Three performers, cardboard cutouts, tiny puppets and a pair of swords. That’s all it takes for Scotland’s Visible Fictions theater company to present “The Mark of Zorro,” their char…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMIs importing an evening of Balanchine’s ballets to his home base like bringing beans to Boston? Not when it brings us a dancer who’s matured into a full-fledged ballerina.
Pacific Northw…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMThe 1998 attack on Matthew Shepard was so brutal, it shocked the nation. After meeting him at a bar one October night, two men took the openly gay University of Wyoming student to a remote a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMMaybe she should sing.
Tickets went on sale last week for “I’ll Eat You Last,” a one-woman play starring Bette Midler, but there were no fireworks at the box office.
Backers were confi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMBarnes amp Noble at 86th and Lexington Avenue will host 'Rita Moreno in Conversation With Lin-Manuel Miranda' on March 5, 2013. Moreno's book, 'Rita Moreno A Memoir', will be released the sa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23PMPrimary Stages offers up the 20th anniversary production of David Ives' "All in the Timing".
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:03PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, February 14, 2013.
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Lia Romeo was commissioned to write a script about social networking back in 2011, and now her play Connected is enjoying its very funny maiden voyage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:42PMReports from Broadway said The Book of Mormon was hilarious and outrageous, and I agree, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:32PMThe Oscar-winning filmmaker is believed to be '75 per cent' of the way towards committing to direct another 007 movie, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:31PMBirdboy is an original piece offered by The Wet Weather Ensemble, a young Perth theatre collective who aim to draw upon their diverse interests as writers, musicians, visual artists and pupp…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMDid the brutal 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard really change American attitudes about LGBT people? That’s one of the questions that the members of Tectonic Theater Company set out to an…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PMEight cats with dreams of stardom purred their way this week through an open casting call for the role of "Cat" in the Broadway production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:27PMOur upcoming 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 Neo-Futur…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 08:27PM"All in the Timing" established David Ives as one of the top theatrical talents of his generation. Now Primary Stages is marking the 20th anniversary of the play's premiere by giving its fir…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:23PMYOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LEND THIS PRODUCTION YOUR EARS Brutal and relentless, Julius Caesar chronicles a fateful course of envy and revenge defeating idealism and loyalty: Brutus and Cas…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:12PMThe departure of Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez from the artistic director job at Watts Village Theater is rocky, as the company announces a new season...Tony nominee Wilson Milam directs Rank…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:10PMThe tragedy of suicide resulting from anti-gay bullying is eminently worthy of theatrical treatment. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMFault Line Theatre’s “From White Plains” is a drama about high school bullying that is as thoughtful as it is passionate. It’s also clearly the product of a close col…
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PopUp Theatrics, The Gershwin Hotel, Off Off Broadway
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: Redefining how rewarding a technology-driven performance can be, this unique Skype-centric p…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:43PMIn the gorgeous new production of “The Glass Menagerie” at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:40PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Kirsten Stephens
Show: iMime, There's An App For That
Website: LaughingNomadProductions.com
Kirsten Stephens studied for three years with world-renowned Mar…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:32PMIts Foursquare Foundation charitable arm loses a reported $2 million on the short-lived Broadway musical about church founder Aimee Semple McPherson.There was no divine intervention for the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMAs I write this, the Illinois State Senate just voted 34-21 to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill now goes to the House, where it will require 60 votes to move ... The post World Premiere…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 07:06PMThe inimitable Sir David Attenborough will be touring Australia in June 2013, reprising his sold out 2012 performance, Sir David Attenborough - A Life on Earth. Audiences in Brisbane, Can…
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Terese Genecco and her eight-piece "Little Big Band," a monthly musical staple at Iridium NYC, the nightclub on Broadway and West 51 Street since March of 2009, teams up with producer ScoBar…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:58PMObie Award-winning playwright/performer David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) is Tawny Heatherton in Tawny Tell Me True at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Directed by Robert La Fosse, …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:56PMShe's back! And she looks and sounds terrific. As you might expect, Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday includes two big songs from that very musical that put her on the Broadway map.
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:55PMBy Judd
Hollander
Photo by Joan Marcus
The
Encores! series at New York City
Center goes back to its
beginnings with a production of Fiorello!
(book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott,…
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Photos: Sean Dooley
Lawrence Jansen asGonko The Clown
Godlight Theatre Company goes for a
wild run to the dark side with their unsettling and rather macabre pre…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:51PMBryonn Bain has written and performs “Lyrics From Lockdown,” a solo show that’s the story of his unjustified 1999 arrest and detainment by the New York Police Department.
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Hollander
Photos: Monique Carboni
The New
Group presents a powerful look at one man's hedonistic descent into self-destruction
with Clive, now at Theatre Row
Studios.
Based …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:43PM“It’s a revolution,” says Gary King, director of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. “We’re really just getting under way. But the march of quantification, made …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 06:41PMSeattle Opera’s new staging of “La Bohème,” opening Feb. 23, 2013, means to evoke nostalgia for the starving Parisian artists of yesteryear. How does it stand up in today’s culture?
