Most of the time, Broadway actors are merely annoyed by sniffles and wheezes from the seats. But a virulent New York flu season means performers have more to fear than audiences' badly timed…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:56PMGaybies is on its way to being an important piece of theatre that shakes up stale and dull opinions. Opening at Midsumma, it’s singing show tunes with the choir, but there couldn’t be b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:04PMThe Illusionists; they look like characters from a Steampunk comic and they are about to land in Brisbane, bringing the age old art of magic into the twenty-first century and promising to tr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: The world premiere of Daniel Beaty's "Breath and Imagination, The Story of Roland Hayes" a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
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Mary Lou Rosato and Willie C. Carpenter play Miss Daisy and her chauffeur Hoke Coleman, who are "eyeball to eyeball and heart to heart" in Sierra Madre Playhouse's revival of Alfred Uhry's…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:58PMAccording to Variety, Dominic Cooper is set to play James Bond creator Ian Fleming in a four-part biopic for Sky Atlantic. The working title for the miniseries is 'Fleming', penned by John B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37PMCathy Rigby channels her inner child triumphantly as always in the musical's title role in a restaging at the Pantages. The production is uneven, albeit still charming.Any show created by or…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:21PMClurman Theatre, Off Broadway
By Jason Rost
BOTTOM LINE: An exhilerating import from Edinburgh that will delight most any audience.
So rarely is a transfer from the Edinburgh Fring…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:19PMTwo of Broadway’s biggest players in the growing market to sell tickets online have combined forces, two people with knowledge of the deal said today.
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:17PMPatrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard will star in the film version of Stephen Belber's Match, based on his 2004 Tony-nominated play of the same name.
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Doing the right thing will always start a war. In a time plagued with controversy, a thought-provoking intensely profound new work comes out of Theater J’s ‘Voices From A Changing Mi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:39PMHOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Grand Opera plans to present the futuristic Fura dels Baus productions of Wagner's four Ring Cycle operas over four consecutive seasons.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:36PMNassim Soleimanpour cannot leave Iran. Only those who have completed their two years of military service are granted a passport, and he has not done his. Consequently, he has written a play;…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05PMKylie Minogue is to star opposite Mat Horne, Peter Serafinowicz and David Harewood in a drama for Sky Arts, which has been written and directed by Marc Warren. The drama, called Hey Diddly D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMMost of us would love to live in a happy family, but it’s the unhappy ones that make the most compelling drama. And few playwrights do familial tensions as instinctively as Polly Stenham, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMThe nearly 500 glam, glitzy getups are reason alone to catch the show. Because where else are you likely to see men with the abs of Brad Pitt in "Troy" outfitted as orange lizards,…
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Study any of the grand paintings of the Renaissance and you might easily believe there could not possibly be a more sublime or detailed evocation of reality. Yet with the invention of the mo…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:58PMOut in the Negev, an Israeli scientist has discovered the dark side of an industrial miracle. A bustling complex of factories that has brought prosperity to the desert is creating ecological…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:53PMI remember my quarter-life crisis. Here I was, working long hours in a job I didn’t have any real passion for, broke, gaining weight, listless. I was going through the motions and lett…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 06:53PMAt age 10, she wowed viewers of “America’s Got Talent” by singing “O mio babbino caro,”the gorgeous and demanding aria — generally reserved for the most seasoned of opera soprano…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:51PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the January 12, 2013, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:47PMTony Award nominee Jonathan Groff (Glee), Lindsay Mendez (Dogfight), Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture), Tony Award nominee Will Swenson (Murder Ballad), and Betsy Wolfe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:26PMManhattan Theatre Club has attracted five hot stars for its annual winter benefit: Tony nominees Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, Glee), Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture, Dirty Rotten Sc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:17PMManhattan Theatre Club will present its annual Winter Benefit, an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show featuring Broadway’s brightest sta…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:13PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information @SignatureTheatr welcomes two new artists to their Residen…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:11PMThe Neo-Futurists present, The Carter Family Family Hour, written by Emmy Bean, Joe Dempsey & Chloe Johnston and directed by Chloe Johnston, as part of the 2013 Rhinoceros Thea…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 06:10PM10 Reasons To Visit Broadway This Spring
In addition to the new year bringing longer days as we transition from winter to spring, January marks the halfway point in the 2012-2013 season…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:09PMThe critics have fallen hard for Tryst, and it seems audiences agree. Washington Stage Guild just announced that the smart, suspenseful drama, starring Felipe Cabenzas and Emily Townley, ori…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:08PMSave the date: It's scheduled for Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:03PMInformation on Great Performances and Great Performances at the Met's upcoming 2012-2013 Season.
