It’s follow-up Wednesday, so here’s the latest on a couple of my Shubert Alley-shattering scoops.
Our old football buddy, Ghost Skipper, is still, I regret to say, “haunting” directo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:47PMJanuary is the month for theater festivals in New York, more than at any time other than the summer. The offerings tend toward the avant-garde and the international and indeed many of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PMThere is a lot going on in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**cker With The Hat which is getting a superior Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf. Fresh off a Broadway run featuring Chris Rock…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:31PMDonna Karger hosts the January 5, 2013, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:06PMNothing like winning a 2012 Pulitzer to boost expectations for a play.
So it goes for Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water by the Spoonful,” a sobering saga that follows a returning …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, January 8, 2013.
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The Journal asked 40 New York-based theater artists to distribute $1 million in imaginary funds to the companies and venues they felt most deserved or needed the cash. We tallied the top 10 …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:51PMThe Folger Theatre production of “Henry V” is intended to be very modern, in every way but one. Even though the hot thing to do with Shakespeare as of late is to uproot his tales from t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:32PMPodcast with cast of I LOVE LUCY® LIVE ON STAGE from Michael Roberts on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:04PMPodcast with cast of I Love Lucy Live On Stage from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. The fabulous foursome; Sierna Irwin, Bill Mendieta, Curtis PettyJohn and Joanna Daniels, discuss their iconic ro…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:01PMComplete casting for the upcoming Las Vegas production of “Million Dollar Quartet” has been revealed, and the show will star Martin Kaye, Benjamin D. Hale, Tyler Hunter and Robert Britto…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00PMPlaywright Quiara Alegría Hudes' winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama receives its New York premiere. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
When Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water By The Spoonful” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year, the standard response I heard was: What? Who? The play had never been produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMBrian d'Arcy James sang Bring Him Home from Les Misrables at the Passionists' 160th Anniversary Celebration.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMFamilies, in nearly infinite classifications and configurations, being dissolved and recreated are the central focus of Water by the Spoonful, the play by Quiara Alegría Hudes that just ope…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34PMA POWERFUL WATER BY THE SPOONFUL CONTAINS CONFUSION BY THE CUPFUL Quiara Alegria Hudes’ 2012 Pulitzer-Prize winning Water by the Spoonful is a bold and provocative drama that uses cybe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:30PMTony Award® nominee Cathy Rigby takes flight in an all new production of PETER PAN! Discover the magic all over again of this two time Emmy award winning and two time Tony award nominated p…
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:13PMCameron Mackintosh is planning to revive his stage adaptation of “Moby Dick” on Broadway and in London. “I was dealing with someone who wants to bring Moby Dick out next year, an Ameri…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00PMIt's tough not to walk into Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage Theatre with some pretty high expectations. After all, the show picked up the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMIt will be quite a while before I forget the image of Liza Colón-Zayas as Odessa Ortiz, broken and alone, sitting on the floor of her threadbare Philadelphia home while ladling spoonf…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00PM
Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Pat Birch about her career as a choreographer and the upcoming benefit for Kathi Moss. Please take the BroadwayRadio sur…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:58PMHere’s an elegant thing to do before 8 o'clock dinner - stroll out for an hour’s recital of a rollicking story-poem done in a hip underground venue with judiciously hip application of mo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:44PMDesiree Burch’s solo show “Tar Baby” is a rare thing: a work about blackness intended, at least nominally, for white people. It’s a pointed decision that’s at o…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30PMIf you can't get enough of Les Miserables, here's a fun listen Scott Bradlee, the music director at Sleep No More, recorded a mashup of Les Mis' 'I Dreamed A Dream' and 'Dream On' by Aerosmi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:05PMJoan Littlewood's classic musical to be recreated in its original home at the Theatre Royal Stratford EastHalf a century after it brought audiences to their feet cheering and weeping, Joan L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMJoan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War is set to return to Theatre Royal Stratford East 50 years after it first premiered at the London venue. Directed by Olivier award-winner Terry Johnso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMIn part two of Marla Mindelle’s darkly comic short film "The Devil's Bitch," Evelyn (Mindelle) is given a tour of hell by the Devil (Matthew Risch), to whom she sold her soul in exchange f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMThe Broadway production of the award-winning Disney-Cameron Mackintosh musical Mary Poppins will play its final performance at the New Amsterdam Theatre March 3. When it closes, the family-f…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 06:48PMWhat happens to “the sublime” of European Romanticism after the death of the author and the birth of tumblr? Can you “share” it? Can you “like” it? And can you stage it? “I wou…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 06:45PMThe next stage in the beloved title's evolution begins this year as Music Theatre International starts licensing to North American professional theatres. Already in high demand from theatres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMRapper, beatboxer, and DJ Biz Markie, the "clown prince of Hip Hop," is back on tour. This time, however, the man known for the song "Just a Friend," which made VH1's list of "Top #100 Hip H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:26PMThe Broadway-bound Flashdance is the inspiring story of Alex Owens, a young woman working in a Pittsburgh steel mill who dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Check out these…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:22PMMSG Entertainment and the Garden of Dreams