No Rules Theatre Company gets off to a fantastic start at its new location at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, with Peter Shaffer’s hysterical Black Comedy. This classic British f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50PMTonight The Drama League announced, during the 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring Audra McDonald at the Pierre Hotel, the founding of The Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38PMIt’s going to be the hottest ticket in town, and we’ve some freebies to give away to the Australian Premiere production of The Addams Family at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney. Two lucky Au…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:26PMAre critics cleaving to "Clive"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 11:08PM“Luck of the Irish,” a drama about race, history and having a home of one’s own, is so sleekly presented you nearly don’t notice that the play is a fixer-upper.
But just alm…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, February 11, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00PMAt the Drama League's Feb. 11 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring Audra McDonald, former Priscilla Queen of the Desert co-stars Will Swenson, Tony Sheldon and Nick Adams…
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Are critics of two minds about "Good Person of Szechwan"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 10:50PMAre critics of two minds about "Good Person of Szechwan"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 10:50PMJennifer Aniston has officially signed on to Peter Godanovich's Broadway-themed movie SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY, alongside Owen Wilson, The Hollywood Reporter has announced.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22PMIn another of Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Brother/Sister Plays,' a free-spirited young man is pulled between two very different paths.— "The Brothers Size," now at the Old Globe, is part …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PMScreen Door promises *a combination of video, theater, and music performance to deconstruct movies into their composite visual and aural parts.* Their end result, thankfully, is a very poli…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:04PMThe sad, often shocking history of racism in America has produced some of this country's greatest plays, including A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Clybourne Park. Kirsten …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIn “Luck of the Irish, ” tensions rise when an Irish family, which was paid to buy a house in an all-white Boston neighborhood for a black family in the 1950s, comes back to claim the ho…
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Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Clive, directed by Ethan Hawke, The York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti Concert Series, and what we can look forw…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:26PMAccording to Leslie Uggams' website, she will be playing Lena Horne in STORMY WEATHER THE LENA HORNE STORY on Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24PMThe winner of L.A.’s Next Great Stage Star was decided Sunday with a college senior taking home the top honor. As part of the talent showcase, twenty contenders had been applying their…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:14PMNEW YORK (AP) — The old expression that an Irish person can "hold a grudge like a tomahawk" holds alarmingly true in Kirsten Greenidge's smart, affecting new play, ironically titled "Luck …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:08PMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMThree-time Tony winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir 'Jack Be Nimble The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director' will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on June 18, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMThink you know the whos, whats, and whys of American race relations in the north in the 1950s? Think again.
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Disconnect is an entertaining look inside an Indian call-center. But like the call center itself, there is a lot going on here, and in the clamor some focus gets lost. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:59PMPROMISING SCRIPT BUTCHERED BY PRODUCTION VALUES Adam Seidel’s sanguinary dark comedy, Catching the Butcher, is an unlikely and eccentric love story in which a secret and utterly sick relat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:19PMThe Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began rehearsals Feb. 11. Jona…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19PMThe popular all-night arts celebration will center on Union Depot June 8-9.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 07:14PMYou don’t so much watch a Robert Lepage show as surrender to it, and his latest project sees Canada’s most innovative theatre-maker in full assault. It’s hard to think of another direc…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:05PMBecause it takes place simultaneously in the 1950s and the 2000s and involves an African-American family purchasing a home in an exclusive all-white suburb of a major American city, Kirsten …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00PMIt was probably the most cataclysmic moment in the history of music. On 29 May 1913, the curtain rose at Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the new ballet Le sacre du Printemps (The R…
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The tradition continues Each year Paper Mill Playhouse sends out five images that hold small clues into Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming season titles. Next season, Paper Mill Playhouse celeb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMNow in its last days, “Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico” is an exquisite exhibition about a little know mini-movement in art history. The Surrealism movement in France lo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:42PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of Richard Greenberg's THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES begins rehearsal today, February 11. Directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PMGALATEA COMES TO LIFE Transformation. Evolution. Metamorphosis. These words are often confined to biological definition, abused in a critic’s articulation, and criminally under-applied by …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:15PMTweetThis week I asked a bunch of Mommy Bloggers to guest post for me and share a showtune that means something to them for valentine’s day. Each one surprised me with their posts and …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 06:15PMSome reviewers are ignoring the central theme of the Geffen's The Gift, so as not to give away a plot twist. In a play of ideas, isn't the theme more important than a plot twist? Two Canadia…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:11PMThe play “Bodega Bay,” about a mousy Staten Islander’s search for her mother, is intended to pay theatrical homage to Hitchcock, but its true horror is not intentional.
