All the Rage Had Me Raging: I seriously do not like one-person shows where we have been brought into the actor’s therapy session.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:50PMMedium Face Productions, Frigid Festival 2013, The Kraine Theatre, Off Off Broadway
By Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A hilarious, no-holds musical parody of the most famous murder case of…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:21PMModern dance legend Martha Graham was upstaged by her imitator Wednesday, when her company’s opening program paired two riffs on Greek mythology. There was one by Graham and one by Richard…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:15PMAnd the Jeremy Piven Award for Best Meltdown by a Performer Who Will Never Work Again on Broadway goes to . . . Shia LaBeouf, who was fired this week from “Orphans.”
LaBeouf has been twe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMTonight 10 guys took the stage for one last time to impress the judges. By the end of the night only 5 guys will move onto next week. They will join the 5 girls that were named last night.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, February 21, 2013.
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Ryan Silverman as Giorgio, joins acclaimedawarding winning actresses Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Melissa Errico as Clara, in the company's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56PMWednesday was the first table read of the latest draft of my play Exit Wounds, which is getting a staged reading as part of Magic @ The Costume Shop: “a special residency at A.C.T.’s…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:46PMThe fabulous professional ensemble Stratosfunk mounted their own show Tell Mama for the FRINGE WORLD Festival 2013. A tribute to a great lady of soul, Miss Etta James (1938–2012). As the e…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:44PMNow in its 15th season, Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook celebrates the best in American singing and songwriting with a new chapter in the Songbook story 'American Songboo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30PM“Wait—was there something I was supposed to do right now?” This question, which is posed by an 18-year-old, pot-smoking Jesus of Nazareth to his punk-rock band in first-cen…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00PMThe famous hot-dog-shaped car will make stops at eight area Walmart stores.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:00PM
HBO's "Parade's End" is a triumph for screenwriter Tom Stoppard and star Benedict Cumberbatch. Also reviewed this week: "Golden Boy."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:32PMThis is the second post in a series introducing you to the artists of Analog, our newest Prime Time production. Analog opens March 4th, with previews on March 1st and ... The post Anablog: …
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 07:21PMThe World’s Stage series at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, among the best and boldest importers of international work in the city, has provided a season of struggle, iron wills and trium…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:19PMAs reported by the Daily Mail, the Tony Award nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys is headed to the West End's Young Vic artistic director David Lan, directed and choreographed by Susan Str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PMBehind the scenes as young actors rehearse "The Turn of the Screw," New York City Opera's 1980s-set version of the Benjamin Britten opera.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:17PMIt’s been a busy week on Broadway.com with casting news (Jane Lynch in Annie, Willemijn Verkaik in Wicked), Cinderella-centric feaures and lots more. In case you missed anything, click…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:11PMNEW YORK (AP) — Can't get to London to see Helen Mirren play Queen Elizabeth II on stage? No problem — Mirren will come to you.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:06PMAccording to the Daily Mail, The Audience, which just began performances in the West End starring Helen Mirren, will be filmed and broadcast live from the Gielgud Theatre for National Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMBWW 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 goes on a road trip to Duff's Famous Win…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:03PMBrian Lucas is a Brisbane-based performer, choreographer, director, teacher, writer and Arts-advocate. Having trained in both dance and theatre, he has earned a reputation across Australia f…
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"Donnybrook!" was a flop when it first hit Broadway in 1961, but now the Irish Repertory Theatre has mounted a revival and papered over the show's flaws, bringing its considerable charms to …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:58PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Anne Hathaway will sing a specially written song in the new film Song One, set to begin production later this year for release in 2014. Song One is written and d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56PMThis week the amazing Rachelle Rak gets some VIP visitors and some much-needed bikini time as the Flashdance gang hits sunny Tampa! Dig in for your weekly dose of Sas and friends.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:45PMTouring and risk-taking have been part of the troupe’s mission for more than 50 years.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:38PMAlso: Shia punched a door.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:36PMFrank Wildhorn returned to his roots at the Pantages Theatre, where he got his start in the lobby of the Pantages and played to a group that included J. Nederlander 'on a completely out of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35PMIn the attempt for shock value, some characters take a hit or get obscured and that impacts the quality of the play. It is a valiant if uneven effort and I look forward to seeing what (re)di…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:35PMCAROUSEL - Rodgers & Hammerstein's personal favorite of all their musicals, and dubbed "the best musical of the 20th Century" by Time Magazine - is getting two high-profile presentations thi…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 06:28PMThe heritage and culture of Scandinavia’s indigenous people are explored in Swedish Institute shows.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:25PMPacific MusicWorks and Seattle Dance Project combine song and dance in ‘Wayward Sisters,’ happening Feb. 22-23.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:21PMCharles A. Duncombe's new play Caged at Santa Monica's City Garage is a rumination of the oddities of our species via the exhibition of two naked souls in a museum cage. It's also this week'…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:11PMFew events draw more prognosticators than the Oscars, and the Arts Fuse movie critics join in on the universal guessing game. The trio agree on one thing: the field this year is rich with wo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:10PMGlinda and Elphie never looked so glam! Smash’s Megan Hilty and The Mystery of Edwin Drood’s title star Stephanie J. Block reunited for a good cause on February 9 at the 2013 Ste…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMFrom former Rock of Ages co-stars Mitchell Jarvis and Wesley Taylor ("Smash"), creators of the acclaimed Broadway industry-spoof web series "Billy Green," comes the all-new dark comedy serie…