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:41PMThe National Theatre of Great Britain’s lauded play “War Horse” vividly depicts the reality of battle, and the close bond between a young man and his beloved horse. At the Paramount in…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:31PMJust about everyone at some point in their lives will stare at the ceiling in defeat, wondering why sleep eludes them, and then suffer for it the next day. Playwright Fleur Kilpatrick’s In…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMBy Judd Hollander
It's not easy to combine the intimate with the epic, but playwright
Paula Vogel has done just that with A
Civil War Christmas, now at New York Theatre Workshop. Set in a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:28PMLeader of Shubert Org to be feted at gala
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25PMAll mighty Ceasar has certainly come a long way from his Roman abode. As the centuries turn, William Shakespeare’s master work about politics, betrayal, corruption, greed, love and murde…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:23PMLilla Crawford, the title star of "Annie," will be eligible for the best actress in a musical prize, while Katie Finneran, the show's Miss Hannigan, will be eligible for the supporting actre…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMToday’s Spotlight shines on Jaz Dorsey, a Southern gentleman whose presence and charm I first noticed on the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) listserv. Jaz alway…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 06:14PMIf Patti LuPone were to be cast in certain roles in “Funny Girl” or “Music Man” ... well, she’s prepared, with a repertory of her favorite songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMTime Out New York has chosen 6 cast members of the new American musical, MOTOWN for it’s annual photo feature highlighting the 10 hottest chorus girls and boys on Broadway this Spring …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:07PMAs I write this, the Illinois State Senate just voted 34-21 to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill now goes to the House, where it will require 60 votes to move to Governor Quinn's desk, wh…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 06:05PM'Performers' won't be considered for awards
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMChicago Shakespeare Theater CST presents its contemporary retelling of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, staged by acclaimed British director Jonathan Munby in his Chicago debut, now play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:01PM“The Laramie Project Cycle” is a two-part production about the killing of a gay man, Matthew Shepard, in Wyoming in 1998.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMA nice surprise at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford last night when, before the curtain for the press night of “In the Heights,” director John Fanelli came out to the sta…
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You have been seeing it on Good Morning America, The Today Show, New York Live, The Food Network, and Anderson Live New York City's newest groundbreaking theatrical experience comes to life …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMBarry Manilow is back on Broadway for the first time in more than two decades, hosting a limited run at the St. James Theatre. This morning, he stopped by 'Good Day New York' and talked abou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMFrank had one last shot at the upper chamber: for one night only, he was making a cameo appearance as a Republican senator in the 1959 musical “Fiorello!”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:50PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, February 14, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Happy Valentine’s Day from BBB • •…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:48PMSeattle Times theater critic Misha Berson reviews “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” and “Next to Normal,” about the challenges facing families coping with loved ones’ serious mental …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:47PM Follow Up Review by Joe Regan Jr. When I reviewed Joshing Around starring Joshua Warr and Joshua Desjardins at their first performance on November 9, 2011, I praised the duo�…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:42PM"Fast Births Fugue," the first vignette of 20 in "Motherhood Out Loud," proves to be a bit of bait and switch on the part of the show's director, Bob Wells, who founded the Avenue Theater,…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:41PMPIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and SWEENEY TODD singing star Johnny Depp has teamed up with director Gore Verbinski for a follow-up to their 2006 collection, ROGUE'S GALLERY, set for release next …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMThe portrait walls at Sardi's are packed with theater stars, and now an undisputed music legend has joined their ranks: Barry Manilow! The Grammy and Special Tony Award-winning pop icon …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PMBack in olden times I did my first two years of college at a place called Hartford College for Women, there was a professor there named Oliver Butterworth who wrote the children’s book The…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:37PMLive From Lincoln Center's winter and spring broadcast season kicks off with a special concert from Lincoln Center's 2013 American Songbook series celebrating the legendary songwriting duo o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMHoly Holly Golightly! Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is just a month away from her Broadway debut as the titular good-time girl in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the new stage adaptation …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMIt's not the Copa, but it'll do. Grammy Award winner and pop icon Barry Manilow, currently headlining at the St. James Theatre in the concert event Manilow on Broadway, was honored on Thurs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMThe distance between Round House Theatre in Bethesda and Theater J on 16th Street NW is only about seven miles, yet at the moment, that trip covers a large patch of David Mamet’s polarizin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:27PMEmma Jane Denly begins a brand new monthly blog Devil’s Advocate, a regular provocation about topical or controversial issues. This month she plays devil’s advocate with the topi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:23PMThe first time I encountered Shakespeare’s original – at the age of five or six – I thought Macbeth was the name of whatever it was the weird sisters might be cooking in the cauldr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:11PM“No more rejection, rejection, rejection,” the ex-actress tells Ivy and Sam in front of Amy’s Bread in the second season premiere of Smash. She has left the theater and gone into “st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PMFive-time Tony winning costume designer William Ivey Long has outdone himself once again with his gorgeous creations for Broadway’s Cinderella. The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMJackie Hoffman, Bradford Louryk, Molly Pope, Cole Escola and Michael Musto will be part of You Like Me: An Evening of Classic Acceptance Speeches, which will return to Ars Nova Feb. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMGAME OF THRONES dragon queen and upcoming Broadway leading lady in the new production of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, rising star Emilia Clarke, shows off her striking visage and luscious curves …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMWhy a New Play Map? Theater holds a mirror up to human existence; audiences see themselves, their stories, and their worlds reflected back to them on stage. And these narratives unfold, impe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMI used to be an American Idol devotee. As far as talent competitions go I used to think it actually had a mix of validity and entertainment value. (rightly or wrong, that’s just my p…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMRehearsals for the Australian premiere production of The Addams Family are well underway, and we took a look at some of their progress at ABC Studios in Ultimo yesterday. American Director J…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PM
