Aussie performer David Harris is an actor, singer and a damn good sport. In this exclusive video interview filmed backstage at Hats Off 2013, he chats with AussieTheatre’s Liam Bradbery ab…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:59PMAnd we begin with a musical montage! Why? Because the episode is appropriately called “The Song.” Our friends are getting their day kicked off as V-Mo sings a song, fresh from her killer…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:31PMEdie Falco stars in “The Madrid,” a new play by Liz Flahive about a kindergarten teacher who leaves her job and family without so much as a goodbye.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PMFormer New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will make his Broadway debut in “Lucky Guy,” the new Nora Ephron play about newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, starring Tom Hanks.
Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:20PMIn “The Madrid,” Edie Falco is Martha, a woman who abruptly leaves her job and family, and disappears. In other words, the star whose name is selling tickets plays someone who, technical…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:19PMAs Smash’s second season shapes up, the claws are coming out—from everyone! On the February 26 episode “The Song,” Derek turns into a big bag of frowns as he clashes …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17PMAlexander Dinelaris – a two-time Drama Desk nominee - is currently represented as a playwright with the West End production of The Bodyguard, a New Musical. His other playwriting credits i…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:12PMIt is not very often that Australians get the chance to put a mirror up to our history; to reflect back and contemplate upon events that have shaped and influenced who and what we have becom…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:10PMReverb Theatre’s presentation of an abbreviated version of Eric Coble’s Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe is a generally good amateur production. It’s a family friendly play and a number …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:04PMOn “Nurse Jackie,” Edie Falco plays a newly sober RN. Now she’s starring in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of “The Madrid.” The play by Liz Flahive and Falco is awkward enou…
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The show winds up with a block party that gives us everything, including yes, a gospel-infused Charlie Pride, and each cast member has another chance to showcase his or her prodigious musica…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:55PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, was briefly hospitalized due to her bipolar disorder, the actress' spokeswoman said on Tu…
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:53PMFord’s Theatre artistic director Paul Tetreault didn’t go into season planning with, well, a plan. But when he was about midway through the process, he said, “I would step back [and] s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:46PMEclectic is new to the Chicago theater scene. I went into Six Degrees, then, with a healthy amount of trepidation. Thanks to simple production values, a deep respect for the text and Julie P…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:17PMAfter two difficult years away from the Metropolitan Opera following a spinal injury, music director James Levine is planning his comeback in May.
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you are so enthralled by something that you quit noticing time's passage? I had one at the recen…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:09PMNaked Angels will soon have a new outpost in Manhattan. The downtown theater company is partnering with the New School for Drama and will be housed in the schools’ facilities on Bank S…
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:03PMWild hearts beat in ordinary people -- in responsible mothers with adoring husbands, cozy homes and nurturing jobs that require more than punching a clock.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:02PMEdie Falco stars in this Off-Broadway drama by "Nurse jackie" producer Liz Flahive about a woman who abandons her family. read more
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“A stunning a cappella tour de force!” Some performances are just a bit more personal than others… Without question, this will be the case when Pasadena Master Chorale (PMC) presen…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:58PMTheatre Under The Stars TUTS presents the five-time Tony Award winning masterpiece Man of La Mancha, running now through March 10 at the Hobby Center for The Performing Arts. Click below to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:49PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonBest known for movies such as Atonement and Anna Karenina, Joe Wright has finally got round to directing his first play, and, appropriately, he has chosen Pinero's wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47PMFord’s Theatre Announces 2013-2014 Season The Laramie Project, A Christmas Carol, Violet, and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Ford’s Theatre announces its 2013-14 season, wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40PMIn most plays, the words "I've worked very hard to get here" would not resonate with wrenching emotional force....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMPITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre has fired its founder and artistic director.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:30PMThe Metropolitan Opera's 2013-14 season will feature many of the world's greatest singers, conductors, and theater artists in 26 operas, including six new productions, of a varied repertory …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25PMThe Broadway in South Africa 5th Anniversary Celebration, which will include a star-studded concert amp original music based on essays and letters from South African students who participate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMThe Board and staff of Balagan Theatre announce the appointment of our new Artistic Director, Louis Hobson, effective March 1, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMfor Muses at MUSE on Saturday and it went over really well when I read it. I thought I'd post it here. I made a couple of small edits from the version I read; since I wrote it on my lunch br…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:13PMHis recent film adaptation of Anna Karenina framed the action of Tolstoy’s novel in a theatre, so it seems only natural that director Joe Wright should follow it up with a return to the st…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:09PMIt only took 100 years, but Actors’ Equity Association is now a direct member of the AFL-CIO. The actors and stage managers’ union received a direct charter from the national lab…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:07PMOn Jan. 26, 2013, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its 25th anniversary on Broadway. Playbill enlisted Kara Klein, the production's current Meg Giry, to capture on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMIt’s hard to fathom how Manhattan Theatre Club allowed Liz Flahive’s undercooked comedy-drama “The Madrid” to get all the way to the stage at New York City Center&rsq…