Foundation announced today that actress, host of The View and Garden of Dreams Foundation board member Whoopi Goldberg Rangers legend Adam Graves a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMBusy, busy, news, news, news as the upcoming Spring Season nudges aside the carnage left when winter's giant Broadway ax lopped seven shows off the theatrical grid this past Sunday. (Another…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 06:11PMHershey Felder, the piano-playing solo performer with a formidable following in Chicago, is returning to the mainstage of the Royal George Theatre with a new show based not on a classical co…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:10PMGigi Fusco Meese pauses briefly between her former job at Musical Theatre West and her new job as executive director of Anaheim Performing Arts Foundation to stage Intimately Wilde at her ev…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:05PMIn the past 25 years, Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, a portrait of Atlantan Daisy Werthan's prickly relationship with her chauffeur Hoke Coleburn, has something of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PM
The Directors Guild of America has released nominees for its Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award, which will be presented at the 65th annual DGA Awards Dinner on Februa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMBroadway stars will be in Hoboken to give a concert with proceeds going to aid Hoboken residents affected by Hurricane Sandy. On January 20, 2013 at 7pm at Monroe Theatrespace, an impressive…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMThe empty picture frames that hover in the background of the Washington Stage Guild’s “Tryst” seem ever more apt as this suspense drama unspools. For starters, George Love, the con man…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:48PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information @BCEFA announces Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque Adds 2nd Sh…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMSurprise would be an understatement to describe reactions when the Pulitzer Prize board chose "Water by the Spoonful" last year over better-known fellow finalists "Other Desert Cities" and "…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:47PMIf you're a diehard Smash fan who dreams of seeing your favorite Bombshell stars at the Tony Awards this June (you know who you are), we are here to feed your fantasies. More details about t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMMTV’s Awkward has added Broadway alum Nolan Funk to the cast of its upcoming third season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Funk, who also recently made his Glee debut as the vi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:41PMThe June Briggs Awards, which honors excellence in New York City's hospitality and destination management services as well as outstanding contributions to New York's cultural life, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMCarson Elrod, Jenn Harris and Matthew Saldivar will be part of the Primary Stages 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' All in the Timing, which will begin previews Jan. 23, 2013, at 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PMFiona Shaw, the four-time Olivier Award winning actress, will star in the title role of the world premiere of Colm Toibin’s The Testament of Mary. The one woman show focuses on the mother…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:27PMQuiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Water By the Spoonful is enlightening audiences at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. We spoke with the cast and about the tou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:11PMBette Midler, who began her Broadway career as an understudy in Fiddler on the Roof, has announced plans to return to Broadway for the first time in more than 30 years to star in a one-wom…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:10PMTickets for the American Repertory Theatre production of the classic musical, Pippin, will go on sale to the general public beginning on January 14. The show, which will begin preview perfo…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:06PMLos Angeles Opera will present the current touring revival of “Einstein on the Beach,” composed by Philip Glass and staged by Robert Wilson, as part of its 2013-14 season, the co…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PM
January 8, 2013 We’re thrilled to announce that Harbor, which had its World Premiere at the Playhouse in 2012, will have its New York premiere at Primary Stages, running from July thr…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 04:46PM My View written by Stephen Sorokoff Artist Appreciation Night at The Metropolitan Room No, it’s not about Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky or Vito Gen…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:41PMThree-year programs will fund full-time playwrights for Mixed Blood and Ten Thousand Things.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:34PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced that Bobby Cannavale— who currently plays the hotshot salesman Ricky Roma alongside Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross, and who will star as a Hollyw…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:24PMNEW YORK (AP) — Broadway is apparently sticking with its love affair with religion — this spring will welcome the "The Testament of Mary," a play by Colm Toibin based on his 2011 novella…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:23PMBroadway's Morgan James will bring to 54 Below her smoky and soulful renditions of songs from her debut CD 'Morgan James Live A Celebration of Ninan Simone', as well as a sampling of tunes y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMIn Performance at the Kennedy Center, an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, will be held Jan. 20. Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will be among the even…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMTouched for the very first time? Hardly. Drama Desk Award winner Fiona Shaw (Medea) will play the Virgin Mary in the Broadway debut of Irish novelist Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMActor Andrew Schlessinger and director Martha Demson spent more than a year preparing the production of Eugene O'Neill's two-character one-act Hughie, now at Open Fist Theatre. Schlessinge…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PM
