UNFULFILLED WANTS David Mamet’s latest dramatic work, The Anarchist, begins as abruptly as it ends, but despite the jarring effects, there is a good reason for the sharpness of these m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:41PMTony and Olivier Award-winner John Caird Les Misrables and Nicholas Nickleby, West End rising star Sam Caird, and Tony nominee Paul Gordon Jane Eyre recently arrived in Ventura to begin rehe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMEvery December New York swims—some would say drowns—in holiday entertainments that range from extravaganzas at Radio City Music Hall to full productions of “The Nutcracker&…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PMFormer Saturday Night Live funny-girl Cheri Oteri celebrated her opening night in Off-Broadways NEWSical The Musical last night, Dec 9th where she is appearing with in the award-winning musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21PMLast night, December 9th, at 8 PM, Feinsteins at Loews Regency unwrapped MY GIFT OF THANKS New Songs for the Holidays to benefit The Actors Fund. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:09PMEven when The Whale wanders into heavily fished waters, it still comes up with fresh revelations and bracing truths.
The post Big Fish to Fry: Samuel D. Hunter’s <em>The Whale</em…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:00PMFor a pile of excrement, the picture painted by “P.S. Jones and the Frozen City” is darn pretty. I speak literally, of course. Robert Askins’ new play opens in a “pos…
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a TV alien, a silver screen starship pilot, a Tony Award nominee, a Mini-Me and others join the collection of stars from the worlds of stage, screen, rad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMIt’s brash, jolly, stuffed with wildly politically incorrect language, double entendres and spoof-laden song and dance.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:53PMIn the musical Working, six actors portray 36 ordinary Americans as they strive to transcend everydayness and find significance in their day jobs. Based on Studs Terkel's 1974 bestseller Wo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:31PMMoonbox Productions, one of the small theater troupes that bubbles with new talent from the Boston area, has mounted an affecting production of "Of Mice and Men."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22PMThe off-Broadway production of Bare celebrated its opening night on Sunday, December 9 with a post-performance party at KTCHN, the new restaurant at The O
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:22PMThe bigger LA theaters decided to do holiday productions this year. But none of 'em tops the Troubies' Rudolph/Doors stew. CTG's Second City Carol is a fiasco, but could its Other Desert Cit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:07PMAt the Royal Ballet, the future's Scarlett. The choreographic whizz kid Liam Scarlett, 26, has just landed the newest job in the company: artist-in-residence, a post created especially for h…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM"Devised theater" like "The Secret Soical" is by its nature a leap of faith. Lots of cooks often make the soup, collaborating on the script and character development. The…
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For childlike wonder, who else working in theater today can meet the enchanting standards of Natsu Onoda Power? Her latest performance piece, “A Trip to the Moon,” ties together her love…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:54PMThe last of the 19 shows that made up Broadway Fall 2012 opened this past week, and the assessments of the season have begun. So far: meh. Critical consensus: We are not living in Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMPhillip Dawkins has created quite an interesting piece of theatre with his latest piece, Failure: A Love Story. Set in the 1920’s, this Chicago-centric piece tells the story of three d…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:52PMGolden Boy star Tony Shalhoub and Annie producer Roger Horchow were honored Sunday, December 12 at New York Stage and Film's Annual Winter Gala, h
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:48PMConsidering the ongoing global financial crisis, it's clear that classic theater can remain eerily relevant even after 400 years.
SOURCE: bigstory.ap.org at 06:46PMBroadway star Lea Salonga recently performed alongside classical vocal quartet Blake at the Trinoma mall in Quezon City, accompanied by the ABS-CBN Philharmonic orchestra. She sang On My Own…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMBe warned. Not about the extreme profanity or bare-bottom nudity that abound in Amy Freed’s “Restoration Comedy,” at the Flea Theater, but about the evening’s length.…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:41PMGracing the cover of Marie Claire's January 2013 issue, Broadway and GLEE star Lea Michele talks with the magazine about rumors that she is a divarecently on FOX's GLEE TV set with Kate Huds…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PMThis trip through the Land of Other is a great way to spend an evening. The music is stellar, the dance moves are smooth, and the laughs are steady running. It's another family treat for the…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:25PMDon't shoot! We have Tonys! Five time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers) will lead a superstar design team including three time Tony-winning set designe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:07PMLea Michele is not a diva, and she’s sick of people saying she is. The Broadway vet and Glee star addresses her prickly reputation in the January 2013 cover story of Marie Claire magaz…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMDaniel Sullivan's blazing revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross"—one of the finest American plays of the 20th century—is performed with stupendous dynamism by a stunning cast.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:01PMNoël Coward theatre, LondonMichael Grandage could hardly have made a better start to his five-show West End season than with this joyous revival of Peter Nichols's 1977 play with music. Wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
In the Red Bull Theater’s revival of “Volpone,” Ben Jonson’s 1606 comedy, Stephen Spinella, Tovah Feldshuh and Alvin Epstein provide Jacobean giggles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, December 10, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway CHAPLIN star Rob McClure wins Clive Barnes Fou…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:55PMIn NIE’s wonderfully quirky Hansel and Gretel, playing at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory, the traditional tale is turned on its head. All of the expected elements are there, but NIE a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:53PMIf you're looking to put some invigorating spark into your holiday playlist this year, consider the 14th edition of Broadway's Carols for a Cure. The two-disc set features cast members from…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PMCharl Brown (Sister Act) will play Smokey Robinson in Motown: The Musical, producers announced today. Morgan James (Godspell) and Saycon Sengbloh (Hair) also join the ensemble cast of 40. Mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:50PM“Dear Elizabeth” distills hundreds of letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop into a play at the Yale Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMLanford Wilson's romantic comedy opens at the New Jewish Theatre.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:48PMIf you’re as excited as we are about the upcoming Christmas release of Les Misérables, then every little teaser for the movie is an event! In addition to the musical’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:47PMRob McClure, the star of Broadways CHAPLIN, has received the Clive Barnes Foundation Award in Theater for his outstanding performance as Charlie Chaplin it was announced today at a ceremony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMRob McClure, the star of Broadway’s CHAPLIN, has received the Clive Barnes Foundation Award in Theater for his outstanding performance as Charlie Chaplin, it was announced today at a cerem…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMAl Pacino and Bobby Cannavale lead the all-star revival of David Mamet’s award-winning masterpiece Glengarry Glen Ross. Find out if Word of Mouth panelists Brad, Ruth and Phyllis were …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:25PM"The Chosen," Shakespeare, New Musical and Next Mark St. Germain Play On TapThe Leonard Bernstein musical "On the Town," a stage adaptation of "The Chosen" and " Much Ado About Nothing…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:25PMNew York Stage and Film's annual Winter Gala was held yesterday, Sunday, December 9, 2012, at The Plaza Hotel 770 Fifth Avenue, New York City, honoring Tony Award Winning producer Roger Horc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMA review of “Oedipus El Rey,” an eSe Teatro production, running through Dec. 16, 2012, at ACT Theatre in Seattle.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:17PMWhen Julia Murney takes the stage in Falling at the Minetta Lane Theatre, her face isn't Elphaba green, she's not wearing John Lennon's famous New York City t-shirt, nor is she raising the r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMIn the world of college theater programs, the audition year is finally in full swing! With the beginning of regional dates around the country, early admission auditions, and even some accept…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMThe official cast recording for the Tony nominated Broadway musical Leap of Faith was digitally released on December 4 and will be physically released on December 18 by Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:11PMThe downtown theatre troupe The Amoralists will stage the world premiere of The Cheaters Club, written by company member Derek Ahonen, as well as two premieres by Lyle Kessler and Mark Rober…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PMVoting is now underway for the Seattle Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 121012.
