photo courtesy of Jody ChristophersonDiana Stahl is an actor, writer and collaborator in New York City. She has developed/performed work with the LARK, MCC, New Georges, Rattlest…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:31PMThere’s this guy shuffling around on the stage of the Lansburgh Theatre — just a guy. Small-time. Beige suit, kind of rumpled. Talks in slang about horse races and crap games. A loser, b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26PMStephen Brotebeck: Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Movement Associate), Ghost The Musical (Directing Intern). Stephen most recently directed the Kennedy Center Spring Gala, S…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:24PMWhile admirable in its ambition to depict gay suicide as a complex phenomenon beyond simplistic media depictions of cause and effect, Christopher Shinn's "Teddy Ferrara" displays the same ch…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01PMBefore “All in the Timing” begins, a half-dozen clocks of various vintage and style hang on a cheery striped wall. It’s an obvious reference to the play’s title.
But it also…
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LONGMONT -- Colorado Actors Theatre has temporarily closed. The troupe, one of three based in Longmont, has long been located in Twin Peaks Mall, which is subject to major redevelopment plan…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:37PMMr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PMI really enjoy arriving at a venue – especially if it’s The Famous Spiegeltent – to witness a show that I know little about. The element of surprise always thrills me. And I wasn’t d…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:23PMAs is often the case on Mondays, there were a ton of events last night for theater people to choose from, like the In The Heights reunion concert and the NAMT songwriter concert at 54 Below,…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:21PMI can only assume that, if the enchanting and superbly talented Ms McGregor has truly deserted the world of opera for which she was trained, then legions of Operatic Directors must be gnashi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:19PMComic timing – the perhaps innate ability to have a word or physical gesture elicit an even greater laugh than might be expected – is a particularly valuable resource to possess in the t…
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:55PMViva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway League, in collaboration with 5000 Broadway Productions and the United Palace of Cultural Arts presented In The Heights In Concert, a special, on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMNightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio is bringing Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming to the Manhattan stage together for the first time when the two perform live at Town Hall on Wednesday, March …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMBroadway and film actor John Kerr, known for his portrayal of Tom Lee in the 1953-1955 production of Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, as well as Lieutenant Joseph Cable in the 1951 film v…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:24PMJames Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on Dawson's Creek and in Varsity Blues and who currently can be seen on ABC's Don't Trust the B-in Apartment 23, appears in the American…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PMTwo unlikely seat mates find themselves discussing the cosmos on a plane flight in the Emilie Beck-directed play.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:20PMWith her stuffed-puppy purse in hand, Quvenzhane Wallis, the 9-year-old star of Oscar nominated "Beasts of the Southern Wild," was the star of an event with the award-winning Paso Nuevo Yout…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:09PMMarc Shaiman just announced on Facebook'I will be at the piano, my partner Scott Wittman will be right there, and I will be ready and eager to play any song from our musical 'BOMBSHELL'. Any…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07PMThis production is most notable for a promising concept that doesn’t play as well as it should. Not only is the expected humor mostly absent, but we never get a clear picture of how tellin…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:06PMSMASH stars Debra Messing and Christian Borle are featured on the next Funny or Die's Billy on the Street, airing February 15 on Fuse. Check out photos from their appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMEvery show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. In the current revival of William Inge's 1953 play Picnic…
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THEATER REVIEW: 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' at Water Tower Water Works
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:59PMManhattan Concert Productions will 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 05:57PMTony winner Alan Cumming is heading back to Broadway in Macbeth, a “spooky” one-man version of the classic Shakespeare tragedy. See Cumming rise to great heights in Times Square …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMNew York Theatre Workshop NYTW Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that performances begin tonight for the New York premiere of Belleville, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMOur upcoming spring workshops offer two different ways to learn about Neo-Futurist performance. Explore the roots of Neo-Futurism during a new 1-day intensive this March, then sign-up for Ne…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:51PMIn “Foodacts” the cast members perform excerpts from novels, essays and other literary works that touch on food-related themes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMAt Stray Dog, Charles Busch combines drag with old movie fun.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway @MTC_NYC announces lineup for Ernst C. Stief…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:45PMMonday was the second anniversary of the revolution in Egypt. Culturebot Contributor Hani Omar Khalil sat down with Egyptian Playwright Ibrahim El-Husseiny in Cairo to discuss his evoluti…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 05:43PMOn the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Hani Omar Khalil talks with playwright Ibrahim El-Husseiny about his evolution as a political artist and the role of theater in the shap…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:43PMAussieTheatre’s social media and digital team were backstage at Hats Off Sydney this week, live tweeting and interviewing performers at the Seymour Centre. Today we begin a new five part s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:37PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards® including Best Musical, has broken the house record in Minneapolis for the week ending February 10, 2013 grossing $1,904,415.00. THE BOOK O…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:36PMPay no attention to the title of "Luck of the Irish," lest you get the entirely wrong idea about Kirsten Greenidge's smart and lovingly observed heartbreaker about a black family's life over…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:34PMIn Liz Flahive's The Madrid four-time Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Edie Falco stars as Martha, a kindergarten teacher who seems to have it all—a happy life and a lo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PM"All in the Timing" was heady, giddy, overeducated fun 20 years ago, when Primary Stages introduced a very clever, word-loving writer named David Ives. His six playlets, based on absurd twis…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:31PMThe Fourth Messenger is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the life of the Buddha as a 21st century woman, and the investigative reporter who's out to expose her.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:27PMFrom FaceBook to FLASHDANCE, reunions of the tour kind can often be more of a surprise than seeing that 'friend request' pop up from someone you haven't seen or heard from in 35 years. A pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMThe Dave Malloy musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which played an acclaimed run at Ars Nova last fall, as well as the Tom and Jack Megan musical The Kid Who Would Be Pop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMKaren Kain made the announcement via video, highlighting that next year will feature a mix of innovative, forward-looking ballet programs
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:24PMDrag entertainer Jackie Beat has been strutting her stuff since 1989, but it looks like her hips couldn't take all that action. Beat needs to have both hip joints replaced, and faces a hospi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMSignature Theatre Company honored Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) at their annual gala on Monday. Hwang is the playwright in residence at Signature's Residency One, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMTony winner Lea Salogna and Broadway fave Sierra Boggess will lead the 4 Stars: One World of Broadway Musicals concert series in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan this summer. Directed by Daniel Kutn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMBasement Arts is student-run theatre organization that has given the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor community FREE theatre for over 20 years. Check out their newly-released promo v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMEver wanted to flirt with Madonna, dance with Michael Jackson, or sing with Nicki Minaj? If you answered “Totally tubular,” head over to Culture Club, where “Totally Tubula…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:18PMFirst impressions, as any fan of Jane Austen will tell you, can be deceiving.