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Manhattan Theatre Club will present its annual Winter Benefit, an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show featuring Broadway's brightest stars…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMAlums honor Byram Hills triple play: Bissell to Varley to Shatraw Byram Hills alumni gather on the stage for the final number: “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.” (Grainy …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 05:49PMMOTOWN THE MUSICAL, based on the life of legendary Motown founder Berry Gordy, will open on Broadway at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46 Street on April 14, 2013. Preview performances w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMIt was announced today that Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard will star in MATCH, written and directed by Stephen Belber.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PM“Seagull (Thinking of you)” is a play that blurs boundaries: between actors and their roles, male and female, fiction and reality, past and present, parody and sincerity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMTony winner Audra McDonald will record her fifth studio album for Nonesuch Records, her publicist confirmed to Broadway.com. McDonald will head into the studio in February. No release d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMCirque du Soleil is laying off 400 people, mostly from its Montreal headquarters, due to what the company is citing as production costs and expenses. The layoffs represent 8% of the company'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:32PMJudith Ivey Stars in Sam Shepard PlayPeter Albrink, Ben Becher, Clark Middleton, John Procaccino, Kevin Tighe and Elvy Yost join two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey in Long Wharf Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:29PMTickets are now on sale for the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of The Revisionist, a new play by Jesse Eisenberg. Directed by Kip Fagan, the drama stars Eisenberg, Tony winner Va…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PMTickets are now on sale for the world premiere of Hamish Linklater’s new play The Vandal, which begins performances on January 18 at off-Broadway’s Flea Theater. Opening night fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PMFilming has begun in New York City for a movie adaptation of Stephen Belber’s play Match, according to Deadline.com. Belber is set to write and direct the film, which stars Tony nomine…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:15PMINTAR will stage Lucy Loves Me by Migdalia Cruz and Pinkolandia by Andrea Thome as part of its 2013 winter/spring season, the company announced Jan. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMQuiara Alegría Hudes' Water By the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, is the story of American military veteran Elliot, who is trying to make sense of his life after return…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMThe Neo-Futurists present, The Carter Family Family Show, written by Emmy Bean, Joe Dempsey & Chloe Johnston and directed by Chloe Johnston, as part of the 2013 Rhinoceros Theatre Festiv…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:10PMNothing is as it seems in The Other Place, the beautifully cyclical drama by Sharr White currently in performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. A somber, but not sentimental, tale of a…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:08PMExecutive Producer Mike Isaacson announced today the directors, choreographers and music directors for its 2013 Season, which opens on June 17 with Monty Python's Spamalot. 'This is a phenom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMThe muddy waters may have long receded but the after effects of the 2011 Brisbane floods are still being felt by many residents and companies alike. Some relief came to the Queensland Theatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMEpisode Twenty-Four: Emotional Trauma = Creativity? Today Lindsay talks about a big pet peeve, the idea that good writing only comes from pain. Or maybe it’s something that hits a lit…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMFirst, a personal story: Last year in March I was in tech for Kiss Kiss Julie, ArtSpot Productions latest devised work for which I provided text, outdoors at the Joan Mitchell Center on Bayo…
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Today, January 16, is the birthday of musical theater favorites Lin-Manuel Miranda (Bring it On: The Musical), who is 33, and Ethel Merman (Call Me Madam), who would be 105. To honor two of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMBroadway.com is going a cross-country road trip! We're exploring the week’s most exciting theatrical events from Santa Monica, CA, all the way to Atlanta, GA, with a stopover in Si…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMWe are pleased to announce the publication of the newest play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet: The Anarchist. Just having completed its world premiere on Broadway under the …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:41PMAudra McDonald will record a new solo album for Nonesuch Records, a representative for the five-time Tony Award-winning actress confirmed to Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMWhen the blue curtain opens at Open Door Theater’s Jan. 19 performance of “Annie,” the show will begin, a little differently. It is the Acton-based theater’s first autism-friendly pe…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:37PMAn unnamed Belarusian man walks onstage and shows us the many scars covering his body. Some are the result of accidents, but others derive, he says, from beatings by the Belarusian KGB. Then…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:31PMDavid Sisco FounderCreator and Lorene Phillips Contributing Editor will officially launch their now acclaimed DIRECTORY OF Contemporary Theatre WRITERS website with a musical event of remark…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMThe Play of Puppetryby Chad DembskiA brand new French translation of Old Trout Theatre Workshop’s Ignorance is playing at the experimental venue Espace Libre, but only until Saturday the 1…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:23PMThe original collaborators of Broadway surprise hit [title of show] returned with Off-Broadway's Now. Here. This., a musical delving into life's big questions and important topics like birds…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMTickets are now on sale for LCT3’s production of Kirsten Greenidge’s new play Luck of the Irish. Starring Smash’s Eisa Davis, the racially charged drama will play Lincoln C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMThis was a BIG week for theatre both On- and Off-Broadway!
