There are times during “The Revisionist” when you almost have to pinch yourself. Is this actually happening? Are Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg really sharing a stage?
They sure a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMImagine a luxury car, all sleek lines, buttery leather seats, exotic-wood dashboard. Then you step on the gas pedal, and find out it’s running on a measly four cylinders.
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMEver since Feinstein’s shut down at the Regency, Michael Feinstein has been on the hunt for a new place to tickle his ivories.
I hear he may make a bid on 54 Below, that fine new cabaret a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMA play that lures Vanessa Redgrave to perform on a snug Off-Broadway stage deserves a kudo or two.
Way to go. There, that’s done.
Otherwise, “The Revisionist” is an n…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM“God, you are so beautiful.”
Characters say that often and insistently in “Passion.”
The Classic Stage Company’s revival of this strange but stirring 1994 Best …
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Previously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Disney decided in 2001 to try something new by releasing a movie that was dark…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:59PMNEW YORK (AP) — Can obsession create genuine love? The question shudders with possibilities throughout the melodramatic musical "Passion," whose plot strains credulity, yet celebrates the …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:47PMEvery year, the YoungArts program of the National YoungArts Foundation offers 15- to 18-year-old emerging artists from around the country the chance to be mentored by some of the world's gre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28PMAn appreciation of a unique American original that time almost forgot.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 10:24PMThe first trailer for BROADWAY BEYOND THE GOLDEN AGE, the anxiously awaited sequel to Rick McKay's 2004 film 'Broadway The Golden Age' has just been released. Watch it below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18PMAt the beginning of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Passion,” the first musical staged by the Classic Stage Company in its 46-year history, two of the three lovers of the story, G…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PMIt will be a long time before we see another staging of "Passion" that speaks so eloquently of the black mysteries of the human heart. Also reviewed this week: "The Madrid."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:04PMJohn Doyle’s version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Passion” comes across as a pulsing collective fever dream.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMVanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
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After a hugely successful debut in December, Tony Award Nominee Charles Busch is heading back to 54 Below for two nights only March 7th & 14th at 9:30pm for an evening of song and comedy!
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:35PMThe last few days have involved a lot of air travel for South African artist Omphile Molusi. Having flown from Chicago to South Africa and then onto Perth, he is finally in Adelaide preparin…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:05PMJesse Eisenberg is so awful toward Vanessa Redgrave at the Cherry Lane Theatre that, really, it's hard to separate the actors from their characters. Then again, since Eisenberg also wrote th…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:04PMDirector John Doyle's revival of "Passion" at the 199-seat Classic Stage Company is glorious -- intimate, rapturous, ravishingly performed, stark yet gorgeous-looking.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:02PMThe Kennedy Center’s Nordic Cool 2013 Festival’s month long programming offerings of a variety of Scandinavian art have been the tip of the iceberg . . . until now! Nothing may be cooler…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PMYesterday Kenneth Branagh was thanking Manchester – saying that he felt he had “come of age” the previous time he had performed Shakespeare in the city 25 years ago, the audience being…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:00PMVanessa Redgrave stars with Jesse Eisenberg in the premiere of his play about a blocked American writer in Poland to visit his second cousin, a 75-year-old Holocaust survivor.read more
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Familiar and fun - despite the (at times) clumsy and stiff by-play - this therapeutic show deserves the benefit of your doubts. If there’s such a thing as geezer glory, it’s eager to ple…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:56PMA rare appearance of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Philly at the Painted Bride.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:36PMDIE HARD film star Bruce Willis appears on the cover of the March 2013 issue of GQ. During his feature interview for the magazine, Willis, when asked if he might have made a 'different move'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30PMThe opportunity to see Vanessa Redgrave act onstage in the intimate confines of Off-Broadway’s historic Cherry Lane Theatre is a theatrical event in and of itself. The fact that Jesse …
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PM(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) I don’t remember when I first met Cosmin, but I have always admired his tenacity, good humor, intellige…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 08:26PMSee Maria, a 78-year-old Polish woman, grimace as she tries tofu for the first time. Sit back as she convinces longtime friend Zenon that "asshole" is really the English word for computer, o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:15PMSignature Theatre and Lark Play Development Center present the Contemporary Chinese Playwriting Series, curated by David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMFrom Alamo Drafthouse to the Nitehawk Cinema, mixing restaurant meals and bar drinks with films is a tricky business, but a growing one.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:08PMWhen a show’s presentation is completely at odds with its title, something is desperately wrong. Such is the case with the Classic Stage Company’s fiercely frigid revival of Passion....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMTo quote from its opening song, "Happiness:" Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion is anything but "just another love story." Instead, this musical masterpiece is a haunting exploratio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:05PMIn case you’ve forgotten about the physics-defying ability great stars have for imposing weight on the weightless, Jesse Eisenberg’s new play at the Cherry Lane Theatre, The Revisionist,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMJames Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Passion” has been sharply dividing audiences since its first Broadway preview in 1994. I was there that tempestuous night and f…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00PMJesse Eisenberg's new play, The Revisionist, seems to be a predictable exploration of familiar territory: Uneasy young man, complete with cache of weed, visits much older female relative. …
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According to the Daily Mail, Renee Zellweger is set to appear in a West End stage version of the movie The Hustler. She would play 'Fast Eddie' Felson's girlfriend. No further casting has be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PMSome good news and bad news for the Kennedy Center this week. Good news: “Book of Mormon,” the uber-successful Broadway musical from the brains that brought you South Park, is making its…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMSynetic Theater is up to its old tricks. Which, of course, is very good news. It’s added a few new tricks, too, in its never-ending quest for acrobatic dazzle, with a wet-and-wild version …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMThe tricky challenge of making experimental theater is often one of precision. Idea-infused plays demand particularly agile work from their performers and directors.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:47PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Cameron Mackintosh wants to adapt Lionel Bart's OLIVER for the big screen, following the success of Tom Hooper's LES MISERABLES film adaptation, which has offici…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:47PMThe partnership unites Chrysler and “Motown: the Musical” about Berry Gordy and Motown, the record label he founded in Detroit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:44PMThe new Pantages season include the return of The Book of Mormon and the LA debut of Once...Julie Myatt is South Coast Rep's new playwright in residence, thanks to a Mellon grant...Cornersto…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:32PMMadonna snapped at Life Of Pi director Ang Lee when he introduced himself and tried to initiate a conversation at the Creative Artists Agency's (CAA) pre-Oscar bash in Beverly Hills.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 07:20PMI went to check out Conservatory Theatre Ensemble, the drama program at Tam High, and holy gosh, what's going on there had my head spinning.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:09PMThe newly-founded St George Theatre Company is launching with a bang. Having incorporated the historic Rockdale Musical Society into its ranks, it will present an all-time favourite musical …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:08PMJohn Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston pitched up in a 1960 Rolls Royce Phantom. I’d argue that my ride - a white 1938 Peugeot Eclipse with red leather upholstery - was an even coole…
