On SMASH's upcoming episode, titled 'The Fringe, 'Derek Jack Davenport and Karen Katharine McPhee find themselves at a surprising crossroads, forcing one of them to make a difficult choice. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:57PMWritten by Paulanne Simmons On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Julie Benko introduced her new show, “Wandering Star: Tales of the Road,” at Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette St.). On Sunday, Feb. 24…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:56PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actor Richard Burton finally received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to that of his two-time wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on Friday, nearly 30 years aft…
SOURCE: Reuters at 07:49PMBy Byrne Harrison
I'm not sure what I like best about Kathleen Warnock's entry in the FRIGID Festival, "That's Her Way." Warnock tells a good story--old lovers reunited after years,…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:45PMNot everyone can get to The New York Philharmonic's concert staging of Carousel. PBS will be broadcasting the performance into living rooms around the country later this year, but we thought…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:32PMI can’t really tell you how much of a wonderful play this really is. It’s fun, funny, often a little on the creepy side and still has surprises, amazingly fun sound effects and one other…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:24PMThomas Nagel: Has he penned a rallying cry for those who have no taste for much science in the first place?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22PMThough not overly dramatic, Duncombe’s smartly written script is delightfully provocative and insightful. Performances are sharply calibrated under Frederique Michel’s direction. Lovell …
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:16PMIt’s Weimar Berlin time as the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival moves through the 20th-century music scene – so it must be Liza Minnelli time too. Or must it? Though she�…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:15PMTiffany Schleigh is a theatrical producer who also works in social media. She is located in New York City and has studied through Marymount Manhattan College and The Private Theatre. She pla…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:04PMThe doorbell rings. I hesitate, then head down the stairs to answer it, taking them at a wide-legged stomp, a goatee sprouting a shade too darkly from my chin, a bulge between my legs. It's …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
As the old saying goes, bros before…well you get the picture. As it turns out Shakespeare was the inventor, trying to prove to us that two friends thick as thieves should never let a woman…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:48PMMove is aimed at balancing current-year budget.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:48PMEvery play is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece which encourages repeat visits to the theater to see what they will invent next. It is hard to imagine a better cast that that of opening night, but…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:41PMBroadway.com's fabulous vlogger Rachelle Rak takes viewers behind the scenes of the Flashdance tour, which this week makes a pit stop in New Orleans. So what jazzy Louisiana shenanigans …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMCONFIRMED: SPANK! the Fifty Shades of Grey musical parody opens this month in Brisbane starring Stephen Mahy and Caitlin Berry. You’ve heard of Fifty Shades of Grey, haven’t you? You kn…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMThe stars and creators of the new musical Kinky Boots hosted an open house at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre where they unveiled their fabulous new musical.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:26PMThe Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its world premiere of the bittersweet romance The Primrose Path by Crispin Whittell based upon the novel Home of the Gentry by Ivan T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMBWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 5 of our On the Road series, ensemble member Alex Ringler and dance captain Ra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMThe five stars of Christopher Durang’s latest Broadway show, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, let loose and offer a hilarious look into this hysterical modern comedy.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PMAt the beginning of Jesse Eisenberg's The Revisionist, Maria (Vanessa Redgrave) slouches in her shabby apartment in Szczecin, Poland, waiting the arrival of her distant American cou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMPerhaps Bill Jepsen’s next play will be better than Never the Bridesmaid, a sorry sophomore showing. Please, Mr. Jepsen, for the sake of all women, do not attempt romantic comedy. Ever aga…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:16PMThe Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating its thirty-fifth year.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. February 28, 2013 With a great trio behind him, Tony De Sare, one of the most skillful pianist- singe- composers around today, popped up on the stage of 54 B…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:07PMIt was announced today that the world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg's new play, Breakfast at Tiffany's, has implemented a rush ticket policy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMGlen Street Theatre in Belrose is just 27 years old, but over the next few years, this ‘Gande Dame’ of Sydney theatres will be upgraded and revamped to the tune of $7 million. Having had…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMJane Franklin Dance lit up the Kogod Lobby, as the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival continued this evening with Young Professionals Happy Hour and more performances in the theatres. The fiery co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PM