Richmond Theatre played host to the opening night of Ambassador Theatre Group’s 9 to 5 The Musical, which did not fail to impress – the highly-anticipated UK tour had finally arrived in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:59PM(photo credit: David Baltzer)Live Video Killed the Theatre Star by Chad DembskiHas film slowly destroyed theatre? Did film make the live narrative irrelevant when it could directl…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:56PMIt's been a few days since Beyoncé last appeared on our radar.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:56PMFather-son bonding is limned over the course of a Southern California car commute.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:55PMRemy Bumppo's rehearsal space at 3717 N Ravenswood has availability from April 1 through May 19. Rates vary from $11 - $16 per hour, depending on hours scheduled per week. Approximately 80…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:48PMDifferent eras reflect different social concerns in shows by HotCity and West End Players.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:48PMThe Lyric Theatre and Curtain Call Productions will be presenting William Finn's A New Brain, a musical by the Tony award-winning team behind 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and the F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMBroadway musicals are full of lovey-dovey couples whose happiness is adorable, infectious, and—on occasion—disgusting. Sandy and Danny, Tracy and Link, Maria and Captain Von Trap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMChekhov subtitled it a comedy, but should we take him at his word, or was he being ironic?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PMViva 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 04:43PMIncluding The Good Person of Szechwan, All in the Timing, and The Clement World.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:42PMIn the last couple of seasons the New York theater has taken its love affair with its own past to perverse new extremes by trying to resurrect notorious flops.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:41PMMarvelous news for Broadway lovers on this Valentine's Day Documentarian Rick McKay's tremendous BROADWAY THE GOLDEN AGE retrospective film will apparently be receiving its sequel in 2013 at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMThat’s meme-ingful: The New York Philharmonic posted a valentine to its followers Monday. By Thursday, the meme had arrived.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:40PMIt's rare that we talk too much about the tech end of things here at BroadwayWorld.com. But we've made so many improvements over the last few weeks, and have gotten a slew of email kud…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMIt's rare that we talk too much about the tech end of things here at BroadwayWorld.com. But we've made so many improvements over the last few weeks, and have gotten a slew of email kud…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMDay features marches in Afghanistan, human chains in Bangladesh and a debate in the House of CommonsThere were marches in Afghanistan, human chains in Bangladesh and a debate in the British …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37PMPiecing Together PerformancePart man, part machine, wholly entertaining.by Keely KwokI love an empty stage. Right before the show, you’ve taken your seat, the house lights are still on, yo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:37PMVienna’s famous Opera Ball proves both plush and political.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:36PMThe Minnesota Museum of American Art makes a case for its revival with two Twin Cities shows.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:33PMA drama by the creator of “Brothers and Sisters” pits Republican parents against their left-leaning children.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:31PMAasif Mandvi is best known as the 'Senior Muslim Correspondent' on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , but as Charles Isherwood of The New York Times recently remarked, 'Those who know this ta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMAudra McDonald. Steve Kazee. Andrea Martin. What do these actors have in common (other than Tony Awards)? They all started their Broadway-bound shows at the American Repertory Theater. …
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:25PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season. The 14 productions discussed includ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met Feb. 14 for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions for the 2013 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMFamed concert. cabaret and Broadway singer, Linda Eder, returns to The McCallum Theatre on February 17 at 800 pm with her newest concert. Based on her most recent CD Now featuring the music …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMSee the second round of eligibility determinations of shows and performers for the 2013 Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 04:15PMComposer-performer Kamala Sankaram and musical theater writing team Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham are the recipients of the 2013 Jonathan Larson Grants, the American Theatre Wing announ…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:13PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions for the 2013 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, pres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMIn “A Heap of Livin’,” playwright Elliot Shoenman surveys the minefield of family interactions, in this case between a widowed folksinger and his two very different daughte…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lourdes Lopez says she had heard the rumors about Miami City Ballet, that it was a failing institution in a cultural wasteland.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:04PMForever Dusty, now playing at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, tells the story of a shy Irish Catholic school girl from West London who transformed herself into a worldwide music superstar �…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PMIs it any wonder Harlem Shake videos have gone viral? It's all in the jump cuts, which add that little jolt of magic. Plus, the song's beat is hypnotic, the setups are quick and the routines…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:01PM
This item is from Marine Cornuet, Programming Intern HERE Arts Center Since 1993, HERE Arts Center has been one of New York’s most prolific producing organizations, and today, it stands at…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 03:59PMA longtime wish came true Jan. 25 as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Cinderella, starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, made its Broadway premiere, in preview, at the Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMA $5 million gift from Harriet Heyman and Michael Moritz will help the school's Music Advancement Program.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:57PMFirst Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83) presents the witty comedy JEEVES TAKES A BOW, running now through March 3. Tickets are selling quickly and the follow…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:49PM Court Theatre Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J. Albert present Proofwritten by David Auburn, and directed by Charles Newell. Proof will run March 7 �…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:43PMBalconies? What balconies? We don't need no stinking balconies. OK, that sentiment might be a bit rough for William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:39PMThe Advocate's Josh Rosenzweig reviews SILENCE! THE MUSICAL.
SOURCE: The Advocate at 03:37PMAdam Kantor Rent and Betsy Wolfe The Mystery of Edwin Drood will co-star in the highly anticipated revival of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years at Second Stage Theatre. Hear t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMClaybourne Elder and Sean Hudock will star in two readings of Room at the End of the Hall, a new two-hander from playwright Rocco Natale, Feb. 22 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Creativ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM By Joel Benjamin Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, a triumph for any modern dance troupe, the Buglisi Dance Theatre produced two ambitious programs for its season at the Joyce T…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:20PMTony nominee Bobby Steggert will be making Broadway magic this fall in the new musical Big Fish, with the help of co-stars Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin and a few larger-than-life tales. Re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:19PMLove sucks, right? Particularly when you’re not in it. And especially on the one day a year when every inch of the earth seems to be covered in red and pink hearts and the streets of e…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:13PMJessica Wilson discovers how the Othello Peckham Theatre Company's new Othello focuses on the powerful quest for love.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:12PMThis item from Jonathan Slaff, publicist From August 18 to September 8, 2013, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, Artistic Director, will present its fourth…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 03:11PMThe University of Miami's ongoing celebration of the humanities and arts continues on Friday with a day-into-evening event titled A Walk in the CLOUDS: Celebrating the Classics at UM. All ev…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:10PMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth with will co-host the 2013 Oscars pre-show along with Good Morning America's Lara Spencer and Entertainment Weekly's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMLooks like Laura Linney is a Fanilow! The Tony-nominated star of stage, screen and TV's The Big C caught up with Barry Manilow after seeing his special concert event Manilow on Broadway.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMBWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 3 of our On the Road series, the cast spends their free time at Ambition in Sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PM
I’m the world’s biggest wimp. I don’t watch horror movies and a tiny bit of me is still afraid of things that go bump in the night. So I feel almost cheated to have come ou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMFormer Wicked star Shoshana Bean will celebrate the release of her sophomore album, "O'Farrell Street," with a Feb. 20 concert at the Sayers Club in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMBoundary-breaching theater doesn't always make for an easy night. Even so, we're lucky to have two bold companies that succeed far more than they tumble.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:54PMDeadline reports that BOOK OF MORMON star Andrew Rannells has just inked a deal to be repped by UTA. The actor currently stars in the freshman NBC comedy THE NEW NORMAL from Ryan Murphy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PM Written by Alix Cohen On the Bar Mitzvah of Broadway by the Year (13 years old), impresario Scott Siegel welcomes us to the evening’s bounty of familiar and ecl…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:48PMValentine’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 02:48PMTony Award nominee Kerry Butler (Gore Vidal's The Best Man) and Kelly AuCoin (Happy Now?) will lead the cast of the upcoming Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages co-production of Tanya Ba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMThey’re at it again: Oscar winner Helen Mirren and The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan have reunited for the West End world premiere of The Audience, a play in which Mirren reprises an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMHello readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of To Be Young, Gifted And Black, now playing at the Actors Co-op in Hollywood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:46PMIt's Valentine's Day, so a perfect time to get a first look at production photos from the new production of the Rodgers Hammerstein romantic musical CINDERELLA
