was just after 9/11, with a sizzling Broadway production that lifted the spirits. Cole Porter's show within a show sees a company pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWhether he favours the Funky Chicken, the “Elvis” or freestyle, no one dances quite like a dad. For offspring, the usual response is to cringe, but a new project invites us to celebrate …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMQuestions about the purpose of preservation are raised in Alan Bennett's highly entertaining new play, which takes an outrageously funny swipe at the National Trust.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMBeneath Lincoln's Inn in Holborn, poor old William Prynne must be turning in his grave. In 1633, the Puritan lawyer wrote a 1,000 page pamphlet called Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge, ar…
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On Monday, November 19, 2012, join The Trevor Projects Trevor NextGen in celebrating the third annual Fall Fete supporting the organizations life-saving work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, tran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMEuan Morton, who was originally scheduled to bring his solo cabaret act to Signature Theatre in Arlington, has cancelled his appearance due to another commitment at Yale Repertory Theatre. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMThis afternoon I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to Tony Award-winning SPRING AWAKENING songwriter Duncan Sheik all about his staggering spate of upcoming stage projects - AMERICAN PSY…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMLes Miserables film star Russell Crowe will make his Joe's Pub debut in a one-night-only Indoor Garden Party concert on December 8, featuring Alan Doyle and Les Mis co-star Samantha Barks. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMSignature Theatre presents The Piano Lesson by August Wilson and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The production runs through December 16 and opens November 18 in The Ire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMWhat if there were an infinite number of outcomes for our lives, where every action and moment realigned us subtly but indefinitely. Nick Payne’s Constellations first appeared at the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01PM
The Broadway sex farce The Performers may be a two-pump-chump, closing just days after it opened, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t leave completely satisfied. The new pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMThe temperature may be dropping in New York, but things are only heating up for Broadway veteran Sebastian La Cause as the second season of his steamy web series Hustling begins its run. La …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMThe Best of Broadway amp Cabaret will come out in support of the Actors' Temple, est. 1917 on Monday, November 26, 2012 at 645 PM. The Third Annual Concert will take place at the Temple, 339…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMYeah, the world might be focused on James Bond and General Petraeus mixing business and pleasure, but let's get to the really important stuff and look at the 10 lessons learned this week…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMCommunal catharsis of this ilk moves beyond theatre and into an exercise in empathy. Thanks to the powerful performances of the troupe, Will You Stand Up presents a visceral look at the terr…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:54PMGlengarry Glen Ross stars John C. McGinley and Richard Schiff dropped by Good Day New York on November 16 to discuss the pressures of performing alongside the legendary Al Pac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PM“Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is a theatrical curio that might have made Chekhov smile. But that may be the only real relationship it has with that grea…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMFollowing in the footsteps of his Les Miserables co-star Anne Hathaway, Oscar-winning Aussie actor Russell Crowe will make his Joe’s Pub debut in an intimate one-night-only concert on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, November 16, 2012 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information #MURDERBALLAD with John Ellison Conlee, @Rebeccasername, @Ka…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:45PMPlaywright Jackie Sibblies Drury, director Eric Ting, and an ensemble of six actors start with a simple premise—a theater troupe gathering in a rehearsal studio to create a play about …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 05:37PMThe Telegraph (UK) 11/16/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:34PMREVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT A Gershwin musical set in the 1920’s, a fun story, great music, singing, and tap dancing, what more can anyone want for an enjoyable evening of musical the…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:32PMWASHINGTON, D.C. – Piano-playing political satirist Mark Russell returns to Ford’s Theatre February 18, 2013, at 7 p.m. for a show packed with material ripped from the headlines. Known f…
SOURCE: fords.org at 05:30PMWith "In Seven Days," Thomas Adés seems to have developed a musical language that’s complex yet not forbidding: there’s no sense that his music is weighed down by expectations of the pa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:30PMThe program introduces a monthly series on theater.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:15PMBeing Ralphie is a lot of fun. Today my mom was taking a picture of me in front of the poster of me in the pink bunny suit at the entrance to the theater, and someone walking by said to my …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce that MURDER BALLAD, the new musical by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash, directed by Trip Cullman, that opened to glowing reviews last night is ext…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:10PMManhattan Theatre Club's production of Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical starring John Ellison Conlee, Rebecca Naomi Jones,
Karen Oli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMNoted television personality, author and political gadfly Stephen Colbert has an issue with Charles Dickens over The Second Citys A Christmas Carol Twist Your Dickens The two writers of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMKaren Olivo has been getting into a bar fight eight times a week at New York City Center. The actress, who won a Tony Award for her fiery performance as Anita in the 2009 Broadway revival of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PMThe stars of the national tour of Flashdance show off their fiercest '80s dance moves and talk about bringing the iconic movie to the stage. Get the scoop on this hot new musical.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMNov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Colman Domingo, an actor and playwright, discusses his play, "Wild with Happy," playing at New York's Public Theater, which he says was finished in less than two years…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:03PMLoretta Swit of M*A*S*H fame teams with Harry Hamlin in Joshua Ravetch's One November Yankee, opening tonight at NoHo Arts Center. They play siblings who have survived a plane crash. READ MO…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PMFrom the Sweet Deal Dept.: Seattle Shakespeare Company is offering a free Twinkie to the first 90 people who subscribe to the theatre's 2012-2013 season. Why only 90? Upon news of the demise…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:01PMChris Isaacson will present Upright Cabaret's A Broadway Christmas, starring Tony Award winner Lillias White, beginning Dec. 11 at Hollywood's Catalina Jazz Club.