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:09PMAfter an acclaimed run at the Lincoln Center Festival, Tony winner and Emmy nominee Alan Cumming is bringing his one-man Macbeth to Broadway beginning April 7. From the Scottish king himself…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMThe winners of the 2013 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which administers the Rodgers Awards. The winning musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMSometimes when you’re working on something, you need a boost. You need a jolt, a bolt of lightening, something, anything to get you out of that frozen state of being. Writers block. …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMIncompleteness is a basic part of writing for theater, says Charles Duncombe. Others make their own contributions to each individual production. City Garage is opening his Caged on Saturday.…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMStand up comic Celia Pacquola is bringing her sold out 2012 Melbourne Comedy Festival stand up show Delayed to the Adelaide Fringe Festival where she will share stories of her internatio…
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Manhattan Theatre Club welcomed Bill Pullman '1600 Penn' The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia to the cast of The Other Place on February 5 at 7 PM at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMManhattan Theatre Club will give voice to dramatists Ayad Akhtar, Greg Pierce, Jonathan Caren, Ethan Lipton, Ben Ockrent, Janine Nabers, Sharon Kenny and Rachel Bonds in its spring Ernst C. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMBroadway’s brightest stars gathered at the Pierre Hotel on February 11 to honor one of the Great White Way's greatest talents: five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald! The star-studde…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMAN ARTISTIC PLEA FOR CHANGE In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the Blizzard Nemo, global climate change is increasingly palpable. As inclement weather infringes on our day-to-day activities,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:54PMHow to experience dance while blindfolded?
And how to Make Sense of DADA-- It is Sense and Nonsense- ibility. Choreographers in Brooklyn Push The Limits!
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 04:52PMDeadline reports that the Broadway veteran has been tapped to star alongside Jeffrey Tambor ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT in Amazon's upcoming pilot THE ONION PRESENTS THE NEWS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMMusic legends Liza Minnelli and Barry Manilow took a night off to enjoy the vocal stylings of another big-voiced singer, Emmy winner (and Minnelli's little sister) Lorna Luft. Minnelli a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PMLegendary drag entertainer Jackie Beat is known for her bigger-than-life talent and her ballsy and blustery persona, but it turns out she managed to make a few friends along the road to her …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMBroadway.com is your top source for exclusive video features spotlighting the hottest stars on and off Broadway. Our most-watched videos from February 6 through February 12 include two charm…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMRock of Ages star and awesome Broadway.com vlogger Kate Rockwell shows off her pre-show makeup routine, explains to co-star Adam Dannheisser what a “vlog” is, and goes on a speci…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:39PMIt might seem intimidating to have to sit through a Shakespeare play, but this one is worth a watch. There are enough twists and turns to draw you into the world of court intrigue and absorb…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:38PMAt last year’s Oscar Awards ceremony, the two nominated songs weren’t even performed on the telecast. This year, the shows producers plan to make up for that exclusion. Producers Craig Z…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:35PMTweetThis next Mommy Blogger is a close friend and someone who I go to for advice and to vent with. She is one of the smartest people I know and I am excited to have her guest blogging abo…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 04:25PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Madrid, the new play by Liz Flahive, directed by Leigh Silverman began previews February 5 at 7 PM at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I 131…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMCan a tax break hook Broadway producers?Folks have been asking me what I think about the proposed bill to "woo" Broadway try-outs with a tax break.And I confess my first reaction is:Aren't w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:24PMNEW YORK (AP) — The percentage of minority actors working on Broadway and at the top 16 not-for-profit theater companies in New York City rose to 23 percent during the 2011-2012 season, bu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:21PMNBC 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 04:20PMTom Hooper's hit film Les Misérables, starring Academy Award nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, will be released March 22 on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Studios Home Ente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMThe 92nd Street Y will welcome 'theater people' Tony Roberts, Joy Behar, Judy Gold, Paul Rudnick and Doug Wright for shows this March. Scroll down for details
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMThe Scottish troupe Visible Fictions brings “The Mark of Zorro” to life onstage with only three actors and a few props.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:13PMIn this week's episode of Bunheads, starring Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster, Bailey Buntain's character prepares for an audition and seeks Foster's help with it. So in the course of the pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMManhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Producer) is pleased to announce the lineup for this spring’s Ernst C. …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:10PMUPDATE: The Broadway Backwards benefit concert has added Tony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba to its roster. Cariou, currently appearing as Henry Reagan on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PM“Totally Tubular Time Machine” is a mash-up of pop music set in 1989 that includes celebrity impersonators from today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:09PMNew York City Ballet principal dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck will perform the "If I Loved You" pas de deux ballet in the New York Philharmonic's concert staging of Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMThe Drama League honored five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald at The Drama League's 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway last night, February 11, 2013 at the famed Pierre Hotel …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMIn 1986, when Luis Valdez’s play “I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges” premiered in Los Angeles, its portrait of an upwardly mobile Latino family in Monterey…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMCheyenne Jackson has been tapped to co-star with Arrested Development’s Jeffrey Tambor in Amazon Studios’ new comedy pilot The Onion Presents: The News, reports Deadline.com.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:04PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago's general director Anthony Freud announced today that Broadway's Tari Kelly will portray the feisty Ado Annie in the company's premiere and new production of Oklahoma …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMLincoln Center Theater will present The Nance, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane to be directed by Jack O'Brien. The production will begin previews on Thursday, March 21 and open on Monday,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMI tend to stay away from "show" relationships. I convince myself that I should keep things "professional." The "work" comes first and my "feelings" a distant second or third place even if on…