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Voting is now underway for the San Francisco Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMWorld-class jazz pianist Hal Schaefer died this past Saturday morning, December 8, at his home in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He was 88 years old and still active.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMDoes anyone in Ireland have a happy childhood? From Frank McCourt to Martin McDonagh, the Emerald Isle seems to eat its young with alarming frequency. And according to “Silent,” …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:59PMCheck out the NEW video gallery for Glengarry Glen Ross. It includes behind the scenes footage, interviews, and other videos for your viewing pleasure. David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen R…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:57PMPacino in middle-register Hoo-wah, and John McGinley flashing his canines.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:56PMVoting is now underway for the Los Angeles Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMVoting is now underway for the Las Vegas Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMThe Skivvies Lauren Molina of Sweeney Todd, Rock of Ages, Marry Me A Little amp Nick Cearley of All Shook Up team up with Marie the rat for a holiday parody medley featuring nods to Holiday,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PMVoting is now underway for the San Antonio Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMChaplin star Rob McClure took home the 2012 Clive Barnes Award at the December 10th ceremony at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre. In addition to McClure, the year's nominees f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMOut of 19 plays and musicals that opened in the second half of this year, only 2 are hits with ticket buyers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:34PMTelevision, Stage and Recording star Cheyenne Jackson has announced that his friend, Tony Award winning actress Nina Arianda, will join him on New Years Eve as special guest when he performs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMThe Actors’ Equity Association won’t join a growing union boycott of West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center—at least not yet.
IATSE Local 500 in south Florida and the t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:33PMOther Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer-nominated play about a Palm Springs Republican clan whose daughter has written a tell-all family memoir, had its West Coast premiere Sunday ni…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:31PMIn the Heights' original Broadway and national tour cast members will sing in a one-night concert production of In The Heights on February 11 at the United Palace of Cultural Arts in Washing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:31PMThe Clive Barnes Foundation's nominated actors and dancers for its Third Annual Clive Barnes Awards gathered at a reception 2:30 PM Dec. 10 at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMNo reviews necessary. Glengarry Glen Ross is a hit! Even so, over the weekend the David Mamet drama opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and reviews aren’t overwhelmingly favorab…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:29PMCheyenne Jackson has tapped Tony Award winner Nina Arianda to join him as a special guest for his New Year’s Eve celebration Cheyenne Jackson… Music of the Mad Men Era, whi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:28PMVoting is now underway for the Tennessee Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMWe've got a first look at photos from the show, which opens on December 11
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMVoting is now underway for the Nashville Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMName: Erik OlsonHometown: Boulder, COEducation: BFA NYU Tisch / Atlantic Theater Company's Acting SchoolWhat is a kiki?: A kiki is a party where everyone is in lingerie (male and female). Th…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:25PMOver the last two weeks, the cast and crew of Somethings Afoot had been collecting donations for Broadway Cares. The team raised an unprecedented amount for the fall collection 12,135.00. C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMProducers Letty Aronson and Julian Schlossberg are proud to announce a creative team of award winning Broadway veterans for the world premiere production of BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, the new Br…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:21PMEffective immediately, Martin Platt will no longer be serving as the artistic director of Olney Theatre Center. Alan Wade, a member of the Olney board of directors, is serving as interim art…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:20PMMagical Mystery Tour Revisited is a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the controversial, surreal Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, with interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Sta…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:19PMCreative team members have been announced for Bullets Over Broadway, the new stage musical adaptation of the 1994 comedy written by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath. As previously reported, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMTony Award winner Nina Arianda will be Cheyenne Jackson's special guest during his Dec. 31 concert at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMVoting is now underway for the Toronto Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMUpcoming performers are Murder City Players, Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies and Billy Jonas
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:11PMWe’re deep into to the holiday season and Broadway grosses are back on the rise, up $1.7 million from last week’s end. Family favorites A Christmas Story and Annie both made the milliona…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:07PMBroadwayWorld is thrilled to bring you the Top 5 Finalists in the BRING IT ON Karaoke Contest These five videos have garnered the most votes from the audience and the finalists are now in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMBroadway vets Lindsay Mendez, Julia Murney and Tituss Burgess will sing holiday songs alongside stage vet Derek Klena, The Glee Project alum Ali Stroker and more in Backstage For C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PM
Producers Letty Aronson and Julian Schlossberg have just announced a creative team of award winning Broadway veterans for the world premiere production of BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, the new Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMThe creative team has been announced for the Susan Stroman-helmed Broadway musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Academy Award-nominated film Bullets Over Broadway, which is aiming for a B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMVoting is now underway for the Washington, DC Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMTony Award winner John Rando will direct the dance-heavy musical comedy On the Town, with choreography by Emmy Award-winning "Smash" choreographer Joshua Bergasse, in summer 2013, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMThe Amoralists Theatre Company has announced its 2013 theater season. The season will begin with Lyle Kessler's Collision in January, and conclude with Derek Ahonen's The Cheaters Club in fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMThesis: Opportunities to create strong, face-to-face relationships between audience members and playmakers will encourage future attendance and raise awareness of the value of playgoing. Als…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 03:49PMVoting is now underway for the Philadelphia Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMCheyenne Jackson, Julia Murney Andy Karl amp Orfeh gathered at Town Hall for the ninth annual Broadway Unplugged concert this week.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMTom Hooper's extravaganza, big-screen telling of the beloved musical "Les Miserables" is as relentlessly driven as the ruthless Inspector Javert himself. It simply will not let up until you'…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:48PMThe new musical Viva Forever!, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and an book by Jennifer Saunders, will officially open Dec. 11 at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre foll…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMThis Friday, December 14, the Off-Broadway musical Triassic Parq will release its Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording. The musical was written by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Steve W…
SOURCE: www.bestofoffbroadway.com at 03:41PMLast week, 275 of you entered into our contest to win a script signed by Edward Albee, the playwright of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. We’re pleased to announce a winner. Cong…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:41PMNatalie Venetia Belcon, Jonathan Rayson, Matt Walton and Morgan Weed will star in UnsungMusicalsCo.'s upcoming production of The Fig Leaves Are Falling. Performances will begin Jan. 10, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMCheck out our new video preview below featuring highlights from the hit show
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMThis show is a knockout that, in the compact MAX Theatre, feels like a Broadway production staged in a living room.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:31PMJoin us this Thursday, December 13th for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST. The Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:31PMThe legend of Robin Hood�that noble outlaw who pursued justice for the poor and less fortunate and battled the abuses of an uncaring wealthy class�would seem to be a perfect subject for a co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:30PMThe American Film Institute's list of the Top 10 Films of 2012 includes a slew of likely Oscar contenders for Best Picture but not "The Master."