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Christine Sherrill has ‘New Ways to Dream’ as Norma Desmond in Drury Lane’s “Sunset Boulevard” Before I begin to discuss Drury Lane’s disappointingly drea…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:58PMAs previously announced, Seattle's ACT will be presenting Grey Gardens, Other Desert Cities, Rapture Blister Burn, and Middletown. In addition the season will include the American premiere o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:58PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Teddy Ferrara" at the Goodman Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Teddy Ferrara" at the Goodman Theatre ★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:57PMRachel Potter Evita, The Addams Family, Will Blum The Book of Mormon, Constantine Rousouli Ghost, Wicked, Hairspray, Stephanie Torns Wicked, Andrew Kober Hair, Victoria Huston-Elem The Addam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMMichael Cerveris, Blair Brown among ensemble
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMLa Jolla Playhouse will present the world premiere of The Tallest Tree, a new play with music about the performer and civil rights icon Paul Robeson, written and performed by Daniel Beaty, d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMFor the first time since its first London season, which opened in 1976 and won the Olivier Award for Best Musical, a full London revival of the Broadway production A CHORUS LINE will be stag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMIt's a jolting new direction for Olney, whose musicals have often seemed comfortably tradition-bound, and the first production since the company hired Jason Loewith (co-author of Adding Mach…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46PMThree-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch is set to star as Robinson in Portland Center Stage's world premiere production of the new musical Somewhere in Time. Directed by Scott Schwartz, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:40PMWith all the rhythms of a bunch of circus aerialists, David Mamet's debut on the New Jewish Theatre stage starts their 2013 season off with a bang, as director Tim Ocel sends his actors swin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:39PMIt’s an embarrassment of riches as Broadway’s Norm Lewis, Lea Salonga, Patina Miller, Tyne Daly and more come together for a one-night-only concert presentation of Ragtime. Hear …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMProduction at the Rep shines a light on Jane Austen's "new woman."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:30PMIrving, Texas, February 6, 2013. TickTechPros, the leader in online web sites and mobile solutions for ticket brokers, is excited to announce the re-launch of its website, www.ticktechpros.…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:29PMIt's quite delightful conducting an interview when your subjects are Danny Bursetin, who was equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking in the Broadway revivals of South Pacific, and Sarah Paul…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:27PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, February 11, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway CAT Star Scarlett Johansson on Her Dream Role …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:26PMNew York City was covered in a blanket of white over the weekend and unfortunately, Broadway suffered. Soft sales were reported across the board for the week ending February 10, 2013. Only f…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 05:22PMEdward Hibbert, best known for his role as Gil Chesterton on TV’s Frasier as well as his stage performances in Curtains, Jeffrey and The Drowsy Chaperone, will debut his new solo …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PMYou may know her as the outspoken cougar mom on Two and a Half Men, Peggy Peabody on The L Word, Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice, or–if you’re of a certain age–Tom Hanks’s bo…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:18PMLa Jolla Playhouse announces a fifth production for its 201314 season the world premiere of The Tallest Tree, a new play with music written and performed by Daniel Beaty Emergency, Through t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMValentine’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 musical that sparked their love of theate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMOn Jan. 21, 2013, Larson and Rodgers Award winning composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver returned to Joe's Pub with a collection of work from his musicals Out of My Head 2005, Mrs. Sharp 2007,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:07PMLuner on Theatre was the first to bring you a sneak peek look into RENT at Wagner College Theatre set to premiere later this month on their Main Stage. Wagner College’s close location …
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 05:05PMThis blog is In Response to Virginia Grise’s Interview with Patricia Ione Lloyd, and continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). Fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMI’m cheating a bit this week. This is a movie monologue, but the monologue doesn’t actually appear in the movie. It’s a deleted scene that can be found on the DVD of Waitin…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 21113.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMAs directed by Martin Friedman, the production pierces the heart of the subject and draws the audience deeply into the journey of a mother suffering from bipolar disorder.
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Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “Kinky Boots,” the Broadway musical based on the 2005 film that tells the true story of a man who saves his family’s shoe factory by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PMProducers announced today that three-time Tony Award nominee Marc Kudisch 9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will star in Portland Center Stage's PCS upcoming world-premiere production of the n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMLast week I wrote a post on the efforts of foundations to encourage diversity (of various forms) in nonprofit arts organizations, in which I suggested that such efforts could be construed a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMLes Misêrables Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway posed for fashion photographer Paola Kudacki as part of Time Magazine’s 2013 Great Performances portfolio. Jackman an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PMTony-nominated actress Cristin Milioti has been bringing heart and soul to the smash hit Broadway musical Once since the show’s tryout run in Boston, and now she’s got even more …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:29PM54 BELOW, has announced the appearance of cabaret and theatre legend Marilyn Maye and the debut of her new show 'MAYE-DEN Voyage' for a two-week engagement on March 5-7 amp 12-14 at 700PM an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMA starry concert presentation of Ragtime will be held at Avery Fisher Hall Feb 18. The cast posed for photos at a Feb. 11 rehearsal.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PMThe Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us Thursday, February…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:24PMNBC and Columbia Records will release the soundtrack for Bombshell, the musical within NBC's Golden Globe-nominated series television hit 'SMASH' Tuesdays, 10-11pm ET, will be released on Fe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMTony Award nominee Marc Kudisch will star in the Portland Center Stage world premiere of the new musical Somewhere in Time, based on Richard Matheson's romantic novel and film of the sam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM“Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery,” a children’s book adaptation with a script by Charles Busch, is a story of a curious rabbit who may be a vampire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:11PMAlexander Strain is a member of the talented cast of Round House Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross which has its press opening tonight. Joel: Who do you …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMComing up later this month, on Sat, Feb 23, is a fun-sounding event at Titmouse Studios to benefit the Angel City Derby Girls – EAT YOUR ART OUT 6: Creature Feature at the Drive-In. Eat Yo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:01PM
