Marilyn Maye’s continuing saga of song at the Metropolitan Room, just keeps on giving – - – she’s a gift to everyone and has a unique style all her ow…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:55PMThis is not your high school's Pippin. Not unless your drama teacher had the budget to hire world class Canadian acrobats as players, or the clout to bring in show composer Stephen Schwartz …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54PMTarell Alvin McCraney’s poetic drama In the Red and Brown Water, now playing at The Fountain Theatre, has been extended for an additional eight weeks through to the end of February in hono…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:33PMJayne Cortez, a poet and performance artist whose work was known for its visceral power, its political outrage, and above all its sheer, propulsive musicality, died Dec. 28 in Manhattan. She…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:14PMTim Griffin, the new director of the Kitchen art gallery and theater in Chelsea, is trying to get his programs back on track after Hurricane Sandy swept in.
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For South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, nothing is off limits. Now they've written a West End musical. Theatre lovers: you have been warnedSomething strange happened recently to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMFor South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, nothing is off limits. Now they've written a West End musical. Theatre lovers: you have been warned Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMFor South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, nothing is off limits. Now they've written a West End musical. Theatre lovers: you have been warnedSomething strange happened recently to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMSpirits of Exit Eleven, a new play by Michael Puzzo (The Dirty Talk), will have its world premiere beginning January 10 at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre. Frank Licato directs the dark comedy, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMSpirits of Exit Eleven, a new play by Michael Puzzo (The Dirty Talk), will have its world premiere beginning January 10 at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre. Frank Licato directs the dark comedy, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMPASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo will star in an HBO movie adaptation of "The Normal Heart," the play about the onset of the AIDS crisis in New York City in the ea…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:44PMForty-four years ago this week, The Fig Leaves Are Falling became the first new musical of 1969.
And forty-four years ago this week, The Fig Leaves Are Falling became the first new musica…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:41PMThe season of the independents.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:31PMToday in 2009, Hairspraiy closed at the Neil Simon Theatre after 2,641 performances. Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMPreparing to play Hattie McDaniel in Hattie...What I Need You to Know!, Vickilyn Reynolds visited the grave of the Oscar-winning actress in order to ask her some questions. Now, as she's abo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:14PMHBO Films has officially announced its upcoming adaptation of Larry Kramer’s drama The Normal Heart, directed by Emmy winner Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story). Production on th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:14PMDonna McKechnie is “One Singular Sensation”: There’s nobody who can grab your heart and soul like the iconic Donna McKechnie as she masterfully takes the audience on a ride in the “S…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:13PMAs first reported exclusively by BroadwayWorld.com back in November of 2012, it's now official that Academy AwardR winner Julia Roberts and Academy AwardR nominee Mark Ruffalo will star in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMIt’s nothing new to hear audiences complain about the high price of theater tickets, as well they should. But it gets your attention when a performer like Christopher Plummer, who has devo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:05PMGot issues? Of course you do. Keep’em coming—write to me at [email protected]. For previous Holler columns, go here. Dear Holler, I’m in a jam … I’ve been in the field …
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Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo will star in Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" for HBO Films.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMSince George Clooney turned his play "Farragut North" into the Oscar-nominated movie "The Ides of March," writer Beau Willimon has become a highly sought after talent by theater companies ac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PMToday, we're featuring Douglas Sills circa 1998. Sills made his Broadway debut in 1997's The Scarlet Pimpernel. Continuing the role in three other versions of the show, Sills received a Tony…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMLOFT Ensemble (Adam Chambers, Artistic Director) has announced a limited engagement of LoveSick, written and directed by Larissa Wise, at the LOFT’s home space in downtown Los Angeles. Ope…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:42PMAccording to the BBC, stage and screen star John Barrowman was recently injured during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk at the SECC Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow. Barrowman fell off of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMDIRECTED BY TYLER MARCHANT Opening Night, Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 6:30 PM Pre-Performance Reception 7:30 PM Performance With After-Party Immediately Following the Performance Limited E…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:31PMTickets are now on sale for the off-Broadway premiere of comedian Desiree Burch’s solo show Tar Baby. Directed by Isaac Byrne and written by Burch and Dan Kitrosser, Tar