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Pre-Broadway World Premiere of New Musical Tony Award-Winner Idina Menzel in If/Then A New Broadway-Bound Musical From the creators of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal Music by Tom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:59PMThis adaptation might be a good first draft - as it is, the first half is entertaining enough that you won’t want to leave at intermission, but the second act is so laborious you’ll soon…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:58PMIdina Menzel, who won a Tony Award as the green witch in “Wicked,” is planning a return to Broadway. Producers of a new musical by the creators of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Next to N…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:58PMThree area high-school students will travel to New York in May for the national finals of the August Wilson Monologue Contest after winning the local round earlier this week at Seattle Rep. …
SOURCE: blogs.seattletimes.com at 06:57PMA review of “Altar Boyz,” about a Christian-rock boy band, at Seattle Musical Theatre through March 10, 2013.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:48PMIs Jesse Eisenberg not just a movie star (“The Social Network”) but his generation’s Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams or Alfred Uhry or Wallace Shawn? That is what Vanessa Redgrave …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMA couple in England had a SHREK-themed wedding. For obvious reasons, this is our photo of the week. More photos at: http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/this-couple-had-an-actual-shrek-…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:24PMFor her first episode of The Princess Diary, Broadway.com’s newest vlogger Laura Osnes brings fans behind the scenes as she transforms into the beloved fairy-tale princess, Cinder…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:13PMJim Caruso amp Billy Stritch return to Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel with their evening of swinging standards on Sunday, March 10, then running every Sunday in March, from 9…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMSome twenty five years ago I wrote for a number of theatre publications in those glory days before the internet. For a good two years I complained in many articles and columns about how slow…
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Shortly after my father died, I had lunch with my friend John Yearley and I asked him if he wouldn't mind emailing me a copy of his one-act, HATING BECKETT. I thought re-reading the play mig…
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 05:58PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, February 28, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Broadway’s ORPHANS announces new preview a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:53PMThe National Civil War Project to Create Original Theatrical Productions and Innovative Academic Programming Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater and the George Washington …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PMIt begins with a tall, thin man walking out of light and into darkness. There is much that remains murky in Barry McGovern’s adaptation of this novel by Samuel Beckett, written between 194…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:45PMNEW YORK (AP) — Idina Menzel, who won a Tony Award as the green witch in "Wicked," is planning a return to Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:43PMBy Anthony James Host
Theatre practitioners are opinionated… I think we all can
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:42PMThe North Plan is filled with violence, profanity and paranoia. It's also downright funny. ... Nicholas Wright's Vincent in Brixton is a play about a famous artist where we don't see the art…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PM10 Little-Known Facts About Broadway Theatres Nobody can argue that Broadway is built on a plethora of history. From performers whose legacies outlast most Broadway shows to the inspiration …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:34PMOff-Broadway's Classic Stage Company is presenting a revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical "Passion," a work which won the Best Musical Tony back in 1994.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:27PMSigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen play a trio of siblings so tragic, they’re hilarious in the Broadway premiere of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:27PMThe new Cyndi Lauper-scored musical Kinky Boots, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, with direction and choreography by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell, begins previews March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMSo, on WBEZ yesterday there was an entertaining piece on sex in the theatre. I know, I wish people would talk about serious stuff too, but we take what we get. And it was funny and engagin…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:23PMAcademy Award winner Helen Mirren will get in touch with her inner Queen—again—when she returns to the West End stage as Elizabeth II in The Audience. Reuniting with The Queen sc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMPeter and the Starcatcher
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:16PMThe complete cast has been announced for the Actors Fund's one-night-only benefit reading of Our Town. Directed by Peter Flynn and commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Broadway open…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMBDSM-azing! Tickets are now on sale for Cuff Me: The Fifty Shades of Grey Musical Parody, which makes its off-Broadway premiere at the Actors Temple Theatre on March 27. The musical opens on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMChaplin the Musical Broadway OCR
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Opening in the Fall of 2012, the Broadway production of Chaplin the Musical missed the onslaught of shows that will be rushing to open in ...R…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:06PMART AMMO Artists in Support of Gun Control, a coalition of artists throughout New York, held a flash mob on February 24th at 100pm in Times Square at Duffy Square in New York City. The mob …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMTheater openings Longmont Theatre Company's "4 a.m., the Musical" Friday only): This is only the second production in the country of a new musical that explores what it's like to be awake w…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:04PMTony winner Laura Benanti has plans for a fantastic return to New York once the first season of her NBC series Go On wraps. The actress will unveil her brand-new concert at 54 Belo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMNow 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 05:03PMMy play The Hummingbirds won the Internationalists Global Playwriting Contest. The award grants at least six different presentations in six different countries over the course of the next…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe central, worthy of debate and consideration, proposition of Ants is that the demands and pressures that a competitive, capitalist society places on its people are destructive to individu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:00PMSomething that comes up time and time again in reference to what artists produce is the criteria against which our work should be evaluated. Meaning, if the work doesn’t meet a certai…
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Peter Cameron will star as the Bard in Robert Brustein's The Last Will, the final installment in his trilogy of plays examining the life of Shakespeare, which will begin Off-Broadway pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PMCasting is complete for The Actors Fund's upcoming benefit reading of the American classic Our Town on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 730 p .m. at The Gerald R. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College 5…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMEngland’s all-male Propeller troupe brings passion – and occasional rowdiness – to the Guthrie.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:56PMIn an elegant stroke of happenstance, two works by this humane, surprising, stupendously prolific playwright are having major Off-Broadway revivals in the coming weeks.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:55PMLanford Wilson died two years ago this month, leaving a hole that -- if we’re lucky -- will finally start getting noticed.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:55PMFord's Theatre Society programming (including the musical Hello, Dolly!, the Investigation: Detective McDevitt walking tours and the one-act play One Destiny) is not affected by sequestratio…
SOURCE: fords.org at 04:51PMThis Monday, March 4 will see the Broadway Unplugged team head south to unleash Australia’s hottest new industry event on the music theatre and cabaret crowd in Melbourne. Hosted by the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:49PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the selections for the 2013 Next Link Project, NYMF's primary writer service program. Titles will be seen at the tenth annual New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMTake a trip back to the 1800s with Honestly Abe star Brady Cudmore! The upbeat musical, now playing at the Actors Temple, tells fun stories of the 16th president's early years, way befor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:44PMby Aislinn Rose Last week we blogged about an upcoming event at Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage Festival: The Dachshund UN. Well, tonight’s the big night for little doggies, an…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 04:44PMThe Manatee Players say goodbye to the Riverfront Theater after 60 years, heading a few blocks east to a brand new theater that has been almost five years in the making with A Funny Thing Ha…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PMThe New York Philharmonic is presenting a concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” which is as gorgeously sung a production of this Broadway musical as you are ever lik…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:41PMDon't Tell Mama, the famed New York City cabaret venue, has opened a second site on the West Coast. The Los Angeles nightclub opened to the public for dinner and entertainment Feb. 26; b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMAuthor Maria Semple and book-booster Nancy Pearl will share the stage at Town Hall Seattle on April 3 to discuss Semple’s Seattle send-up “Where did you go, Bernadette?” The epistolary…