BBC1 has commissioned a new 13-part drama series for Saturday nights produced by the creators of Merlin and an adaptation of PD James’ book, Death Comes to Pemberley. The series were a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:57PMINTERVIEW: YANG QIAN and MARY ANN O'DONNELL (1/2) The two founder members of Fat Bird Theatre Company talk to Mary Mazzilli about what it's like to make theatre in Shenzhen-Guangdong, the ol…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 03:54PMINTERVIEW: YANG QIAN and MARY ANN O'DONNELL (2/2) The two founder members of Fat Bird Theatre Company talk to Mary Mazzilli about what it's like to make theatre in Shenzhen-Guangdong, the ol…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 03:51PMStage and screen stars Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams took some time off from their Academy Award preparations to sit down with actor Zach Galifianakis for an amusing award show interview speci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMIt's a relatively slow week on Broadway, with no shows opening, closing or starting previews. Take this down time to catch up on the shows that you have yet to see, whether it be a long-runn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMLES MISERABLES' own 'Gavroche,' Daniel Huttlestone, has officially been signed for representation by ICM, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMAshley Campana, Abe Goldfarb, Erin Maguire, John Garry, Prescott Seymour, Robert Anthony Jones. By Patrick ChristianoFebruary 10, 2013: Bunnicula, a clever new musical for children of al…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:37PMThe box office at Broadway's Cort Theatre opened noon Feb. 11 for ticket sales for the new world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PMThe snow came, but the shows went on! Every Broadway show saw their ticket sales drop this week as Winter Storm Nemo dumped snow on New York leading into the weekend. Despite the inclement w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMHaving a conversation with Diane Paulus is a lot like watching one of her shows: a wholly immersive experience filled with side stories populated by acrobats, hippies, Shakespearean characte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMTony-winning composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman will take part in a meet-and-greet/signing at the NBC Experience Store in Rockefeller Plaza Feb. 13 beginning at 5:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMThe luminous physical beauty of the production staged by the American Repertory Theater, coupled with carefully crafted performances by its performers, makes this a Glass Menagerie to be che…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:07PMNew theater award will be presented in Florissant.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:05PM12, going on 13, year-old Jackie Evancho plays 5,500 seat Ovation Hall at Revel, Atlantic City,
on Saturday.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 03:04PMIn anticipation of its upcoming production of LOVE's LABOUR'S LOST, which begins tomorrow, February 12, through February 23, the School of Theatre at Penn State has released a five-part vide…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMBlackout? More like lights up on Washington Heights! It’s so often these days you find a Broadway show that comes along and seems to change everything you know about theatre. That is h…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 03:03PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMName: Paden FallisHometown: Born: Lake Charles, LA; Grew up: Ft Worth, TX; Live: BrooklynEducation: American Academy of Dramatic ArtsFavorite Credits: I really like doing this one.Why theate…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:01PMSilent was another very short-run show that was gone too quickly. But Melbourne’s loss is Perth’s gain, as it’s at the Perth Fringe World festival from 13 to 23 February. Ireland’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 2102013.
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MCC Theater presents the New York premiere production of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, directed by David Cromer the Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award-winning director of hits Our To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMSeven years after launching the profitable and long-running “Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play,” Pub Theater has acquired its own theater space just a few blocks north of …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMThe Gallery Players, the award-winning Brooklyn theatre company now in its 46th season, presents Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's Tony-winning musical Parade. Jenavene Hester, who st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMA review of “Jeeves in Bloom,” Margaret Raether’s stage adaptation of works by P.G. Wodehouse, at Taproot Theatre in Seattle through March 2, 2013.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:39PMAs the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, we asked current and original principle cast members, as well as current cast members who have been with the show since day one, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMA shade more than two years ago, David Loehr and I met during a gathering at Arena Stage. He encouraged me to do some writing for this web site. Since that time, this is the 20th post I’ve…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:32PMOnce, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, has received the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, it was announced last night at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:25PMEpisodes of "It Could Be Worse," a new showbiz-minded, scripted web comedy series co-created and written by longtime actor-collaborators Mitchell Jarvis (Rock of Ages) and Wesley T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMBad Dates, by Theresa Rebeck, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Produced by Montgomery Theater, directed by Jessica Bedford, featuring Sarah Sanford.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:12PMToday is the birthday of the Mills Brothers’ dad and manager John Mills (not to be confused with the English actor!) My full article on the family act is here. And now here they ar…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:11PMGlee is getting ready to celebrate the long-awaited nuptials of New Directions’ advisor Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) and McKinley High guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma May…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMTony nominee Danny Burstein and recent American Horror Story scene-stealer Sarah Paulson are on their way to being off-Broadway’s sweetest romantic couple in Talley’s Folly, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMWant to see what other reviewers/critics in town have to say about the shows that are playing in professional, community, children’s, and university theatres? Click on OTHER REVIEWS. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMValentine’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 musical that sparked their love of theate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:05PM‘60s icon comes to Suffern’s Lafayette Theatre on Valentine’s Day Singer Darlene Love, who will sing love songs at Suffern’s Lafayette Theatre on Valentine’s Da…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:02PMVirginia Stage Company recently presented the new pre-Broadway musical Frog Kiss at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. In the video below, Curtis Holbrook amp the cast of Frog …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PMFrom former Rock of Ages co-stars Mitchell Jarvis and Wesley Taylor ("Smash"), creators of the acclaimed Broadway industry-spoof web series "Billy Green,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThe Feb. 19 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash" is titled "The Dramaturg" and will air at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