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San Francisco Ballet, the oldest professional ballet company in the country, wins hearts over with their classical version of Romeo & Juliet. The age-old story is set again the backdrop …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMComics don't shy from superstorm Sandy.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:52PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Nov. 5-11, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMThe Performers starring Cheyenne Jackson, Henry Winkler, Alicia Silverstone, Ari Graynor, Daniel Breaker, and Jenni Barber will close on Sunday night, November 18, after 23 previews and on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMOn November 15th, the winners of the Stage Directors and Choreographers' Joseph A. Callaway award were announced at an intimate presentation at the SDC offices, attended by most of the final…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThe West End smash Mary Poppins first flew onto Broadway on November 6, 2012, and it's been a "jolly holiday" ever since. Based on the books by P. L. Travers and the Oscar-winn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMStephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along opened its 16-performance run on Nov. 16, 1981. The original cast included Jason Alexander, Tonya Pinkins and Lonny Price.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PMOne first-time-mother African painted dog + 10 (or so) pups = appealing watching.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:39PMFEMA included performing arts organizations as eligible for disaster relief at the time of the San Francisco earthquake (1989) and American Conservatory Theater was able to access relief fun…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:36PMEdna Ferber's 1952 novel Giant, capturing a moment in American history as the landscape of Texas changed from open cattle country to a skyline studded with oil derricks, is transformed i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMThe Good Mother is chilling off-Broadway audiences at the Acorn Theatre, starring Gretchen Mol, Darren Goldstein and more. Broadway.com headed behind the scenes to chat with the cast of the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMThe new musical Scandalous, starring Tony nominee Carolee Carmello, Broadway belter Roz Ryan and Tony winner George Hearn, opened at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre on November 15, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMScandalous Review Round-Up Following suite with recent trend of heavenly musicals (Leap of Faith, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sister Act, The Book of Mormon), Scandalous, with book and…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:24PMOn Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, The Trevor Project will present its annual benefit event, Trevor Live presented by Audi of America and Wells Fargo and directed by celebrated director, producer and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMThe Huntington's Disease Society of America's annual Curtains Up For A Cure, produced by Broadway actress Meredith Patterson and hosted by Lance Rubin, will be presented December 3rd at Play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMThis week - it's all about Scandalous Featuring book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman, Scandalous began performances at Broadway's Neil Simon T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Broadway welcomes three new shows, MATILDA picks its leading leadies, Rob McClure gets a place on the wall at Sardi's, and so much more
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SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:53PMWorking well into their 33rd season entitled My Roots My Revolutions, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company presents the world premier of Mia Chung’s You For Me For You. A gripping drama with com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMEarlier this month the producers of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS have just announced that three additional performances would be added to the productions December performance schedule to accommodate …
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:40PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening of the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMCBS has cancelled its freshman sitcom Partners, according to Deadline.com. The Michael Urie-led comedy, which premiered in September, has been pulled from CBS' Monday night line-up after…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMKathie Lee Gifford's new musical Scandalous had a rapturous opening with stars Carolee Carmello, George Hearn, Roz Ryan and the rest of the cast testifying about the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMHaving trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:33PMBroadwayWorld invites you to enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Duncan Sheik live in Concert on Friday November 23 with special guests Courrier amp Alpha Rev at Gramercy Theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMLabyrinth Theater Company Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi ODonnell, Yul Vzquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman, the award-winning, downtown ensemble, announced today th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMThe Circle in the Square Theatre School will present Little Red Riding Hood, a children's musical performed by CITSTS alumni, Nov. 26-30 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMPaul Rudd fans can get a peek at the stage and screen hunk in his boxers in the Broadway comedy Grace, and now he’s taking it all off with Tina Fey in the new movie Admission. In …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMRoundabout Theatre Company has just announced a new Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, a comedy by Philip Barry, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMRoundabout Theatre Company will present a Broadway revival of Philip Barry’s 1939 comedy The Philadelphia Story during the fall of 2013. Directed by two-time Tony nominee Alex Tim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMTony Award nominee Alex Timbers will direct a new Broadway production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story to play the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre in Fall 2013…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMHow many people can say they met their best friend aboard a luxury cruise liner? Before Erin Mackey took the stage as Charlie Chaplin’s wife in Chaplin, she spent a year aboard th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMThe show goes on this weekend (From left, Bryant Lo and Sayeel Alam rehearse scenes from Scarsdale High School’s production of Guys and Dolls at Scarsdale High School Auditorium on Nov…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:12PMRoundabout Theatre Company will produce a new Broadway production of Philip Barry's comedy of class, manners and marriage, The Philadelphia Story, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMBroadway’s Brian Stokes Mitchell — star of Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — joins Seth in studio to chat about his latest CD “Simply Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMKathie Lee Gifford is best-known to millions of people as the perky morning TV host, who spent years paired with Regis Philbin and is now on the Today show. But Gifford has written the scrip…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:00PMKathie Lee Gifford is best-known to millions of people as the perky morning TV host, who spent years paired with Regis Philbin and is now on the Today show. But Gifford has written the scrip…
SOURCE: National Public Radio 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Paul Plunkett, a co-founder of Sacred Fools Theater, recalls the origins of the company's name and then considers where Michael Green's The Coarse Acting Show, which he's currently directing…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:58PMLivestream of MoMA's How Are We Performing Today? symposium. Please watch and respond!