The striking, new, all-too-apropos monochrome and pink poster has just been revealed for THE AVENGERS director Joss Whedon's feature film adaptation of William Shakespeare's celebrated comed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMIt’s officially the weekend, and so many fun, silly and totally crazy things have happened these past seven days, from Scarlett Johansson's all-girl group to her "pigeon-toes&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMSongs for a New World has always been high up on my favorites list. As with many of my friends and probably many of you, the lyrics are so incredibly poignant to life that I can’t ign…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 05:55PMTEDxBroadway aims to engage all participants and stakeholders in the vitality of the community-both on stage and in the audience-to develop a vision and commitment to the future of Broadway.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMThe new documentary The Stages of Edward Albee will have its New York premiere on March 27 at the Paley Center. Directed by James Dowell and John Kolomvakis, the doc gives fans a peek inside…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, March 1, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Before They Were Broadway Stars: Tony winner Eddie…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMHARRY POTTER star Emma Watson has her eye on the title role in director Kenneth Branagh's new live-action feature film adaptation of CINDERELLA and Disney is in early talks with her to star …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMThe guest list was nothing short of jam-packed at the opening night of Jesse Eisenberg’s off-Broadway drama The Revisionist. The show premiered on February 28 through Rattlestick Playw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMGet a first glimpse of Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana in the first-ever Broadway production of Cinderella. From the Prince’s Ball to the wicked step-family, see all the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMTwo contemporary music giants - multi-platinum recording artist and 16-time Grammy nominee, Brian McKnight and the fiercely gifted, three-time Grammy nominee Angie Stone have signed on to pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:27PMBefore he won a Tony Award for RED, Eddie Redmayne modeled for a yarn company: Photos originally posted to http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/eddie-redmayne-once-modeled-for-a-knitting-book
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:25PMRoundabout Theatre Company' new Broadway production of The Big Knife by Clifford Odets, will star Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale and directed by Tony Award winner D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMYou guys, finally, Analog is ready to take the stage! Previews are tonight and tomorrow night and then we open this Monday, March 4th. I watched a run this week ... The post Anablog: The Wi…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:16PMThe sweeping and spectacular musical extravaganza Les Miserables has been seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries around the globe. Now the motion picture adaptation that grossed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMIf you ever wanted to see local theater actors up close, out of stage makeup and dressed to the nines, tens and several other figures, tickets are now on sale to the 37th annual Carbonell Aw…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:14PMF. Michael Haynie, currently playing Boq in Wicked on Broadway, meets with CAP21 first-year student, Eric Sumpter. Together they talk about some of F. Michael's favorite CAP21 memories and a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMAudiences will sample three works-in-progress at MetroNEXT.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:11PMKinky Boots, the hotly anticipated new musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, will b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMProducers of the five-time Tony Award-nominated musical Rock of Ages - which in its record-breaking fourth year on Broadway has celebrated its one-millionth customer, its 1500th performance …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMLindsay and I had a great chat the other night with on the TheatreCast Podcast. Check out the video below. We talked about the origins of our company, how we found our niche, and where we g…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMNathan Motta, Dobama's 5th artistic director in 54 years. Steve Wagner In its 54-year history, Dobama Theatre has had only four artistic directors. This month, Nathan Motta became…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PMThe dark Douaihys: From left, Charles (Christopher Sanders), Joseph (Chris Richards) and Uncle Bill (Bernard Canepari) in "Sons of the Prophet," now onstage at Dobama Theatre. Nath…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PM
Written as a TV vehicle for Julie Andrews 50-plus years ago, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella arrives on Broadway with a new book by Douglas Carter Beane and additional songs from the ar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMWagner College's Stage One Season continues with Alan Ball's 5 WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS. The production will run March 5-10 at Wagner's Stage One Theatre. BroadwayWorld brings you the tr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMIt looks like “batter up!” again on the theatrical boards: Mickey Mantle is the subject of a new play that writer-producer David Leaf is working on with the cooperation of Danny …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:53PMR&B music superstars Brian McKnight and Angie Stone have signed on to lead the national tour of the new play Love Lies. The tour is set to kick off at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:51PMEverybody is on the make in “The Mnemonist of Dutchess County,” by Josh Koenigsberg, in which a synesthete with perfect memory is also out to get the girl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51PMWhat happens when you lose the doorknobs in one of the best 'door-slamming' comedies in the world That is exactly what happened during the final dress rehearsal of Lend Me a Tenor at Paper M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMWarning to the little girls in (almost) all of us. The "Cinderella" enjoying its Broadway premiere starring a terrific Laura Osnes is not your Disney bibbidi-bobbidi "Cinderella." Nor, despi…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:50PM10 Solo Shows We Want To See This Broadway season has enjoyed an inordinate number of solo shows and special limited engagements, including Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Lewis Black: Running…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:47PMSurprise recent Brit hit THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL is getting a sequel and screenwriter Ol Parker has confirmed that it is more than merely likely that multi-award-winning acting icon M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMShe's "outta here!" Tony nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph will take a break from theater to star opposite The Office's Ellie Kemper in the NBC pilot Brenda Fore…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMMonday night Tony Award nominee, Broadway sensation Orfeh served as Co-host and performed at the 14th Annual COLUMN Awards Gala. She