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World premiere At Barringtion Stage This SummerBarrington Stage in Pittsfield, Mass. opens its season with a revival of the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical “On th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:57PMLES MISERABLES star and Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne joins THE NEWSROOM's Emily Blunt and other international stars in this startling new video that has begun to go viral - pun not inten…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53PMHeads Summer Lineup At Shakespeare & CompanyOver at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. the main stage shows presented in repertory are: Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour&r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:48PMNEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Debbie Gravitte teamed up to sing "You've Got Possibilities" and "Mr. Monotony" during the third annual concert to benefit the Pulmonary …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:44PMFrom its 1957 beginning through its incarnations in 1965, 1997 and now on Broadway, "Rodgers + Hammerstein's 'Cinderella'" is a story of transformations.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:41PMSet To Star in 'The Lion In Winter' In StockbridgeThere’s even more theater activity in the Berkshires this summer with various shows at the three theaters belonging to th e Berkshire …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:41PMTHE PARADOX OF A CONTEMPTUOUS PLAY AND ITS AFTEREFFECTS Early in Act II of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s incisive new play Really Really, my theatergoing companion Liz let out an audible sigh …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:38PMElaine Stritch Shoot Me, a documentary film on the Broadway legend directed by Chiemi Karasawa, has just launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise its 'finishing funds', with a goal of 50,000.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PMTwo-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole and Cheyenne Jackson will pop up on an upcoming episode of Smash, according to a post made by the actress on composer Marc Shaiman’s Facebo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:19PMOn November 19, 1967, Motown supergroups The Supremes and The Temptations, joined forces on the Ed Sullivan Show for a performance that is now the stuff of legend. Motown was a global sensat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:15PMAMC has enlisted former PUSHING DAISIES star Lee Pace to topline the network's upcoming series HALT amp CATCH FIRE. Mackenzie Davis has also signed on to star opposite Pace.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMTony Award winner Bartlett Sher will stage the U.S. premiere of Nico Muhly's Two Boys, featuring a book by Tony nominee Craig Lucas, as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2013-2014 sea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PMNice Work If You Can Get It star Kelli O’Hara and Broadway and film favorite Victor Garber have signed on to co-host the spring benefit gala for Our Time, a nonprofit organization offe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:07PMEmmy nominee Lee Pace is stepping into the TV spotlight once again! The Pushing Daisies alum has signed on to play computer visionary Joe MacMillan in the AMC pilot Halt & Catch Fire, ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMCYBER SEEDINESS, FBI BUREAUCRACY, AND TABOO MONSTROSITY COME TO VIVID LIFE IN SEXSTING Written in collaboration with Internet crime attorney Susan Raffanti, Doris Baizley’s boundary-blurri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:01PMExploring the notion of inter-cultural relationships includes a range of different conversations. Those between different cultural groups within Australia; Indigenous Australians and non-Ind…
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With potential to spare, Oscar winner Kathy Bates has joined the cast of Ryan Murphy amp Brad Falchuk's boundary-breaking horror anthology series AMERICAN HORROR STORY for Season Three.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMThe producers of "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," a new documentary capturing the vivid on-stage and off-stage life of the Tony Award-winning theatre icon, have launched a public fundra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Watch the Broadway cast of ONCE wish a Happy …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMLegit union recognized in centennial year
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMThe New School for Drama will welcome Naked Angels, the eclectic downtown theater company, as its producing partner, training young theater artists in an environment of experimentation and c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMMeet the performers and guest soloists of Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra’s production of Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon which will be performed at The Musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMFor The Record: The Marshalls is now playing at Rockwell: Table & Stage, a super-hip and intimate supper club in Los Feliz where you can enjoy exceptional cuisine and tasty cocktails and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:25PMMark Schwartz, who produced Menopause the Musical, returns with Divorce Party the Musical, which -- like Menopause -- uses familiar pop tunes with re-written lyrics. It's a collaboration w…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:24PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will be appearing on NBC's musical drama series SMASH on an upcoming episode if a recent Facebook post by the accomplished actress is accurate.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23PMCompany becomes institution's producing partner
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMHow do you kill time before Broadway? Head to the nation's capital! Eric Coble’s The Velocity of Autumn will now be part of the 2013-14 season at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMAs embodied by Laurie Birmingham, Madame Arcati is a batty whirlwind in brown velvet. Whether attempting to sense ectoplasmic energy through her wrists, munching on cucumber sandwiches or ch…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:16PMRocco Sisto, Stephanie Hayes, Alenka Kraigher, Nicolas Norena and David Skeist will star in the Public Theater world premiere of Richard Foreman's Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Roman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMJoan Lindsay’s 1967 classic, Picnic at Hanging Rock has been beautifully adapted for the stage by Director Carol Burns. The Brisbane Arts Theatre’s historic performance space was aglow w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:11PMDavid Hyde Pierce Joins Drama Desk Panel at Sardi's: David Hyde Pierce who will be opening in the upcoming Broadway production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike will join Ellen Burstyn,…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:07PMNEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is cutting ticket prices by an average of about 10 percent next season, when music director James Levine returns from a spine injury that led to a tw…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:05PMThe ABC Family show about a Las Vegas chorus girl's fresh start is about to finish its first season with no guarantee of a second.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:04PMDarling, a coming-of-age musical written by Ryan Scott Oliver and Brett Ryback, was named the winner of the seventh annual Weston Playhouse New Musical Award. The work will receive Vermont a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PMIt has been fifteen years, two published versions, five translations, innumerable productions and tours both nationally and internationally, since the first production of Joe Calarco’s rad…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMIs there a play or a musical you would see repeatedly? This New York Times post features a woman who has seen the Broadway musical Once 95 times. And that’s not the only show she&#…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM
Aleque Reid and Evan Jonigkeit, appearing together in MCC Theater's New York premiere of Really Really, each documented a recent day at the theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMFour young Broadway performers are currently rehearsing a benefit concert of Jason Robert Brown's "Songs For a New World".
