From Miguel Gutierrez to Bill Morrison, a recap of some shows at BAM's Fisher Space with a slight detour to the Miller Theater.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 11:56PMIt’s nice to see the folks behind the new Broadway revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross” get on the immersive-theater bandwagon. A premium seat is $377, while a cup of soda will set you bac…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMWhen the title character in “Volpone, or the Fox” wakes up, his first impulse is to fondle his beloved gold and praise its glories:
“Thou being the best of things, and far transcendin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMMosaic Theatre, one of the most respected theater companies in the region, is closing immediately, a decision made Monday by its board of directors, according to an announcement Sunday night…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:41PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, December 9, 2012.
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In this staging of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the estimable Daniel Sullivan directs an assemblage of gifted stage and screen veterans — among them Al Pacino, whom Sullivan …
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:35PMWatch out for that that telescope! ... Allison Buck as Amanda, Seth Moore as Worthy. Photo Aaron Zebrock ...elixir of joy … Winter doldrums? …. Let Restoration Comedy completely restore …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:28PMLos Angeles Times 12/07/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:09PMThe Hub Theatre should be the first stop in a long run for How I Paid for College – a ‘monologsical’ written by Marc Acito, based on his award-winning novel of the same na…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05PMStraight to the Source In true Dance Exchange form Artistic Director Cassie Meador and Sarah Levitt will be conducting Straight to the Source - a two-day improvised movement workshop at the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:01PMThe Stirks were the leaders in trick riding and bicycle stunts in the variety world in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. The patriarch was Thomas (1859-1924), married to Flora, who was for…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:00PMWhat could be more contemporary than greed? It's certainly at the heart of Ben Jonson's delicious 1606 comedy,
Volpone,, or the Fox, but theatergoers these days aren't given many chances to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMHave you ever wanted to rip out your beating heart and hold it up for everyone to see while belting a high F into the face of your secret lover? Not since high school? Well then the angst-ri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDavid Mamet is f***ing back in business. The curses fly, the briefcase slam, and the air crackles with disgust and despair in Mamet's often blistering Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarr…
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NEW YORK (AP) -- David Mamet's return to Broadway has been upstaged - by David Mamet....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:36PMThe show’s new incarnation is very different from the first; it features dialogue as well as multiple new songs (with music by Lynne Shankel), a changed set of characters and an updated se…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:12PMThis month in the city, at least three stage productions are reinterpreting Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" in refreshingly divergent ways—saving us from getting stuck in a Victorian-era tim…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:11PMThe Fall 2012 issue of Modern Drama features “The Canonization of Christopher Shinn: A Modest Proposal on Ethics” by Stephen Bottoms, the first major academic consideration of th…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:10PMThe writer-director, subject of a DVD boxed set and HBO special, is taking notes for a possible 'Blazing Saddles' musical.Mel Brooks has just welcomed a visitor into his office when the come…
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The show: "The Santaland Diaries" at Hartford's TheaterWorks
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55PMNEW YORK (AP) — Greed that overreaches and causes its own undoing is the primary target of Ben Jonson's 1606 satire, "Volpone." Considering the ongoing global financial crisis, it's clear …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:47PMTonight on 60 MINUTES, Scott Pelley profiled the Australian actor and Broadway star known to most for his X-Men role as Wolverine, who now says he's doing the role of a lifetime as Jean Valj…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45PMPictured above are The Great Coram (1883-1937) and his partner Jerry Fisher. Born Thomas Whitaker, he debuted in music hall with his ventriloquism act in 1905, (he also appeared in Americ…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:05PMIf good intentions, sincerity, and important subject matter were enough to guarantee artistic success, then “Bare” would be a triumph. Unfortunately, Jon Hartmere’s generic…
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In the world of Twitter and Facebook, a brand's "voice" is a key bullet point in social strategy documents. "Brands are not humans. But people do project human qualities onto brands," Ric Dr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:58PMMarc Acito, whose Helen Hayes Award-winning tale of bird love, Birds of a Feather, graced the Hub Theatre stage last year, now returns to do a magic act. That is to say, his one-actor play H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44PMThe ambitious Extant Arts Company recently presented two shows in rep: Sophocles' Antigone (translated by Sarah Sharp with Extant Artistic Director Greg Taubman) and Taubman's Progeny, a pre…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:40PMWhether in the theatre or in real life, youthful energy is not a myth...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMBusy film, TV and stage actor Kevin Symons gets a call to star in a new musical extravaganza. What is the musical Will he accept Tune in.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00PMCarly Bawden, 24, has landed the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Sheffield Crucible Theatre alongside Dominic West, as Professor Henry Higgins, in his first ever musical. "
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London's Leicester Square played host to the star-studded World Premiere of Universal Pictures' Les Misrables, directed by Tom Hooper. The event was hosted by West End stage star Michael Bal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMOn Twitter Watch, Josh Gad wrote Back together with AndrewRannells and jason schwartzman and it feels so right. funnyordie exclusive pic.twitter.coml3DKsixf
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Maureen McGovern. We also review Dead Accounts, Starting Here, Starting Now, Broadway Close Up and Glengarry Glen Ross. &#…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:12PM1. Safe Pop It is said that the theater space is one of danger. But is it danger of content, form, or both? There are plenty of theater pieces that court no sense of danger whatsoever in eit…