co-hosted the glittery event with Executive DirectorProdu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMHands on a Hardbody writer Doug Wright introduces the “unusual, eccentric” characters in the new musical, including the most important one of all: a bright red pick-up truck…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Bonnie Franklin, the Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actress whose career spanned more than five decades, has passed away due to pancreatic cancer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMThe celebrated musical RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella -- originally written for television in 1957 by the legendary musical theatre duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- opens t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Improbable Frequency" by Strawdog Theatre Company ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Improbable Frequency" by Strawdog Theatre Company ★★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:23PMBuying a ticket for a Broadway show before the opening and reviews always comes at a risk. It might be the greatest thing since The Book of Mormon— or a turkey that will have you doing the…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:20PMIn a new interview, Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood discusses her work on the forthcoming Broadway adaptation of Truman Capote's adored BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY's by Richar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMJim Lynch's play makes its world premiere complete with a solid storyline, characters, and dialogue that ring true. Less intuitively, Lynch’s script also offers a balanced portrayal of the…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:17PMGraham Cuthbertson and Patrick Costello (photo credit: lucetg.com)The Emerald Cityby Caitlin MurphyIn a spirit of Samuel Beckett meets Father Ted, SideMart Theatrical Grocery’s production …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:15PMBut as someone raised on the Kansas/Oklahoma border with the show ingrained in his brainpan, this reviewer can safely state that when the full-throated ensemble sends the title number soarin…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:14PMMarin Ireland, Chip Zien, Adam Rapp, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more will join the previously announced Bobby Cannavale in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PMTom Hanks makes his Broadway debut as the late New York Post writer Mike McAlary in Lucky Guy, directed by George C. Wolfe. McAlary rose to fame in the 1980's for his sensational journalism …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:01PM
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Feb. 18-24, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMThree-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee is celebrated, analyzed and depicted in the new documentary THE STAGES OF EDWARD ALBEE, directed by James Dowell and John Kolomvakis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMMarch is a month to hear amazing pianists - Jeremy Denk, George Li, Charlie Albright, Jeffrey Swann, Wu Han, and Lydia Artymiw - as well as inspiring choruses and unusual chamber music
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:43PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, will begin previews on Monday March 4 and open on April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMIn Arthur Miller's Tony Award-winning drama, ALL MY SONS, one of America's greatest playwrights weaves a tragic story about two families torn apart in the aftermath of World War II. Don't mi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThe 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 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMTaylor Kitsch is the latest addition to the cast of HBO's upcoming film adaptation of The Normal Heart, according to Deadline.com. Kitsch will play the role of Bruce Niles, a closeted ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:34PMThe 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 03:19PMMary Zimmerman, a member of Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company and a professor at Northwestern University, started working on her adaptation of "Metamorphoses" back in 1996. Based on the…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:17PMOn this date 34 years ago, Sweeney Todd made its world premiere at Broadway's Uris (now Gershwin) Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMRick Bogart Trio: Calling All Singers, Do I Have a Place for You: I had been trying to catch bandleader, clarinetist, singer Rick Bogart and his Trio for months. Finally I had a night I coul…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:05PMWhat a breath of fresh air Fela! is. The musical biography about Afro-beat musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti sits in stark contrast to the usual fare Broadway ushers to the stage. The musical is …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:00PM
Barry Manilow wraps up his hit show, Manilow on Broadway, with his final performance on March 2. Despite the concert engagement’s short run, devoted Fanilows and a slew of celebs flock…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:57PM Written by Susan Hasho I saw the last performance of this show Monday night—hosted, co-written and accompanied on piano by the multi-talented Billy Stritch. In the directors�…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:54PMBroadway’s Best Shows is thrilled to announce a brand new series: ‘Stage Manager’s Report,’ an exclusive series that takes you backstage at Broadway Shows. We’v…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:52PMRoundabout Theatre Company' new Broadway production of The Big Knife by Clifford Odets, will star Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale and directed by Tony Award winner D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMMovie stars everywhere! The glitz and glamour of the golden age of Hollywood springs back to life on Broadway this spring in The Big Knife, the first-ever revival of Clifford Odets’ 19…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:41PMRain on Saturday night Feb. 23 did not dampen the spirits of more than 700 concertgoers to fill the historic performance venue The Town Hall in Times Square for the concert debut of 'Les Mis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMFive-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is heading to court. McDonald has signed on to play a litigator in the CBS pilot The Ordained, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The pilot, penned …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:38PMRichard Briers was being mourned not as a fine actor, but as a national treasure, indistinguishable from the character he played, writes Harry Eyres
