‘is that the sort of thing you find funny?” hisses the title character (and target) of Tim Crouch’s solo show, as he endures one humiliation after another.
Well, yes. At least, it’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PMAs the title suggests, there’s more talking than turning in “From the Horse’s Mouth.” But if you’ve ever wondered about the lives of male dancers and choreographers, here’s your …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:25PMIn 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 Shaw added…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:21PMHand2Mouth's
SOMETHING'S GOT AHOLD OF MY HEART
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January 10-19th
La Mama
Looking back at my recent reviews (like Heart Like Fists), it's clear that the young peo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:01PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, January 11, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00PMGrosses continue upward trend, attendance climbs, too
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMShow continues to shine after holiday frame
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As any new work goes through its evolution to fruition, the playwright and the marketplace can dictate many factors that ultimately impact the final product. A perfect example of this is t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:56PM“C’est du Chinois,” part of the Under the Radar festival, is a no-frills, no-drama production: 80 minutes of energetic language instruction, performed by a (fictional) family from Shan…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMKate Jablonski has received the 2012 Dance Chicago Choreographer of the Year Award, an honor presented under the auspices of Dance Chicago, Emergence Dance Theatre and the Cliff Dwellers Art…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:30PMThe Other Place stars Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern and Zoe Perry celebrated the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's drama about a brilliant scientist whose life is falling apart. Wat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PMFor those craving a show after the show, 54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, offers its Tuesday night cocktail partysongfe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMRory O'Malley will "turn it off" for the last time on January 27th at 7PM. The Tony Award nominated actor originated the role of Elder McKinley in the smash hit musical The Book of Mormon on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:19PMAs the sun sets on another jam-packed week on Broadway, we look back at the headlines that made us smile, gasp and question our very existence. Read on to get the scoop on Patti LuPone&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:13PMRECOMMENDED If you’re familiar with the beloved musical “My Fair Lady,” you’ll need no introduction to the BoHo Theatre and Stage Left Theatre collaboration on Shaw’s ̶…
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, January 11, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information Tune in to see CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF star Scarlett Johansson o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:57PMTony nominee Danny Burstein (currently of Broadway's Golden Boy) and Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) will inhabit the World War II-landscape of Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly beginnin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:53PMWant to see Patti LuPone take on Fanny Brice? How about Anita from West Side Story? Well, now’s your chance. The two-time Tony winner will bring her critically acclaimed show Coulda, W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMToday, we're featuring Bea Arthur and Hal Linden circa 1981. Arthur's stage roles included Lucy Brown in the 1954 Off-Broadway premiere of Marc Blitzstein's English-language adaptation of Ku…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMOn June 28, 1969, a routine police raid of an underground gay bar became a full scale riot. Ike Holter's new play Hit the Wall tells the story of the protests and demonstrations that became…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMRaucous laughter and awkward silences fill the Public Theater’s Newman Theater during “Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,” a bizarrely compelling show from Australia’s Ba…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:47PMManhattan Theatre Club celebrated the opening night of Sharr White's drama The Other Place on Thursday, January 10 with a post-
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMtheatreWashington presents the first-ever webcast of the Helen Hayes Awards Nominations. The road to the 29th Helen Hayes Awards begins when the nominees are announced on Monday, January 28.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMWilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley's Folly, directed by Michael Wilson, feature Danny Burstein as 'Matt Friedman' and Sarah Paulson as 'Sally Talley.' Performances begin on February…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMKristen Thomson (photo credit: Guntar Kravis / cropped) The Shadows of Middle Ageby Greg BunkerHead check! Crow's Theatre’s Someone Else is a black comedy that has you in fits of laug…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:25PMWhen Tony-nominated Book of Mormon alum Andrew Rannells first appeared as Elijah on HBO's hit comedy Girls, his ex-girlfriend Hannah (played by show star/producer/director/writer Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMTo celebrate the launch of The Dickens Legacy at the Gala Evening at London's Vaudeville Theatre, GREAT EXPECTATIONS will be screened live via satellite to more than 150 cinemas across the U…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had a few surprise guests backstage earlier this week as the stars m…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:12PMReviving the Blastby Christian BainesIt’s hard to imagine the ice water blast of originality that Hedwig and the Angry Inch must have seemed when it debuted in New York in 1998. With a fil…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:09PMCasting is complete for the Broadway premiere of Lucky Guy, a new play by the late Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks. The George C. Wolfe-directed production begins previews on March 1 at t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMA revival of The Rainmaker at Edgemar Center is the occasion for a three-way chat among director Jack Heller, Robert Standley in the title role, and Tanna Frederick -- who plays Lizzie and r…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:07PMTarget's Bull's-eye is coming to the Great White WayTarget's beauty partners Sonia Kashuk and Umberto Savone have teamed up with the upcoming play Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's' to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with LaVon Fisher-Wilson, who is starring as 'Medda' in Newsies- currently playing at the Nederlander Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMThis month we will be looking at how to conquer the emotionally charged scene to make it an enjoyable experience for both the audience and the actors. Read the whole thing here! In This Issu…