But this snub doesn't r…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:25PMVoting is now underway for the Long Island Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMThe second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash" will begin Feb. 5, 2013. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming season, which will welcome a slew of newcomers to the s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMOn December 8, Jake Epstein will make his Broadway debut as the alternate for Peter Parker on weekend matinees. Jake Epstein is best known for his role in the Canadian drama, Degrassi: The …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:15PMThe holidays are in full swing on Broadway! Yuletide tuner A Christmas Story, The Musical pulled in $1,130,429 in ticket sales, playing to a healthy 95% capacity. Family friendly musicals An…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMNew York Stage and Film's Annual Winter Gala was be held Dec. 9 at The Plaza Hotel (770 Fifth Avenue).
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMNothing says "the holidays" more than dark secrets coming vividly to life. Or Byzantine riddles that add a dash of mystery to the hum-drum rituals of the winter solstice�before we finally fi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:13PMIn an effort to make shows more affordable, many Broadway theaters are now offering rush, lottery, and standing-room-only tickets. Securing one of these lower-priced options typically requir…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:12PMTony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo and Tony nominees Olga Merediz and Robin de Jesús will reunite for a one-night-only concert of the Washington Heights-set musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1292012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMCLICK TO VIEW CAST PHOTOS AND BIOS Producers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy are proud to announce additional Broadway casting for the world premiere of MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL, base…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:05PMAt a press conference held at Barrington Stage Companys St. Germain Stage, Artistic Director Julianne Boyd announced the 2013 season of musicals and plays that will take place in downtown Pi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMVoting is now underway for the Connecticut Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMThe cast of the highly anticipated film adaptation of LES MISERABLES, including Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen as well as dir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMBroadwayWorld and THE HEIRESS invite you to enter to win a one-of-a-kind prize package featuring holiday wish lists from your favorite characters from new production of THE HEIRESS. Each day…
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An Evening With Patti LuPone, a rare, live concert by the two-time Tony Award winner with Seth Rudetsky on piano, is currently available for viewing exclusively on Seth TV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMVoting is now underway for the Columbus Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMAre critics' pulses racing for "Hearts Like Fists"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 02:53PMPulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottages acclaimed play INTIMATE APPAREL returns to New York on January 7th, 2013 at 7pm for a one-night only benefit reading in the Romulus Linney Cou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PM Reviewed by: Joe Regan, Jr. December 6. 2012 Mary Foster Conklin, who has won almost every award in the cabaret community for each of her shows and CDs, previewed her new show Thursda…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:50PMOriginal In the Heights stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo, Christopher Jackson, Mandy Gonzalez, Robin de Jesus and more are heading back to the barrio for a one-night-only concert of the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PM“Anything Goes is ‘the top’ at the Ahmanson Theatre” says the Los Angeles Times. When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portho…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:45PMVoting is now underway for the Cleveland Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMA benefit reading of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel will be presented Jan. 7, 2013, at 7 PM in the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMFrom Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic: The entire Seattle run of "The Book of Mormon," the Tony Award-winning musical comedy by the creators of "South Park," is sold out. But those…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:41PMThe American Film Institute has announced the winners of the 2012 Awards in Film and TV which honor creative ensembles as a whole.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMDickens’ famous Victorian streets spring to life as Scrooge, Tiny Tim, that fat, plucked goose and those know-it-all ghosts find themselves hopelessly mixed up with anachronistic chara…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:37PMThe cast album of the Off-Broadway comedy Triassic Parq The Musical, which played a run at the Soho Playhouse last summer, will be released Dec. 14 on iTunes and Amazon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMLA Phil Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen shares some anecdotes about the special relationship the iconic Polish composer had with the LA Phil.
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:33PM“…perfect for small children, with audience participation, appropriate kid-approved messages, a perfect hour run-time and catchy musical numbers” — LA Theatre Review …
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:31PMAn all-female Julius Caesar has just hit the stage, but it's a rarity in theatre. In a special report, Charlotte Higgins asks leading figures why women are still underrepresented at every le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMAn all-female Julius Caesar has just hit the stage, but it's a rarity in theatre. In a special report, Charlotte Higgins asks leading figures why women are still underrepresented at every le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMShakespeare may have been ahead of his time, but his female characters are still short on roles – and lost for words. Our interactive guide maps out the factsCharlotte HigginsLisa VillaniG…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMHow well are women represented in theatre? New research by the Guardian in collaboration with Elizabeth Freestone shows a mixed picture. Find the full research results below• Get the data�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMCharl Brown (Jersey Boys, Sister Act) will star as Smokey Robinson in Motown: The Musical, the new bio musical about the life of iconic Motown founder Berry Gordy. Brown joins previously-ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PMSmash is almost back on TV—and with some spicy new energy in the form of Jennifer Hudson, Jeremy Jordan and a slew of other familiar theater faces ready to inject NBC’s Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:28PMCharl Brown, Morgan James, Saycon Sengbloh, John Jellison and N'Kenge have been cast in Broadway's Motown: The Musical, about the life and career of music mogul Berry Gordy, which will b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMProducers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy have just announced additional Broadway casting for the world premiere of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, based on the life of iconic Motown founder…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PM A Concert to Benefit The Actors Fund Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. December 9, 2012 A great start for the Holiday season was the December 9 benefit for The Actors Fund at Feinstein’s at…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:27PMVoting is now underway for the South Florida Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PM# Throughout today and tomorrow Toronto City Council’s Budget Committee is hearing deputations from the community about what various citizens and organizations would like to see in the…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:24PMBartlett Sher’s vision for his Broadway revival When Bartlett Sher first floated the idea of directing Golden Boy for Lincoln Center Theatre, he proposed doing it in repertory with Ham…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:23PMManhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of THE OTHER PLACE, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello starring Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern, Zoe P…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:23PMLowry, Salford"I come from Baghdad, city of peace" declares Es-Sindibad the Sailor in One Thousand and One Nights. The context of Dominic Cooke's adaptation has changed somewhat since it was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22PMManhattan Theatre Clubs Broadway premiere of THE OTHER PLACE, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello starring Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern, Zoe Perr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMFailure: A Love Story - Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave, is offering $20 industry tickets to both performances on December 15th (4:00pm and 7:30). Tickets are available at …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:19PMOnly one in three actors, writers and artistic directors are women – and only a quarter of directors, Guardian research showsWomen buy more theatre tickets than men but are consistently un…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMIf Lincoln improves upon reflection, it is partly because it inspires reflection at all. That may sound like a low bar—there are plenty of subpar entertainments that may get stuck in our h…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:13PMIn the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, will make a return with much of its original Broadway cast for one night only this February.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PM2013 is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation! TCG couldn’t have been more timely in focusing its Fall Forum on the issues of Diversity and Inclusion in the theater. I…
SOURCE: StageSource at 02:08PMDue to the cancellation of necessary rehearsals during Hurricane Sandy and Academy Awards, the upcoming Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella has delayed the start of…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:07PMOn December 4, Masterworks Broadway digitally released the original Broadway cast recording of the new hit musical, Chaplin, prior to the CD hitting store shelves on January 8.