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:30PMThere was love in the air when Classic Stage Company's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion officially opened on February 28 at the off-Broadway theater. Directed b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMAcademy Award winner Renée Zellweger is planning to star in a stage adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1959 novel "The Hustler" that will open in the West End this autumn,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMTony winners Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Mitchell and Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper present the cast of their exciting new Broadway musical Kinky Boots in an intimate open house at the Al Hir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:28PMJim Parsons and Taylor Kitsch will join the previously announced Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo in Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMPolish playwright Anna Wakulik turns the tables on cultural exoticism with her three-hander set in London, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:25PMWhether we are in a golden age of the arts is uncertain, but what we can be sure of is that we are living in a golden age of arts branding, writes Peter Aspden
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:24PMA longtime wish came true Jan. 25 as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Cinderella, starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, made its Broadway premiere, in preview, at the Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMDeadline reports that Jim Parsons and Taylor Kitsch have signed on to the Ryan Murphy-helmed HBO film THE NORMAL HEART. The actors join previously announced cast members Julia Roberts, Mark …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMGet ready to celebrate the holidays with two talented British singers. Les Misérables stand-out Samantha Barks will star opposite music sensation Susan Boyle in the upc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMThe new musical “Secondhand Lions” will have its world premiere in the 5th Avenue Theatre’s 2013-14 season, in a lineup that also includes a tour of Broadway’s “The Gershwins’ Po…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:13PMAn agreeably if not exuberantly funny production at Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:10PMMAC Male Vocalist nominee and Bistro Award winner T. Oliver Reid's Do I Love You, Bistro Award winner Moira Danis' Some People's Lives, Together Through Time: The Brownings in Word & Song, w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PMAs 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 02:00PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Robert Cuccioli, who is starring as 'Norman OsbornGreen Goblin' in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark- currently playing at the Foxwoods Theatre. His most…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMRichard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Carousel, when done well, is one of the true glories of the world of musical theatre. The New York Philharmonic's current concert version, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMAs artistic director Daniel Evans points out, The Full Monty is a pretty unusual feel-good comedy. It mines its laughs from depression and confusion, forging joy from the spirit of men who r…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
Barrington Stage Company has just acquired the rights to "Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr." for its Youth Theatre production to be presented, in lieu of the previously announced "Aladdin Jr.,…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 01:57PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Audra McDonald has signed on to co-star in the new CBS drama pilot ORDAINED. The five-time Tony Award winner will join previously announced cast members …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMThe celebrated musical RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella -- originally written for television in 1957 by the legendary musical theatre duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- opens t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMNational theatre, LondonThis House is a thoroughbred crowdpleaser, lampooning – without tipping into spoof – a political system that is flawed but somehow still functioning.By taking us …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMNational theatre, London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMRemember what Molly Ivins said: 'Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful'
Oscar hosts are supposed to be irreverent and edgy, ot…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PMCasting has been announced for The Queens Theatre's world premiere of Robert Wuhl's Hit-Lit, which will play a limited engagement March 7-17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMBonnie Franklin, the Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actress whose career spanned more than five decades, has passed away due to pancreatic cancer, her family has announced.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMAn epic award winning team and a Broadway legend return for an exciting new project still an entire year away. Even though the spring 2013 theatre season is really just about to get underwa…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 01:28PMAMERICAN BLUES THEATER EXPANDS TO A FOUR-PLAY 2013-2014 SEASON, INCLUDING AWARD-WINNING WORLD AND CHICAGO PREMIERES, ANDTHE RETURN OF AN ANNUAL SOLD OUT HOLIDAY HIT The American Blues Thea…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:28PMRandy Reinholz, the longtime artistic director of Native Voices at the Autry, is a veteran actor but hadn't performed with Native Voices. That's now changing, as he takes the Autry stage in …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:24PMThis week's topics CAROUSEL at Lincoln Center, Hands on a Hardbody previews, Tony Nominations 2013, hardest scene you ever had to act in, Secret Garden Revival, Paper Mill 2014 Shows
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMSignature Theatre is pleased to announce that their “The World of the Play” series continues with a discussion of the history and current conditions of Chinese laborers, inspired by Davi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:17PMSmokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller - Royal George Theater, 1641 N. Halsted, is offering complimentary tickets for Thursday, March 7 and 14 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 8 and 1…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:13PMTony-nominated actress Bonnie Franklin passed away on March 1 at the age of 69, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer.