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The Mnemonist of Dutchess County star Aaron Costa Ganis suits up to chat about Josh Koenigsberg’s funny and touching new play, audience participation, memory tricks and more!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, February 21, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway MT @BetteMidler: Sue was a two fisted smoke…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:37PM“Isaac’s Eye,” by Lucas Hnath, imagines Isaac Newton as an ambitious young man hoping to win admission to the Royal Society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PMNew York City Players and Los Angeles Poverty Department co-facilitated a workshop sharing process as part of ArtsEmerson’s The Next Thing (TNT) Festival on Thursday, February 21s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:36PMNEWSIES and SMASH star Jeremy Jordan has just Tweeted that he is indeed going to be portraying the lead male role of Jamie in the new feature film adaptation of THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMTony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan (Newsies) and Anna Kendrick (High Society, Pitch Perfect) will star in writer-director Richard LaGravenese's upcoming film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMLorna Luft Celebrates Fields, Comden and Nyro: Stylishly dressed in black tux and a sequin lapel on her bare-shouldered jacket, Lorna Luft paid tribute Monday evening at “Lorna’s Living …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:31PMThe Old Globe presents the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a new musical comedy with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak and lyrics by Freedman and L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMTony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan, who appears as Jimmy Collins in the NBC musical drama "Smash," will join Tony nominee Anna Kendrick in the Richard LaGravenese film adaptatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMA dramaturg is a murderer in “Icarus,” the episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” in which everybody thinks Cynthia Nixon playing a Julie Taymor-like figure…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMLeigh Zimmerman is wowing audiences as Sheila in the London revival of A Chorus Line. See her chat about Will Roger's Follies, Chicago, The Producers and being an American abroad.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMAdam Kaplan, a Westport native who worked at the Westport Country Playhousse, is casrt in the Briuadway production of "Newsies."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:23PMDriving home earlier this week from “Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology,” Collaboraction’s searing look at this city’s legacy of violence, I switched on the radio. And there it was: ne…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:22PMTwo-time Oscar-winner Jane Fonda, TWILIGHT franchise queen Kristen Stewart, stage and screen star Jennifer Garner and 2013 rising multimedia superstar Kerry Washington will all present at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMEvan Jonigkeit discusses the authenticity of off-Broadway’s Really Really and the audience’s reaction to this "polarizing" new play.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMI’m going to England in May. Among a list of things I am excited to do, seeing a Shakespeare play by the RSC is near the top. (with our fingers crossed and some well planned travel we&…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM
The award-winning New York Theatre Barn is partnering with Brooklyn-based choral ensemble Choral Chameleon to produce the world premiere production of Tamar of the River Oratorio for two nig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMBut this often-shocking show by the creators of "South Park" isn't for everybody.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:58PMToday, we're featuring Helen Hayes circa 1988. Hayes' career spanned almost 70 years and she eventually garnered the nickname 'First Lady of the American Theatre' and was one of eleven peopl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMTheater Wit’s Midwest debut of Itamar Moses’ newest work is a a true thinking nerd’s romantic comedy, fearless in both its willingness to be unapologetically high-minded and an unblink…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:55PMFrom the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. More than two dozen classic hits …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMDuring my career I have seen theater companies have a bad season or two and then rebound with good ones. But I don't think I've seen a company go from virtual obsolescence to consistent hit …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:51PM-based choral ensemble Choral Chameleon to produce the world premiere production of Tamar of the River Oratorio for two nights only in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn on March 9-10, 2013 starring …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMThere’s a fine line between raunchy sick humor and just plain bad taste. You would think a musical about murdered toddler beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey would cross that line. But Medium…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:47PMThe theater is experiencing a cash flow shortfall that threatens its current season and its overall financial health.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:46PMShia LaBeouf will not be making his Broadway debut in the upcoming revival of Orphans after all. A press release stated that the 26-year-old star of such films as Transformers and Lawless …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:46PMThis is the note security consultant Frank W. Abagnale sends out to banks before arriving to share his peculiar wisdom about fraud, identity theft and other pesky issues and cons that bede…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:42PMVolatile Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf was scheduled to make his Broadway debut in ORPHANS, co-starring Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge, but pulled out of the production earlier this week, cit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMAmy Herzog's Belleville, which explores the eroding marriage of an American couple living in Paris, began Off-Broadway performances Feb. 12 at the New York Theatre Workshop. Tony Award n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMAfter 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer; he is one of 14 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners. Yet, the comedy giant…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:37PMActor Zosia Mamet from the HBO series "Girls" is currently starring in the new off-Broadway play "Really Really."
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:31PMSpotlight on Town Hall, a free concert event featuring performances from Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera, Avenue Q and more, will be held March 28 at New York City's The Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMTony nominee Joshua Henry is in a tug of war between the worlds of TV and Broadway. Henry is currently taping episodes of Lifetime’s drama Army Wives, but Broadway fans are keeping the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:25PMNow here’s a theatre competition for you with a difference! We have struck a deal with Digital Theatre which means that we can offer one free download to three lucky winners…amazing!…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMA modest audience saw Adelaide’s wonderful Capri Theatre offer the perfect setting for Groucho, an 80-minute play about the life and times of the inimitable Groucho Marx. Dennis Manahan ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:22PMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody will begin preview performances this Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 8pm at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street, with an offic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMAccording to Deadline, Christina Ricci has officially landed the lead role in NBC's upcoming pilot GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMTwo-time Tony nominee S. Epatha Merkerson will join Blythe Danner and B.D. Wong as the Stage Manager in the one-night-only Actors’ Fund benefit reading of Our Town. The performanc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMAdd to the list of weather-related closings and cancellations several activities planned by Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:16PMLast month, TCG published The Lyons, a deliciously savage new comedy by Nicky Silver. In the play, Ben Lyon is dying, and his wife Rita and their grown children gather together to say goodby…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:15PMS. Epatha Merkerson, Howard McGillin, Jerry Dixon, Wally Dunn, Philip Hoffman, Jose Llana and Tyrah Skye Odoms are the latest names added to the cast of the Actors Fund's March 4 benefit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMA psychedelic pop pioneer, artist Peter Max deftly captured the visual zeitgeist of the Sixties – the groovy colors, the hippie-trippy swirling visuals, the bell-bottomed, flowing paisley …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:09PMA show pretty much unique in the annals of Broadway, Meredith Willson's Tony Award winning classic The Music Man hasn't marched into Seattle for a while now, so it is a pleasure to report th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:04PMReally Really playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo will assume the role of Johnson, normally played by actor Kobi Libii, in his Off-Broadway play Feb. 23-24 while Libii shoots a comedy pilot for A…
