THEATER REVIEW: "Skylight" (3 stars) through Feb. 10 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.; running time: 2 hours, 35 minutes; tickets: $45-$65 at 773-753-4472 or courttheatre.org
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:34PMAs the curtain opens on “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” performed by the National Ballet of Canada at the Kennedy Center, we’re in familiar territory. That is, it’s familiar if…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:32PMKevin Dennis (photo credit: Bruce Monk)The American Psyche Sungby Edgar GovernoIn theory, the American Dream is one of limitless possibility—no matter what your background is, you can achi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:27PMThe Outside the Box Musical Theater Group is casting a new musical. Choreographer Kay Cole the original Maggie in A Chorus Line and veteran casting director Michael Donovan are behind the ta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00PMAmerica Ferrera could sell anything—an American manufactured car, a somewhat unbelievable play, or even herself. In “Bethany,” Laura Marks’ social commentary of a dra…
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When a masked assailant ran up to Sergei Filin outside his Moscow home, splashing his face with liquid that turned out to be acid, the long-simmering conflict within the Bolshoi Ballet took …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:42PMIt’s extremely difficult to describe a show where four performers transform into approximately two dozen different beings throughout the night. A yellow, worm-like creature slinks across t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:29PMBroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our January 19th SIP round-up. Yesterday evening's photos featured the ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMFrom Broadway With Love A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook will take place 700 pm on January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening will be a concert of love an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMCirque du Soleil’s OVO is now playing at The Grand Chapiteau, Docklands (Melbourne) and photographer David Wyatt from Capturing Images shot these magnificent images at the show’s media …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PM
According to BBC News, the Les Miserables film soundtrack is the first cast recording to hit No. 1 on the UK and Ireland album chart in 16 years. The last movie musical to reach the top of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMAccording to the Yale Daily News, alumnus playwright Christopher Durang collapsed onstage yesterday, January 19, during a performance of Kiss Me, Kate.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMNotwithstanding the considerable charms of librarians — named Marian and otherwise — it's the kid who holds the emotional keys to "The Music Man," the masterful Meredith Willson …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:11PMAfter the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I felt like I’d felt after 9/11: grief stricken, traumatized and voiceless. In all the categories I fall in: woman, mother, playwright,…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
Don Evans’ comedy about a middle-class black household in Philadelphia is played here as a studio shoot of a 1970s sitcom, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:47PM Jane Montgomery Griffiths’s extraordinary one-woman play brings the ancient Greek poetess Sappho to life in order to ponder her existence. It’s part literary history…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:23PMBy mixing vocal music with storytelling, the director and his actors quickly befriend a welcoming audience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:08PMSILENCE! The Musical will play a special holiday weekend performance today, January 20th at 5 PM at the Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square. Following the announcement that SILENCE!…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PM“Broadway Romance,” a program of theater songs performed by Howard McGillin, Rebecca Luker and Ted Sperling, brings nostalgia to the Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00PMTickets should cost money. If I didn’t write about theatre, I wouldn’t be able to see anywhere near as much theatre as I do. Theatre tickets aren’t free because theatre is created by p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PM
Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes emotionally charged dramas about marginalised women. She tells Maddy Costa how adapting The Turn of the Screw brought back haunting memories of her ownOn a grey afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59PMACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A PLAY Anarchy is not chaos. The former means “without law,” and the latter means “without form.” This is an important distinction to consider in a play that inte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58PMThose familiar with director Peter Brook’s work over the last decade or so—most recently in New York “The Magic Flute,” “Love Is My Sin,” and the soon-to-…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:48PMThe revival of Clifford Odets’ boxing themed drama Golden Boy ended its run on January 20. Staring the young Julliard standout, Seth Numrich, the play opened on December 6 at the …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:41PMFor almost half a century (between 1932 ’till the late 60s) a single word would appear beautifully inscribed on the streets of Sydney. It was always the same, written in yellow chalk in pe…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:24PMWritten by: Paulanne Simmons Stacie Perlman, who burst onto the cabaret scene when she was named first runner-up in the 2011 MetroStar Competition at The Metropolitan Room, returns wi…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:18PMCurtains closed on Glengarry Glen Ross after the David Mamet revival finished its final performance on January 20. The successful, limited engagement run starred Al Pacino and Bobby Can…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:17PMAfter five Tony awards and 11 successful months, Peter and the Starcatcher has closed on Broadway. The final performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre was on January 20 but casting is a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:11PMLONDON (Reuters) - The soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated movie "Les Miserables" climbed to the top spot in the UK albums chart, the first film cast recording to do so since Madonna's "Evita"…
SOURCE: Reuters at 02:05PMAre critics chasing "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"?