There are many Off-Off-Broadway festivals (the main one being Under The Radar at The Public Theater) happening with shows from all …
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 04:10PMGrit, Edge and the Actorby David C. JonesIt is so exciting and awe-inspiring to see new young talent take to the stage to make their mark. They have to find the right project, the right venu…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:08PMThe world-renowned Cirque du Soleil is laying off 400 people — most of them at its Montreal headquarters
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:05PMThe second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash" will begin Feb. 5, 2013. Here is a further look at the upcoming season, which will welcome a slew of newcomers to the series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PMRevival targets a spring 2014 opening
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Meaghan Moloney and Miche Braden (photo: Bruce Monk)Shadow-Boxingby Edgar GovernoIn the programme accompanying the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's world première adaptation of Gone wi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:56PMAllan Sherman’s 1969 musical “The Fig Leaves Are Falling” is given a new treatment by UnsungMusicalsCo. at the Connelly Theater in the East Village.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMOne of the spring’s most anticipated new shows is Motown: The Musical, a brand new Broadway tuner that charts the career of music mogul Berry Gordy Jr., and his relationship with the l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMNow in its 15th season, Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook celebrates the best in American singing and songwriting with a fourth week running from February 27 through March …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PM“Midsummer,” written and directed by David Greig, is a rom-com in theatrical form centering on a long, wild weekend in Edinburgh complete with theft, bondage and drinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMTheatreWorks presents Priscilla Lopez in the Giovanna Sardelli-helmed SOMEWHERE, playing Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, January 16 through February 10. She'll be joined on sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:39PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house records in Seattle for the weeks ending January 13, 2013 and January 20, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PM“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens on Broadway, National Theatre Live presents “The Magistrate” with John Lithgow, 92Y talks to “Relevant Octogenarians” Barbar…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:26PMMamaroneck plans to honor ‘X Factor’ star on Jan. 27 (Carly Rose Sonenclar attends the “The X Factor” season finale at CBS Television City in Los Angeles on Dec. 20, …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:23PMFROG KISS, the award-winning critical and audience favorite of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival, begins its world premier performances on January 15th at the historic Wells Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMThe ups and downs of love have fascinated musical theater's greatest songwriters (and all of humanity) for the past century, so Tony Award-winning musical director Ted Sperling (South Pacifi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMThe Theatre Works Midsumma program has started with the sold out Psycho Beach Party and promises to continue being awesome with Sydney Fringe favourite Here Lies Henry opening on 22 January.…
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Gillian Bevan has spent 25 years on and off the West End, appearing largely in musicals (Follies, The Boys From Syracuse, Road Show), as well as three years in playwright/director Alan Ayckb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMLarissa Wise considers the difference between telling a story out loud and writing a story for a stage production. Her LoveSick is about to open at the Loft Ensemble. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:57PMConrad Bain, who became a familiar television face as a star of two popular sitcoms, "Maude" and "Diff'rent Stokes," while maintaining a steady stage career, died Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMThe Virginia Stage Company's production of the new musical Frog Kiss is presented Jan. 15-Feb. 3 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMKnown for his thrilling live performances and irreverent style, award-winning musical troublemaker David Yazbek takes the stage with his band at 92YTribeca in a new series, presented the fir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMArena Stage in Washington, DC, has not yet revealed its full 2013-14 programming at its lavish Mead Center for American Theater, but a tease of two of the coming projects has surfaced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMBallet dancer Stephen Hanna will return to the role of Dream Hannibal in off-Broadway’s Silence of the Lambs parody Silence! The Musical beginning January 19 at the Elektra Theatre.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PM Christina Kirk will star as a "neglected, hot, depressed stay at home mom" in the upcoming NBC comedy pilot The Gates, according to Deadline.com.
Created by The King of Qu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:44PMJames DeVita charts his career during “In Acting Shakespeare” at the Pearl Theater, a play adapted from Ian McKellen’s “Acting Shakespeare.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMFirst images from the set of the upcoming biopic LOVELACE have been released. The film stars Amanda Seyfried as American porn star Linda Lovelace. The cast also includes Hank Azaria, Bobby C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMBroadway's Audra McDonald flew eight hours for a performance before an audience of television critics, of all things. Accompanied only by her piano player, McDonald, 42, announced to her Pas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMThe New York premiere of Tina Packer's Women of Will - a groundbreaking exploration of Shakespeare's canon - written by Ms. Packer and directed by Eric Tucker 'Saint Joan' will begin preview…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PMVotes 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 02:01PMIf you missed Memory & Mayhem, Norbert Leo Butz’s recent concert at 54 Below, don’t despair: The two-time Tony winner’s electrifying performance has been preserved on a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMRECOMMENDED Nearly a year after the controversy surrounding monologuist Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” reached its pinnacle—a stormy timeline inc…
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Patti LuPone will reunite with her Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown composer and lyricist David Yazbek on February 4 for a one-night-only concert at the 92YTribeca.
