Like a mordantly funny variation on “On Golden Pond,” Bruce Graham’s new play “The Outgoing Tide” wrests a surprising amount of humor from its dark tale of a family patriarch with …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PMNo, that’s not a typo: It’s “Mies Julie,” not “Miss Julie,” that’s playing St. Ann’s Warehouse. This blistering adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 classic is set in pre…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:51PMIt shouldn’t work. Not anymore. Not in the 21st Century. That time-worn plot, the one-dimensional characters, the unabashed sentiment. But Florida Grand Opera’s production of La bohème …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:30PMA strong and well-balanced cast is a full partner with guest conductor Stephen Lord and the excellent Lyric Orchestra in demonstrating the superbly crafted and complex score of Donzetti’s …
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Holiday ceremony expands December dates
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CITY OF HOPE BROADWAY BLOWS BACK, a benefit concert to raise funds for New York and New Jersey communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, will now take place on Monday, December 10 at 730 PM. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59PMNick Payne has been named the winner of the best play category for Constellations at this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The 29-year-old, whose winning play was originally staged …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36PMNUNBEARABLE If there’s one thing I hate, it’s to see a classic movie adapted for the stage for no apparent reason. Instead of transferring the heart and sassiness that made the movie Sis…
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“Smash” star Megan Hilty sashayed into Rat Pack territory over the weekend, belting and crooning with a swinging National Symphony Orchestra in a pops concert titled “Luck Be a Lady”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:31PMThe literary limbo of the benighted family of “Six Characters in Search of an Author” is capably handled in the revival of the Luigi Pirandello play by Arlington’s WSC Avant Bard — e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:20PMTony nominee Euan Morton gets the call to star in a new musical. Will the Taboo star say yes What's the musical Tune in to see. Also stars Sami Staitman and Emma Degerstedt.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00PMAt just 29, Nick Payne has become the youngest person to win the Best Play category at the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, led a
rally to protect public funding of the arts following a double win
at the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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CHRISTMAS ISLAND With the superfluity of Christmas-themed theater descending upon America like a Biblical plague, there is one play which is opening this week that has intrigued and even exc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:44PMThree lost souls hurtle towards their individual destinies on a Dublin night in the "Off-Mirvish" production of Terminus.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:40PMGrand singing, grand setting make for a family-friendly holiday hit in Aurora
Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:28PMThe actress Dinah Sheridan, who appeared in the classic films, Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970), has died at the age of 92. Her agent said she died peacefully at her home in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28PMThis campy theater company aims to bring good old-fashioned Christmas cheer – well, if by “Christmas cheer” you mean “murdered Santa Claus and off-kilter TV special” in their set o…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:17PMWinners of the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, presented Nov. 25 at London's Savoy Theatre in a ceremony hosted by James Corden, include Best Director Nicholas Hytner, Best …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMThe four actors in the new Spanish-language play based on Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera” portray characters over many decades, making them symbols.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMWhen the Center for Theater Commons first landed at Emerson College, few students knew exactly how to react. In April, the Commons dedicated a whole week on HowlRound to the venture at Emers…
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William Berloni, the trainer whose dogs have appeared on Broadway in shows from GYPSY to LEGALLY BLONDE, this year trained three more dogs who are currently appearing on the Great White Way …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMRoundabout Theatre Companys Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge, Clmence Posy and Patrick Page, ends it limited engagement today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMWork off those Thanksgiving calories by walking around New York City and taking in the marvelous events happening on Broadway this week! Among the best: opening nights for Patti LuPone, Norb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMHello readers! A theatrical event is coming to Los Angeles that is a *must see*. The New York-based experimental theater company, Elevator Repair Service (ERS), will be presenting their high…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:12PMWith his biopic "Orchestra of Exiles," director Josh Aronson has done an at times awkward, but important, cut and paste job of history and biography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:08PMJudged as a play, Fare Game is feeble to the point of non-existence. To be fair (ouch) it isn’t trying to be a play. It’s an assemblage of film clips
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:00PM Hey readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of the comedy Terminator Too: Judgment Play, a silly, spoofy show now playing Sat nights at the Viper Room on Sunset. We …
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Kansas City Repertory Theatre's annual production of "A Christmas Carol" runs like a reliable machine, delivering laughs, chills and lumps in the throat precisely when we expect them. "We" r…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 12:58PMA few folks have e-mailed to ask that I reprise my analysis of It's a Wonderful Life - perhaps, like my "Highbrow Halloween" post, this will become a kind of Hub Review classic. At any…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:58PMFresh off their successful auditions for the still unclear London revival production of Cameron Mackintoshs mega-musical Miss Saigon, Rachelle Ann Go Disneys The Little Mermaid, Frencheska F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMLegit News:
It wins in three categories; Hytner gets special nod
SOURCE: Variety at 12:18PMThis week we traveled to Cambridge, MA, home of the American Repertory Theater. Now we begin Tech, or the part of the creative process when we move the show out of the rehearsal studio and o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMI got the privilege to attend the second tech run of The Flea’s upcoming production of Restoration Comedy by Amy Freed and directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar. My sneak peek of the huge produ…
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"West Side Story" returns to Théâtre du Châtelet with two Tonys, two Marias and twice as many performances.
