Half of the Joyce winners for 2013 are based in the Twin Cities.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 07:57PMGiven Bertolt Brecht’s affection for the “lowbrow” art forms of Weimar Germany, especially the gender-bending and darkly comic musical styles of the cabaret, it’s no …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30PMMiddle and high school students in Shrewsbury can relax during the upcoming school vacation, Feb. 18-22, or they can use the time to build or expand their theater or basketball skills.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:18PMNEW YORK (AP) — It seems only fitting: With the bones of King Richard III found under a parking lot in Britain, a theater company that performs free Shakespeare plays every summer in a New…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:15PMAt the top of the list of fabled husband-and-wife artistic partnerships you will find such pairings (for better AND for worse) as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Le…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:14PMNoel Coward's Fallen Angels is the 1920s equivalent of a sitcom: a silly, entertaining, diversion that lifts spirits without straining brain muscles. The Pasadena Playhouse production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM
Shoshana Bean will celebrate the release of her long-awaited sophomore CD, 'O'Farrell Street,' with an album release concert and party at The Sayers Club in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Februar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMOpening at the Geffen Playhouse tonight is a satire that promises to divide audiences with its morally challenging twist. I recently interviewed the two ferociously intelligent women who hav…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMThe Australian Premiere of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play Driving Miss Daisy will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at the Playhouse, QPAC, Brisbane. The production st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:49PM"It's not looking good, is it?" So says Wilhelm Voigt (Antony Sher) passing himself off as the high-handed, titular army captain. He's wrong, as it happens.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:47PM"As a white atheist male I am told it is none of my business to deal with what‘s going on in the so-called de-colonized societies enforcing their religious laws on their citizens." -- Josh…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:44PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:35PMAustralian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith returns to the Geffen with the US premiere of The Gift. Although it's still set in LA and the Caribbean, Murray-Smith and director Maria Aitken disc…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:30PM"We're inventing a Rome," said Jonathan Munby over lunch recently, "that looks and feels like contemporary Washington."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMLady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill is a beautifully, devastating musical biography of a legend. We’ve lost Billie Holiday but for a limited engagement we have Alexis J. Rogers. Thi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:20PMRehearsals begin Tuesday for Thoroughly Modern Millie, a co-production that will originate at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, Fla., March 5 - 24, and continue at Paper Mill Playhouse i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PMDiversity is important but trickyAdapted Chekhov has some problemsby David C. JonesI am a huge advocate of diversity in casting - we live in a multi-cultural society and the mirror art holds…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:16PMExposed Blake Pfeil In Concert was presented on Jan. 27, 2013, at the Time Out Lounge at New World Stages. Performers included Jane Pfitsch Pump Boys and Dinettes, Company, Les Liaisons Dang…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:10PMThe Public Theater will welcome musicians David Byrne, Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson and Wynton Marsalis, along with playwright Suzan-Lori Parks as part of its upcoming Public Forum e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PMAs BroadwayWorld previously announced, country music icon Carrie Underwood is slated to portray the role of Maria von Trapp in NBC's upcoming live holiday broadcast of The Sound of Music in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMStephen Bourneuf steps into an executive role at a theater he knows well.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:06PMThe philosopher Aristotle once said, "We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right matter at the right moment and for the rig…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:02PMThe skinny on South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company equine stand-ins for the mighty steeds in “War Horse.”
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:01PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information @AtlanticTheater & @strandbookstore team up for The S…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:00PMHoward Rosenstein (photo credit: Brian Morel)Greywater’s Organ Grinder.Hard Work and Obedience Will Set You Free.by Nanette SoucyThe Bain St. Michel has been transformed into a conference …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:00PMNew, quiet fans will be installed by the time "Spamalot" opens in June.
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Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks will soon make his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, the final work by three-time Academy Award-nominee Nora Ephron and directed by two-time Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMCaissie Levy is bringing her big voice to the small nightclub 54 Below for a one-night-only concert on March 10. Levy’s solo show will include folk, pop music, rock songs from the '…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMKeri Alkema and Isabel Leonard as Sesto (photo: Michael Cooper)Light, Modern, Lovelyby Shannon ChristyWhat stands out about this La Clemenza Di Tito is how modern and streamlined this produc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:48PMMaría Irene Fornés, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was welcomed by friends and fellow playwrights when relocated on Wednesday to a Manhattan nursing home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMThe San Francisco Playhouse gives Stephen Adly Guigis's The Motherfucker with the Hat its West Coast premiere, and it's a motherfucker of a show.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:42PMThe characters in John Patrick Shanley’s “Italian American Reconciliation” appreciate the minestrone at their local diner. Watching them relish their soup in the version of the play no…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:41PMNow that Richard III's bones have been brought to light, casting doubt on his humped back and withered arm, will stage interpretations of him change? Several Shakespeare specialists in the L…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:40PMAtlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is pleased to announce The Strand Series, a new partnership with the legendary Strand Book Store. P…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMThe U.S. premiere of Backbeat just opened at the Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre. The dramatic new play with music about the birth of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands in history,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMShakespeare Theatre Company, the Tony Award-honored Washington, DC, theatre, will stage plays by Noël Coward, William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde in its 2013-14 season, artistic directo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PMGiving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCMR Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League just presented 'One Night Stand Creati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMSignature Theatre teams up this winter with Artistic Associate Joe Calarco for a bold new production of Calarco's play Shakespeare's RampJ. Presented as Signature's first-ever production in-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMIn Careless Rhapsody, award-winning vocalist, director and Broadway actor The Frogs, Sweet Smell of Success, and Kiss Me, Kate Eric Michael Gillett uses the wit and wisdom of Lorenz Hart to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMWhat does Julie Andrews think of NBC's upcoming Sound of Music telecast, and will she be in it? These seem to be the big questions on fans’ minds since the announcement of the live…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMAtlantic Theater Company has announced The Strand Series, a new partnership with the legendary Strand Book Store. Presented with each Atlantic Mainstage production, the conversation series e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMSignature Theatre teams up this winter with Artistic Associate Joe Calarco for a bold new production of Calarco's play Shakespeare's RampJ. Presented as Signature's first-ever production in-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMBleak bleak bleak -- a bold way to start a play, but it works wonderfully. Strangers, a woman and a boy, on a cold, road at night, next to a cemetery, waiting for a bus, but the vivid charac…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:05PMPetite and pretty in a creamy satin dress and opera-length gloves — her hair meticulously coiffed and makeup just so — Alexis J. Rogers arrives on stage to play Billie Holiday in the Por…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:05PMIt’s safe to say that no matter if you love or love-to-hate “Smash,” the theater community was excited for the anticipated season two premiere on Tuesday night—mainly…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:05PMHow much will mega-movie star Tom Hanks make from his upcoming Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy? The short answer: a lot.