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The vaunted NY Philharmonic is in the process of porting over a stupefying collection of sheet music, conductor's scores and other musical memorabilia according to new report.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:56PMTHEATER TALK just celebrated the 88th birthday of the great star Elaine Stritch. Also included in the episode were music director Rob Bowman, and actor Hunter Ryan Herdlicka who appeared wit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMLeadership towards creating a culture of diversity and the global connection I think in any endeavor, you begin with the framework and the leadership. The breadth and scope of the vision and…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:54PMThe producers of the Broadway production of Orphans, Lyle Kessler’s play, directed by Daniel Sullivan, announced today that Ben Foster will join the cast immediately in the role of “Trea…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:54PMJames Conlon's LA Opera contract renewed...Gigi Bermingham in Master Class at ICT...Graham Hamilton on Tender Napalm...Earl Carroll's LA career recalled...READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:53PMMetamorphosis: The transformation from one form to another. This is the core of the thought-provoking dark comedy Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka. Gregor Samsa (Gísli Örn Gardarsson) …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:52PMThe '60s rock 'n' roll band will reunite for a limited engagement this spring. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:50PMWith only weeks remaining until The Last Five Years makes its first off-Broadway return since its New York debut in 2002, Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe are working hard to become Jamie and Cat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PM(BY NINA METZ) There has been debate brewing the past few weeks among comedy performers in New York concerning the issue of pay. Often, stand-up comedians with a certain level of experience …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMFranz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is the famous tale of alienation in which the protagonist, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning as an insect. It’s a creepy fable, and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:48PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee S. Epatha Merkerson will join previously announced Tony winners Blythe Danner and B.D. Wong as they share the role of the Stage Manager in The Actors Fund's upcom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMThe principal action of Carnaval, the new, sophomore play by Obie Award winning Nikkole Salter recounts a 1996 "sex tourist" trip to Rio de Janero made by three young black men.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:44PMFrom the start, Ken Ludwig entertains and amuses us with a panoply of outlandish comic characters indulging in foolish, self-indulgent, pompous and overbearing behaviors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43PM“Donnybrook!” is a revival of the 1961 musical that was an adaptation of “The Quiet Man,” a John Ford film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMTHEATER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE With fifty-two murders to date in 2013 as I write this review – over a murder a day – the death toll in Chicago seems as ubiquitous as it is tragic. Collaboract…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:37PMShortly after departing Broadway's The Other Place, Daniel Stern has found a new job on the small screen. Stern is set to join NBC's comedy pilot Girlfriend in a Coma, acco…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PM‘Fela!” the explosive show about Nigerian composer and political firebrand Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is categorized as a Broadway musical. But watching the galvanic touring production now at …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:35PMFor the record, while I may be resuming regular posting here in the future (don't reset all your links), for the next few weeks, I'm going to be posting to http://thatsoundscool.wordpre…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:35PMThe Really Useful Group and Frontier Touring have announced that the arena tour production of Jesus Christ Superstar will play Australia beginning May 31, prior to its return to the U.K. in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMSome theatricalized versions of popular movies leave you itching to just go home and rent the flick, where the actors are better, the jokes funnier.
SOURCE: www.irishexaminerusa.com at 03:27PMFor nearly a decade, Irish Repertory Theatre has been producing vest-pocket productions of vintage musicals with mixed results; presented on the company's tiny stage, with tiny casts and eve…
SOURCE: www.lightingandsoundamerica.com at 03:27PMWell, I have been lucky lately, on Monday night I experienced another great night in Chicago theatre. Our panel on inclusion and casting of Asians, put together in collaboration with Lifeli…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:26PMThe stage production based on E.B. White's story Charlotte's Web continues at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Charlotte the Spider, Templeton the Rat, and their animal friends try to save Wilbu…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:21PMRobert Lepage, the Quebec City-based playwright, film director and actor, has been named the recipient of the 10th annual Glenn Gould Prize.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:16PMThe Phantom will haunt Town Hall this spring! The Broadway casts of The Phantom of the Opera and Chicago, as well as the off-Broadway hit Avenue Q, will perform as part of a concert cel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMFans of the hit movie musical adaptation of LES MISERABLES will have not one, not two, not three, but four options as to how deluxe of a DVDBlu-ray experience they desire to have when the fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMDeath. Cameras. The misdeeds of a shadowy Norwegian shipping magnate. These areas of interest unite three damaged characters in the intriguingly enigmatic production “Bird in Magic Rain wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:12PMGrace (Lauren Culpepper) and Leigh (Zosia Mamet) are roommates. They enter their darkened apartment, laughing. They’re both in their early twenties, miniskirted, and high from a night …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:12PMReally Really playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo will step into his acclaimed off-Broadway drama February 24 and 25 as over-achiever Johnson. Colaizzo subs for show star Kobi Libii, who is takin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMFebruary 21, 2013By Jennifer McCoolCommunity Engagement CoordinatorWe here at the Playhouse often sing the praises of our restaurant partners, and for good reason! If you’re looking for a …
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 03:10PMBroadway will be Groovin' to the sounds of the 1960s rock band The Rascals this spring, when the popular group reunites for 15 performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Running April 15-M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:07PMName: Virginia BryanHometown: Jefferson, GeorgiaEducation: The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute; The Actor's Center and The Williamstown Theatre Festival's acting apprentice program.Favorite …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:07PMThis is a clip of the 1987 movie of “Orphans,” based on the 1983 play by Lyle Kessler that is being revived on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PMPerforming Shakespeare in a former South Bristol cigarette factory in South Bristol has become something of a ritual for Andrew Hilton and his close-knit company. Any act of ritual req…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00PM
