He's been in the Global Creatures West Melbourne maternity ward for nearly five years, but earlier this month King Kong arrived at the Regent Theatre for rehearsals, ahead of the 15 June ope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMTwenty-six-year-old author-actor Lucas Brooks is also a professional sex educator, so it’s no wonder that his first one-man show, “VGL 5’4” Top,” would survey t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:15PMNationwide search for acts in effort to prevent homegrown talent moving abroad for workWhen economists bemoan the foreign drain on homegrown talent and skills, they probably don't have trape…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTrafalgar Studios; Royal Court; Palladium, LondonThe wonderful thing about Jamie Lloyd's production of Macbeth is that the Scottish play is Scottish. There is a rightness about the accents �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMLyceum, SheffieldIt's not surprising that when it appeared in 1997 The Full Monty was instantly dubbed a "feelgood" film. Set in the late 1980s, it tells the story of a group of skilled men …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThe man in charge is a monster. In A Chorus Line – the 1970s New York musical about dancers auditioning for a New York musical – the director, Zach, has dictatorial tendencies. We watch …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMPity John Sessions? Heaven forbid! This, after all, is a man who describes himself as being a "bit punchable". Then there's that Spitting Image puppet: "They did John Sessions going up his o…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Russell Crowe, the actor who played Javert in the recent blockbuster LES MISERABLES adaptation, is the focus of a new parody after the film received several nominations during awards season …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:50PMAVENUE Q is the Tony Award-winning musical about 20-somethings -- people and puppets alike -- fresh out of college and trying to find their way in the big city, living as neighbors on a rund…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45PMLAW amp ORDER star Mariska Hargitay and screenwriter Warren Leight visited the cast and crew after seeing the Thursday evening performance of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Check out photos …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMCadre was developed at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and following its world premiere here will travel to the actors’ homeland of South Africa and then on to Australia. It’s a piece that�…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:39PMOn Sunday, February 24 at 600pm, The New Group offers the next event in this season's continuing series Dark Nights at The New Group Stand-Up Center Stage with Janeane Garofalo, Mario Canton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMYou've probably seen the movie, but what does FLASHDANCE the Musical have that the movie doesn't One word. Sas. That's right ladies and gents. Broadway veteran Rachelle Rak has taken on the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMA review of Annie Dorsen’s “A Piece of Work,” having its world premiere at On the Boards in Seattle.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:13PMNEWSical The Musical star Christine Pedi recently re-imagined the cast of LES MISERABLES, giving a 'performance preview' utilizing her trademark impersonations. View the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PM
In anticipation of a New York production, Cameron Mackintosh's 1992 musical comedy, MOBY DICK, has received a staged reading.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMThe barricades will arise once more in Australia when the acclaimed new production of Les Miserables opens in June 2014 at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne. Producer Cameron Mackintosh con…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:38PMOpera Australia has announced the appointment of Craig Hassall as Chief Executive Officer following the departure of Adrian Collette AM last year after 16 years in the top job. Hassall has b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30PMIt's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMTalie Melnyk begins her one-woman show with a bang. Why beat around the bush when there’s a war on women going on? Did you know that people are just as judgmental and sexist today as t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:13PMThere’s no pigeonholing two-time Tony nominee Tom Wopat. His career has ranged from the 1980s hit TV series The Dukes of Hazzard to 10 Broadway credits (including Annie Get Your Gun wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PM
Catholic University spoofs musicals everywhere in a hilarious production of The Drowsy Chaperone, the show-within-a-show that lovingly satires the best and worst in musical theater and the p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PMShould you give up this crazy idea of being an artist and go for the money instead? Isn't it time to settle down, or will you keep plugging away at a career in which the odds are not in your…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PMFifty-six years after it first premiered on television, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella finally waltzes onto Broadway in a re-imagined and completely re-written production starr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:16PMOne of Seattle's longest lived musical theatre companies, Seattle Musical Theatre, has just jump started itself with a slick, savvy staging of the zany Off-Broadway hit musical Altar Boyz.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:13PMBrel's Valentineby Jay Catterson@ScienceOfSmut In 1968, the musical revue Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris was first mounted Off-Broadway and ran for more than four years. …
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Tomorrow morning at 11 the Film Forum is showing the Chaplin feature that tends to fall through the cracks, his 1928 The Circus. It is a beautiful film and a funny one, and by no means R…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:39PMAccording to Entertainment Weekly, an unprecedented LES MISERABLES reunion is set to take place at tomorrow's 85th Annual Academy Awards. Cast members from various productions throughout the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PM"Everyone's a Critic" at On the Boards is our latest iteration of live critical interventions