Franklin earned a B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMSkylar Astin, Justin Chon and Miles Teller show they know how to get their party on in their new raucous movie, 21 and Over, but when they stopped by the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Februa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMSkylar Astin, Justin Chon and Miles Teller show they know how to get their party on in their new raucous movie, 21 and Over, but when they stopped by the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Februa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMOne of the Broadway stage's 21st-century musical stars, Idina Menzel, will be returning to The Street in spring 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM
Actor Maxine Peake, film-maker Adam Curtis and artist Inne Goris speak about their roles in Manchester International Festival 2013
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMAaron Lazar hosts Arts For All's fifth annual Cabaret benefit, Arts For All Goes Public Celebrating 5 Years, on April 21, 2013 at Joe's Pub. The benefit includes performances from Mr. Lazar,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMProducer Cameron Mackintosh plans to bring the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Oliver! by Lionel Bart to the big screen following the success of the Les Misérables film adaptation, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM By Linda Amiel Burns "Sidewalk Swings", a new Wednesday night series dedicated to the American songbook and popular standards, is launched at the Sidewalk Café in the E…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:48PMThe National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) has announced its plans to honor Tony nominated actress Vanessa Williams at its annual Chairman's Awards Gala to be held on Monday, April 29 at New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMFox has announced air dates for the season finales of the hit musical series "Glee" and the reality singing competition "American Idol."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMNo matter how good the understudy, the withdrawal of a leading name is almost inevitably bad news for a stage productionNormally the question star-seeking theatregoers ask is "Who's in it?" …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMNo matter how good the understudy, the withdrawal of a leading name is almost inevitably bad news for a stage production Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMCharlotte Josephine's one-woman play Bitch Boxer, winner of the Soho Young Writers Competition, runs at Soho Theatre until 9 March ahead of a national tour.
Tell us about Bitch Boxer
It's a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:37PMChekhov's love life was complicated and very busy – he had no wish to settle down. William Boyd believes one short story reveals much about the Russian's sexual liaisons, so he wrote a pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMThe Bodyguard, a new musical based on the 1992 Warner Bros. film of the same name that was scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and starred the late Whitney Houston, plays the West End's Adelphi …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMFarce of swinging '60s stays true to its era.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:28PMIn college, I found myself not getting cast in many plays, so I decided to produce my own. At the time I was taking a required Directing course, so to fulfill the credit my friend and I prod…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:27PMRoundabout Theatre Company presents an electrifying new production of Clifford Odets’s classic tale about keeping your integrity in the face of success, starring Emmy® Award–win…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:26PMWhy haven't we seen Pamela Bob starring on the Great White Way yet? As the new Clarice Starling in the Silence of the Lambs parody SILENCE! The Musical, Ms. Bob shines as bright as any vete…
SOURCE: www.cultureradar.com at 12:23PMThe icomparable Joan Rivers dishes with Show People host Paul Wontorek all about smooching Barbra, celebrities who need to "get it together" and her theater addiction.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMIn the corporate world, employees leaving a job are asked to sit through a sometimes grueling "exit interview" about their time at the company. Although that concept doesn't ex…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterBearing more than a passing resemblance to Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden, Janice Okoh's Bruntwood prize-winning play takes us to a flat on a south London estate wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMRoyal Exchange, Manchester Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMWhen writer/director Nora Ephron died of leukemia on June 26, 2012, millions of fans of her witty books and movies felt they had lost a friend. An avid theatergoer, Ephron penned the short-l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMIt’s never been produced on Broadway and its London production was short-lived. But these facts haven’t kept one theater after another from doing CHILDREN OF EDEN. Here in Watertown, Mas…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:10PMChristine Lahti will join Treat Williams in the Berkshire Theatre Group production of William Goldman's The Lion in Winter, which will begin previews June 25 in Pittsfield, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMMarilyn Maye's Maye-den Voyage at 54 Below By Ellis Nassour
What can you say about an entertainer when it seems all's been said? How many more raves can you come up with …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:09PMIn the world premiere production of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ‘67, Tony nominee De’Adre Aziza stars as a young woman whose family business comes under fire just as the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07PMLast weekend (23 February) The Mousetrap Awards - now in their second year - were presented to ten West End shows and individuals at Soho Theatre.