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In Ruby Preston's likeable but awkwardly written novel Show Biz, theatre critic Ken Kantor's suicide sets off shock waves that eventually change the lives of nasty producer Margolies, his am…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:57PMClassical theater often gets a bad rap, whether due to the required reading of Shakespeare in high school, writing 20-page analytical papers in college, or watching countless sub-par communi…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:41PMFinely tuned kvetch Jackie Hoffman is back with her sendup of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” She performed a version of it last year, which I did not see. This incar…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:33PM“Tarzan,” “The Lion King” and now “Rocky” are turning Hamburg into a profitable city for big, splashy musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:23PMAs a companion column to this weekends extensive, exclusive InDepth InterView with Broadway and Hollywood star Patrick Wilson, today, lets take a look at twenty takes or so of this versatile…
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The thirteenth Whatsonstage.com Awards nominations party at lunchtime on Friday was the usual high-spirited affair, with an extraordinary mix of producers, actors, directors and administrato…
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Heather Headley thrillingly knocks all Whitney Houston wannabes out of the ballpark, but whenever she launches into a Whitney cover, there's tangible reli…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PMAl Pacino puts in a somewhat studied performance in this revival of David Mamet's classic, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:20PMAl Pacino puts in a somewhat studied performance in this revival of David Mamet’s classic, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:20PMPanto isn't proper theatre? Oh yes it is!At this time of year I'm on full-time panto patrol, pretty much, reviewing the festive family shows that fill British theatres, and which are so cruc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMThis story of a widow finding her wings is well executed but there's nary a whiff of originality, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:10PMThis story of a widow finding her wings is well executed but there’s nary a whiff of originality, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:10PMThe resourceful Brick Theater in Williamsburg is celebrating their 10th Anniversary by bringing back a few of their popular offerings, among them: Bouffon Glass Menajoree and NECROPOLIS 1+2:…
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The pop-rock musical Bare opens December 9 at off-Broadway’s New World Stages, starring Taylor Trensch, Jason Hite and Elizabeth Judd. Directed by Stafford Arima and choreographed by T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:55PMBroadway.com is spreading holiday cheer all season long, spotlighting tons of must-see events! Read on for this week’s top picks, from the arrival of The Grinch to the star-studde…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMI once asked Luciano Pavarotti what opera meant; the great tenor gave me a baffled look, but he answered that opera was not difficult to comprehend. Farmers played opera in barns to increase…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PMRon Simonian is a playwright I've admired through the years. Sometimes he's very good. Sometimes he's pretty bad. And I'm not sure he knows the difference.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:36PMMadame Petty was P.T. Barnum’s long-haired lady, photographed here circa 1870. A Brooklyn native, she was married to sea captain Henry Petty, who lost at sea off Cape Hateras in 1889.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:26PMChristmas is nearly upon us, and with the holiday cheer comes the swarm of good old-fashioned theatre. The Unicorn Theatre is hosting one of the best tales out there, Mark Twain’s The Prin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:25PMOne hundred years from now, film historians may look back at an Oscar race from the early 21st century and note the fascinating slate of Best Picture nominees.
1. A Christmas t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:10PMTricycle theatre, LondonScan the schedules and you find'll versions of The Arabian Nights cropping up all over the UK. This particular one, by Mary Zimmerman, was first seen in Chicago in&nb…
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David Sisco FounderCurator and Lorene Phillips Contributing Editor will celebrate the launch of THE DIRECTORY OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE WRITERS in a star-studded concert on Monday, January 21 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMNEW YORK— Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelly can't-c…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:16AMName: Alex "Hunty" MandellHometown: Fairfax, VAEducation: BFA in Acting, Boston UniversityWhat is a kiki?: A Kiki is a social event during which like-minded people gather to dress in the lat…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:13AMHappy Birthday, Mario Cantone He made his Broadway debut in 1995 as replacement for the role of Buzz in the Tony Awardwinning play, Love Valour Compassion. Later that year, he returned to Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThe Guardian (UK) 12/05/12
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Olney Theatre Center’s production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas will appeal to those who want to see a different, original telling of the Scrooge …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55AMCITY OF HOPE BROADWAY BLOWS BACK, a benefit concert to raise funds for New York and New Jersey communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, is set to take place tomorrow, December 10 at 730 PM. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMFormer Saturday Night Live funny-girl Cheri Oteri will celebrate her opening night in Off-Broadways NEWSical The Musical tonight, Dec 9th where she will appearing with in award winning music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMGlengarry Glen Ross opened last night, Saturday, December 8, 2012, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45th Street. The limited run has been extended through Sunday, January 20, 2013. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #399: Tim Moore, best known as Kingfish from the Amos and Andy tv series (for more on his vaudeville history go here). In honor of the day, an epi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:39AMBob Cratchit Hangs with Christmas Present, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.This is year 13 for me in A Trolley Christmas Carol!The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:36AMToday is the birthday of second generation vaudevillian Broderick Crawford (for his full bio go here). Showfolk from the cradle he was far from the thugs he typically played in the movies an…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMToday is the birthday of the unspeakably awesome Neil Innes (b. 1944). He played the John Lennon character (and wrote all the music for) the brilliant Beatles parody project the Rutles (co-c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:13AMThe new Broadway musical Scandalous The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson will play its final performance at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street today, December 9 at 3 p.m.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMMarc Kudisch walks into a room, motorcycle helmet tucked under his arm, and the coolness vibe spikes by a factor of 10. He’s a Broadway star with more than 20 major shows – like 9 to…