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In Episode 6, Part 1 of THE GRAHAM SHOW, 'Brotherly Love and the Jerz,' Nathan Lane remembers his introduction to the theater as a boy, his brother 'sensing something' in him, and his decisi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMMegan Follows (photo credit: John Lauener)Beyond Homerby Beat RiceI first want to state that I never saw the original Nightwood Theatre production of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopaid o…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:54PMTwo-time Tony Award-winning Patti LuPone will return to 54 Below for her fourth engagement in February. This time, audiences at the intimate venue will be treated to the Evita and Gypsy star…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMPlayers feel brassed off at a perceived ‘snobbery’ from Whitehall that has meant a lack of funding for a working class treasure
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:48PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member Austin Pendleton directs The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter in the Upstairs Theatre, at the helm of a Pinter play for the first time. The theater…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMToday, she is an Academy Award nominee, but we won't forget her as the ingénue of Carnival! In 2002, Anne Hathaway played what Ben Brantley called the "unworldly heroine ever in a Broadway …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:45PMAs the Roundabout Theatre Company’s spring season heats up (did you see Sebastian Stan’s abs in Picnic!?), there’s plenty more chemistry coming down the pipeline, including…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PMGustavia was the kind of show that makes me angry. Angry that it’s so good, so unique, so necessary and yet only here in New York for one performance, so it’s already come and go…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 04:39PMTony Award-winning director Michael Mayer's Las Vegas-set production of Verdi's Rigoletto will debut Jan. 28 at the Metropolitan Opera. The staging reunites Mayer with his Tony-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMFive-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and her Tony-nominated husband Will Swenson will join Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper to perform at Out for Equality’s inaugural celebration o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PMTune in to see Tony Award-winner Scarlett Johansson, who stars as Maggie in Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, on CBS Sunday Morning this Sunday, January 13. Correspondent Anthony …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:34PMLooks like he made it. Grammy-winning pop icon Barry Manilow is returning to his New York roots in a big way. In celebration of his upcoming Broadway concert engagement at the St. James Thea…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:27PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Dec. 31, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMOn Stage's Frank DiLella recently traveled up to Cambridge, MA to check out the new Diane Paulus helmed staging of "Pippin" as it gets ready to make the journey to Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:26PMDo you know what a Russian pig sounds like? What about a Japanese bee? Find out as we test you on animal kingdom noises, spoil some TV show finales, and walk the streets with a song in our h…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:21PMNBC will offer viewers a sneak peek at the first hour of the two-hour season premiere of the Golden Globe-nominated drama 'Smash' on Monday, January 14 across multiple platforms -- three wee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMWhen you think of it, one aspect of ANNIE has never made any sense. At the end of the show, everyone is having a wonderful time, and not simply because it’s Christmas Day. Miss Hannigan, R…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:16PMWilliam Peace University's Theatre Department will present Stephen Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS from February 13-23, 2013 at the Leggett Theatre. BroadwayWorld is thrilled to welcome one of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMListen to Once star Cristin Milioti on NPR's 'Ask Me Another' HERE
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMTony winner, recording artist, TV legend and star of the forthcoming Lena Horne biographical musical Stormy Weather Leslie Uggams has been chosen as the Nightlife Awards’ 2013 Nightlife Le…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:12PMHow Do I Make This A Performance? Most freakin’ hilarious site I have seen in ages. Rarely am I super jealous of sheer comic genius, this is one of those moments. I smell a festival!
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 04:06PMNow appearing on the big screen in "Sopranos" creator David Chase’s new film "Not Fade Away" and set for a two-week engagement at Café Carlyle with Howard McGillin, Rebecca Luker is alway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PMNew play is based on Dan Gutman's popular series for young readers.
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OPENING THE ALIENS. A Red Orchid Theatre presents Annie Baker’s story of a couple of slackers who philosophize of life as life passes by, and the young barista who happens into their lives…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:58PMSometimes you get what you DON’T have to pay for, and it’s priceless. A perfect case in point: “Ten,” the second (and sure to be annual) anthology program of short pieces that serves…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:56PMJanuary is the unofficial month of experimental downtown theater, what with the Under the Radar and Coil festivals in full swing. But they are not the only game in town. The Wild Project is …
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:52PMLouisa Krause, Matthew Maher, Alex Hanna, and Aaron Clifton Moten will head to the movies in Annie Baker’s new off-Broadway play The Flick. Directed by Sam Gold, the production will be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:50PMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for Lucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:43PMHaving trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:42PMJulian Rachlin is a Romantic violinist in the best sense: he has technique to burn, but isn’t overly showy. His tone is pure, his intonation impeccable, and in his playing the melodic line…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:37PMClick Here to listen to ONCE star Cristin Milioti on NPR’s “Ask Me Another.”