SOURCE: bricktheater.blogspot.com at 03:54PMPerry Young, Christina Aranda and Broadway cast member Arielle Jacobs star in the Westchester Broadway Theatre staging of In the Heights, which began performances Feb. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMTony and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming will bring his one-man adaptation of Macbeth, staged by Tony-winning Once director John Tiffany, to Broadway this spring, according to the New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMTony-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 03:41PMViva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway League, in collaboration with 5000 Broadway Productions and the United Palace of Cultural Arts presented In The Heights In Concert, a special, on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMNeighborhood march steps off at 12:30 a.m. March 17
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:38PM This is totally UNOFFICIAL. But we’re going to be doing something that involves you being on twitter and us giving you prizes. The tentative time is 6 pm on Wednesday the 27th…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 03:37PMKirsten Greenidge’s time-jumping, racially charged drama Luck of the Irish opened at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater on February 11. The play tells the story of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:34PMWhat do you get when you put together Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Taye Diggs and dozens of other great Broadway stars on one stage? The answe
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMOn this date in 1969, Woody Allen premiered his comedy Play It Again, Sam, his first Broadway production since his successful debut with 1966's Don't Drink the Water.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMLights up on Washington Heights! The original cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical In the Heights reunited on February 11 for an incredible one-night-only concert with a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMBBC has just released a new deluxe promotional ad, clocking in at over three minutes, with scenes from countless BBC properties new and old, with some glimpses of what is to come from series…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMThe New York Philharmonic has announced that New York City Ballet principal dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck will perform in the staged production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Carouse…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMNew cast members Andrew Samonsky and Erin Davie join the company of The Mystery of Edwin Drood beginning tonight, February 12. Samonsky (Broadway’s South Pacific, Scandalous, and …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:06PM
The audience was so eager for the return of In the Heights on Monday that the box office line at the United Palace of Cultural Arts was four blocks long. Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMThe actors performed together in the 2010 productions of "The Winter's Tale" and "The Merchant of Venice."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:57PMThe New York Philharmonic's stupendous concert staging of Stephen Sondheim amp George Furth's seminal musical comedy COMPANY is now available to view in full on Hulu, just in time for Valent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMLea Salogna, Ramin Karimloo, Yu Shirota and Sierra Boggess will lead 4 Stars One World of Broadway Musicals in Tokyo and Osaka this June. Daniel Kutner will direct and Jason Robert Brown wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMBunheads star Sutton Foster usually sits in the director’s chair as dance teacher Michelle Simms, but she came front and center in the show’s February 11 episode. When ballerina …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The second of thir…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:42PMShakespeare in the Park favorites Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and Hamish Linklater (Seminar) will once again take the stage of Central Park's Delacorte Theatre this summer when they…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMPeter Gethers and Daniel Okrent's Old Jews Telling Jokes, which has been playing off-Broadway since May 1, 2012, has announced that it will play a limited engagement at Chicago's Royal Georg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMPerformed for four sold-out evenings beginning April 7, 2011, with the superb New York Philharmonic, Company In Concert was filmed for theatrical exhibition in more than 500 theatres nationw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMThis week’s Between Shows is on the highbrow end: Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera. This production of Verdi‘s tale of lust and revenge (starring Željko Lucic in the title ro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:35PMDOUBT and MOONSTRUCK writer John Patrick Shanley has taken to the pages of the New York Times in an essay eviscerating the current pope, Benedict XVI, who, just yesterday, announced a sudden…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMTony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba have joined the star-studded lineup for this year's BROADWAY BACKWARDS, a one-night-only performance produced by Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMAdditional artists have been announced for the eighth annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women, and women singing tunes w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMIt’s the big announcement that some of you have been waiting for! The Public Theater has announced its 51st Shakespeare in the Park season, which will include William Shakespeare&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMWillemijn Verkaik, the Dutch actress who previously played the lead in the Dutch production of Wicked, makes her Broadway debut as Elphaba in the hit musical currently playing at the Stephe…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:29PMTony Award winner Alan Cumming (Cabaret), who returns to Broadway this April in a groundbreaking one-man production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, took part in the installation of the show's marq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMValentine's Day will be a lovely one for Broadway babies since Stephen Sondheim will be participating in a livestream conversation on WQXR's The Greene Space to discuss the new Classic Stage…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PMYIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel will jointly administer the literary estate of Chaim Grade, who died in 1982.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:23PMRECOMMENDED A suicide is always a tragedy. And in the hands of various interest groups and media outlets, as agendas are pushed and stories are filtered or distorted, a tragedy can become a …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:20PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane leads the world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s new play The Nance. The title of the work refers to the burlesque character of a stereotypical…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMManhattan 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 L…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:17PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre NAMT presented its Songwriter Spotlight concert at 54 Below February 11 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:15PMBirmingham Repertory theatre's centenary is well worth celebrating – and not just because my parents met on its stage-door stepsIn a sense, I owe Birmingham Rep everything: my parents met …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMJesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater will star in “The Comedy of Errors,” while a new musical of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” will reunite Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, the t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PMTony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba have joined the star-studded lineup for this year’s BROADWAY BACKWARDS, a one-night-only performance produced by Broa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:09PMJesse Tyler Ferguson in 'Comedy' kicks off season