Baby beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMAlternately hilarious and heart-stopping, Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord (1926) tells the story of the sweetly tyrannical, Mrs. Phelps - the mother of all mothers - and one of the great vil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PMThree-time Tony winner Hinton Battle returns to the world of cabaret for the first time in 30 years in a brand new, one-night-only concert at 54 Below on January 7. Broadway audiences b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMKelley Copper and Pavol Liska are Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Nature Theater of Oklahoma has made some of the best works of theater in the past 10 years: No Dice, Poetics, Rambo Solo and Ro…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 04:22PMThe Tony nominated star of Mamma Mia, Broadway's original Donna Sheriden, is back in New York for one show only. Dubbed 'the first lady of Canadian theatre,' Louise Pitre is fresh from her s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Dec. 24-30, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMIt's once again time to witness a couple's murderous ascent to the throne of Scotland, followed by their ultimate demise, in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, set to run at Trafalgar Studios fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMJohn Barrowman was injured during the Jan. 4 matinee performance of the holiday pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the SECC Clyde Auditorium.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMSerious V-Neck goes in unexpected directions off the audience suggestion “Papier-Mache” in this excerpt from a sold-out show at The Groundlings Theatre (June 14, 2012) For more i…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:08PMScene: Three red pandas perch themselves in triumph on the stage of the theater at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery. With promises of doom for all mankind, they join their voices for a …
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:02PM
Having trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:57PMWhat do a national state of emergency, a hyena and a twig have in common with "War Horse," the astounding play by Nick Stafford and the Handspring Puppet Company set during World War I?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PMInside Broadway and Annie Bring "Creating the Magic" to Public Schools: Inside Broadway is partnering with the Broadway revival of Annie to offer two exclusive ‘Creating the Magic’ works…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:43PMCHAPLIN WILL BE PRODUCED IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL IN 2014 The new musical CHAPLIN will be produced in São Paulo, Brazil at the Teatro Procópio Ferreira in April 2014 by Chaim XYZ Produções.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:40PMJeannie Berlin, Robert Foxworth, Robin Weigert, Michael Weston and JoBeth Williams star in Other Desert Cities at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum. The Center Theatre Group’s production of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMChaplin, the new musical about the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, will play in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Teatro Procopio Ferreira in April 2014. No casting has been set. As previously ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PMThe experimental Swiss mime troupe took Broadway by storm in the 1970s. Now the masked performers are bringing their hard-to-describe characters back to the U.S. for a five-month national to…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:21PMTribeca Film, in a partnership with Emerging Pictures, will offer a one-night-only interactive screening of "Glee" star Chris Colfer’s film debut, "Struck by Lightning,&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMThe Midtown Men, the singing group that comprises former Jersey Boys stars Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer, will perform in concert at the Gramercy Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMComplete casting has been announced for the American premiere of Backbeat, the stage adaptation of the 1994 film about the formation of The Beatles. Directed by five-time Tony Award nominee …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:13PMProducers of Broadway's Chaplin, about the life of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, announced Jan. 4 that a production of the musical will open in São Paulo, Brazi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMJanuary 20 marks the 10-year anniversary of the death of legendary Broadway caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, but his influence on art is still felt along the Great White Way.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:07PMThe new musical CHAPLIN will be produced in So Paulo, Brazil at the Teatro Procpio Ferreira in April 2014 by Chaim XYZ Produes. The current Broadway production will play its final performanc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Behind Broadway as a Musical is Created in 24 Hours With One Night Stand: Follow some of New York's top actors, including Cheyenne Jackson (30 Rock, Glee), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Famil…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:47PMVanessa Redgrave paired with Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”) in a play he’s written? A new musical by David Byrne of Talking Heads fame about ex-dictator spouse Imelda Marcos, f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47PMGreat news, ballerinas! Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster will be pirouetting back to the small screen in an all-new season of Bunheads on January 7. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMCasting has been announced for the American premiere of the Broadway-aimed musical Backbeat, about the birth of the Beatles, to begin Jan. 20 at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM"Papa, Mister Hooper's camera is getting awfully close. ""Yes Cosette, that's called a 'bad touch'."...