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMStage actress Ilana Levine will join the cast of off-Broadway’s My Name Is Asher Lev beginning February 26. Levine will replace current star Jenny Bacon, playing all of the show&#…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMBroadway darling Kristin Chenoweth has got a new gig, and it involves a gigantic gold man. The Tony winner is set to co-host the official Oscars pre-show on February 24, reporting live from …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:38PMBack in November, I wondered aloud if it was mere conicidence that Anne Hathaway hosted the Oscars in 2011 and sang a version of "On My Own" to Hugh Jackman while future "Les Misérabl…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:32PMIlana Levine, who played Lucy Van Pelt opposite Kristin Chenoweth and Anthony Rapp in Broadway's You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, will join the cast of Off-Broadway's My Name …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMWas youngest actor to play Phantom on Rialto
SOURCE: Variety at 02:28PMPaper Mill Playhouse presents Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor. This hysterically funny, door-slamming comedy will feature Broadway stars and Paper Mill Playhouse favorites including Judith Blaz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMIt's the beginning of the end of Andak Stage, the small NoHo company run by Dakin Matthews and Anne McNaughton. But first, Kitty Swink stars in a revival of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blue…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:23PMJust in time for Valentines, this sweet, whimsical Disney short will surely brighten your day. Enjoy! The other candidates for Best Animated Short are here.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:21PMEmmy-winning television star Carson Kressley joined the cast of off Broadway's NEWSical The Musical on February 11. NEWSical The Musical is the forever changing, completely un-sanitized musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PM Written by Paulanne Simmons Whether you’re a fan of Andrew Lippa, musical theater or great singers singing great songs, National Alliance for Musical The…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:08PMNot forgotten to the folks who actually watched it in the early 1970s…but younger people have been less fortunate! I had last seen the show when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so was ve…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:06PMIrish Repertory Theatre has announced that retired professional boxer John Duddy (Kid Shamrock), Laoisa Sexton (Gaslight), Jo Kinsella (Dancing at Lughnasa), and Georgina McKevitt (Waiting f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania 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 02:00PM
Tanya Barfield's foreign-adoption drama The Call, a world-premiere co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, will feature Kelly AuCoin, Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMMike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Mike Tyson's one-man show chronicling the ups and downs of his life and career as a champion heavyweight boxer that was seen on Broadway in summer 2012, kic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMForever Dusty, the hit new musical about the life and times of legendary British pop star Dusty Springfield, celebrated its 100th performance with a one-night-only Sing-A-Long performance la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMThe official YouTube site for the Chicago and Broadway-bound musical Big Fish has given us this lovely Valentine's Day present: "Time Stops," a love song from the show, as sung by two-time T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMThe Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has made a donation of £150,000 to the Roundabout auditorium, the brainchild of theatre company Paines Plough that is the first self-contained, porta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMHundreds of women in the City of Joy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo dance to raise awareness of violence against women as part of the One Billion Rising campaign
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMGoing into the family business has always been a path fraught with peril. To the uncharitable outside observer success is served up on a plate whilst failure – even mediocrity - is seen as…
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:27PMTony Award nominee Kerry Butler, Eisa Davis, Kelly AuCoin and more will star in Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages' world premiere of Tanya Barfield’s The Call. Dire…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PMJohn Lloyd Young, who played Frankie Valli on Broadway in “Jersey Boys,” shows off a one-in-a-million tenor in his show at the Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:16PMNBC and Columbia Records just released the soundtrack for Bombshell, the musical within NBC's Golden Globe-nominated series television hit 'SMASH' Tuesdays, 10-11pm ET, on February 12. In ce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMBen Rimalower will bring his popular solo show Patti Issues, about his lifelong love of Patti LuPone and his own relationship with his gay father, to the West Coast for five performances in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMMaria Jacobs demonstrates the Art of the Duo, mostly with one guitarist or another (or, instead, bass or piano player). Jessica Molaskey's pianist du jour is also her singing partner and the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:09PMWestminster Kennel Club Dog Show 'Best in Show' winner Banana Joe made his Broadway debut last night in Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Rupert Ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:07PMThe percentage of minority actors working on Broadway -- and at the top 16 not-for-profit theater companies in New York City -- rose two percent during the 2011-2012 season, as compared to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMBefore the lights went out at the Super Bowl two weeks ago, Beyonce's halftime show included a brief (and not-so-surprise) appearance from her former Destiny's Child bandmates Kelly Rowland …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05PMNINA METZ reviews "Best Musical!" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★ and "185 Buddhas Walk into a Bar" at Studio BE ★★
NINA METZ reviews "Best Musical!" by Porchl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05PMCharing Cross theatre, London"There was a time when garbage was a pleasure," they sing in this musical version of Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, which flopped on Broadway in 1969. Wic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMViaduct, HalifaxWhen Barrie Rutter put together a scratch ensemble of plain-speaking theatrical nonconformists in 1992, who would have predicted that Northern Broadsides would become one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMLes Misérables star, Golden Globe winner and likely soon-to-be Oscar darling Anne Hathaway has been everywhere this month, but she took time out of her busy schedule to stop by The To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMRedmoon Theatre, the 23-year-old Chicago performance, spectacle and party-creation company, said Thursday that it is vacating its longtime "Redmoon Central" headquarters in the West Loop a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:02PMBIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will open Sunday, October 6, 2013, at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre 2…
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Leonard Bernstein’s musical West Side Story is to tour the UK from September this year. The show, directed and choreographed by Joey McKneely, will tour following its run at Sadler’s Wel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMThis Saturday, February 16th for one night only audiences will gather at Rider University for a night of laugh out loud sketch comedy. 'Live from Lawrenceville, It's Saturday Night' or LFLIS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMKerry Butler, Crystal A. Dickinson to appear
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMLate Academy Award-nominated writer Nora Ephron, whose play Lucky Guy will premiere on Broadway this spring starring Tom Hanks, will be honored by the Writers Guild of America East during th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThere are people who want to be famous, without a specific talent they want to be famous for. People who chose fame over every other life goal, including "happiness." And then there are the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMMagical! Fantastical! Emotional! These are just a few of the words five-time Tony-winning director Susan Stroman uses to describe the Broadway-bound musical Big Fish. "This story is abo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMEven though “The X Factor” is one of the biggest hits on television right now, could it be a Broadway smash? Simon Cowell thinks it could.