The Mousetraps are voted for by hundreds …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:06PMBOOK SAVVY 2013 is coming up in March and here’s the scoop. Hosted by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA/LA), BOOK SAVVY 2013 is one of L.A.’s pre…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThe recent news that The Living Theatre was no more probably surprised more than a few theatregoers — because they probably hadn't realized the decades-old company was still in exi…
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Hello I'm Molly Tynes from the Broadway cast of 'Pippin.' Many of you may remember my BroadwayWorld blogs from this past November about the American Repertory Theatre's production of 'Pippin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, with Penguin Young Readers Group, has launched a monthly book club in celebration of Roald Dahl. During March, the club’s inaugural month, members can participate by e…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:51AMKinky Boots writers Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper will be part of an upcoming sold-out New York Times TimesTalks event March 18 in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMNEW YORK (AP) — The debut of Tom Attea's new play is likely to benefit from some holy timing — he's written a play about a pope resigning.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:48AMThe first trailer for the new documentary film Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age is here, and it’s pretty juicy! The film is chock-full of Broadway tidbits from iconic performers, a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:47AMLindsay Mendez, last seen as the out-of-place, yet charming, waitress Rose Fenny in the Off-Broadway musical Dogfight, celebrates her birthday March 1. In celebration, Playbill.com looks bac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMPassion, the Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — opened Feb. 28 in its first New York City revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMOlivia Colman, Anne Marie Duff and Sheridan Smith will go head to head for the title of best actress at this year’s Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Colman and Duff are nominated…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMTwo-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut in LUCKY GUY, a new play written by three-time Academy Award nominee NORA EPHRON and directed by two-time Tony Award winner G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AM“Is It Already Dusk?” uses movement to explore revenge Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond — “It’s funny ho…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:34AMBroadwayWorld.com is thrilled to have been asked to be included in the United States Library of Congress as part of their Official Performing Arts Historical Web Archives.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMToday is the best holiday for young readers: Students stay in school and reading is stressed.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:32AMGísli Örn Gardarsson as Grego Samsa in Metamorphosis. Photo by Eddi. As we all know, one morning, after a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa awoke to find that he had been t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:29AMTony winner John Benjamin Hickey is set to star in the upcoming CW pilot Blink, according to Deadline.com. Hickey will take on the leading role of Greg, a father who suffers from a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMBroadway alum Daniel Radcliffe is ditching Hogwarts for the laboratory in a new film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, according to Deadline.com. The 20th Century Fox film, wr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMIn the MarchApril issue on newsstands now, Huston opens up to The Saturday Evening Post contributor Jeanne Wolf about her career as a great observer, citing that she never fit in or had any …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMConnecticut's Ridgefield Playhouse will welcome a host of Broadway talent in the coming months, including Jenn Colella, Lucie Arnaz, Jarrod Spector and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMNEW YORK (AP) -- It's probably safe to say there aren't too many 29-year-old playwrights out there who could get Vanessa Redgrave to appear in their work. Let alone in only their second …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:19AMFiled under: Clown, Comedy, Contemporary Variety, Indie Theatre, PLUGS Tagged: Avner the Eccentric, Canal Park Playhouse, Exceptions to Gravity
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:19AMNew York’s cabaret venue Don’t Tell Mama has opened up its first new location in 30 years in Los Angeles and is holding auditions for singing waiters and bartenders.
The famed &l…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:11AMScottish recording artist Marti Pellow will play Che in a new U.K. tour of Evita, directed by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical kicks off it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMScottish recording artist Marti Pellow will play Che in a new U.K. tour of Evita, directed by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical kicks off it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMTwo stylish, moving premieres: Parsons and company never fail to please.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:07AMAcademy 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 11:07AMLes Misérables film star Samantha Barks could be singing “Oom-Pah-Pah” on Broadway in a new production of Oliver!, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail. Producer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:01AMMusical theater writers out there are facing the exact same problem that popular music writers/artists faced years ago: the internet has made it waaaaay too easy to steal their work. See, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMToday in 2009, Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 121 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMMae West teams up with Cary Grant again* in this hilarious comedy in which she speaks the immortal line, “Beulah, peel me a grape”. It’s all part of the Film Forum’s�…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:00AMIdina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the new musical “If/Then.” The new production is written by the writing team for “Next to Normal,” which won multiple Tony Awards as…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre Books and DVDs for March 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 312013.