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:48PMNice Work If You Can Get It star Matthew Broderick will serve as the host of the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2012 benefit. As previously announced, the evening will feature perform…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMFeaturing book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman, Scandalousbegan performances at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre on October 13, 2012 and opened l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMPhoto credit: Jeremy DanielThe most Scandalous thing about Scandalous is how dull it is. Aimee Semple McPherson had an interesting life, but you only get glimpses of it here.The talented Car…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 02:39PMLegendary stage and screen curmudgeon Ed Asner had nothing to complain about on November 15, when his Grace co-stars Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon and Kate Arrington presented him with a specia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:37PMThere was some gathering of more than 80 folks Wednesday at Hartford Stage , bringing together the leadership of six producing theaters with the governor and other state honchos.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:36PMIn their SLSO debuts, Boreyko and Gluzman dazzle.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:36PMEmotional 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 02:15PMShoestring mini-dramas laced with haunting songs examine the consequences of ordinary people speaking out or taking action, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:13PMDirector Mehmet Ergen rightly finds as deep a vein of cynicism in this story of media abuse as in ‘Chicago’, writes Ian Shuttlesworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:13PMNobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author opened WSC Avant Bard’s new season. The theatre is located in the Arisphere, in downtown Roslyn &#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMManhattan Concert Productions has just announced Tyne Daly as Emma Goldman, Norm Lewis as Coalhouse Walker Jr., and Lea Salonga as Mother to appear in the upcoming concert performance of RAG…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMThe stars were most certainly big and bright deep in the heart of the sweeping new musical Giant, which tells the panoramic tale of a cattleranching couple (Brian d'Arcy James and Kate B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMTo those of you who follow my posts, I want to apologize in advance. In this entry, I shift my focus from my usual film aspect and write about a specific theater experience I had recently an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMWith Thanksgiving, and all its attendant preparations, coming up next week, the New York theatre got a handful of openings out of the way this week. And, yes, some of them were turkeys. (Sor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Deadline reports that CBS has cancelled its freshman comedy series PARTNERS. The show, starring David Krumholtz and Michael Urie, will be taken from its time slot immediately and replaced by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMTickets are now on sale for iLuminate: Artists of Light, which begins performance at off-Brodway's Duke on 42nd Street on November 23. Directed by Miral Kotb, the unconventional theater …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMBoardwalk Empire star Gretchen Mol, Darren Goldstein and Mark Blum are sending chills up the spines of off-Broadway audiences in The Good Mother, and on November 15, the cast celebrated thei…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMBy Mac Rogers (EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly after I wrote my little bit about whether or not Angels In America could be produced today, playwright and ole china plate Mac Rogers mentioned that he …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 01:47PMCraig Wright's Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, with Kate Arrington and seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner, opened on October 4, 2012 at Broadway's Cor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMTheatre for the New City will present a reading of Frank J. Avella's Vatican Falls, a play "set against the backdrop of the Catholic sex abuse scandal," Dec. 3 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMThis afternoon, Smash cast members Christian Borle, Debra Messing, and Anjelica Huston filmed a scene from the drama's upcoming second season outside of Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (which is d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PMTweetThere are a ton of amazing shows touring right now and what’s nice about the touring broadway casts is that you don’t have to wait in line in the cold at the TKTs counter in…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 01:29PMGrace star Michael Shannon had a “perplexing” night on November 14, when a theatergoer seated in the balcony vomited onto audience members in the orchestra section below! Shannon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMTony winners Lea Salonga and Tyne Daly and Tony nominee Norm Lewis will star in a concert performance of Ragtime at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Helmed by Bare director Stafford…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMThe original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along officially opened on Nov. 16, 1981. Here, we take a look back at that Merrily, some subsequ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMOne of the remarkable Sandglass puppets.Last weekend the Charlestown Working Theater, which has earned a local reputation for taking surprising theatrical risks, presented the premiere of &n…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:10PMOn Thursday, November 15, the company of Broadway's Grace celebrated star Ed Asner's 83rd birthday. (Asner noted the numbers on the cake were "reversed." It's tough approaching 40.) Fri
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09PMFeaturing book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman, Scandalous began performances at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre on October 13, 2012 and opened …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMIn William Shakespeare's "Othello," an important general finds himself the victim of a little scheme, concocted by a disgruntled subordinate, to bring him down by making him jealous. It's a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:03PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation has announced that Once director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett are the winners of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Awards, which rec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMJoshua Henry, Amber Riley, Jared Grimes and Tony winner Adriane Lenox star in the return engagement of the New York City Center Encores! revue Cotton Club Parade, which plays the famed Manha…
