Eager to shed those holiday pounds? You may want to check out “The Diet Show.” Not only might it provide some powerful motivation, but it’s the only show in town that at one point requ…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:57PMThe Den Theatre is thrilled to present a remount of TurnAround Theatre’s original hit production of Brian Friel’s FAITH HEALER, 17 years after the critically acclaimed show played …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:57PMAfter more than a dozen years in New York, City Winery’s Executive Chef Andres Barrera has returned to his Chicago hometown and joined the City Winery Chicago team full-time. His first ord…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:51PMCelebrating a new release of the Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack is certainly delightful. Some, however, may moan when they realize the occasion is the fiftieth anniversary of the original release…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:44PMMaestro Kirk Muspratt leads the acclaimed New Philharmonic in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major at Wheaton College’s Edman Memorial Chapel, 501 College Avenue in Wheaton…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:43PMThe beloved Broadway production of Mary Poppins will close after six years at Disney's New Amsterdam Theatre on March 3, making way for the new stage adaptation of Aladdin in the spring of 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:42PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, January 7, 2013.
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After over six years on Broadway, Mary Poppins is set to close on March 3, 2013. The sudden scheduling of the announcement has sparked heated speculation and insinuation in the Broadway wor…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 08:49PMVincent DeMarco, former Production Manager at the Public Theater amp Managing Partner of Kelvin Productions, passed away on Saturday, January 5, 2013, at the age of 43, after a 3-and-a-half …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:41PMNow that things are starting to gear down on the Theatre Scene, I thought I might talk about some random things going - not enough by themselves for a whole blog, but together enough to be b…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:30PMWould you believe two tourists from Florida traveled to more than140 LA theatrical productions this year? More tourists might discover LA theater if the discoverlosangeles website, LA touris…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PM“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” not to mention the much less holy head that governs in the name of the crown. I believe that little piece of Shakespearean wisdom sits …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00PM“Once,” “Newsies” and “Jersey Boys” are among the many Broadway shows offering two-for-one tickets during Broadway Week, which will run from January 22 through February 7. “Thi…
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This has been making its way around Facebook, but for those who don’t know, the iconic artist María Irene Fornés has been suffering through the late stages of Alzheimer’s. Whil…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 07:55PMIn our last edition of Bros on Broadway, our series of uncensored Broadway show reviews penned by dudes with little to no experience with live theater, our man Ray took on the bro-iest play …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:26PMThe opening scenes of “Contractions,” Mike Bartlett’s humdinger of a corporate black comedy, will chill to the marrow anyone who’s ever had to fill out a W-2. Emma, a well-groomed wo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PMMichael Philip Edwards was once chewed out by Athol Fugard in a restaurant. He remembers the South African playwright's words as he directs the alternating casts of Tracey Scott Wilson's dra…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:15PM"Why am I leaving?" ponders Vicky Featherstone, standing in the National Theatre of Scotland's HQ and looking out over an impressive panoramic vietw of Glasgow's high-rise skyline. "I'm leav…
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NEW YORK—"Mary Poppins" is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway. An official close to the show's producers said Monday that the 6-year-old musical will end performances in March…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:59PMIt’s time to live the magic of the '80s all over again as Flashdance makes its way to the stage in a brand new national tour. The musical version of the popular 1983 film premiered…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:55PMFebruary 1 - 10, AfterWork THeatre Project presents HAIR, at the LABA Theater. Produced by Evan Greenberg and directedchoreographed by Alex Perez, the show will musical direction by Julian R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMThe musical based on Disney's 1964 film will end its six-year run on March 3 as "Aladdin" gears up for a 2014 debut.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:48PMBroadway's biggest video content provider, Broadway.com, continues to grow on YouTube. This week the official Broadway.com YouTube channel reached 10 million video views.
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SOURCE: Vulture at 06:28PMBette Midler will star in John Logan’s new play, I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by Joe Mantello, opening on Broadway on Wednesday, April 24 at a Shubert the…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:22PMPerformances for the upcoming national tour of FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that defined a generation, began January 1st and ran through January 6 at P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMSt. Paul-based Penumbra Theatre met its year-end fund-raising goal and will produce a play in March.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:15PMPerformances for the upcoming national tour of FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that defined a generation, begin January 1st and run through January 6 at P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMShe became everyone’s fair lady when she stepped from the ensemble into the leading role of Eliza Doolittle at Arena Stage last Saturday night and turned in a heart-stealing performanc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:10PMWe are pleased to announce the publication of the new musical Once, with book by Enda Walsh and music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. The celebrated new musical based on th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 06:09PMCinderella is coming to Broadway for the first time ever! See stars Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Victoria Clark and more reveal how this magical musical will come to life on stage.