Pianist-actor-composer Hershey Felder, familiar to Chicago audiences for his one-man tour-de-force productions of “George Gershwin Alone,” “Monsieur Chopin” and “Maestro: Leonard B…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:54PMPascale Armand (Four), Phillip James Brannon (The Cook), Tony nominee Maria Dizzia (In The Next Room), and Greg Keller (Wit) will star in New York Theatre Workshop's upcoming production of A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PM92nd Street Y has announced that Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, continues his popular interview series, Broadway Talks with Jordan Roth, with award winning stage and screen act…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMAlthough we all know Carrie Bradshaw's home is New York City, she and the rest of the ladies of Sex and the City are headed west to San Francisco…and they're armed with a whole lot of sequ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMProducers Bob Boyett and The National Theatre of Great Britain present the Denver engagement of the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play, War Horse. The company, comprised of more than 30 perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMBroadway Bares Winter Burlesque, the kick-off to a season of sexy striptease events that benefit Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS, will now include two sizzling performances on Sunday, Janua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMComplete casting has been announced for the upcoming world premiere of The Madrid, starring Emmy winner and Tony nominee Edie Falco. Brooke Ashley Laine (Little Girl) and Seth Clayton …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:41PMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that tickets go on sale and rehearsals began today for the world premi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:36PMSeth Clayton and Brooke Ashley Laine will join the previously announced Edie Falco, Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (Murder Ballad), Drama Desk Award winner Heidi Schreck (Circle Mirr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMConcerning Strange Devices from the Distant West - TimeLine Theatre Company, 615 W. Wellington Ave. is offering $15 industry tickets to preview performances January 15 - 23. For tickets call…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:29PMBroadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, the kick-off to a season of sexy striptease events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will now include two sizzling performances on Sunday, Jan…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:25PMLike several other shows in the midseason lull, Nice Work If You Can Get It will be bolstered by the addition of a new cast member. Beginning with performances today, Tony Award nominee, Br…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:23PMBroadway Bares Winter Burlesque, the kick-off to a season of sexy striptease events that benefit Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS, will now include two sizzling performances on Sunday, Janua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMOscar winner Tom Hooper is among the directors nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMLynne Meadow (Artistic Director), Barry Grove (Executive Producer), and Mandy Greenfield (Artistic Producer) are pleased to announce full casting for Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming worl…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:09PMMark Umbers, Jenna Russell, Damian Humbley and the cast of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along is making a splash at London's Menier Chocolate Factory. See the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PMLynne Meadow Artistic Director, Barry Grove Executive Producer, and Mandy Greenfield Artistic Producer are pleased to announce full casting for Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming world premie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMUnder the Radar at The Public Theater in New York City is an annual theater festival that spotlights international artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. The festi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:03PMAmerican Psycho, the new musical by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, will premiere at London's Almeida Theatre this fall, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PMTwo days after Chaplin played its final performance on January 6, 2013, the cast recording for Chaplin has made its way onto compact disc. While the soundtrack was originally released in a d…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:01PMAlthough it doesn't fully achieve its lofty aspirations, Quiara Alegria Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "Water By the Spoonful" makes an urgent plea for the human connections that p…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMToday, in honor of the release of the complete Season One of NBC's hit musical drama series SMASH on DVD, we are revisiting some of the most memorable and truly tremendous musical numbers fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PM
NBC and Columbia Records announced that the cast recording for Bombshell, the developing musical at the center of NBC's "Smash," will be released Feb. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PMJohn Lithgow fans won’t have to head overseas to see the Oscar nominee and Tony winner in his latest play The Magistrate. The National Theatre production of Arthur Wing Piner…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMThe Las Vegas production of Million Dollar Quartet has found its set of rockers. The musical will feature Martin Kaye as Jerry Lee Lewis, Benjamin D. Hale as Johnny Cash, Tyle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:38PMPascale Armand, Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller, who starred in the Yale Repertory Theater world premiere of Amy Herzog's Belleville, will reunite for the Off-Broadway production that will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMCirque du Soleil have dropped the hippie-drippy nonsense about the meaning of life and the soul of the universe and gone back to what they know best: fantastic circus acts, colourful vaudevi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:34PMAmy Herzog’s new drama Belleville will receive a New York premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop. Directed by Anne Kauffman, the production will begin performances on February 12 at…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMPrimary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director continues their 28th season with a 20th anniversary revival of All …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PM A Special “My View” written by Stephen Sorokoff She’s thrilled most musically sophisticated New Yorkers who attend the towns Nightclubs, Conc…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:29PMMike McShane will play legendary MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer in the new London musical The Tailor-Made Man. As previously reported, the show stars Dylan Turner as gay screen icon Wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PMAs BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, MARY POPPINS will close on Broadway on March 3, 2013 to make way for renovations at the New Amsterdam Theater, followed by its next tenant 'A musical ada…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMCasting has been announced for Miscast 2013, the newest installment of MCC Theater's popular gala event which pairs Broadway's stars with songs and gender-bending roles you'd never see them …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMMarsha Mason, Mary Steenburgen and Kristen Vangsness are among the women performing in a California staged reading of Ellen Simon's Aunt Stossie's Coming for Five Days as part of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMGraney’s incredibly trenchant piece wrestles with the same socioeconomic issues that have dominated American public and political discourse for the past four years: social injustice, loss …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:09PMThe solo play about the mother of Jesus, written by Irish author Colm Toibin and produced by Scott Rudin, reunites the actress with her frequent creative collaborator, director Deborah Warne…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:04PMA question about the brief, bright light of Orson Welles and John Houseman's Mercury Theatre in New York City. Does the venue still stand?