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 02:41PMThe cast is set for the U.S. premiere of Backbeat, the dramatic new play with music about the birth of one of the greatest rock n' roll bands in history, the Beatles. Backbeat will have its…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMThe show’s dazzling acrobatics, wild musical soundtrack and topsy-turvy dreamworld speak straight to the senses, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:35PMPreliminary talks are underway for a Broadway transfer of Lincoln Center Theater’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Written by Christopher Durang, the Chekhov-inspired comedy …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMSignature Theatre's intimate holiday-season revival of the beloved musical Dreamgirls rang in 2013 with a special added New Years Eve performance and post-show reception. Cast member Sea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMIn 2012, Show Showdown published 146 total posts. These twenty were the most read--or at least the most-clicked-on. I have tried to find a theme, but with no luck. Broadway, Off-Broadway, Of…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:30PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that the Lincoln Center Theater production of VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, a new play by Christopher Durang, directed by Nicholas Martin might be heading …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMPeccadillo presents a benefit reading of The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard. Charles Busch will be reading The Silver Cord (1926) that tells the story of the sweetly tyrannical, Mrs. Phelps �…
SOURCE: nycupandout.com at 02:25PMObama says there's going to be hell to pay if Congress doesn't reach a decision…by the end of the day. A new Tumblr, aptly named Les Fiscal Miserables has paired up some of Washington's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMSondheim Unplugged, the cabaret-concert series created by Phil Geoffrey Bond that features original and revival cast members from Stephen Sondheim shows performing his material at a grand pi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. January 3, 2013 After two smashing New Year’s Eve shows at the Metropolitan Room, the amazing younger than springtime Marilyn Maye has begun 2013 with one …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:12PM"One Night with Janis Joplin" will fill the to-be-announced slot in the 2012-2013 season at the Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:12PMThe State Theatre is ranked 18th, beating three other New Jersey venues on the Top 100 list
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:11PMJames Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on "Dawson's Creek" and "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23," will star in the American premiere of Australia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMTony Award winning actress Nina Arianda joined Cheyenne Jackson on New Year's Eve as special guest when he performed 'Music of the Mad Men Era' with members of the National Symphony Orchestr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMOriginal Fantasticks star Rita Gardner will head the cast of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of Amy Herzog's poignant drama 4000 Miles, about a broken young man and the new…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PM
This weekend I just may have to purchase a pantsuit. After visiting the New York Library for the Performing Arts’ exhibit “Katharine Hepburn – Dressed for Stage and Screen&…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:57PMScottish-American actor John Barrowman, 45, was playing the lead in a matinée performance of Jack and the Beanstalk when a live horse was spooked and threw him on to the stage at the SECC C…
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:54PMNEW 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: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:52PMThe show that was about to be presented was THE BOY FRIEND, but what had happened 30 minutes before the performance turned the show into 42nd Street. Here at Centenary College in Hackettstow…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:51PMLincoln Center Theater's staging of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's frothy Chekhov-inspired comedy that features Sigourney Weaver, Kristine Nielsen and Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMEntertainment Weekly has unveiled the first images of legendary entertainer Liza Minnelli, who plays herself in the tenth episode of the NBC musical drama series SMASH. In the episode, the a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMWhat do a national state of emergency, a hyena and a twig have in common with "War Horse," the astounding play by Nick Stafford and the Handspring Puppet Company set during World War I?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:25PMThere was magic in the air on January 3, when the newly imagined revival of Pippin officially opened at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Featuring circus-inspired …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:25PMDanny Mastrogiorgio plays boxing manager Tom Moody in the 75th-anniversary Lincoln Center Theater production of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy, now at Broadway''s Belasco Theatre. In this exclu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMWAR HORSE, the 2011 Tony® Award-winning Best Play and international sensation seen by over 2 million people worldwide, will play it’s final performance on January 6 (at the Vivian Bea…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:22PMAs we enter 2013 it’s a great time to reflect on all the activities at the Institute and look forward to those to come in the next few months. As always our Resident Playwrights—Amy Free…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:19PMEmmy winner and Broadway veteran Holland Taylor of CBS’s Two and a Half Men and Legally Blonde is returning to the theater with her upcoming passion project, Ann. The play, written and per…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:18PMDonna McKechnie’s new cabaret show extends the story of her “Chorus Line” character, Cassie, into the present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - Which 1970's musical should be revived on Broadway next
