Broadway is a little short on original plays this season, so I am happy to pass on the news that Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” may be moving th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:49PMDiane Paulus’s circus-themed “Pippin” revival, which opened Thursday night at the American Repertory Theater, will transfer to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre this spring, the show’s …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:40PMSALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Elvis Presley, whose gyrating hips caused an uproar in the 1950s, has become the center of a controversy at a Utah high school where a parent complaint prompted of…
SOURCE: Reuters at 11:23PMHappy New Year!
Now let’s attack!
It’s only January, but the 2013 booby prize for silliest bit of direction on Broadway goes to — drum roll, please! — Rob Ashford, for adding “Ghos…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMFew American plays written in the first half of the 20th century have been as durable as Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes." Florida Repertory Theatre shows us why.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:02PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, January 3, 2013.
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There will be magic to do on Broadway once more! The American Repertory Theater's production of Pippin will transfer to Broadway this spring, marking the first-ever Mainstem revival for …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57PMThe A.R.T. revival of the musical Pippin directed by Diane Paulus is set to head down to New York this Spring. Beginning previews on March 23rd, with an opening on April 25th, the Stephen Sc…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:51PMVictory Gardens Theater announces The Warriors for Newtown, a benefit to support the Sandy Hook Elementary Victims Relief Fund. The evening will include a one-night-only reading of The War…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:16PMAccording to Pippin's official website, producers have confirmed the show's return to Broadway The production began performances tonight, January 3rd, at The American Repertory Theatre in Ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14PMNEW YORK (AP) -- There's magic to do on Broadway - "Pippin" is coming back....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:01PMThe American Repertory Theater production of Pippin, the Tony Award-winning medieval pop musical fable by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson, will transfer to Broadway's Music Box Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01PMThe musical, featuring a score by Stephen Schwartz, will be back on Broadway for the first time since its original five-year run ended in 1977.
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American Airlines is the official airline of the new critically acclaimed new production of the Tony Award-winning musical Annie. Cast members from the production performed a selection of so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47PMAccording to the Daily Mail, after an open audition, Alice Jane Murray of Kent has been cast as 'Lois', and Marc Leslie will play the role of 'Roy' in the London Palladium production of A Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMAs reported by the Daily Mail, Claire Foy has been cast as 'Lady Macbeth' opposite James McAvoy in new West End theatre company Traf Transformed's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30PMBlack Box Revolution George Heymont has a huge blog post about the San Francisco black box theatre scene that name checks just about every cool theatre group in the Bay Area: Cutting Ball, E…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:20PMAccording to the Daily Mail, 'Homeland' star Damian Lewis is in talks to star as 'Bill Snibson' in a new West End revival of the musical Me And My Girl. No official offer has been made, but …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:17PM‘The Show Must Go On” is an adage long identified with those who work in the theater. Accordingly, it sums up New Jersey’s professional theaters attitude during and after Superstorm Sa…
SOURCE: princetoninfo.com at 08:15PMAccording to the Daily Mail, the Crucible Theatre's production of My Fair Lady, starring Dominic West and Carly Bawden, is in the process of attempting an early summer West End transfer.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:05PMWith its surreal interludes, flickering projections of Henry Fuseli’s paintings, and sudden, unexplained nudity, Buran Theatre’s “Nightmares: a demonstration of the Sublime…
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The show just might go on. Ben Sprecher, lead producer of "Rebecca: The Musical," confirms that his rights to the beleaguered production have been extended another year from his original dea…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 07:43PMSignature Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning musical Dreamgirls, playing in the MAX Theatre now running through January 13, 2013. Directed and choreographed by Associate Artistic Direct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMOn the centenary of Stravinski and Nikinski's era-defining ballet, the emerging French choreographer returns to New York with his own response
SOURCE: Culturebot at 07:21PMI'll be the first to admit that it's really easy for me to get lost into thinking so much about something that I forget that I can do something with it. First of all, the inside of my head i…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:14PMAt one point in Ignite Theatre's impressive production of the rock musical "Next to Normal," Diana Goodman (Margie Lamb) shares a dance with her teenage son, Gabe.