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Ah, the benefits of diminished expectations. Since it began previews in October, the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross has been the target of…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 09:56AMMontclair's Jeff McCarthy is going green this season
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:49AMLarry Coen directs "Chinglish"’s awkwardly written romance with a savory earnestness, but he can’t put the pieces of the fragmented script (you laugh/you cry) together.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMToday is the birthday of the great English poet John Milton (1608-1674). I go back to Paradise Lost periodically as in inspiration both as a writer and as a rough draft of a human being. But…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:29AMVpstart Crow Productions Takes Final Bow It was with great sadness that I read this announcement today. Vpstart Crow Productions had produced so many fine productions and we were honored to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AMToday is the birthday of John Elroy Sanford a.k.a Redd Foxx (1922-1991). He was born in St. Louis and raised in Chicago, where he became known as Chicago Red on account of his reddish hair. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:07AMCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will feature one of its largest and most varied program lineups in recent years, with performances ranging from Greek tra…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:02AMTaking on new challenges and new works is what Strand Theater Company is all about. And What A Girl Wants is definitely a challenging new work. Playwright and Director Deletta Gillespie bri…
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Al Pacino On the Great Mametian Way By Isa GoldbergIn a misfired story of power and the power brokers who wield it, a major block of New York City real estate, 4…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:36AMTreatment Action Group TAG, one of the worlds leading AIDS research advocacy organizations, will host its 16th annual Research in Action Awards RIAA, honoring individuals who have made a sig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMOn Today, December 9th, at 8 PM, Feinsteins at Loews Regency unwraps MY GIFT OF THANKS New Songs for the Holidays to benefit The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, presents Anton Chekhovs IVANOV, starring Ethan Hawke, Joely Richardson and J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMNew York Stage and Film continues plans for its Annual Winter Gala, to be held tonight, December 9, 2012 at The Plaza Hotel 770 Fifth Avenue, New York City, honoring Tony Award Winning produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced a special talkback at If There Is I Havent Found It Yet on the topic of climate change following the 200pm performance today, December 9. The talkbac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe original musical BARE, which began previews Off-Broadway at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street on Monday, November 19, 2012, opens today, Sunday, December 9, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMDavid Pomeranz, pop hitmaker and Scandalous on Broadways composer, will hold a one-night-only solo concert at 54 Below, Broadways famed nightclub, tonight, December 9 at 7 p.m.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMEven as my eyes are welling up at the pure beauty in front of me, I can’t look away. And when the lights come up after curtain call, I want to stay under the spell. As a company, Hubbard S…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:14AMLarry Shue's 1984 play is a charming, funny, feel-good affair, perfect for the holiday season, and it's currently getting a splendid production at the Rep, under Edward Stern's spot-on direc…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:14AMPretend It’s Going to Printby Sue EdworthySue Edworthy Arts Planning offers Marketing + Communications + Planning – For Your Art. This is what my business card says I do. What I actually…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark and Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes, who will star in the upcoming Broadway production of Cinderella, perform in the sold-out Dec. 9 benefit Impossible Things…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA look back at the year's musical-theatre albums that are worth your attention, perhaps for gift ideas this holiday season. The mix this week includes Once, Michael John LaChiusa, Pasek …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMScandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, a musical passion project by writer Kathie Lee Gifford, closes on Broadway Dec. 9, following the matinee performance. The biographi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Red Bull Theater revival of Ben Jonson's Volpone, or The Fox, starring Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella, Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh and Alvin Epstein, officially opens Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA Republican family unwraps a bombshell tell-all for Christmas in the West Coast premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Tony-nominated drama Other Desert Cities, which officially opens Dec. 9 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school, officially opens Off-Broadway Dec. 9 at New World Stages, where the work — billed as a Pop Opera in 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTreatment Action Group, an independent AIDS research organization, honors Tony Award winner Judith Light at its 16th annual Research in Action Awards (RIAA) Dec. 9 at 404NYC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMy Gift of Thanks: New Songs for the Holidays, a benefit for The Actors Fund, is presented Dec. 9 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway's Future Songbook Series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — continues with free holiday concerts Dec. 9-10. The concerts, each with a unique program of ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAn encore performance of The York Theatre Company's recent reunion concert staging of Starting Here, Starting Now, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire's hit Off-Broadway musical revu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaywright Arthur Bicknell is returning to the scene of a crime — his famous Broadway flop Moose Murders, which he is a revising for a New York City staging. With good nature intact, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1902 Birthday of actress Margaret Hamilton, who will appear on Broadway in plays including The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Dark Tower, Goldilocks and a revival of Our Town, but who will forever…
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