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 09:46AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:11AMThe world's longest-running play marks 60 years in London's West End with no sign of a curtain call.LONDON — Has anyone built a better "Mousetrap"?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:09AMTony Award winner Duncan Sheik (for his score of Spring Awakening) brings his THE SUNSET SESSIONS TOUR to The Birchmere – 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue, in Alexandria, VA TONIGHT at 7:…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02AMThough Los Angeles-area theater leaders have seen an influx of shorter scripts lately, they're not worried about the future of intermission.As artistic director of L.A.'s Center Theatre Grou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThe 61/2-hour 'Gatz,' a 'Great Gatsby' re-creation coming to REDCAT, is the latest in a long-held tradition of stamina-stretching stagecraft that's a challenge to actors and audiences alike.…
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Broadway legend Chita Rivera is currently starring alongside Stephanie J. Block, Will Chase, Jim Norton, and more in the Roundabout Theatre Companys Broadway production of The Mystery of Edw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMTweetI’m extremely excited to share with you all that Faheem will be playing piano for another sing a long showtunes night at the BlackFox Lounge in Washington DC this coming Tuesday 1…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 08:37AMToday is the birthday of Jonathan R. Bass (1830-1892). Bass was one of a sub-branch of exhibited peoples known as “ossified men”. Afllicted with rheumatism since childhood, he m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:15AMThe Globe’s “original practices” production with Mark Rylance playing Olivia and well known personality Stephen Fry as Malvolio .
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Today is the birthday of Eva Puck (1892-1979). Through most of her childhood and some of her young adulthood she was in a vaudeville two-act with her brother, known variously as “Puck …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:34AMSome organizations are facing long-term recoveries, including the Surflight Theatre on Long Beach Island, which cancelled its final production of the year, and the Starland Ballroom in Sayre…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:15AM'Today' host's two-and-a-half hour show has been criticized for its length among other things
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:13AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 25 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Fifty years after her death, "Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe" is still alive, though now she is living in the body of Louisa Bradshaw who wonderfully portrays the famed icon in Siren's Heart...No…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:38AMTonight, November 25, 2012, celebrated stage veteran Roz Ryan, longtime star of Broadway's worldwide smash hit Chicago and currently co-starring in this season's new musical Scandalous The L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMMegan Hilty, star of NBCs musical drama Smash, has signed on to joining Mannheim Steamroller, the 1 selling Christmas music group of all time, as a special musical guest for NBCs special PAN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMAustin 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 12:30AMMegan Hilty, star of NBCs musical drama SMASH has signed on to joining Mannheim Steamroller, the 1 selling Christmas music group of all time, as a special musical guest for NBCs special PAND…
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From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reali…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 12:05AMChoicesI have come to believe the reason for my delayed destiny as an artist was to understand what a precious gift and a responsibility it is to be one.by Deepali LindblomWhen asked, what m…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMAdo and Farewellby Cameryn MooreAs I write this, I have been in Boston for two days. It feels all the more unreal because of the way I left New York City, at 4am on the day before American T…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThis week's column discusses the original 1968 London cast recording of John Kander & Fred Ebb's Cabaret, featuring Judi Dench as Sally Bowles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company's limited-engagement Broadway revival of Edmond Rostand's verse romance Cyrano de Bergerac — starring Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge as the nobleman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Joe Mantegna (Glengarry Glen Ross) serves as Grand Marshal of the 2012 Hollywood Christmas Parade, which is presented by The City of Los Angeles and Associated Television I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen actress Megan Hilty, best known for her work on the NBC musical drama "Smash," is featured alongside Christmas music group Mannheim Steamroller in the NBC special …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMContagious Laughter LLC's world premiere of Brian Gianci's Let's Kill Grandma This Christmas begins performances Nov. 25 at the Theatre at St. Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSondheim Unplugged, the Bistro Award-winning series that features some of Broadway and cabaret's most dynamic voices accompanied by piano only, continues Nov. 25 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChicago veteran Roz Ryan, who is currently co-starring in Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, debuts her newest concert act, A One Night Stand of Eternal Love, Nov. 25…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTickets are now on sale to the general public for the new Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots, based on the 2005 film of the same title about a struggling shoemaker who reinvents his business b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1882 U.S. premiere of W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe, about fairies and other supernatural folk who get involved with Parliamentary peers.
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