REVIEW: Walking Shadow Theatre cleverly balances humor and horror in an ingenious take on the Washington Irving story.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:59PMCast members from the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, ONCE will perform at 54 BELOW on Sunday, February 17 at 7pm at 254 West 54th Street. The company will present a mix of ori…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:56PMOpening on The Great White Way this fall, the new musical BIG FISH will make its pre-Broadway debut at Chicago’s Oriental Theater this April. Check out this interview with the creative tea…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 01:55PMThe drama is always juicy on a college campus, especially when a huge scandal breaks at an Ivy League school. Such is the setting for Paul Downs Colaizzo’s twisting, turning drama Real…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:55PMThis is part five of the series on the show biz ancestry of Cynthia Fujikawa, which we launched here about four weeks ago. It’s in her own words. A year after the Crash, Vaudevil…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:49PM... it goes negative! Performers in Hair paid a $495 enrollment fee to perform.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:47PMWonder what punks would say about couture designers channeling their DIY nihilism.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:45PMTony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo, Tony nominees Olga Merediz and Robin de Jesús and other members of the original Broadway cast of In the Heights reunite for a on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMRated RSO: MT-17, featuring the work of composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver, was offered Jan. 21 at Joe's Pub in New York City. Here are highlights from the concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMby Isaac Butler Making the rounds of the internet today is this report that less than 25% of roles on New York City stages were played by actors of color from 2011-2012. 99 and I have been s…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 01:37PMWord is in and we are chagrinned to announce that All About a Boy will not be reprised for Frontera’s Best of Fest. You missed it. We’re not bitter though. This show was a blast to exper…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:35PMREVIEW: Tracey Scott Wilson’s taut drama brings three young people together in an inner-city neighborhood.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:21PMLear deBessonet's astounding production (for The Foundry Theatre) of Good Person of Szechwan, now running at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, presents a captivating rendering of the 1943 soc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PM“Outcry” makes lively art from painful American history Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond — Last year, Thais Francis …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:17PMToday is the birthday of the great Hollywood screenwriter, producer and director Joseph Mankiewicz. The list of important movies Mankiewicz had a hand in, in one or more of those three capac…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:16PMAustralian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has unleashed her latest polarizing comedy The Gift at the Geffen Playhouse, and despite a strong cast and high production values, the plot strings …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMThe 2013 Grammy Awards were held Feb. 10 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Here is a look at the star-studded evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMOrange Tree, RichmondIt almost defies belief that Githa Sowerby's 1924 drama is only now receiving its British professional premiere. While it may not quite possess the Ibsenite power o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMVon Bach is back. And that legendary undead creature, originally from the 19th century, is none too pleased with the way his image has been treated -- or by celebrity culture in general. His…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PMLike her Broadway alter ego Maggie the Cat, Scarlett Johansson’s got guts. Filmgoers first witnessed her gusto in teen roles that squared her off with pros like Robert Redford, Bill Mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMLike her Broadway alter ego Maggie the Cat, Scarlett Johansson’s got guts. Filmgoers first witnessed her gusto in teen roles that squared her off with pros like Robert Redford, Bill Mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PM
Last but by no means least in our line-up announcements, we're delighted to tell you that four-time Whatsonstage.com Awards co-host and former Best Actress in a Musiacl winner (for Legally B…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:57PMManhattan Concert Productionswill present a special concert performance of Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, February 18, 2013. The cast will include Michael Arden as Younger Brother, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMTickets are now available for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Richard Greenberg's world premiere play based on Truman Capote’s classic novella. The show begins previews at Broadway&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMHaven’t you heard? Vampire bunnies are the hottest new trend this side of Twilight, and there’s one in particular who’s taking center stage at the DR2 Theatre. Bunnicula, b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMOnce, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, has received the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, it was announced last night at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in L…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:50PMWe have two photos of the week this week. PHOTO 1: Angela Lansbury is touring Australia in Driving Miss Daisy and took this adorable photo with a koala in Brisbane. Theatrical legend + adora…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:46PMRenée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, the four stars from the 2003 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, for the adaptation of the musical Chicago, will p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMThe scantily-clad music duo The Skivvies will make their Los Angeles debut March 4 with special guests including Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Daisy Eagan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMThe Tony-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys played its 3,000th performance Feb. 7 at the August Wilson Theatre. The musical is currently the 18th longest-running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMIn honor of tonight's big concert event, BroadwayWorld celebrates the show below with perfomance clips and other highlights from the show's Broadway run. Check it out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMQuvenzhané Wallis can't seem to hold on to a set of parents. After playing the self-sufficient, motherless five-year-old Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild (and achieving the title of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PMSilk Road Rising co-founders, Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Executive Director Malik Gillani, launch their company’s 2013 season with the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s The Lake E…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:28PMTonight (11 February 2013) for our latest Whatsonstage.com Outing we're taking nearly 100 theatregoers to Midnight Tango at the Phoenix Theatre, followed by an exclusive post-show Q&A hosted…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:27PMThis drama engagingly explores the build-up to, and the aftermath of, the 2008 financial catastrophe, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:27PMPop star Justin Bieber made his SNL debut on February 9 by pulling double-duty as host and musical guest of the late-night comedy showcase. For one sketch, the Biebs and cast members pe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMNatalia Osipova is the idea enfant terrible to take the role of Esmeralda in Roland Petit’s masterly ballet, Laura Cappelle writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:23PMA new interactive musical based on the life of club kid Michael Alig, whose story was adapted into the 2003 film "Party Monster," will debut at the American Repertory Theater's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMThe cast and creative team of Manhattan Concert Productions' upcoming one-night-only concert of the musical Ragtime held their first day of rehearsal on Monday, February 11 at the National O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMKAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan authorities said on Monday they plan to deport a British theatre producer who was charged last year with staging a play about homosexuality.