SOURCE: blogs.seattletimes.com at 04:38PMDominique Morisseau's Detroit '67, a new drama set against the riots that ravaged the Motor City, began performances Feb. 26 as part of the Public Theater's Public Lab serie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMIf you’re an actor whose colleague freezes up onstage, it’s usually easy to help out with a prompt. Unless, of course, there’s hardware failure involved.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:32PMThe 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar will be released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMBaryshnikov, Dafoe among creatives in the mix
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25PMTony Award winning actress, Idina Menzel, will be back on Broadway next spring. The New York Times reports that Menzel is slated to star in a new musical, If/Then, penned by composer Tom Kit…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:24PMThe Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street box office will open Saturday, March 2nd for the eagerly anticipated American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMTony nominee Melissa Errico discusses the obsessive love, soaring songs and emotional honesty behind the off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning musical Passion.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PMChristian Murray and Dennis Fitzgerald (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Theatre shines a light on the desire for life’s reset button.by Christian BainesCould an evening with Chekhov change a …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:21PMA peek at the splashy, new, Art Deco-inspired cover for F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel THE GREAT GATSBY has been released along with two heretofore unseen production shots from the 2013…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMThe Broadway Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which comes on the heels of its sold-out run at Lincoln Center, will play a 17-week strictly limited Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMName: Mary HynesHometown: Hagerstown, MDEducation: BA Theatre from Butler University (minor in Vocal Performance) University College Cork, Ireland and the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Peters…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:11PMIn the video below, Menzel sings 'Learn to Live Without' from the new musical. Check it out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMThis just came in over the transom…. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus opens submissions for the First of May Award – $500 development grant for full-length variety arts production For n…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:07PMEnter the DramaturgBy Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOSmash is back! Last week’s episode opened with a pretty generic sounding pop/Vanessa Carlton-esque (does anyone remember her?) tune fro…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:07PMTony Award nominees Will Swenson (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and David Pittu (Is He Dead?), Broadway veterans Jenny Powers (Little Women), Erich Bergen (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Alli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PMGentle readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of Von Bach, a spoofy parody of the Frankenstein myth, now playing at Fremont Center Theatre in South Pasadena. Click here to…
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SILENCE! The Musical proved to be very surprising, in the best way. My first thought upon seeing the new Clarice, Pamela Bob, was “Why isn’t this woman a star?”
SOURCE: www.cultureradar.com at 03:58PMFollowing its recent Oscar wins, LES MISERABLES has officially surpassed the 400 million mark in worldwide sales, making it the second highest-grossing movie musical of all time.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMToday, I finished a project of long-standing — we now have virtually all of Kirk Wood Bromley’s plays published on Indie Theater Now. Why did we do this? For two important reaso…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 03:58PMKeey Dandomirsky, Patrick Sanbongui (photo credit: David Cooper)The Haunting Pastby Jay CattersonCoping with loss and grief is what is explored in the new play Haunted by Daniel Karasik, win…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:57PMIdina Menzel will return to Broadway for the first time since winning the Tony Award for Wicked in If/Then, an original Broadway musical which reunites Tom Kitt (music), Brian Yorkey (book a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:55PMUnited Solo Festival hosts 100 solo performances each year. And Indie Theater Now has once again put together a sampling (curated by founder Omar Sangare) of a dozen from this year’s f…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 03:50PMPerhaps it’s foolish to hope for strong acting in a concert presentation of a musical, especially one being produced by a classical orchestra. Nevertheless, director Lonny Price proved…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:48PMBroadway fave and Emmy nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson and fiancé Justin Mikita celebrated the launch of their Tie the Knot spring collection of bow ties on February 27. Ferguson and Mik…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMFrom 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PMStanding Ovation Studio’s presentation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” has been extended at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford, it was announced today.…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:42PMThe award-winning Disney musical Mary Poppins, which will conclude its Broadway run March 3, is among the titles in Fulton Theatre's 2013-14 mainstage season in Lancaster, PA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMUPDATE: Blythe Danner (Nice Work If You Can Get It), BD Wong (TV's Law
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMOn this very day 100 years ago, in 1903, master director Vincente Minnelli - nee Lester Anthony Minnelli - was born. And, what a career he had
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMThe Broadway-bound vehicle comes from the creative team behind Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Next to Normal."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:34PMThe Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program present IDENTIFY THEFT - Seven Lives Filtered Through the Ideas of August Strindberg . The show is now on stag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMAmy Hargreaves, Gano Grills, Auden ThorntonFebruary 28, 2013: Scripts Up! is presenting YEARS OF SKY, a new play by Barbara Blatner, which opened at 59E59 Theaters last night. Director Chr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:27PMIf you weren’t one of the lucky fans to score a ticket to opening night of Carousel at Lincoln Center, you’re in luck, because Broadway.com photographer Jenny Anderson was on han…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMBroadway and Smash star Jeremy Jordan stopped by East Rockaway High School to help the students put the final touches on their performance and scenery before their first performance on their…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMNEW YORK—Idina Menzel, who won a Tony Award as the green witch in "Wicked," is planning a return to Broadway.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:19PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Idina Menzel, who won a Tony Award as the green witch in "Wicked," is planning a return to Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:18PMTwo-time Tony winner Patti LuPone will show a group of incredibly fortunate students how it’s done on a new episode of HBO’s Masterclass, premiering April 1. The previously annou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PMWhen the Civil War started, Minnesota stepped forward to prove itself. The tragic and touching results are shown in an exhibit opening Saturday at the History Center.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:17PMIn a week filled with Oscar buzz, Broadway.com readers stayed clued in to all the stage-centric happenings clicking on our news items and savoring our exclusive features. Below are the most-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:13PMSpring is getting even more Super! Wicked star Alli Mauzey, Tony nominee Will Swenson, two-time Tony nominee David Pittu, Broadway alum Jenny Powers and more will join previously announced s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:13PMThis Tuesday, February 26, the first broadcast spot encouraging schools across America to apply for a chance to improve their school theater premiered during NBC's Smash. It features Smash a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMMerry-go-round horses hover in the air at odd angles, as though the painted ponies have hit turbulence.