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Acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMVanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57AMClassic Stage Company's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion opened Thursday evening, February 28, followed by a celebration at Pangea on Second Avenue. Passion originally …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMRenee Zellweger is about to hit the pool halls. The Academy Award winner may head to the West End this fall in a stage adaptation of The Hustler, according to the Daily Mail. Initially the p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMVictor Campbell, a former secretary and lover of Tennessee Williams, kept a treasure trove of items in a Samsonite suitcase in hopes of one day publishing a memoir, at Williams' request. He …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 10:52AMLucky Guy is pleased to announce a student rush and standing room policy for the production, which begins preview performances today, Friday, March 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:51AMNEW YORK (AP) — It's probably safe to say there aren't too many 29-year-old playwrights out there who could get Vanessa Redgrave to appear in their work. Let alone in only their second pla…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:50AMTime for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective The most read post of the month: Wanna be an Associate Producer? Introducing the …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMCan we talk? The legendary Joan Rivers has a resume a mile long: renowned comedienne, Emmy-winning talk show host, Tony-nominated actress, bestselling author, reality TV star, cosmetic-compa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:41AMThe Westchester Broadway Theatre staging of In the Heights, starring Perry Young, Christina Aranda and original Broadway cast member Arielle Jacobs, has extended its run through April 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater celebrated the off-Broadway opening of Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg's new play, The Revisionist, on Thursday, February 28 a
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:41AMCONEY ISLAND USA SPRING GALA 2013: THE BURLESQUE MANIFESTO SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH 7PM – 11pm WEBSTER HALL 125 EAST 11 ST (BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH AVE.) New York, NY 10003 212-353-1600 A grand…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:35AMCory Finley Hometown: St. Louis, MO Current Town: Brooklyn, NY Q: What are you working on now?A: I’m working with a director friend, Ashley Rodbro, on a romantic comedy about…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:35AMNEW YORK (AP) -- After an autumn in which Sarah Paulson went through some pretty harrowing stuff, the idea of doing a play this winter in New York didn't initially seem like much of a re…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:34AMThe York Theatre Company's production of Hollywood Pinafore — part of its Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series — plays March 1-3 at the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMJesse Eisenberg's new play The Revisionist has extended at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre through April 21. The Rattlestick Playwright Theatre's production, starring Eisenb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:31AMDaniel Radcliffe is currently in talks to take on the role of hunchbacked-lab assistant 'Igor' in an upcoming reboot of the classic Mary Shelley horror story FRANKENSTEIN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AM By Patrick ChristianoFebruary 28, 2013: Scripts Up! producers Janet McCall and David Spaulding are presenting YEARS OF SKY, a new play by Barbara Blatner, which opene…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMRecently one of my readers reached out and asked if I would be open to having a reviewer post on the blog, and I said sure! Please Welcome Karin Crighton who will be covering a show from tim…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMGary Flannery, who contributed so much to NYPL’s recent exhibition The Great American Revue (which we reviewed here) would like to make it known that he has put together a new exhibi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:29AMA dispute between union BECTU and Ambassador Theatre Group that saw theatres around the UK threatened with strike action has been resolved. The two parties met yesterday and were able to set…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMWinning a leading role on Broadway by way of a reality TV show may not have been the most traditional career path. But Laura Osnes proved she was the real deal. The young actress leads a rev…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:17AMWinning a leading role on Broadway by way of a reality TV show may not have been the most traditional career path. But Laura Osnes proved she was the real deal. The young actress leads a rev…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:17AMThis week's featured arts program is the Drama Department at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York Learn more about the department below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced that its production of the world premiere of Jesse Eisenberg's The Revision…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMStars Stephanie J. Block, Betsy Wolfe and Jessie Mueller are set to perform from the album at the Upper East Side Barnes amp Noble 86th amp Lexington Ave. on March 8 at 430pm they'll be join…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMOld Vic New Voices (OVNV), the development department of the Old Vic, has announced its new season, which will see the launch of several new initiatives.