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:35PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Sharr White's The Other Place starring Laurie Metcalf, Zoe Perry, Daniel Stern and John Schiappa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMNBCUniversal held its Press Tour Jan. 6 and 7 at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Cast members from shows such as "Smash," "1600 Penn," "Do No Harm" an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMIn a burst of Lion King pride, a group of gentlemen gathered at a Tim Hortons and sang their hearts out to a familiar showtune. Check out their rendition of 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMBroadway favorite and Smash sweetheart Megan Hilty took to Twitter on January 11 to reveal details about her upcoming solo album.
“Just confirmed that my album title will be It Happ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMTony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will make his Met debut with a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto, in a staging that moves the opera's tragic events from a decadent 16th-century I…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PM'House' made him familiar to TV audiences, but he's always been a man of the theater. He's at the Old Globe now, savoring the words in 'Pygmalion.'As 2013 begins, Robert Sean Leonard is the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:08PMThis week’s Between Shows is two-time Tony Winner Norbert Leo Butz’s new album Memory and Mayhem, which was recorded during Butz’s 54 Below stint in August. The album inc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:07PMActress Laurie Metcalf’s latest display of toughness comes in Sharr White’s challenging, ultimately heart-catching drama, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:00PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
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Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway premiere of late writer Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, which will begin previews March 1 at the Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK CINDERELLA preps for Broadway, Blythe Danner joins NICE WORK, FLASHDANCE launches its national tour, and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMWritten by five playwrights and with a plot that spans four continents and 300 years, ‘Feast’ is an ambitious production about Yoruba culture, writes Griselda Murray Brown
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:56PMAlex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten will star in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Horizon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMIn the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf gives a riveting performance as Juliana Smithton, a brilliant neurologist whose life becomes unbalan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:41PMJohn Ford's notorious incest tragedy of the 17th century is given a contemporary-minded staging at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:37PMTHE MANY FACES OF LOVE Even before you walk into the First Floor Theatre at La Mama to attend Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart, creators Hand2Mouth ensemble are already selling you a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:30PMIn the arts-criticism course that I teach at the Boston Conservatory, one of the DVDs that I've had my students watch almost every semester is Pippin. This isn't because I necessarily like t…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:29PMThe 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, William Inge's Picnic gets a fresh Broadway revival by Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre. When sexy drifter Hal (Sebastian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMI consider myself lucky that not a week goes by where I don’t see at least one, if not several, musicals. I see everything from community theater to Broadway. As is to be expected, the qua…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:24PMJenn Joy on Maria Hassabi's "Show" - playing this week at American Realness.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:24PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- NBC is giving viewers a sneak peek at the new season of "Smash."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:15PMWhen watching "Pygmalion," it's never easy to get "My Fair Lady" our of your head. Alan Jay Lerner took his lyrical ideas right from the George Bernard Shaw verbiage in most instances, which…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:15PMVotes 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 to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PM“I know your name.” “You do?” “Yeah.” “What is it?” “Guess.” In that charming and creepy flirtation we bear some witness to the seductive, eerie, and viol…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 02:10PMIn the exclusive video below, Testa a Fisher chat about the tribute concert and give a special preview of 'Mr. and Mrs. Fitch.' Click below to check it out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:07PMSherie Rene Scott’s Piece of Meat is crossing the Atlantic. The Tony nominee will bring her solo concert to the Matcham Room at the London Hippodrome for three nights only from Februar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:05PMWhen an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood of 1950's Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to "ghost-buy" a house on their behalf. …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 02:02PMKansas City Repertory Theatre has altered its spring performance schedule, recasting what had been billed as a world premiere to a "work in progress." The piece -- "Waiting for You on the Co…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott, last seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, will bring her cabaret show, Piece of Meat, to the London Hippodrome for …
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Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson, now starring in the Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, tells CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD that she hates the nickname ScarJo whic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMBased in New York, ventriloquist Charles Young played many of the important venues of the late 18th century: Tony Pastor’s, Bunnell’s New American Museum, Harrigan & HartR…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:47PMMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Some of Hollywood's big-name mobsters are helping save small-town theaters....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:45PMWhen Tony-nominated Book of Mormon alum Andrew Rannells first appeared as Elijah on HBO's hit comedy Girls, his ex-girlfriend Hannah (played by show star/producer/director/writer Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PM You’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. We’ve all see in. Some genius decided to write out the entire movie/musical of Les Miserables in emojis on their iPhone. Who doesn̵…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 01:42PMNoah Racey and Laura Griffith will co-star in the 5th Avenue Theatre production of Meredith Willson's Tony Award-winning musical The Music Man, which will parade into Seattle beginning F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMTHE HEIRESS congratulates Jessica Chastain on her Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in Zero, Dark, Thirty. THE HEIRESS stars Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain as Catherine Sloper…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:19PMIn December last year we announced a new joint initiative with The Theatre Centre called Civil Debates: an opportunity for two speakers from opposite sides of an argument to debate their