Bloomberg reports that Hanks will make a minimum o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMThroughout February and March, Opera Australia is presenting a special series of concerts featuring the greatest hits from the operatic stage and some of Australia’s finest singers. Do you…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMEpisode Twenty-Seven: Workshop Q&A This past fall Lindsay spent a week working on a new play with students. On the last day she lead a Q & A with them about the process and the play.…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMOkay: I’m a self-proclaimed arthead with only the feeblest grasp of economics. But after several seasons planning artistic programming and then seeing how many patrons actually show up for…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
Open auditions for the Norton Singers’ spring show, “Oliver!,” a musical based on Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist,” will take place Feb. 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. at Chartley United Me…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:53PMIn a claustrophobic studio, where there is only a single spotlight on two foul-mouthed performers, you are forced to listen to their problems and ask yourself the big questions. In what can …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:52PMJohn Heimbuch and Jon Ferguson collaborate on this version of Washington Irving’s ghostly and oddly romantic story.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:52PMA note in the program of "Clive" places us in the 1990s, but promises we will "also hear the future and the past."
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:51PMThe divas take a moment to relax on an earlier stop of their tour.You know, some days I feel so lucky to be able to do this. And one such day was last Sunday, when I was privileged to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:49PMAN IMPROVISED TRUTH Los Angeles-based Impro Theatre opens a run of Jane Austen: UnScripted on Valentine’s Day at the Pasadena Playhouse’s Carrie Hamilton Theatre. Their most rece…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:48PMManhattan Theatre Club announces complete casting for its upcoming production of THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, the world premiere play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC’s aw…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:41PMTheatre Development Fund's Autism Theater Initiative will offer the first autism-friendly performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark April 27 at 2 PM. Tickets will go on sale Feb. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced complete casting for its upcoming production of The Assembled Parties, the world premiere play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC’…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:34PMOPENING AMERICAN LEGENDS. The Joffrey Ballet presents its winter engagement, featuring a mixed repertory program of four “sensual, romantic and playful ballets” by master choreographers.…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:30PMBarefoot Theatre Company will continue its new bareNaked Reading Series Molly Marinik, Program Director Jennie West, Co-Producer with a reading of RUBBLE by four-time Emmy Award winning writ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMA handful of Broadway stars will join composer Frank Wildhorn in Los Angeles on February 18 for Frank Wildhorn & Friends at the Pantages Theater.
Wildhorn alums Deborah Cox (Jekyll &a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:25PMHartford Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts, today announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere stage ad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMWillow Smith, the 'Whip My Hair' tween hitmaker daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, has withdrawn from the forthcoming feature film remake of ANNIE. Charles Strouse, Thomas Meehan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMBroadway.com knows what makes New York City theater tick, but what about the rest of the country? We’ve scoured the nation for the best theater offerings in your neck of the woods and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PMProducers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy have just announced additional Broadway casting for the world premiere of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, based on the life of iconic Motown founder…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMCasting is complete for Broadway's Motown: The Musical as newcomers Raymond Luke Jr. and Jibreel Mawry will play Young Berry Gordy, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, with Bryan Ter…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PMAfter a nationwide talent search, actors Raymond Luke Jr. and Jibreel Mawry have been tapped to share the roles of Young Berry Gordy, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder in the upcoming world…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMChild actors Raymond Luke Jr. and Jibreel Mawry will take on the roles of young Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Berry Gordy in the new Broadway musical Motown, which will begin previews M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Signature Theatre presents The Dance and the Railroad written by David Henry Hwang and directed by May Adrales. All tickets for the initial run of the production are 25 as part of the Signat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:56PMLAS VEGAS (AP) — An overnight shooting in a parking structure outside a Las Vegas Strip movie theater left two people critically wounded and one person with a minor injury, police said Wed…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:55PMWith the Les Miserables movie a huge success at the box office (and racking up awards left and right!) Glee decided to pay tribute to the uber-popular musical. On the show's Februar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMWith the Les Miserables movie a huge success at the box office (and racking up awards left and right!) Glee decided to pay tribute to the uber-popular musical. On the show's Februar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMMary Zimmerman is one of the theater world's most acclaimed directors, known for her inventive productions of everything from Candide to The Arabian Nights. But the piece that has brought he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMMary Martello began acting at seven. Fifty years later, she’s just completed what may have been the finest performance of her career: playing the cruel, desperate Mag in Lantern Theater’…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 03:29PMDirector John Rando returns to David Ives’ popular comedy They say that so much of comedy is in the timing, but really, it’s in the relationships, too. Take David Ives’ All…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:29PMBy far the most interesting scenes in Assassin are when Robson examines