SOURCE: Reuters at 12:18PMThe La Jolla Playhouse production of the new American musical Hands on a Hardbody will open Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street, following a p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe box office for the world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg’s new play, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, officially opens for business at the Cort Theatre (138 W …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:15PMThe 'Dreamgirls' legend is performing in NYC for the first time since 2002.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMWhatsonstage.com Award-winning musical Wicked, now in its seventh year at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, has extended booking until 26 April 2014.
First opened on Broadway in October 2003, Wi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:08PMSeven years after launching the profitable and long-running “Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play,” Pub Theater has acquired its own theater space just a few blocks north of …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:07PMToday is the birthday of Thomas Edison (1847-1931). What’s he got to do with show biz history? He is CENTRAL to show biz history! First, his incandescent light bulb revolutionized the …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:05PMHe was panned by the critics, but loved by audiences. The American movie industry admired him, chiefly for working to schedule and bringing films in either to or below budget. But the Britis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMAIRPORT FOR BIRDS FAILS TO TAKE OFF In their sketch comedy show Airport for Birds (and Other Great Ideas), Team StarKid seems to have wracked their brains to come up with as many reasons as …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:04PMBloomsbury theatre, LondonTalk about a statement of intent. Sarah Silverman's first line tonight, a beat after her intro music subsides, is: "I was brutally raped to that song." After t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM
Last week's poll asked which musical of the season you're the most excited to see. Check out your response below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMThe Vancouver indie queen on the joys of monkeys on bottles and the key to making cantatas out of Craigslist ad
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:51AMIt takes a bold producer to put on a show that calls itself Black Comedy, particularly in a town which already has one black comedy playing at Studio and another in the halls of Congress. Bu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMThe Dance Division is ON FIRE this spring with programs and exhibitions featuring dance from around the world, all at the Library for the Performing Arts! An exhibit on flamenco, 100 Years o…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:46AMFrom surprising performances to unforgettable speeches, music’sbrightest stars dazzled at the 55th Grammy Awards on February 10. While the 13,000 Grammy voters spread the love as fa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMTony Award winner Kathleen Chalfant, Walter Charles, Lynn Cohen and Richard Topol will take part in staged readings of the American National Theatre's "Two-Thirds of a Texas Trilogy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMTony winner Lea Salonga is getting ready to lead the cast of the Lincoln Center concert of Ragtime, which will bow on February 18 and feature a cast of Broadway showstoppers like N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AMTony winner Michael Cerveris, Tony winner John Glover, Dale Place and more will star in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Richard Nelson’s new play Nikolai and the Others. Direc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMComplete casting has been announced for the premiere of The Low Road, a new play by Tony winner Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park). The play will open at London's Royal Court on March 22 and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMtheater review: Transatlantic Love Affair brings another popular Fringe Festival show to a bigger stage.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:25AMIt seems like I’m seeing a lot of self-produced musicals lately. I saw two just this weekend, in fact, Tanya Shaffer’s The Fourth Messenger at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:17AMThe classical music Grammy awards don't get much love from TV producers; they've been relegated to a sub-prime spot before the broadcast. They still matter, but not nearly as much as they on…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:12AMBroadway’s Best Shows is thrilled to announce a brand new series: ‘Stage Manager’s Report,’ an exclusive series that takes you backstage at Broadway Shows. We’…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:11AMWith Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, Alan Bennett joins a tradition – including Dario Fo and David Hare – of writers putting versions of themselves into the frayAn American TV viewer once wrot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMRichard Schiff, the star of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie at Shakespeare Theatre Company, first got to know DC during his time on “The West Wing” (1999-2006), for which he won an …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMWas it too much to ask that the Grammy Awards have some sparkling dance moments? Or do I, like the Rihanna-Chris Brown reunion, ask too much? Apparently so. The best dance performance at the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06AMONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, has received the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, it was announced last night at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in L…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:05AMZelda at the Oasis, a new play about Zelda Fitzgerald, by P. H. Lin, will end its brief run Feb. 15. The production had officially opened Off-Broadway at St. Luke's Theatre Dec. 4, 2012,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM“Once” was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards last night, February 10. The album Once: A New Musical was released by Masterworks rec…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMAs part of this week’s series of our favorite Broadway love songs, I turned to Broadway producer extraordinaire, Eva Price. Her Broadway producing credits include “Annie,” “Peter…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:00AMBoston used to be one of THE tryout cities (along with New Haven and Philly) for big Broadway musicals. Shows like Funny Girl and Anything Goes all tapped their toes on a Boston stage fi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The cast of the Oscar-winning film Chicago— Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere and Queen Latifah—will reassemble on February 24 for this year’s Academ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:59AMAs you'll see and hear tonight and next Monday when Lorna Luft makes her Broadway at Birdland debut, anything can and does happen in the Luft's living room.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:57AMThe Les Misérables film didn’t exactly sweep the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards on Feburary 10, but it did pick up a few trophies, including a Best Supportin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMMOTOWN THE MUSICAL will begin preview performances March 11 and open on Broadway on April 14, 2013 at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46 Street. Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, MOTOW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMThe film musical Les Misérables had many wins at The British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) last night at the historic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The movie received BAFTAs in severa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMThe 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards were held last night, Feb. 10, 2013, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and was broadcast live on CBS. Hosting the pre-telecast was David Alan Grier, who announce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMSome of Broadway's hit productions of the season will end their run within the next month including PICNIC, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, THE OTHER PLACE, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF as wel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMHere's your chance to see the new Off-Broadway comedy Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen at a discounted rate