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PMIt’s not easy having it all, but Megan Hilty makes it look like a piece of cake. The actress, who began her career on Broadway as Glinda in Wicked, blew us all away with her powerful voice…
SOURCE: NBC Universal at 02:07PMCumming just helped intsall the marquee at the Barrymore Theatre, and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below. Check back later for full coverage
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMNEW YORK (AP) — Jesse Tyler Ferguson is heading from modern to classic — the "Modern Family" star is going to star this summer in William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" in Central …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:03PMValentine’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 02:03PMThe 'Heiress' star is currently in talks to join the cast of Scott Frank's upcoming film A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES opposite Liam Neeson.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PMA new musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, penned by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson collaborators Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, and The Comedy of Errors, starring Jess…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMAs 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 02:00PMAlbert Finney, Peggy Ashcroft and Laurence Olivier all cut their teeth at the Birmingham Rep. As the curtains go up on its new home, Michael Billington, a punter since the mid-50s, looks at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMJames Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek," "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23") stars in the American premiere of Australian playwright Joanna …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
The Public's 2013 free Shakespeare in the Park season will begin on Tuesday, May 28 with THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, featuring Shakespeare in the Park alumni Jesse Tyler Ferguson 'Modern Family' a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMMusical theater magic happened in Washington Heights on February 11 as the cast of the Tony-winning musical In the Heights reunited for a one-night-only, five-year reunion concert.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMShadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has accused the coalition government of a “brazen and wholesale” retreat from public support for the creative industries, in a keynote speech this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53PMStage and screen star Ethan Hawke is doing double duty in "Clive," the latest offering from the New Group Theatre Company, as he takes on the title role and directs.
SOURCE: NY1 at 01:47PM"Why would a card-carrying feminist spend all her time with a dead white male?" Why, indeed?
The answer can be found in Women of Will, Tina Packer's exploration of women in the Sha…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:46PM"She's Funny That Way," the upcoming Peter Bogdanovich comedy about the life of a married Broadway director who falls in love with a former prostitute, will star Jennifer Anist…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMPaul Zaloom of Beakman's World fame explores the trials and tribulations of being white in America, assisted by his old-school dummy Butch Manly and "White-Man." Yes, the "idiotically titled…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:44PMThe Signature Theatre held its Annual Gala Feb. 11, celebrating 2012-2013 Residency One Playwright David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMWith Valentine’s Day approaching, I want to know your favorite love songs from musical theater. Do you go for the classics, like “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:37PMToday, we're featuring Patti and Robert LuPone circa 1981. Patti LuPone created the role of Lucia in the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown music and lyrics by David Yazbe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMThe original Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun, starring Tony winner Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, played its final performance Feb. 12, 1949, at the Imperial Theatre. In honor of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMBonham Carter to follow in the footsteps of Lindsay Lohan for BBC4 drama about Elizabeth Taylor's final break with Richard Burton during a stage production of Private LivesOne of Hollywood's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMLincoln Center TheaterLCT3's 2012-2013 season continues with the opening of Luck of the Irish, a new play by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Rebecca Taichman, and featuring Marsha Stephanie B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMWest De Pere High School presents LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL The show opens Feb. 21 and runs through Feb. 23 in the auditorium at West De Pere High, 665 Grant Street, De Pere, WI. Scroll bel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMArtistic director Roxana Silbert chooses some favourite images from the archive, from the theatre's first Twelfth Night to a tasty piece set in four caravans …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMLuna Negra Dance Theater, Chicago’s only contemporary dance company devoted to the Latino choreographic voice, presents “Made in Spain,” its 2013 spring program featuring work by two c…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:13PMThis just in: The work refurbishing The Schoolhouse Theater at Croton Falls is about a week behind schedule, meaning Jon Robin Baitz’s “Ten Unknowns” won’t open as sc…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:13PMCan you feel that white-hot bubbling of Conservatism in your gut? Can you smell that unmistakable, pungent aroma of angry men? It’s David Mamet season in Washington, and the air is thick w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:05PMThe MCC Theater production of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, starring Matt Lauria, Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit, makes its New York premiere Jan. 31 at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMDR2 Kids Theatre continues its partnership with Theatreworks USA to present Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery, which opened a limited engagement Feb. 10 at Off-Broadway's DR2 T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMLincoln Center TheaterLCT3's 2012-2013 season continues with the opening of LUCK OF THE IRISH, a new play by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Rebecca Taichman, and featuring Marsha Stephanie B…