Cowell signed on as a producer of the n…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:41PMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Today is the birthday of the late, great Gregory Hines (1946-2003). While his brother and dad also tapped (the three — and t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:41PMBroadway.com is your top source for news, interviews, exclusive photos and in-the-know features. Our 10 most-read articles from February 8 to February 14 included all those categories, toppe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMAs enticing as a Valentine's Day bouquet, as delectable as a box of chocolates and as heartwarming as a kiss from your betrothed, today we are honoring one of Broadway's most romantic musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMFalling in (and out of) love has long been one of Broadway's favorite themes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMBen Rimalower is packing up his baggage and taking his love for Patti LuPone on the road. Rimalower will perform his hit solo show Patti Issues in California in March.
Pat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMWhen Madison Dirks isn’t slinging back bourbon in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he’s relaxing in his dressing room at the Booth Theatre. Check out his favorite things, i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34PMCalifornia's TheatreWorks will present Once On This Island, Other Desert Cities, Marry Me a Little and the world premiere of Catherine Rush's The Loudest Man on Earth as part of its …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMTrey Parker and Matt Stone's "The Book of Mormon," coming to the Fox, pushes a tradition of satire.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:30PMThis Balanchine programme illustrated the strengths – and minor weaknesses – of the American company, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:26PMGitha Sowerby’s 1912 play is given a somewhat melodramatic treatment by Jonathan Miller, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:24PMDizzia and Keller in Cradle and All (photo by Joan Marcus)
Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller aren't a couple in real life, but the current New York Theatre Workshop production …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:24PMIf you "just don't know what to do" with yourself this Valentine's Day and you're done "wishin' and hopin'" for the "son of a preacher man" to show up at your door with that burning "look of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMMaria Dizzia and Greg Keller, the leads of Amy Herzog’s drama “Belleville,” are used to playing a couple together, though they aren’t one offstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:16PMDisney's NEWSIES has released its first social media app for iPhone and Android devices. The Newsies Photo Booth app is available for free download via the iTunes and Google Play stores. To …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMTony Award-winning Hairspray and Catch Me If You Can scribes Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman are a busy pair of songwriters. Not only are they in the midst of filming the sophomore season of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMMeredith College's production of Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is now on stage thru this Sunday, February 17. Click below to see photos of the show's stars Meredith Davis as Desire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMToday is Teller’s birthday! Teller indulged me with a lengthy, generous interview when I researched No Applause. He is quoted there at length and you’ll have to buy it to learn …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:07PMFebruary 14, 2013 By Angela Marroy Boerger Have you ever wondered what it would like to be a pirate – sailing the high seas, searching for treasure and generally ignoring the rul…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 12:07PMYesterday, a tiny dog named after a fruit appeared in a Broadway show and it dominated the news cycle. Which certainly seems reasonable. It's not as though our President had just suggested w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:04PMUgandan playwright Angella Emurwon has won at this year’s International Playwriting Competition. The writer won first prize in the English as a second language category at the awards, orga…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMCity Council Meeting is a participatory theater event about empathy, democracy and power. Created by Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay, and Aaron Landsman, the project combines local government t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMThe show's creators are old hands at being holy terrors.
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Below, check out a clip of Jennifer Hudson belting out the show stopping number 'Home' from Broadway's 'The Wiz' on an upcoming episode of SMASH. On this season of the NBC musical drama, the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMTony Award winner Elaine Stritch's 88th birthday will be celebrated on the PBS show "Theater Talk"; "The Elaine Stritch Birthday Bash" will premiere Feb. 16 at 1 AM o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMStadium Devildare - Red Tape Theatre, 621 W. Belmont, is offering $10 industry tickets for one performance only on Sunday February 17 at 7:00PM. Tickets are available online with code GAMEB…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:54AMShakespeare’s R&J is a dance, exquisitely choreographed by Joe Calarco with words and music by Williams Shakespeare. It is the Bard’s great tragedy, done up almost to the word, but r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50AMRodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is making magic in its Broadway premiere! The classic fairy-tale romance chronicles the love story of Ella, a young girl living with her wicked s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AMStormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, the biographical musical about the stylish actress and singer, is aiming for Broadway this fall, according to participants in the project. No official a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThere are shows that let you know almost immediately that the night may be a satisfying knockout. Steve Cosson’s staging of “Spring Awakening,” drawing young and hip-looking crowds to …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:48AMThe Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has donated £150,000 to new writing company Paines Plough to design and build the "first-ever fully self-contained portable Roundabout auditorium".
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:44AMThe hit Theo Ubique production of "Smokey Joe's Cafe,' the revue of the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, is to have a commercial transfer to the Royal George Theatre's cabaret space. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:37AMDespite the winter chill that still hangs in the air in many parts of the country, the Spring musical theater season is already heating up Broadway! It’s my favorite time of year – a…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:35AM"Why would a card-carrying feminist spend all her time with a dead white male?" Why, indeed?