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:52PMSome of Broadway's top talent is collaborating to put on a new song cycle, and part of the proceeds will go towards helping to educate future Broadway stars.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:52PMAlas, ABC Family ’s “Bunheads” finished its second season this week. That’s the fast-talking series starring Broadway triple threat Sutton Foster.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:41PMIt's a fairy tale come true! Broadway.com has a brand new backstage video blogger: Cinderella star Laura Osnes. The beloved Tony nominee will capture all the behind-the-scenes magic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:38PMLaura Motta, Aileen McKenna, Michael Portantiere, James Marino talk Jessie Mueller about the upcoming Philharmonic production of Carousel. Jan Simpson joins in for a discussion of Really …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:37PMCameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group announced earlier today that their new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will launch a North A…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:31PMHot on the heels of her Oscar red carpet hosting gig and show-closing performance, Kristin Chenoweth's new film Family Weekend will be released on premium VOD on February 28, according t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:31PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Madrid, the new play by Liz Flahive, directed by Leigh Silverman began previews February 5 at 7 PM at MTC at New York City Center- Stage I 131 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMKing Kong is storming into Australia’s Regent Theatre on May 28, and if the forthcoming production is anything like this creepy TV commercial, we’re in for a wild ride! The new m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMIn a modernization of Lope de Vega’s “Fuenteovejuna” at Repertorio Español, oppressed office workers rise up against their tyrannical overlord.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:16PMThis spectacular show tells the uplifting story of a three friends on the road trip of a lifetime. The trio hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship in the middle of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMThe Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began rehearsals Feb. 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMNew tour of musical will launch in November
SOURCE: Variety at 04:09PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The City & The City" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The City & The City" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... Although there surely is a whodunit…
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The Broadway in South Africa program, described as "a cross cultural exchange between youth in need and artists who seek to use their talents for change," will celebrate its fifth …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMProducer/general manager Aaron Grant has announced the formation of his new production/general management firm Aaron Grant Theatrical Inc., which will provide general management, company man…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PMWilliam Petersen, the actor with longtime roots on the Chicago stage, is to appear this summer at the Steppenwolf Theatre in a two-person show about a teenager and her reculsive uncle in Cos…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:51PMThe Great American Novel. Everyone talks about it, every writer thinks they’ve written it or are going to write it. But what if I told you that a young twenty-something boy from uptown Chi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMWINTER FLUFF “We’re all in the gutter/But some of us have our ear to the ground.” If you find this limp lyric endlessly repeated in this silly-ass, pun-crazed musical instantly amusing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PMZoo asks St. Louisans to change behaviors to reduce climate change
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:44PMVariety, the venerable trade publication that has covered Hollywood for more than a century, is dropping its website paywall and rolling out a new one-day-a-week print edition.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:42PMTwo years ago, the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind sparked a slew of retrospectives about the Seattle grunge scene. But those narratives left something out: the influence of women. A…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:25PMToday is the birthday of Hollywood character actor Dub Taylor (1907-1994). You know Dub Taylor. He’s the one who’s not Strother Martin. He’s the grizzled, leering old cra…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... Most heroes do not win their loves by teasing t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:24PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Variety, the venerable trade publication that has covered Hollywood for more than a century, is dropping its website paywall and rolling out a new one-day-a-week-only…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:13PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas (On Your Toes), Tony nominee Emily Skinner (Side Show), Drama Desk nominees Kerry O'Malley (Into the Woods) and Jeffry Denman (Yank!), and Scott…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas (On Your Toes), Tony nominee Emily Skinner (Side Show), Drama Desk nominees Kerry O'Malley (Into the Woods) and Jeffry Denman (Yank!), and Scott…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMDavid Hyde Pierce will join Ellen Burstyn, Jayne Houdyshell, Elizabeth Marvel and David Strathairn on the Drama Desk's annual Spring Panel Discussion at Sardi's on Friday, March 22, entitled…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMThe stars of Motown: The Musical are getting ready to go dancing in the streets when the Broadway-bound production bows this spring. In a behind the scenes video from a recent photo shoot, c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMTim Minchin, the composer and lyricist of Broadway's upcoming Matilda, has added a second show to his previously announced appearance at hot spot 54 Below. The Australian comedian will n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMCameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group announced earlier today that their spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will launch a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMPaul Taylor-Mills Ltd. will present the European premiere of bare, the pop opera by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere — which was recently re-envisioned as a book musical and seen Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMYou can now get your tickets for The Broadway Beauty Pageant. The seventh annual beauty contest is set for Monday evening, May 20th, 8p.m., at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Ar…