The images, seen on stage at Avery Fisher Hall, perfectly capture the soaring…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:08PMTony Award winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway in the upcoming musical If/Then, set to hit an as yet unnamed Nederlander stage in Spring 2014. The new show will begin its trek to New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM'Next to Normal' team bows 'If/Then' in D.C.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PMCasting is now complete for the Actors Fund's March 4 benefit reading of Thornton Wilder's landmark play Our Town, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMThe staging and spare sets deftly convey the opera's special balance between sacred simplicity and revolutionary squalor.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:05PMThe line-up has been announced for the 2013 HighTide Festival, which takes place at Halesworth in Suffolk (pictured) from 2 to 12 May.
Five main productions are programmed this year, up fro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:01PMNorbert Leo Butz Live at 54 BELOW
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Two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz thrills audiences on Broadway when he sings and dances, and now his performances from…
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers will direct a new untitled film musical for Disney. The project is billed as a contemporary adaptation of a Shakespeare play, according to Deadline.c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMLast night, American Idol featured one of the most thrilling performances of a musical theatre standard in many a moon - Zoanette Johnson's positively spine-tingling take on the 'The Circle …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:55PMPatti LuPone at 54 BELOW
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Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone is a Broadway favorite, so it was no wonder the producers of the new 54 BELOW asked her to be the first performer to g…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 02:47PMInternet Sensation Randy Rainbow, star of the original BroadwayWorld.com webseries 'Chewing the Scenery with Randy Rainbow,' now hosts a weekly live show at one of New York's most popular lo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMAdditional casting has been announced for the New York City Center Encores! production of It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, which will play the famed Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMDeadline reports that 'Peter and the Starcatcher' Tony-Award winning director Alex Timbers has signed on to helm an untitled musical film for Disney, described as 'a contemporary adaptation …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMFollowing ten immensely popular years of licenses and performances of Roald Dahl’s WILLY WONKA, MTI will soon be required to stop licensing this wonderful show indefinitely. WILLY WONKA …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:42PMThe producers of the Broadway production of ORPHANS announced today that previews will begin on Tuesday March 26 and opening night is Thursday April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:40PMA musical about shoes with the word “Kinky” in the title is so perfectly suited to our interests, it’s entirely possible Cyndi Lauper and Havey Fierstein were writing Kinky…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:39PMSometimes musical theatre can show up in the most unlikely places. Last night on the ABC sitcom “Suburgatory” (which stars Broadway and Manhattan Theatre Club vet Jeremy Sisto), …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:39PMSuperman finds his Lois Lane Joining Edward Watts Superman in the New York City Center Encores production of It's a BirdIt's a PlaneIt's Superman will be Jenny Powers as Lois Lane and David …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMthat my play After School Special got into this year's Great Plains Theatre Conference. I'm going to Omaha!
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:35PMRodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
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With the Winter season officially over, Broadway crowds are looking toward Spring and the bevy of shows that will hit the boards just in time …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 02:33PMLUCKY GUY has just announced a student rush and standing room policy for the production, which begins preview performances tomorrow, Friday, March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre 235 West 44th S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMCharles Isherwood, theater critic for The New York Times, answers readers’ questions about new musicals, “The Testament of Mary” and other topics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMIn Doris Baizley's new play "SexSting," a West Coast premiere by the Katselas Theatre Company, a 14-year-old girl shows up in a chat room. JohnnyD (JD Cullum), a 46-year-old regular, salacio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMIf/Then, a new musical by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal writing team of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, will arrive on Broadway in spring 2014 with Tony-winning Wicked star I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMTony Award nominees Victor Garber, Jan Maxwell, Malcolm Gets, Chad Kimball and Josh Young will round out the ensemble of stars to be featured at the eighth annual Broadway Backwards benefit.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMBig breaking news, first reported by the New York Times, that Tony-winner Idina Menzel will be returning to Broadway in a new musical, IfThen by NEXT TO NORMAL's Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMIdina Menzel, one of the original cast members of “Rent” and a Tony winner for the role of Elphaba in “Wicked,” will star in a new Broadway-bound musical by the creators of “Next t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMAfter 10 agonizing years, Wicked Tony winner Idina Menzel is finally returning to Broadway! Menzel will star in If/Then, a new musical by the team behind the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-win…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:11PMKinky Boots creators Harvey Fierstein book and Cyndi Lauper music amp lyrics will sit down with New York Times theater reporter Patrick Healy as part of a New York Times TimesTalks on Monday…
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
LUCKY GUY is pleased to announce a student rush and standing room policy for the production, which begins preview performances tomorrow, Friday, March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 4…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:55PMAll aboard! The return off-Broadway run of Peter and the Starcatcher doesn't set sail until next month, but we've got a sneak peek at the new Neverland crew. Ensemble members from th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMThe company of this year’s BROADWAY BACKWARDS will now include five-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell, four-time Tony nominee and five-time Emmy nominee Victor Garber, Tony nominees …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:49PMBiennial festival's premieres include Maxine Peake reciting The Masque of Anarchy and Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare roleA string of world premieres will be among the highlights of this summe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:47PMAdditional artists have been announced for the eighth annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women, and women singing tunes w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMEmmy Award-winning WILL amp GRACE star Sean Hayes returns to the small screen next week - on an NBC series starring Debra Messing, no less - on Tuesday night's new episode of the musical ser…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMToday is the birthday of the great circus impresario (and Barnum competitor) Adam Forepaugh. (1831-1890). Forepaugh made his initial fortune selling horses to the U.S. government during the …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:41PMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce a one-week extension for THE MOUND BUILDERS written by Lanford Wilson …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:40PMCollectively, our theater critics were in a very good mood this week, offering recommendations to the majority of shows reviewed: Complete at the Matrix, Echo Theatre Company's A Family Thin…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:38PMFebruary 28, 2013By Kim FuranoArtistic & Management CoordinatorThey say a picture can be worth a thousand words. And when that picture happens be artwork designed for a production in the…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 01:38PMThe company of this year's BROADWAY BACKWARDS will now include five-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell, four-time Tony nominee and five-time Emmy nominee Victor Garber, Tony nominees Malcol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMThe Goodman Theatre in Chicago announced three world premieres for its 2013-14 season, including Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Robert Falls; Smokefall by Noah Haidle, a Goodman co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMThe Playbill Vault introduces 100 historic covers into the Broadway archives.