the limited shelf life of professional athletes and the toll football takes on its players’ bodies. Despite walking …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 03:28PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos (Glengarry Glen Ross), Mark Blum (Gore Vidal's The Best Man), Tony nominee Sam Robards (The 39 Steps), Lauren Blumenf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMWhen she’s not being motherly in Picnic, Mare Winningham has plenty of family keepsakes in her dressing room to remind her of home, including her beloved guitar, a memoir written by he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMBrandon Bennett of the hit musical THE MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman last night for an Elvis Presley tribute. Check out the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMSince The Heiress opened on Broadway, it's become painfully obvious that Jessica Chastain is the best at everything. While starring as Catherine Sloper in the revival of Ruth a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PMBetter Nate Than Ever, the acclaimed debut novel by Tim Federle that was just named an Amazon Best Book of the Month, was released yesterday, February 5 from Simon amp Schuster Books for You…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMTony Award winner Tonya Pinkins will be joined by music director Brad Simmons (Lysistrata Jones) for Bring On the Men, which will be offered Feb. 18 and March 24 at 9:30 PM at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMBush theatre, LondonIt is said that on the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, US treasury secretary Hank Paulson looked out of his office window, saw the future – and threw up. Queenie and Cas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM
We are just too kind. We have yet another competition for you! Our friends over at Pleasance Theatre in Islington have given us two pair of tickets for their production Coalition to be cla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:58PMPlaybill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM“This is starting to feel like an Indiana Jones movie or something!” a character exclaims in Spooky Action Theater’s “Kafka on the Shore.” There is, certainly, a swashbuckling adve…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:55PMThis season's THE HEIRESS herself, Jessica Chastain, joins LES MISERABLES star Hugh Jackman as well as prominent theatre names such as this summer's Shakespeare-In-The-Park INTO THE WOODS le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMBroadwayWorld.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 02:44PMFirst produced on Broadway in 1959 and recognized as a classic today, Lorraine Hansberry’s play about a black family seeking its way up the ladder of success to achieve the American Dream …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:43PMTony Award winner Betty Buckley returned to the London stage Feb. 4 in Charing Cross Theatre's production of Jerry Herman's Dear World. Playbill.com looks back at her stage career, s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMBroadway trooper Tim Federle has just released his debut novel "Better Nate Than Ever," which captures the adventure of a young theatre lover with Broadway dreams who sneak…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMFEAR AND LOATHING IN THE SPANISH GHETTO Octavio Solis’ Se Llama Cristina is a gritty, mind-bending trip. The main characters, Man and Woman, slip in and out of past, present, and future …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39PMThe complete cast has been announced for Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Assembled Parties, the new play by Tony winner Richard Greenberg. Previews begin at Broadway&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMNBC's hit musical drama series SMASH had its Season Two premiere last night and new castmember Jeremy Jordan Jimmy Collins has already scored a coup for the show with scoring a slot on the i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:28PMTony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim will join director John Doyle Feb. 14 at the Greene Space to discuss the new Off-Broadway staging of Passon, which will beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMThe vision of Lorraine Hansberry has steered Andi Chapman's theatrical career recently. First Ebony Rep, where she is associate artistic director, produced A Raisin in the Sun. Now Actors Co…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:23PMSean Abley
Rob Ackerman
Liz Duffy Adams
Johnna Adams
Tony Adams
David Adjmi
Keith Josef Adkins
Nastaran Ahmadi
Derek Ahonen
Kathleen Akerley
Daniel…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 02:19PMCasting is complete for the Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, Manhat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMAfter starring on the West End in Chicago, West Side Story and Sister Act, Debbie Kurup is all but stealing the London premiere production of The Bodyguard from the formidable Heather Headle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:11PMManhattan Theatre Club announces complete casting for its upcoming production of THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, the world premiere play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC's awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMSirius XM Radio SIRI announcedtoday that legendary recording artist Tony Bennett will sit down for an intimate QampA session with an audience of SiriusXM listeners, moderated by Alec Baldwin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMNEW YORK (AP) — The first-ever autism-friendly performance of the Broadway hit "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will take off this spring and tickets go on sale Thursday.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The first-ever autism-friendly performance of the Broadway hit "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will take off this spring and tickets go on sale Thursday....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:03PMLast year Blanche McIntyre officially became theatre's Next Big Thing when she was named Most Promising Newcomer at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, a title previously given to, among oth…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMDonnetta GraysAnupama Chandrasekhar Matt Pelfrey Caroline V. McGrawKiran Rikhye David KotelesLyle KesslerJaclyn BackhausChelsea SuttonLaura Marks Don ZolidisConcepción León Mora Saúl Enr�…
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Singer-actress Julie Halston will offer a month-long engagement of her one-woman show, Classical Julie, beginning March 4 at Birdland as part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMActor Peter Michael Goetz has been replaced by Raye Birk for the remainder of the run of "Long Day's Journey" at the Guthrie.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:53PMEven after he leaves “Lucky Guy” on Broadway, Tom Hanks stands to earn as much as $20,000 a week.