per…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:17PMPicnic, William Inge‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town folk yearning for what’s beyond, returns to Broadway officially opens Sunday, January 13, 2013. Picnic is a Roun…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:15PMThe Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 11, 2013 A London Farce Beaming to a Theater Near You By PIA CATTON Actor John Lithgow has been headlining the National Theatre’s latest farce, “…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:15PMAn innovator in puppetry and children’s theatre, Violet Philpott experimented with new techniques and materials, albeit on very different lines from Thunderbirds’ Gerry Anderson. After s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMFor millions of young children in the 1950s and 1960s, Daphne Oxenford was one of the calm voices heard regularly on BBC Radio’s Listen With Mother, a mixture of stories, songs and nursery…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PMBenjamin Walker Heats Up Broadway in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ By Suzy Evans Benjamin Walker stands towering in his dressing room on the fourth floor of the Richard Rodgers Theatre…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:08PMComedian and TV star Ron James can tell more than a few good stories about travel in Canada.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:08PMThe forthcoming West End production of Great Expectations is to be broadcast live to cinemas around the UK on February 7, which was Charles Dickens’ birthday. It will be shown live from th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMAfter 44 years, “The Fig Leaves Are Falling” returns to New York Even when Broadway musicals go unrecorded and unrevived, the original reviews live on. So while it may be almost …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:07PMEveryone in London's dramaturgical circles seemed to like Jemma Kennedy's The Grand Irrationality, but only in Los Angeles did she find a producer and director (Lynn and John Pleshette) who …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PMThe Amoralists' Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Lyle Kessler's Collision at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre beginning Jan. 10 for a run through Feb. 17.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMThe Orange County School of the Arts OCSA, a nationally recognized arts school that provides bright and talented students with a creative and challenging educational environment, is pleased …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMTony-winning original Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young returns to the hit musical as Frankie Valli on January 11 at the August Wilson Theatre.
Since winning the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMRiverside Theatre's Simply Amazing Season continues with the Broadway smash musical hit, Funny Girl. Nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Musical Best Lead Actor and Actress and Be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMTwo very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMThe Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' 1955 drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker, began previews Dec. 18 at the Richard Rod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMTwo very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMA £16 million theatre has opened in south-west Wales, which is said to be the first purpose-built venue in the region. The Ffwrnes theatre in the town centre of Llanelli comprises a main au…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMCotton Club Parade, the musical revue that played two engagements at New York City Center, will transfer to Broadway for the fall 2013 season. A celebration of the famed Harlem nightclub in …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:50PMTony winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker are bringing the sweltering Mississippi Delta to life in Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and we’ve got a first look …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMAfter taking his final bow as flashy Felicia in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Nick Adams is hitting the road in 2013, starring as Link Larkin in a concert version of Hairspray alongside Bet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMJulia Murney (Wicked), Caissie Levy (Ghost), Jason Danieley (Next to Normal) and Etai Ben Shlomo (Wicked) will participate in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Song…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMBrixton Club House, LondonFor Boy George and his New Romantic pals, there was only one thing more important than peacocking around London nightclubs: it was delivering the bitchiest putdowns…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMPerformances of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Scarlett Johansson as Maggie, Ciarn Hinds as Big Daddy, Benjamin Walker as Brick and Debra Monk as Big Mama, directed by Ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMTHAT KINKY KINESCOPE It’s a time trip that denies the original intent—a live taping of a dead T.V. series. The iconic archetype of the boob tube’s “golden age,” I Love Lucy wasn’…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:30PMPicnic, William Inge‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town folk yearning for what’s beyond, returns to Broadway starting December 14 in a Roundabout Theatre Company produc…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:29PMThe Accrington Pals is revived in Manchester, an all-male The Maids cleans up in Glasgow, and Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde in London's West EndNorthHurry along to the Royal Exchange in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThis week's featured program is The Department of Theatre and Dance at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas Read on to learn about their theater and dance programs and their upcoming producti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMHotels beef up their buffet offerings with top notch ingredients and even all you can drink Bloody Marys. After all, it's still Las Vegas.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:22PMCasting is complete for off-Broadway’s Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery, which will play the DR2 Kids Theatre. Featuring a book by Tony nominee Charles Bush, music by S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:20PMA casino is surely coming to Chicago. Sooner rather than later, the lure of so much new revenue flowing into needy city and state coffers, and the prospect of so many badly needed jobs, will…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PMThe producers of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have resumed litigation with director Julie Taymor after failing to reach a final settlement in her copyright infringement …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMDiana DiMarzio, who starred as the Beggar Woman in John Doyle's Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd opposite Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, re-created her perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMLaurie Metcalf leads the cast of the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's new drama The Other Place, featuring Zoe Perry and Daniel Stern. Find out if Word of Mouth panelists Brad, Fernand…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMFive-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will reunite with Tony-nominated composer Michael John LaChiusa (Marie Christine, The Wild Party) on April 15 as part of 92YTribeca’s Lyrics & …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMTake a look behind the scenes at LCT’s Golden Boy. Golden Boy is currently playing at the Belasco Theatre.