The answer can be found in <em>Women of Will</em>, Tina Packer's exploratio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:34AMIn the battle between New York and Los Angeles, which city has a better dating scene? According to DJ Lubel’s hilarious new song “The Women of L.A.,” the Big Apple's do…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMIn the battle between New York and Los Angeles, which city has a better dating scene? According to DJ Lubel’s hilarious new song “The Women of L.A.,” the Big Apple's do…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMNorthlight Theatre, hosting a rare Chicago appearance, presents Maude Maggart in Concert, a special one-night-only concert event. Maude Maggart in Concert will take place Saturday, Apr…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:30AMNashville Ballet dances to music of composer Carl Orff.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:30AMThe San Francisco Opera celebrates its 90th year since it was founded by Gaetano Merola in 1923. Currently the second largest opera company in North America, the San Francisco Opera has grow…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMForever Dusty, the hit new musical about the life and times of legendary British pop star Dusty Springfield, is currently playing at New World Stages. In celebration of Valentine's Day, Kirs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMThe Broadway Valentine’s are flooding in today. Thank you to everyone who already took the time to write a Valentine and brighten someone’s day. We’re reaching out to the l…
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 11:25AMIn celebration of Valentine's Day, Playbill.com has assembled some of our favorite love songs from Broadway shows and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMNow this is one cover we can get behind! On the next episode of Smash (airing February 19), Jennifer Hudson’s stage diva Ronnie Moore belts out a familiar classic: one of The Wiz&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMNow this is one cover we can get behind! On the next episode of Smash (airing February 19), Jennifer Hudson’s stage diva Ronnie Moore belts out a familiar classic: The Wiz’s sign…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMThe British premiere of Jerry Herman's musical Dear World, starring Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas and directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, opened 13 February and runs through 30 Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMRicky Mrtin, who just finished his run in Evita, will be making his debut on the second season of the Australian version of The Voice.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMBroadway star Ryan Silverman has been singing with passion all of his life. But nowadays, the 6-foot-2, charismatic Canadian, 35, is singing in Passion at Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:16AMLove is in the air over at off-Broadway’s Forever Dusty, and the stars of the rocking musical want to share all their love with their fans. The Dusty Springfield bio musical stars Kirs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMToday in 1980, the first Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY opened at the Minskoff Theatre, where it ran for 333 performances. West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMThe less theater you’ve seen in D.C. in recent years, the fresher you may find Shakespeare’s R&J, Joe Calarco’s four-man retelling of the Bard’s tragedy—set not in ancient fair…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:11AMOn Twitter Watch, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD wrote ' Live tweeting begins Check out backstage photos at the most fun musical on Broadway. RTC_NYC livedrood'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMAnne Hathaway stopped by the 'Tonight Show with Jay Leno' last night and gushed about her mom, actress Kate McCauley Hathaway, who is currently one of the producer's behind the new Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMMother of Invention, which is under the artistic direction of Gina Stahlnecker, will present Look Homeward, Angel — Ketti Frings' acclaimed 1957 play based on Thomas Wolfe's fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMRoxana Silbert has announced the reopening season of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. The season, which will also be Silbert’s first at the head of the organisation, will start on Sep…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM“The Man,” a new musical chronicling the rise and fall of a superstar musician through the eyes of his manager, will open in Las Vegas as a pre-Broadway run. The new musical is being pro…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMMy high school didn’t have a football team. And when I tell people that, they’re shocked. ”How could you not have a football team?” Well, we just didn’t. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe cast of Off-Broadway's newest hit comedy How To Be a New Yorker is set to appear on Fox 5 TV's "Good Day New York" next Tuesday, February 19th at 9:45 AM. Written and performed by Margar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMChild-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AM
In Joseph L.Mankiewicz’s 1950 film All About Eve, a huffy Thelma Ritter rebuffs a slight from some character who belittles her career as a vaudevillian: “I closed the first half for elev…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:56AMWe talk with Johanna Day, who plays Good People‘s central character, and director Jackie Maxwell Margie Walsh is good people. A single parent, who has to work hand to mouth, paycheck …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AMArcola Theatre, London: Part of an ambitious double-bill of productions which includes a stage version of Moby-Dick, Simple8's reworking of the hugely influential German expressionist f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM"Asher Lev" a rewarding experience. Not so "Clive."
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SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 10:45AMValentine’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 10:40AMAs New York–based producer Ken Davenport recently pointed out on his blog, The Producer’s Perspective, Boston was once a major stop for shows on the road to hit runs on Broadway.…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:40AMJoining Helen Mirren as The Queen in this world premiere are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Richard McCabe as Harold Wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMPhilip J. Smith, the Chairman and Co-Chief Executive of the Shubert Organization, will be honored at Theatre Development Fund's March 4 gala, which celebrates the 40th Anniversary of TKT…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMAnne Hathaway stopped by THE TONIGHT SHOW with JAY LENO last night to chat about her recent win at the BAFTA Awards. Check out clips from her appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMPhilip J. Smith, the Chairman and Co-Chief Executive of the Shubert Organization will be honored at Theatre Development Fund's gala on Monday, March 4 which celebrates the 40th Anniversary o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMForever Dusty, the hit new musical about the life and times of legendary British pop star Dusty Springfield, celebrated its 100th performance with a one-night-only Sing-A-Long performance la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMThis week's A.P.T. is Steven Shalowitz and his podcast The One Way Ticket Show. This is a show that asks the people involved if they had a one way ticket, where would they go and features a …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThis Valentine’s Weekend is a biggie at Powell Hall. For one thing, music director David Robertson and his wife, pianist Orli Shaham, will be performing together; they met in the green roo…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:29AMA mega-hit on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and around the world, Godspell was radiantly revisited and revived in 2012 by its composer, Stephen Schwartz, and the visionary director, Daniel Goldste…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:28AMThe world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg's new play, Breakfast at Tiffany's, just held a casting call to find the perfect cat to take on the iconic role of 'Cat.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMAn 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 10:20AM"Smash" and Wicked star Megan Hilty and Tony-winning composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman took part in a meet-and-greet/signing at the NBC Experience Store in Rockefeller Plaza…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMThe Vineyard Theatre's production of Rajiv Joseph's new play The North Pool begins performances February 14 at the off-Broadway theater. Starring Stephen Barker Turner and Babak Taft…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AMNBC and Columbia Records just released the soundtrack for Bombshell, the musical within NBC's Golden Globe-nominated series television hit 'SMASH' Tuesdays, 10-11pm ET, on February 12. In ce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMTony winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Barbara Cook, who offered her seventh solo Carnegie Hall concert in October, will make her debut at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe Kennedy Center has long been known for producing renowned international celebrations by curating traditional and contemporary expressions of the performing arts. In recent years, the ven…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AMTweetI’m very excited to have a post from one of my favorite mommy bloggers who I’ve known for years. Sabrina Malone from Working Mom. I asked her if she would write a post f…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 10:08AMWestminster Kennel Club Dog Show Best in Show winner Banana Joe made his Broadway debut last night in Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Rupert Holm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05AMHeadgate, Colchester: Staged within the intimate confines of a charming studio theatre, this event combines the flair and expertise of two companies in a pitch at cruise ship bookers and oth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMInterested in joining BroadwayWorld's worldwide network of published authors while promoting the arts scene in your city BWW is seeking talented theatreoperadance enthusiasts to head up feat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013 AT 8 PM Join us for our Post-Valentine’s Day celebration. Whether you love or hate on this couple’s holiday, there will be something for you! We̵…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMEarlier this year, a new 25th anniversary production of “Les Miserables” was announced for Toronto, and now we know Ramin Karimloo, Genevieve Leclerc and Samantha Hill will star in the u…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMMR. BROADWAY FEBRUARY 2013SANTINO FONTANAWHY HE'S MR. BROADWAY: It was a matter of time before this guy joined the ranks of Mr. Broadways, really. He's appeared on and off Broadw…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
The box office for the world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg's new play, Breakfast at Tiffany's, is officially open for business at the Cort Theatre 138 W 48th St…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMProducers of the new musical, The Man, which chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional music superstar, are setting things in motion. The musical, which has an estimated budget of $35 mill…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:51AMProspect Theater Company will present a developmental reading of the new musical Tamar of the River Feb. 18 at the West End Theatre in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMBanana Joe, the lovable affenpinscher who won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on Tuesday, has chosen Broadway for a victory lap.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMAnybody who knows me knows how much I HATE being on camera, so the fact that I made this shows that it really means something.