For his Broadway debut, Hanks, 56, will get 2 percent of ticket sales should producer…
SOURCE: Business Week at 01:50PM"I think we're somewhere between idiots and true believers," said Michael Cohl, one of the lead producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Cohl and fellow Spider-Man producer Jeremiah Harr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMHamish Linklater's drama The Vandal has extended its off-Broadway run by two weeks. Starring Dierdre O'Connell, the play will now run through March 3 at Flea Theatre. Directed by Jim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:40PMTickets are now on sale for the Signature Theatre Company revival of Lanford Wilson’s archaeological drama The Mound Builders, starring Zachary Booth, David Conrad and Janie Brookshire…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:38PMThe world premiere of Hamish Linklate's The Vandal, a new dark comedy that opened Jan. 31 at the Flea Theater, has extended its Off-Broadway run to March 3. The three-actor cas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMIn this guest blog, playwright Emma Adams tells AYT about performing her own work for the first time and explains how being dyslexic has made her a pragmatic writer… Ordinarily I’m a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:22PMThe Charing Cross Theatre's production of Jerry Herman's Dear World, starring Tony Award winner Betty Buckley, began performances at the London venue Feb. 4. Here is a first look at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMTom Riis Ferrell will join the cast of the Keen Company's newly revised version of A.R. Gurney's The Old Boy. Ferrell replaces Hal Robinson, who withdrew from the show for personal r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PMPaul Downs Colaizzo takes a dull pencil-to-paper with his new work, Really Really. New take on an old issue? Rape. But as we come to learn, there are always three or four…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:18PMSpeaking to the audience just before the curtain lifted on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Tuesday night, Robert Battle, the company’s director, joked about how he hadn’t been bor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMWhile The Vaccines Come of Age is a very good album, I can’t listen to it without thinking that maybe the band grew up a little too fast.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PMTony winner Betty Buckley returns to the London stage as the eccentric recluse Countess Aurelia in the British premiere of Jerry Herman’s Dear World. Directed and choreographed by Oliv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PMDuring a recent Twitter exchange, Washington Post Theatre Critic Peter Marks (@petermarksdrama) commented: "You cannot credibly make claim to being America's no. 2 theater town if most nomme…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 01:08PMBroadwayWorld is thrilled to present its latest feature series The Performer of the Week Get to know these amazing talents as they share a bit about themselves, their work and life Today, we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMThe Vineyard Theatre's annual gala — this year, celebrating the institution's 30th anniversary — will be held March 18 at The Edison Ballroom. Original cast members from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
Corn Bred Films announces the television premiere of its first film, the documentary Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha & Potter Palmer. In celebration of Women’s History …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:58PMBack in the day, the Temptations sang “Get Ready,” and that title is doubly appropriate as previews of “Motown: The Musical” are slated to start March 11 on Broadway at the Lunt-Font…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:57PMTax credits for film production are a familiar enough concept for those who follow Massachusetts political and cultural news.As I posted last year, the concept of tax credits for large, Broa…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:56PMThe producers of Motown: The Musical have announced additional Broadway casting for the world premiere of the new musical based on the life of iconic Motown founder Berry Gordy.
Following …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:54PMTune in to hear CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF stars Ciarán Hinds and Benjamin Walker talk about their roles in the Broadway show on WNYC Radio’s Leonard Lopate Show tomorrow, Thursday, February 7…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:54PMMembers of the community are encouraged to visit Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, during the month of February to celebrate Black History Month and attend several free…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:50PMThe British premiere of Jerry Herman's musical DEAR WORLD, starring Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas and directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, runs through 30 March 2013, with a press …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMHuey Lewis and the News of "Do You Believe in Love" and "Power of Love" fame will headline Zoofari, the St. Louis Zoo's big biannual fundraiser on June 21.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:47PMCamp Broadway Dance recently announced a last call for the registration to its Feb. 16–18 program for teenage dancers between the ages of 14 and 18. The program enables teens to h…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:45PM(BY DOUG GEORGE) Clothes have Fashion Week. Cheeseburgers have Restaurant Week. How is it that this town hasn't had a theater week? Consider the oversight corrected. Coming up, a first-of-it…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PMBack by popular demand, the award-winning parody Silence! The Musical returns to off-Broadway’s Elektra Theatre. Check out the musical's new stars Sean McDermott and Pamela Bob per…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMAn extraordinary evening of theatre. This is a beautifully crafted piece that takes you on a journey and brings you to a place you had NOT planned on going. What a pleasure. A total plea…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:44PMTrevor Nunn's new production of Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack's Kiss Me, Kate plays London's Old Vic following a previous run at Chichester. Alex Bourne and Hannah Waddin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM On March 7, winemakers and owners head to Chicago to spread the great tradition of Willamette Valley wines. Following popular road show events in Seattle, New York and San Francisco, Pino…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:43PMDonnetta GraysHometown: Columbia, South Carolina Current Town: Brooklyn, NY Q: What are you working on now?