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Manhattan Theatre Club presents the world premiere production of Richard Greenberg's THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES. Directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, the cast features …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMThe complete cast has been announced for the world premiere of writer/director Richard Foreman’s Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance), which begins preview performances at the Pu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PMManhattan Theatre Club presents the world premiere production of Richard Greenberg's THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES. Directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, the cast features …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMDecember 21, 1942— the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on New York’s WOV radio station. The gang’s all here and the only thing missing is you, but you…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMTheater fans know exactly where to go for exclusive video features: Broadway.com, of course! Our most-watched videos from February 20 to February 26 include exclusive concert rehearsal foota…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:41PMThe Weston Playhouse Theatre Company has announced Darling as the winner of its seventh annual New Musical Award. Written by Ryan Scott Oliver and Brett Ryback, Darling is described as a com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMOn Monday, February 25, the Broadway at Birdland concert series presented the third annual Broadway Belts for PFF, which raised over 70,000 for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. The evening…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMCasting has been announced for The Broadway Musicals of 1961, part of the acclaimed Broadway by the Year series, which will be presented March 11 at The Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMArtsRock is racking up an impressive list of “conversations” with Nyack’s Elliott Forrest. They’ve had Alec Baldwin and Robert Osborne (who were a team on TCM’s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:29PMWith MOTOWN THE MUSICAL less than two weeks away from starting previews, the cast posed for an extensive photo shoot. In this video, the stars not only don the costumes and pose, but they al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMTwo-time Tony Nominee Christine Andreas, Tony Nominee Emily Skinner, Drama Desk Nominees Kerry O'Malley and Jeffry Denman, and two-time Nightlife Award Winner Scott Coulter will star in The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMThirty-four schools, so far, are in the mix for the 15th annual Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, the Lower Hudson Valley’s equivalent of the high-school-musical Tony Awards, sl…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:14PMThe One-Minute Play Festival and Mixed Blood Theatre Present: The 1st Minneapolis One-Minute Play Festival at Mixed Blood Theatre This event will livestream for the open source #NEWPLAY TV p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:12PMThere was magic in the air on February 25, when The Dance and the Railroad stars Ruy Iskandar and Yuekun Wu took their official opening night bows at off-Broadway’s Signature Center. D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Portland.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMAs 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
Rehearsals have begun for the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, and we’ve got a sneak peek at the cast who plays the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMForever Dusty, the new musical by Kirsten Holly Smith and Jonathan Vankin about the life of late singer Dusty Springfield, will offer a series of sing-along performances at Off-Broadway'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMAbout the author:
David Shiner is up to his old tricks (and a bunch of new ones, too!) in the world premiere of Old Hats at off-Broadway’s Signature Center, alongside his longtime clo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:51PMArena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith has announced 10 productions for the company's 201314 season, the fourth year in the Mead Center for American Theater. As a national center for the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMAs previously reported, Stephen Sondheim and David Ives have teamed up on a new musical, which is currently in early phases of composition. According to the Village Voice, the show, titled A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:44PMActors' Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 49,000 professional stage actors and stage managers in the U.S., received a national charter from the AFL-CIO on Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMArielle Jacobs stars as Nina in Westchester Broadway Theatre's production of the Tony-winning musical In the Heights, reprising the role she played in the final Broadway company. She doc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMRobert De Niro may not have picked up another Oscar this weekend, but the acclaimed actor is about to take home another presitigous prize. De Niro will receive the Actors Fund's Med…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PMKnown 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 01:24PMThe stars of Broadway and off-Broadway's spring 2013 season are meeting the press this week, and TheaterMania is here to bring you full photo coverage. First up are the cast and creative te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMBarbican, LondonThough its origins go back more than a decade earlier to a talk he gave in New York, John Cage's Lecture on Nothing was included in his first and most important collection of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMTechnical equipment supplier Stage Electrics has appointed Alex Cann to the newly created role of technical project manager for professional theatre. This position has been created due to an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly, the delicate study of two disparate souls, played by Danny…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the open-source #NEWPLAY TV project. The third of thirt…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:13PMBetween juggling a pregnant wife and those headline-making accusations of being a racist, Orphans star Alec Baldwin definitely had a plethora of talking points for David Letterman …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMCameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group have announced that their new production of the smash hit The Phantom of the Opera will hit the road on a North American tour…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PM
The venue’s resident choreographer has come up with a neat way to make modern dance less forbidding for beginners, Apollinaire Scherr writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:59PMIt seems like just another day and just another football match in Luke Barnes’s drama – but then reality hits home, writes Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:57PMAtlantic Theater Company hosted their annual gala on Monday, February 25 at 583 Park Avenue. Atlantic recently celebrated the reopening of the newly renovated Linda Gross Theater, where Crai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:55PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMTracy Turnblad travels from Baltimore to Jerusalem where Encore! Educational Theatre brings HAIRSPRAY to the stage to feature 32 Anglo-Israeli and Ethiopian-Israeli singers, dancers and acto…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:48PMBrad Alexander's See Rock City and Other Destinations follows travelers in vignettes threaded together into what director Joanna Syiek describes as "half song cycle, half book musical." Colo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:45PMBroadway’s favorite masked man is coming to a town near you! A newly reimagined version of The Phantom of the Opera will hit the road, visiting more than 20 cities throughout the next …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMViolinist Aisslinn Nosky.First, the bad news.Apparently the music of Franz Joseph Haydn is no longer enough of a draw to fill Symphony Hall; for last weekend's all-Haydn program from the Han…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:40PMJonathan Miller’s production of The
Barber of Seville has reached the grand old age of 25. While that should be a cause for celebration,
this eleventh revival fails to catch fire…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:39PMEdward Fox joins Helen Mirren in cast of play