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Q: Why do Jews always answer questions with questions? A: Who’s asking? The hit off-Broadway show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES takes up residence on the Main Stage of Chicago’s Royal Georg…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:58PMIt’s hard to know what to talk about first after seeing a play with robot actors. Last Friday, I saw the Robot Theater Project at Japan Society, a program of two plays, Sayonara and I, Wor…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 12:53PMAlso this week, Mrs Brown's Boys causes a heart attack and Harry Hill comes to the rescueThis week's comedy newsJohnny Vegas has claimed that Daniel Kitson made him quit standup – but is v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMChicago’s The Gift Theatre explores the challenges of loss, love and letting go in the darkly comic one-act play Vigils, written by Noah Haidle (Stand Up Guys, Mr. Marmalade) and dir…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:51PMVIRTUAL THEATER Teddy Ferrara, Goodman Theatre’s new commissioned work, is almost three hours long. That excess suggests that nobody had the courage to cut or, not knowing what it was abou…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:44PMThis drama about the sacking of a white-collar employee uses the bullfight as a powerful metaphor, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:43PMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonLaurie Sansom's tenure at Northampton began with Sondheim's great masterpiece of middle-age regret, Follies. For his leave-taking (Samson is soon off to run th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMToday in 1946, Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1147 performances. Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMWe’ve all had that nightmare— showing up in our underwear and not knowing what we supposed to say or how we got there? Now imagine that magnified tenfold; being on stage in front of a hu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMDouglas Dunn’s Cassations, which ran last weekend at Danspace Project, opens with seven multi-colored flower sculptures scattered throughout St. Mark’s sanctuary, which are carried offst…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 12:36PMJulie Taymor stopped by Charlie Rose on February 8 for a frank interview about her career. Taymor addressed controversy and rumors surrounding Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, reminisced about…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:35PMRoundhouse, LondonNo one has ever doubted the visual wizardry of Robert Lepage. When style and content mesh, as in The Far Side of the Moon (2000), the result is theatrical magic. But his am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMLast night, at the 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), The Drama League announced the founding of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMA free reading of Drew Gasparini's musical Crazy, Just Like Me, which took home the 2011 Best of Fest Award at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will be offered Feb. 22 at the York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMViva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway League, in collaboration with 5000 Broadway Productions and the United Palace of Cultural Arts presented In The Heights In Concert, a special, on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMToday is the birthday of William Edward Maguiness, better known as Ted Mack (1904-1976). His name is of course inseparable from the radio and television he hosted from 1948 through 1970, Te…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:25PMThe new service will be available in the Ticketmaster mobile App in April
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:25PMUmeda Arts Theater Co., Ltd and Kyodo Tokyo Inc. will present 4 Stars: One World of Broadway Musicals in Tokyo and Osaka in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMSHAKESPEARE: HAMLET Director Martin Parr talks to Heather Neill about his radically abbreviated Hamlet, which is being performed at the archaeological site of the Elizabethan Rose theatre on…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:22PMThe Drama League honored five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald at its 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway Feb. 11 at the Pierre Hotel. Playbill.com looks back at her Broadway c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe sweeping and spectacular musical extravaganza Les Miserables has been seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries around the globe. Now the motion picture adaptation that grosse…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMThat Tony-winning Texan talent Betty Buckley will officially open in the London premiere of Jerry Herman's Dear World Feb. 13 at the Charing Cross Theatre. To celebrate the imminent open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMAs Luner on Theatre continues to grow, we continue to add theatre companies to our blog that we are happy to feature! Today, we are happy to add our newest professional regional theatre to o…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:15PMDuring the 1940s and 1950s, Joyce Golding was one of Britain’s most successful variety acts. She sang and told jokes, but specialised in impersonating a wide range of stars, even including…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMIdina Menzel will appear with the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House June 26 and 27 at 8pm. Right before that appearance, Menzel will be making her long-awaited Australian debut in co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMThe Lake Effect, a new drama of family secrets by 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will get its world premiere by Silk Road Rising in Chicago April 23-May 26. Joseph's Bengal T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #296: music hall star Marie Lloyd (for a full biographical article on her go here). Now here she is singing that ever-popular number “The Co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:00PMThe monthly missive from Across the Pond offers perspective on a handful of London's essential theatrical institutions, James Hogan's Ivy and Joan, the year's most engaging …
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'My low point? A cocaine dependency that finished in 1996. I look back with regret'What first drew you to acting?Growing up in Cape Town, I was a very shy, weedy little kid – I didn't fit …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMBroadway veteran Kevin Gray, one of only a handful of actors to portray both Raoul and the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, has died of a heart attack at the age of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast and creative team from the 2008 Tony-winning musical In the Heights reunited Feb. 11 for a starry one-night-only concert in Washington Heigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM"Old Jews Telling Jokes," the Off-Broadway celebration of Jewish comedy penned by the president of Random House Studio and the former public editor of the New York Times, is to have a dedic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:48AMMercedes Herrero plays Reggie Fluty, the officer who discovered Matthew Shepard’s body, and Andy Paris plays Dr. Cantway, the doctor who tended to him, in a scene from “The Laramie Proje…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:47AMEmmy-winning television star Carson Kressley joinED the cast of off Broadway's NEWSical The Musical last night, February 11. NEWSical The Musical is the forever changing, completely un-sanit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMToday is the birthday of Charles Darwin (1909-1882). His On the Origin of Species was published in 1859 and gained widespread acceptance circa the 1870s, although speculation on the topic, i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:42AMMissi Pyle, recently seen Off-Broadway in Bare, will make her New York cabaret debut Feb. 16 at Joe's Pub with an evening entitled Sexy as Hell.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMDaniel Davis and Laila Robins will star in the American premiere of a new adaptation of August Strindberg's Dance of Death, which will debut under the wings of the Red Bull Theater in Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMNikkole Salter's play premieres at Luna Stage