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Co-founder of the WARM collective, she was also a teacher and writer who wanted her work "to be an affirmation."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:49PMTickets for the first annual Chicago Theatre Week, a collaborative initiative between the League of Chicago Theatres and Choose Chicago, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 at www.chicagotheat…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:46PMTroika Entertainment presents the international hit, Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical launches its national tour on January 8 in Minneapol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMMark Crawford(Photo Credit: Jacklyn Atlas)The New Year starts...wellby Shannon ChristyMemorial is a play about a larger than life character, “Dylan” (Mark Crawford), losing this big life…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:35PM"We've always had an interest in making things, in making 'stuff.' I've always been interested in theater as a visual medium."
SOURCE: Culturebot at 06:23PMPOSTED BY DOUG GEORGE ... The Chicago area's own Michelle Williams will head up the national tour of "Fela!" that's coming to town Feb. 19-23.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:10PMCharles Busch is set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company’s upcoming staged reading of Sidney Howard’s 1926 play THE SILVER CORD Monday, January 14 at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 06:10PMWicked recently announced that they once again led Broadway in yearly box office revenue. Also, Wicked set the record for the highest grossing week in Broadway history, totaling an astoundin…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 06:00PMOn Twitter Watch, Sierra Boggess wrote 'Just did my last lesmisofficial with these sweet kids pic.twitter.como4MClSGt'
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Name: Cory EinbinderHometown: BrooklynEducation: Brooklyn College, MFA Performance and Interactive Media Arts, University of The Arts, BFA Theatre Arts Favorite Credits: Director and Product…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:56PMShort-Term Cliff Deal Reinstates IRA Rollover and “Pease” Provision and Estate Tax Extended The tax deal passed by Congress on Tuesday has encouraging but mixed results for chari…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:49PMThe West End's Top Hat has found an elegant new star in Charlotte Gooch. We headed to the leading lady's dressing room at the Aldwych Theatre to chat about dancing—di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMMusical sets records here and in New York.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:44PMThe wait is almost over: Broadway.com’s popular talk show Show People With Paul Wontorek returns for its third season on January 4 with a very special guest, Broadway favorite&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:43PMPOSTED BY DOUG GEORGE ... Following an AmEx presale, seats through Sept. 8 go on sale soon. But there's a catch.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:34PMBeing a guy in a dress has never been a particularly easy thing, and yet, one German man, living (and dressing) as Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, managed to survive both Nazi party rule and the re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PMAttention all actors According to a recent tweet from Actors' Equity Association, as of January 7, AEA's new building entrance will be through Times Square Visitors Center 7th Ave. at W. 46t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMOf the eight new plays and musicals that opened on Broadway this fall, all will be closed by Jan. 6. Not even headliner Katie Holmes could keep Theresa Rebeck’s critically panned &ldqu…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:21PM“Patti Issues,” Ben Rimalower’s solo show, is much more than any ordinary young gay man’s account of his obsession with a Broadway legend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMThe League of Chicago Theatres, in partnership with Choose Chicago, announces the first annual Chicago Theatre Week, celebrating the rich tradition of theatre-going in Chicago and encouragin…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:17PMAccording to the Star, a high school in Utah has cancelled a student production of All Shook Up because of a 'sexually suggestive song.' Rehearsals for the production had already begun but t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMThe Walnut Street Theater located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the nation’s oldest theatre and the state theatre of Pennsylvania. Located in the heart of Philadelphia, the Walnut h…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 05:05PMThis post is a response to Jody Christopherson’s recent interview and continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMIn a joint effort to present the arts and culture to the diverse and myriad communities in Southern California, the Museum Marketing Roundtable announces the eighth annual ‘Museums Free-Fo…
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Theater, the original social media, meets its digital counterparts in form-breaking new live/virtual experiments: “As a theatre artist, I love space,” Whit MacLaughlin is saying as we le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:57PMAs you may have noticed (Josh Gad certainly has), he and Andrew Rannells have a lot in common. They were co-stars on Broadway in The Book of Mormon, are both Tony nominees, and are both sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective presents the first ever New York revival of Arthur Bicknell's Moose Murders, the most notorious flop in the history of modern theater. Performances begi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMMasterworks Broadway will release a newly remastered version of "Bye Bye Birdie – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," in conjunction with the film's 50th anniversary…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMAbout halfway through a very interesting interview over breakfast at the Kingsbury Street Cafe, the actor Jimmy Smits asked a question of his own.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:49PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:49PMBY NINA METZ AND KERRY REID ... Pushing boundaries, good taste and tiny budgets to their breaking point is the very definition of Chicago's fringe theater scene.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:49PMRobert Kennedy's daughter Rory will soon learn if her portrait of her mom, "Ethel," made the leap from the list of 15 documentaries to become one of Oscar's five nominees.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:48PMWhen I posted my Top Ten shows of the year earlier this week, one may or may not have noticed that there weren’t any North Bay shows on my list,