Golden Boy Story
Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy charts the swift rise of …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:02PMPeter Gallagher leads alums back to Byram Hills (Peter Gallagher as Arthur Campbell in “Covert Affairs.” Photo by Steve Wilkie/USA Network.) Before Peter Gallagher made a name fo…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:00PMAnne of Green Gables star is a cross between Anne and Xena the Warrior Princess, so she’s perfect as Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
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The Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMKapow! It's my first review for KQED's Arts Blog! And it's a good one.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:54AM3-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf leads fellow cast members Daniel Stern, Zoe Perry, and John Schiappa in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production of The Other Place, a new …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:52AMPaula Plum faces the infinite in 33 Variations.Sigh! The Vanya on 42nd Street Effect has struck again!What's that effect, you may ask? Well actually, that's just my shorthand for the p…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:51AMDisney's The Lion King has reported record box office figures for the eight year running.The musical, adapted from the 1994 film and directed by Julie Taymor, defied a predicted downturn in …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:50AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM We got a lot of input from you all over the last week about who you think would’ve been a better fit for Javert in the Les Miserables movie than Russell Crowe. A lot of Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 11:47AMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMCasting has been announced for the new London production of Rodney Ackland’s Before the Party. Ackland’s 1949 play about an upper middle class family adjusting to life after…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMSteppenwolf's production has star power of its own in Jimmy Smits, who's doing Chris Rock's role of the duplicitous AA sponsor of parolee and recovering addict/alcoholic Ralph D.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AMTheater J’s first play of the new year will be performed away from company’s venue on 16th Street. Boged (Traitor): An Enemy of the People, produced in conjunction with George Washin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AMA Co-Production between Arizona Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre, Next to Normal is opening tomorrow, January 10, in San Jose, CA. The show features the talents of Joe Cassidy,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMThere's a battle over Broadway in Orlando. The leaders of the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts say they're going to bypass the city's long-time Broadway show presenter, the Fl…
SOURCE: www.wmfe.org at 11:29AMThe Book of Mormon‘s Rory O’Malley (Elder McKinley) announced via Facebook that he will be leaving the Broadway production. For the role of Elder McKinley, O’Malley has be…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:28AMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:26AMIt’s 2013, and against all odds, Canadian theatre is thriving across the country. So what to see and where?
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:24AMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMREVIEW: In the Out There opener, the Rude Mechs gently cast a withering eye on some of theater's most sacred cows.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:22AMNEW YORK (AP) — It's a virtual law, maybe even a commandment, of all literature classes: Write what you know. Don't forget to write what you know. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes agrees �…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:19AMThe West End production of Disney’s The Lion King grossed more than £38 million in 2012 marking the eighth consecutive year that it has broken its box office record, according to its prod…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMOne hundred and fifty-two years ago, Charles Dickens began the publication of "Great Expectations." And now another great storyteller, David Lindsay-Abaire, takes up the opposite theme in a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18AMNominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced yesterday morning by the show's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone. The Heiress star Jessica Chastain was honored with a Bes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMNEW YORK (AP) -- It's a virtual law, maybe even a commandment, of all literature classes: Write what you know. Don't forget to write what you know. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes agrees…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:16AMTwo-time Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald will take on the title role in the new Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Barnum, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail. The musical featu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:08AMHannah Moscovitch's combat drama is a magnificent, complex look at a platoon's psyche
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:08AMBroadway's Motown: The Musical, about the life and career of music mogul Berry Gordy, will begin previews March 11, 2013, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMAdrian Lester will star as the title Moor in the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary production of Shakespeare's Othello, according to The Daily Mail. Joining Lester will be n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMVotes 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 to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMA friend of mine, and to protect the innocent, let’s call that friend . . . uh . . . me . . . was recently offered a chance to invest $50k into a Broadway musical. A high unit price, but…