To listen to …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:02PMThe Arden Theatre's holiday show, Cinderella, is a peculiar take on the children's classic ... Plaid Tidings' mixture of comedy and music isn't always a successful one, but when it sticks to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:01PMActor Alex Brightman and author Marc Acito talk about Acito's "monologue-with-songs," How I Paid For College, based on his 2004 award-winning novel of the same. The Hub Theatre world-premier…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Kathleen Turner deserves a measure of thanks for dusting off Frank Marcus's provocative and sporadically hilarious 1964 dramedy The Killing of Sister George, about a much-beloved BBC radio s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMForbidden love was in the air on December 9, when Jason Hite, Taylor Trensch and the hot new cast of Bare celebrated their official opening night. Featuring music by Damon Intrabartolo, a bo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMVoting is now underway for the CincinnatiDayton Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMSpring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, opened on Broadway Dec. 10, 2006. We take a look back at Playbill.com's coverage of the big opening n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMThis stage musical adaptation, conceived by the estimable Jack O'Brien for San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and, later, Broadway, deserves some credit for trying to stay true to Seuss.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:43PMTony-winner Heather Headley made her long-awaited return to the stage in London’s The Bodyguard last week and reviews suggest that, while the book might be rough around the edges, the …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:40PMChoreographers have long been fascinated by the supposedly stationary act of sleep. There’s Romeo’s heartbreaking pas de deux with the limp, slumbering Juliet; Balanchine’s tragedy “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:38PMThe nominees for the Grammy awards have been announced. Five of our favorite shows have been nominated for the Best Musical Theater Album award.
Who do you think will win this year? Vote in…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:36PMPierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Christopher Hampton’s eventual theatrical translation, mine the lives of the French idle rich for drama and moral insigh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:35PMJames Bierman is the executive producer of the Michael Grandage Company, which launch its inaugural 15-month residency at the Noel Coward Theatre tonight (10 December 2012) with Privates on …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:35PMREVIEW: The musical adaptation of the Will Ferrell comedy piles on the sugar, but its star proves to be a natural.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:32PMThe exhibit at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts is very revealing -- and not just in the way of fashion.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:32PMTalk about a starry group! The ensemble cast of Les Misérables (including Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks) asse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PMREVIEW: Steven Epp leads his Yale Rep castmates through a rollicking and fearless take on a classic tale, "The Servant of Two Masters," at the Guthrie.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:25PMTron, GlasgowWhen Charles Dickens conceived the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, it is unlikely that he had in mind a large woman in a spangly leotard, bejewelled shoulder pads and curly black…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMLast week, we announced that we would give away a playbill signed by Patti Lupone and Debra Winger of The Anarchist. We had 111 entries throughout the week and we’re excited to announ…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:21PMVoting is now underway for the Chicago Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation adds a couple of plot “twists” to enhance the fun, but for most audiences the draw is seeing Kathleen Turner do her stuff . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:13PMThe soundtrack of the highly anticipated film adaptation of LES MISRABLES, featuring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Aaron Tv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMGordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage: What a fitting time to put on the story of Robin Hood, the valiant hero of the poor pitted against a villain hell bent on bleeding them dry - he should be in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMMatthew Bourne completes his Tchaikovsky trilogy with a tediously complex and superficial staging, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:06PMMatthew Bourne completes his Tchaikovsky trilogy with a tediously complex and superficial staging, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:06PMCondola Rashad has already made a mark as the Tony-nominated breakout star of Stick Fly, off-Broadway’s Ruined and TV’s Steel Magnolias. Now this talented young performer (who tu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMThe award winning playwright, Sarah Ruhl, sculpts a fascinating play from letters poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop wrote to one another during their evolving friendship from 1947 unt…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:03PM
Voting is now underway for the Central PA Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMWith the release of Les Misérables only two weeks away, all eyes are on uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh—who, according to The Philippine Star, is already looking ahead to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PM‘I rather expected she’d be prettier’ says Wendy of Tinker Bell and I imagine much of the audience thought the same. In Sally Cookson’s production of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan, Tinkerb…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:56PMOlney Theatre Center begins its search for new Artistic Director Olney Theatre Center announced this morning that Martin Platt, who joined the company as its Artistic Director in June, 2012,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:53PMThe all-star lineup for the megaconcert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy; ticket information for area theatres closed circuit telecast.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:49PMThe 30th-anniversary revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, is now playing on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMWriter, composer, and lyricist Rupert Holmeswas on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about the Broadway revival of his show, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." He also told us what he's be…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:46PMJessie Mueller was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about her starring role in the Broadway revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." She also told us about some of her favorite th…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:39PMActor Jim Norton was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about starring in the Broadway revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." He also told us what he's been reading and listening …
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10 Grammy Nominees – Past and Present
The Grammy awards are coming up in February and we couldn’t be more excited for the nominees! We have gathere…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:29PMOlney Theatre Center Begins Search for New Artistic Director Olney Theatre Center announces that Martin Platt is no longer serving as the Artistic Director of the Theatre. An Artistic Direc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23PMVoting is now underway for the Central NY Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMHugh Jackman stars in the much-anticipated film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables, set for wide release Dec. 25. We look back at the Australian star's st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMA new hardcover book from authors Benedict Nightingale and Martyn Palmer documenting the journey of the international hit musical LES MISERABLES from concept to film, will be published on Ap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMCity of Hope: Broadway Blows Back, a starry benefit concert to raise funds for New York and New Jersey communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, plays 7:30 PM Dec. 10 at the Gershwin Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMTune into ABC TV’s “The Chew” tomorrow Tuesday December 11 at 1 PM to see cast members from the off Broadway hit OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES as they lend some Hanukah expertise to the proce…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:06PMRECOMMENDED The holidays in Chicago are rife with theater traditions. Scrooges, Pirates, Klingons, George Baileys: creative clashes of humor, popular culture and nostalgia that pack in the c…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PMThe track listing has been revealed for the single-disc highlights album of Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Les Miserables.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