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Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood is set to appear on board cruise voyages next year as part of a series of themed sailings. The television personality will be joined by profes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMManhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, opened Nov. 15 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMCheck out photos from the opening night party below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMLondon stage stars will come together to salute famed director Hal Prince at The Night of 1000 Stars. The special concert event will take place on May 5 at the Royal Albert Hall, with p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMThe Performers Doesn't Perform After Sunday: It seems Alicia Silverstone, Henry Winkler, Cheyenne Jackson, Ari Graynor, Daniel Breaker and Jenni Barber don't have enough draw, at least with …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:44PMThe Playbill Vault introduces 100 historic Playbill covers into the archives.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMThe astute reader can find the live tweets from last weekend’s National Arts Marketing Project Conference (#nampc, if you really want to read the several thousand tweets). There are many i…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:34PMManhattan Concert Productions has announced preliminary casting for their concert performance of Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Aherns, and Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime, to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) announced on Nov. 15 that director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett are winners of the Joe A. Callaway Awards for excell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMEnglish actor Paul Nicholas will join previously announced star Betty Buckley in the U.K. premiere production of Dear World, the 1969 musical featuring music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMTony Award winners Lea Salonga and Tyne Daly and Tony nominee Norm Lewis will populate the Manhattan Concert Productions concert staging of the Tony-winning Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThe Guardian (UK) 11/16/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMThe Broadway premiere of Scandalous:
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMBritish TV star Suranne Jones will lead a new production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, which will commemorate the play’s 20th anniversary. Nikolai Foster will direct the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMThe Seagull gets airborne at the Southwark Playhouse, Noted comes in for scrutiny at the Lilian Baylis, and the whirligig of time brings in his revenges at the ApolloKarin Andreasson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMMARY POPPINS celebrates its sixth anniversary today, November 16, 2012. It began previews at the New Amsterdam Theatre 214 West 42nd Street on October 14, 2006 before officially opening on N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMGrease was the word at McKinley High on the November 8 episode “Glease” as the New Directions kids performed the iconic high school musical. In this extra theater-centric episode…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMImagination Stage presents The Amazing Night-time Adventure of Little Hawelmann, a puppetry delight created and performed by the founders of Theater der Nacht, Heiko, and Ruth Brockhausen. B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMOscar winner Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria) and Tony Award winners Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess) and David Hyde Pierce (Curtains) were among the artists who took part…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMThe circle of life isn’t just a lyric sung while Julie Taymor puppets circle The Lion King; it’s the natural progression on Broadway. In this theater news round-up, we celebrate …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:07PMJean-Paul Sartre said that Hell was other people. He didn’t know the half of it. For what Hell could be fresher than a pub full of academics with the teensy-weensy specialty of Scottish bo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMI’ve talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I’ll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Not simply because Moisés Kaufman�…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:07PMThis week marks the most important week thus far for sophomores at Hofstra University: BFA Audition Week. About twenty performance and production BFA candidates rushed to and fro silently mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMThe Longacre Theatre opened its doors earlier this week to a raunchy comedy about the Adult Film Awards. However, according to Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press, the show just isn't going…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 12:06PMSadler's Wells, LondonGuilherme Botelho, choreographer and director of Alias, has admitted to being a "keen runner and a big fan of Charles Darwin", and it is clear that both enthusiasms hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMHen and Chickens, LondonHow do we remake the world? What if we think we are doing one thing when we are really doing another? It's a question at the heart of Sarah Robertson's striking if so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMMary Poppins, Broadway’s perfectly magical musical, celebrates its sixth anniversary on Friday, November 16, 2012. It began previews at the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 14, 2006 …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:01PMThis week's topics Broadway Show Posters, largest set desgin, Switching theatres, West End current must-see, Surprise Hits, Understudies going on for Opening Night, Favorite Musical Revival …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMKatie Holmes stopped by last night's 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' last night to chat about her new play DEAD ACCOUNTS, currently in previews on Broadway. The actress gushed, I'm so excited…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThe holidays are a time when we tend to dust off traditions we have long loved as we begin preparations to celebrate the season. But sometimes it’s good to mix it up a little bit, too, as …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMFamed violinist Itzhak Perlman talks about the road to his Nov. 18 appearance at Roy Thomson Hall.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PM