SOURCE: Variety at 12:39PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley stars in 'Isn't It Delicious,' alongside Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon, Kathleen Chalfant and Malachy McCourt. The film is 'Isn't It Delicious' is described as a bla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMIf you enjoyed our feature Writing with Simon Stephens last month, then this ticket offer for £20 top price tickets to see Port is perfect for you (that’s a saving of up to £14!) G…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:31PMAtlantic Theater Company celebrated its annual spring gala at 583 Park Avenue on February 25. The major fundraising event for the acclaimed off-Broadway company featured performances by Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMEamon de Buitlear was a double pioneer in his native Ireland, establishing himself in the 1950s as a musician in the vanguard of the rediscovery of Irish traditional music, and, in the follo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMTHE HORROR OF SELF-DENIAL FUELS INVENTIVE STAGING Chicago Opera Theater has teamed up with Long Beach Opera in California to produce a delightfully disturbing presentation of Philip Glass’…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:23PMThe cast of Gerard Alessandrini's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY ALIVE AND KICKING will be performing parodies of Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe in the film Les Miserables on Good Day New…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley's Folly, directed by Michael Wilson, features Danny Burstein as 'Matt Friedman' and Sarah P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company's newly revised version of A.R. Gurney's 1991 play, The Old Boy, which began performances Feb. 12, has extended its Off-Broadway ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMTonight we're taking over 300 theatregoers to see the hit revival of A Chorus Line at the London Palladium.The show - which takes a behind-the-scenes look at 17 hopefuls
auditioning for jus…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:15PMBroadway's Julie Halston hosted the Third Annual Broadway Belts for PFF to benefit the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation PFF last night, February 25 at Birdland Jazz Club 315 West 44th Street as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMPut your tech skills and love of the arts to a good cause by joining the BWW Tech Team If you have a few hours per week to spare, read on for what could be the ideal internship opportunity f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMAAPACT’S ambitious The Amen Corner is earnest and heartfelt although most of the time, the characters and their tragic spiral simply don’t feel genuine or organic. But every 20 minutes o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PMErich Segal’s best-selling novel Love Story has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide and is the basis for the brand new musical now available for licensing in North America…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:02PMThe actor talks about men playing women, her selfishness, and why theatre isn't the new footballWhat first drew you to acting?The inevitable school plays. I found doing them quite odd, but I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PM
Actors' Equity Association AEA or Equity, the labor union representing more than 49,000 professional stage actors and stage managers in the US, today received an historic national charter in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMTim Minchin, the Australian comedian and songwriter whose new show Matilda The Musical debuts on Broadway this spring, has added a second concert at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMThe Kennedy Center just raised the stakes for Clive Davis’ upcoming My Fair Lady revival, because the famed venue has assembled a truly talented cast for a one-night-only concert prese…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Buffalo, NY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMA selection of images from Tanztheater Wuppertal's rendition of the late choregrapher's Vollmond (Full Moon)Tristram Kenton
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMby Aislinn Rose In 2007, the Indie Caucus was announced by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts as a forum for companies to work together through the many challenges that face indie …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:42AMAfter the roaring success of their first music video "Vermin in My Boots!!," the entire company of SILENCE! THE MUSICAL recently unveiled their second hilarious cinematic effort "The History…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Leslie Bricusse have joined forces on "The Perfect Song," a brand-new tune that can be heard on Olivier winner Michael Ball's latest solo recording.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThe newly revised version of A.R. Gurney’s play The Old Boy has announced a one week extension at its off-Broadway home at the Clurman Theater in Theatre Row. The production will now r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AMEdward Fox steps in to play opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play after Robert Hardy stands down due to injuryBafta-winning actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of The Audience at the Gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMDavid Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, his 1981 play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, opened Feb. 25 in an Off-Broadway revival by Sign…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMIn the new indie film Isn’t It Delicious, Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, Angels in America) must make amends with her loved ones and help her adult children realize their potenti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMOn the season finale of Bunheads, Michelle Simms (two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster) is hiding a big secret. When the Vegas showgirl-turned-ballet teacher ditches class for an open call in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMA new era in the American life of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megahit The Phantom of the Opera begins this fall with the launch of a national tour of a newly reimagined production of the roman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMThe 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway Feb. 26, 2004. In celebration of the Tony Award-winning musical, Playbill.com looks back at the piece with performances fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMCameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group announced today that their spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will launch a North A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMAtlantic Theater Company presented its annual Spring Gala, Songs in Celebration of a New Day, an evening of original music celebrating the future of Atlantic, newly reinvigorated in its reno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMThe cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Once will return to 54 Below for a second sold-out concert of original tunes, cover songs and material cut from the hit musical on March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Hawaii.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Rockland, NY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMBAFTA-winning actor Edward Fox will replace injured star Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill in the West End production of The Audience. Hardy recently left the production after suff…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMFor its 21st annual Spring Gala, the Kennedy Center will present My Fair Lady in Concert on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The famed 1956 musical features book and lyrics…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMThere may be a lot of deja vu happening at the upcoming Los Angeles production of “End of the Rainbow,” as the original Broadway cast will return for the California production. M…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMI love a Broadway Q3 Report. Cuz it tells me that spring is right around the corner. And spring brings warm weather, warmer hellos from formerly frigid NYers, and higher grosses thanks to …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 2192013 - 2262013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMFor its 21st annual Spring Gala, the Kennedy Center will present My Fair Lady in Concert May 5 at 8 PM in the Concert Hall. Tony Award nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge will direct and choreograp…