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThe Playbill Vault introduces 100 historic covers into the Broadway archives.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMFollowing the participation of Edward Albee, Liv Ullmann, Placido Domingo, Bill T. Jones and Jacques D'Amboise along with other artistic notables in the last season of the arts-based series,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMRick Holmes, Jason Ralph and Nicole Lowrance will star in the Off-Broadway transfer of the Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher, an imaginative riff on the origins of Peter Pan,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMFrom the first notes of the "Carousel Waltz," played with consummate skill by the New York Philharmonic, to the final notes of the heart-rendering "You'll Never Walk Alone," the Philharmonic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMSet your video recording devices! Tomorrow morning at 6am (Eastern) TCM is showing the Chaplin feature that tends to fall through the cracks, his 1928 The Circus. It is a beautiful film…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:19PMLiz Hayes and Nael Nacer take a breather. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.One thing is clear about Lungs. You have to have amazing lung power to perform it.Particularly if, like the talented L…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:17PMAccording to PasteMagazine.com, actress Scarlett Johansson is forming an all-girl band in the near future. The name of the group will be 'One and Only Singles.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PM“Are you f***ing kidding me?” Jon Stewart asks that question often on The Daily Show, but I don’t think it has ever seemed as applicable as when he asked it in response to the state of…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:15PMForget fairy-tales, Disney is digging into the classic works of Shakespeare for its next movie musical. The House of Mouse has hired Tony nominee Alex Timbers to direct an updated, musical t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMAge & Hometown: 41; Indianapolis, IN
Current Role: A fiery Broadway debut as Opera Populaire prima donna Carlotta Giudicelli in the 25th-anniversary cast of The Phantom of the Opera.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PMThe Tony-winning musical Once has officially crossed the pond! Beginning March 16, newly minted Dubliners Declan Bennett, Zrinka Cvitesic and their castmates will be making beautiful music i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMNow in its ninth year, DirectorsLabChicago offers experiences for professional and emerging stage directors ranging from a week-long intensive Lab to Director/Dramatist Exchanges and Master …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:07PMBoundaries between the professional and the personal are breached in Jeff Bernhardt's Therapy, about three therapists and a patient who changes them. An incident in Bernhardt's life when he …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PMOne of the things I think is distinct about my new book Chain of Fools is that it brings the history of silent comedy all the way up to the present day. And you may be asking yourself, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:00PM
Starting this fall, a re-imagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s megahit “Phantom of the Opera” could be rolling into your city.
The newest version of the musical first debuted …
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:58PMPeter and the Starcatcher, the five-time TonyAward-winning play, will begin performances on Monday, March 18, 2013 at New World Stages. The cast includes returning Broadway cast members Rick…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMA new team of archeologists is heading to off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center in The Mound Builders, and we’ve got a first look at photos from the revival, which is i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMThe Music Box Theatre box office will open March 2 for the first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Pippin, starring Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMBetter brush up on your sharp shooting, Adam Driver! The Broadway alum and Girls star will find himself challenged to a duel as the lead of the new indie film Coward, according to Deadline.c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMWest End Wicked star Louise Dearman dishes about being the only actress to play both Glinda and Elphaba, spoofing the show in So Jest End and her “insane” journey …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMAll of the drama surround the upcoming Broadway production of Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, has forced producers to push back its start date. The play has res…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:57PMThe London production of Once will open at the Phoenix Theatre on 9 April, with previews from 16 March 2013 and is currently booking to 30 November 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMVanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg star in this emotionally-charged off-Broadway drama, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:54PMPhil Vasili’s play deftly dramatises the extraordinary life of Britain’s first black army officer, Carol Major writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:54PMJean Racine's 1677 PHAEDRA grows out of a landscape inspired from Greek mythology and infused with possibilities of the spectacular to become what critics have deemed to be a radically moder…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMAppropriately, in a city where the form is enjoying a vibrant and diverse revival, cabaret will feature prominently when London's Southbank Centre celebrates Berlin in the 20s and 30s this w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMAn angel dukes it out with the devil right here on Earth. And while that is unquestionably a very old story — at least as old as the Bible — rarely has it been retold quite as engagingly…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:52PMAccording to a report on Lemonade.com, Stephen Sondheim, lyricist for the classic musical GYPSY, is not keen on the idea of Barbra Streisand taking on directing duties for an upcoming remake…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMThe opening of VS. Theater Company's first production in its new home has been pushed back as the ensemble cast four outside actors for its world premiere of "Cops and Friends of Cops."
Afte…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:50PMThe Swan in Lara Stefansdottir’s dance of the same name is nobody’s arm-flapping patsy. We’re talking about the Iceland Dance Company here, and these tall, rangy women are more Viking …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:47PMStalled negotiations threatened to darken shows
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMThe Rest is Noise book author Alex Ross, London Philharmonic Orchestra's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski and singer Meow Meow discuss Kurt Weill's The Threepenny OperaCameron Robertson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMThe London production of Once will open at the Phoenix Theatre on 9 April, with previews from 16 March 2013 and is currently booking to 30 November 2013. BroadwayWorld brings you a first loo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMSeth Rudetsky, whom Audra McDonald calls “the mayor of Broadway,” will spend the next month putting on multiple shows a day.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:38PMDeclan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitešić will lead the cast as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End transfer of Broadway's Tony-winning musical Once, which begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMName: Nathaniel KentHometown: Morgan Hill, CAEducation: BFA: NYU TischSelect Credits: Bea Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Arthur, Ars Nova); Three Seagulls or, MASHAMASHAMASHA! (A…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:35PMBirmingham Royal Ballet and English Touring Opera are among the organisations that have been awarded funding to host a music fellow, as part of an initiative launched by the BBC Performing A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMToday is Gilbert Gottfried’s birthday. In honor of the day, a little post about…not a forgotten show, but a forgotten season of a well known show, season six of Saturday Night …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMAnyone in show business — anyone with a clue, anyway — who found their way to No Exit Cafe in Rogers Park last fall could not have helped but notice an opportunity to make some m…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:31PMKERRY REID reviews "Speaking in Tongues" by InterroBang Theatre Project at Theater Wit ★★★ and "A Soldier's Play" at Raven Theatre ★★½
KERRY REID reviews "Spe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMComing off his performance in the recent Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross opposite Al Pacino, 'Scrubs' star John C. McGinley is now set to lead a comedy pilot for TBS titled GROUND F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMThe theater will present new titles, including one by Philip Pullman, and bring back some sold-out favorites.’