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMGrace, which officially opened on October 4 at the Cort Theatre, will play it’s final performance on January 6. Directed by Dexter Bullard (Tracy Letts’ Bug), Grace is a new acc…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:12PMElf will leave Broadway and return to the North Pole on January 6. The production returned to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre for another limited holiday engagement after a successful Broadway run…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:04PMAlex Wyse, who was seen on Broadway in Lysistrata Jones, takes over the lead role of quirky love-interest Peter in the Off-Broadway coming-of-age rock musical Bare for the Jan. 4-5 matinee p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMRoman theatre remains dating back to the second century AD have been discovered in fields outside a market town in Kent. The excavated site at Faversham has revealed an open-air ‘cockpit�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PM
Dead Accounts , starring Katie Holmes (“Dawson’s Creek”) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can) and directed by three-tim…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:56PMBroadway’s Chaplin will play it’s final performance on January 6, 2013. The production still plans to launch their national tour in 2014. Chaplin opened on September 10, 2012 at…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:54PMRuy Iskander and Yuekun Wu are at the center of David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, the play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, in a new Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMWar Horse will end its acclaimed Broadway run Jan. 6. In August, Leah Hofmann, a member of the hard-working cast of actors and puppeteers in the show, offered Playbill.com readers an unprece…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThe Twitter haters are losing the war. You know who they are, or, perhaps, who you are. Those who dismiss the snappy social network as the Platonic Non-Ideal of oversharing undercooked ideas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMAfter hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Soundtracks chart, “Les Misèrables: Highlights From the Motion Picture Soundtrack” has also earned top placement among the best-selling albu…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:40PMThis week's topics Why did the factory women all hate Fantine, Pippin to Open at the Music Box, most overrated musical, new Boublil and Schonberg musical, Is Big Daddy Gay, Encores Casting, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMAn interesting thread on critics and spoilers on All That Chat got me thinking. As a theatre blogger, I've already thought about the role of a critic quite a lot, as discussed here. One conc…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:32PMEvery show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In 2011, Hannah Sloat made her Broadway debut in the Linc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMThe Anarchist written by David Mamet will be published Jan. 22 by Theatre Communications Group. The production recently appeared on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. Upon closing, the produc…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:18PMIt was a Stephen Schwartz kind of week on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMIn Broadway’s “The Other Place,” Sharr White controls our sense of reality One of the most audacious scenes in The Other Place is completely realistic—just two people…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:11PMWhile some would consider the plot of the classic musical complex, it's been proven to be simple enough to be told through modern technology's cutest form of communication- emoticons. Try to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMWith Scrooge back under wraps, it's time for the 2013 winter theater season to begin in earnest. There's an especially strong slate of classical works opening between now and the end of Marc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:01PM
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The limited engagement will open Thursday, January 10 at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
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THE OTHER P…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:59AMTickets are now available for the New York premiere of Rolin Jones’ The Jammer, a play about professional roller derbies in 1950s Brooklyn. Directed by Jason Gay, the Atlantic Theater …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMToday, in anticipation of the DVD release of NBC's hit musical drama series SMASH on January 8, BroadwayWorld is pleased to present this exclusive clip from the extensive behind-the-scenes f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMThe Actors Fund will honor Broadway vet Kathi Moss at the Kathi Moss’ Rama-Lama-Ding Dong Reunion! on January 14 at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre. Moss, who originated the roles …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:49AMRowan Atkinson stars in Quartermaine's Terms at the Theatre Royal in Brighton; One Man, Two Guvnors resumes touring in Wales and Salford; and London launches its mime festivalLondonHappy new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMComing out the gate into 2013 a little buried under deadlines, not least for next week's staged reading of The Passion of Ed Wood, my long-gestating musical with Justin Warner (deets here).
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SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:45AMWest End and Torchwood star John Barrowman has been taken to hospital following an injury sustained while performing in pantomime in Glasgow.
Barrowman is reported to have fallen off a horse…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:44AMIn an art form powered by illusion, dreaming turns out to be the easy part. Marvelous designs are laid out; visionary projects are greenlighted; exciting partnerships announced, to fanfare a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:41AMNEW 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: Huffington Post at 11:40AMThe Daily Mail in London is reporting that "Homeland" star and Emmy winner Damian Lewis is talking to producers about starring in a revival of the 1930s musical "Me and My Girl."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:40AMRuy Iskandar and Yuekun Wu will star as Ma and Lone, respectively, in the previously announced Signature Theatre Company revival of David Henry Hwang’s 1981 drama The Dance and the Rai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, who presented the rarely-seen musical A Doll's Life, offers another rarity this winter: Arthur Bicknell's cult flop Moose Murders.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMFull casting has been announced for the West End production of A Chorus Line, which opens at the London Palladium on 19 February 2013 (previews from 5 February).