A: I am working on two plays of my own ‘The Review or How to Eat Y…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 12:41PMAs a superb theatre administrator, Alexander Schouvaloff was the first curator of the popular and much-missed Theatre Museum in Covent Garden, which covered the history of the performing art…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMJust a few weeks after the Sundance Film Festival ended, the Sundance Institute Theatre Program’s 2013 Playwrights Retreat has started. The 13th annual writer’s colony is held at…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:39PMChicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today two upcoming productions: the American premiere of Othello: The Remix, created by the Q Brothers, March 12–April 28, 2013 in the thea…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:39PMThe second season of "Smash," the Emmy Award-winning musical drama about the creation and inner workings of a Broadway musical, kicked off Feb. 5 with a two-hour season premiere on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMKERRY REID reviews "Leaves, Trees, Forest" by MPAACT at Greenhouse ★★★ and "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Oracle Productions ★★
KERRY REID reviews "Leav…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29PMTHE LADY OF THE GARDENIAS Thanks to Lanie Robertson’s bedrock-basic script, Rob Lindley’s dedicated staging and the utter effacement of a good vocalist into a great one, courtesy of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:25PMHave you had time to breathe since the Broadway-centric Smash season two premiere last night? The toe-tapping musical numbers from the two-hour-long epiosde are still replaying in our heads!…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25PMThe team that brought you Cooter County, which garnered over 3 million upload views, is now currently in production for a new series called OMC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMTom Riis Farrell has joined the cast of the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company's newly revised version of A.R. Gurney’s 1991 play, The Old Boy, which will begin perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMValentine’s Day is a yearly celebration of love—so what better way to mark the holiday than by asking stage stars to reminisce about the first musical that sparked their love of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMAntony Sher hits the emotional bull’s-eye as a petty criminal who impersonates a captain in the Prussian guards, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:13PMdreamthinkspeak’s new piece of site-specific theatre is a quizzical, surreal journey into the world of technology and consumerism, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:13PMOn this date in 1969, Dear World opened on Broadway following 45 troubled previews.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMFor the first time since 1976 when it premiered in London winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical, a full staged production of the Broadway hit A Chorus Line has returned to the West End.…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:09PMEek! Though expectations were high for the return of NBC’s Broadway soap Smash, which premiered its second season on February 5, it appears that people didn’t so much “hate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08PMTony Award nominees Josh Young and Robin de Jesus were part of the Feb. 4 Cutting-Edge Composers concert at Joe's Pub. Music by Joe Iconis, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich was performed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMA spot of table dancing and some pressing questions about chickens were among the highlights of this post-show session discussing a spectacular new exploration of Yoruba cultureThere was on-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWe here at BBB were utterly charmed by this video of the legendary Dick Van Dyke (a Tony Award winner for Bye Bye Birdie and, most recently, a SAG Lifetime Achievement Award winner) performi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:05PMTheater stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PMSteven Webb, whose recent credits include Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), The History Boys (National) and Betwixt! (Trafalgar Studios) will play the title role in Lionel Bart's musical Quasi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:03PMHot young actor Matt Lauria is co-starring as Davis, a good guy in a bad situation, in one of this season’s most-buzzed-about off-Broadway plays, Really Really. While Lauria is making …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PM
BWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 2 of our On the Road series, the cast visits the City Museum in St Louis. Chec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMSpider-Man, Turn Off the Dark's Robert Cuccioli will lead a reading of new musical Distant Thunder as part of the developmental Amas Musical Theatre Lab Series. The show features mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMWhen describing a Taffety Punk production of a Shakespeare show, I find it best to start with the strangest parts. Not sure you want to see another Twelfth Night? Just wait! You’ll groove …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:52AMIn an effort to give the proceedings an intimate, salon feel, the Symphony Hall stage was dotted with a couple of potted plants, three armchairs, and a pair of music stands; the cavernous en…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:50AMLast night was the two-hour premiere of Season 2 of NBC's Golden Globe-nominated musical drama series SMASH, and according to Deadline.com the ratings took a major dip. Compared to the Seaso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMPeter Sullivan, Deborah Findlay, Charlie Rowe and more are set to star in the Old Vic production of The Winslow Boy, a courtroom drama by Terence Rattigan. The cast will join previously anno…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMWe thought our expectations were adjusted when we opened the ratings spreadsheet this morning.
We knew the return of NBC’s Smash on Tuesday night wasn’t going to have nearly as big of a…
SOURCE: insidetv.ew.com at 11:45AMShould cities share their arts funding with rural areas?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:40AMIn a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, ANNIE lyricist Martin Charnin discussed the various reincarnations of his 1970's hit Broadway musical. The self-proclaimed 'keeper' of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMIntroducing Genocide, an inarticulate, unstoppable murder machine that was supposed to be for Wonder Woman what Doomsday was for Superman.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:36AMJewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame , edited by Washingtonians Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy (Twelve), is among the winners of the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards. It took the top spot …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:36AMThe Royal Opera House and Leeds-based Unlimited Theatre are among the cultural groups set to receive funding from Arts Council England for digital projects. The Digital Research and Developm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMIronically, the best word to describe the newly forged connection between two art academies - one here in Washington, D.C., the other in Jerusalem - is b'shert, Yiddish for "meant to be" or …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:33AMTuesday night marked the return of Smash, and Broadway.com asked readers to pick the most surprising moment from the season two opener. At the top of the list came Megan Hilty’s j…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMTony winner Sheldon Harnick will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox Feb. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMLive From Lincoln Center presents 'Kristin Chenoweth The Dames of BroadwayAll of 'Em', a specially conceived concert for Lincoln Center's 2013 American Songbook series, which salutes the gre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMTade Biesinger, a 13-year-old American boy, will begin performances as the title character in the West End production of Billy Elliot on February 6. Biesinger previously played the role in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMThe Hartman Group, a high profile Broadway media relations firm, is currently seeking interns for the Summer of 2013. This is a great opportunity for current college students or recent grad…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 11:19AMLion and Unicorn, London: It is often the case that fringe productions of Shakespeare, in which the cast is dressed in the obligatory modern attire, look like exercises in cost-cutting rathe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMThe York Theatre Company will continue its winter NEO Reading Series with a free staged reading of the new pop-rock musical by Ryan Scott Oliver, Jasper in Deadland, Feb. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMStage and screen legend Julie Andrews visited The Colbert Report on February 5 to talk about her new children's book, The Very Fairy Princess Follows Her Heart, which she co-wrote with h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMThe York Theatre Company will continue its winter NEO Reading Series with the new pop-rock musical, Jasper in Deadland with Book, Lyrics, amp Music by Ryan Scott Oliver.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMThe NBC show we love to hate returns for another season with a bit of nip and tuck. Sadly, this Bombshell looks to bomb againPlenty of Broadway musicals have out-of-town trials before being …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThe 2nd day of the conference was a potpourri of panels with a lot of exciting topics and inspiring ideas about variable pricing (and even more important – how to set the right price f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBroadway Las Vegas will present 10 productions throughout the 2013-2014 season, including “The Book of Mormon” and “Les Miserables.” The latter musical will open the season in August…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMA musical chord. A voice. A lyric. There is something spectacular when these things come together on stage. It is the melting pot of the creative process, which sometimes takes months, years…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:00AM
In 1998, a gaggle of little-known New York theater people brought their tape recorders and their earnest, passionate incredulity to the Wyoming town of Laramie.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 10:58AMCome hear members of Fell Swoop Playwrights read their own writing about artistic inspiration. Check out the details here.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:49AMLast night was the two-hour premiere of Season 2 of NBC's Golden Globe-nominated musical drama series SMASH Tuesdays, 10-11pm ET. In the episodes, back from a successful run in Boston, Eilee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMBBBY gets off to a rousing 13th season Monday saluting 1937 with a romantic line-up of tunes perfect for Valentine’s Day. Among headliners are Brian d'Arcy James and Tonya Pinkins.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:47AMA host of stage and screen stars will be part of Frank Wildhorn & Friends, which will be presented Feb. 18 in the lobby of The Pantages Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMAfter the craziness of opening night and a busy holiday season, Playbill.com takes a look at some of the earlier, more intimate moments with the Broadway company of Annie. Cast member Jeremy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMThe most romantic day of the year is almost upon us and BroadwayWorld has partnered with Broadway's NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT to give you the chance to win the ultimate Valentine's Prize P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMTony Award-winning Once director John Tiffany's new production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie — starring Tony Award winner Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield — …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMThe second season of "Smash," the Emmy Award-winning musical drama about the creation and inner workings of a Broadway musical, kicked off Feb. 5 with a two-hour season premiere on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThis week's retro Wednesday post is all about networking. Have you played Jenga recently? Excelsior! August 12, 2009 I play a lot of jenga Remember this game? It always seemed so simple righ…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMWhat happens when you do a Broadway Show for three years Mitchell Jarvis and Tony LePage have been there and as a result, created a parody of the great prison film 'The Shawshank Redemption'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. The short play below was written by me for the Metropolitan Playhouse’s annual Lower East Side one-act play festival in 200…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:21AMTony nominee Orfeh will co-host and perform at the The 14th Annual Column Awards Gala, which will be held Feb. 25 at the Carpenter Theatre at the Irving Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMCarl Zuckmayer's 1931 satire The Captain of Kopenick has been revived by former RSC artistic director Adrian Noble at the NT Olivier, where it opened to press last night (5 February 2013).
T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:16AMTony winner John Lloyd Young, who is currently playing a return engagement in Broadway's Jersey Boys, will make his Café Carlyle debut Feb. 12-23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMWilliam 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 10:11AMNaked animals and Doctor Who...all in an interview with Kill The Beast, a young company making collaborative work.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:07AMAmas Musical Theatre Donna Trinkoff, Artistic Producer will present three FREE staged readings of Distant Thunder, a new musical with music and lyrics by Chris Wiseman and Shaun Taylor-Corbe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMThe Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced the line-up today for two Public Forum Duets this February, kicking off the spring Public …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05AMSmash is Back! The much anticipated second season of Smash premiered on Tuesday, February 5. The two-hour episode had twitter abuzz and critics clamoring, but what did everyone think? It is…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:04AMGloria Estefan has teamed up with the Nederlander Organization to bring an autobiographical musical based on her life to Broadway. Estefan announced the news yesterday, February 5, along wit…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMI’m sure many people can relate to that scary moment when you look into your past yearbooks and see what you looked like 5, 10 or maybe 15 years ago! Well, we decided it would be entertain…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMToday in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by No…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMAn Aberdeen venue has launched a £5 million redevelopment plan that will include a refurbishment of its children’s theatre, which has fallen into disrepair. Arts Centre and Theatre Aberde…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMNational theatre, LondonWhen Carl Zuckmayer's play was staged by the National at the Old Vic in 1971, it yielded a great comic performance from Paul Scofield. Good as Antony Sher is in the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM
Amas Musical Theatre will present free staged readings of the new musical Distant Thunder Feb. 28 at 1 PM and March 1 at 1 PM and 4 PM at The Players Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM Today is the birthday of Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor ever knighted by the British monarchy (nowadays they seem to give away knighthoods with green stamps). From where we sta…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:56AMBroadwayWorld 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 09:54AMPerhaps we should start being more honest when something we've paid good money for has bored the pants off usIn an interview in the Observer last weekend, the director Marianne Elliott – w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMSPOILER ALERT I didn’t have high expectations for Love Never Dies, but I still managed to be grossly disappointed. I will admit to being a passionate fan of The Phantom of the Opera wh…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:48AMEight years ago, Phelim McDermott was in two minds: he was devoted to his craft as a theatremaker, but frustrated with the industry and with himself. He decided to stop moaning and act, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMQueer Eye for the Straight Guy’s Carson Kressley begins performances in off-Broadway spoof NEWSical the Musical on February 6. The TV personality joins the cast for a four-week engagem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:41AMJoe Raynor discovers the challenges of heading up a student theatre company from In A Nutshell's artistic directors Bethany Hitchcock and Pascale Kasirabo.