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:19PMI frequently travel to London to check out the latest British hits as well as see how our Broadway originals are faring with the West End audiences. The talk of the town on my last trip was …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:12PMOur "evening prayers" have been answered! Tony winner Betty Buckley and West End favorite Linzi Hateley were reunited on February 27 when Hateley went to see Buckley in the London …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMAusterity has led to Spain's arts funding halving in three years, but a new can-do attitude has sprung up across cultural sceneOn a rainy night, two dozen people lurk in the doorways of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMSusan Boyle dreamed a dream and now it's coming true According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 'Britain's Got Talent' superstar will make her feature film debut in John Stephenson's upcoming …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMThe producers of the Broadway production of Orphans announced today that previews will begin on Tuesday March 26 and opening night is Thursday April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:06PMHARTFORD, Conn.—The Broadway group that put on a benefit for victims of the Newtown school shooting is trying to raise more money for the town through an online auction.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:06PMJohn C. McGinley may have found himself at the mercy of his company in Glengarry Glen Ross, but now the actor is about to start running things. McGinley will star as a corporate boss in the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PM“Love To Nippon 2013” is a Memorial Event being held on March 10th, to commemorate the second Anniversary of Japan’s Worst Natural Disaster. In addition to staging a memorial with mu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThese are particularly tough times for live theater; even John Moore says it in a recent post: Live Theater Ranks Among 10 Worst Industries for 2013 (and he was named one of the twelve most …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMNightlife performer Tori Scott will be joined by Broadway Jersey Boys cast member John Michael Dias for her March 3 concert at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMTom Kitt finds a St. Louis home for his shows at New Line Theatre.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- There would be no "happily ever after" for Cinderella without her glitzy glass slippers, so careful attention was paid to the shoes for the princess-to-be's Broadway ope…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:58AMDisruption to the rehearsal schedule caused by the abrupt exit of Shia LaBeouf and his replacement by Ben Foster has prompted the production to postpone its opening to April 18.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:55AMI am based in the DC area, and for the past few weeks, every evening that I travel from the district into Virginia or vice versa, I enjoy the blue and purple tones reminiscent of the Norther…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:53AMJesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, Montego Glover, Joan Rivers, Max von Essen and more were on hand at Avenue Feb. 27 to celebrate the Tie the Knot Spring Collection.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMDue to overwhelming demand, the producers of SILENCE! THE MUSICAL today put a new block of seats on sale through May 26th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMThe Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) box office will open Saturday, March 2nd for the eagerly anticipated American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwart…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:43AMPlaybill.com takes a look at the first-ever high school production of Carrie, the musical based on the Stephen King horror novel, as part of our new PlaybillVIP.com Spotlight series. Organiz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMPlaybill.com takes a look at the first-ever high school production of Carrie, the musical based on the Stephen King horror novel, as part of our new PlaybillVIP.com Spotlight series. Organiz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMRattestick Playwright Theatre’s production of The Revisionist, written by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, opens today, February 28 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Tony Award winner Vanessa Regra…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:36AMConcert readings of Very Very, a new work that reimagines William Shakespeare's As You Like It as a contemporary rock concert, will be offered March 4 at the Gibson-Baldwin Showroom in m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMStephen Unwin is set to direct a major revival of Peter Nichols’ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at Liverpool Playhouse and Rose Theatre Kingston, with a cast led by comedy actor Ralf Li…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:24AMThe Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street box office will open Saturday, March 2nd for the eagerly anticipated American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMTony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and opera star Nathan Gunn take a spin on Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel beginning Feb. 27 at Avery Fisher Hall. The lush classic gets a starry fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMThe proof that Stefanie Powers’ reincarnation of Tallulah Bankhead had thoroughly seduced the audience at the revival of Looped was not the waves of laughter at how adroitly she tossed off…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:20AMThe cast of Dogfight is back in the ring! Lindsay Mendez, Derek Klena, Josh Segarra and rest of the talented young cast reunited at MSR Studios on February 26 to record the official off-Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMPreviews began Sunday February 24 for Tina Benko starring in Jackie, the North American premiere of the play by Nobel Prize winning Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, best known in the United States…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMSuddenly I found myself with nothing to do on Tuesday night... THANK THE LORD that I wandered by MTC and saw that THE OTHER PLACE was closing this Sunday... by David Davila (playwright/songw…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 11:17AMThe Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) box office will open Saturday, March 2nd for the eagerly anticipated American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwart…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:16AMPreviews began Sunday February 24 for Tina Benko starring in Jackie, the North American premiere of the play by Nobel Prize winning Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, best known in the United States…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMHappy Birthday, Bernadette Peters Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMNew Yorkers, the Film Forum is in the midst of its 1933 series. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be pointing out certain noteworthy bills that tickle my fancy. Today they’re showi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:09AMAt the heart of Lanford Wilson’s comedy Talley’s Folly is a simple, sweet love story between two dazzling characters. Stage and screen star Sarah Paulson shares the spotlight wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMTony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti will play a seven-show engagement at 54 Below in May with an all-new evening of song.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMwhat's made Jacob Bernstein the go-to feature writer at the NYTimes whenever a notable gay man dies, but I'm looking forward to the day that he eulogizes a great queer pioneer without some k…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:04AMFrom Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to Scarlett and the Pussycats: Tony winner Scarlett Johansson is starting a music group. On February 25, Johansson stopped by Live! with Kelly and Michael, and rev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMYesterday we refuted the notion that the number of new plays and new musicals were on a precipitous decline over the last thirty years. Today we’ve got a couple more graphs for you, bu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Mound Builders will keep on digging! The Signature Theatre Company has extended its revival of Lanford Wilson’s archaeological drama before opening off-Broadway. The production, or…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMThe American Repertory Theater and Harvard University are not just neighbors. They are now artistic collaborators, and recently announced their participation in the National Civil War Projec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMBoston Lyric Opera BLO was founded in 1976 and has risen to be New England's largest opera company. Each season the company produces three mainstage productions at the companies home, the C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMSpend a day at the new musical Viva Forever!, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and a book by Jennifer Saunders. Cast member Simon Adkins, who plays the role of Leon, shares…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMThe MCC Theater production of Really Really features a cast of seven super-talented up-and-coming theater actors. The new drama by Paul Downs Colaizzo begins at an unnamed Ivy League univers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:43AMChristiane Noll, George Lee Andrews, Stanley Bahorek and Alison Fraser will take part in a March 4 reading of Luck!, a new musical by Mark Waldrop and Brad Ross, based on the writings of lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters celebrates a birthday on Feb. 28. Playbill.com takes a look back at her stage career thus far.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMPaula Wilcox is currently appearing as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations at the Vaudeville Theatre.