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:43PMThe website Bitter Lemons and the program publisher Footlights are joining forces...LA Women's Theatre Festival prepares for its 20th anniversary...Apollo Dukakis discusses A Noise Within's …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:43PMDaniel Oreskes will join previously announced stars Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave in Eisenberg's new off-Broadway play The Revisionist. Directed by Kip Fagan, the Rattlestick Play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, returns to the air Jan. 7 in an episode titled "You…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThe Tribune's Nina Metz and Chris Borrelli debate vocal audience members and break them down by type
BY NINA METZ AND CHRIS BORRELLI ... Let's talk about heckling. Who isn't talking about h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:21PMDonna McKechnie’s new cabaret show extends the story of her “Chorus Line” character, Cassie, into the present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:17PMIn Golden Boy, Seth Numrich plays Joe Bonaparte, a young man whose talents bridge the very different worlds of music and boxing. In this exclusive look behind the scenes of the current Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMOne of stage and screen's brightest young stars shines in his cabaret debut. Leslie's show features songs from his roles on Broadway Rent, Leap of Faith, the hit NBC musical drama Smash, alo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMA conference of 1,200 attendees is not just a single event: in many ways, it is 1,200 entirely unique conferences—1,200 different experiences that overlap, collide or pass each other by. T…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:06PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater's Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of The Revisionist, wri…
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The Broadway at Birdland concert series will present the return of The Marcy & Zina Show, featuring songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Jan. 7 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMMint Theater Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director presents the first-ever American Production of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy. The Mint production will run from January 26th to March 24th at thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMOriginal Broadway cast members and creators from three landmark musicals — Grease, Nine and Grand Hotel — will reunite Jan. 14 for a one-night-only benefit for The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMAn ambitious production at the Pantages signals a new chapter
for Hennepin Theatre Trust and Theater Latté Da.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:48PMOriginal Broadway cast members and creators from the landmark musicals GREASE, NINE and GRAND HOTEL will reunite on January 14th for KATHI MOSS' RAMA-LAMA-DING DONG REUNION a one-night-only…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMJosh Gad is coming to a movie theater near you! Open Road Films has scored the distribution rights to the Steve Jobs-centric bio pic jOBS, which stars Ashton Kutcher as the late creativ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:44PMDebra Jo Rupp will channel famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth in Dr. Ruth, All the Way when the solo show heads to TheaterWorks in Hartford, Connecticut. Written by Mark St. Germain (Fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:40PMJust in time for the Season Three premiere of DOWNTON ABBEY on PBS stations across the US starting this Sunday, BroadwayWorld is pleased to present two exclusive images from the spectacular …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThe Milwaukee Rep does well by Jane Austen - the adaptation by Mark Healy trades off the wide expanse of literary panorama of Austen’s late 18th Century realm for a more intimate portrait,…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:32PMDaniel Oreskes will join Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg in the world premiere of The Revisionist, Eisenberg's new play …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMOnce Upon a Time in New York City 2, a benefit concert featuring new material from emerging songwriters celebrating the city of New York, will be offered Feb. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMThe story that Seattle Opera will tell in ““Cinderella” is far older than Rossini’s light bel canto opera. The production runs Jan. 12-26, 2013.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:22PMPainters take on the seasons in two shows at Groveland Gallery.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:21PMAward-winning actor-writer Charles Busch will star in The Peccadillo Theater Company’s upcoming staged reading of Sidney Howard’s 1926 play The Silver Cord Jan. 14 at Theatre at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMBoHo Theatre and Stage Left Theatre present a joint production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. The production runs January 5th through February 10th , 2013, at Theater Wit, and is dire…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:20PMThroughout the entire hundred and fifty-seven minutes of “Les Misérables” I sat cowering in my seat, lost in shame and chagrin. This movie is not just bad. It’s terri…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:20PMDe'Adre Aziza and Brandon Dirden will be part of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67, which will be staged as part of the Public Theater's Public Lab series in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMIn celebration of the American Repertory Theater's production of Pippin, opening today in Cambridge, MA, the Playbill Vault revisits the musical's Broadway roots.