NEW YORK—Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in. A day after LaBeouf stepped away from the play that would have marked his Broadway debut, he was replaced by Foster.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:59PMA film source has confirmed to BroadwayWorld that SMASH and NEWSIES star Jeremy Jordan has likely been cast opposite Anna Kendrick in Richard LaGravanese's upcoming film version of THE LAST …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMThe Sleep-Tite pajama factory is back in business. Hadley Fraser and Joanna Riding will star as Sid and Joanna, respectively, in a revival of The Pajama Game at the Chichester Festival Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:55PMKander and Ebb's Sing Happy, the previously titled revue First You Dream that originated at Virginia's The Signature Theatre and subsequently played the Kennedy Center, will arrive o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PMLess than 24 hours after the official word came that the “Transformers” star was out of the show because of “creative difference,” producers announced that Foster, who had auditioned…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:45PMThe Public Theater will begin previews for the English language premiere of NEVA, written and directed by Guillermo Calderon, on Friday, March 1. NEVA will run through Sunday, March 31 in Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMRyan Silverman is about to time travel. The Passion star and Godspell alum Hannah Elless will join previously announced star Marc Kudisch in Portland Center Stage's world premiere o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:37PMPigPen Theater Co., the critically acclaimed folk-band and theater troupe which finished the off-Broadway run of their play The Old Man and the Old Moon earlier this year, visited TheaterMan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMHere’s Part 3 of our Behind the Scenes look at Olney Theatre Center’s Spring Awakening. We continue our interviews with the cast with Gracie Jones. Joel: Why did you want to be part of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMKnown to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow who rose from the streets of Paris to the international stage, French chanteuse Edith Gassion's life and career is as unique as her extraordinary singing …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMKerry 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 02:30PMBroadway singing actress Leslie Kritzer and musical director Vadim Feichtner will tie the knot Feb. 22 in a private ceremony in the Grand Tier Mezzanine Lobby of New York's City Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMTo commemorate the Department of the Interior's recent designation of The Town Hall as a National Historic Landmark Site and to celebrate its newly elected President and CEO Michael Presser,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMThe casting hole created by Shia LaBeouf's abrupt departure from the Broadway revival of "Orphans" has been filled. Ben Foster will take the role of Treat, one of two brothers who hatch a pl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:27PMShakespeare's Globe shook off the gloomy predictions around the Olympics to post a “phenomenal” year in 2012, with the most numbers attending one season since it opened in 1997.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:22PMThe Old Vic Tunnels – the cult arts venue that has hosted successful gallery shows, performances by award-winning actors and even a former US President – is to close.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:20PMEarlier today, Cinderella stars Ann Harada and Marla Mindelle unveiled the Cindrella Sundae at Serendipity3 225 East 60th St. The treat is a life-sized 'glass slipper' made of glittering whi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMActress Jane Lynch will star in the upcoming Broadway revival of 'Annie.'
SOURCE: www.enstarz.com at 02:17PMThat actor you're watching onstage tonight? He or she might well have skin in the game. And I speak not just of art or hunger for applause. I talk of cold, hard cash.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:14PMIs Jeremy Jordan’s career “moving too fast”? Not for us! Broadway.com has learned that the Newsies and Smash star is the frontrunner to play Jamie opposite Anna Kendrick&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMRyan Silverman, who currently stars in the Off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Passion, and Hannah Elless, a former trouper from the Broadway revival of Godspell, have joined the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMAs 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 02:04PMAfter parting ways with the "Transformers" franchise star, the production finds a replacement in the star of "The Messenger."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:04PMEffective March 17th, Silence! The Musical is adding Sunday matinees to its weekly playing schedule.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PM
Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:59PMProducers announced today that Ryan Silverman Passion, The Phantom of the Opera and Hannah Elless Godspell, Mamma Mia will star as Richard Collier and Elise McKenna in Portland Center Stage'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMProducers announced today that Ryan Silverman Passion, The Phantom of the Opera and Hannah Elless Godspell, Mamma Mia will star as Richard Collier and Elise McKenna in Portland Center Stage'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMBen Foster, best known for playing cold-blooded murderer Charlie Prince in the 2007 film western 3:10 to Yuma, will join Emmy winner and Tony Award nominee Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) and British…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMKERRY REID reviews "Empanada for a Dream" at 16th Street Theater ★★★½ and "City of Dreadful Night" at Den Theatre ★★
KERRY REID reviews "Empanada for a Dream"…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:54PMOn January 7, 2013, SDCF spoke with Production Managers/Technical Directors David Benken and Martin Pavloff about Understanding Automation: What Every Director Should Know. Whether you are …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:53PMArgo: The Musical? What are we, nuts?! The truth is, plenty of Oscar-winning movies have successfully made the leap to the Broadway stage. For instance, All About Eve became Applause; T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMNEW YORK (AP) — Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:51PMActor will replace Shia LaBeouf in the play
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:49PMWell that was quick. Less than 24 hours after Shia LaBeouf exited the upcoming Broadway mounting of Orphans, actor Ben Foster has stepped in to take over the role of Treat.
Orphans will m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PM... t the cast album from the brief Broadway run of a musical based on the life of Hollywood's immortal figures, with a heartfelt score ... duo-disc set of strong appealing "guide vocals" a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:42PMMichael Michetti is moved to tears by moments in Frank Galati's adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which Michetti is directing for A Noise Within. He explains why. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:41PMTheatre couple Leslie Kritzer and Vadim Feichtner will tie the knot tomorrow, February 22 in a private ceremony in the Grand Tier Mezzanine Lobby of NY's City Center. Leslie and Vadim met th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMJustin Vivian Bond is returning to the Joe's Pub stage as the one and only finalist in the Mx America pageant, for six solo performances between March 8 and March 30. For those not familiar …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMThe Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati, will play a limited engagement at Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMThe Rascals are heading to Broadway! The 1960s soul band will have a reunion at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in April, performing their new show Once Upon a Dream, which premiered at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMThe project has made available public programs, scores and internal documents from 1943, when Leonard Bernstein made his debut with the orchestra, to 1970, the year after he left as music di…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMFor many viewers, this week’s episode of Smash was their first introduction to the word dramaturg. Unfortunately for the TV show’s musical, Bombshell, (and for those of us who ne…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 01:31PMThe producers of the Broadway production of ORPHANS, Lyle Kessler's play, directed by Daniel Sullivan, announced today that Ben Foster will join the cast immediately in the role of Treat. Pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMThe producers of the Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler's Orphans announced Feb. 21 that film star Ben Foster will replace Shia LaBeouf, who departed the upcoming production "due to cre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMExhibits will use light, sound and interactive elements
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:30PMThe worldwide 380 gross of the feature film adaptation of the international stage hit LES MISERABLES at the box office has put a movie musical take on the hit Oz-themed WICKED closer to beco…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMProducers Steven Van Zandt and Maureen Van Zandt have just announced that THE RASCALS ONCE UPON A DREAM will premiere on Broadway this spring for 15 performances only. Directed by Steven Van…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMAs an abundance of A-list names fill Broadway marquees, use our Broadway star map—inspired by Hollywood’s—to navigate it all.