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:38AMWillemijn Verkaik makes her Broadway debut on February 12 as Elphaba in the high-flying musical blockbuster Wicked. The Dutch actress is scheduled to play a 15-week engagement at the Gershwi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMDaniel Davis, Laila Robins and Matthew Rauch will star in the American premiere of a new adaptation of August Strindberg's Dance of Death, which will debut under the wings of the Red Bul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMViva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway League, in collaboration with 5000 Broadway Productions and the United Palace of Cultural Arts presented In The Heights In Concert, a special, on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMThe Drama League honored five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald at its 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway Feb. 11 at the Pierre Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMJennifer Aniston is kind of, sort of heading to Broadway. The A-lister has signed on to the ensemble cast of She’s Funny That Way, a new comedy by Peter Bogdanovich starring Owen …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMOn Twitter Watch, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote 'I'll share some things about last night, and then we'll move on. First of all, whether it was by tweet, FB, or making it uptown, thank you.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMSome actors push their virtuosic energy boldly across the proverbial footlights, as if demanding audience members to listen, all but grabbing them by the throats. Then there are others who h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMThose who have kept up with the press surrounding one of the holiday season's biggest movies, Les Miserables, know how much emphasis was put on the fact that it was the first time that a mov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMEver since I realised that actors such as Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep and Sean Penn were using ‘the method’ to fuel their performances, I’ve been hooked. Method acting removes the nee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AMPopular Broadway performer Kevin Gray, who starred on Broadway in the title role in The Phantom of the Opera, passed away suddenly from a heart attack on February 11 in Hartford, Connec…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMCasting has been announced for the Urban Stages world premiere of Greg Kalleres' comedy Honky, which will begin previews March 8 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMI was thrilled that Once won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album on Sunday night. But it got me thinking . . . is it just a coincidence that the Tony Award winner for Best Musical a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 252013 - 2122013.
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Idina Menzel will perform in concert in Australia this summer. The Tony Award winner will make her debut with the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on June 26 and 27.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:59AMThis week on Bunheads, two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster is showing her students how it’s done as Vegas showgirl-turned-ballet-teacher Michelle. When ballerina Ginny wants to audition…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57AMEditor’s Note: Sad news for the Hartt School community: Kevin Gray, Broadway actor-director who joined the school's faculty as associate professor of theater, teaching music-theater a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:57AMKevin Gray, a Broadway performer who appeared in productions of British mega-musicals like The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon, died on Feb. 11, according to The Hartt School in Hartfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMViva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway League, in collaboration with 5000 Broadway Productions and the United Palace of Cultural Arts presented In The Heights In Concert, a special, on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMMichael John Garcés has always had an eye for engaging people through the power of their own stories. He has turned his ambition into well-recognized programming as Artistic Director of the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AMHang on to your Hats! Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s comedy two-hander Old Hats begins performances February 12 at off-Broadway’s Irene Diamond Stage. Directed by Tina Landau and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:51AMA star-driven television movie about a famously tumultuous time in the relationship of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton? If it sounds like a flashback to last year’s Lindsay Lohan-l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMAlthough he appeared alongside three Doctor Who actors – Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker – the role with which Bernard Horsfall will be chiefly associated is that of the loc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMInitially launching in 2010 with a two-parter from Lion King cast members Ben Jeffrey and Fred Berman, Playbill.com's Two-Show Day photo feature series has taken readers backstage and in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMThe off-Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney’s The Old Boy begins its run at Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre on February 12. Directed by Jonathan Silverstein, the Keen Company productio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMFrom uncertain beginnings to a third round of Molière via Liverpool's tenure as the European Capital of Culture, Roger McGough and Gemma Bodinetz tell Eleanor Turney why they are drawn to t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:40AMToday’s the birthday of our greatest President. TCM ran Abe Lincoln in Illinois last night, an adaptation of the Robert Sherwood play. Raymond Massey (who created the role in the ori…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:37AMTony Award nominee Patti Cohenour will star opposite Seattle veteran Suzy Hunt in the A Contemporary Theatre-5th Avenue Theatre co-production of the Tony-nominated musical Grey Gardens, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMAccording to her official website, Patti LuPone will tour with her cabaret show, Far Away Places, in the coming months. Lupone will bring the show to San Francisico's The Rrazz Room 319-24, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMIf you are in the midst of a new venture then you most likely are looking to have a meeting with someone at a higher level in your industry or even outside of your industry. Many times getti…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMTwo men from have died following an accident at the G Live theatre in Guildford at the weekend.