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'Stop The World - I Want to Get Off' is the latest offering by the The Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia. Directed by Tom Loughlin, the show plays March 8 thru 16 at the Barle…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMIf you saw Nu Sass’s sock puppet version of Into the Woods: In Concert last year, you have probably already snagged reservations to this year’s Socky Horror Puppet Show. If you misse…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMWe had a great night at MUSE on 8th on Saturday night at our evening of poetry and prose. I started things with a couple of poems I'd written for the occasion about artistic inspiration. The…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:55AMSMASH star Megan Hilty stopped by this morning's 'Today' show on NBC to chat about her character, Ivy, on the Broadway-themed musical drama series. Watch the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMTony winner Alan Cumming looked dapper in a tweed jacket on February 25, when he sat down to chat with late night host Jimmy Fallon about his new “scary” Broadway project, a one-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMMolly Smith, Artistic Director of Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, has announced the 10 productions that will be included its upcoming 2013/14 season, which she promises to be "soaked in histo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet" at Chicago Shakespeare Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:52AMArena Stage announces its upcoming 10 production season which features the return of such powerhouse performers as Mary Bridget Davies (One Night with Janis Joplin), Kathleen Turner (Mother …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMAlex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten are featured in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Hori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMSignature's production of David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center off-Broadway on Monday, February 25. Directed by May Adrales, The Dan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMThe Second Annual Spotlight on St. Jude, Broadway's Tribute to the Kids, will be held March 11 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMThe Actors Fund's annual gala on Monday, April 29, 2013 at the New York Marriott Marquis will honor Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro, the pay television company HBO and entrepreneu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMJust off a long run on the 'Jersey Boys' tour, Kevin is playing both a peasant and an earl in his 4th Broadway show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMThroughout your career you will be faced with many choices. Often, these choices will not be easy ones, but something to consider is the energy it takes to worry about the choice you make. H…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMWilton's Music Hall, London: The presence of The Great Gatsby in London will linger on for a while, on the fringe at least. After last year's three stage adaptations and ahead of the re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AMHamish Linklater has landed the sitcom role of a lifetime in CBS’ new comedy pilot Crazy Ones, opposite Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Deadline reports that Linklater wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:28AM This was recorded at the Brick Theater’s tribute to Beck’s Song Reader on January 11. In his notes to the song reader Beck said that singers and musicians had his permissi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:26AMAdam Blanshay will lead Just For Laughs Theatricals, a new division of the Just for Laughs Group, who produce the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, the world's largest comedy fes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMTony Award nominee Derek Smith will join Daniel Davis and Laila Robins in the Red Bull Theater production of August Strindberg's Dance of Death, which will begin performances April 10 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMIn one of the most celebrated performances on both the London and Broadway stage, Tony Award nominee Tracie Bennett is an irresistible force as Judy Garland in this savagely funny backstage …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMSignature Theatre presents THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD written by David Henry Hwang and directed by May Adrales. The production just opened last night, February 25 and will now play through S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMCasting has been announced for Salisbury Playhouse's forthcoming revival of A Man of No Importance, directed by artistic director Gareth Machin, which runs from 25 April to 18 May 2013.
This…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:10AMAtlantic Theater Company just presented their annual Spring Gala Songs in Celebration of a New Day on last night, February 25, 2013 at 583 Park Avenue. Songs in Celebration of a New Day was …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMThe Actors Fund’s annual gala, which will be held April 29 at the New York Marriott Marquis, will honor Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro, cable television network HBO, and en…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMThe Pulitzer Prize and OBIE Award-winning Theatre for the New City TNC held its 10th Annual LOVE 'N' COURAGE benefit gala last night, February 25, 2013 at the National Arts Club 15 Gramercy …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMIt might have seemed like it was impossible to escape “Fifty Shades of Grey” — where ever you went in pop culture, there it was. But it hadn’t made its way to the the…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMEdward Fox will replace veteran actor Robert Hardy, who has withdrawn from the London production of Peter Morgan's The Audience, which stars Oscar winner Helen Mirren at the Gielgud Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Kevin Spacey found an inspired use for Twitter. Last
weekend, he asked his followers: “What book or movie do you guys
think should be made into a stage production?”
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:59AMIndustry readings of Scary Musical… The Musical! — billed as "The Rocky Horror Show" meets "High School Musical" and "Glee" — will be present…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMEric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn, a new play starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, previously announced for a spring Broadway launch, will instead begin at Arena Stage in Was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMArmando Merlo and David Mogolov — both featured in Indie Theater Now’s 2012 FringeNYC Collection — are performing their FringeNYC shows as benefits for very worthy causes t…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 09:40AMThe world premiere production of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ‘67 kicks off its run on February 26 at the Public Theater.