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:22PMMarch madness came early as the Washington Ballet whirled through George Balanchine’s tribute to John Philip Sousa this weekend. “Stars and Stripes” turns the buoyancy of Sousa marches…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Win or lose at the Academy Awards, Cameron Mackintosh is happy to keep all things miserable....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:11PMIt was an extra starry, musical day at the Dolby Theatre.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:09PMA river and a dragon shaped by writhing performers. A budget nearly one-eighth of L.A.'s. In Munich, the beast is inventively and economically tackled.MUNICH, Germany — Wagner's "The R…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM
Name: Nikhil TilwalliHometown: Chicago, ILEducation: B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Electrical EngineeringFavorite Credits: Performing stand-up at Comic Strip Live, Upright Citizen's Brigade T…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:37PMStephanie Powers is stepping in as the emergency replacement for the lead part in a play in which she has 80 percent of the lines, doing it with less than two weeks’ rehearsal, and re-cre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:30PMNEW YORK (AP) — Win or lose at the Academy Awards, Cameron Mackintosh is happy to keep all things miserable.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:20PMMarianna Bassham, stuck in Middletown. Photo: Stratton McCradyI left Middletown (at the Actors' Shakespeare Project through March 10) wondering exactly how a playwright as smart as Wil…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:20PMPlaying Hartford's Bushnell In AprilTa'Rea Campbell (Broasway's "Book of Mormon," "The Lion King") will star as Deloris Van Cartier in the national tour of "Sister Act," coming to the Bu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:08PMThis article gives a list of words that have no English equivalent. The reason for that is that they don’t translate into one word, they mean sentences or phrases. For example: In…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMToday we are shifting our focus from the stages of Broadway and beyond to the stages of the previous 84 Academy Awards telecasts that have transpired to date, in anticipation of Sunday night…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
MOVEiUS Dance will present “Legacy: A Conversation Through Contemporary Ballet” TOMORROW, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013 at 2 pm, at the Sprenger Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center. This…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AMTelling a story is easy. Capturing the heart while doing it? That’s the hard part. Luckily for Antonia Lassar, writer and performer of The God Box, she’s excelled at both. Playing an ass…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:31AMThe loopy 'Taylor' sprang from an encounter with a sexy barista. Forget what you've seen on "Smash."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMGiven the current political climate, The Victorian Lyric Opera Company’s performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s political satire Iolanthe seems particularly apropos. The operetta, now pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMThe 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 o…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:14AMMarcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich have been writing songs (think: 'Taylor, the Latte Boy') for 21 years. With two musicals at the brink, they're close to the big time.— In the annals of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
Filed under: PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Dandy Wellington, Flute, Kita St. Cyr, Wit's End
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:50AMRev that engine! Hands on a Hardbody begins performances on February 23 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Opening night for the new musical, which stars Hunter Foster and Keith Carr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:37AMPARIS — A vow to keep his private life out of the public eye helped sweep Francois Hollande to power last year as France's president, attracting voters tired of his flashy predecessor's a…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 10:34AMJonathan Rand Hometown: Jacksonville, FL Current Town: Santa Monica, CA Q: What are you working on now? A: An evening of short comedies Q: Tell me about Playscripts. Ho…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:28AMStanescu's play explores work, love and the American Dream
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:15AMA few weeks ago, one of my favorite, most loyal readers "Chaotic Corey," shared with us the first few of many steps in that, well, chaotic, rite of passage: getting into a college of our cho…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
Two-time Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut in LUCKY GUY, a new play written by three-time Academy Award nominee Nora Ephron and directed by two-time Tony Award® winn…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:25AMAs a tabloid police reporter who spent plenty of time with his sources, Mike McAlary -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning title character played by Tom Hanks in the new Broadway play LUCKY GUY -- w…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:20AMThe world of the New York City tabloids in the 1980s was filled with shady deals, courageous reporting, fast deadlines and even faster living – and Nora Ephron, who began her storied caree…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 09:19AMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody begins preview performances today, February 23, 2013 at 8pm at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street, with an official opening …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMToday is the birthday of director Norman Taurog (1899-1981). This may tee some people off, but based on what I’ve seen — and I’ve seen a lot of Norman Taurog movies —…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:15AMFor those who may believe that the United Kingdom has a healthier new play sector than the United States, Fin Kennedy has bad news for you. Yesterday he and Helen Campbell Pickford, an Oxfor…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:14AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #120, Dave Apollon, the Mandolin King (for the full skinny on this fascinating person go here). Submitted for your Saturday delectation, some of h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:00AMBack in November 2012, “about 250 student/Signature meetings ago,” playwright Joe Calarco and director and Signature Theatre’s Education Department Director Dave Zobell began…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
On Thursday night, while waiting for the GWU New Plays Festival’s wild42hold to begin, I was transported to an attention-grabbing site. Thanks to the massive set, covered in graffiti, a la…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46AMIt takes both talent and moxie to make it in show business.