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The Downtown Players, part of Lambertville, NJ's Downtown Performing Arts Center, are gearing up for the world premiere of Legally Blonde The Musical, Jr. Set for two performances, the brand…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMNEW YORK (AP) — "Mary Poppins" is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:57PMWe are pleased to announce the publication of The Lyons, the vicious and hilarious new play by Nicky Silver. The critically acclaimed black comedy premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Thea…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:54PMNora Ephron’s Lucky Guy has added Emmy Award-nominated Maura Tierney and two time Tony Award nominee Courtney B. Vance. Tierney will star opposite Tom Hanks as McAlary’s wife, Al…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, January 7, 2013 Breaking news: Bette Midler to Play Superagent Sue Mengers on Broadway ArtsBeat Blog/NYTimes.com – by DAVE ITZKOFF The recipe f…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:49PMWhat is Smash? If All About Eve and The Producers had a love child carried by Marilyn Monroe, it would be NBC’s Broadway backstage soap opera, which managed to excite and infuriate aud…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PMWith “Parental Guidance” a surprise hit, Bette Midler is doubling down on her show-biz comeback.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:46PMHot off the release of his new album, 'Drafts Volume One,' composer Alexander Sage Oyen is bringing his songs to 54 Below on Saturday, January 19th Joining Oyen at the 11PM concert will be D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMTony and Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin returns to 54 Below with a second offering of her sold-out concert, Possibilities. Lavin (best known for her performances in TV’s Alice, a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PMWhen the Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced its production of "The Motherf***er with the Hat," it sure sounded very much like a reprise of the 2011 Broadway production. The director, ense…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:33PMAn emergency fund-raising campaign has allowed the Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, a leading African-American company, to resume operations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMNEW YORK (AP) — "Mary Poppins" is closing up its umbrella on Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:21PMMary Poppins will close at Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theater on March 3 to make way for Disney's next big, Broadway show Aladdin, according to The New York Times. At the time o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PMToday, yet another Broadway-bound show announced the postponement of its opening. Diner, the musical based on the 1982 film which had been scheduled to open April 10, will not open until …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:18PMFree Star-Studded Screening of Cabaret, Starring Liza Minnelli, on January 31 by Ellis NassourTurner Classic Movies (TCM)'s Road to Hollywood t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:17PMThe Broadway production of Disney's Mary Poppins will fold up its umbrella this spring at the New Amsterdam Theatre, according to reports in the New York Times and the New York Post. Sou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMIn the new Cinderella, the rags-to-riches heroine isn’t just making her debut at the ball. She’s also making her Broadway debut. The world’s most famous scullery maid has starred in ev…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:10PMRep drama looks at personal politics without polemics.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:08PMJared Zirilli of the current industry reading of Woody Allen's 'Bullets Over Broadway' directed by Susan Stroman also FAT CAMP, Original Broadway Cast Lysistrata Jones, BARE, Wicked, Twiligh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 1713.
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The New York Times is reporting that MARY POPPINS will close on Broadway on March 3, 2013 to make way for renovations , followed by its next tenant 'A musical adaptation of the company's 199…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMProducers announced today that the new American musical Diner has postponed its Broadway opening, previously scheduled for April 10, 2013, and is now targeting the fall of 2013.
“W…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:58PMAfter the March 3 closing, the New Amsterdam Theater will be renovated over several months before "Aladdin" moves in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PMTony nominee Brad Oscar will play lovable bootlegger Cookie McGee in Nice Work If You Can Get It beginning January 8 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. Oscar will fill in for Tony winner …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMThe producers of the Tony-winning hit musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT have announced that Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar will perform the role of Cookie McGee' beginning tomorrow, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMThe hit Broadway revival of The Heiress has partnered with GoldDerby.com on an exclusive sweepstakes where fans can enter to win round trip air travel for two to New York City, a two night s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMTheatrical lawyers Elliot Brown, Seth Gelblum and Nancy Rose talk with Patrick Pacheco about the behind the scenes work they do from negotiating rights and contracts to deals with unions and…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:48PMPittsburgh Public Theater will present the Tony Award-winning musical 1776, the biggest production in the company's history, beginning Jan. 24, prior to an official opening Feb. 1, at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMNow that the holiday season has officially come to an end, 2013 has begun, and with it comes a slew of scheduled productions and maybe even some upcoming surprises. The first to open in the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMAnother week, another record broken by The Book of Mormon: For the 44th time, the mega-hit musical set a new house record at the 1,068-seat Eugene O'Neill Theatre, earning more than $1.8…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMManhattan Theatre Club’s extended engagement of GOLDEN AGE, the third play in Terrence McNally’s opera trilogy, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, begins the final week of its …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:35PMTheatre Communications Group TCG has announced the publication of the new musical Once, with book by Enda Walsh and music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markta Irglov - and the publication o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMThe producers of the Tony-winning hit musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT have announced that Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar will perform the role of ‘Cookie McGee’ beginning tomor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:27PMIt's finally official After almost two months of voting and the casting of more than 10,000 votes, we know the winners of the 20 categories in the first-ever BroadwayWorld.com New York Cabar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMEarly in 2012, an unlikely series of events led two of the world's most gifted sleight-of-hand artists, Derek DelGaudio 2011 Close-Up Magician of the Year and Helder Guimares 2011 Parlour Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMThe Divine Miss M back on Broadway? You Bette!
In the spring, Midler will play famed Tinseltown agent Sue Mengers in a one-character drama by John Logan, who won a Tony for “Red,�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:24PMTony Award nominee Brad Oscar will step into the role of lovable mobster Cookie McGee in the Broadway production of the Tony Award-nominated Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It,&nbs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMTCM’s Road to Hollywood tour stops in Manhattan on January 31st for free star-studded big-screen presentation of 1972’s Oscar-winning Cabaret,fully restored, and based on the Tony-winnin…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:22PMWin a pair of tickets to the new musical from Grammy® Award-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper and four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein, Kinky Boots!