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According to Billboard.com, Les Miserables Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack has now hit 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, topped only by Taylor Swift's Red album.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMBarbara Cook, Joel Grey, Sheldon Harnick and Mary Rodgers will sit down with Leonard Lopate Jan. 21 to discuss their lengthy and legendary careers as part of the "Relevant Octogenarians…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMFor generations, musical theatre writers have come to New York City to change the world. 'Once Upon A Time In New York City' is a concert series about the people who have changed THEM. After…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced today that single tickets are on sale for the spring 2013 season at The Public's newly r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMPopular London musical star Alex Bourne is best known for his long and successful runs in We Will Rock You and Buddy, and now the strapping 6'4" performer is wowing audiences in the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMCasting has been announced for the next two shows in the Public Theater’s spring 2013 season, kicking off with the world premiere of Detroit ‘67 (February 26 through March 17) an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:35PMBrandy Sensational R&B singer who has been named one of the most talented artists of her genre by fellow musicians, and has won five Grammy Awards for her outstanding vocals. January 19t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:30PMWe hope that everyone had a safe and happy New Years. Thanks for making 2012 another successful year in Chicago theatre. Its an honor to support this community and the excellent work that yo…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:26PMNo one mourns the Wicked, least of all the investors in the original Broadway production (currently playing to sold-out audiences nightly at The Gershwin Theatre). This week the Tony Award-w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMA decadent feast for the eyes, the 1926 Italian historical epic The Last Days of Pompeii comes to the Music Box as part of its monthly Silent Cinema Series with live organ accompaniment. T…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:21PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth (a New Years Eve baby) celebrated her birthday this week, on Dec. 31. Playbill.com looks back at some of her stage highlights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMThe One-Minute Play Festival and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre present: The 2nd Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Sunday, January 6th at 5pm PST (San Fr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:17PMThe Barrow Group Acting Studio will present the New York premiere of Stefanie Zadravec's Save Me, which was named Best New Play at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Jan. 18-Feb. 10 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMGiving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCM® Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League present “One Night Stand: Creating …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:11PMProducers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment amp Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures present the all-Canadian cast of the North American premiere of Andre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMWhen the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become. This fictional …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 02:05PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house records in three different cities for the week ending December 30, 2012. On Broadway, THE BOO…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:00PMPaulus' musical revival will open in the spring
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Taylor Swift is queen of the charts—her album Red remains number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the seventh week in a row—but right behind Ms. Swift is a group of A-list movie …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMThe world stage premiere of Chariots of Fire, adapted for the stage by Mike Bartlett from Colin Welland's Oscar-winning screenplay to the 1981 Enigma Productions film of the same name, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMFour Broadway legends—Joel Grey, Barbara Cook, Sheldon Harnick and Mary Rodgers—will grace the stage at 92Y on January 21 to share life lessons and stories as part of the venue&#…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMBroadway In Chicago and the producers of the new musical THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, announced today that tickets will be available for 14 addition…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:54PMFor those of you who haven’t gotten around to seeing “Peter and the Starcatcher” at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, now might be your last chance to see it on Broadway. The pr…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:54PMTickets are now on sale for the forthcoming Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, starring Tony nominee Alec Baldwin and Shia LeBeouf. Directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMShattered Globe Theatre continues its 2012/13 Season with the dark comedy HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Artistic Director Roger Smart, playing January 24 – March 2, 2013 at …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:45PMThere’s a spirit lurking the streets of Broadway and it’s one thats been haunting the streets the past two years. Just as everyone had thought midnight had struck on the clock fo…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 01:44PMLet's leap into the new year with looks at two new cast recordings, both courtesy of the invaluable Ghostlight Records label.