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:46AMWorkshop presents only the first act of 'Waiting for you on the Corner of (13th and Walnut)' and seeks audience's input afterwards.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 10:44AMOscar winners Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones will reunite with "Chicago" co-stars Richard Gere and Queen Latifah to present together at the upcoming Academy Awards…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMBroadway stars Nick Adams, Ashley Brown, Jessica Rush and Michael James Scott will appear in a special one night only benefit production of Jason Robert Brown's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD on Mond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMToday is the birthday of the lovely Anita Garvin (1907-1994). A New York City native, she started out as a teenager in vaudeville and as a chorus girl for Earl Carroll and Ziefeld before ab…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:38AMBroadwayWorld is excited to bring you an exclusive listen to a track from Broadway favorite Eden Espinosa's critically acclaimed new album LOOK AROUND. Released on December 18, LOOK AROUND h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMCelebrating 20 years since its first staged performance, West End favourite Kerry Ellis stars with runner up of ITV's Superstar Rory Taylor in this concert performance of the smash-hit music…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:32AMThe Live From Lincoln Center series will broadcast Kristin Chenoweth: The Dames of Broadway…All of 'Em!!! March 24 at 8 PM ET; check local listings. Tony winner Audra McDonald hos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMa Theatre company. Last week, I went and experienced something very different in the world of theatre. I did not go to a theatre space, I went to a hotel. I did not sit in an audience, I sat…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMA cast of 19 has been confirmed for Bruce Norris' new play The Low Road, which premieres at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on 27 March 2013 (previews from 22 March).The full cast…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:24AMWHATSONSTAGE OFFER: £8 tickets until 24th Feb!
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:23AMBroadway's Once took home the golden gramophone last night at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, where it was nominated alongside the cast albums of Follies, Newsies, Nice Work If…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 10, 2013: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm ANNIE $696,830 8,504 62.24% $81.94 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF $656,66…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:14AMThe Broadway cast recording of Once was named Best Musical Theater Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards on Feb. 10. In celebration of the Tony and Grammy-winning musical, Playbill.com looks back …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMBelow, check out a parody of the big screen adaptation of LES MISERABLES, produced by the Republic of Korea's Air Force. In the spoof, after a great snowstorm, Airman Jean Valjean SSgt Lee i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMThis OUTRAGEOUSLY fun show tells the uplifting story of a trio of friends, on a road trip of a lifetime, who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship in the middle of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMA free reading of Adam Overett's My Life Is a Musical is presented Feb. 11 at the Soho Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMFormer “American Idol” runner-up Crystal Bowersox will star in the title role of this summer’s Broadway debut of “Always… Patsy Cline.” The musical tells the story of Patsy Cline…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMPREFACE: As I was writing this very blog, it was announced that the cast recording of Once won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. Way to go!I don't know how much contempo…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AMHappy Monday! This week, I'm giving away a pair of tickets to NEWSical the Musical at Theatre Row. NEWSical, created by Rick Crom, is a musical mocking the news. It is constantly u…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AMThe already bizarre case of Sergei Filin, the artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet who was attacked with acid last month, has a new twist: Suspicions reportedly are now being turned …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM
Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley's Folly, directed by Michael Wilson, features Danny Burstein as Matt Friedman and Sarah Pau…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:57AMDiscerning theatergoers, are you looking for a contemporary play that you can relate to, that makes you laugh and think about the world? Are you in need of a delightful and gripping entertai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMThe box office power of some movie actors is affecting the types of plays staged on Broadway. Should they hold such sway?When it was announced that David Tennant would be playing Richard II …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThe LCT3 production of Kirsten Greenidge’s Luck of the Irish officially opens at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater on February 11. Starring Eisa Davis and directed by R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMTony winner John Lloyd Young is back in the Broadway musical that made him a star, Jersey Boys, but when he’s not on stage at the August Wilson Theatre, fans can catch him in his …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:50AMProducers John Frost and Phil Bathols have announced that Oscar-winning stage and screen star Julie Andrews will tour Australia in May for the first time ever in her legendary career.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMBroadwayWorld's High School Center is proud to showcase high school performance programs around the country in our weekly feature of 'High School in the Spotlight'. Today, BWW's Student Cent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMJonathan Groff, who was seen in the second season of the now-canceled Starz series "Boss," has landed a leading role in a new comedy pilot for HBO, according to the Hollywood Repor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMBBC daytime controller Liam Keelan has accepted a job at BBC Worldwide, just weeks after he was announced as the new director of Sky1. In a statement, BBC Worldwide said he would become glob…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:44AMLucky 13: Free You Mind (and let the girl talk.) embraces four new works by four living playwrights. The box office is OFFICIALLY open. Join us for another year of artistic adventure. A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31AMAcademy Award winner's Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones will join their 'Chicago' cast mates Richard Gere and Queen Latifah to present together on-stage at the Oscars, show producers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMThe Art of the Silent Film Comes to Stage: For those of you who loved last year's The Artist, now you can enjoy the same idea on stage.