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:05PMThe Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival will debut a men’s program and youth performances when it opens for the 20th time this March.
The annual exhibition of performance artist…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:03PMNEW YORK—The band that gave us "Good Lovin,'" "People Got To Be Free" and "I've Been Lonely Too Long" are grooving their way to Broadway.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:02PMThe drama surrounding the sudden departure of film star Shia LaBeouf from the Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler's Orphans continues to unfold.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMTony Award-nominated playwright and librettist Douglas Carter Beane muses on his new Broadway projects, Cinderella and The Nance, savoring opportunities and pushing to be more than glib.
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What brings out the evil Hyde in Constantine Maroulis? That’s exactly what Young Hollywood tried to find out during a backstage interview with Maroulis and Deborah Cox at the Pantages …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMIn the video below, watch Wolfe sing through 'Goodbye Until Tomorrow' accompanied by composer Jason Robert Brown
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMIllinois Wesleyan University's School of Theatre Arts tackles Shakespeare's comedy AS YOU LIKE IT from February 26 thru March 3. BroadwayWorld brings you close to the set-building action as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMIn a recent issue of The New Republic, Adam Kirsch writes of the decline of the essay, describing even good writers such as John Jeremiah Sullivan (or, one would imagine, Michael Pollan…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:51PMNEW YORK (AP) — The band that gave us "Good Lovin,'" "People Got To Be Free" and "I've Been Lonely Too Long" are grooving their way to Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48PMTheaters face a decision with bad weather.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:46PMAfter reuniting for a series of shows in Port Chester, the blue-eyed soul band is bringing its act to Broadway in April.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PMLiverpool PlayhouseThink of Liverpool and you think of the Beatles, Bill Shankly – and Molière. Roger McGough's mission to re-establish the Frenchman as a Mersey wit has entered its third…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMRoyal Court, LondonAs someone who bemoans the dearth of political drama, I welcome the arrival of Anders Lustgarten's polemical bombshell. But while the play has bags of vigour and offers a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMSoho theatre, LondonIt must be an embattled business, being a leftwing comedian in the United States. Jamie Kilsteinhas received death threats for suggesting rape culture is a bad thing and,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMTobacco Factory, BristolRichard III should probably thank Shakespeare. The playwright may have destroyed his reputation but, in doing so, he ensured the last Plantagenet lived on in the popu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMMore than 800 established and emerging DC artists, offering the best of the area’s music, dance, theater and spoken word, will converge at the Atlas Theatre over the next three weekends as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMIn case you missed this Smash-worthy drama as it developed last night, movie star Shia LaBeouf left his role opposite Alec Baldwin in the upcoming Broadway production of Orphans on Tuesday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PMEven in the world's post–Les Miz glow.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
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SOURCE: Vulture at 12:31PMGingold Theatrical Group, the organization behind the Project Shaw reading series, will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with its Golden Shamrock Gala honoring Tony Award winning actor/director J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMComplete casting for Ford's Theatre's spring revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring the previously announced Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vanderge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMGraham’s ‘Phaedra’ was impressive for its storytelling, but it was another choreographer’s work that stole the show, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:23PMActually, it's all kinds of fruits and vegetables. A circuit board called the MaKey MaKey is allowing musicians to play music on produce, to awesome effect. Watch the video.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:17PMAge & Hometown: 29; New York, NY
Current Role: Patty Ann Donovan, a down-on-her-luck Irish-American racist who agrees to "ghost-buy" a home for an African-American family in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMSeattle Times theater critic Misha Berson passes on this about an On the Boards happening:
Annie Dorsen is best known as director and co-creator of the hip 2008 Broadway musical "Passing St…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:16PMINTERVIEW: WILLY TSAO The Chinese dance supremo, and founder of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, the City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong) and BeijingDance/LDTX, tells Mary Mazzilli…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:16PMSpeaking at Sunday's Whatsonstage.com Awards, composer Marvin Hamlisch's widow Terre Blair spoke movingly of her husband's musical legacy.Blair, who was married to Hamlisch for 23 years, fle…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:07PMStage actors – with minimal scope for makeup or prosthetics between scenes – tend to find it easier to age down than upThere are various ways of measuring a play: the number of character…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) and Lark Play Development Center (John Clinton Eisner, Artistic Director; Michael Robertson, …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:02PM TDF’s Stage Doors program reaches students across the city Recently, TDF made clowns out of local teachers and teaching artists, but in the best possible way. They were gathered…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00PMHis LINES Ballet company will perform at the Edison Theatre.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM
Anders Lustgarten's If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep premiered at the Royal Court Theatre last night (20 February 2013).