LuPone will p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:59PMTwo-time Tony winner Katie Finneran, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of Annie, has landed a leading role in Michael J. Fox's new comedy series for NBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMAs we at TCG work furiously on all our ongoing events, we’re constantly thinking about how each in-person convening informs the next. We’re forever mindful of the lifespan of these event…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:54PMBroadway Week and 2-4-1 tickets runs Jan. 22-Feb. 7. Belly up to box offices and no service charges (except "facilities fee"). You'll even be able to afford to eat out with restaurant deals.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:47PMMaybe it does take a dating show to find your one-and-only. Nobody Loves You, Gaby Alter (Band Geeks!) and Itamar Moses (Bach at Leipzig)'s new musical comedy about finding love on a realit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FG Productions Announce Final Casting for Broadway’s 2012-13 Season, Pippin Tumbles into Role of Fangirl Favorite New York, New York – 16 January 2012 – Fangirl A…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:46PMThe high point of the working life of the actress and singer Barbara Shotter, one of five sisters to make a career on the stage, was the title role in a nationwide tour of Annie...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44PMShakespeare & Company Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer is one of the leading living experts on the man, the myths, the legends and the plays of William Shakespeare. In her ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMOn this date in 1964, Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre. The Playbill Vault looks back at its Broadway premiere.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMAs a BBC Television producer responsible for an enormously wide diversity of programmes, Barrie Edgar started out as a child actor. For the BBC’s Midlands region, he played the title role …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:42PMIt's time for the newest episode of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow In this week's episode, Randy chats with Anne Hathaway about her big Golden Globe win a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMHaving dreamt time and time again about the world of Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella, my castmates and I couldn't have been any more excited to finally set foot in the Broadway Theatre. O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:34PMINTAR announced the two plays for its Winter/Spring 2013 season: Lucy Loves Me, written by Migdalia Cruz, directed by Lou Moreno, and Pinkolandia written by Andrea Thome, directed by Jose Za…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMTVGuide.com reports that Conrad Bain, best known for his role as Phillip Drummond on NBC's long-running sitcom DIFF'RENT STROKES, passed away on Monday in Livermore, CA at the age of 89.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMFreud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain opens in Los Angeles tonight starring Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh as C. S. Lewis under the direction of Tyler Marchant, who helmed …
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 01:30PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins and Martha Clarke are the newest playwrights to join Signature Theatre’s Residency Five program. For the program Signature provides a five-year residency to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:28PMDuring last summer's Democracy Festival, The Brick asked their audience to help them elect the President...of The Brick. Each show was considered a candidate in the running and on the last d…
SOURCE: bricktheater.blogspot.com at 01:28PMFor me, the fact that Bread and Puppet Theatre has survived for 50 years is very hopeful, essentially because company members have never wavered from their principles. Imagine that. You can …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:27PMFormer Grease lovers John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are planning to record more music together after teaming up for their recent holiday album This Christmas, according …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PMOn a cold January night, few things warm the cockles more satisfyingly than a large serving of medieval mayhem. Channel 4’s new big-budget drama series World Without End has it all – mur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMTwo-time Tony nominee Christopher Sieber is a theatrical life force: joyful, charismatic and up for anything. As he jokes, “My entire career so far has been in shows that hurt,” …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMMultidisciplinary theatre-maker Martha Clarke and Brooklyn playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins have joined Signature Theatre Company's Residency Five program, which provides five-year resi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMUnicorn, LondonA Winter's Tale for two-to-four-year-olds? If you think that sounds impossible, then you probably haven't encountered the work of Oily Cart, a remarkable company which has cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM
theatreWashington will announce the 29th Helen Hayes Awards nominees on Monday, January 28th, 2013 in the National Theatre's Helen Hayes Gallery. This year, for the first time, theatre lover…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMSecond Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Founder and Artistic Director; Casey Reitz, Executive Director) will conclude its 34th season with the New York premiere of the acclaimed new musical co…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:51PMArts theatre, LondonYou somehow don't expect a play set in a state penitentiary in the American south to come from the pen of a drama teacher from the English north. But Richard Vergette is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMPlaywright Erin Courtney's The Service Road, receiving its world premiere from the Adhesive Theater Project at the Voorhees Theatre in Brooklyn, plunges you into a modern-day fairy tale. It'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMAlex 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 12:42PMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that Martha Clarke and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins have joined the Residenc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:33PMBREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER The French expression “C’est du Chinois” means “It’s all Greek to me” – or, literally translated, “It’s Chinese.” Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:30PMTonight we're taking over 250 theatregoers to see Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! at the Piccadilly Theatre, followed by a Q&A with the company.