Name: Emily BrownHometown: Sebastopol, CAEducation: Smith College, BA in TheatreWhat is a kiki?: A kiki is the coolest party ever, that everyone finds out about the day after it happened and…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:58AMSpring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, opened Dec. 10, 2006. Here, Playbill.com looks back at the hit coming-of-age story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMThe La Jolla Playhouse production of the new American musical Hands on a Hardbody will open Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Broadways Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street, following a pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMOur rundown of the year's best British theatre begins with a devastating and deceptively undramatic piece about climate changeIt's a rare show that makes you want to get immediately, urgentl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMAnother NYC ReadingThat's right. On Friday I was invited to have Braided Sorrow included in Poetic Theater Productions' 2nd annual Poetic License festival of new poetic theatre that wil…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:54AMHoliday cheer is on full display this year at Elf, the Broadway musical based on the classic 2003 movie. Were Word of Mouth reviewers Anna, Travis and Brad happy to follow Buddy the Elf on h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMTweetIt isn’t often I hear something and go wow. That’s actually a complete lie since I am always impressed by people or shocked at how bad someone who is usually amazing is. The…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:52AMChantel Riley and Ben Jeffrey, who play the respective roles of Nala and Pumbaa in the long-running Disney musical The Lion King, appear on the television game show "Who Wants to Be a M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMBack in March, Anything Goes cast member Raymond Lee, created a music video of “What Makes You Beautiful” with the cast of Anything Goes. In a matter of days, the video hit ove…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 11:48AMSmash 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. Below, check out the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AM"Les Misérables: From Stage to Screen," a new book by Benedict Nightingale and Martyn Palmer documenting the journey of the international hit musical from concept to film, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMIs there room on your smartphone for a soul-sensor app? You might hanker for one after attending “Altar Boyz,” the musical that’s larking about at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner. The show�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:30AMToday, we're featuring Patrick Wilson circa 2001. On stage, Wilson has appeared in Broadway's All My Sons, Barefoot in the Park, Something Good, Oklahoma, Dreamgirls, The Full Monty and The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMThe new incarnation of the rock musical Bare began previews Off-Broadway at New World Stages on Monday, November 19, 2012 and opened last night, Sunday, December 9, 2012. BroadwayWorld.com w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMNew casting has been announced for the London revival of Taboo at the Brixton Club House. Beginning December 29, Paul Treacy will take on the role of iconic '80s pop star Boy George alon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMToday in 2006, Spring Awakening opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 859 performances. Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMGLEE icon and Broadway megastar IDINA MENZEL will be in the house on ELLEN, Wednesday, December 12th. Check local listings for air times.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMLast week, MTC opened GOLDEN AGE with Eddie Kaye Thomas. His friend and AMERICAN PIE co-star Jason Biggs was on hand to support Eddie. Here’s Joe Marzullo’s exclusive photo of th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:18AMThe Heiress is one of those well made plays from the 1940s that takes its time to tell its absorbing story of Catherine Sloper, a lady living a very dull life in her father’s house on …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:17AMBut there’s always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I’ve found that what’s most valuable about that place is not the plac…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:17AMHugh Jackman sat down for an indepth interview with 60 Minutes as audiences near catching his self-proclaimed "role of a lifetime" in Les Misérables. During the se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMRECOMMENDED Although Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera “Hansel and Gretel” has been a beloved Christmas staple around the world for well over a century, it’s been a relati…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:15AMA host of theatre artists will join forces Jan. 20, 2013, for Broadway in Hoboken, a concert to benefit Hoboken residents affected by Hurricane Sandy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMBare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school, officially opened Off-Broadway Dec. 9 at New World Stages, where the work — billed as a Pop Opera in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMAccording to the Taking Your Fiscal Pulse 2012 snapshot survey, 90% of surveyed theatres believe their situation is holding steady or on the upswing. Released by Theatre Communications Group…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:08AMVoting is now underway for the Inaugural Cabaret Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMRoyal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa: This is a panto which is fun without being funny.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMLast week, the Broadway League issued their latest record-breaking report about the Broadway season (You can read the Executive Summary here). As we all know, and as we’ve all celebrated, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe theatrical telling of the back story of "Deep Throat" is on its way to Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
Arts Council England will have its budgets for 2013 to 2015 cut by £11.6 million, following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. Last week, it was announced that the Department for Cult…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMTony Award nominee Justin Vivian Bond will join Justin Sayre for the Dec. 13 installment of The Meeting*, which will celebrate the work of late writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp during a ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMBare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school, officially opened Off-Broadway Dec. 9 at New World Stages, where the work — billed as a Pop Opera in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMTwo-time Tony nominee John Leguizamo won’t be headed back to television as soon as we thought. Leguizamo was set to star in the ABC comedy pilot Kings Of Van Nuys, a multi-camera comed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMThere’s only a few short weeks until the Les Misérables film hits the big screen! After catching glimpses of some of the musical's big numbers, we asked readers wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMIn the Epistle Dedicatory that precedes Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw contended that “in Shakespeare’s plays, the woman always takes the initiative”. This may be true f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMGerald Schoenfeld theatre, New York"Always be closing." That maxim of salesmanship seems positively caustic when projected on to the curtain during the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMBristol Old Vic Studio: This appealing Christmas show for the under-sevens in the Theatre Royal Studio in Bristol is a bit like pressing the red button on a television remote control and fin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 9, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $1,130,429 11,517 95.02% $98.15 ANNIE $1,058,72…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSuperstar Adam Lambert revealed a 'new look' in the December issue of 'Fiasco' magazine in which he appears on the cover. Foregoing his signature eyeliner, the 'American Idol' runner-up can …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMTalk about a mega-watt cameo! Russell Crowe received some extra special support during his Indoor Garden Party concert at Joe’s Pub on December 8 from his Les Misérables co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMGolden Reviews across the board for the Lincoln Center Theatre presentation of the 75th Anniversary production of Golden Boy by Clifford Odets, directed by Bartlett Sher. The show opened o…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:40AMThe York Theatre Company has announced the four-show line-up for its Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series, which offers "theatre gems, in a simply-staged, book-in-hand concert format.&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMVoting is now underway for Boston and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMRussell Crowe, who appears as Javert in the film adaptation of Les Miserables, performed with his band The Indoor Garden Party at Joe's Pub Dec. 8. The actor was joined by some special g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMMiddleton Arena, Rochdale: The show almost didn't go on when the company scheduled to fill Middleton Arena's Christmas slot suddenly withdrew two weeks before opening night. Fortun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMRECOMMENDED It is no easy task to take the rhyming, whimsical world of Dr. Seuss and bring it to life. Boris Karloff and Chuck Jones did it wonderfully well in the 1966 animated version of �…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:30AMGrapple at the Garden to Feature Top Teams and Athletes on Big Stage in New York City: By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling
Three-time NCAA champion Kyle Dake of Cornell defeats Stephen Monk of N…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:26AMArts Council England (ACE) has said it faces an "extremely challenging" situation in the wake of additional funding cuts that were announced in the Chancellor's recent autumn statement.
ACE…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:21AMThe Egg, Theatre Royal, Bath: Who could resist the story of an innocent little girl with a heart of gold who changes the lives of everyone she meets?