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Producers Bob Boyett and The National Theatre of Great Britain present the Denver engagement of the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play, War Horse. The company, comprised of more than 30 perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMAccording to Deadline.com, Tony nominee Joshua Henry will guest star on the upcoming seventh season of Army Wives. He'll play Quincy, Latasha's played by Ashanti husband.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMComplete casting has been announced for the Las Vegas production of Million Dollar Quartet, which begins performances at Harrah’s Las Vegas Feb. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMFlashdance — The Musical, based on the 1983 film that tells the tale of a lady steelworker who dreams of legit dance while moonlighting as an exotic dancer, was launched Jan. 1 on a nation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMIf making it through the epic Les Misérables film without a bathroom break was a challenge the first time around, moviegoers may want to prep themselves for a supersized version of Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMActress Eva Longoria , San Antonio philanthropist and business leader Henry R. Munoz III and San Juan attorney and activist Andres W. Lopez , in partnership with the nation's leading Latino …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMFiona Shaw will return to Broadway in the religious drama The Testament of Mary, written by Colm Tóibín and directed by Deborah Warner. The production will run at the Walt…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMTony Award nominee and four-time Olivier Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw will star in the Broadway world-premiere stage adaptation of Colm Tóibín's recent novella The Test…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Crucible-inspired drama Abigail/1702, which premiered last summer as part of the New York Stage and Film's 2012 Powerhouse season, will play the Cincinnati P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMDmitry Krymov brings fierce playfulness to St. Ann’s Warehouse Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond — Dmitry Krymov takes play…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:32PMMusical theater fans got a treat on January 7 when two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz joined David Yazbek for the composer’s monthly concert at 92YTribeca. Norbert sang three songs …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PMThe Directors Guild of America has released nominees for its Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award, which will be presented at the 65th annual DGA Awards Dinner on Februa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMTony Award nominee Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess) and Elle McLemore, who recently starred in Broadway's Bring It On: The Musical, will be seen on t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMPorgy and Bess star Joshua Henry will have a recurring role on the upcoming season of Army Wives, according to Deadline. The Tony nominee will have an option to become a regular on the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PMAcademy Award nominee and Tony Award winner John Lithgow takes the title role in The Magistrate, an uproarious Victorian farce directed by Olivier Award winner Timothy Sheader, also featurin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMBroadway.com is your top source for exclusive, in-depth video features, and this week’s top five list includes a fascinating visit with fan favorite Aaron Tveit, Rachelle Rak’s a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMAward-winning stage and screen actress Fiona Shaw will return to the New York stage this spring with The Testament of Mary, by the acclaimed author Colm Tibn, directed by Deborah Warner. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMOut goes the flying nanny, in comes the flying carpet. The Broadway production of Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theater will close on March 3 and will be replaced by another Disney prope…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:19PMVotes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated This was our BIGGEST year yet After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMIf the rumors are true, Disney will have a new show coming to the Great White Way very soon. The New York Times and NY Post are reporting that Mary Poppins will be closing on Broadway so Dis…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:19PMAccording to The Standard, Cameron Mackintosh is looking to revive his 1992 West End flop- Moby Dick. He told the Standard I was dealing with someone who wants to bring Moby Dick out next ye…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17PMA benefit reading of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel played the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, located in Manhattan at 480 West 42nd Street, Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMThe launch for national Tour of LOOPED by Matthew Lombardo and starring Valerie Harper as film legend Tallulah Bankhead was held Monday, Jan. 7 at Pearl Studios in New York. BroadwayWorld h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMThis drama about addiction has an overly melodramatic approach to its characters, but is excellently acted and directed, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:11PMSoledad Barrio, the star of the company, gave a performance that was compellingly tortured, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:10PMRachel Potter recently released her debut country EP, 'Live the Dream,' and the music video for the title song has finally been released Featuring the talents of such Broadway veterans as R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMRaul Esparza and Debbie Allen will be among the 11-member panel assigned to formally review the selection process for the Kennedy Center Honors after the prize came under fire for excluding …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMRaul Esparza and Debbie Allen will be among the 11-member panel assigned to formally review the selection process for the Kennedy Center Honors after the prize came under fire for excluding …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMDespite some questionable staging choices, Allotment Annie is still thought-provoking. It provides such a different perspective on untold war crimes. The Nazis weren’t the only bad guys! …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:05PMWell today’s the King’s birthday (1935-1977). Early celebrity deaths don’t usually make me sad, but Elvis’s does, because it was so senseless and preventable and he c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:05PMThe hit ABC Family series Bunheads returned to the small screen on January 7, starring two-time Tony-winning Broadway favorite Sutton Foster as a Las Vegas showgirl-turned-ballet teacher wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PM