The production, which has been adapted for the stage by Jo Clifford, also stars Jack Ell…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:41AMThe upcoming Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans has delayed its preview and opening dates following the somewhat mysterious departure of Transformers star Shia LaBeouf on February…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMMaxine Peake will star in a stage adaptation of Percy Shelley’s poem The Masque of Anarchy directed by Manchester Royal Exchange’s artistic director Sarah Frankcom as part of this year�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMLos Angeles' primary election for mayor is Tuesday. In a recent survey conducted by Arts for L.A., a nonprofit group that promotes cultural funding, the candidates responded to a series of q…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:33AMOn Sunday night, February 24, Broadway director and choreographer Jeff Calhoun hosted his third Annual Oscar Party, Broadway Watches The Oscars It took place at his favorite neighborhood res…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMWe are in the midst of almost daily Civil War 150th anniversaries these days and savvy producers from Steven Spielberg to Bill O’Reilly are marking the occasion with commemorative pro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:31AMThis week's A.P.T. goes out to the team at Surprise Industries. You can hire them to surprise someone you know and love. Really! This is one of the coolest businesses I've run into, so I enc…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AM China Gansu Dance Theater Presents Historic Grandeur in New York Premiere By Ellis Nassour
The grandeur of China comes alive in celebration of the Ch…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:28AMBroadway's Julie Halston hosted the Third Annual Broadway Belts for PFFto benefit the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation PFF Monday night, February 25 at Birdland Jazz Club 315 West 44th Street a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMMount Airy Playhouse in association with Broadway Impact, presents A reading of 8: The Play by Dustin Lance Black. March 2, 2:00 pm “On election day 2008, Proposition 8 re-wrote the Ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AMRECOMMENDED The performance world struggles with fame in all its many mediums. Lady Gaga perceived the glamour of “The Fame” and the gnarling villainy of “The Fame Monster;” TV satir…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:22AMOne of American Idol’s most colorful contestants Zoanette Johnson took a pretty big risk during Idol’s sudden death round by performing Elton John’s “The Circle …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:21AMDeadline reports that two-time Tony award winner James Naughton has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS drama pilot HOSTAGES. The actor joins previously announced cast member Toni Collette o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMThe Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated actress Estelle Parsons was honored at La Mama's annual benefit fundraiser, along with longtime La MaMa board member Peter Swords on last night, February…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMAfter all its recasting drama, looks like the upcoming Broadway production of Orphans needs a bit more time to get things rolling. Starring Tony nominee Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Stur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:19AMAn industry reading of A Hair Out Of Place: The Musical will be presented in Manhattan March 5 at 2 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Madrid, the new play by Liz Flahive, directed by Leigh Silverman opened last night at MTC at New York City Center- Stage I 131 West 55th Street…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMPicture this a seventeenth century comedy of manners set in 1920's France. That's what audiences are in for Rider University's Westminster College of the Arts production of the Molire classi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMTony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg's new play, Breakfast at Tiffany's will soon open at the Cort Theatre 138 W 48th Street. Directed by Sean Mathias, Breakfast at Tiffany's begi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMPlaywrights Horizons Tim Sanford, Artistic Director Leslie Marcus, Managing Director and Primary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMClassic Stage Company's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony-winning musical Passion opens off-Broadway on February 28. Starring Tony nominees Judy Kuhn and Melissa …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:01AMThe producers of the Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans announced Feb. 28 that following the recent cast change, previews will now begin March 26 prior to an official opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMAs 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 10:00AMRattlestick Playwright Theatre's production of Jesse Eisenberg's new play The Revisionist opens off-Broadway on February 28. Starring Eisenberg and Tony winner Vanessa Redgrave, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMLast fall, StageSource hosted three conversations about diversity, inclusion, and gender parity. We made a call to the community for participants, and got a great response. These conversatio…
SOURCE: StageSource at 10:00AMTonight, the much-anticipated revival of Stephen Sondheim's Passion opens at Classic Stage. Much like the spare stagings made famous by Passion's director, John Doyle, so, too, is the …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
"In our society, there are still those that are hunted and those that are the hunters," the choreographer says.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:57AMThe producers of the Broadway production of ORPHANS announced today that previews will begin on Tuesday March 26 and opening night is Thursday April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 236 W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:57AMA new musical set in London’s Swinging 60s heyday will feature hits by The Rolling Stones after the band agreed to allow their songs to be used in a theatrical production for the first tim…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:54AMThe Rolling Stones are threatening legal action to halt a new musical set in London's Swinging 60s heyday which is set to include one of their biggest hits.
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:54AMHello BroadwayWorld Blog readers Today I shall continue with my four-part series The Making of a Price and Son Shoe. Before I continue however, I wanted to inform you that after reading the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMOn April 12, 2013, Tony Award nominee and star of “Smash” Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis, Julia Murney, Tony Award nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson and Judith Clurman’…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:52AMTwo-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters celebrates her birthday Feb. 28. To mark the occasion, Playbill.com offers some highlights from her award-winning career.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMHere is our fourth interview with the cast of Round House Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Today – meet Rick Foucheux. Joel: Introduce us to the charact…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMTHE GIACOMO VARIATIONS, starring Hollywood icon John Malkovich, will play Toronto's Elgin Theatre, June 7-9, 2013 for four shows only. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at Malkovich's 'Casanov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMVisiting companies have criticised the handling of the closure of the Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton, claiming they have been left in the dark and are owed thousands of pounds. The Brewhouse w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:35AMI’m one of the people that Michael Kaiser, the President of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in DC, is complaining about. Eight months ago, in an article entitled “The …
SOURCE: creativeinsubordination.org at 09:34AMThe RSC’s A Life Of Galileo is like a mighty but slightly ailing engine; it takes a little while to get going, but once it does the payoff is marvellous. Part of the problem is that Brecht…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:04AM54 Below - Broadway's Nightclub - invites you to take in a cabaret soiree with legendary artists Upcoming events include Marilyn Maye, Charles Busch, Bebe Neuwirth, Patricia Racette and many…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMHere’s Part 5 of our Behind the Scenes look at Olney Theatre Center’s Spring Awakening. We continue our interviews with the cast with Parker Drown. Why did you want to be part of this p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMShe's played a cat, an aging Hollywood silent film star, the wife of an Argentinean dictator, and cities from her native London all the way to China, but this "First Lady of British Musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
This year's Manchester International Festival will feature newly commissioned productions from actors and directors that include Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford (co-directing Macbeth sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AMThis year's Manchester International Festival will feature newly commissioned productions from actors and directors that include Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford (co-directing Macbeth sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AMRehearsal images have been released for Rodney Ackland’s Before the Party that opens at the Almeida Theatre on 28 March (previews from 21 March).