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The sibling showdown at the end of the dysfunctional family drama "No Quarter" -- in which playwright Polly Stenham underlines the importance of choice and responsibility -- is truthful …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PMWith a burst of shimmering confetti and streamers, Cirque du Soleil's "Iris" bade a festive "au revoir" to Los Angeles on Saturday at the Dolby Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMAre critics luxuriating in "Picnic"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:48PMA prize-winning 82 minute documentary by Australian filmmaker Lawrence Johnston, “Night,” was filmed prior to its release in 2008 primarily in 35mm/HD, without the use of CGI. This speci…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:38PM
In this two-actor play, produced in Writers’ intimate back-of-the-bookstore theater, directed by Kimberly Senior, Kate Fry and Mark L. Montgomery create a tension-filled, paranoia-tinged C…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:56PMONE RIVER CITY DESERVES ANOTHER If ever a show spelled out summer, it’s Meredith Willson’s 1957 masterpiece The Music Man. Throughout the rollicking story the title character exu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:46PMBelow, watch the Polish cast of LES MISERABLES perform a flash-mob version of 'One Day More' in Warsaw to promote the release of the LES MIS movie
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMThis week in New York theater: January 14, 2013 Big Fish, a new musical based on the 2003 film, is opening on Broadway’s Neil Simon Theater on October 6 directed by Susan Stroman a with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PMFrom the
ponderous solemnity of the opening you get the impression Birtwistle had
decided that The Minotaur would be his ‘mature masterpiece.’
Unlikely to write an opera about a …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:07PM“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PM
My 2013 theatergoing started with my first trip to the Metropolitan Opera in about 4 1/2 years. Out of the blue, I got a message from Roxie asking me if I was interested in seeing Turandot a…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 11:53AMWelcome to middle age... proceed with caution Diane Cary, Jane Kaczmarek and Sharon Sharth star as three successful women who challenge themselves to find love and personal fulfillment in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMSILENCE! The Musical will play a special holiday weekend performance today, January 20th at 5 PM at the Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMSoho theatre, LondonBlind Summit are the UK's puppet masters, a company whose shows, such as Low Life and the brilliant The Table, have proved that puppetry doesn't have to come either with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AM1. THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUANCan we practice goodness and create a world to sustain it? In Brecht’s comic and complex play, this question is raised by one of his most enter…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:27AM
Watch the Livestream today of the Latino inaugural concert in Washington DC at 7 pm via Facebook or httpentretenimiento.univision.com
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMFrom the transcripts of the Federal Open Market Committee:
MR. FISHER: The situation remains real, but we've gone beyond suspended reality. If you will forgive me, you might say we have gon…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:20AMTo continue their season of strong female characters, Reston Community Players (RCP) presents The Savannah Disputation. What happens when two Roman Catholic sisters open the door and let a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AMPeter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice, will play its final Broadway performance today, January 20, 2013, ending its nearly year-lo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05AMGLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, which began previews on Friday, October 19, 2012, and officially opened on Saturday, December 8, 2012, will close today, January 20, 2013, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMToday is the birthday of Rosa and Josefa Blazek (1878-1922). They were a pair of conjoined twin sisters from Bohemia (now Czech Republic). Exhibition of the girls at local fairs began from t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:00AMPIPPIN ends its pre-Broadway run today, January 20, 2013 at the American Repertory Theater A.R.T. in Cambridge, Mass., where Diane Paulus serves as Artistic Director.