Recently voted Best All-Around Performers, Best Show and Best Singer by the readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Donny amp Marie will continue to entertain sold-out audiences with an ext…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMTheatrical entrepreneur Vincent J. DeMarco, veteran of The Public Theater, has died after a three and a half year struggle with colorectal cancer. DeMarco began his career as a stage manage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMWords! Words! Words! The Nightlife Awards are sick of words. Produced by Max Weintraub and Nightlife Awards creator Scott Siegel, the evening lauds itself as the only All-Performance Awards …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMJohn Partridge, Scarlett Strallen, Leigh Zimmerman and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt lead the cast in A Chorus Line - here are the first shots of the new cast together
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMThe much-discussed Spice Girls tribute musical arrives on stage with much froth. At the National, two Alan Bennett one-acts are much needed grace notes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:50PMWith 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 12:49PMThe Kindling Theater Company will present its inaugural production, the world premiere of Michael Rabe's The Future Is Not What It Was, beginning Jan. 12, prior to an official opening Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMForever Dusty stars Kirsten Holly Smith and Christina Sajous woke up bright and early to bring down the house at FOX's Good Day NY. The stars of the off-Broadway bio musical dropped…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMIt's a 1930s screwball comedy with a dose of opera that originally took Broadway by storm in 1989. Now Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor will get a new outing at the Paper Mill Playhouse, running…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMZERO DARK THIRTY star Jessica Chastain appeared on last night's 'Late Show With David Letterman' to discuss her latest film. Check out a clip below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMOn December 14, 2012, tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School and our nation mourned with the residents of Newtown, Connecticut. As the town slowly attempts to recover, Broadway stars, p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMJill Paice, John Treacy Egan and Judith Blazer will lead the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse’s Lend Me a Tenor. Directed by Don Stephenson, the Ken Ludwig comedy will run at the Mill…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:33PM“I found the off-Broadway cast recording, saw John Cameron Mitchell in his bootie shorts and was like, ‘What the hell is this?’ ”
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:31PMThe New York Times 01/07/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PMArts institutions bring in big money from tourists — but get the short shrift from the city, supporters said Tuesday as they launched a campaign to increase cultural funding.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:30PMBroadway veterans James Barbour (A Tale of Two Cities) and Jenny Powers (Little Women) will lead the cast of the Irish Repertory Theatre's upcoming production of the 1961 musical Donnybrook!…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMWinter Happenings with The Sensible Socialite – A Special Screening of Silver Linings Playbook with International Stars Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro: On Monday, The Screen Actors Guil…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:23PMThe cast and creative team met the press just yesterday, and BroadwayWorld was there for all of the festivities. Check out full coverage below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMNEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Ballet is turning to a hip artistic duo known for their tapestry-like sculptures, paintings and collages to help bring in a younger audience.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:20PMThe marquee just went up at the St. James Theatre and you can check it out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMThe new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella features a new Douglas Carter Beane book that expands on the story and the characters of the original 1957 made-for-TV mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMMichael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has announced a review of the Kennedy Center Honors selection process.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMCameron Mackintosh’s campy, drag-tastic, music hall-style Moby Dick musical may soon swim again! The cult favorite show, which famously flopped on the West End in 1992, may resurface&m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMMembers of the general public will be able to purchase tickets for the anticipated Broadway revival of Pippin beginning Jan. 14. Helmed by Tony Award nominee Diane Paulus, this high-flying c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMTickets are now on sale for All the Rage, a new solo play written by and starring Martin Moran. The show begins performances January 19 at off-Broadway's Peter Jay Sharp Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07PMTickets are on-sale for the kick-off event of the 2013 Broadway Bares season Broadway Bares Winter Burlesque, a collection of classic and new Broadway Bares numbers never-before-seen in New …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMPerformances 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 12:04PMShe’s ba-ack! Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster returns to the small screen as dance teacher Michelle Simms on Bunheads—but in this week's new episode, she’s not …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMThe national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which features an array of favorite disco numbers, officially opens at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre on January 9. The show will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMSeason 2 of NBC's SMASH won't premiere until mid season, but fans will get a chance to relive Season 1's epic Marilyn battle beginning today, January 8, when the show is released on DVD Unti…
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Sharr White began writing plays more than 15 years ago, after earning an M.F.A. from the graduate acting program at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. This fo…