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:37AMThe new season at London's Bush Theatre will see the London premiere of Off-Broadway's Disgraced, plus world premieres of plays by actor-turned-playwrights Cush Jumbo and Rory Kinnea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMBroadwayWorld's Lauren Gienow talks with ONE NIGHT STAND's Elisabeth Sperling and Trish Dalton, the producers and directors of the film, about the universality of the creative process, the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMTony Award winner Ben Vereen and Tony nominee Norm Lewis (Porgy & Bess) are among the artists who will take part in Black Stars of the Great White Way, celebrating Black History Month, F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMGood Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht; translation by John Willett. Directed by Lear deBessonet; dramaturgy by Anne Erbe; choreography by Danny Mefford; lighting by Tyler Micoleau; costu…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:35AMOn last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central, entertainment icon Julie Andrews discussed her Dame Commander rank, her latest children's book and her celebrated role as Mary Poppins. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AMA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings has been delighting audiences across the UK; having finally caught up with it at Bristol Old Vic, it’s easy to see why. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:25AMComplete casting has been announced for the York Theatre Company’s season opener the Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti, Two By Two, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Martin Charnin, mu…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:25AMToday is the birthday of Babe Ruth (for more on him and his surprising connection to vaudeville go here). And see below for his funny turn in the 1928 Harold Lloyd comedy Speedy: To find ou…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:20AMAudiences members should leave the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of Doubt: A Parable arguing whether Father Flynn did or didn’t abuse a child, and some will be unable to make up thei…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:20AMToday is the birthday of teen idol “Fabian” (b. 1943.) A sort of craven record company attempt to cash in on the Elvis craze (and a fairly successful one), I still can’t he…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:13AMThe rich and well established have always expected superior service. When they stayed at the Four Seasons or shopped at Nordstrom they expected to be treated with care. They expected their i…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:11AMThis is the second post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. Find the full series here. I want you to take a moment to think about the first moments of your …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:07AMDirector Robert Richmond talks about his vision for Henry V at Folger Theatre, which is receiving raves from audiences and local critics alike. Joel: Why did you want to direct this produc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04AMMy Romantic History is something different. Well, it’s a rom-com which isn’t different, but it is different to see a story told this purely onstage. We have Tom (David McCusker) …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AM“Wicked” and “Les Miserables” will highlight the Broadway Minneapolis 2013-2014 season. There will be 11 productions throughout the season, and most will be held at the Orpheum Theat…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMHoward Community College’s (HCC) Arts Collective (AC) proudly announces auditions for its Spring production of Prelude to a Kiss, a romantic comedy by Craig Lucas, directed by Darius McKei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
We have teamed up with Jackson’s Lane to give you a lovely ticket offer for their latest production, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (read our feature on the company here!). It looks like a re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:52AMIt was a ‘Montgomery County High’ at The Music Center at Strathmore last night as five musicians took to the stage along with John Denver on video shared a heart-rendering evenin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMThe Motherfucker with the Hat is not to be confused with The Cat in the Hat, but it is also not to be confused with The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, another Stephen Adly Guirgis play which r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AMProducers behind Channel 4’s Made in Chelsea have been accused of underpaying extras on the series. The Film Artistes’ Association – a division of union BECTU – has claimed that an a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMTade Biesinger, a 13-year-old from Bountiful, UT, joins the West End company of Billy Elliot The Musical Feb. 6, to reprise the title role that he previously played in the Broadway inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AMBig things usually start small, so let me begin with an understatement: FELA! is no ordinary Broadway musical. Yes, it’s bigger, brighter, and louder than almost everything else in town. B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:22AMCheck out the recently released commercial for the show below and meet the cast with videos of them from past productions and roles
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:07AMJumbo, Kinnear make debuts as playwrights
SOURCE: Variety at 08:05AMBlockbuster screen-to-stage musical The Bodyguard has joined the star-studded line-up of the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards Concert at the West End's Palace Theatre on 17 February.The show, ad…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:01AM"It's time to retire the scarves."Back by popular demand, Dave (@NineDaves, www.NineDaves.com) and I have teamed up to bring you our take on what’s keepin’ it real and what’s faki…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 08:00AM
Let Me Be Your Guest StarBack by popular demand, Dave (@NineDaves, www.NineDaves.com) and I have teamed up to bring you our take on what’s keepin’ it real and what’s faking it eac…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 07:59AM"An Evening with Eric Kunze", a cabaret show featuring the stage actor-singer, will be held Sunday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. at Hartford's Town & Country Club.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AM Written by Paulanne Simmons Famed country singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash at the age of 30. But her enduring popularity is proven by the millions of her records that h…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:53AMA second arena tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar has been postponed until October. The tour, starring Mel C, Tim Minchin and Chris Moyles, had been due to take place…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMArtistic director Madani Younis has announced the Bush Theatre’s 2013 programme, which includes debut plays by actors Rory Kinnear and Cush Jumbo. The London venue’s season features thre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMLeicester Square, London: Having won Mervyn Stutter's Spirit of the Fringe award in 2011, performance artists from Sendai - Japan SIRO-A - are finally making their London debut. The nam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMSinger and producer husband working on stage musical about their journey from Cuba to international stardom Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMSinger and producer husband working on stage musical about their journey from Cuba to international stardomGloria Estefan, the Grammy-winning pop singer, is hoping that the rhythm is gonna g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMPhoenix, London: It's show time, folks. Strictly Come Dancing stars Vincent and Flavia's attractive production is an illustration of how profoundly dance has infiltrated the mainst…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMAll three nominations for best TV drama at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards come from BBC2, with Line of Duty, Parade’s End and The Hollow Crown all up for the prize. Nomin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMFirst produced in 1931, a couple of years before Hitler came to power, Carl Zuckmayer's comedy pokes risky, spirited and oddly charming fun at the German inclination towards militaristic con…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:09AMEverything I’d read about the latest revival of Tennessee
Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof promised that it was going to be a hot
mess. The show’s top-billed star Scarlett Johansson kep…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:08AMHey DC Theatre Scenezians, sorry about the delay in this one. Life sometimes throws a whole bunch of things at you at once and navigating them in a timely matter can be tricky. Your erstwhil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
The Bush Theatre has announced further productions for 2013, including the premieres of debut plays by award-winning actors Rory Kinnear and Cush Jumbo.