A slew of stage stars are lining up to celebrate 60 years of murderous fun on the West End! Patrick Stewart will join Harry Potter’s Julie Walters, Downton Abbey stars Iain Glen and Hu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMToday in 2006, Mary Poppins opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where it is still running. Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly titled series of children'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe musical "Damn Yankees" is coming back to Broadway and will likely debut next fall, sources exclusively tell NY1.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:52AMMichael Shannon is currently making his Broadway debut in the hit drama GRACE. The talented actor stopped by 'Good Day NY' this morning to chat about the show. When asked if working with leg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMThe Broadway production of the hit Disney-Cameron Mackintosh musical Mary Poppins, which currently stars Steffanie Leigh as the high-flying nanny, celebrates six years on Broadway Nov. 16 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMStrippers and Satchmo and guys who sing gospel sounds like a bastardized Rodgers and Hart lyric, but it helps explain the variety of talent that showed up for Jim Caruso's Cast Party at Bird…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMWhile promoting her new comedy Dead Accounts, Katie Holmes stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on November 15 for a friendly conversation with the talk show funnyman about sneaking …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMPlaywright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:36AMHartmere and Intrabartolo (photo by Linda Lenzi)
In 2000, a scrappy little rock musical—sorry, "pop opera"—called Bare became a sensation in the confines of Hollywood's Hudson Theater, …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:34AM"Christmas on the Ranch" puts country-fried schmaltz and music on the holiday menu at Plymouth Playhouse.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:33AMToday is the birthday of the Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy(1873-1958). In reality, the blues is a folkish form, it was well along in development when Handy, an educated man and a teacher, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:32AMBroadway legend Leslie Uggams makes her 54 Below debut forseven special performances only Best known for her Tony Award-winning role in Hallelujah, Baby, as well as the groundbreaking minise…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMDriving Miss Daisy playwright Alfred Uhry has his sights set on another popular Southern story. Uhry will pen the book for a musical adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AM“Great musicals, like great plays, demand to be reinterpreted for each generation,” says Molly Smith, the director of Arena Stage’s steampunk production of My Fair Lady now…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:26AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture all of opening night. Check out photos from the curtain call below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced that the American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, will extend its run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMSex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMThis week's featured performing arts program is The Departement of Theatre Arts at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA Learn about their degree offerings below, and check out photos from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMThe Charing Cross Theatre will present the British premiere of Jerry Herman's musical DEAR WORLD, starring Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas and directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMTime to oggle over some hunky guys! This week Grace leading man Paul Rudd made People magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive list, alongside Tony winner Denzel Washington, Broadway vet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMNick Payne's acclaimed new play Constellations has transferred from the Royal Court Upstairs to the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, where it opens tonight (16 November 2012, previews from…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:03AMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Brynn O'Malley, who is starring as 'Grace Farrell' in ANNIE- currently in previews at the Palace Theatre, and opening on November 8.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMIt took me six months to get a reservation, and it costs about as much as a Macbook Air, but I finally realized a dream this week and ate at Per Se, a Thomas Keller restaurant that is one of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 11162012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AM
54 BELOW, Broadways acclaimed nightclub and cabaret venue, located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, announces its student rush policy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s award winning production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda has announced that Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shaprio will alternate s…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:57AMDecember 25 is shaping up to be quite the day for Les Miserables fans. Not only does the film hit theaters on Christmas Day, but the movie's soundtrack will be released on the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMBased on the classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber, Giant is a new American musical that spans generations in an epic chronicle of the state thats like no place else on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMAn unreleased studio album of the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which was recorded in 2010 prior to the musical's debut at the Alliance Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMSmash returns to the NBC lineup for a second season on Tuesday, February 5 9-10 p.m. ET and will continue in its regular time slot on Tuesday, February 12 10-11 p.m. ET. Minnelli joins other…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMIn the final segment of our interview, Marni Nixon and I are joined by David Dubov, who will be playing the role of Freddy Malins in the Quotidian Theatre production of James Joyce’s The D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMToday is the birthday of George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) I am going to shock and probably affront some of my readers by saying I’m really not at crazy about him. I’ve had plenty of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:45AMSex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMGretchen Mol is the only reason to see this pallid new show.
Review will be in The Suburbanite and North Jersey Media Newspapers next week.
SOURCE: cervellionstage.blogspot.com at 10:43AMProducers have announced that David West Read’s new comedyThe Performers will officially close on November 18, 2012. The romantic comedy began previews on October 23 and officially ope…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:40AMTDFs Autism Theater Initiative ATI today announced a slate of autism-friendly performances of Broadway shows for 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMPaul Rudd and Tina Fey star in the upcoming comedy ADMISSION, due in theaters on March 8th 2013. Directed by Paul Weitz American Pie, About a Boy, In Good Company the film is written by Kare…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMJerry Herman musical Dear World will receive its British premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre next year starring Betty Buckley, in a rare London stage appearance, and Paul Nicholas.