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:16PMA sneak peek of Kinky Boots the musical - coming to Broadway March 3!
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:16PMFresh on the heels of the positively seismic “Good People,” a masterfully rendered class commentary that took a company on Halsted back to its gritty roots, Steppenwolf Theatre e…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMSwedish pop band Brainpool's new rock opera Junk will have a one-night-only concert performance Jan. 18 at Joe's Pub in New York City.
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Amateurishly presented in the dingy, depressing environment of the American Theater of Actors’ Chernuchin Theater, the bitter musical “Kikki & Grandpa & Baby” is a …
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:54PMThe Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Cinderella arrives on Broadway in a dazzling new production starring Tony nominee Laura Osnes as Cinderella and Santino Fontana as the Prince. Featuring a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMCanton Theatrical will present two industry staged readings of Plop, the new boy-band musical about the rapid rise of the super groups of the 1990s that features a score by Bare composer Dam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMThe Divine Miss M is returning to Broadway, and not as just a producer.
Bette Midler will star in John Logan's new play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers" in the spring, marking th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:38PMMidler will star in "Skyfall" screenwriter John Logan's new single-character play about Hollywood's first female super-agent, directed by Joe Mantello.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:37PMWith her aptly titled debut solo album, “She’s So Unusual,” Cyndi Lauper made pop history in 1983 when she became the first female artist to have four Top 5 hit singles from an album (…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:36PMThey say you can tell a lot about a person from looking at their shoes. Footwear plays a key role in the new musical Kinky Boots, but from the title alone you might not know that it is a big…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:28PMNEW YORK—The Divine Miss M is returning to Broadway, and not as just a producer. Bette Midler will star in John Logan's new play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers" in the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:14PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Divine Miss M is returning to Broadway, and not as just a producer....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:13PMRodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, begins previews Jan. 25. The engagement marks the Broadway premiere of the classic family musical. The ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMMusic superstar and Broadway veteran Bette Midler (The Rose) will return to the Great White Way for the first time in over thirty years this spring in Tony Award winner John Logan (Red)'s ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMNEW YORK – Oscar® and Tony Award®-winning composer Alan Menken, director Jeff Calhoun and producer Thomas Schumacher, join Kara Lindsay, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Mike Faist, stars of the…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:09PMTransient Theater Financial Report 2012 My friend Candice Benge runs Transient Theater, a traveling theater cooperative. Last year, they crowd-sourced funding for a tour across the United St…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:08PMBette Midler will star in John Logan’s new play, I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by Joe Mantello, opening on Broadway on Wednesday, April 24 at a Shubert theatre to …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:05PMIs it sexist to feel the need to point out that the two best action/war movies in recent times have been made by a woman director?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:04PMAcademy Award winner Tom Hooper's starry film adaptation of the international hit musical Les Misèrables has grossed over $100 million domestically since premiering in theatres De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMBroadway said a heartfelt goodbye to the Little Tramp on January 6, when Rob McClure and the cast of the bio-musical Chaplin played their final performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. We…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMNEW YORK (AP) — The Divine Miss M is returning to Broadway, and not as just a producer.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:02PMAs mysterious bad boy with a checkered past Toby Cavanaugh on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, Keegan Allen is known for getting into and out of plenty of sticky situations, so he must …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:01PMWelcome 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 03:00PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 162013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMCleveland Public Theatre's Big Box series never fails to bring the most esoteric works to the stage, and its 11th cycle does not disappoint. The best title in the eight-week menu of offering…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Turner Classic Movies TCM will continue its latest Road to Hollywood tour around the country with a stop in New York City, where TCM, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Verizon FiOS will pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMThe actors are the latest cast members to board the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's final play, which opens April 1.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:55PMAs previously speculated, Bette Midler is headed back to Broadway for the first time in 30 years. The actress will star as famed publicist Sue Mengers in the solo show I'll Eat You Last:…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMCanton Theatrical will present two staged presentations of PLOP, the all-new boy band musical about the meteoric rise of the super groups and pop princesses of the 1990s. Set against the bac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMEmmy nominee Maura Tierney (ER) and Tony Award nominee Courtney B. Vance (Fences) will join two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks and company in the upcoming Broadway production of Nora Ep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMBette Midler will star in John Logan's new play, I'll Eat You Last A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by Joe Mantello, opening on Broadway on Wednesday, April 24 at a Shubert theatre to be an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMAward-winning singer-actress Bette Midler will return to Broadway in John Logan’s new play, I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, which will open on Broadway April 24 at a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMMaura Tierney will make her Broadway debut in Lucky Guy alongside two-time Tony nominee Courtney B. Vance and previously announced leading man Tom Hanks. Written by the l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMPop icon Cyndi Lauper stopped by NBC's Today Show on January 7 to talk about Kinky Boots, the upcoming Broadway musical she penned with Harvey Fierstein. Lauper is also gearing up f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMMs. Midler will star in the one-character play "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers," about the powerful Hollywood agent whose clients included Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Faye D…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMEmmy Award® nominee Maura Tierney and two-time Tony Award® nominee Courtney B. Vance have joined the cast of LUCKY GUY on Broadway. Tierney will be making her Broadway debut, while Vance…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:28PMThe new production of RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella will begin performances in January at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway at 53rd St. RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella has music by Ri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PM“Lucky Guy,” the play by Nora Ephron starring Tom Hanks, has gotten two big cast members– Maura Tierney from “ER” and the great Courtney B. Vance. Hanks plays t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:22PMJulian Ovenden, who was seen on Broadway in Butley, has landed a recurring role on the second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash," according to TVLine.