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMEveryday Maps for Everyday Use contains moments of brilliance. As part of the Papatango New Writing Festival, inevitably the writing is offered up for scrutiny. Everyday Maps for Everyday Us…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMThis week - it's all about ANNIE This new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, opened on November 8 at the Palace Theatre and stars two-time Tony Award winner Katie Finneran as Miss…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMThe Junction, Cambridge: Visually and atmospherically delightful, inventive and original, The DIY Nativity is a highly entertaining, fast moving mini extravaganza of colourful fun, held toge…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who will make her solo Carnegie Hall concert debut Jan. 13, 2013, will be a guest on the Dec. 12 broadcast of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMThe Hawth, Crawley: When marvellous Richard Grieve appears from a coffin as Abanazar, the kids know exactly how to treat him.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMLegit Reviews:
Willful as it may seem on paper, setting Shakespeare's power-struggle drama in a women's prison makes, it turns out, absolute sense.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05AMMark Twain reputedly called golf “a good walk spoiled” but the four men who make up The Foursome at Bay Theatre Company are spoiling for more than a good walk. They are fellow graduates …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMVoting is now underway for Baltimore and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMBAFTA-winner and Golden Globe-nominee James McAvoy will star in a new production of Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” early next year in London’s West End. The performances are schedul…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM[Ed Note: This post originally ran on Tales of a Squishy Morph] We have two Equity theatre companies in the Boston area in devoted primarily to Shakespeare. Commonwealth Shakespea…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 10:00AMToday is the birthday of Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996). She got her start in show business as a teenager when her exotic French-Spanish-Irish good looks won her the title of Miss New Orleans. S…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:00AMTwenty years ago, Al Pacino starred in the movie version of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," receiving an Oscar nomination for his performance as Ricky Roma, one of a group of shady rea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThe answer? In your relationships. Many times I run into people who ask me about finding investors and you all know how I feel about that idea. The best investment you can make is in the tim…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AM
Feathers in the Snow started gloriously. The company’s vibrant and powerful tone completely grabbed my attention, washing away any reservations that it was a show “for children&…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:59AMThe cast of the highly anticipated film adaptation of LES MISERABLES, including Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen as well as di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMArts Council England (ACE) has said it faces an "extremely challenging" situation in the wake of additional funding cuts that were announced in the Chancellor's recent autumn statement.
ACE…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:54AMToday is the birthday of the adorable Una Merkel (1903-1986). Ironically she did not start out in vaudeville but only wound up there after she was a star, to promote her films in the early 1…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AMLegit News:
Loquasto, Ivey Long on board the musical
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46AMSugarward, Sean Graney’s new play about the governor of the British Leeward Islands circa 1706, will receive its world premiere January 5, 2013, at 7:30 pm at The Side Project. Sugarward…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:45AMLucille Lortel Theatre, Red Bull Theatre, Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A delightful production of a rarely produced comedy from one of Shakespeare’s sassy contemporar…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:43AMCul-De-Sac, the first play from stand-up comic Matthew Osborn is not the sort of show you’d usually expect to see at Theatre503. Plumbing the darker depths of suburbia, this is a snappy sa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:41AMJordan Gelber has come a long way since playing "Commuter" and "Man on the Bridge" in blockbusters like The Taking of Pelham 123 and TV's Rescue Me. These days, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:40AMChristine Pedi, who can currently be seen Off-Broadway in NEWSical the Musical, will bring her annual holiday show to the Laurie Beechman Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMWorking in a school, I was delighted to learn that the year sevens would be studying pantomime for their Christmas assessment this year. I was less delighted to learn that very few of the ye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:34AMLegit News:
Ten shows top the $1 million mark
SOURCE: Variety at 09:33AMLegit Reviews||Los Angeles:
American plays about troubled families are a dime a dozen. But American plays which do more than merely flirt with politics are scarce, and those att…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32AMFILM: Annie at IFC Center Annie, the belting, redhead orphan is having a moment. First, she's back on Broadway, and now she's getting her own place in the IFC Queer Art film series with a sc…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 09:30AMThis week, Broadway welcomes Roundabout Theatre's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play PICNIC which begins previews on December 14. Closing on Sunday, December 16, is David Mamet's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMTheatre 503, a small stage above the Latchmere pub on Battersea Park Road, has a reputation for staging provocative new writing. Led since 2006 by Artistic Directors Tim Roseman, who left th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:29AMVoting is now underway for Atlanta and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMTwo vintage Chita Rivera solo recordings, "Chita!" (1962) and "And Now I Sing!" (1963), will be released on CD by Stage Door Records Feb. 25, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMCreative Cauldron at ArtSpace Falls Church presents Christmas Cabin of Carnaween, an original adaptation of an old Irish folktale directed by Laura Connors Hull. The spirit of selflessness a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AMToday is the birthday of the great Tin Pan Alley lyricist Lew Brown (1893-1958), most famous as one third of the team of Henderson/ Brown/ DeSylva. Now here’s a 1926 recording of one o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:23AMToday is the birthday of Harry McCoy (1889-1937). After nearly a decade performing in stock companies and vaudeville, the Philadelphia native went to Hollywood in 1912 and performed in com…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:22AM I still don’t know what Arbor Day had to do with it. Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s latest play currently in performances at the Music Box Theater, contains a haphazard h…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:21AMStage Door Records have announced the release of Broadway legend Chita Rivera's debut solo albums 'Chita' 1962 and 'And Now I Sing' 1963. Presented in glorious stereo sound, these digitally …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMProvidence Players of Fairfax and The Young Hearts present The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, a fun, family-friendly production by Barbara Robinson, wonderfully directed by Beth Whitehead, who…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19AMIt’s always in the run-up to Christmas that West End theatres find themselves stocked with early-morning offerings for young children, and Little Charley Bear and his Christmas Adventure i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:17AMSinger-actor Steven Brinberg, in his alter ego as Simply Barbra — Streisand, that is — will offer two performances at 54 Below Dec. 12 at 9:30 PM and Dec. 30 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMAround this time of the year, it’s quite possible to experience what I like to call ‘Christmas-themed theatre overload.’ After all there’s a plethora of productions of A Christmas Ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMOwen Calvert-Lyons has been named the new artistic director of The Point and its sister venue the Berry Theatre. He will take over the running of the Eastleigh venues from his predecessor Sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMThe Rose Theatre’s festive offering this year is Charles Way’s charming adaption of the Cinderella rags-to-riches fairytale. Set in late eighteenth century Germany, in a kingdom devastat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:11AMThe number of philanthropic donations to charitable causes worth £1 million or more reached their highest level in five years during 2010/11, although their overall value has fallen, accor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMVoting is now underway for the Italy Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMVoting is now underway for the Philippines Awards and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. Check out the live standings below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMGoing into Echoa knowing nothing about what was to come was more than exciting. The questions “How does a percussionist dance?” and “What is the sound of a dancer?” are all over the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMWe're struck by how very, very, very white this directory is.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:00AMFor The Washington Revels 30th anniversary Christmas Revels, the company pulls out all the stops, tripping through the centuries in England from medieval times to the 1920s as they bring …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Before the musical Annie came to Broadway in 1977, few shows besides Oliver and The Sound of Music featured singing and dancing kids. There was the occasional child role in shows such as The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMLighthouse, Poole: Don Maclean must be one of the country's top dames and certainly one of the most practised, with 39 pantos under his belt, many of them in falsies and frocks.