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This week's topics THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, Congrats to Hugh, Anne and LES MIZ, Erin Davie to Replace Betsy Wolfe as 'Rosa Bud', Bway songs about an enemy, Favorite Songs About Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMTheater Review Who Do You Think You Are, Anyway? ‘The Other Place’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Published: January 10, 2013 As you watch “The Other Place,” a sl…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:59AMJohn Lloyd Young joins Broadway’s Jersey Boys tonight, January 11, 2013. Young, who won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the role of Frankie Valli will resume the role in a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:58AMCarol Channing, Rex Harrison, Tallulah Bankhead, Laurence Olivier, Mae West, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn, Noel Coward: These are among the legends who have graced the stage of the National T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:58AMNigel Planer, Clive Carter, Jasna Ivir and more will join previously announced Tony winner Douglas Hodge in the world premiere musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Direct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMThere’s plenty of home entertainment to be had: the just-released DVD of Woody Allen’s latest; the tale of one of America’s greatest family feuds; orginal cast CD of Chaplin; and a dou…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:55AMJohn Stamos Glee, Full House will guest star on the new NBC comedy THE NEW NORMAL. The episode entitled 'Gaydar' will air January 22nd at 930 pmET.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMThe Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards were doled out on January 10, and a number of Broadway individuals were honored. Newly-dubbed Oscar nominees …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMAdam Usden's Steve And Then It Ended, billed as "an intimate, darkly comic look at one family’s last TV dinner", premieres at Theatre503 from 8-19 January 2013.
Here, producer Flavia…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:42AMDR2 Kids Theatre continues its partnership with Theatreworks USA to present Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery beginning Feb. 9 at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMFive-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will reunite with Marie Christine writer Michael John LaChiusa for an April 15 presentation of Lyrics & Lyricists Downtown at the 92YTribe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM By Karen Feld Perhaps best known for her TV role as Alice Hyatt and her Broadway performances in “Broadway Bound” and “The Lyons,” Linda Lavin’s career has com…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:34AMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a medical researcher whose health, homelife and workplace are shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMDetails are set for the next Lyrics amp Lyricists Downtown, the LampL series at 92YTribeca. On Monday, April 15, this one-night-only event features a conversation with Tony Award-nominated l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Me…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:29AMThis weekend sees the sixth annual London 50-hour Improvathon being staged at the historic Hoxton Hall in Shoreditch. Kicking off at 7pm on Friday (11 January) and running until 9pm on Sunda…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:29AMWith 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 10:28AMI went in to Cross Purpose embarrassingly unfamiliar with the work of French playwright and philosopher Albert Camus, and came out understanding even less. This production is possibly unique…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:26AMThe complete cast has been announced for John Logan’s new play Peter and Alice, starring previously announced leads Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw (who performed together in the recent blo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMIf you haven’t yet read Dafina’s post on Uniting the 1,200 Conferences, please do so first, as she lays out the basics of our 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dall…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:22AMThe 2008 revival of Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne's iconic musical Gypsy took its final bow on Broadway Jan. 11, 2009. Here, we take a look at various divas who took o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMLena Dunham's acclaimed comedy Girls returns to HBO on January 13, and we can’t help but feel like those edgy Brooklyn girls could use a bit of Midtown Manhattan in their live…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMTrainers preach a new gospel of self-empowerment, even in the most collaborative of art forms
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:16AMIn the UK, we work the longest hours in Europe – but curtain-up times are stuck in the past. Would starting shows earlier or later make life easier for today's theatre audiences?As the cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMOne of my favorite movies is playing on TCM tonight at 8 p.m., E.S.T. As a child, it held many mysteries for me. First, that title, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was so long it s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMSouth Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre’s All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Singin’ In The Rain, Cirqu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AMFour-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh will make her 54 Below debut next month with a show entitled On, Off, & Now Under Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMThis week's guest blog comes from Adrienne Smith of Cheazza which you'll hear all about in a few seconds. In this post, she lets you in the on the process of building an app as an entreprene…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AM
THEATER IS SUPPOSED to surprise. But there was no way I was prepared for what happened last Sunday afternoon when I arrived at the Players Club of Swarthmore for a matinee performance of pla…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:54AMBallet Hispanico will join other entertainers to headline 'In Performance at the Kennedy Center,' an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, on Sunday, Janu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44AMJohn Stamos, whose Broadway credits include Bye Bye Birdie, Nine and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, will guest star on the Jan. 22 episode of NBC's "The New Norma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM2013 is getting into full swing with a lot of openings Here are some of the shows you can see in and around the Hub this weekend: Opening A variety of Boston's best actresses …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:38AMIt's Friday and that means another look back at the top regional stories of this past week Click below to see the most-read interviews, features, and special coverage items for the week of J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMAmerican Cinema Editors ACE today announced nominations for the 63rd Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMMarci Kraft: A show Created & Directed by Marilyn Maye My View written by Stephen Sorokoff Any discussion about a person’s educational background invariably focuses