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Today is the birthday of Arthur “Arte” Johnson (b. 1929). He broke into television in the mid-50s, often playing nebbishy types (vertically challenged and bespectacled as Johnson…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:58AMToday is the 117th birthday of Nathan Birnbaum, a.k.a George Burns. For more on him and the legendary act he had with his wife Gracie Allen go here. I usually re-post it on Gracie’s bi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:37AMROCKY - The Musical, featuring Drew Sarich and Wietske van Tongeren, made its world premiere in Hamburg this winter. Hear what the cast and creative team have to say about the show below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AMThe 'outsider' troupe explores power, cultural misappropriation and more in its 'Ganesh Versus the Third Reich.'At first blush, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" sounds like a long-lost Monty …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Many of you folks know that the Kevin Kline Awards, part of the Professional Theatre Council of St. Louis (PTC), a local organization formed with the intention of honoring excellen…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:46AMTonight, January 20, 2013, the Monroe Theatrespace is set to host the 'Broadway in Hoboken' benefit. An impressive collection of Broadway performers will come together in Hoboken for an incr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMActress Eva Longoria, San Antonio philanthropist and business leader Henry R. Munoz III and San Juan attorney and activist Andres W. Lopez, in partnership with the nation's leading Latino or…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTVGuide.com reports that Turner Classic Movies will honor legendary entertainer Danny Kaye on what would have been his 100th birthday, today, January 20th. The channel will air a 24-hour mar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFrench choreographer David Wampach‘s Sacre at the Invisible Dog Art Center (unrecognizable- its white gallery/warehouse vibe magically transformed into a black box theater) was a brief…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 12:14AM(photo credit: Scarlet O'Neil)Theatre Photography Mini-Masterclassby Dahlia Katz @DahliaKatz[Dahlia Katz is a Toronto photographer, theatre director/dramaturg, and winner of the Ch…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMTwo Beautiful Citiesby Natalie Gershtein As I write this from my New York apartment in the Upper (extremely Upper) West Side, I am overwhelmed by the stronghold Montreal has on my heart. I m…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMIn Performance at the Kennedy Center, an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, is held Jan. 20. Tony Award winners Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera are among …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWomen'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 12:00AMIn Performance at the Kennedy Center, an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, is held Jan. 20. Tony Award winners Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera are among …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSteve Alpert and Ken Greiner in association with Slant Theatre Project present the world premiere of Mat Smart's The Steadfast, which begins performances Jan. 20 at TBG Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, plays its final performance at the Gerald Schoenfe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill catches up with playwright David Ives, respected for his Venus in Fur, New Jerusalem, All in the Timing, Encores! concerts and adaptations of European classics — and that new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA host of Broadway understudies, who never had the opportunity to go on in the roles they were covering, get their chance to stand in the spotlight Jan. 20 at 54 Below in an evening titled N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLincoln Center Theater's 75th anniversary revival of Clifford Odets' 1937 drama Golden Boy, starring Seth Numrich as a young musician torn between two worlds, ends its Broadway run J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe beloved play with music Peter and the Starcatcher, which utilizes 12 actors to take audiences on an adventure to the origins of Peter Pan, ends its Tony Award-winning Broadway run Jan. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column discusses Barbara Cook's new album, "Loverman," and the remastered soundtrack recording of "Bye Bye Birdie," the movie starring Ann-Margret.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNina Raine's hit family drama Tribes, about a young deaf man who must face leaving his own dysfunctional clan in order to secure his own future, ends its extended, critically acclaimed O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American Repertory Theater production of the Tony Award-winning Stephen Schwartz-Roger O. Hirson musical Pippin, staged by two-time Tony Award nominee Diane Paulus, ends its run Jan. 20 …
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