The show is billed as a comedy musical abou…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:27PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMLisa Maguire has been appointed as the new executive producer of National Theatre Wales. She will take up the post in April when her predecessor Lucy Davies becomes executive director at the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMRichard Vergette’s tale of crime, punishment and redemption is every bit as manipulative as the characters it portrays, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:18PMTwo-time Tony winner Katie Finneran will co-star alongside Michael J. Fox in a new NBC sitcom, according to Deadline.com. Finneran will play Fox’s self involved, single and unempl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMComposers Dougal Irvine and Pippa Cleary are among the artists who will compete for a £10,000 composition prize at the Arts Foundation Awards ceremony later this month. They have been short…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMNEIL LABUTE, MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS, JENNIFER MAISEL, OLIVER MAYER, WINTER MILLER, IAN ROWLANDS AND MORE SUPPORT NOPASSPORT’s GUN CONTROL THEATRE ACTION WITH THEATER J AND FORCE/COLLISION ON …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMThe Show-Off, the current production of American Century Theater in Arlington, Virginia, is a comedy whose title character is very difficult to like.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09PMRoses are about to be handed out at Second Stage as a new musical about reality dating shows will play the off-Broadway theater this summer. Nobody Loves You, featuring music by Gaby Alter, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMFormer The Secret Garden co-stars Howard McGillin and Rebecca Luker join forces for a Broadway Romance Jan. 15-26 at the Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMWe have had a hell of a wild year at Southern Rep Theatre: In January 2012 we lost our venue when our lease wasn’t renewed after nineteen years, our budget cuts caused by the loss of venue…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMIT'S BACK! BE SURE TO VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S "HOT OR NOT"!IT'S THE FIRST ROUND OF VOTING FOR RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA!CLICK THE GLASS SLIPPER TO YOUR RIGHT AND VO…
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BACK TO BACK BRINGS ISSUES TO THE FRONT The concept for Ganesh versus the Third Reich is staggering: the Indian god Ganesh travels through Nazi Germany to confront Adolf Hitler and reclaim t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:59AMGLAAD announced the nominees for the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which include 15 theatrical productions that ran in New York and Los Angeles this year. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMToday is the birthday of George Kelly (1887-1974). The younger brother of famous vaudevillian Walter C. Kelly, “The Virginia Judge” (both men were uncles of Grace Kelly), he foll…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:46AMFREUD'S LAST SESSION, New York's long-running hit play by Mark St. Germain, is set to open in Los Angeles tonight, January 16th starring Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh as C. S…
SOURCE: losangeles.broadwayworld.com at 11:41AMBraided Sorrow Reading in NYC on January 25th Braided Sorrow, my first play, the play that convinced me to transition from poetry to playwriting, the play that's won awards and opened doors…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:39AMA play about addiction, redemption, hope, and family. It's a Pulitzer prize winning work by Quiara Alegria Hudes that reminds us of the absolute fragility of sobriety. The second in a …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:37AMMalcolm Sinclair appears alongside Rowan Atkinson in Simon Gray's Quartermaine's Terms, which arrives in the West End later this month following previews at the Theatre Royal Brighton
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:31AMMolly Ringwald, Andrea McArdle, Daniel Breaker and more will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming months. They offered a preview the morning of Jan. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMArielle Jacobs, who played Nina in the national tour and Broadway productions of In the Heights, will reprise her role in the Westchester Broadway Theatre staging this winter. The presentati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMNominations for the 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced on January 15 with TV's Smash, Bring It On, The Columnist and more among the nominees. Winners of the awards, which hono…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMSecond Stage Theatre's 2012-13 season will climax this summer with the New York City premiere of Nobody Loves You, the new Gaby Alter-Itamar Moses musical that looks at the pitfalls of b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMThis is a crackerjack production. The text is fresh and crisp and the cast, Cora Bissett (Helena) and Matthew Pidgeon (Bob), is nothing short of sublime.And then there is the story. Not a …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:09AMA bad production can put you off a play for life – but even the most sublime shows can be a case of once bitten, twice shyAfter a school theatre trip to see King Lear as a teenager, I was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMAndrew Lloyd Webber is eyeing Julian Ovenden to star in the new musical he's written with his former Sunset Boulevard collaborators Don Black and Christopher Hampton, according to the Ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMIf you’ve ever seriously considered relocating to another country, you may have experienced the frustration that accompanies visa research. You spent months Googling, reading, correspo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:02AMEquity council and legal fees, National Shakespeare Day and memories of Frank Harvey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMContinuing on with today’s Cole Porter theme, today also happens to be Star of Vaudeville #424: Ethel Merman’s birthday (for more on Merman and her early career go here). Here…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:01AMOn Broadway, audiences have embraced her as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, as well as in Enchanted April and Modern Orthodox. Off-Broadway, she received rave notices for her work in Jonathan Larso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMBloomberg News broke a big biz story today about BroadwayBox, the online discount farm that Broadway buyers love . . . and most Producers love/hate. (I affectionately call BroadwayBox, the…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe start of the national tour of “Looped” has been delayed about a month due to the hospitalization of star Valerie Harper. The show will now begin February 26 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMThe new musical Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell Director a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMEnglish Heritage has suspended its blue plaque memorial scheme following cuts to its government funding. Since it began in 1866, the scheme, which commemorates the link between notable figur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM
Bradley Cooper, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Timberlake and Sigourney Weaver will be presenters at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMPulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot Trilogy" will be seen in a marathon made up of two readings — Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue and The Happiest So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMAuthor, singer and film, television and Broadway actress from Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and ABC Television's hit show, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Mol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMWhile not using her body as a public art piece, the performance artist Narcissister is, in fact, private and shy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMThe musical satire about reality television and its shameless contestants is set at a dating competition show also called "Nobody Loves You."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:53AMSecond Stage Theatre will present a one-day marathon of all three plays in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Elliot Trilogy, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning Water By the Spoonful. The ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMAMERICAN IDOL executive producer Nigel Lythgoe spoke by phone about the long-running singing competition and revealed the big changes in store for the upcoming 12th season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMPhoto by Carol Rosegg
I've been mostly knocked on my ass by the New York flu since my Ed Wood musical reading last week, but I managed to file this piece for Time Out before t…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:46AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #284: Irene Bordoni (for more on her, go here). The French coquette had a long association with Cole Porter on stage and screen; here she is singi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:43AMThe 2013 Under the Radar Festival, tracking dynamic new theater from around the world, is bringing an electrifying hustle and bustle to the Public Theater from January 9 – 20. Theatergoers…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 10:41AMThe National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories, featuring the autobiographical recollections Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, will transfer to the West End’s Duchess T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:41AM"EATING! What a concept!" said the actress Holland Taylor to me way back when I first met her when we were both young.