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMRock duo features ubiquitous actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:19PMSome are calling it “a once-in-a-lifetime event”! It’s definitely an event. Original cast members and creators from the musicals Grease, Nine, and Grand Hotel are reuniting for an Acto…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 02:16PMEmmy Award-nominated "E.R." star Maura Tierney and two-time Tony Award nominee Courtney B. Vance have joined the cast of the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy &mdash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMBroadway's brightest are coming together in support of Newtown, Connecticut, as residents recover from the December 14 shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. From Broadway w…
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Emmy Award nominee Maura Tierney and two-time Tony Award nominee Courtney B. Vance have joined the cast of LUCKY GUY on Broadway. Tierney will be making her Broadway debut, while Vance will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMThe Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us this Thursday, January 10th for …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:56PMPrimary Stages has announced the initial selections for its 2013-2014 season, which begins in July with Harbor. Harbor, a new comedy about the meaning of family, written by Tony Award nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMRehearsals have begun for the American Repertory Theater’s brand-new production of The Glass Menagerie, the classic Tennessee Williams drama about a fading Southern belle, her frustrat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, West End star Julian Ovenden will guest star in the second season of SMASH, and according to TVLine, he will play another one of Marilyn's love interest…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMAs violin prodigy turned boxing superstar Joe Bonaparte, Seth Numrich proves once again that, despite only being 25, he has the talent and star power to carry a big Broadway drama. After a M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:40PM"The Devil's Bitch," the 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 fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMComposer-lyricist Alexander Sage Oyen, who recently released his second album "Drafts (Volume One)," will present a concert of his work Jan. 19 at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMNEW YORK (AP) — Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut as Tom Hanks' wife in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:35PMTobacco Factory, BristolHansel and Gretel and Mum and Dad would undoubtedly be the happiest family in central Europe – were it not for the fact that the land is in the grip of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PM"Smash" star Megan Hilty dropped by the Walnut Street Theatre to see "The Music Man" just before the new year. Hilty was in town with boyfriend Brian Gallagher, an actor in the touring produ…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32PMNEW YORK—Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut as Tom Hanks' wife in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:32PMFew sights are as welcome each year as that of a packed lobby at the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, which opened with its typical gangbusters energy last weekend at Stage 773 in Lakeview an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Maura Tierney will make her Broadway debut as Tom Hanks' wife in Nora Ephron's play "Lucky Guy."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:29PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsMike Kenny's adaptations of classic fairytales have a strictly non‑pantomime agenda – so, as might be expected, this is a version of Sl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house record of Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre for the 44th time. The show earned $1,833,431.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:22PMWhile Tri-C students often enter acting and design competitions at the regional conference, they've never been asked to stage a full-scale production at the Kennedy Center American College T…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:18PMThe cast of the Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella invited the press to a sneak preview of the musical on Monday, January 7 at their rehearsal
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMLouise Pitre, who is best known for her Tony-nominated turn in Mamma Mia!, offers her solo show La Vie en Rouge Jan. 7 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMTickets are now on sale for the world premiere production of Detroit ‘67, a brand-new play by Dominique Morisseau. The show will kick off the Public Theater’s spring 2013 season …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMCyndi Lauper just visited the Today Show where she chatted with Hoda Kotb and Meredith Vieira about her new reality show, Cyndi Lauper Still so Unusual, as well as her Broadway-bound musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMReturning to Broadway soon in Cinderella, Marla Mindelle stars in a new short film “The Devil’s Bitch.” Directed by Jake Honig, this dark and campy comedy is the story of a wheelchair-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMHappy 2013! The 113th Congress is sworn in, not-for-profits are evaluating our swerve from the fiscal cliff and artists are going beyond the stage to advocate as citizens. Here at TCG, we’…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:07PMTony, Emmy and Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer will receive the 13th Monte Cristo Award from The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, according to The New York Times. The award is pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMP.J. Griffith and Christina Sajous have joined the lab presentation of the new musical Beyond the Music — about a struggling young female songwriter who gets the chance of a lifetime &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM
It reads more like a scene from a 50’s showbiz movie. It’s the closing weekend. The Saturday night performance is nearly sold out. The star is taken ill. Her understudy is ill. Hannah …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PMTHE HEIRESS' Jessica Chastain is set to appear on LIVE with Kelly and Michael tomorrow morning, January 8, to discuss the new film Zero Dark Thirty. Check your local listings.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMI got a nice New Year’s surprise this weekend from Martin Denton and Indie Theatre Now — they’ve added a bunch more of my plays to my Indie Theatre Now page. What’s m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:55PMREVIEW: Theater Latté Da and Hennepin Theatre Trust find the operatic spirit of this piece, using big performances and raw emotion.