It sees two actors who were…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:35AMAs BroadwayWorld reported last night, producers Barry amp Fran Weissler and Howard amp Janet Kagan will present the American Repertory Theater's 40th Anniversary production of Roger O. Hirso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMControversial script receiving British premiere requires black actors to dress as minstrel performers – and wear makeupAn "incendiary" play at this year's HighTide festival in Suffolk is t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMOn January 24, 2013, Inside Broadway and Annie will join forces to offer two “Creating the Magic” events. These events will be offered to over 2,500 New York City public school …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:31AMLove Makes the World Go 'Round, a new musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, will get it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMHappy Birthday,Natascia Diaz Diaz's theatre credits include Jacques Brel Returns, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Carnival, Rooms, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Man of La…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMThe Great War is over. Mary and Matthew’s engagement has been announced. Lady Grantham’s mother arrives from New Yorkbut as Season Three unreels, all is far from tranquil. More social c…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 11:20AMWe’re got Magic to Do! As if the 2012-2013 Broadway season wasn’t filled with enough revivals, we just booked one more. However, as opposed to the many pieces being revived we ha…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 11:20AMThe New York premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's Job, a play that explores faith, returns for a limited engagement at The Flea Theater in Tribeca following the work's sold-out ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMBroadway veterans Kate Shindle Wonderland, Legally Blonde, Bradley Dean Evita, A Little Night Music, Matt DeAngelis Hair amp LaQuet Sharnell Lysistrata Jones, Memphis amp more will take part…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMWorking as a BBC Television producer and director in Manchester, Ken Stephinson furthered the careers of many media personalities. He gave Rowan Atkinson his first break, made a star of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMClaire Foy will play Lady Macbeth opposite James McAvoy’s Scottish antihero in director Jamie Lloyd’s new mounting of Macbeth, the inaugural production for Trafalgar Transformed …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMJersey Boys veteran makes his Broadway debut as Frankie Valli
John Michael Dias makes his Broadway debut as the Frankie Valli Alternate in Jersey Boys. Dias got his first taste of the sta…
SOURCE: www.playbillvault.com at 11:16AMCHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin played by Rob McClure, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meeh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMAlice Jane Murray and Marc Leslie have been cast in the forthcoming West End production of A Chorus Line after attending open auditions for the show. The performers were selected from around…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMFull casting has been announced for the upcoming London revival of A Chorus Line. The first West End revival, which stars previously announced headliners Scarlett Strallen as Cassie and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMSergeant Brody might be gearing up to do the "Lambeth Walk." Emmy winner Damian Lewis is in talks to star as Bill Snibson in a West End revival of Me And My Girl, according to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMOlivier Award winner Tamsin Greig and Scottish comedian John Sessions will star in a new production of William Boyd’s Longing, reports The Daily Mail. The play will run at the Hampstea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMIf you want a show to have an impact on an audience and get gasps, laughter, tears . . . and great word of mouth, what should you do? Make the impossible, possible. Snow on stage . . . rain …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 142013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AM
This past October, the Bucks County Playhouse BCP and Newtown Arts Company announced the return of the famed student theater festival competition to the newly reopened Playhouse next spring …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for THE DANCE AND THE…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:58AMThe Off Broadway premiere of Emotional Creature, the newest play by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, will end its limited enga…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMBefore the holidays, Broadway's ELF THE MUSICAL made one lucky winner's holiday wish come true with a walk-on role in the musical. Last night, the contest winner, Melissa Marengo, joined Bud…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMOkay, I thought I’d seen everything — or at least I thought I’d seen the upper limit in the line of differently-abled tap dancers in the person of Peg Leg Bates. Uh-uh. The…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:52AMSouthwark Playhouse is preparing to wave farewell to its current home below the arches of London Bridge station. The final performance, of Philip Ridley's Feathers in the Snow, takes place t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:51AMJust over a year ago NYTE launched a new website, Indie Theater Now, the digital theater library for the 21st century. Today it includes just about 500 plays by about 340 playwrights. The in…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 10:46AMThe Tony Award-winning Best Musical Hairspray, which features a score from Tony winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman ("Smash"), played its final performance on Broadway Jan. 4, 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMProducers Barry & Fran Weissler and Howard & Janet Kagan are pleased to present the American Repertory Theater’s 40th Anniversary production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:41AMProlific actor, playwright and screenwriter Charles Busch is set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Sidney Howard's 1926 play THE SILVER CORD Monday, Janu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMThis would have been useful to read prior to seeing the film. SPOILERS!