Tony nominee De’Adre Aziza (Passing Stran…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:39AMWe dig it! Lanford Wilson’s drama The Mound Builders, starring Zachary Booth, David Conrad and Janie Brookshire as a team of archeologists, begins performances February 26 at off-Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:39AMDon't miss John Tiffany's production of Tony Award-winning musical ONCE starring Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitesic which transfers to the West End this Spring. Come on our hosted Whatsonsta…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:33AMThe re-discovery of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy by the Mint Theater continues to offer a real treat to its regular subscribers as well as to all adventurous theatergoers previously unfamil…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:31AMDavid Henry Hwang's early play receives a fine production at at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:30AMA developmental reading of the new musical The Disappearing Man will be presented in Manhattan March 30 at 3 PM at Shetler Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMComedy producer Just For Laughs Group has launched a dedicated theatrical division, which will operate in London and New York. The company, which is best known for producing The Montreal Jus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMOlivier Award winner, multi-platinum recording artist and popular TV host and radio presenter Michael Ball sang 'Love Changes Everything' from ASPECTS OF LOVE backstage at BBC Radio 2 recent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMIn today's, 'Regional Dance Company of the Week', we feature the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company whose programs and performances meld ancient Chinese forms with modern art.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMFrances Ruffelle stars as PIAF in Pam Gems' play, currently running at the Curve, Leicester.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20AMLiz Flahive's The Madrid opens off-Broadway on February 26. Starring Emmy winner and Tony nominee Edie Falco, the Manhattan Theatre Club production will play through April 21 at New York…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18AMTo Broadwayorld.com-ers hello from sunny Tampa, FL, home to the Devil Rays, the Falcons, Busch Gardens and the 2700 seat Straz Center for the Performing Arts. During our sound-check yester…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMStardom—specifically, her own—was the unacknowledged subtext of all Martha Graham’s dances.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:17AMMakeup is applied, props are prepared, jokes are made – there's even enough time for a game of cards as the cast prepare for David Freeman's spectacular arena staging of Bizet's opera
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMDirect from acclaimed, sold-out engagements at the National Theatre of Scotland and the Lincoln Center Festival, Tony and Olivier Award winner 'Cabaret' and two-time Emmy nominee 'The Good W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMThe arts in Washington, DC are an ever-evolving landscape. Being in the political center of the country we sometimes underestimate the resources that organizations have to present some of th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10AMTWO DAYS LEFT TO ENTER TO WIN TICKETS TO HANDS ON A HARDBODY! CLICK THE SHOW LOGO TO YOUR LEFT!Review of the matinee performance on Saturday, February 23 at Signature Theatre in Virgin…
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Now is the best time to see Broadway's Tony Award-Winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, now staring Tony Winner John Lloyd Young TIckets start at 47 so book today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45AMTweetThere are certain performers that people have a hard time taking their eyes off of. It isn’t about having a presence, it’s about facial expressions, movements and most imp…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 08:34AMBroadway and West End producer Adam Blanshay announces the launch of Just For Laughs Theatricals.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20AMThe Review Show will move from its weekly BBC2 slot to BBC4, where it will air just once a month. Presented by Martha Kearney and Kirsty Wark, the show – which began around 20 years...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMRobert Hardy will be replaced by Edward Fox in Peter Morgan’s The Audience, which is running at the Gielgud Theatre in London. It was announced yesterday that Hardy had decided to withdraw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:07AMGoodspeed Musicals kicks off its 50th Anniversary Season with a new production of the classic musical Good News. This high spirited musical comedy will run from April 12 - June 22 at the Goo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMTalented actress Sheryl Lee Ralph spoke about returning to her Broadway roots on tonight's episode of SMASH.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:05AMThe actors perform "Aura Lee," a number from the New Group's production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's modern update of Brecht's "Baal."
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Mercury Theatre, Colchester: Initially premiered four years ago at the Nottingham Playhouse, Paul Hodson brings us a reprisal of Andy Barrett's popular anarchic offering, of an infamous…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMBefore I launched Theater Shelf, my reviews appeared on the website Potomac Stages. One of my favorites of all the books I reviewed for that outlet was Steven Suskin’s “The Sound…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:59AMThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time's director and star actor discuss the show ahead of its transfer to London's West EndAlex NeedhamLaurence TophamCameron Robertson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AMToday is the birthday of Pauline Musters (1876-1895), at 23 inches tall the smallest woman ever recorded. She began to be exhibited when still an infant; in later years, she acquired dancin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:42AMSusi the Elephant Skin Girl (Charlotte Linda Vogel, 1908-1976) suffered from a condition known as ichthyosis from birth, a painful malady which caused her skin to thicken, turn grey, wrinkle…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMSadler's Wells, London"I'm young. My ears hear promise, my eyes see dreams …" The opening words of Azusa Seyama's monologue set the tone for Vollmond (Full Moon), one of the last works ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMComedy producer launches N.Y. theatrical arm
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMOverall sales decline at box office last week
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM
Veteran actor Robert Hardy has withdrawn from playing Winston Chuchill in new play The Audience due to injury. Edward Fox will take over the role.According to a press statement: "It is with …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:52AMJudi Dench - soon to star in new play Peter and Alice in the West End - has been made an honorary fellow of her alma mater the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.During a ceremony held…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:30AMBilled as the ‘Champagne Soprano’, Lizbeth Webb managed the transition from wartime radio star and dance-band vocalist to the West End with all the sparkling elegance her sobriquet sugge…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMRobert Hardy will no longer play Sir Winston Churchill opposite Helen Mirren as the Queen in upcoming theatrical production The Audience.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:19AMProduction images have been released for Joe Wright's production of Trelawny of the Wells which opens at the Donmar Warehouse tonight (26 February 2013).