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 09:43AMHow are critics clocking "All in the Timing"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:41AMDetails of a new awards initiative for opera have been announced, with the inaugural prize-giving ceremony to be held in London on April 22. The International Opera Awards have been conceive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMClaybourne Elder Broadway's Bonnie amp Clyde and Sean Hudock Private Romeo will play estranged brothers Malky and Doug in two industry workshop readings of Rocco Natale's new two-hander ROOM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AMJessica Chastain - who recently wrapped up a limited run on Broadway in THE HEIRESS, opposite Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens - says that she'd love to continue to perform on stage, this time in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMWhat's happening around you? What's happening within the community you call your audience? What is your competition doing? Those are marketing question. They don't feel like marketing questi…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:33AMAt a time when drone strikes and economic sanctions have glazed over the horror of war, Forum Theatre’s riveting 9 Circles chooses to yank the jarring human toll back into the spotlight. P…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30AMBucks County Playhouse, which is led by producing director Jed Bernstein, has announced that Charles Busch’s Tony-nominated play, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, will be t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMAcademy Award nominees Ben Affleck, Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence will present on the Oscar telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:09AMD.L. SiegelHometown: Staten Island, NY Current Town: Astoria, NY Q: Tell me about Chosen.A: Chosen is a one-act play about cultural pride, racism, family, and love. It is witho…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:09AMJane Lynch revealed she will likely make her Broadway debut this summer, though she won’t reveal what her role will be. “I hope to be coming to New York to do a musical this summer,” L…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMWe start our interviews with the cast of Olney Theatre Center’s Spring Awakening with Matthew Kacergis. Joel: Why did you want to be part of this production of Spring Awakening at Oln…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Culminating in our week of the best of Broadway’s love songs, I decided to showcase a favorite from one of our readers, Gary B., who responded to our Facebook call-out with a heartfelt mem…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:52AMLOS ANGELES (AP) — Dolby is ready for its first date with Oscar.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:50AMBelow, check out a clip from the next episode of NBC's SMASH featuring one of this season's many guest stars - Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson. The episode, titled 'The Dramatu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMAn increasing number of shows are dispensing with the traditional midway break. Can our brains, and bladders, cope?Few of the reviews for Robert Lepage's disappointing Playing Cards 1: Spade…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMDespite the need for editing, I enjoyed Teddy Ferrara for its fresh and believable portrait of young collegiate adults - gay and straight. Playwright Evan Shinn has an impressive voice and s…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:34AMWQXR celebrates the beloved American composer and lyricist, just in time for the Classic Stage Company's New York revival of his and James Lapine's 1994 Tony Award-winning musical, "Passion.…
SOURCE: www.thegreenespace.org at 08:33AMThe first night of Graham McLaren's production was shown in 120 cinemas, generating an audience of 7,500. Organisers hope similar ventures can boost theatre box officesThere are just 690 sea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMIn addition to being Valentine’s Day, today also happens to be the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #118: Jack Benny (for the full story on him go here). This day was frequently the occa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:28AMTheatre 503, LondonOrlaith, almost 14, singlehandedly looks after her dad, who hears voices. Sive cares alone for her bedbound, crippled mother. On a young carers' respite outing to the seas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMOberon Books continues the publication of its elegant uniform series of Howard Barker’s plays with the release of Plays Seven, now available at amazon.com. In this volume, according to…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:25AMIt is competition time! Soho theatre have kindly given us a pair of tickets for God’s Property by Arinze Kene on Thursday 28 February. The script for the production grew out of Soho Thea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23AMA succès de scandale in 1924, The Vortex was the play that made Noël Coward’s name as both playwright and actor. With its portrayal of a post-First World War decadent socie…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:16AMWalker Art Center will bring its wacky, popular cat-video festival to the grandstand in August.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 08:15AMA campaign to fight the double taxation of artists who work abroad has been launched by a European performing arts trade organisation. Currently, performers can be taxed in the foreign count…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AM“Ann,” a solo show written by and starring Holland Taylor, is part of a resurgence of interest in Ann W. Richards, the former governor of Texas.
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The Southbank Centre will unveil multi-million pound plans to transform its London HQ next month. Plans for an overhaul of its Festival Wing, which includes the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMActor Arsher Ali has declined offers of work since the summer partly because he is “sick” of being offered scripts which typecast Asians as terrorists. Ali, who plays a suspected terrori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMFrom Kristin Chenoweth to Deborah Cox to Idina Menzel to Barbra Streisand to Michael Crawford to the Ladies of THE VIEW to Adam Pascal, Patti LuPone, Raul Esparza, Alan Menken, Lea Salonga, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:39AM“Jack Sprat Could Eat No Fat; His Wife Could Eat No Lean…” A love story for the ages! John Battersby (c.1831-1897) was a circus thin man who weighed at various times betwee…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:36AMOne can only applaud the bravado in bringing this forgotten musical curiosity to London audiences for its UK premiere. It opened on Broadway 44 years ago and bombed. Composer and lyricist Je…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:30AMTransferring a show from the regions to the West End is tricky enough, but how to go about it when the original production is in-the-round and the London theatre isn’t?