SOURCE: BuzzFeed at 10:18AMIn addition to her New Year's Eve performances at the Metropolitan Room on December 31, Marilyn Maye kept the party going with five unprecedented, by-request shows during the first week of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMPippin will find his corner of Broadway this spring when the American Repertory Theater's 40th anniversary revival of the classic Stephen Schwartz/Roger O. Hirson musical transfers to Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:02AMMusicians of Mercy has been performing themed benefit concerts for worthy causes and inspiring community members to action since 2010. Under the direction of Robin Fay Massie, the group is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMFormer Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams will join the national touring cast of “Fela!” at the end of this month. Williams will join the tour as Sandra Isadore on January 29…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMThis week's guest blog comes from my dear friend Doug Shapiro. Doug is a career coach with The Savvy Actor who loves helping people and making connections and he has some great advice for yo…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AMThe Huntington Theater Company is providing the biggest stage yet for Oren Jacoby’s theatrical adaptation of “Invisible Man,” the classic Ralph Ellison novel.
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There’s plenty to be excited about in 2013, but the return of the inhabitants of one fictional British estate has got Americans shaking in their waistcoats: that's right, Down…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:53AMAS I NEVER tire of reminding people, it's called "show business," not "show art." Which is why the current 12-day run of "Les Miserables" at the Academy of Musi…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:52AMBroadway’s Future Songbook Series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — will continue Jan. 14 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMLet's Sing a Show Tune!, a new musical revue featuring the songs of Bay Area composer Ron Lytle, will be presented at San Francisco's The Alcove Theater beginning Jan. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMGet ready for another roundup of regional theater news with today's 'Around BWW Regional Highlights of the Week'. Click below for the most-read theater stories for the week of December 31
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:16AMA reading of Ted Sod and Edie Demas' Lucky Star will be presented Jan. 28 at Theater for the New City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AMThe first Broadway revival of “Pippin” is coming this spring. The new production will transfer from its current home at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) in Cambridge, Mass. to the…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMYou have heard from The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’s director, designers, board members, artistic directors…but what about the actors? This cast has had their work cut out…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSamantha Barks, a virtual unknown from Isle of Man, steals Les Misérables with her bold singing.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMDirector Jeremy Sams turns Mirvish and Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Wizard of Oz into classical musical theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMDanielle Wade, Lee MacDougall, Lisa Horner, Mike Jackson and Jamie McKnight talk Wizard of Oz
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Text: “What about identity? I asked. He said: It’s self- defense… Identity is the child of birth, but at the end, it’s self invention, and not an inheritance of the p…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:54AMImagination Stage welcomes back the hit Wake Up, Brother Bear!, a highly interactive show for ages 1-5, that takes you and your child through all four seasons with a playful pair of bear sib…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMKeen-eyed readers will note that the last month or so has seen somewhat light posting here: more articles from the archive than usual (though, to paraphrase a promotional slogan from the era…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:42AMDame Helen Mirren, a legend of stage and screen, was honored yesterday, January 3rd, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Director Jon Turteltaub, writer-director David Mamet and Counc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26AMThe full cast has been announced for the new production of A Chorus Line that begins performances at the London Palladium Feb. 5 prior to an official opening Feb. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:18AMThe full cast has been announced for Jamie Lloyd's new West End production of Macbeth, which will inaugurate the Trafalgar Transformed season of work by the director in the reconfi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:10AMHelen Atkinson Wood will replace Connie Fisher in a production of Noel Coward’s The Vortex at the Rose Theatre Kingston. Atkinson Wood, who has appeared in TV show Blackadder, will play th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AM
Olympians may have dominated 2012, but it seems theatre-goers have had their fill of Britain’s sporting triumphs as the West End adaption of Chariots of Fire ends a month earlier than plan…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:43AMWhatsonstage.com Award winner Tamsin Greig and comedian John Sessions are set to star in William Boyd's Longing at Hampstead Theatre next month, according to the Daily Mail.