Company
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:02AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with Broadway and SMASH star Ann Harada. This time around we talk about starring in the new Broadway musical "Cinderella," NBC's SMASH, "Avenue Q," motherhood…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
Royal Opera House
Unveiling a world premiere ballet at the same time as one of your equally-as-lauded contemporaries would be tough on any choreographer, let alone showing alongside George …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:39AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: Harper Lee's enduring fable about man's inhumanity to man, but also his capacity for compassion, is brought vividly to life in this imaginative Royal Ex…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMColiseum, London: Twenty-five years since its first appearance and marking the director's 35-year presence with ENO (if only, latterly, through revivals), Jonathan Miller's Barber …
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:16AMThe former Chairman of Granada Television, Sir Denis Forman, who oversaw the lavish dramas, Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown, has died at the age of 95. He also commissioned C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AM
we learn that straights cruise at the gym too. Who'd have thought?We had never met, but we knew each other's bylines. I wrote for the Long Beach paper, she for a travel magazine. I suggeste…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:44AMInside a gutted, century-old pumping station down by the Delaware River, plastic sheeting hanging from steel beams 30 feet up, a deep trench running through the center of the concrete floor,…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMARENA STAGE AT THE MEAD CENTER FOR AMERICAN THEATER ANNOUNCES 10 SHOWS FOR 2013/14 SEASON Four world premieres including a work by Resident Playwright Charles Randolph-Wright and a presenta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32AMFrances Ruffelle is in her first week of playing Edith Piaf at Leicester’s Curve. She tells Matt Hemley why she considers herself to be more actor-singer than a singer in her own right
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM"Top Chef" Judge Helps to End Child Hunger
"Top Chef" Head Judge Tom Colicchio is joined by his wife Lori Silverbush and filmmaker Kristi Jacobson at the Studio where they talk with guest ho…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
The Mint company is an expert in excavation, mining forgotten nuggets from the theatrical rubble. Usually choices are made on a case-by-case basis: an obscure American comedy here, an overlo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AMFrog and Peach Theatre Company will present a star-studded reading of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' today, February 26 at The Player's Club, 16 Grammercy Park South, with a cast includ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTheatre Under The Stars TUTS has announced the cast for the five-time Tony Award winning masterpiece Man of La Mancha, running tonight, Feb. 26 - March 10 at the Hobby Center for The Perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMDIVORCE PARTY THE MUSICAL-The Hilarious Journey to Helland Back will have its West Coast premiere at the El Portal Theatre, where it will play a limited engagement from tonight, February 26 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMAasif 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 12:30AMSpecial guest stars tonight, February 26th include performances by Katie Thompson From The Public Theatre's Giant and Broadway's upcoming Big Fish, composerlyricistrecording artist - Origina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThis past weekend, the University of Miami had an art themed student hack-a-thon from noon Saturday through noon Sunday. Their definition of the art theme was: “And by art, we mean all…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24AMWhen the curtain opens, we see a solitary figure striking some acrobatic dance moves, twirling gracefully on a mountaintop. He’s the aptly named Lone, a laborer working on the transcontine…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMLet’s Agree to Disagreeby Valerie Cardinal@vscardinalA few weeks ago, I looked at how reviews can differ even if the authors have similar opinions. This week, how can two reviewers go to t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMactor, aerial dancer, playwright, filmmaker, educator Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada Inspiration comes from every aspect of life: snippets of conversations, interesting news articles, even from…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria presents Frederick Knott’s Dial “M” for Murder, a quiet thriller that lures the audience into its twisty web. Carla Scopeletis directs this deceivingly…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMLeft To The ImaginationAre we relying on big?by Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisI am a child of the opera. Before I saw my first real play, at 14 or so, I had been to the opera several…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMSteffanie Leigh, currently playing the title role in Broadway's Mary Poppins, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits. The sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMEdie Falco plays a mother and teacher who sheds her life and moves to a rundown apartment building in the world premiere of The Madrid, Liz Flahive's comedy that opens Feb. 26 following …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFrom 2004, a memory of watching Lost in Translation with my septuagenarian mother: Somewhat to my surprise, she liked it,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"If you try to write 'good lines' you'll likely wind up with strings of dumb, unconnected applause lines. The audience...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMGoodspeed Musicals' new adaptation of the Jazz Age musical Good News!, about college romance, football and a certain dance called "The Varsity Drag," will feature Beth Glover, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDominique Morisseau's Detroit '67, a new drama set against the riots that ravaged the Motor City, begins performances Feb. 26 as part of the Public Theater's Public Lab seri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLooped, Matthew Lombardo's Broadway comedy for which Valerie Harper was a 2010 Best Actress Tony Award nominee, launches Feb. 26 on a national tour starring Emmy Award nominee Stefanie P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Noël and Cole," the new PS Classics studio cast album marrying the wit, sorrow and melody of songwriters Noël Coward and Cole Porter, gets released Feb. 26, offering 22 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOlivier winner Elaine Paige, who played Carlotta in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Follies, kicks off her first-ever concert tour of the United States Feb. 26 at the Mesa Arts Center…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe company of the first North American tour of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked welcomes Jenn Gambatese as Glinda beginning Feb. 26 in Costa Mesa, CA. In related news, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIlana Levine, who played Lucy Van Pelt opposite Kristin Chenoweth and Anthony Rapp in Broadway's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, joins the cast of Off-Broadway's My Name Is Ash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, gets unearthed by Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1911 Chicago's Columbia Theatre opens its doors today. Architect J.E.O. Pridmore designed this house which seats 1,550. In 1923 it will become the Adelphi. In 1974 its doors will close f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSoprano Dawn Upshaw and musician and composer Maria Schneider talk about their new recording, “Winter Morning Walks.” It is Schneider's first recording with major orchestras and features…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM 