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:52PMNBC and Columbia Records have announced that they will be releasing a 22-track cast recording of the fictional musical Bombshell, the show-within-a-show that serves as the focal point of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMA studly British man is taking over the White House. English actor Julian Ovenden has won a pivotal role on the second season of NBC’s Broadway dramedy Smash, reports TVLine. Oven…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMNewsies leading man Corey Cott has given family, friends and Broadway fans something to believe in this new year: marital bliss! Cott told Broadway.com back in September that he was planning…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMThis double bill only partially succeeded in setting movement to Stockhausen’s avant-garde scores, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:39PMTickets are available for the English language premiere of Neva, a politically-charged drama by Guillermo Calderon with a translation by Andrea Thome. Calderon directs the production, which …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMThe Bridges of Madison County, a new musical by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown based on the romantic novel and film of the same title, will premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festiva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMNYC & Company has announced the participating shows in Broadway Week and Off-Broadway Week, which offer two-for-one tickets to New York City theatre. Broadway Week will be held Jan. 22-F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMThe awards with no acceptance speeches, just performances. Updated list of winners.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:30PMMatilda The Musical, which won seven Olivier Awards, more than any other production in London history, is heading to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe Actors’ Equity Association today is beginning major renovations and improvements to its building on West 46th Street in New York City. The first phase of construction includes reno…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:16PMBenjamin Walker Returns to Broadway for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof By Jada Yuan “What would you like to drink?” asks Benjamin Walker. We’ve only just sat down at theater-district bar Joe …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:15PMSunday, January 13th, 201312.00 noon- 5.00pmJoin Chicago Dramatists for a chance to learn about our classes, our instructors, and our playwriting community!Featuring:Sample ClassesBackstage …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:14PMToday is the birthday of the great African American character actress Thelma “Butterfly” McQueen (1907-1995). In her honor, I am not going to talk about or even mention her most …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:12PMMichael G Smith is the artistic director of Kooza, Cirque du Soleil's latest show to play at the Royal Albert Hall.
Billed as "an adrenaline rush of acrobatics in a zany kingdom", Kooza ope…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:11PMProducers announced today that P.J. Griffith Giant, American Idiot and Christina Sajous Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, American Idiot will star in the industry lab presentation of the new mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMJosh Gad’s brand-new NBC comedy 1600 Penn moves into the White House (and your television) on January 10, but before the political fun begins, the Tony nominee allowed a camera crew to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMWith sold out audiences in Chicago screaming for more, and a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a 4-star review, the original parody 50 SHADES THE MUSICAL is coming for the first …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMOff-Broadway's Primary Stages will produce new plays by Charles Busch, Chad Beguelin and Eric Simonson as part of their 2013-14 season.
The New York premiere of Beguelin's new come…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMLondon's Royal Opera house is holding a live-streaming event to celebrate the Italian opera master's 200th birthday. They're also asking people worldwide to record their own versions of the …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PM
A new world-premiere comedy from Tony Award-nominated playwright and performer Charles Busch (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife) will be staged Off-Broadway in March 2014 as part of Prima…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMVeteran stage and film actor Christopher Plummer will be honored with the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Monte Cristo Award in a ceremony to take place April 15 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMTickets are now available for the New York premiere of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s new drama Really Really. Starring Zosia Mamet (TV's Girls) and Matt Lauria (TV’s Friday Nigh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:52AMIf Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman are hitting all the right notes in the hit film “Les Miserables,” they have one talented Chicago area resident to thank for their vocal prowess. That wo…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:52AMThe West End musical Top Hat has announced new stars for 2013. Previously reported star Gavin Lee (Mary Poppins) will be joined by Kristen Beth Williams (Nice Work If You Can Get I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AMAsa Somers' original rock musical, Something as Big as This, will receive a developmental workshop at Seattle's Balagan Theatre — a follow-up to the recent NYC workshop starrin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMThe cast and creative team met the press today, and BroadwayWorld was there for all of the festivities. Check out a photo preview below, and check back later for full coverage
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMSmash is bringing more secrets, scandal and sensational Broadway performances back to the small screen beginning February 5, and now you can get a sexy sneak peek at the stars in action. On …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMSeasoned triple-threat Ivy Lynn Megan Hilty is an ensemble performer who has spent years pursuing stardom only to be bumped back into the chorus again and again. Will the new Marilyn Monroe …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMCasting is complete for the New Group's world premiere production of Clive, starring previously announced actors Brooks Ashmanskas, Vincent D’Onofrio, Zoe Kazan and Ethan Hawke in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMIt's no surprise that Mario Testino's photographs, some of the most iconic of which are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, are attracting thundering hoards.&nbs…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:33AMRich with emotional subtleties, this apprentice ensemble launched by BalletBoyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt bring energy and delicacy to the world of male dancingReading on a mobile? Wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMLarry L. King, a Southern essayist and playwright who wrote the libretto for the long-running Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died Dec. 20 in Washington, D.C. He was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMMatilda The Musical, which won seven Olivier Awards, more than any other production in London history, is heading to Broadway. The critically acclaimed production, which was named Best New M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMLooks like plenty of people are still lining up to hear the people sing. The big screen adaptation of the beloved musical Les Misérables officially crossed the $100 million mark at th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMVulture.com reports that the much maligned character 'Ellis', played by actor Jamie Cepero, may still be featured on the upcoming second season of NBC's SMASH. At this weekend's Television …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMBreaking the tradition that television newscasters should be heard, but not seen, Kenneth Kendall was the first reader to be screened by the BBC in September 1955, less than three weeks befo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMJason Robert Brown’s musical adaptation of the best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County will premiere in August 2013 at Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, acc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMThe national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, the fairy tale of a lady steelworker who dreams of legit dance while moonlighting as an exotic dancer, began Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh, where …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMLet them be your star, indeed! Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty will bring their soaring vocals to a brand-new cast recording for Bombshell, the fictional Broadway show at the center of the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AMLet them be your star, indeed! Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty will bring their soaring vocals to a brand new album for Bombshell, the fictional Broadway show at the center of the first sea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AMI liked the Big Apple Circus show so much this season I had to see it twice. One thing I did miss, however, were the elephants Anna May and Ned. Why were they missing? Well, I’m here t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:13AMThe New Group announced today the world premiere of Clive, written by Jonathan Marc Sherman and directed by and featuring Ethan Hawke in the title role.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMComplete casting has been announced for the George Street Playhouse's upcoming production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, which will begin previews Jan. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMTHE OTHER PLACE, starring three-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf, has its official Broadway opening this Thursday, 110, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Also ta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMLes Mis on course to become highest-grossing musical in North American box-office historyNorth American audiences cannot get enough of Empty Chairs, Empty Tables. And I'm not talking about t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMDiner, Sheryl Crow’s musical adaptation of the 1982 film, will postpone its Broadway engagement. The production, which was originally scheduled to open at a yet to be determined Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:01AMI get a lot of emails from folks telling me that it’s their dream to work on Broadway. Some want to be General Managers. Some want to be Casting Directors. Some don’t have a clue a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin, the producers Barry & Fran Weissler and Howard & Janet Kagan are pleased to announce that …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:00AMThe Broadway debut of the new musical version of the popular 1982 Barry Levinson movie "Diner," featuring music by pop star Sheryl Crow, has reportedly been delayed until fall.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
The producers of NBC’s “Smash” would love to take “Bombshell,” the musical around which their drama rotates, to the real-life Broadway.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:58AMTV fans are buzzing all over the country about the network return of Downton Abbey, the upstairs-downstairs soap which roared back to PBS for its third season premiere on January 6. With Dow…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMSirius XM Broadway host, actor, musician and Playbill.com columnist Seth Rudetsky will host The Concert, which launches David Sisco and Lorene Phillips' Directory of Contemporary Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMThe Broadway Blog is taking an international peek at theatrical happenings around the globe — and what better place to begin than in the land of Sally Bowles? Berlin! Have you ever fantasi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:52AMThe original Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde, the Frank Wildhorn musical that will be revived this spring, played its final performance Jan. 7, 2001. In celebration of the musical, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe stage musical adaptation of the 1982 MGM film has been postponed from its scheduled spring opening to a fall target.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:48AMMaking musicals is a risky business. We risk our time, our money, our reputation, and sometimes what feels like our sanity to get a show off the ground. A lot of people have to take a lot of…
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 10:47AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending January 6, 2013: Show Name Gross Attendance Capacity AvgPaidAdm ANNIE $1,252,683 12,570 91.99% $99.66 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF $761,8…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMCasting is now complete for The New Group's upcoming production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Clive, which begins a limited Off-Broadway engagement Jan. 17 at The New Group at Theatre R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMTO NEWTOWN, FROM BROADWAY WITH LOVE From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT on January 28th at 7 PM On December 14, 2012, tragedy s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AMTony Award winner Nina Arianda was Cheyenne Jackson's special guest for his Dec. 31 concert at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMThe new Beacon Arts Centre building has opened in Greenock to replace the old Arts Guild Theatre, a 500-seat space which was deemed no longer fit for purpose. The new £9.5 million building …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMSwann Auction Galleries will offer a selection of Broadway drawings by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld during its sale of 20th Century Illustration on January 24. Among the Hirschfeld highlights …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMNEW YORK (AP) — The title role of Giordano's 1896 opera, "Andrea Chenier," has long appealed to tenors because of the fervent lyricism and heroic thrust of its showpiece arias and duets. B…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:36AMAccording to the New York Times, stage and screen star Chistopher Plummer will be honored with the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 13th annual Monte Cristo Award. The presentation will take …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMTwo-time Tony Award-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde closed on Broadway on Jan. 7, 2001, after 1,543 performances. Playbill.com takes a look back at the composer'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMTo celebrate the launch of the 23rd book, BroadwayWorld and SEASON OF SAVINGS are partnering to host daily giveaways in which fans will have a chance to win dinner and tickets to a Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMAfter playing the role of Bert for over two years on the North American tour of Mary Poppins, with a stint on Broadway in Summer 2010, Nicolas Dromard will return to the New Amsterdam Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:29AMAmerican audiences will get a glimpse of what life was like for The Beatles in the group's early years when Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys' Backbeat arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre, to ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMAfter playing the role of Bert for over two years on the North American tour of MARY POPPINS, with a stint on Broadway in Summer 2010, NICOLAS DROMARD will return to the New Amsterdam Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMNicolas Dromard will return to the role of Bert in the Broadway production of the award-winning Disney musical Mary Poppins Jan. 9. He succeeds Tony nominee Gavin Lee, who played his final p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMSPECIAL ONE NIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE BRONTES! KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE THEATRE LAB TONIGHT – MONDAY JANUARY 7TH, 2013 6:00 P.M. THE BRONTES ARE BACK! With our Fringe Festival hi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17AMDo you have holiday burn out Don't we all Even though the holidays are at an end, here I am still talking about the holiday-themed song I recently released, 'Just in Time For