The incident happened on Saturday (9 February 2013) when a loading bay door trapped the two …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:27AMAbout the author:
Reed Birney’s career proves that it’s possible to become the hottest stage actor in town on the far side of 50. Consider his resume in the past four years alon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:25AMMercedes Herrero and Andy Paris perform scenes from the Tectonic Theater Project's piece on the murder of Matthew Shepard.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22AMBroadway Sessions, which is described as "an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week," will offer a special Valentine's Day…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMFor today’s picks of the best Broadway love songs, I turned to Duncan Stewart and Company, one of Broadway’s hottest up and coming casting agencies. Duncan Stewart and Benton Whitley hav…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:19AMThe 2013 Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, GA, was a hit during Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend this past January, uniting and inspiring over 4,000 young theatre lovers from across the cou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMJust last night, the Signature Theatre Annual Gala celebration honored 2012-13 Residency One Playwright David Henry Hwang. Guests came together to pay tribute to the rich and varied body of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMThroughout The House of the Spirits/La Casa de los Espiritus, I sat leaning forward, agog in the spell of Caridad Svich’s powerful, multi-layered play, enhanced by inspired acting and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMSinging actress Lorna Luft, daughter of the late Judy Garland, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox Feb. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMThe Theatre Department at Columbia College presents the Blake Edwards musical VICTORVICTORIA beginning tomorrow, February 13, thru February 23. Check out the promo video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMJeff Bowen's off-Broadway musical, "Now.Here.This.," closed last year despite great reviews. To keep a piece of it alive, Bowen turned to Kickstarter to see if he could "crowd…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:00AMDON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S "HOT OR NOT" POLL!Here's the last week of Broadway Box Office stats. Click HERE to see how the weekly rankings are calculated.Broadway Box…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AMBoston boasts a wide range of opportunities to take in live theater this spring. Whether it's a dance company from South America or the touring production of the highest grossing show curren…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Glancing above and around the stage at Lookingglass Theatre Company on Saturday night, one could spy a handful of animal topiaries of varying size and species—giraffe, rhino, bird—a kind…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:59AMTwo-time Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone, who returns to 54 Below Feb. 12 for her fourth engagement at the posh nightlife venue with an evening entitled Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMThe Town Hall just presented the first of four concerts of their acclaimed series BROADWAY BY THE YEAR last night, February 11th. The season begins with 1937, a year that witnessed the openi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:53AMIn our latest Regional Dance Company of the Week feature, we get to know the Salt Creek Ballet Company in Westmont, Illinois
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:49AMEntertainment Weekly has a first look at the trailer for the upcoming Blu-ray release of the big screen adatpation of LES MISERABLES.
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SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:42AMHere, just two weeks ago Gray and his wife talked to BroadwayWorld's Richie Ridge at the Phantom Gala, looking back at their time in the show. Our condolences go out to all who loved, worked…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMTaking just 20.5 hours to rehearse, choreograph and costume a production of Summer Holiday, Scottish company LimeLight hold the new recordIn Britain, rehearsal periods tend to last between f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMYou may know Adam Thurman from his TEDx talks at TEDxMichiganAvenue and TEDxBroadway. I hope you know him from his website, Mission Paradox. And I hope you’ll get to know him at the fi…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 09:30AMDeadline is reporting today that Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West will portray Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in an upcoming 90-minute film which will be broadcast on BBC Four.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMWhat is an artist? An artist is many things. An artist is an individual who creates, certainly. But, there is so much more to the description. Artists are those who strive for something new,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20AMNuns on chaotic power trips. Accountants held captive in live productions. Dancing camels. Executions. The Pope. The Bay Theatre Company delves deep into the mind of Christopher Durang in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMBroadwayWorld.com has just learned the sad news that Kevin Gray, who most recently was seen in New York at the 25th Anniversary Gala for The Phantom of the Opera, passed away suddenly of a h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AM“FILM IS FOR EVERYONE” Although the Maryland Film Festival isn’t set to take place until May, Eric Hatch and his team of selection panelists are at work deciding what films will be fea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who made her solo Carnegie Hall concert debut Jan. 13, will perform in concert this summer in Australia.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Jeff Bowen's off-Broadway musical "Now. Here. This." closed last year, he and his collaborators were left with some great things — plenty of good reviews, some new f…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:59AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When Jeff Bowen's off-Broadway musical "Now. Here. This." closed last year, he and his collaborators were left with some great things - plenty of good reviews, some new …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:55AMOn Tuesday, February 5, 2013, students in the Great Neck Arts Center's special needs 'Dinner, Music amp Art' class enjoyed a treat--a screening of the 2007 movie 'Hairspray', followed by a s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:50AMKAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has deported a British theatre producer charged with staging a play about homosexuality, the British High Commission said on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Reuters at 08:46AMI have written before of my difficulties with Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, but obviously this doesn’t mitigate against its importance for any study of Greek drama and theatre. N…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:36AMDirector Steven Cosson begins our series of interviews with the cast and designers of Olney Theatre Center’s Spring Awakening. Joel: There are dozens of productions of Spring Awakening…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMPoems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. The J. Kates’s technique is…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AM