Direct…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:31AMIn this week's edition of 'Regional Highlights of the Week', we bring you the most-read stories for the week of November 12. Enjoy and check back next week for another recap
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMIt's A Brad, Brad World: the Music and Lyrics of Bradford Proctor will be presented Dec. 2 at 7 PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMFeaturing book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman, Scandalous began performances at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre on October 13, 2012 and opened …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMTheater history has been made at least twice with shows centering on fictitious female evangelists.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMVereen will also pay tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Frank Sinatra
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:15AMStage legend and Oscar winner Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music), five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMStage legend and Oscar winner Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music), five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMCRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Girls and their dads turned out for a father-daughter dance in a community whose school system canceled a similar event because of concerns it violated a state gender…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:08AMINTERVIEW: BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE The former critic of The Times talks to Aleks Sierz about his new book, Great Moments in the Theatre (Oberon), which comprises accounts of more than 100 signi…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:06AMExecutive Director Walter Stearns announced today that he will launch a subscription series at the Mercury Theater including four full productions, which will transform the Mercury into the …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:06AMThe Last Goodbye, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet directed by Alex Timbers, will feature several of songwriter's worksHallelujah indeed: a Jeff Buckley musical is in development, with a seri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMThe Last Goodbye, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet directed by Alex Timbers, will feature several of songwriter's works Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMJason Donovan, Richard Grieve and Graham Weaver will star in the U.K. tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which will shake its groove thing beginning Feb. 9, 2013, at the Manchester Opera…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMAn upcoming U.K. tour of “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” will open February 9, 2013 at the Manchester Opera House. Jason Donovan, Graham Weaver and Richard Grieve will star in this touri…
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 10:00AMAugust Wilson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences will begin Feb. 18, 2013, prior to an official press opening Feb. 27, 2013, at the Theatre Royal Bath in the U.K.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMA revised version of the 2000 musical “Bare,” about teenagers wrestling with religion and sexuality, is getting a new Off Broadway revival at New World Stages.
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The music of Jaime Cepero, who played the conniving Ellis Boyd on the first season of NBC's "Smash," will be presented Nov. 18 at 7 PM at Stage 72 (formerly The Triad) in Manha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMActor in One Man, Two Guvnors who switched from Wall Street to BroadwayVery few actors start out in middle age, having thrown off a previous life as a high-flying money broker, and live…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMNEW YORK (AP) — Camille N. Brown is a supple dancer who hails from California. Lindiwe Dlamini is a singer from South Africa. They would seem to have little in common. Except they do.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:49AMFred Ridgeway had the gift of being able to deliver a comic line in a matter-of-fact, truthful manner. He would spin these lines across the stalls, accompanied by a Buster Keaton-esque face.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMJulia Mattison, who was seen in the recent Broadway revival of Godspell, will release a comedy album for the holidays entitled "A Violent Holiday Explosion."
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMOur roundup of the performances you've seen and what you thought of themThis week saw the press night of Lucy Prebble's new play, The Effect at the Cottesloe, London. Michael Billington gave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMGoodman Theatre announces a special staged reading of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666—co-adapted for the stage and co-directed by Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls and new Goodma…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:42AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Camille N. Brown is a supple dancer who hails from California. Lindiwe Dlamini is a singer from South Africa. They would seem to have little in common. Except they do....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:34AMJonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year with a brand-new production at the Arts Theatre in the West End.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMGiant runs through Sunday, December 2. BroadwayWorld brings you coverage of the opening night party below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMA photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The expression of surprise on Mark Rylance's face, perfectly captures the essence of Shakespeare's comedy in this image by the Guardian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMTony Award-winning book writer and playwright Alfred Uhry will adapt Jon Berendt's 1994 novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," which was later turned into a 1997 film…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMTo celebrate the 60th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap in London, a star-studded gala performance will take place at St. Martin’s Theatre Nov. 18 at 6:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMThe Velveteen Rabbit begins performances November 16 at off-Broadway’s DR2 Theatre. Starring Kristin Parker, Jim Stanek and John Curcuru, the new play based on the beloved ch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:13AMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino return from the Hurricane Sandy hiatus. Discussions include: The Heiress, Annie, and The Performers. Please take the BroadwayRadio surve…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:09AMObjections from London music venue Union Chapel about plans to build residential housing behind the site have been rejected by the local council. The Islington venue had mounted a campaign t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMThe songs from "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," a musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp, will be released on an album in the spring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMAfter opening to mostly harsh reviews, “The Performers,” a Broadway play based in the Adult Film Industry will close on Sunday, November 18, after only seven regular performances. The pl…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AM