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:05AMLast week, TCG held our winter board meeting here in New York City. We were joined by the National Council for the American Theatre, our advisory council of theatre trustees. While the board…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 09:02AMAs of today, take your deli coffee and Danish and head over to the Cort Theatre box office to get your tickets for the upcoming premiere of Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Game of Thrones' …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne, and director Tom Hooper attended the premiere for the hit film Les Miserables during the 2013 Berlinale International Film Festi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMA four-week season of new musical theatre writing will be presented under the umbrella title From Page to Stage at London's Landor Theatre, running Feb. 13-March 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the winners of the 2013 BAFTA Awards last night, Sunday February 10 in London. Below, check out the full list of winners as well as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45AMFor Northern Broadsides, Jonathan Miller has just revived Githa Sowerby's best play, Rutherford and Son, which caused a sensation when it opened at the Royal Court in 1912.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:35AMYou might imagine that a rainy Wednesday night in Huddersfield is one of the less likely places that you might happen across a theatre well-stocked with eager viewers for a French-language, …
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:18AMEight months ago, the Miami City Ballet was a mess. The remarkable Edward Villella was beginning his last season as artistic director, the organization had run out of cash, its executive dir…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:12AMYes, I was well-aware that when I decided to see Bunnicula at the DR2 Kids Theatre for a 1:00 matinee that my friend and I would be one of the older audience members without a tiny tot in to…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AM
Royal Shakespeare Company to reinstate annual residency in north-east with three-week run in OctoberThe Royal Shakespeare Company is to reinstate its residency in Newcastle after two years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AMWARNING: May contain angst. You may recall that last time we spoke (blogged?) that I was cautiously anticipating much less angst and a happier, more productive second term. Remember? Yeah.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36AMRecently I read a book by Stacy Woolf documenting the feminist history of the musical (Changed For Good: A feminist history of the Broadway musical, 2011: Oxford University Press) and it got…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMFeast is a work of ambitious scope, taking on the familiar story of African enslavement and subsequent dispersion throughout the Atlantic world. It’s harrowing subject matter, as is ma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13AMMaria Friedman, currently represented in London by her directorial debut with Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at the Menier Chocolate Factory, is to return to the cabaret stage with a p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:05AMThe foyer of the Bush Theatre is filled to the rafters with the press and eager members of the theatregoing public. Wine is flowing and the conversation is full of anticipation for the uniqu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
The London cast of Merrily We Roll Along, including stars Mark Umbers, Jenna Russell and Damian Humbley, will perform a charity reading of the original 1934 Broadway play of the same name by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:51AMAdmit up front that the world premiere of Christina Alexander’s one-woman show Hate! An American Love Story is a tad unfocused, undisciplined, even sloppy theater. Then acknowledge that it…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:50AMThe tour manager of a music group has been killed in an accident at Guildford theatre, G Live. The accident happened on Saturday February 9, during the get-in for the show by Fisherman’…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMThe Book of Mormon, Broadway’s biggest hit musical since The Producers, is the headlining entry in the 2013-2014 season of national tours announced Sunday by Broadway Across America – Fo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:29AMCongratulations, Grammy performers! None of you were actively bad. Unfortunately, none you really Adele'd this one either. In honor of these many meh-to-above-average contributions to the ni…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13AMTwenty years ago, the writer David Ives arrived on the New York theatre scene with a bang when his evening of short comic plays opened off Broadway, where they remained for some 600 plus per…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:11AM
David Schulner’s An Infinite Ache speeds us through the lives of a man and woman from their first date to their old age in 90 minutes.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:50AMVicky Featherstone, former artistic director of the National theatre of Scotland, is to join the selection panel for the new chief executive of Creative Scotland. Featherstone, who recently …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMThe full cast for the world premiere of Bruce Norris' The Low Road has been announced; performances will begin at London's Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs March 22, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28AMThe time has finally come for me to stop grading Glee on a curve. For, in an almost unprecedented achievement, I have witnessed three entire episodes of Glee, in a row, which feature cohesiv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:27AMShouldn't we already know this? Let's review... by Loren A. Roberts (guru of multi-hyphenate media) Quick mini-rant here today, because I attended an otherwise-wonderful performance at the P…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:01AMRECOMMENDED The Joffrey Ballet winter program features work by four American choreographers, representing three generations and four decades of repertory. The company revives Jerome Robbins�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
Among this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Robert Lepage's Playing Cards, new musical Glasgow Girls, Dear World, the Barbican's Rhinoceros, and …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:27AMIvor Novello's last musical proves a frothy and fascinating fiasco with lovely songs, wonderful lyrics (by Alan Melville) and a knock-out performance by dynamic, effervescent Sophie-Louise D…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:22AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have run out of rehearsal space. Dressing rooms, too....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:13AMGitha Sowerby's best known play, Rutherford and Son, is revived this week by Northern Broadsides, but one of her later titles, The Stepmother, given one private performance in 1924, and not …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:11AM"Gay's the word, Ivor, and gay is how we shall always remember you," Noel Coward telegrammed on hearing of the death of Ivor Novello aged 58 in 1951.