And Paul Downs Colaizzo, the 27-year-old playwright whose first play Really
Really opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Tuesday…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:26AMToday is the birthday of the popular Shakespearean actor Fredericke Warde (1851-1935). His theatrical career began in his native England in the mid 1860s; he moved to the U.S. in 1874 to app…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:16AMThis new play by Lila Whelan grew out of a short news item to become a deeply moving, often shocking examination of the human causes of a house fire which killed two young children and their…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AMAs the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, BroadwayWorld has been in touch with the award-winning creative team that put together the hit musical years ago. In the intervie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMToday is the 100th birthday of the great Bengali magician Protul Chandra Sorcar (1913-1971). After graduating from college with a mathematics degree, he began to pursue his true passion, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AMIf You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep depicts a government that has privatised the welfare state, with catastrophic results for its citizens. The play exposes the failures of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:00AM
BIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago’s Orien…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:58AMToday is the birthday of film director Victor Fleming (1889-1949). I tend to think of him as a creature of the studio system, producing rather impersonal but competent work over a diverse r…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:56AMIt is inevitable that Coalition will be compared to political comedy powerhouse The Thick Of It. This, unfortunately, does Coalition no favours. Where TTOI is strident and brutal in its deco…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:47AMJohn Fredriksen seems like an odd center for a play revolving around a teenage HIV-positive prostitute, a multi-media artist who is grieving for her recently deceased son and a cuckolding bu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMConsider Marina – saved by pirates, who then sell her into a brothel, “but she had such a healing spirit that she convinced every man not to have sex with her,” Tina Packer says to us,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AMPaco Peña Flamenco Dance Company brings Spain's most distinctive musical form to St. Louis.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Roundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly, the delicate study of two disparate souls, played by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56AMBroadway's 'Les Miserables' alumni Adam Jacobs, last seen as Simba in Disney's 'The Lion King,' and Ali Ewoldt, last seen as Tuptim in Baayork Lee's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody begins preview performances today, February 23, 2013 at 8pm at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street, with an official opening …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMNew York Theatre Ballet's NYTB 2012-2013 season will debut an all-new ballet, Bark In The Park with choreography by Chase Brock of Broadway's hit Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, and story and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMBen Vereen, one of America's most versatile, talented and beloved entertainers, will take the stage with MenAlive, The Orange County Gay Men's Chorus, at 'Academy Affair 2013,' tonight, Febr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMHartford Symphony Orchestra and Goodspeed Musicals will join to celebrate the music and the magic of Goodspeed's golden anniversary in a spectacular concert event tonight, February 23, 2013 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMPassion, the dark, Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — gets its first New York City revival starting Feb. 8…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22AMRock of AgesCharPo sits down with Danny McHugh, one of the many hard-working young actors cast in the current national tour of the hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages, and rediscovers an age-o…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMLPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:02AMBack to Nothingby Cameryn MooreIt’s funny how this column thing works out. Last week I’m doing some thinky-thinking about auxiliary events to supplement theatrical presentations—that i…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMINTERNATIONAL CABAL CREATES GLOBAL MAGICjoel fishbane@joelfishbaneThe art of collaboration is getting a whole new definition thanks to a new initiative being spearheaded by a feisty group of…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMGive Me Fever: The Many Voices of Peggy Lee, featuring the work of jazz singer, songwriter, composer and actress Peggy Lee, is offered Feb. 23-25 as part of 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAndrew Durand, Audrey Brisson, Damon Daunno and Patrycja Kujawska inhabit the Kneehigh Theatre production of The Wild Bride, adapted and directed by Tony and Olivier Award nominee Emma Rice,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJackie Hoffman, Bradford Louryk, Molly Pope, Cole Escola and Michael Musto are part of You Like Me: An Evening of Classic Acceptance Speeches, which returns to Ars Nova Feb. 23 for a sold-ou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's series features actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they're looking forward to and more. Here, via email, we hear from singing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAdam Jacobs and Ali Ewoldt, who played Marius and Cosette in the Broadway revival of Les Miserables, reunite for A Heart Full of Love: A Concert Feb. 23 at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway veterans Amanda Green and Doug Wright helped Phish frontman Trey Anastasio finally get his hands on a musical. Learn about his Broadway composing debut with Hands On a Hardbody.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Brooks Atkinson Theatre opens Feb. 23 as the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance contest to win a pickup t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1960 The Dublin Gate Theatre will hear Chimes at Midnight. Orson Welles directs his adaptation of Shakespeare and Holinshead.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGive Me Fever: The Many Voices of Peggy Lee, celebrating the work of the late musical icon, is presented as part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series, beginning Feb. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Kelli O'Hara and Nathan Gunn take a ride around the Carousel… Picnic packs up and leaves Broadway… Hands on a Hardbody pu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKatharine McPhee and Krysta Rodriguez, who crossed paths during McPhee's time at Boston Conservatory, are reunited — and now play friends and roommates, Karen Cartwright and Ana Va…
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