Sadler’s Wells associate artist Jasmin Vardimon has been named the first guest artistic director of the new National Youth Dance Company. Vardimon, who has worked with the London-based ven…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMJason Donovan will reprise the role of Tick in a touring production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert next year. The musical, which will also star Richard Grieve and Graham Weaver, will open …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMWestpoint, Exeter: A line of fire streaks across the ice. Excitement builds. An unmistakeable smell permeates the air as the stadium reverberates to the full-throttle of twin motorbike engin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMNow available for pre-order from amazon.com, The Letters of William Gaddis will be published on 7 March 2013 by the Dalkey Archive Press. Edited by Steven Moore and with an afterword by Sara…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:36AMAmanda Green and Lin-Manuel Miranda ought to sue. I have no idea whether or not their lyrics are first rate because I still haven’t heard them, even though I was there at a recent …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMBroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage from the curtain call below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMGet big savings on the musical about the little tramp Save over 30 on tickets to Broadway's CHAPLIN starring Rob McClure
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27AMSadler's Wells, London: Sixteen dancers cross the stage in unison. Always travelling in the same direction - stage right to stage left - they crawl, roll, drag, scrabble or run in a to the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMDouble the elimination meant double the drama on last night's THE X FACTOR on FOX. Two of the acts, Lyric145 and Jennel Garcia were sent home, leaving only the Top 10 to move on to next week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:23AMLast night's slam poetry showcase at the pop-up Arcola Tent (a temporary off-shoot of the Arcola Theatre in Dalston) was ostensibly to celebrate the launch of Sam Berkson's new potry compila…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:20AMGlee takes on the challenge of the music, characters and magic that comprises the iconic ‘Grease.’ We begin with Mr. Schue announcing to the Glee club that he is leaving by the end o…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00AM'Tis the season, theater fans! Last week, you picked the 4 HOTTEST ensemble members (2 guys, 2 gals) from holiday favorite Elf: The Musical. To see who you picked, click on the "…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:00AM
PRIMARY STAGES ANNUAL GALA honored Tyne Daly, Jamie DeRoy, and Ted Snowdwon
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:45AM'I've definitely done my best work when I've been able to spend a lot of time on it. I don't come to a rehearsal room knowing what to do.'tlksMichael Boyd remembers his first day as artistic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMThe Huntington Theatre Company is hosting an exemplary revival of Harold Pinter's fascinating 1978 work, thanks to the spot-on direction of Maria Aitken.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:42AMAh, Monday nights in autumn. Most shows are dark. Smash isn’t on. And NYC is awash in benefits and readings. This week, I checked out a developmental reading of Island Song at Le Poiss…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 07:42AMDancer Ray Barra reflects on Kenneth MacMillan's production and the evolution of ballet since the choreographer's deathNearly 50 years after originating the role of the sensual-but-sleazy Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMActor Bruce Dow had a confession to make. “I never thought I’d do Bottom.” He described Midsummer Night‘s Nick Bottom, a weaver, and member of the theatrically inclined craft…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMYvan Goll may be the great shapeshifter, the Zelig, of twentieth-century poetry.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:35AMFull casting has been announced for new musical Lift which, as previously reported::E8831350390782, will premiere at Soho Theatre next year.
With music and lyrics by Craig Adams and a book b…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:27AMMichael Riedel reports in today's The New York Post that producer Anne Hamburger, founder of Off-Broadway's En Garde Arts, has acquired the rights and hired Alfred Uhry to turn John Berendt'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26AMA marriage lasting twenty seven years - not without problems. Set against the background of The Lone Star State - TEXAS. He, Jordan “Bick” Benedict (Brian D’Arcy James)…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMYork and King were a husband-wife, male-female comedy team of vaudeville’s golden age. Texas native Berry “Chick” York (1887-1969) ran away from home at age 15 to join a me…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AMBring your mobile (or borrow one) for You With Me, a playful adventure in Exeter, recharge in Glasgow at Fuelfest, or scurry to Stratford, where the RSC previews The Mouse and his ChildSout…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMJulie Walters, Patrick Stewart and Hugh Bonneville are to star in a 60th anniversary performance of The Moustrap. Joining them for this one-off event will be actors Tamsin Greig, Miranda Har…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMFeeling depressed about the state of British theatre? Lying awake worried about the lack of good new writing? Don't take a pill -- just cadge a ticket for this terrific new play by Lucy Preb…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Almeida, LondonPlays about poets are notoriously problematic. But Nick Dear overcomes the difficulties in this probing, intelligent piece about Edward Thomas, who produced a formidable body …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMGretchen Mol is compellingas the title character. If only the play she's in were more compelling. . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:52AM- In a season dominated by musical revivals, a new musical that more than lives up to its title, has finally opened . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:50AMSuranne Jones is to star in a revival of Jonathan Harvey’s play Beautiful Thing in April next year. The production is being staged to mark the 20th anniversary of the play and will be dire…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThe beautiful poetry of Edward Thomas – ostensibly pastoral but
often leading us to the mysterious, unsettling edges of
consciousness – came in a late spurt of creativity.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:27AMThis Past Monday, November 12th, cast members from the national tour of Jersey Boys hosted the a cabaret fundraiser called Rock Like a Man at the Carolina Theatre to benefit BCEFA and the Ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20AMAlmeida Theatre, London: Lyric poetry - unlike the performance kind - is private, internal. It is the opposite of drama. A poet's life, can, of course, be dramatic, but telling a writer…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMReview: "Elf The Musical": If you are looking for a fun show, great family entertainment, a place to forget your worries, then I would highly recommend going to "Elf The Musical."