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The Heiress star Jessica Chastain—otherwise known as the busiest leading lady in showbiz—stopped by The Late Show With David Letterman on January 7 to chat about her new film Zer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMLet’s start the year off with a book you probably didn’t know you needed. It is one of those books that jump off the shelf at you when you see it, but only if you read the sub-ti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMSeason 12 of the hit reality-singing competition "American Idol" will debut with a two-night premiere Jan. 16-17 at 8 PM ET on Fox.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMDon’t cry for Rachel Potter. Even though Broadway’s Evita (in which Potter plays Peron’s mistress) closes January 26, the budding country singer now has a new cat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:55AMBare, which is currently playing at New World Stages, has just announced a new performances schedule, which will begin January 28, 2013. THe new schedule is as follows Monday at 8pm, Wednesd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMJudy Shepard, the mother of gay college student Matthew Shepard — whose 1998 murder inspired The Laramie Project — will take part in a special talkback during the Tectonic Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMPrimary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director continues their 28th season with a 20th anniversary revival of All …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMJason Gotay, who recently starred as Randall in Broadway's Bring It On: The Musical, offered a solo concert entitled Some Kind of Wonderful Jan. 7 at (le) Poisson Rouge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMFinborough, LondonIain Finlay Macleod's 70-minute play is a lament for the slow death of the Scottish Gaelic language. It's a rich subject, but Macleod's story is too cryptic to sustain the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMJames Barbour and Jenny Powers are set to lead an off-Broadway revival of Donnybrook!, the 1961 Broadway musical based on the film The Quiet Man. Previews for the Charlotte Moore-directed pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AM2013 will be an ugly year for funding, but with fresh thinking we can ensure our theatres survive – and thrive – into the futureTalk to anybody in the arts, and the consensus is that 201…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMAn exclusive ticket pre-sale through Audience Rewards began today at 10 a.m. for the American Repertory Theater's 40th Anniversary production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's PIPPIN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMA self-taught guitarist, Huw Lloyd-Langton joined Hawkwind, one of the world’s longest running bands, in 1970, and immediately made his mark on its debut album. During the 1970s, he toured…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMToday is the birthday of that great low comedian Larry Storch (b. 1923). Originally a night club comedian, he is of course best known for his role as Corporal Agarn in the hit series F Troo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:32AMWho was this woman who haunted Sampson through Judges 13-16, teasing and seducing him until he gave up the secret of his strength? Was she merely a mercenary of love? (“[W]e will give thee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AMBarbican, LondonIf God is dead, then surely the devil can't exist either. We're in Stalinist Moscow in the 1930s, and an editor called Mikhail Berlioz is promoting the party line on atheism,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMJames Barbour and Jenny Powers will star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Irelan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMAn exclusive ticket pre-sale through Audience Rewards began today at 10 a.m. for the American Repertory Theater’s 40th Anniversary production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz’s PI…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:22AMRachel Potter, who is currently portraying the Mistress in the Broadway revival of Evita, released the video for "Live the Dream," co-written with Justin York, Jan. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMVeteran newsman Charlie Meyerson debuted as a daily contributor on WBEZ.org. Meyerson – a journalism professor and lecturer – will write WBEZ.org’s daily news blog. The award-winni…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:19AMJust when you thought there was nothing else Les Misérables left to talk about, Anne Hathaway proves otherwise, stopping by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for the show's first ep…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMTony nominees Jeremy Jordan and Jonathan Groff, Cheyenne Jackson and more are among the stars slated to perform at Miscast 2013, MCC’s annual gala featuring actors performing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMWhat about the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School? Of course there should be stricter gun laws and there should be no NRA. Of course there should be greater attention pai…
SOURCE: John Simon at 11:11AMBrian Stokes Mitchell, Stephen Schwartz, Linda Eder and more members of the Broadway community will come together for a benefit concert for the recent Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:10AMCONEY ISLAND USA SPRING GALA 2013: THE BURLESQUE MANIFESTO SATURDAY, MARCH 9 7PM – 11PM WEBSTER HALL 125 EAST 11 ST (BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH AVE.) NEW YORK, NY Join Coney Island USA as w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:10AMOrange Tree, RichmondIs there anything funnier in the history of farce than the central act of this 1896 Georges Feydeau play, originally entitled Le Dindon? The comic highpoint comes w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:05AMOne of the most colorful presences on Broadway in the last decade, and half of the popular Houston-Levitt team, Tom Levitt Christian Borle has co-created four Broadway shows. In Season One, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMOne of the most rewarding aspects of having written No Applause and this blog has been hearing from the descendants of the performers I write about, sometimes expressing appreciation, someti…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AMA musical adaptation of the kinky bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey is heading off-Broadway, according to Time.com. Created by the comedy group Baby Wants Candy, 50 Shades! The Musical will pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMI’m writing this blog on my last night in picturesque Sydney, Australia. I fly back tomorrow. And somehow I’ll arrive earlier than when I left. So weird. I mean, I get why that happe…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 112013 - 182013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMTroika Entertainment presents the first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical, which launches Jan. 8 in Minneapolis, MN, at the Orpheum Theatre; press night is Jan. 9.