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:49AMOn last night's AMERICAN IDOL, 20-year-old Zonette Johnson from Tulsa, OK brought the judges to their feet and Nicki Minaj to tears with her stirring rendition of The Lion King's 'The Circle…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMIt’s March in Boston and that means lots of tourists and college kids wearing green things and claiming to be Irish. Take them by the hand and lead them to one of the following musical off…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMA dystopian Scotland, separated from the UK due to years of economic disaster, is the setting for Jamie Lloyd’s fast paced, high-energy production of Macbeth. As the opener of the Trafalga…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:14AMAs California's Diablo Ballet announces the 'world's first web ballet', tell us what you think of art created via the medium of social media. Does it produce good results?Reading this on mob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsHell isn't just other people: it's backstage in this new version of the story of the scholar who sold his soul to the devil. Here, the third and fourth acts of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMKreis became a Broadway star overnight with his effortless comedic timing and dazzling piano chops as Jerry Lee Lewis in the Tony nominated musical Million Dollar Quartet. The role won him a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMThere are signs everywhere that the Woman’s Project production of Elfriede Jelinek’s “Jackie,” about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is not a traditional bio-play.
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A Chorus Line makes a triumphant return to the West End for the first time since it premiered in the UK in the late seventies, which ties in with research I have been carrying out as part of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:56AMGimp masks, CIA agents and sexy underwear are not the half of it in a Jurassic Park-influenced production of Doctor FaustusIn a rehearsal studio at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, preparations…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMWhat is the purpose of theatre? BIG question. There are, of course, multiple reasons why a production may take place: to entertain; to educate; to make an audience laugh, frown or cry. Never…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:46AMJoins N.Y. Rep. Lousie Slaughter as head of 185-member advocacy group
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:45AMWith his play Bottleneck currently at Soho Theatre until 9th March, Luke Barnes tells us more about storytelling and what's exciting about theatre.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:38AMYesterday, phone lines at the Kennedy Center were jammed and their website crashed (nearly 24 hours later, it still hasn’t been restored.) The cause? Members trying to get tickets to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28AMRupert Everett, who is currently starring as Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, has won the sixth annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biogra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25AMProduction images have been released for the upcoming production of The Audience starring Oscar-winner Helen Mirren which opens at the Gielgud Theatre next week (5 March).
Helen Mirren
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:21AMSome familiar conflicts lie at the heart of young playwright Anna Wakulik's darkly comic and occasionally absurdist Polish drama, part of an ongoing series of international collaborations at…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:12AMSid Owen, best known for his role as Ricky Butler on TV's "EastEnders" and his performance on BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing" in 2012, is to star in the premiere of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM"Half-caste" and "mixed race" are terms that excite strong emotions. Are you black, are you white? Where do you belong? To whom do you owe your loyalties when the chips are down?read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10AMAs London's Trafalgar Studios hosts James McAvoy playing Macbeth set in a futuristic Scotland, here are clips of some memorable productions, from Trevor Nunn at the RSC to BlackadderReading …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMIt has been a novel, a Swedish film and an American remake, now Let the Right One In is to be reincarnated for the stage, with a new setting in Dundee.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06AMJoining Helen Mirren who plays The Queen in the world premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Richard McCabe as Harold W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Former EastEnders actor Sid Owen is to make his musical theatre debut in a new sixties-themed production called Carnaby Street. The show has been written by music agent Carl Leighton-Pope an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMJerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Young writer Anna Wakulik's new play shows too often its roots in a 2011 Royal Court workshop on the Polish experience, with all the theme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTheatre Royal Bath: August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of the African-American experience is so ingrained in the cultural milieu in the States that it has long been a se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: For the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre co-production of Christopher Marlowe's play of one man's damnation, two of the original acts …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMTwo Chinese men in their early 20s wearing blue-gray peasant outfits face off on a jagged bluff set against a vast open sky.
They exch…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is served again.
On Monday, a dramatization of the classic New York story starring Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) begins previews on Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTrouble in a little black dress.
In the upcoming Broadway adaptation of the Truman Capote novella, don’t expect the famous “little black dress” scene where Holly Golightly, fo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Sid Owen is set to star in new musical Carnaby Street, which premieres at the Hackney Empire from 6 to 14 April 2013 prior to a national tour.
Owen, best known for his long-running role as …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:48AMFilm director Joe Wright (of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice fame) has theatre in his blood (his parents ran the beautiful Little Angel Puppet Theatre in Islington), but this is his first …
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:40AMThis gripping play about love, class and art shows how all four characters contribute to Vincent’s seemingly impossible, yet inevitable, growth from callow youth to immortal artist.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:40AMQuite a few people have asked me recently what I thought of The Audience and The Book of Mormon and don't understand the explanation of my ignorance as due to the fact that neither show has …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:21AMMany of us were saddened to hear of the passing of Van Cliburn on Wednesday, February 27. A pianist who excelled in music of the romantic repertoire, Cliburn rocketed to fame when he won th…
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BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMEight-time Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken will take us on a unique musical journey through his renowned and beloved songs. This special performance will include a QampA with the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMRyan Silverman as Giorgio, joins acclaimed, award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Melissa Errico as Clara, in Classic Stage Company's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James La…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMGuy Masterson’s genius lies in his ability to simplify theatre. To make it accessible and enjoyable. Who could imagine Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show before Masterson? So a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:15AMYou have all heard, or even told, a story where you get a great toy for a child only to have them play with the box. The moral of the story is often to get simple stuff for kids to play with…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:08AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Four major universities are joining theater companies in Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta in a project to commission new plays, music and dance compositions a…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:07AMBy Byrne Harrison
Thanks to a Facebook posting by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, I found out that a group of students at my alma mater, Vanderbilt University, recently made a significan…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:04AMWe chose John Gundy's photo of Nick Herd and the ensemble of RARE for one reason: emotional impact. (Read our review of RARE which has been extended again to March 9)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation names the winners of its annual prizes for institutions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AMExecutive Producer/Artistic Director/Writer Boston, Massachusetts USA What is your favorite line from a play? “What are we crazy or something?” from Guys and Dolls characterizing those w…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMPassion, the Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — opens Feb. 28 in its first New York City revival. Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM"Peter was like that: he had the capacity for cruelty that comes so easily to the self-righteous." Len Deighton, Winter:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMAcademy 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 12:00AMCanadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWell-Strung: The Singing String Quartet, featuring a boy-band string quartet that covers classical and contemporary sounds, returns to New York City for a limited three-week engagement begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNew Line Theatre, now in its 22nd season, presents the St. Louis premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal beginning Feb. 28, prior to an official opening Feb. 29, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmas Musical Theatre presents free staged readings of the new musical Distant Thunder Feb. 28 at 1 PM and March 1 at 1 PM and 4 PM at The Players Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1894 Birthday of playwright Ben Hecht (1894-1964) , author or co-author of The Front Page, Twentieth Century, Jumbo, The Egoist and The Great Magoo.
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