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
There was real-life drama at Paul Rudd’s Broadway play “Grace” when an audience member who appeared drunk threw up over a mezzanine railing onto theatergoers below.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:50AMA grim guard in black battledress barks out orders: single file, walk faster, keep up! We rarely see the inside of prisons these days, and I imagine the warders have to say 'please' and 'tha…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:34AMTristan Bates, London: Nirjay Mahindru's new play is made up of two separate but complementary monologues illustrating the experiences of Indian immigrants in Britain a century or more …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMCharing Cross, London: Nearly three years after its humble beginnings in the Cock Tavern, Kilburn, low-budget company OperaUpClose's pared-down production of La Boheme has graduated - v…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMMiranda Hart and Hugh Bonneville are to be among the well-known names at a star-studded gala performance to celebrate the 60th anniversary of record-breaking stage show The Mousetrap.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:21AMWhen did it become the holiday season? By Rachel James (Treasurer/Writer) Can you believe that Thanksgiving is next week? I thought Starbucks was jumping the gun bringing out the Eggnog Latt…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
Miranda Hart and Hugh Bonneville star in gala performance to mark 60th anniversary of world's longest-running stage showMiranda Hart and Hugh Bonneville are among the well-known names at a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56AMArena Stage has a holiday gift waiting for you on the Fichandler Stage – a ‘loverly,’ joyful, colorful, funny, brilliantly acted and beautifully sung production of the much…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:51AM£15 tickets for Boris Godunov at the RSC for upcoming November performances.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:43AMTo celebrate the 60th anniversary of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in London, a star-studded gala performance will take place at St Martin's Theatre on Sunday (18 November 2012).
Directe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:42AMA £10 million arts quarter in Worcester is being planned which would include a new studio theatre and outdoor performance space. An architectural firm is drawing up the designs, after a loc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AM
Whatsonstage.com Award-winner Suranne Jones is heading back to the West
End to star in Jonathan Harvey’s play Beautiful Thing,
which will run at the Arts Theatre from 17 April to 25 Ma…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:51AMThe Telegraph (UK) 11/15/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:47AMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
While not yet quite ready for the presumably hoped-for jump uptown, this engrossing musical is already pretty swell.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38AMThere’s no attempt to romanticise the hero of Nick Dear’s new play about the Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas. Thomas, who died in action in the Battle of Arras in 1917 after enlisting at …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:22AMPandora Colin, Hattie Morahan, Shaun Dooley & Pip Carter
What a beautiful and unexpected play this is by Nick Dear, a study of the friendship between the Welsh poet Edward Thomas and his Am…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:17AMDirector Carolyn Howarth believes a certain amount of trepidation can be healthy when taking on a new project. After she first read the script for Craig Wright's "Mistakes Were Made," she th…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMIn Shakespeare's ironic literary comedy "Love's Labour's Lost," the young King Ferdinand of Navarre persuades his friends to swear off women and pursue lives of study, fasting and sleep.
…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM
NEW YORK (AP) — There's not much Carolee Carmello doesn't do in her new Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48AMBeloved character players from Broadway and Hollywood Tony Award-winning actors Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath from Nice Work If You Can Get It, plus three Jets and one Shark from the 1961 f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMSome 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 today, November …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMCast 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 12:30AMThere’s a lot of failed communication among the troubled characters in “The Good Mother,” about a single mother with a disabled daughter. But the biggest failure is playwright Francine…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMThere’s a lot of heat if not much substance in “Murder Ballad,” the new rock opera now steaming up the intimate confines of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II.
Starring Karen Oliv…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMAs befits its title, the new musical “Giant” doesn’t lack for ambition. Based on Edna Ferber’s Texas saga — which inspired a classic 1956 movie with James Dean — this isn’t the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMThe Mercer Williams House is to Savannah what Broadway is to New York — one of the city’s premier tourist attractions.
For it was in this house, one night in 1981, that an antiques deale…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AM‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson,” which opened on Broadway last night, canceled its final two press previews because its star, Carolee Carmello, was indisposed…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMWar Horse...everywhereWar Horse the play is NOT War Horse the book, and the Steven Spielberg movie is neither the book nor the play.by Dave Ross @dmjrossOn January 6, 2013, the Toronto …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review the New York premieres of Giant and The Performers. The first...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day--and the sitting down is all." Joseph...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMJim Stanek, John Curcuru and Kristin Parker lead the Theatreworks USA production of Kevin Del Aguila's The Velveteen Rabbit, which begins a ten-week limited engagement Nov. 16 at the DR2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAudiences witness Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies up close in the Toneelgroep Amsterdam productions of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, which put theatregoers in the m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-nominated "Glee" star Matthew Morrison offers a Nov. 16 solo concert at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT. The evening will be filmed by PBS fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCity Theatre presents the world premiere of South Side Stories – described as "a vibrant, hometown adventure" written and performed by Tami Dixon – which officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChicago's Victory Gardens Theater, a Tony Award winner as Outstanding Regional Theatre, launches the world premiere of Failure: A Love Story, a "magical, musical fable" about t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMZelda at the Oasis, a new play about Zelda Fitzgerald, by P. H. Lin, begins Off-Broadway previews Nov. 16 at St. Luke's Theatre.
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 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along begins performances at London's Menier Chocolate Factory Nov. 16, prior to an official opening Nov. 28, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1889 Playwright and director George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) is born today in Pittsburgh. A former newsman, Kaufman will make his mark with the comedy Dulcy in 1921, and will go on to write do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCara Seymour, who stars as Lily in Brian Friel's “The Freedom of the City,” talks about the Irish Repertory Theatre’s new production of the play and the Irish Rep’s 25thanniversary s…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMJames Beard Award-winning food writer Melissa Clark offers Thanksgiving shortcuts. Playwright Ayad Akhtar and actor Aasif Mandvi talk about their play, “Disgraced.” We’ll celebrate the…
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