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For many people, the Oscar, Emmy, and two-time Tony Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer (Inherit the Wind) will always be Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music. But throughout his ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMCasting has been announced for the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor, which will play the New Jersey venue Feb. 13-March 10. Opening night …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMPaper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director has just announced the cast for its winter comedy, Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor. This hysteric…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMThe Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its production of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities. The production will be directed by Peter Rothstein and will feature actors S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMTony Award nominee Brad Oscar (The Producers) will feel the fascinating rhythm of George and Ira Gershwin when he joins the Broadway cast of Nice Work If You Can Get It beginning tonight, Tu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMGreen Mountain Project has done everything right, paying careful, historically informed attention to pitch, transposition, tempi, number of performers, and tuning.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:46AMBilly Elliot: The Musical, featuring a score by Elton John and Lee Hall, closed on Broadway Jan. 8, 2012. In celebration of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Playbill.com looks back at Bi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMPhoto by Russ RowlandLyle Kessler Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa Current Town: New York City. Greenwich Village Q: Tell me about Collision. A: An Allegory, a Morality …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:41AMThere are plenty of reasons to be excited for the second season of Smash, especially now that Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has joined the cast as a bodacious Broadway diva. In a sensati…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AMTony Award winner Judith Light will be honored during MCC Theater's 2013 Miscast gala — featuring performances by Christian Borle, Jonathan Groff, Megan Hilty, Jane Krakowski and m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMArmando Riesco, Liza Colon-Zayas and Zabryna Guevara, who appeared in the 2011 Hartford Stage world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMThe Emmy Award-winning 1970′s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, and more through clever, tuneful songs is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:29AMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is thrilled to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Dance Company of the Week Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMThe 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 10:26AMThe Minneapolis-based choreo returns to NYC as part of PS 122's COIL Festival
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:20AMCast members from the national touring company of Anything Goes will take part in a One Night Only Benefit Cabaret Jan. 29 at the Bay Theater, Pier 39, in San Francisco.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMMCC Theater has announced a starry line-up of performers for its annual Miscast gala, to be held Monday, March 4, 2013 at The Hammerstein Ballroom 311 West 34th Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMAlso in this week's roundup, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray bemoan new comedy, and the controversy surrounding the BBC's assisted-dying sitcom, Way to Go Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMAlso in this week's roundup, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray bemoan new comedy, and the controversy surrounding the BBC's assisted-dying sitcom, Way to GoThis week's comedy newsReligion and c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMOur 28 Experts, nine Editors and almost two thousand Users have predicted the Oscar nominations, which will be announced on Thursday morning.
They expect "Linco…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:11AMA new year has brought some new developments to Toronto theatre: The Wrecking Ball has a new Facebook page. Outside The March has a new website. Hannah Moscovitch has a new mini-festival of …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:10AMJohn Jay seniors discuss the music festival, and music’s role in their lives They are both 17, both seniors at John Jay High School in Cross River, both accomplished musicians. Flutist…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:08AMThe CW has just released a new sneak peek of its upcoming midseason series THE CARRIE DIARIES, which premieres on January 14. Check out a full preview below, which features an appearance fro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMComplete casting has been announced for the Guthrie Theater's upcoming production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony-nominated Other Desert Cities, which begins previews Feb. 9 on the McGui…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMA quick cautionary tale: When I was 12 I decided it might be fun to try the game of basketball. I did ok for a little while and then there was this practice where we were all running around …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AM
Steppenwolf has always been cool. So it's hard to argue that they've all but killed American theater.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:59AMThe New York premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spoonful opens January 8 at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. Directed by Davis McCall…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54AMBriggs Inc. yesterday announced the 11th annual June Briggs Awards winners for Excellence in Destination Management Services. The awards honor New York City's leading businesses that have ex…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMFrom Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook will be presented Jan. 28 at 7 PM at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMAlfred Latell (born Aldred Lee, ca. 1880s-1951) made a surprisingly good career for himself in vaudeville as an animal impressionist. Wearing elaborate, lifelike costumes, he impersonated…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:39AMRosebud Diner- Somerville MA, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:39AMActor to play legendary talent agent Sue Mengers in one-woman show by Skyfall writer John LoganBette Midler will return to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years this spring in a new o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:35AMThe Cinema Audio Society nominees for Best Sound Mixing are "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," "Lincoln," "Les Miserables," "Skyfall" and "Zero…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:10AMFor a comedy about the magical transformation of man into a pig and how that opens up his lover’s ability to commit to true love, there’s plenty of laughs but not a lot of magic in Pig T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:01AMOne of the fortunate by-products of making documentaries in collaboration with artists is getting to know more about their works in progress. Some of those works have made their way into the…
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 09:00AMMissi Pyle, Taylor Trensch and Stafford Arima are among the artists who will take part in post-performance TalkOUTs, which feature leaders of the LGBT community, at Off-Broadway's Bare d…
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LES MISERABLES star Anne Hathaway appeared on last night's 'The Daily Show' to talk about her blockbuster film. 'We went to some weird places,' she shared. Check out the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMUzma Aslam Khan is a wonderful writer whose descriptions of the northern part of Pakistan and the fast fading way of life that had been lived there for hundreds of years are sometimes stunni…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:53AMLe votazioni si sono concluse e i risultati sono stati tabulati Questa stata LA PI GRANDE edizione fino ad ora Dopo un numero di votanti da record in pi di 30 regioni in tutto il mondo, Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMItalia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts officials have issued a statement denying reports that US musician and film star Julianne Hough was abused while studying at the school. Hough, now 24, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMThe actress performs a scene from Quiara Alegría Hudes's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Water by the Spoonful."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AMThe Fever by Wallace Shawn. “First performed, by the author, in January 1990 in an apartment near Seventh Avenue in New York City,” according to the published version of the play…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:28AMIt’s a thin line between love and hate. Oh, the things that we will do for love, or the semblance thereof. More than a wishful, flight of fancy, love is a basic human need. Love is the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21AM"National hero or predatory paedophile?" It's an arresting tag line, yet far from being a story ripped from today's headlines So Great a Crime is a court-martial tale from the reign of Queen…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:18AMProposals tells the story of Clemma, a housekeeper for the Hines family in the 1950’s. Burt Hines’s health is failing and he has decided to bring his ex-wife Annie to the vacation home i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMMy Heart Belongs to DADA : Happenstance Theater Valentine BrouHaHa and Fundraiser An event of Decadent Proportions inspired by LOVE, DADA, ART and HAPPENSTANCE. You will not want to miss thi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:10AMAn email titled 'West End cameo role' is always certain to grab your attention, and so it proved as I was offered the chance to appear in Spamalot as Sir Not Appearing. How could I resist?