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PM"The Devil's Bitch," a new short film comedy by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage about an aspiring wheelchair-using musical theatre actress who sells her soul to a fabu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMReally good new plays are still as elusive as the Higgs boson, though more common than they were 15 or 20 years ago. The Royal Court Theatre has probably done more to bring this about than a…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 01:39PMWendy Kaplan, President of MadKap Productions, will present the Chicago Premiere of SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE…, written by former Seinfeld writer Marc Jaffe and Emmy nominated playwright Er…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:37PMRenown Baritone Jubilant Sykes Takes Tenor Role In Premiere Jubilant Sykes has sung classical and spiritual music at the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PMSay her name: Michelle Williams, the Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Destiny's Child, is set to join the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMROBERT CUCCIOLI, who electrified audiences in Broadway's smash hit musical, Jekyll amp Hyde, is electrifying listeners again with the release of his debut solo album, ROBERT CUCCIOLI - THE L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMMaking it on Broadway is one thing but staying on Broadway is quite another. Four Broadway legends Joel Grey, Barbara Cook, Sheldon Harnick and Mary Rodgers visit 92Y on Monday, Jan. 21 t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMThe stars of the spooky FX series American Horror Story really let their hair down for a wildly out-of-character musical number on the show's January 2 episode. Sure the creepy series is…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMLike a grand diva who can’t get enough farewell tours, Les Misérables — the stage musical version — is again on a tour stop in Philadelphia against many odds. This time it arrives ami…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:12PMNCM Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League will present "One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day," a one-night event broadcast to movie theatres nationwide Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMMark your calendars! The 14th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards will be held on May 5 at the Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The invitation-onl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMThe Broadway’s Best Shows Season of Winning!
12 Days. 12 Prizes. 12 Winners.
Last month, Broadway’s Best Shows held our first ever “Season of Winning” Giveaway. Our amazing f…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:00PMMovies that become stage musicals generally benefit from title familiarity. But not all of them are successful.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00PM
Wicked ended the year with a bang, conjuring up a Broadway record for the highest one-week gross when the show took in $2,947,172 for the week ending December 30, 2012. The prequel to The Wi…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:59PMNEW YORK—Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:58PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!"...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:57PMThe stage version of Chariots of Fire currently playing at London’s Gielgud Theatre will close a month early, with its last performance taking place this weekend. Mike Bartlett’s adaptat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PMTheater made "Les Misérables" part of the canon of the most successful musicals. What has film done with the screen version?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:53PMMost theater aficionados can recall with delight their first theater experience. On Thursday, Jan. 24, Broadway’s Palace Theatre will be filled with over 2,500 New York City public sch…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:53PMDavid Mamet's recent Broadway drama The Anarchist, which centers on a female inmate serving a life sentence and a woman in power who must determine whether she is fit for parole, will be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMA sense of uncertainty pervades Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway mounting of The Other Place, a new drama by Sharr White about a dynamic neurologist confronting the onset of an ill…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMGiving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCMR Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League present 'One Night Stand Creating a Pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMStacy Wolf loves "Les Miserables" despite its problematic gender roles: "'Les Miserables' should have feminists like me up in arms. The musical takes the female charac…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:45PMElphaba's makeup isn't the only green item coming in to the Gershwin Theatre these days. Wicked just broke a new record by becoming the first show to remain the highest-grossing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMThe Gershwin Theatre is green with more than leading character Elphaba. Wicked just broke a new record by becoming the first show to remain the highest-grossing production on Broadway f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMGorilla Tango has one weekend primetime slot left in March - Fridays 7:30pm! GTT provides the infrastructure (audition and rehearsal space, performance space, box-office, basic marketing), a…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:40PMWashington, D.C. —Ford’s Theatre Society announced that a donation drive during performances of A Christmas Carol has raised $88,040.67 for the Washington-based charity Martha’s Table.…
SOURCE: fords.org at 12:39PMThe blockbuster musical WICKED has achieved an unprecedented Broadway milestone as it enters its 10th Anniversary year, becoming the first Broadway musical ever to remain the highest grossin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMYvonne Arnaud, Mill Studio, Guildford: Ruby is a typical little girl, wanting to play with her big brother, dress up as a princess or a pop star, wear make-up, to be able to do what grown-up…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMNEW YORK (AP) — Former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is joining the latest national tour of the musical "Fela!"