Christmas' with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMThe DC Theatre community took a hit recently when Artisphere announced that due to a policy change its resident theatre company WSC Avant Bard would be kicked out in the middle of its season…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 10:15AMYou're going to have to wait a little longer on that order. Diner, the musical originally scheduled to open on Broadway on April 10, has been postponed until autumn 2013 in order to give the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMIt’s going to be a jolly holiday for Nicolas Dromard. The Canadian actor will return to Broadway’s Mary Poppins, replacing original cast member and Tony nominee Gavin Lee as…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AMStiwt, Rhos, Wrexham: Gareth Thomas, former Welsh rugby captain, prolific try scorer and the first professional rugby union player to come out as gay while still playing, dominates the poste…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMTickets are now on sale for the first New York revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony-winning musical Passion. Directed by John Doyle, the Classic Stage Company produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:02AMNew York Theatre 01/03/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AMNicolas Dromard will once again portray Bert in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins, replacing Gavin Lee in the role. Dromard previously played the role for over two years as part of the…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMMy good friend and fellow blogger Michael Ian Cedar gives each of his years a theme. I think this is a great idea and I have decided to give this year a theme for myself. 2013 is the year of…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AMJessica Chastain is once again in the Hollywood awards spotlight for her performance as Maya, a determined CIA agent on the trail of Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMBrian Stokes Mitchell, Linda Eder Headline Jan. 28 "From Broadway With Love" ConcertBroadway shows that it cares when stars, producers, writers, and directors come together for “From…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AM
Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who is currently performing the role of Catherine Sloper in the Broadway revival of The Heiress, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critic's C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMBroadwayWorld's High School Center is proud to showcase high school performance programs around the country in our weekly feature of 'High School in the Spotlight'. This week's featured scho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMJason Robert Brown's Honeymoon in Vegas, which had been scheduled for a Toronto engagement in fall 2012 and a Broadway bow (featuring Tony Danza as Tommy Korman) in spring 2013, will now…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMFiguring out what to do next is your real job. It doesn't matter what your job title is. It doesn't matter whether you work solo or with a team. Your real value is determined by your ability…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:38AMTryst is a story of lies, theft, and the death of dreams, which is to say it is the story of ordinary life. George Love (Felipe Cabezas), or whatever he called himself, made his living durin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMA 22-song album of the music from “Bombshell” will be released on February 12, a week after the Tuesday, February 5th premiere of the second season of Smash. The first season of this Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AMOscar and Tony Award-winning composer Alan Menken, director Jeff Calhoun and producer Thomas Schumacher will join Kara Lindsay, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Mike Faist, stars of the Tony award-w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMNew casting for the West End's Top Hat will see Broadway's Kristen Beth Williams and the West End's Alex Gaumond and Clive Hayward join the previously announced Gavin Lee in prin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMWith a play about film editing, Thunderous Productions presents Cut, the Washington area premier of Crystal Skillman’s reality TV comedy play. But this production didn’t even come close …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21AMThe recent West End production of Neil Simon's 1972 vaudeville comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, will not arrive on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM'Aladdin' said to replace musical at New Amsterdam
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMTamsin Greig and John Sessions will star in William Boyd's debut play Longing, based on two short stories by Anton Chekhov, that begins performances Feb 28, prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AMThe Broadway production of “Chaplin,” the musical about the life of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, just closed last night, January 6, but producers have now revealed that a Brazil pro…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMTony Award-winning Newsies composer Alan Menken, Tony-nominated director Jeff Calhoun, Tony-winning Disney producer Thomas Schumacher and cast members Kara Lindsay, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Atlantis Productions' Asian premiere of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Philippine Educational Theater Association's screen-to-stage adaptation of Bona, and Lunchbox Theatrical Productions' int…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #101, the great dancer Leonard Reed (for my full bio on the inventor of the shim sham shimmy, go here). I have no clips of him dancing, but in t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:56AMDon't miss the newest Season of Savings, with spectacular bargains and exclusive offers from Broadway's biggest hits all winter long. You can even get great deals on other Times Square area …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45AMIn a particularly silly essay for the Wall Street Journal last week, critic Joseph Epstein wrote, “[Lyricist Yip] Harburg believed it was the political dimension ‘that Bernard Sh…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:19AMI have tremendous sympathy for arts organizations that are facing fiscal challenges. But it is difficult to feel much sympathy for an organization that causes its own demise by failing to fi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:16AMToday is the birthday of “Professor” William S. Hutchings (1832-1911), billed in vaudeville and dime museums as the “Lightning Calculator”. Hutching was a math prodig…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:14AMIn a new NBC promo entitled 'A Day in the Life With Josh Gad', go behind the scenes with 1600 PENN star Josh Gad and the cast of the new comedy premiering Thursday, January 10th at 930830c. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:07AMActor will receive the Monte Cristo Award
SOURCE: Variety at 08:05AMAt this weekend's Television Critics Association Tour, new SMASH show runner Joshua Safran spoke about the highly-anticipated second season of the hit NBC musical drama. 'It's bigger, with m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04AMRyan Murphy’s film adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart” is officially going into production this year, and will likely air in 2014 on HBO. Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00AMOn Sunday, January 6, 2013, The Music Center at Strathmore presented the second of two concerts by the National Philharmonic, conducted by Piotr Gajewski. Featured were violist Victoria Ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM
NBC has announced that it will release a 'cast recording' of SMASH's show-within-a-show, 'Bombshell. The soundtrack will be released on February 12th, 2013 with pre-ordering starting on Tues…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:53AMArtistic director Purni Morell has announced her new season at the Unicorn, the UK's only purpose built theatre for young audiences.