Lustgarten’s piece explores …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:50AMA new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AMTuner revised by Cameron Mackintosh, Mark Bramble
SOURCE: Variety at 11:43AMSince 2009, thousands have flocked to the Old Vic Tunnels, a cult venue discovered by chance beneath Waterloo station, which has hosted successful gallery shows, performances by award winnin…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:42AMThe Peoples Improv Theater has announced the full lineup for its second annual NYC Improv Festival, presenting more than 80 improv comedy teams on two stages at the PIT for four nights, Marc…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:42AMJust as live theater is the original 3D entertainment, so too can old-school face to face social networking be a goldmine for your box office and a benefit for your audiences. We all know th…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:38AMOn next week’s episode of Smash, Jennifer Hudson takes center stage for a special concert showcasing the divine talents of her character, Broadway diva Ronnie Moore. But it’s not…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMThis week's A.P.T. goes out to the Blueprint Theater Project and The Human Variations. If you are a producer who loves experiential work or is fascinated by language, you will have a really …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 11:30AMPerformance, installation, soundscape and landscape: Ellen Carr discovers the art of interdisciplinary company Fevered Sleep
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:28AMCity Lit Theater has opened up prime-time rental space in their 99-seat theater for this summer. Space is available beginning June 24. Please contact Brian at [email protected] or by phone…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:28AMTickets are now on sale for the Broadway premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance, starring two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane. Directed by Tony winner Jack O’Brien, the Lincol…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMLes Misérables star Hugh Jackman looked positively presidential on February 20, when he visited the Late Show With David Letterman studio sporting a foot-tall stovepipe hat and a long…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMCasting has been announced for The Public Theater's English-language premiere of Neva, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMJudy Kuhn, Melissa Errico and Ryan Silverman are bringing the lovesick and wartorn world of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion to life off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company. Set…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMPuppet Stand-Up, coming to the Warehouse for 2 shows this Saturday, promises to run the gamut from serious to silly by presenting puppets in stand up routines by “the best puppet comi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMIt’s difficult to know where to begin with Cat Jones’s Glory Dazed as it continues its tour from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival via the Adelaide Fringe Festival before returning t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AMThings are going pretty great for Zosia Mamet. Not only is she the star of the hit TV show Girls, but the actress is also celebrating her off-Broadway debut in the wild drama Really Really. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMAccording to Deadline.com, SMASH star Jack Davenport has joined ITV's 6part 'Breathless' drama series. The show is about 'a group of doctors and nurses in a gynecology ward at a period when …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMA corrosive new play with astoundingly good performances. Review appears in other North Jersey Media Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 11:09AMFringe Festivals always have an ability to turn unexpected places into performance spaces, often barely disguising their former lives. In the case of the Urban Spaceman Vintage, a retro clot…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:06AMThe results are in from this week’s Smash Survey, in which we asked Broadway.com readers to pick the fictional Smash musical they’d most like to see come to Broadway for realsies…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMIt’s a weird year on Broadway. From empty houses to a lack of new productions to revivals of the old productions that can’t keep us happy, no one is finding themselves especially…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 11:02AMWhen The Book of Mormon was prepping for its first performance, a lot of folks thought the Mormon Church was prepping for a protest to take place outside the theater. Many industry insiders …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
If you want a career in musical theater, you better embrace your inner Harold Hill. Because to make it in the business, we all have to be salesmen (sales people?) peddling our wares. If you …
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 10:57AMGuest post by Leora Morris The first time I read Gilbert’s Engaged (a wordy Victorian farce that inspired other wordy playwrights like George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde), it seemed like …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:55AMEnd a musical-theater-themed evening without a show-stopping number? That would be an affront to Dionysus himself. The Academy Awards typically close with an announcement of the year's Best …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMMix two actors with reputations for passion and stormy personalities and it's not surprising things did not turn out as planned for an upcoming Broadway production of "Orphans" that was to h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMBroadway leading ladies Christine Ebersole, Tyne Daly and Andréa Burns celebrate their birthdays Feb. 21. In honor of the actresses, Playbill.com looks back at their careers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMA British man is being in held in a prison in Uganda after appearing in a play which exposed the plight of homosexuals in the country.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:37AMKerry Ellis is one busy performer. As well as solo concerts, auditioning for The Voice last year, stepping onto the musical stage and releasing albums, she is about to tour the UK - performi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:32AMLondon's Old Vic Tunnels — an underground performance space managed by the Old Vic, located not on its own site but at a location adjoining Waterloo station — is to shutter M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThe New York Philharmonic's upcoming concert staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Kelli O'Hara and Nathan Gunn, will be filmed by "Live from Lincoln Cente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMIt helps that there’s something cadaverous about John Mackay, with his close-cropped hair and his deep-set eyes, but he makes a chillingly convincing psychopath. In Andrew Hilton’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:29AMThe iStar Theatre Lab will develop The George Hamilton Project, an original work starring George Hamilton with a book by his brother David Hamilton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMRound House’s 2013-2014 Season – it’s first under new Artistic Director Ryan Rilette – will feature five stories about powerful women in crisis, along with one of the great classics …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Here’s one that’s fallen through the cracks. That’s My Mama was a step down in the evolution of the black sit-com…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A group of San Francisco Star Wars fans who want to travel to a galaxy not that far away have created a combat choreography class for Jedis-in-training with their w…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:18AMBarons Court Theatre, London: Ian Buckley's gently humorous new offering is a touching testament to 20th century British socialism. Based on his father's accounts of retired tailor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMToday in 2008, the first Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 149 performances. Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMMusic Theatre International is excited to announce the launch of PLAYBILLVIP.COM, PLAYBILL’s first-ever Do-It-Yourself Playbill. This program allows schools, colleges, amateur and commun…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:14AMShia Labouf pulled out of his latest Broadway gig due to "creative differences," according to a news release sent Wednesday.