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:27PMTony nominee Andrea McArdle (best known as Broadway’s original Annie) will take on another musical icon: Auntie Mame. McArdle will star as the eccentric title character in the Buc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMBucks County Playhouse, under the producing direction of Jed Bernstein, will kick off its 2013 season with the Jerry Herman classic Mame, starring Tony Award-nominated Annie actress Andrea M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMClassic Stage Company has announced that Stephen Bogardus (Irving Berlin's White Christmas), Jeffry Denman (The Producers), Jason Michael Evans, Amy Justman (Company), Ken Krugman (Assassins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMNew production images have been released for the RSC's hit show Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, which is soon to open on Broadway.Click here to buy tickets to Matilda through W…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:16PMLast year was a big one for us. Michael co-curated FreeFall ’12 at The Theatre Centre with AD Franco Boni, and spent seven months at The Shaw Festival, where he assistant directed Ra…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:16PMRobert Cuccioli, who recently returned to Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will offer a tune from his solo album, "The Look of Love," on the Jan. 4 broadcast of "On …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMBroadway hoofer Rachelle Rak is rocking out in the national tour of the new musical Flashdance as Tess, the sassy best friend to aspiring dancer Alex Owens, and audiences are about to get a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PM“Honey, you got one shot!” That’s how Jennifer Hudson's new Smash character describes the thrill of being in a live Broadway production, a longstanding desire of H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:09PMBucks County Playhouse BCP Jed Bernstein, Producing Director has announced that subscription packages for the 2013 Playhouse Production season are on sale now.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMIt's a season with something for everyone, from a dramedy about a contentious Republican clan to a musical that brims with holiday cheer. Walnut Street Theatre has announced its mainstage li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMAll of your nightmares are about to come true: Drama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Uncle Vanya) will direct and star in Mississippi Mud Productions' Suddenly Last Summer, set to play t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMBroadway In Chicago and the producers of the new musical THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, announced today that tickets will be available for 14 addition…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMNo new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's&…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMThe editors of Playbill.com have combed through the past seven years of our popular Cue & A feature to select some of our favorite answers to the question, "What is the one performa…
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Complete casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony-winning musical Passion. Directed by John Doyle,&n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMThe national tour of Fela! just got a little more bootylicious. Grammy winner Michelle Williams, formerly of Destiny’s Child, will play Sandra in the national tour of the Tony-nominate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMProducers Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith and Ruth & Stephen Hendel are pleased to announce that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Dest…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:52AMDestiny's Child star Michelle Williams will join the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Fela! as Sandra Isadore when the production returns to Washington, D.C. Jan. 29 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMJohn Lithgow stars in the title role opposite Nancy Carroll in The National Theatre revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate at the NT Oliver. With his louche air and a developed taste…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, today announced complete casting for the company's upcoming new production o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMThe magic of Broadway never seems to truly disappear. The idea of transferring a Broadway show to Off Broadway theater is one that has become common in this day in age. The example, set firs…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 11:41AMGlitter and Be Green, an intimate cabaret featuring a trio of Wicked alumni, will be held Jan. 14 at the Laurie Beechman Theater in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMThe latest in the series of fund-raising concerts will include Talib Kweli, the Roots and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:39AMGod Bless America, and The Golden Land: The Golden Land is a play that every immigrant should be expected to see and should be playing in every elementary, high school and college across the…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:36AMBroadway.com’s extensive “best of the year” features dominated the list of most-read stories on the site for the week of December 28 through January 3. If you missed any of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMI almost typed this up in the comments on another blog, but I didn't want to give away stuff on other people's blogs that I could give away here instead.I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:30AMBritish theatre producer David Cecil, who was charged for staging a play with gay themes in Uganda after he was issued a warning not to do so, has had his case dismissed. At a court...