The play is hel…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:29AMDid you know we love customising the WordPress admin panel? No? Well we do! A lot, in fact. One of our favourite customisations is tweaking the admin panel menus. We’re all used to th…
SOURCE: www.vanpattenmedia.com at 07:20AMClaire Foy, who is best known for starring in TV series White Heat and The Promise, will star as Lady Macbeth as part of a season of work directed by Jamie Lloyd at London’s Trafalgar...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMCultural organizations report digital technologies improve marketing, fundraising and ticket sales
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 4 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Actor will star in 'The Gift' at Geffen Playhouse
SOURCE: Variety at 06:47AMScots Cambridge graduate, James, has it all – or what passes for "all" in our materialistic culture. Having made a packet from computer games, he's the self-made metropolitan man incarnate…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:37AMA revolution in television puppetry was inaugurated by Gerry Anderson, who captured the imaginations of millions of children in the 1960s with a string of futuristic series, the most famous …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMThe best thing about returning to normal after the Christmas and New Year break is that you know what day of the week it is. But before then, festive ennui led to an unusual experiment...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMKarel Capk’s 1922 Broadway drama “R.U.R,” adapted by Lee Eric Shackleford, is credited with originating the word “robot.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMCall it the January jones.
Folks with out-of-the-box tastes in theater have reasons to be fired up about this time of year, even if they’re shivering.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWhat happens when all the wrong people meet at exactly the right time?
Intriguing question.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Finborough, London: Is fhearr Gaidhlig bhriste na Gaidhlig sa chiste - it is better to have broken Gaelic than dead Gaelic.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThe holidays are over and you’re back in the swing of things. If you are a New Yorker, the winter doldrums are about to set in and those resolutions of working out and a three-day ju…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:45AMDamian Lewis has reportedly been involved in talks to star in a West End revival of classic Noel Gay musical Me and My Girl. Lewis, who has hit the big time in the States starring in&nb…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:39AMFinborough Theatre’s Somersaults opens this week with the notable absence of the fantastic wine bar nestled below the space. Making the short hop to the nearby newsagents for a drink i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:39AMProduction is fresh, lively and in many ways extraordinary -- and sure to create positive buzz prior to its just-announced spring perch at the Rialto's Music Box Theater.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:32AMCharles Chilton, who originated the satirical musical, Oh! What a Lovely War (1963), has died at the age of 95. It started out as a radio play and was then staged at the Theatre Royal,...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMSo here we are – 2013. All the chocolates have been eaten, the presents unwrapped, the Michael Bublé Christmas album placed back on the shelf for another year, and it’s time to go b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09AMClaire Foy will play Lady Macbeth opposite James McAvoy's Macbeth in Jamie Lloyd's forthcoming production at the reconfigured Trafalgar Studios.
Foy, whose TV credits include Little Dorrit,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:05AM
Friday January 4, 2013
NEW YORK -- When the play "Freud’s Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 [one year after its world
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:10AMDo you hear the people sing? Loud and clear! Powerful performances overcome some directorial issues by Stuart MunroI think it’s safe to say Les Misérables is one of the most anticipated m…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I report on the Florida Repertory Theatre's revival of The Little Foxes. Here's...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMToday's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column is a paean to Donald Fagen and his new album, Sunken Condos. Here's an...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann, Essays of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM1905 Quivery-voiced actor Sterling Holloway (1905-1992) is born today in Cedartown, GA. He will become a fixture of Broadway's The Garrick Gaieties revues of the 1920s and '30s, and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston presents Moisés Kaufman's Tony Award-nominated play 33 Variations beginning Jan. 4. Paula Plum stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA one-night-only engagement of William Shatner's Shatner's World: We Just Live In It is offered Jan. 4, as part of The Paramount Theatre's 2012-13 season, in Aurora, IL…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOne Singular Sensation, the New Year's Eve concert by the New York Philharmonic, celebrated composer Marvin Hamlisch's life and work. His memory and legacy live on. Joshua Bell, Ra&u…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
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