The word "gay" had long acquired an und…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:08AMYou can never know quite enough about the making of truly great films. On the Waterfront (1954) is a case in point – a stunning example of cinema, for which the term ‘stellar cast’ cou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:02AMThe award-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights” is coming home to the neighborhood that provided its inspiration in a one-night-only concert in the heart of Washington Heights.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:00AM
It may be impossible to not get caught up in the cast’s infectious enthusiasm for Hair. From the lollies and condoms that come with the program to the hippy greetings at the door, it’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:52AMEditor’s Note: Responses to given shows have a short shelf-life. This is a response to a show that we didn’t originally intend to publish a response to, in fact. Originally, I in…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 02:37AMHats Off Sydney 2013 is just a few hours away and some of Australia’s biggest showbiz personalities are preparing to don their white ties and tails for the biggest, brassiest fundraiser Sy…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:18AMI’D LIKE TO RETURN THIS GIFT, PLEASE The Geffen Playhouse has a proud tradition of staging crackerjack productions of dramatic works by some of the modern theater’s greatest playwrights.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM
The 2013 Perth Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday, as the heat-withered crowd at His Majesty’s Theatre was jolted by the crack of a rimshot from the orchestra pit, signalling the op…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:58AMA classic "nor'easter" storm created blizzard conditions and dumped about 11 inches of snow in New York City Feb. 8-9. And yet the show went on! Playbill's Joseph Marzullo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50AMHelmer Tricia Thorns' beautifully judged, immaculately acted revival isn't just theatrical archeology, it's a treat.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46AMMemory floats on a giant plane of regret in American Repertory Theater's epic and intimate production of "The Glass Menagerie," trapped forever between a shimmering black sea and an endless …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43AMShakespeare Theatre Company has a quiet hit with Eugene O’Neill’s one-act Hughie. It is a deceptively simple production about an old guy, Erie Smith (Richard Schiff) who returns to h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37AMBroadway Cat Casting for Breakfast at Tiffany’s: The world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg’s new play, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, will hold a casting call to f…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:07AMBest Musical Theater Album: Once: A Musical, Steve Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, composer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06AMThis week on the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast Tom Williams talks with Debargo Sanyal the star of Disconnect at Victory Garden Theatre. He talks about the challenges of playing a young Ind…
SOURCE: www.theatreinchicago.com at 01:01AM
Millions have watched a parody of “Les Misérables” put out by the South Korean Air Force and inspired by the “Gangnam Style” video.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:50AMBe careful next time you bring home a stray bunny rabbit, no matter how cute and fluffy he is. For if the new children’s show “Bunnicula” is to be believed, he may be a . . . vampire b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMFootball has its bands of brothers: the Mannings, Barbers and Harbaughs. Broadway has a singular sister act: the Boggess girls.
For the 25th anniversary of “The Phantom of the Opera” on…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMThe Town Hall presents the first of four concerts of their acclaimed series BROADWAY BY THE YEAR tonight, February 11th. The season begins with 1937, a year that witnessed the opening of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMViva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway League, in collaboration with 5000 Broadway Productions and the United Palace of Cultural Arts presents In The Heights In Concert, a special, one…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTonight, five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will be the Honoree of The Drama League's 29th Musical Celebration of Broadway, tonight, February 11, 2013 at the famed Pierre Hotel 2 Eas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe 92nd Street Y, tonight, Feb 11, 815 pm, from 29, presents Jesse Eisenberg with THANE ROSENBAUM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMBarefoot 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 12:30AMAtlantic 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 12:30AMHosanna and the queer dissident communist revolutionary playwright monkeyby Estelle RosenScott Leydon was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, but didn’t catch the acting bug until his high s…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AM(photo credit: Greg Tjepkema)Count 'em - this will be our third Pride and Prejudice at The Charlebois Post this last year. We reviewed the really-big-shew co-pro between Theatre Calgary and …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMOn Monday afternoon I'll be returning to New York after a month and a half on the road. During that...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMA rare 1973 interview with Katherine Anne Porter: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious." Mark Twain, "English as She Is Taught"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe Drama League honors five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald at its 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway Feb. 11 at the Pierre Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Town Hall's Broadway By the Year series continues Feb. 11 with an evening celebrating musicals that opened on The Great White Way in 1937.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo, Tony nominees Olga Merediz and Robin de Jesús and other members of the original Broadway cast of In the Heights reunite for a on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAn Irish clan lays claim to another family's home in the LCT3 premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Luck of the Irish, featuring Marsha Stephanie Blake, Eisa Davis, Dashiell Eaves and Robe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOvercash and Change, a concert featuring the work of songwriter Drew Overcash, is offered Feb. 11 at Joe's Pub in New York City. Taylor Louderman (Bring It On), Richard H. Blake (Wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAll those elaborate, gaudy, award-winning costumes in the national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert keep wardrobe personnel on their toes. Actor Bryan West explains.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1901 A man marries his fiancee On the Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale. Playwright Augustus Thomas based this comedy on a real incident. It unfolds at the Madison Square The…
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