on…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:20AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #422: Pine Top Smith (for more on him and his signature tune Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie go here). Here’s a more somber tune, the old blu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:19AMWe've teamed up with our Whatsonstage.com Awards Official Hotel Partner, Radisson Blu Edwardian to offer a luxury hotel package for the THIRTEENTH ANNUAL Whatsonstage.com Awards, which takes…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:18AMThe full cast has been announced for the world premiere of John Logan's Peter and Alice, beginning performances March 9 prior to an official opening March 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMYou can convince yourself that no idea is big enough, or ambitious enough to satisfy you. You can convince yourself that you must get published by that big NYC publishing house to have "made…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:11AM"Ace of Spades" is pure fun to play, but I'm not sure smashing two games together qualifies as innovation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMThe stars came out for the 18th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards which took place yesterday, January 10th in Los Angeles, CA. Among the winners were Ben Affleck for Best Director. His film…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMCheek by Jowl's touring production of John Ford's " 'Tis Pity" stirs up the theatricality to a dizzying degree, but remains compulsively, if scandalously, watchable.Before Quentin Tarantino,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Broadway's Christopher Fitzgerald is to play the title role in a new U.K. production of Barnum, Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble's 1980 Broadway musical based on the life…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AMProducers 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 08:47AMBetween Christmas and New Year's Day, critics are seldom if ever invited to see shows. Managements don't want to give away tickets that would otherwise be sold. After all, Christmas Week has…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:39AMFull casting has been announced for a new production of Rodney Ackland's Before the Party that begins performances at London's Almeida Theatre March 21, prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AMThe central character in Sharr White’s drama The Other Place is suffering the disorientating effects of a condition she’s self-diagnosed as brain cancer. Her helpless confusion i…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:33AMHamlet will be performed at the Rose Theatre, Bankside for the first time since 1594.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:24AMUnicorn, LondonMark Twain's historical novel is no longer a staple of modern childhood. But his lively fantasy about two lookalike boys – Prince Edward, son and heir of an ailing Henry VII…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMWritten by Susan Hasho Masterminded by Phil Geoffrey Bond with Joshua Stephen Kartes as musical director/pianist, January 9th was my first Sondheim Unplugged. Who knew? Who knew that …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:07AMToday is the birthday of Elfie Fay (1879-1927). She was the daughter of Hugh Fay of the Irish comedy act of Barry and Fay. When he died, Elfie replaced him in the vaudeville act briefly form…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:05AM
Laurie Metcalf reprises her powerhouse performance in Sharr White's play on Broadway
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:56AMIn an excerpt from this week's Guardian Film Show Xan Brooks and Catherine Shoard aim their muskets at Tom Hooper's adaptation of the hugely popular musical, while Peter Bradshaw mans the ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMColiseum, LondonWhen, in 1950, Alicia Markova founded what would become English National Ballet, she not only ran the company, but was also its lead ballerina. So there's nothing new in Tama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMPart One: Meet the cast of Bravo@KAT’s The Music Man Jr. Introducing our Marians: Josie Weinberg & Tobi Baisburd. Hi! My name is Josie Weinberg, I’m twelve years-old, and I …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48AMWhatsonstage.com Award winner Meera Syal is among the newly announced cast of If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep at the Royal Court.Anders Lustgarten's play, which looks at th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:42AMJERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, is pleased to announce the return of John Lloyd Young who won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:39AMToday is the birthday of John Steel (1895-1971), best known for having introduced Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919. He’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:38AMEveryman Theatre is pleased to announce a week-long celebration for The Grand Opening of its new theatre at 315 West Fayette Street, in Baltimore, MD. The Grand Opening Week will take place …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36AM“I'd expected a welcome like the Prodigal Son's,” confesses Jan, the man who – in Camus' 1944 play Cross Purpose – returns home after twenty years of making his fortune abroad. But t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:29AM Today is the birthday of James Carl “Ham Tree” Harrington (1889-1956). Born in South Carolina, he ran off an joined a carnival in his adolesence, working in black vaudeville an…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:17AMXan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review Les Misérables, Gangster Squad, What Richard Did and Jiro Dreams of SushiXan BrooksPeter BradshawCatherine ShoardHenry BarnesElliot Sm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AMOwen Teale has been cast in a new production at the Royal Court called A Time to Reap. Also appearing in the play will be Sinead Matthews and Max Bennett. A Time to Reap, which...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, Chester: Bookers reconvened in the comfortable and functional surroundings of the Grosvenor and it was singer Sharon Wallace who kicked things off. A Queen medley wa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMGrosvenor Pulford Hotel, Chester: Arriving in the nick of time after a massive motorway snarl-up is not the ideal way to kick-off showcase coverage duties, but compere Gary T Davies settled …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMUnion Theatre, London: The Shakespeare Apocrypha - which are all about attribution, not authorship - include relatively well known titles like Sir John Oldcastle, or the Yorkshire Tragedy; b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMKing's Head, London: Ancient Greece meets malignant Gothic in Jamie Birkett's mesmeric performance as Martha in Camus' rarely performed play.