It opens with the world premiere of Christopher William …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:52AMNEW YORK—The musical based on the film "Diner" has postponed its Broadway opening. Producers said late Sunday night that the Kathleen Marshall-directed show with songs by Sheryl Cr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:48AMTamsin Greig and John Sessions will lead the cast in Longing, the debut play by novelist William Boyd, which opens at the Hampstead Theatre next month. The play, which is adapted from two sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMPulaski, NY native Ada Briggs started with Barnum and other NY dime museums in the 1870s and her career lasted past the turn of the 20th century. Her marketing niche was that was not only &#…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:20AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Actress set to portray Hollywood superagent
SOURCE: Variety at 06:57AMActors join Hanks in Broadway cast
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34AMWhen a play can get the job done in an hour and not short-change the audience in terms of character, language, or story, I’d say we have a winning combination. A local writer has writt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:28AMRichmond Theatre, London: Like a good, old-fashioned brass lamp, the Richmond Theatre's Aladdin is made of solid, sparkly and familiar stuff. Former Hear'Say member and Dancing on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMBroadway actress Kristen Beth Williams is to join the cast of Top Hat from February, playing Dale Tremont. Williams, who has appeared in Nice Work If You Can Get It and Anything Goes on Broa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising playwright John Doble about his new one-act play "A Serious Person" as part of Manhattan Repertory Theatre's Winter One Act Play Competition from January 9-1…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:01AM
ABC Family will kick off the New Year with all new episodes of returning original hit series and fan favorites including its new hit dramedy BUNHEADS, starring Broadway's Sutton Foster. The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMKnown for his thrilling live performances and irreverent style, award-winning musical troublemaker David Yazbek returns to the stage with his band in this ongoing series at 92YTribeca, prese…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMOn Today, January 7th, 2013 join us at 600 pm for Toshi's Time Machine as Anthony Lee Medina amp Emily Thomas present Broadway Rocks The Living Room at Toshi's Living Room and Penthouse in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFive of the entertainment worlds leading ladies will perform in New Orleans in 2013 as Seth Rudetsky's popular Broadway Concert Series makes the leap to NOCCAs Lupin Hall from its summer hom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMNEW YORK (AP) — The musical based on the film "Diner" has postponed its Broadway opening.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:17AMThe erstwhile vampire hunter buffs and boozes up to get back on stage.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:15AMHandling the Stress Cocktailby Estelle RosenJohn C. Dinning is an award-winning designer. He has designed at Centaur Theatre (Schwartz's: The Musical), Segal Centre (Lies My Father Told Me, …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMMegan Follows (photo by Robert Popkin)One of the plays that got Arthur Miller targeted as a Red was, for all intents and purposes, a family drama. But within that drama, Miller also discusse…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, returns Jan. 7 following a summer 2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMI'm still on Sanibel Island, spending the day with Duke. Don't expect to hear from me again until I have...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMCynthia Gregory and Marcos Paredes dance "The Lake," the pas de deux from The River, choreographed by Alvin Ailey to...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish." François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series presents the return of The Marcy & Zina Show, featuring songwriting duo Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Jan. 7 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway Behaving Badly, described as "the Most Offensive Night of Music Theatre" with tunes by rising songwriters, is offered Jan. 7 at Joe's Pub in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA benefit reading of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel plays the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, located in Manhattan at 480 West 42nd Street, Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJason Gotay, who recently starred as Randall in Broadway's Bring It On: The Musical, offers a solo concert entitled Some Kind of Wonderful Jan. 7 at (le) Poisson Rouge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz joins Tony-nominated composer-lyricist David Yazbek for the Jan. 7 First Mondays concert series at the 92YTribeca.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1923 Future actor Vincenzio Scognamiglio is born in Naples, Italy. Doesn't sound familiar? Try Vincent Gardenia, who will appear on the stage in The Wall, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, …
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