SOURCE: www.enstarz.com at 10:12AMLandor, London: The Landor's From Page to Stage season, running until March 17, aims to highlight new musical theatre by showcasing and running workshops of new writing from a collectio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMThe ReGroup Theatre Company will present two plays by John Howard Lawson, Success Story and Loud Speaker, beginning March 5 at the Robert Moss Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMEmmy Award winner Holland Taylor received a commendation by Texas Governor Rick Perry making her an honorary Texan on January 10, 2013, for her play Ann about late Texas governor Ann Richard…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMYou know how your mom told you never to put anything in an e-mail that you didn’t want the whole world to read? Shia LaBeouf has proved her right by publishing emails to and from his f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:01AMProducers of the Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler’s “Orphans” announced yesterday that Shia LaBeouf had left the play “due to creative differences.” However, the actor released a ser…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM I got to thinking the other day–you know how much I love dream casts. It’s fun to take a show, movie or book that we love and image who would be in it if it was to become …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMTis the season. The StageSource Job Fair is Saturday, February 23 at the Back Bay Events Center. Applications for internships and summer work are available. And there are jobs available. Her…
SOURCE: StageSource at 10:00AM“Hands on a Hardbody” and “Kinky Boots,” musicals with working-class themes, will both be setting up shop on Broadway this spring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMWomen — from real life and fiction — will be the leading characters of several prominent Broadway productions (like “Ann,” “The Testament of Mary” and “Matilda the Musical”) …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMWesley Taylor: Co-creator and star...The first three episodes of the newest Broadway-themed web series It Could Be Worse are out, and considering that the sum total of the experience is…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
Lou Myers, a stage and screen veteran best known for his performance as cantankerous restaurant owner Mr. Gaines on the long-running television series A Different World, has died in West Vir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMThe Guthrie will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 1813 publication of Jane Austen’s novel "Pride and Prejudice" with a summer stage adaptation on the Wurtele Thrust S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMTheatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre and home of the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI-US), invites all theatres, individual artist…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 09:53AMFirst you leave, then you tweet. Hours after Shia LaBeouf's sudden exit from the Broadway production of the play "Orphans" was announced, the hot-headed "Transformers" star started a Twitter…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51AMThe Hawaii Opera Theatre HOT has a rich history dating back to 1960 when it opened with Madama Butterfly with performances in McKinley High School Auditorium. The company has continued to ev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMEmmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, who stars in the hit FOX television show “Glee” as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, will take on another great tyrannical role as evil …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:45AMRECOMMENDED Three plays currently playing in Chicago urgently grab hold of prescient national issues both imperative and sickening: “Teddy Ferrara” at the Goodman Theatre, “…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:37AMDue to creative differences, the producers of Orphans and Shia LaBeouf will be parting ways and he will not be continuing with the production. An announcement on the replacement for the …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:35AMLong before they turned off the dark, a man of steel lit up Broadway New York City Center Encores presents IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN. Catch SUPERMAN for seven performances o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMDream Acts — the collaboratively created play by Chiori Miyagawa, Saviana Stanescu, Andrea Thome, Jessica Litwak, and Mia Chung — is getting a lot of well-deserved attention in t…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 09:32AMThe New York premiere production of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really, directed by David Cromer (the Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award-winning director of hits Our Town, Adding Ma…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:29AMAssisted Living, a new play penned by Tony-nominated Wicked librettist Winnie Holzman and her husband, actor Paul Dooley, will make its world premiere April 5 at Los Angeles' Odyssey The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMToday is the birthday of Hollywood character actor Zachary Scott (1914-1965). He was discovered acting in his native Texas by Alfred Lunt and encouraged to move to New York, where he got Bro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:26AMMax Stafford-Clark described reviving Our Country's Good as having "all the more reason to do it now". His masterful new production of the work he originally commissioned from Timberlake We…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:20AMNEW YORK (AP) — Don't you dare bring Holland Taylor a vodka martini.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:15AMIn answer to restoration levy query, Bacc on track, council cuts and public awareness of arts subsidies and defending TV science
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMAuthor Ruby Preston returns with 'STAGED,' the sequel to the popular Broadway read 'SHOWBIZ,' exposing all the euphoria, heartbreak, and hijinks of the business of Broadway. Released by Dres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
Largely responsible for the movie musical revolution of the 21st century, setting the stage first with their mega-successful work on TV in the 1990s like GYPSY, CINDERELLA and ANNIE, then, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AM'Adultery, steamy romantic subplots, a great universal sadness in a time of revolution, what's not to love' Was the answer I got when I asked actor Cody Thompson Miron why one should see The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMHappy Thursday faithful blog readers Hope you had a lovely Presidents' Day. Over at Kinky Boots... we've been refining the details, massaging our arches and belting crazy high notes well, El…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMANNIE is back on Broadway and better than ever Tickets beginning at 49 - don't miss out on the feel-good musical of the season
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55AMThe musical mouthful A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine is just too much for the busy Twitter generation, so it has been redubbed ‘Hollykraine’ by the cast of high schoo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Today is the birthday of Ernest Whitman (1893-1954). A veteran of black vaudeville, burlesque and revues, his first film was the 19…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:44AMThe Old Vic Theatre’s experimental second space, the Old Vic Tunnels, is to close next month, it has been announced. No reason has been given for the closure, but the Old Vic will end …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:37AMOnce in a while it’s a good idea to cast a cold eye on one’s resume; and I am not particularly good at marketing myself (apparently Terry Teachout enjoys it, but perhaps he has a…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:32AMOpening March 15th, Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions’ second show of its inaugural season is Proof, by David Auburn. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award – winning drama,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMNorah Hildebrandt (1857-1893) was the daughter of America’s first tattoo artist, German-born Martin Hildebrandt. When he didn’t have soldiers and sailors to work on, he would dec…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12AMIn which the series returns to some of its better instincts, while continuing to indulge it’s bad ones. After a decent premiere and a shaky follow-up, Smash returns to some of its Sea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:01AMFor Laura Osnes, who has portrayed some of Broadway’s best-known ingénue characters and now plays the title role in “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” niceness is no act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMArs Nova has continually been the place to be when you're looking for new, exciting theatrical works of genius. Their Uncharted series, concerts presenting the work of up-and-coming composer…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMOne of my favorite things about "Downton Abbey" is the way its characters deliver lines like "I'm dancing a jig!," "I feel like I've swallowed a box of fireworks!" and "You made me jump!" wh…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:00AM