Since then, the art of eating, dining, food, health and restaurants …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:41AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's free-wheeling musical spectacle Starlight Express and his Ireland-set drama The Boys in the Photograph are now available for licensing to professional and amateur t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMSean McDermott ('Grease', 'Falsettos,' 'Miss Saigon') will star as serial killer 'Hannibal Lecter,' when Silence! The Musical resumes performances at the Elektra Theatre on 19 Jan 2013.
SOURCE: New York Theatre Guide at 10:40AMSo many shows, so little time. And since the traditional January post-holiday
reaping is now here, they’re closing faster than I can write about them.
Some of those clo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:40AMArts Theatre, London: It's easy to see the influence of Richard Vergette's career as a drama teacher on his writing. Here is a play about the American penal system that tests the a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMHappy Birthday, Lin-Manuel Miranda Miranda is most famous for writing and starring as 'Usnavi' in the Broadway musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMRainy days and Mondays don’t get Andrea McArdle down. The Tony-nominated actress, who has been working steadily onstage since making her Broadway debut in 1977, is returning 54 Below, the …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:30AMMusical Monday Theatre Lab will present a workshop performance of the new musical Cynthia and the Dreadful Kite Feb. 7 at the Jerry Orbach Theater, Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM“I’d like to read,” goes a new tv commercial I like to boo and hiss at, “but who has the time?” Well, never mind books on tape, the best friend the universal l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:25AMWith everything related to Abraham Lincoln back in vogue thanks to Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated movie, a new play about the seamstress who worked for Mary Todd Lincoln is set to open i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:24AMA once in a lifetime event took place on January 14th, when original Broadway cast members and creators from the landmark musicals GREASE, NINE and GRAND HOTEL reunited to help one of their …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMAccording to whatsonstage.com the blockbuster film LES MISERABLES has surpased 'Mamma Mia' as the biggest ever opening weekend for a movie musical in the UK. The film, which just picked up a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AM“What’s the biggest act in vaudeville?” In terms of fame, the answer to that is a poser; you could argue about that ’til the cows come home. But in terms of actual ph…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:16AMCasting has been announced for the upcoming performance of selections from the new Alex Davis musical Shaving, which will be presented Jan. 25 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMEvery third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:10AMThe CAP21 Theatre Company will kick off its 20th anniversary season Feb. 4 with the opening of Karen Mason's new play with music, Unfinished Business.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMFirst and foremost, the link for proposals yesterday was flawed. This one works. I hope you'll submit. Today's retro post is all about finding a place where you stand out. Enjoy! March 30, 2…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AM
Impetus Ensemble will present a reading of Frank J. Avella's Nemesis Feb. 1 at 7:30 PM at the Dramatists Guild as part of the Friday Night Footlights Series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMThe Canadian company could lose up to 600 employees worldwide, despite their massive Las Vegas showsCirque du Soleil could lay off up to 600 employees worldwide, according to reports in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMA starry staged reading of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, which ran for over 600 performances on Broadway and was made into a legendary MGM movie in 1939, will be presented by Coyote Sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMTony Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will present an invitation-only reading of his latest project, a musical about Stephen Ward — the osteopathic physician who became a cen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMThe news that Philip Roth was retiring from writing fiction - "I'm done" is how he announced it to a French interviewer in October - stunned a readership that was well aware that he is in hi…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:40AMAbout two years ago when unrest between the secular and ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh made headlines throughout the world, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Partnership 2G…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:36AMFor her forthcoming documentary, filmmaker Yael Luttwak had no problem coming up with a compelling, hyperarticulate and controversial character. Her father.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:32AMJuliana Smithton (an extraordinary Laurie Metcalf) - caustic, condescending, mocking mother of a distant runaway daughter, successful neurologist and scientific researcher who is in the thro…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AMBroadwayWorld is excited to expand its popular feature series outside the U.S. borders setting our sights on showcasing performance companies around the world Each month we will introduce yo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMNominees for the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, which "celebrate outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and our allies on TV, in fil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMEthel Merman – who possessed the voice that defined the Broadway belt – would have turned 105 Jan. 16. Rose, Reno Sweeney and Annie Oakley were all strong, no-nonsense women and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMVotes 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 09:11AMThis second volume of Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman run goes on a delightful tangent when Diana teams up with three heroes of DC Comics’ sword and sorcery line of the 1970s.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:10AMThe Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis C.K., Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival and more!