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:29AMHis Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show saw him riff on Daniel Day Lewis with hilarious results.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:20AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
One of the most talented light entertainment producers in BBC Television, John Ammonds, has died from the effects of a stroke, his family announced this morning. He was 88. During the 1960s …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMA native of Oovonin, Oudh, Laloo Ramparsad (1874-1905) was born with a parasitic twin springing from his chest. The brother (although it was sometimes dressed as a sister) possessed arms, le…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:27AMA collapsed and fragmentary picture frame in bright yellow forms the shattered border of Neil Warmington's striking design for this incisive and acidly entertaining revival by Stephen Unwin …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:21AMLondon's Finborough Theatre has announced its new season, which features the world premiere of Caryl Churchill's 1972 one act play The Hospital At The Time Of The Revolution.
There will als…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:20AMThe RSC round off their “World Elsewhere” season now with Roxana Silbert's astringent and vigorous modern-dress revival of Brecht's Galileo.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:16AMThere's more to Thinking Cap Theatre's inventive The Rover than staging a 300-year-old play with oomph enough to keep a 21st century audience interested. What director Nicole Stodard (who is…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:08AM"Call Me Adam" chats with Robin Byrd about hosting her iconic show "The Robin Byrd Show" on Time Warner Cable, bringing her TV show to the stage at NYC's Cutting Room, the adult film industr…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
The dancing you hear in the Barbican’s new Duchamp exhibition may not be the dancing you see. Philippe Parreno’s exhibition design includes sound recordings of Merce Cunningham dances, f…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:57AM“Movies are a world of fragments”, reads a quote from Jean-Luc Godard in the programme of imitating the dog’s multimedia piece, The Zero Hour. Those familiar with Godard’s wo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48AMAilís Ní Ríain’s new play Desolate Heaven takes its audience for quite a ride in its debut at Theatre 503. Described as “a story of falling in love for the first time and a story abou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:38AMGitha Sowerby's 1912 Tyneside domestic drama is a cracking good play given a superb production, at once flinty and beautiful, by Jonathan Miller for Northern Broadsides.
There’s a Yor…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:32AMFinder of interesting things, Thomas Cott, tweeted a link to an article about creative apprenticeships in the UK. While unpaid non profit internships are not against the law in the U.S., the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:08AMAmbassador Theatre Group, the largest theatre operator in the UK, is being threatened with strike action involving hundreds of its employees in a dispute over pay. Union BECTU has warned tha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMPlaywright and activist Eve Ensler explains One Billion Rising, a global day of action – and dancing – in protest against violence against womenThis February 14 2013, V-Day will be 15 …
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Live coverage of events around the world marking a day of action – and dancing – to protest against violence against women and girlsJane MartinsonPaul Owen
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AMThe Arizona Republic (Phoenix) 02/12/13
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:51AMAberdeen Arts Centre and Theatre funding correction, soaring ticket prices, Equity libel defence costs, fake laughter and Dickens' (Ian) unnecessary journey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMIt's odd that Jerry Herman merits only a passing mention in Stephen Sondheim's two-volume autobiographical take on Broadway words and music, Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat. In a co…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AMLesley Fitz-Simons was a prominent face on daytime television during her 20-year, 118-episode residency as the melodrama-afflicted Sheila Ramsay in STV’s long-running serial Take the High …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:19AMPaines Plough has received a grant of £150,000 from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, allowing the touring company to build a permanent version of its pop-up auditorium, the Roundabout. T…
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BROADWAY 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 12:30AMTony and Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Jennifer Holliday will play The Iridium, tonight, February 14, 2013. Best known for her iconic performance of 'And I Am Telling You I'm Not G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AM'I'm delighted to bring the hit comedy play Good God A'Mighty to Atlanta for a special two-week engagement,' states playwright Lolita Snipes. 'It's my Valentine's gift to the city. Starring …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMAward-winning cabaret producer Joseph Macchia brings you a very special Valentine's Day Show, 'It's Only Love An Evening of Broadway Love Songs tonight, February 14.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AM"AMERICAN IDIOT," the Broadway smash conjured from Green Day's 2004 punk-pop concept album of the same name, is definitely not for those uncomfortable with deviations from the trad…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:29AMScott Miller gets ready for 'Night of the Living Dead.'
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:21AMWell, well, well, QTC, what a way to start 2013. A double shot espresso through an intravenous drip injected straight into the veins of the audience are Peter Houghton’s one person, one-ac…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:13AMJoanna Aykol's lovingly captured moment of the cast for Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata at Factory Theatre in Toronto. Grabbing a revealing and relevant image from a musica…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"Virtue never has been as respectable as money." Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMDirector Scott Schwartz's ensemble cast for the Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar will feature Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, plus …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Deborah Zoe Laufer's Leveling Up, about a college video game fanatic whose virtual reality becomes reality, officially opens Feb. 14 at the Cincinnati Playhouse in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStephen Barker Turner and Babak Tafti appear in the New York City premiere of Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, a drama about tension between a high school principal and a Middle-Eastern-bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichael Perlman's IT Award-nominated drama From White Plains, which explores the lives of four adult men who grapple with the effects of teen bullying, officially opens Feb. 14 after pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee assembles for the second time during the 2012-13 season Feb. 14, according to a Tony Awards spokesperson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRe-imagined for contemporary audiences since its 1970's run, the Off-Broadway revue Let My People Come, a mix of bawdy sexual comedy and social commentary, opens Feb. 14 at the Undergrou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim joins director John Doyle Feb. 14 at the Greene Space to discuss the new Off-Broadway staging of Passion, which is currentl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1882 Birthday of John Barrymore (1882-1942), actor in the grand style, and scion of the Barrymore acting clan. Though he began as a light comedian, he became identified with the classics, no…
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