Protests against the Royal Shakespeare Company’s renewed partnership with energy giant BP are to continue, with organisers the Reclaim Shakespeare Company launching a public petition calli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMTransformers actor Shia LaBeouf will no longer make his Broadway debut in Orphans having been dropped from the play because of “creative differences” between himself and Alec Baldwin.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:49AM This post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. John Rogan (ca. 1865-1905) was one of the tallest men reported since the beginning of modern record keeping, eventually reac…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:33AMA week into rehearsals for a revival of Lyle Kessler's Orphans, US actor reveals emails to and from creative team in which he apologises for his part in a 'disagreeable situation'Shia LaBeou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMOld Vic Tunnels, the not-for-profit performance space run by the Old Vic beneath Waterloo station, has announced it will close next month.A statement on the Old Vic Tunnels website reads: "O…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:10AM'What's the best thing about British theatre? Our sense of humour. And the worst? Endless conversations about funding' Job: Deputy artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as of J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08AMAnders Lustgarten's play begins, promisingly enough, as a dystopian satire which takes us on a darkly absurd extrapolation of the “market knows best” approach to austerity. A government …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:03AMStaff working for the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham fear they are at risk of losing their jobs after Ambassador Theatre Group launched a consultation about a “restructure” at the v…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMHolland Taylor was resplendent in a full length red fox fur coat. (I didn't ask her if it was real.) Once a struggling actress in New York in the 70s and 80s, she took practically any role t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London: The most common complaint about plays that criticise the austerity measures that have followed the global financial meltdown is that they don…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMPolka, London: This entertaining celebration of Chinese New Year sets out to educate non-Chinese people into the great traditions. It packs a lot of slightly clunkily placed information (wor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMColiseum, London: Adventurous programming continues at the Coliseum with the UK stage premiere of a neglected 1693 masterpiece by the comparatively little known French Baroque composer Marc-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMLiverpool Playhouse Studio: Manic tomfoolery, some superb clowning and an excellent cast make Spike Theatre's Sink or Swim the near-perfect antidote to the mid-winter chills. That the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMJoin us and a chorus line of stage musical experts from noon on Friday 22 February to talk putting on a showWhy is it that musicals are so often a guilty pleasure? With some embarrassment, I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMTobacco Factory, Bristol: You can`t keep a bad man down. No sooner have archaeologists confirmed that it was Richard III`s skeleton that lay buried beneath a Leicester carpark, than here we …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: The source novel for this play is a sprawling family saga in which the Mortymer family is caught up in the 19th century south Wales iron industry, the fight for uni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMAs it prepares for its upcoming "season of plenty"::E8831360231322 Shakespeare's Globe has today (21 February 2013) published its annual report for 2012.
The Globe's trading income rose by 1…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:06AM
David Holman’s surprisingly involving adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 story swept me away.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:47AMReturning from the sell-out and award-winning success at the 2006 Adelaide Fringe, Ben Woolf’s comic and compelling play Angry Young Man finds its home once again at the Holden Street …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:45AMFrom the beginning, Love On Trial, Roe Lane’s adaptation of Malawian writer Stanley Kenani’s Caine Prize-nominated story, promises to be at least intriguing. A nation-enraging instance o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AM1001 Nights, which is currently showing at the Unicorn Theatre, is a play that hits you in the gut from the get go. The story follows a young girl named Shahrazad (Danusia Samal) and her fat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AMAt today's press briefing to launch the 2013 Chichester Festival season::E8831361382152, artistic director Jonathan Church revealed that three major musicals are currently in development at …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:15AM[CONTAINS SPOILERS] Liar Liar tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Grace (Danusia Samal) who is stuck in a world of video games and Blackberry. Desperate to make herself feel like a r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07AM
The Mark of Zorro Wins: The Mark of Zorro has been designed for children with characters leaping out of the pages of a book, at The New Victory Theatre.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:33AMYOU CAN SKIP THESE SKETCHY SKETCHES Those of us who are of a certain age reverently remember the National Lampoon as being one of the great humor magazines of the 1970s and early 1980s. Ye…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:30AMThe 64-year-old St. Louis Civic Orchestra, now based in Chesterfield, is trying to get more locals, especially young people, in tune with its mission of making beautiful music.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:30AMMassage Envy, the nations’ pioneer and largest massage therapy provider, is pleased to announce today the opening of a new concept, Massage Envy Spa located in Chicago’s West Loop neighb…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:16AMLOS ANGELES (AP) — James Conlon has extended his contract as music director of the Los Angeles Opera through the 2017-18 season.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11AMPortion Control Improv - an all female, improvisational team from Chicago-is presenting their improv show: When Thighs Touch at the Second City’s Donny’s Skybox. When Thighs Tou…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:10AMThe Village Voice, the nation’s first and largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced today that esteemed critic and longtime judge of the awards will resume his former position as Ob…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:02AM"Project Runway" Judges Give Tips for Aspiring Designers
We're in the Big Apple for New York Fashion Week where we get to chat with the ultra-fashion savvy judges from "Project Runway", incl…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMKevin Hart Defends His Celebrity Basketball All-Star Title
With a YH mic in hand, San Diego Chargers linebacker Shaun Phillips heads to the Celebrity All-Star Game during the NBA All-Star We…
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The elegant and talented Danai Gurira stops by the Studio to tell us how to pronounce her name and to give us the scoop on her badass…
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Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center presents A Night at the Movies April 8th from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. at 27 Live, 1012 Church Street in Evanston. The event includes an intimate sc…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 12:26AMAcademy and Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg co-star in the Rattlestick Plawrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist, Eisenberg&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMMy Twitter feed delivered me two great resources for arts professionals on the same day this week. The first came courtesy of Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group. I guess I should have kno…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:08AMOur primary criterion for Picture of the Week is this: does it make you want to see the play. This Keith Barker photo of Joseph Pierre and Sascha Cole from Obsidian's Shakespeare's Nigga cer…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMActor New York, New York USA I’m inspired by theater and film. After seeing a wonderful play, either new or a revival I think “how amazing”. I saw Joe Egg 3 times and the 1…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:02AMAbout the Actors by the ActorsDonald Rees, Sean Curley and Nir Guzinski talk ARTDONALD: Welcome to a unique interview between the cast members of Brave New Productions 'ART'. My name is Dona…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name!" Eugène Ionesco, Jacques or the Submission...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMHartford Stage launches the world premiere of Man in a Case, a movement-friendly stage adaptation of two stories by Anton Chekhov, Feb. 21 in Connecticut. The work stars Mikhail Baryshnikov,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Riverside Theatre's resident production of Les Miserables, the international hit musical scheduled to return to Broadway in March 2014, begins its limited engagement Feb. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe cast and crew of Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed new Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood let us in for an exclusive behind-the-scenes photo journal.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1879 John Wellington Wells deals his magic and spells for the first time on Broadway with the American premiere of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Sorcerer at the old Broadway Th…
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