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMMacrobert, Stirling: Eilidh MacAskill and Fiona Manson let their audience provide the vocabulary in this delightful new piece from Fish and Game, aimed at under-sixes. They play a pair of ad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMDolah, the protagonist of Unbroken Line, is having an identity crisis. A trainee accountant transplanted to Peckham from his native Malaysia, he’s not sure where his allegiances lie: ̶…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:52AMThe Albino Lucasie family were European (the name is French), but P.T. Barnum, who discovered them at the 1857 Amsterdam fair, gave out that they were “Negroes from Madagascar” …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:51AMThere is one performance that I will always remember and that’s Coco Cohn performance of three kooky characters in Glimpses of the Moon at MetroStage. I was really happy to find out t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMYoung Amar Nath Dutt (1884-1937) was sent by his Punjabi parents to Edinburgh to study medicine. Somehow he wound up chucking all that and touring with Ruth St. Denis as part of one of her …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:43AMA production of the disputed Shakespearean comedy Fair Em is to be staged at the Union Theatre in London in the new year. It will be directed by Phil Willmott – whose previous work at.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMThe new incarnation of the rock musical Bare began previews Off-Broadway at New World Stages on Monday, November 19, 2012 and opened last night, Sunday, December 9, 2012. BroadwayWorld.com w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30AMRoses, Tewkesbury: Aladdin (Madeleine Leslay) is the battling hero hopelessly enamoured of the Princess (Millie Booth), and if a perceptive child might get slightly confused between the Prin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMMill Volvo Tyne Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne: It doesn't matter that this production blends two fairytales into one - for a pantomime the storyline is actually fairly clear. There is a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AM
There has been a lot of pre-opening discussion about the latest revival of David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, his 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning drama starring Al Pacino in the Willy L…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:25AMSeveral new cast members will join the London company of Boy George's Taboo beginning Dec. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19AMComedian claims to be 'workshopping' stage show poking fun at long-running TV singing contest – starting with Simon Cowell's trousersIt's time to face the musical. Or at least it will be i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: There is dark ambivalence to Ashley Page's Nutcracker in its examination of taboo, bound up with the coming of age of Marie (Sophie Martin) and her relationship …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMActors, singers, writers, composers and directors including Jeff Goldblum, Matt Lucas and Meera Syal come together to help support London's Old Vic – and artists were on hand to record eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMAccording to reports, Tori Amos' musical, THE LIGHT PRINCESS, which was previously postponed and set to play the Lyttelton Theatre this year, will now play the National Theatre at the end of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMMexican superstar Jenni Rivera died in a plane crash in Mexico on Sunday, according to Eonline.com. The singer was reported missing earlier in the day after her plane reportedly lost contact…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:11AMTara Theatre’s Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood, written by Harvey Virdi (lyrics by Farrukh Dhondy) and directed by Jatinder Verma, is overtly adult-focused from the off. Although the sexua…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:07AMThe Brant Mewborn collection of interviews was recently processed, preserved, and cataloged. This collection is a treasure trove of original interviews — conducted by Mewborn for…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:07AMIt is not uncommon to read about huge deficits and cancelled seasons. Not surprisingly, orchestras are suffering the most. This has left many suggesting that we need new models for running a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:02AMThe Oscar winner's mere presence throws off the play's balance, not that the adoring audience would have noticed. But the actor's scattershot approach is distracting as well.NEW YORK —…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThe latest podcast that I've been doing with Erin Salvi on Crazytown, titled Kim & Erin Eat Cheesecake (And Talk About That Show They Just Saw), just posted its third episode about The O…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AM"Social media isn't a fad," says scenic designer Donyale Werle. "It's our lives." With that mantra in mind, the Tony Award winner began work on her newest project, the off-Bro
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Middlesbrough Theatre: Slipping on ice on the morning of the opening, Joanne Shields missed the matinee - her dual roles of Mrs Darling and Miranda, Queen of the Mermaids were played by an u…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMLyric HammersmithIn recent years Hammersmith's Lyric has become a panto hotspot to rival Hackney, York and Nottingham – and this year it delivers a top-quality production, directed wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AM- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s rarely revived sweet relic about theater and theater people .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:48AMRed Bull Theater's fast-paced and very funny revival of Ben Jonson’s 1606 play about the consequences of greed . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:46AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #401 Hal Leroy (see here for more background on him). Here he is in a great little routine with Mitzi Mayfair from 1932: To find out more about th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:42AMA musical spin was placed on this year's Old Vic 24 Hour Celebrity Gala, which took place on Sunday (9 December 2012) and raised over £10,000 for the Old Vic Theatre Trust.
Hosted by Antho…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:35AMAmbassadors Theatre, London: Last Christmas this venue played host to a rather flat kid's show about Father Christmas. This year's effort is more successful, assured and thought ou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMPomegranate, Chesterfield: This panto has plenty to commend it, not least the amiable antics of Rik Gaynor as an endearing and energetic Simple Simon. With his natural warmth and cheeky ad-l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMLegit News:
Broadway musical lands full cast
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31AMPlaywright Martin Crimp defies labels. He has been called obscure and oblique, too difficult and, worst of all, too Continental. But although he is feted on the European mainland — George …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:30AMPostponed Tori Amos musical The Light Princess will be staged at the National Theatre towards the end of next year, the venue has confirmed. The musical, which is based on George MacDonald�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AMAre critics buying "Glengarry Glen Ross"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 07:24AMThe last show at the damp, dark and atmospheric Southwark Playhouse under London Bridge station (before the move to the Elephant and Castle in the New Year) is a fast-moving but surprisingly…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:22AMAssembly Rooms, Derby : The creative team has gone a long way to solving the difficulties of staging panto at the Derby Assembly Rooms, a venue that doesn't lend itself to live theatre.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMChristmas theatre and political subtext may not make the easiest of bedfellows, but this year’s pantomime at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre works hard to freight a contemporary message where onl…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:07AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
The producers of “Glengarry Glen Ross” invited critics to see the revival this weekend, following a preview period of nearly two months in which the star, Al Pacino, fine-tuned his perfo…
SOURCE: Business Week at 06:57AMThere’s a flying fairy, an acrobatic cat, a chorus of local down and dirty rats, a thigh-slapping Dick – Joanna Riding, no less, wears pink jeggings instead of sheer tights, but …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:56AMThe Royal Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker has a richly traditional air. Snow lies thick on the steeply-pitched roofs of a German town. Christmas tree fairies gleam with gilding, whil…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:41AMDick and Betsy DeVos' turn as Broadway producers appears short-lived.
SOURCE: Michigan Live at 06:34AMNorthern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne: Erica Whyman has been chief executive of Northern Stage since 2005, and this is her final production for the theatre before she joins the RSC in 2013. Wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMTobacco Factory, Bristol: The Tobacco Factory Theatre goes from strength to strength, especially at Christmas time. Last year's highly unusual Cinderella has transferred to the West End…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMAdam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Paris provides a happy hunting ground for Alan McHugh's script in Sleeping Beauty at the Adam Smith Kirkcaldy. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phantom and Mo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTron, Glasgow: Mary Gapinski and Toni Frutin demonstrated their skill at creating an inclusive and friendly environment for the under fives during last year's Tron show, The Night Befor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMDiscover Story Centre, London: Punchdrunk Enrichment, with its proven track record of creating absorbing storytelling adventures for children in schools, parks and markets, has found its spi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMAt Woodlands, a white Othello and a black Iago Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” tells the story of a Moor, an African or Arabian general, who is unlike the men of Verona he …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00AMMatthew Bourne’s latest production starts with Tchaikovsky, turns left at Dracula and ends up somewhere around Tim Burton Gothic. It’s a tussle between Bourne’s gifts as a producer and…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:00AM
Unity Theatre, Liverpool: The Unity Theatre has its Christmas productions down pat - make them dark, make them accessible and, above all, make them unusual. This year, The Brothers Grimm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMRock of Ages has confirmed it is transferring to the Garrick Theatre from 18 January 2013 after finishing its current run at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 6 January.