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMStephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, Will Reynolds and more will join the previously announced Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman for the new Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier Off-Broadway performance, plu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMRemember when the cast of Broadway’s Anything Goes made a ridiculously fun backstage music video to “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction? Well now, all the way acros…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMI have been watching Michael Mainwaring perform since I saw him ‘steal the show’ at Ford’s Theatre in Shenandoah. I admire his talent, enthusiasm, and showmanship and I wa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23AM"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert, whose critical review of "Les Misérables" went viral and garnered a response from movie star Russell Crowe, took to Twitter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMAge & Hometown: 14; South Salem, NY
Current Role: Pulling double duty as Deputy, the sharp-eyed assistant to a bumbling gravedigger, and Master Nick Cricker, a Victorian music hall ch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMProducers Shawn Jay-Z Carter, Will amp Jada Pinkett Smith and Ruth amp Stephen Hendel have announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Destiny's Child Michelle …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMThis the first of a series of behind-the-scenes articles on McLean Community Players’ production of Next to Normal. Today, Director Lisa Anne Bailey introduces the show and her cast. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMGrowing up as a kid in suburban Massachusetts in the 80s, I took at least two trips a season to the famed Fenway Park to catch BoSox games. (Huh. I wonder if anyone has ever studied my Massa…
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The New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Jazz Band begins "Crescent City Stomp" Jan. 3, an 11-night residency at the McKittrick Hotel, the home of the interactive Off-Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMRebecca, the now derailed Broadway musical, might not be going up in flames afterall! The musical's rights holders have granted the producers of the show one more year to raise the capit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:47AMThe original production of the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Mame, which features a classic score by Jerry Herman, closed Jan. 3, 1970. Playbill.com has put together a musical tribute, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMOlivier winner Nancy Carroll joins John Lithgow in Pinero's Victorian farce The Magistrate at London's National Theatre as a part its 2012-2013 season. The piece, directed by Timothy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMA look at the men and women - actors, directors, designers - whose work enhanced the 62 productions I reviewed this year.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 10:36AMNational Theatre artistic and executive directors ranked joint top in Stage 100 list of influential theatremakersThe National Theatre's artistic and executive directors Nicholas Hytner and N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AMWoody Sez, the show celebrating folk music legend Woody Guthrie, is embarking on a UK tour later this month.The show, which weaves together Guthrie's songs with excerpts from articles he wro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:35AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:34AMMatt Bomer is set to guest star on NBC's freshman comedy THE NEW NORMAL. The actor will potray 'legendary party boy 'Monty' in the January 8th episode entitled 'The Goldie Rush'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMActress Evelyn Ward, who appeared on Broadway as well as on TV and film frequently from the 1940s-1960s, died December 23 of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 89. Ward's Broadway credits in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, is now in previews at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place will open Thursday, Jan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMAdam Lambert has found himself in the center of a heated controversy over remarks he posted on Twitter earlier this week regarding his opinion of the recently released film LES MISERABLES. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThe holiday season is usually a bountiful time of year for Broadway shows. Hordes of tourists bring about a bump in box-office receipts for musicals and plays across the board.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:20AMOver 2,500 students from the New York City Public School System will visit the current Broadway revival of Annie on Thursday, January 24 as part of the Inside Broadway organization's ‘Crea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMMatt Bomer, who was seen in the New York and Los Angeles readings of Dustin Lance Black's 8, will guest star on the Jan. 8 episode of NBC's "The New Normal."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMAbout a year ago I met with a young woman who was running her own dance studio in North Carolina. We had a great conversation about the work she was doing and in the midst of it, we bandied …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AMAfter decades of journeyman work, Reed Birney has translated his recent Off Broadway success into his return to Broadway, in “Picnic.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMRobertson will be music director at least through 2015-2016.