London is to get its own television station, London Live, by early 2014, with the award by Ofcom last week of a 12-year licence to the Evening Standard and its owner, Alexander Lebedev. It w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMHow did this one slip by me last year? In October, the New York Times’ Ben Brantley released a beautiful-to-look-at and rewarding-to-read volume titled “Broadway Musicals” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:44AMA second man has died following a backstage accident at Guildford theatre, G Live. The accident happened on Saturday February 9, during the get-in for the show by Fisherman’s Friends. Tou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMJohn Partridge is currently starring as the formidable director Zach in A Chorus Line, which opens to press at the London Palladium next week (19 February 2013, previews from 5 February). Th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:33AMAmbassador Theatre Group’s joint founder and chief executive Rosemary Squire has been named in BBC Radio 4′s inaugural Woman’s Hour power list. Squire, who founded ATG – …
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Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, Croydon: One of the best-selling recording artists of the 1960s, Billy Fury enjoyed a string of hit singles totalling a remarkable 332 weeks in the British…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AMRoundhouse, London: Robert Lepage, an already beloved figure of the international touring and festival circuit, now receives the ultimate form of global theatrical validation - an entire net…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMWhatsonstage.com Awards sponsor Digital Theatre has announced its latest production for download - Michael Attenborough's Almeida Theatre staging of King Lear::E8831347442182, starring Olivi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:22AMLike a Ken Dodd show, Robert Lepage's new epic is a feast of fun and a challenge to the kidneys, running at two and a half hours without a break and daring the audience to give in before the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:12AMLast night (11 February 2013) for our latest Whatsonstage.com Outing we took nearly 100 theatregoers to Midnight Tango at the Phoenix Theatre, followed by an exclusive post-show Q&A hos…
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Theresa Rebeck's 90-minute monologue Bad Dates begins with an introduction to one woman's array of shoes and clothes: classy, earthy, trashy, cute, dangerous, dowdy. If that's enough descrip…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:31AMHere’s hoping that you can make it to New York this month and next to see the York Theatre Company’s four “Musicals in Mufti.”
Starting this weekend, Mufti – which does readings o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:31AMMaryland Ensemble Theatre continues its tradition of producing thought-provoking theatre with their heartfelt and powerful production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Direc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30AM“Start spreading the news” — Trevor Ashley finally brings his Liza on an E! cabaret show to Perth as part of the Fringe World Festival! This cabaret show is more than just a drag queen…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:23AMRob Corddry on Working (Alone) on Animated Films
The super funny Rob Corddry pays a visit to the Studio to chat about his animated film 'Escape From Planet Earth' and the unique circumstance…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMRyan Lochte & The Fab 5 Backstage at Hall of Game Awards
We take you backstage at the Hall of Game Awards for exclusive interviews with Olympic gold medalists including swimmer Ryan Lochte a…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMSuper Bowl Stars Let Loose at Hall of Game Awards
We are backstage at the Hall of Game Awards chatting exclusively with some of the heroes of Super Bowl XVLII, namely 49ers quarterback Colin…
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NBC and Columbia Records announced that the soundtrack for Bombshell, the musical within NBC's Golden Globe-nominated series television hit 'SMASH' Tuesdays, 10-11pm ET, will be released tod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AM2013 promises to be a banner year for Tom Wopat. From today's Feb. 12 release of his eighth recording I've Got Your Number, to his role in Quentin Tarrantino's highly anticipated film Django…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMWhen Commas AttackValerie Cardinal@vscardinalI’ll admit it; I’m a grammar freak. When I was in 7th grade, my English teacher would give us extra credit for finding grammatical error…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMShannon Lewis, whose New York stage career spans 20 years and includes 10 Broadway shows, is currently appearing as Miss Florence Gill in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Studio 54. She fills …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Theatre of MehIs this THE enemy of theatreby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisIt was one of those serendipitous days when this column did two great things: forced me to think about inter…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMOn Monday I flew from Tampa to New York, where the weather is demoralizingly gray and soggy, with no prospects...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMFrom 2003: I just got back from Sotheby's, where I failed to bring home the bacon--an exquisite 1931 etching by...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person." Mark Twain, "The Man...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMPrimary Stages' 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' All in the Timing, a daffy collection of short comedies including Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread and The Philadelphia, offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone returns to 54 Below Feb. 12 for her fourth engagement at the posh nightlife venue with her acclaimed show Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmy Herzog's Belleville, which explores the eroding marriage of an American couple living in Paris, begins Off-Broadway performances Feb. 12 at the New York Theater Workshop. Tony Award …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tectonic Theater Project presents The Laramie Cycle — a theatrical marathon comprising the two-part stage docu-drama, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOld Hats is the name of the new work by clowning Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who appear in the show's world premiere by Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 12, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDutch actress Willemijn Verkaik, recently seen in the Dutch production of Wicked, makes her Broadway debut as Elphaba in that hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Feb. 12 at the Gers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAndy Karl, recently seen in the Broadway revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, returns to the cast of the Tony-winning Jersey Boys Feb. 12 at the August Wilson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company's newly revised version of A.R. Gurney's 1991 play, The Old Boy, begins performances Off-Broadway Feb. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young, who recently returned to the cast of Broadway's Jersey Boys, makes his Café Carlyle debut Feb. 12-23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, welcome Andrew Samonsky and Erin Davie into the fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1903 Birthday of Broadway leading man Todd Duncan (1903-1998), who will create the role of Porgy in Porgy and Bess, and star in the original productions of Lost in the Stars and Cabin in the…
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