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 09:01AMBeautifully Orchestrated Opus at Winchester Little Theater The opening scene of Opus says a lot about what’s to come. Four men sit on four black stools in a line along the back of the st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMIn addition to my life as an arts marketing consultant/international spy, I'm also the Director of Marketing for one of the largest nonprofit theatres in Chicago. So it's my duty to let you …
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:00AM
Not only is this one of the busiest times on area stages, but history has shown that January and February typically spawn many of the season’s best productions. With that in mind, we’ve …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 08:58AMLeslye Headland’s comedy Assistance, currently on stage at the Wilma Theater, is not a great play. It is, however, one that will inspire much discussion about the nature of theater and how…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 08:55AMThe Worcester Chamber Music Society's latest concert was inspired by an ambitious concept and it was played with conviction, but the performance was continuously dogged by problems with acou…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMThe film adaptation of Les Miserables has beaten Mamma Mia!'s box office record for the biggest ever opening weekend for a movie musical in the UK.Tom Hooper's acclaimed film version, which …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:44AMMost of us get our fill of chestnuts in December, but save a little room — if you’re feeling sentimental — for the one served up by The American Century Theatre this month. I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMJoin Arena Stage’s Artistic Director Molly Smith and her partner, Suzanne Blue Star Boy, as they lead The March on Washington for Gun Control on Saturday, January 26th at 10 AM. “…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMFor the past several years, Howard Barker has been continuing his sojourn into the uncharted waters of theatre through a project he has identified as “Plethora and bare sufficiency,…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:28AMBarbican, London: The UK premiere of Chinese puppeteer Yeung Fai's latest show has been feted as one of the highlights of this year's London International Mime Festival, and it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMClarke, Jacobs-Jenkins join legit residency
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20AMBradley Cooper, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Timberlake and Sigourney Weaver will be presenters at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Executiv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMThe Print Room, LondonThe intimate new upstairs space at the Print Room is a winner, made all the more cosy by the hot-water bottles handed out to the audience. I wish I could feel as warmly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMGLAAD announced the nominees for the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AM
Alan Bennett's Untold Stories, currently running at the National Theatre with Alex Jennings playing the playwright and author, is to transfer to the West End's Duchess Theatre, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:55AMThe government must change its proposals for the English Baccalaureate so that it includes arts subjects, or the creative industry will take a “backward turn”, according to peers during …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMToday, Michael Riedel fills in a few more blanks in the New York Post, including word that producer Robert Fox has signed on, as well as director Richard Eyre the National Theater, Mary Popp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27AMFelixstowe’s Spa Pavilion has closed following the termination of its operator’s contract by the local council, which owns the venue. Suffolk Coastal District Council confirmed the venue…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMThe Supreme Fabulettes, an all-male female close harmony vocal group, will play a West End season of eight performances at London's Leicester Square Theatre, beginning Feb. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10AMLONDON (Reuters) - British pop star Elton John announced on Wednesday he had become a father for the second time after the birth via a surrogate mother of Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.
SOURCE: Reuters at 07:03AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Writer/director Lee Breuer, a founding co-artistic director of the New York-based experimental theater company Mabou Mines , explores the work of Tennessee Williams in a workshop prod…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMCould you bring yourself to forgive the murderer of your child? There are remarkable people who manage to do so – such as Gordon Willis spoke those heart-rending and politically transforma…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54AMJamie Lloyd's five-play residency at the newly reconfigured Trafalgar Studios opens next month in glittering style with the James McAvoy-led Macbeth.Although further productions in the seaso…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:49AMThe National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is set to transfer to the Duchess Theatre in March. The double-bill, which features Bennett’s autobiographical recollecti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMMusical will play Off Broadway after San Diego bow
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28AMRiding high on the global success of the big screen adaptation of Les Miserables, Cameron Mackintosh has turned his attention to revivals of some of his not so prominent musicals.