According to press materia…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:56AMLittle Angel Theatre, London: If you see only one children's Christmas show this month then it should be this witty, charming, engaging piece of miniature theatre. It's billed for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMLyric, Belfast: 'Misshapen elf steals show!' Thus might well read the headline for the Lyric's Christmas musical, in which Christina Nelson's mutely glowering servant to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMTheatre Royal, Wakefield: This year's pantomime offering in Wakefield boasts some intriguing twists to the traditional Cinderella plot, top-drawer costuming and choreography and a spark…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AMNatalie Abrahami, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, tells Sophie Reynolds about the first act of Pericles, which she directed for the Regents Park Open Air Theatre in 2011.
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:37AMMillennium Forum, Derry: Snow White at the Millennium Forum comes with a health warning - audiences are warned that Donegal crooner Daniel O'Donnell will not appear in person. And while…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMAlbert Halls, Bolton: Though a lot less lavish than other local seasonal offerings, the Albert Halls has a reputation for delivering quality pantomines. So it is a shame that this year'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMDundee Rep: You can't accuse Dundee Rep of not preparing for the future, with graduates and youth theatre workers occupying two of the leads and the six-strong chorus.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMThameside, Grays: While Polka Dot sticks to the popular version of the centuries-old story, including a fairy godmother, glass slippers and ugly sisters, a fresh element of popular culture i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMJacksons Lane, London: "Elves!" scream the youthful north London audience with one voice, "Elves in the cupboard!"
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMRose, Kingston : Once upon a time there was a girl named Cinderella who pined for her late mother and had to sleep in the kitchen. She also bit people, played childish pranks on her stepsist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AM
Though not a flawless production by any means, We Three Lizas is a snarky yet loving alternative to saccharine Christmas sap – and a big, high-heeled step forward. Perfect glitter-filled …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:43AMLegit News:
'Eat, Pray, Laugh!' to open on Oct. 23
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40AMThe third annual Clive Barnes Foundation Awards, established by Barnes' widow Valerie Taylor-Barnes, to honor outstanding young talents from the worlds of Theater and Dance, will be held tod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMMarty Thomas presents DIVA is a weekly show at Industry Bar in midtown Manhattan. Tonight, December 10 it's an 80s takeover when the glamorous ladies of Flashdance the musical join the divas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFutureleap Media and KHRONA Present BROADWAY FOR SANDY, a holiday concert benefiting those severely affected by Hurricane Sandy, tonight, December 10th, 2012 at 8 p.m. at the Elbo Room.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMNYU N'harmonics a capella group will be hosting its alumni reunion concert tonight, December 10th at 9 p.m. at DROM on the Lower East Side, featuring many successful actors and artists withi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMWHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE with Emmy Award-winning host Meredith Vieira, will honor The Great White Way next week with Broadway Giveaway Week, airing today, December 10-14. Check local li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTransport Group has announced that, Jenn Colella, Tyne Daly, Montego Glover, Ann Harada, Elizabeth Stanley, and Sally Wilfert will perform at its gala benefit GIMME A BREAK honoring Christia…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMMembers of the Naughton Family two-time Tony Award winner and Weston, Connecticut resident James Naughton, daughter Keira Naughton, son Greg Naughton, and Gregs wife Tony Award nominee Kell…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFrom the groundbreaking TV series Your Show of Shows to landmark films like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks has been one of the most influential voices in comedy. Now, thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMIn celebration of the 15th anniversary of The Lion King on Broadway, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, with Emmy Award-winning host Meredith Vieira, will host two principal actors from the hit …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMLisa Lambert is turning 50 and she's opening her trunk...of songs. Tonight, December 10 at 7pm, Lisa and her guests Jonathan Crombie, David Cromer, Cole Escola, Cady Huffman, Troy Britton Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMHotel BethlehemThe ToyBox is something you don't expect. It is a place where, no matter your age, you will play. This is an installation that is part of Passe Muraille's massive Theatre Beyo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMVineyard Theatre's Dec. 10 benefit reading of Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, a standout title from the not-for-profit's 30 years of producing, stars Emmy Award winner Penny Fuller,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMeet Once scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley, whose passion for theatrical design was sparked in childhood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe opening of The Scoundrel, written and directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Noël Coward. Alexander Woollcott...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"I have become convinced that movie people and politicians spring from the same DNA. They are both unpredictable, sometimes glamorous,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMJenn Colella, Tyne Daly, Montego Glover, Ann Harada, Elizabeth Stanley and Sally Wilfert perform during the Transport Group's Gimme a Break! Dec. 10 gala at the Asia Society and Mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Clive Barnes Foundation's nominated actors and dancers for its Third Annual Clive Barnes Awards will be in attendance at a reception 2:30 PM Dec. 10 at the Walter Reade Theatre at Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Flea Theater presents the New York premiere of Restoration Comedy by Pultizer Prize finalist Amy Freed, officially opening Dec. 10, following previews that began Nov. 25, in New York Cit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIrish Repertory Theatre's It's a Wonderful Life, The 1946 Live Radio Play opens Off-Broadway Dec. 10 following previews from Dec. 5 on Irish Rep's intimate second stage, the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 2012 Hollywood Christmas Parade, presented by The City of Los Angeles and Associated Television International in Hollywood, CA, airs Dec. 10 on the Hallmark Channel from 6-8 PM ET. The e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway Boys present the seventh annual Broadway Sings for Toys: A Benefit for Toys Dec. 10 at 7 PM at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Actors Fund's Musical Monday series continues Dec. 10 at 7:30 PM with an evening entitled Ladies of an Indeterminate Age at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Westport Country Playhouse's "Script in Hand" reading of The Philadelphia Story is a family affair. Tony Award winner James Naughton, Keira Naughton, Greg Naughton and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1901 Sadie Martinot, Guy Bates Post, and Junius Brutus Booth play The Marriage Game. This drama, adapted by Clyde Fitch from Emile Augier's Le Marriage d'Olympe, highlights what ruin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOn a Thursday not long ago, the singer Ronnie Spector and her husband of twenty-nine years, Jonathan Greenfield, drove from their home in Connecticut into Manhattan to rehearse Spector’…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM"With me it is simple: what I am I can write,” Clifford Odets said. When the thirty-one-year-old playwright sat down, in 1937, to write a new play to bankroll the foundering Group …
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