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:02AMComplete casting has been announced for Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife, starring two-time Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale. Tony winner Do…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:00AMAs a new theater company working on its first production, Arcturus Theater Company has been spending a good portion of its efforts simply building up the infrastructure to run a small theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMA host of theater veterans – including Richard Kind (Sly Fox), Chip Zien (Into the Woods), and Tony Award nominees Marin Ireland (Reasons to be Pretty) and Reg Rogers (The Dazzle) – will…
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Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director just announced the full company for the new Broadway production of The Big Knife by Clifford Odets, starring Rachel Brosnahan as Dix…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59AMMarin Ireland, Chip Zien, Adam Rapp, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more will join the previously announced Bobby Cannavale in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AMEW has an exclusive sneak peek of Jennifer Hudson's guest starring appearance on the upcoming season of SMASH. In the clip from Season 2's fourth episode, Hudson's character Veronica Moore s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56AMTroika Entertainment presents the international hit, Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical launches its national tour on January 8 in Minneapol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:03AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 8 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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NPR recently teamed up with the TED people to present the TED Radio Hour which takes three TED talks on a similar theme to revisits them with the speakers. The one I heard run this weekend w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:51AMIt will be an alma mater mash-up in this Generation Y improv battle royale as alumni of Chicago Improv Production’s College Improv Tournament (CIT) play together in the debut of the CI…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:37AMBelarus Free Theatre makes its way to the United States in January, despite several police raids last month at underground performance spaces in the capital of Minsk. The raids came on the e…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:15AMA feature-length film capturing the late Jimi Hendrix’s extended 1969 performance at Woodstock is being screened in theaters for the first time. Music Box is pleased to present Hendrix 7…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:12AMIt’s no ordinary cast! Dozens of competitors bid for roles in a professionally produced stage production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Bailiwick Chicago Theater�…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:07AMJust in time for Valentine’s Day, The Joffrey Ballet heats up the winter season with a mixed repertory program of four sensual, romantic and playful ballets by master choreographers in “…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:02AMTroika Entertainment presents the first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical, which launches Jan. 8 in Minneapolis, MN, at the Orpheum Theatre; press night is Jan. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMarla Mindelle, currently in rehearsals for Broadway's Cinderella, co-wrote and stars in the short film "The Devil's Bitch," which Playbill Video premieres in a four-part s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMCh-ch-ch-changesThe Charlebois Post assumes its new formby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisEstelle Rosen, our national Editor-in-Chief, and I have made a huge decision which will more accur…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM Turner Classic Movies (TCM)'s Road to Hollywood tour will make a stop in Manhattan on January 31st for a free star-studded big-screen presentation of 1972's Oscar-winnin…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:01AMFrom 2004: Life is unfair, and I know I have gifts that others envy. I had a friend in high...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMI wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Shakespeare, Richard II...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMArmando Riesco, Liza Colon-Zayas and Zabryna Guevara, who appeared in the 2011 Hartford Stage world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Geva Theatre Center's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal plays the Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage Jan. 8-Feb. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAudience Rewards members can now purchase tickets for the Broadway revival of Pippin, staged by two-time Tony Award nominee Diane Paulus, which will begin previews March 23 at the Music Box …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series "Smash" — created by Broadway's Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMasterworks Broadway releases a newly remastered version of "Bye Bye Birdie – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," in conjunction with the film's 50th anniversary, Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe original Broadway cast recording of Chaplin, the musical about the life of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, hits shelves Jan. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1900 Blanche Bates, who will go on to play Cho-Cho San in Madame Butterfly, now stars in David Belasco's Naughty Anthony. Oliver Redpath co-stars in this comedy at the Herald Square Thea…
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