When Moby…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:23AM
Continuing the conversation with a composer cool enough to make ice cubes shiver. By Michael Ruby (Writer) Last week, I kicked off my run writing for Crazytown with the first in a series of …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:04AMFive noteworthy things about the Les Miserables movie that NOBODY seems to be talking about. By Michael Kras (Actor/Director/Playwright) Admit it: You've seen the movie version of Les Misera…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:03AMA guide to living like you've got all the time in the world (because you do) By Jen Littlefield (Choreographer/Librettist) One of my main (and most rewarding) jobs at this moment is as an ad…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:02AMOn growing up, but not completely. By Alisha Giampola (Actor) When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lot of things when I grew up. Which is why I became an actor. Hypothetically, the plan was to…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:01AMThe best (or at least my favorites) of cabaret series/madhouse Our Hit Parade. By Kimberly Lew (Playwright/Blogger) The concept is simple: once a month, hosts Neal Medlyn and Bridget Everett…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
The New York Times 01/16/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:53AMFor all its ruminative merits, Richard Vergette's drama is not the “searing political thriller” it purports to be. It raises lots of interesting questions, but they get in the way of any…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:49AM"Hello, Benedict," said Arthur Smith, shaking me warmly by the hand. As I'd brushed my hair, and my teeth, it was slightly galling to be mistaken for the walrus-moustached (with food attache…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:14AMLeo is a mind-bending creation from Berlin company Circle of Eleven that merges circus, dance, digital projections and comedy into a wonderfully physical experience and brings circus into an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:08AM
Alex Jennings reprises role as Alan Bennett
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45AMAngry White Guy in Chicago, Don Hall, recently re-printed a letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to an aspiring writer. It made me think a bit about the definition of the professional vs. amateur…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:35AMTHE CONCERT: A Broadway Concert to End all Concerts: Brad Alexander, Adam Mathias, Will Aronson, Bill Nelson, Jeff Blumenkrantz, John Bucchino, Patrick Cook, Frederick Freyer, Anna Da…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:33AMMuseum has come under fire for land deal, executive pay and allegations of document shredding.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15AMWhy Wait for Fall...The Fig Leaves Are Falling Now: The original Broadway production of The Fig Leaves Are Falling was titled Birth is the Coward’s Way Out and it opened at the Broadhurst …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:14AMIt’s a production that sneaks up on you and hits you with a hard emotional wallop
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMLifehouse Performs Live In The Studio
Jason Wade, Rick Woolstenhulme Jr., and Bryce Soderberg -- better known as Lifehouse -- pay a visit to the Studio with instruments in hand to perform th…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMMaria Sharapova's Sugar Rush
When it comes to candy, Maria Sharapova is all aces! The tennis star launches her own line of sweet treats at the It's Sugar store in Universal CityWalk, and we'…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
The new off-Broadway show “Midsummer (A Play With Songs)” proves that you can still get a lot of great mileage out of boy-meets-girl. Hollywood has cranked out so many awful romantic com…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:33AMAlmost a year ago, when I was attending the Holders Festival in Barbados — one of the Caribbean’s leading performing arts festivals — I had a nice chat with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who ha…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AMThe Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center present FREUD'S LAST SESSION, New York's long-running hit play by Mark St. Germain, is set to open in Los An…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the regional premiere of SOMEWHERE, a captivating new play told in exuberant dance as well as drama by playwright M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMOne Show: The Process of There to HereFinding and bringing the "agressively contemporary"During the past 15 years, Tina Rasmussen has been engaged in a variety of capacities including Artist…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMReview: "Tawny Tell Me True": Out of This World. Performing as his alter ego Tawny Heatherton, David Drake once again filled the air with laughter, joy, and rainbows as he took the audience …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:03AMThe Soho Rep production of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's marathon work, Life and Times: Episodes 1-4, which is staged as part of the Public Theater's 2013 Under the Radar Festival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMWe like Opera Five and the joyful silliness (and instruction) we get out of their Opera Cheats - each a little capsule on one opera. Their latest is on La Bohème. It's hump day! Have fun (a…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMMike Wallace interviews Salvador Dali in 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten." Wendy Kaminer, I'm Dysfunctional, You're...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM1908 or 1909 or 1912 There's no birthday like Merm's birthday. Ethel Zimmermann is born in Astoria N.Y. today. In years to come she will be acting and belting all over town as Ethel …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSee Through
by Mary Anne Arntzen
Through Jan. 27 at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore
For more information, visit icabaltimore.org
Flatness was a defining obsession of…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMGreen Acres
By Sue Spaid
at Red Emma’s Jan. 18
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “Untitled (bicycle shower),” one of the BMA’s new acquisitions, might seem a bit out of place in the …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe Soho Rep production of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's marathon work, Life and Times: Episodes 1-4, which is staged as part of the Public Theater's 2013 Under the Radar Festival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVeteran Chicago stage actress Kate Buddeke, who appeared on Broadway in the 2003 revival of Gypsy and the 2009 premiere of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, stars as Margie Walsh in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOriginal Fantasticks star Rita Gardner leads the cast of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of Amy Herzog's poignant drama 4000 Miles — about a broken young man and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Paramount Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning musical The Music Man, as part of the company's 2012-13 Broadway Series, beginning Jan. 16, prior to an official opening Jan. 18, in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSeason 12 of the hit reality-singing competition "American Idol" debuts with a two-night premiere Jan. 16-17 at 8 PM ET on Fox.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning actress Priscilla Lopez stars in the regional premiere of Somewhere — a new dance-centered drama set against the filming of "West Side Story" — …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMShe’s best-known to the world-at-large for her long-running role as Jackie, sister of the title character in the TV sitcom, “Roseanne.” But actress Laurie Metcalf has had a long and di…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AM 