The Herd, which runs from 13 Septemb…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:55AMCathy Rigby returns to Connecticut with a short four-performance run of "Peter Pan," which will play at Waterbury's Palace Theater.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMFormer Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd has called on arts bodies and schools to create an “underground curriculum” should the government’s English Baccalaureat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMRoyal & Derngate, Northampton: The first production in the Royal & Derngate's Made in Northampton season is also the last that current artistic director Laurie Sansom will direct be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMThere are so often cries that the West End is filled with star classics, megamixes and old musicals. If that's your impression (PS it's not mine) then you need to challenge yourself to go ou…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:13AMOlivier Theatre, National, London: On the one hand, the National Theatre famously produced the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, which continues to run in the West End, has been to Broadway and i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AM
February 5-9, then touring until May 9: Robert Tressell's book staged as a two-hander? It is played rather briskly, but it is effective.
Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMToday is the birthday of Dot Farley (1881-1971). A second generation thespian from the Chicago area, she made her stage debut at the age of three. After several years as a professional actre…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:53AMThe West End return of Midnight Tango opened at the Phoenix Theatre last night (5 February 2013).Choreographed by and starring Strictly Come Dancing professionals Vincent Simone and Fla…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:25AMMidnight Tango has danced back to the West End following its run at the Aldwych last year. And, though there's barely any narrative, what it lacks in drama it makes up for in dazzling specta…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:23AMA little man takes on Authority and fails. A little man dons a colourful uniform, complete with boots and spiked helmet, and he becomes Authority. Carl Zuckmayer wrote Der Hauptmann von Köp…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:01AMBy Johnny Oleksinski “I never thought I’d go back to this play. Ever, ever,” emphatically states PJ Paparelli, artistic director of American Theater Company. He’s tal…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
For those of you who missed our hour one coverage of the Smash’s season 2 premiere yesterday, check it out first then come back … we’ll wait. For the rest of you, breaking …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:53AMWatching Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform is a spiritual experience. Beauty, power, and strength reach out from the stage to grab hold of an audience. Now, more than ever, it’s t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17AMHat tip to P. Martin for the link to Chris Brogan’s guest post on Copyblogger about Content Marketing. I will confess that I think the term content marketing is a phrase devoid of much…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:08AMHidden Talents Revealed at the Madden Bowl
We are at the EA Lounge in New Orleans for the Madden Bowl, where NFL greats rub shoulders and the Bud Light flows like water! Jerry Rice shows us …
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMJosh Hutcherson & More Reveal Touchdown Dances
Stars of TV, film, and music get their football on at the DirecTV Celebrity Beach Bowl during Super Bowl XLVII, and we get the scoop on touchdo…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
THE DRAG QUEEN TO DRAG YOUR THOUGHTS AWAY FROM YOUR TROUBLES I first saw Coco Peru perform in a B movie sendup – a campy romp called Blood Orgy of the Carnival Queens! But at New York’s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:31AMIt has been my philosophy to create beautiful, unique garments that are wearable, collectable and of the moment, at any moment, says Mastroianni. It is couture and ready-to-wear, made in New…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater's Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long previously announced that Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave will star in the world pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMBroadway Star, Robert Cuccioli will make his debut at 54 BELOW 254 W. 54th Street between Broadway amp 8th Avenue tonight, February 6th, at 930 p.m. with A Standard Love, featuring Barry Lev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMChorus LinesSable Chan sings, acts, blogs...everywhere(behind-the-scenes photos provided by Ms Chan)CHARPO: Tell our readers a bit about your life. We know you're singing in Tales of H…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMRing Them Bells! Rob Fisher Celebrates Kander & Ebb, featuring Tony Award-winning Broadway veterans Joel Grey and Chita Rivera, as well as Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, is presented F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAmas Musical Theatre presents three staged-reading performances of Casanova, a new musical featuring music by Martin Sylvestri and book and lyrics by Joel Higgins, Feb. 6-7 at The Players Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMind-blowing (we don't say that often). The promo video for Théâtre du Trident's Frankenstein.(Read our review)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMMrs. T and I arrived at Siesta Key, Florida, on Monday afternoon. I resumed work on Duke: A Life of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMPhilip Larkin talks about and reads his poem "For Sidney Bechet." The video is a clip of Bechet performing "Petite...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity--it is to destroy it."...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMIf you’ve been around Baltimore’s art scene at all, you probably know Raoul Middleman’s oil paintings: industrial Baltimore landscapes, wry self-portraits, historical scenes, and flesh…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMLocale Unlimited
By Jeremy Stern and Adam Franchino
At the Creative Alliance at the Patterson through Feb. 22.
The smartphone app suggests two routes to get from my apartment to t…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMActor and Tony Award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda will bring his Tony-winning Best Musical In the Heights to the United Palace of Cultural Arts in Washington Heights in a reunion co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmerican Theater Company presents the world premiere of the revised columbinus, including material devised from recent interviews with survivors of the Columbine High School shootings, famil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning Once director John Tiffany's new production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie — which the director places over a glimmering black pool — …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmanda Wingfield, the loving, critical, smothering mother of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, is back in the limelight in a regional production starring Tony Award winner Cherry …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJames Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on TV's "Dawson's Creek" and "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23," stars in the American premiere of Aust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMT. Oliver Reid, who was last seen on Broadway in Sister Act, brings his Bistro Award-winning show Drop Me Off in Harlem to the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below on Feb. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEmmy winner Carson Kressley joins the cast of Off-Broadway's NEWSical The Musical for four weeks only, Feb. 6-March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFour-time Emmy winner Michael Learned ("Nurse," "The Waltons") plays Daisy Werthan and Lance Nichols, star of the HBO series "Treme," is her chauffeur, Hoke Col…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRobert Cuccioli, who recently returned to Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, makes his debut at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below Feb. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhat's a theater critic doing at the opera house? Well, opera is theater, after all. But it's the particular Broadway connection of director Michael Mayer that caught New York Times critic C…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AM 