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMWhile Britain makes plans to eat more salad and go to the gym, The Place’s Resolution! season puts more new dance on stage. Run since 1990, it has become the world’s biggest platform for…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:26AMOckham’s Razor’s aerial performance on the opening night of London International Mime Festival sets out to explore the idea of being lost and visual tales about trust and identity are th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:17AMSome members of the Les Mis cast and crew are going to go undeservedly unrecognized at the Oscars simply because their categories don't exist. By Jaye Hunt, hopefully the future president of…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:55AMNo-one believes that Shakespeare wrote anything at all of Fair Em, the Miller’s Daughter of Manchester, although it was once thought he might have played William the Conqueror; so Jack…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:55AMCasting has been announced for Matthew Dunster's rare revival of Rodney Ackland’s Before The Party. at the Almeida Theatre, which runs from 28 March to 11 May (previews from 21 March).…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:29AMCindy Williams, 65, spent the 1970s in the thick of Hollywood creativity, acting for directors George Lucas ("American Graffiti") and Francis Ford Coppola ("The Conversation") and starring o…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:15AMFrom John Osborne to Howard Brenton, many fine playwrights have suffered periods of neglect – but, as Peter Nichols's resurgence shows, dramatic fortunes can rise as well as fallIt's notor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:05AMIndustry figures have warned that new legislation for organisations wishing to register as charities will cause delays in gaining funding and “widespread confusion” for arts bodies that …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMNigel Planer has been cast as Grandpa Jo in the new musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Planer, best known for playing Neil in The Young Ones, has previously appeared in We…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFurther casting has been announced for the West End world premiere of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which begins performances May 18 prior to an official opening June 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00AMTrue story: In college, I took a class on the 17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza and we examined his signature work "Ethics."
I tried very hard but understood very little, …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM
Shattered Globe Theatre continues its 2012/13 Season with the dark comedy HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Artistic Director Roger Smart, playing January 24 – March 2, 2013 …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:56AMDirector Christopher Ashley understands what makes Memphis shine, and that’s the singing and dancing. He keeps the show moving amid David Gallo’s smartly designed set of subterranean clu…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:42AMA heaping order of family and laughter are on the menu when TV One premieres its latest original scripted series Belle’s, a new comedy centered around widower William “Big Bill̶…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:41AMThe Alley Theatre's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, produced in association with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C., will feature Bowman Wrig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMCanton 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 12:30AM“The Other Place,” Sharr White’s brainy drama that opened last night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, begins before the house lights go dim with Laurie Metcalf sitting center stage. …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:15AMSleep, My EnemyMike Birbiglia transforms his solo into a gemby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI am an unabashed fan of everything Mike Birbilia does. I even think his Twitter feed is brilliant.I was i…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I report on my first visit to Sarasota's Florida Studio Theatre, at which...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMSpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston, MA, presents the New England premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities beginning Jan. 11, prior to an official opening Jan. 13, in the Virginia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Pioneer Theatre Company presents Philip Barry's romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story beginning Jan. 11 at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session begins a Los Angeles run Jan. 11 with its starriest cast yet — two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWomen's Project Theater's world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring America Ferrera, Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucreti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe original parody 50 Shades! The Musical, which has been seen in Chicago and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, makes its New York premiere Jan. 11-12 at the Gramercy Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCanton Theatrical presents 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 Damon I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBowman Wright and Joaquina Kalukango co-star in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, which begins performances Jan. 11 at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHairspray: In Concert! makes its premiere Jan. 11-13 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra followed by an engagement with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Jan. 24-27. Principal Pops Condu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJohn Lloyd Young, who won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for creating the role of Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys, plays another limited return engagement in that Tony-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJeff Talbott's racially charged dark comedy The Submission, about a playwright who gambles his own identity in order to score the break of a lifetime, receives its Texas premiere Jan. 11…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1899 "I would rather play Ibsen than eat and that's often what it amounts to," said Eva Le Gallienne, born in London today. Her determination and drive will lead her to a st…
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