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:52AMAs we wave goodbye to 2012, a year filled with cheerleaders, paperboys, porn stars and Patti, Broadway.com is ringing in the new year by asking your favorite stars to share the high point of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMAcclaimed British pop singer Lulu, who appeared in the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, will make her New York City concert debut next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMInside Broadway, the not-for-profit arts education organization, has partnered with the Broadway revival of Annie to offer two exclusive "Creating the Magic" events, which will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMHi My name is Cody Williams and I am so excited to be working on Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella. Over the next month I'll be blogging about my rehearsal experience for this INCREDIBLE p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMFor the ninth consecutive year, the hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical at the Gershwin Theatre has out-grossed every other Broadway production, according to a statement released by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. December 31, 2012 For twelve years Natalie Douglas and Mark Hartman have performed New Year’s Eve shows, the last ten at the Duplex in Greenwich Village. …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:05AMBelow, check out recently discovered deleted scenes from the 1986 film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical comedy LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Included in the videos are cut lines, alternate s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMSPECIAL ONE NIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE BRONTES! KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE THEATRE LAB MONDAY JANUARY 7TH, 2013 6:00 P.M. Dear Fans, Friends and Family of Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadsi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
As we leave the holidays behind us and begin the New Year, it’s time to get out of Mom’s house and back into the clubs!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMToday is the birthday of that great musical-poetic iconoclast Van Dyke Parks. Oddly enough, experimentalism and Americana go hand in hand – the list of writers, poets, painters and co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:41AMThis year will see a mini-festival of Wallace Shawn plays in New York. The main event will be the upcoming Wallace Shawn-André Gregory Project co-produced by the Public Theater and Theatre …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:38AMBroadwayWorld was invited backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre for a special two-part tour from Celia Keenan-Bolger right before she left the show and Adam Chanler Berat. Click below to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:34AMIn 2012, D.C.'s theater companies threw an admirable amount of support behind local playwrights. Most prominently, Theater J launched the Locally Grown: Community Supported Art Festival and…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:27AMIn an interview published in today's Entertainment Weekly, Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson revealed that she considers her upcoming guest spot on NBC's SMASH as training for h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21AMNEW YORK (AP) — When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would becom…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:08AMNEW YORK—When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would be…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:02AM
Fuerzabruta is a big, loud, cheerful burst of images. A running man breaks through walls, giggling aerialists chase each other and women swim, in real water, over the heads of the audience.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:41AMThe London theatre looks to be awash in great women of the English (and Irish) stage in a 2013 line-up of star roles that disproves the often-held assertion that the men get all the great st…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:28AMRoundhouse, London: Having reopened the Roundhouse in 2006 following its renovation, Fuerzabruta - from the same Argentinean creators of De La Guarda - is back by popular demand. It means br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMToday is the birthday of LaVonda Stapp, (1920-1963), variously billed as Tiny LaVonda, Little LaVonda, Princess Lavonda, and Lady LaVonda, and always “The Smallest Woman in the World.&…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:16AMHere is a treat for you, a ticket offer for Kneehigh’s Midnight’s Pumpkin at Battersea Arts Centre. We frickin’ love Kneehigh, and we frickin’ love Midnight’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05AM
The film version of the blockbuster stage musical Les Miserables was first announced some 25 years ago. I'm sad to report that even one day more wouldn't be enough to save this du…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:44AMI often tell people that it surprises me what postings take off. There are things I write that I think are really insightful that barely get any notice. Other posts that I just dash off afte…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42AMAssassins, at Manitoba Theatre Centre, isn't opening for two weeks, but some of the issues raised by Stephen Sondheim's musical about murderers of presidents - like the availability of guns …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"I am a galley slave to pen and ink." Honoré de Balzac, letter to Madame Zulma Carraud (July 2, 1832)...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM1909 Birthday of Victor Borge (1909-2000), pianist and comedian whose 1953 Comedy in Music ran 888 performances, the longest run ever for a solo musical on Broadway. He followed it with Come…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin twists itself into a new, cirque-inspired production — shaped by Tony Award-nominated director Diane Paulus and circus artist Gypsy Snide…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMaria Friedman, John Lithgow, Simon Russell Beale, Alex Bourne, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Harriet Walter, Phyllida Lloyd, Hannah Waddingham punctuate this month's look at London theatre.
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