Among them is OVNV LAB, a dedicated…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:05AMThe 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 February 27, 2013 at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMThe national tour of “Undisputed Truth,” Mike Tyson’s one man show directed by Spike Lee, just kicked off recently, but now shows in certain cities on the tour have been cancelled. Fir…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM
Yuekun Wu, who plays Chinese laborer and aspiring opera star Lone in The Dance and the Railroad, previews the bittersweet play and recalls the first time he met playwright David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:58AMWilliam Yuekun Wu, who plays Chinese laborer and aspiring opera star Lone in The Dance and the Railroad, previews the bittersweet play and recalls the first time he met playwright David Henr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:58AMTonight is the night! Tom Hanks will finally grace the Broadway stage as previews for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy begin at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 1. Lucky Guy will play a limite…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:58AMThe March 12 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," which is titled "The Fringe," will air at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMThe title is, of course, ironic. Interrogators like to extract facts from those they interrogate, facts are what every shade of opinion claims to have in support of them, and facts are what …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:46AMAre critics spoiling for "Donnybrook"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 09:46AMAt BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing content submitted by our regional contributors from all corners of the globe. Get all your theater news at a glance each Friday with 'Around…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44AMGuillermo Calderon’s haunting drama Neva begins its English language premiere at the Public Theater on March 1, with opening night set for March 11. The production is scheduled to run …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:43AMThe Hall of Hams is my series on some of my favorite actors who have brought the art of melodramatic acting into the modern era. Today is the birthday of Lionel Atwill (1885-1946), one of th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMThe Old Vic is to open up its talent development arm to people of all ages for the first time, as part of an overhaul which will also see the theatre launch a space dedicated...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMThe Music Box Theatre box office will open Saturday, March 2nd for the much anticipated American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin, directe…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:40AMTom Hanks is officially a Broadway star! The Oscar winner raises the curtain on his stage career as previews for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, begin at the Broadhurst Theatre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:39AMThe Rattlestick Plawrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist, Jesse Eisenberg's new play about an antsy young novelist seeking refuge at a distant relative's flat in Poland, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMThe Dutch version of the Golden Girls' opening theme = everything. [via Dlisted]Our new favorite Tumblr of the moment is Jim'll Paint It, where some amazing dude named Jim will spend hours o…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 09:30AMHere's my #1 rule when it comes to market research: Never ask a question if you aren't willing to accept AND act upon the answer. This is a particularly relevant set of criteria for those of…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AMPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Pennsylvania Ballet is celebrating its 50th birthday with a new home and a season of collaborations with cultural organizations presenting museum exhibits and lectu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:27AMLinbury Studio theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMLinbury Studio theatreBallet Black may struggle against an inexplicable lack of state funding, yet it continues to make a heroic investment in new choreography. This season its adventurous p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMBallet Black, the award-winning company founded to provide role models for black and Asian ballet dancers, is now 12 years old. It has established its own identity, which is as much about ne…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:21AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced that its production of the world premiere of Jesse Eisenberg's The Revision…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMThis month’s theater quiz is a special TV edition (Half the 10 questions have something to do with both television and theater.) See how well you were paying attention.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17AMThe summer season at the UK's Theatre Royal Bath will include new productions of Noel Coward's Relative Values, Shaw's Candida, Shakespeare's King Lear and Feydeau and D&eacu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMNew York City Center Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A look at family relationships -- particularly between daughters and mothers -- that …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:10AMBroadway stars Nick Adams, Ashley Brown, Jessica Rush and Michael James Scott will appear in a special one night only benefit production of Jason Robert Brown's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD on Mond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07AMNorwood Concert Hall, Adelaide FestivalHow do you dramatise an event so indescribably terrible as losing both legs in an underground bomb attack? In telling the story of Gill Hicks, an Austr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTonight at 8pm (Eastern), TCM is showing one of my favorite movies, Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Suggested by Orson Welles, Verdoux is Chaplin’s comical take on the Bluebea…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:01AMWith the official Broadway opening of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella upon us, TheaterMania can't help but take a stroll down memory lane to visit the televised incarnation of the class…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMWhen Ben Rimalower was eight years old, his father came out of the closet and embarked on a bender that nearly left his family in ruins. Like many before him, young Ben found solace in the w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
National Theatre Wales's first show of the year is the Somali poet-inspired De Gabay in Cardiff, plus Rachel Corrie in Edinburgh and Lenny Henry in BathScotland and Northern IrelandThe Seafa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMNational Theatre Wales's first show of the year is the Somali poet-inspired De Gabay in Cardiff, plus Rachel Corrie in Edinburgh and Lenny Henry in Bath Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AM Who Loves You, Baby? Sound familiar? Maybe you were a fan of TV’s “Kojak” back in the 70s or happen to have seen Tom DiMenna in the trenches of LA’s underground cabaret sce…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:51AMDie Hard star last appeared in a stage play in 1984, but says theatre 'seems like a more reasonable job, more manageable'Yippee ki-yay, theatregoers: Bruce Willis has hinted that he's in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFrom one writer to another: I feel David’s pain — the character played by Jesse Eisenberg in his new play, The Revisionist, which opened last night at the Cherry Lane Theatre. He has arr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:41AMThe multi-talented Jesse Eisenberg has written himself an unsympathetic role, but a fine one for Vanessa Redgrave
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35AMThe first major revival in almost twenty years has been given a stunning production, the first musical in the esteemedClassic Stage Company's 45-year history.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:34AMThe Classic Stage Company's "Passion" revival is a moving glimpse of love shorn of its romance-novel pretensions
SOURCE: NBC New York at 08:17AMFord’s Theatre’s 2013-2014 season will feature two well-known plays, one Tony Award-winning musical, plus a musical adaptation of the Doris Betts short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim”, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMMeet the the student vocal soloists (who are high school students) who will be singing the roles in Miss Saigon at Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMThe pre-festival film season features free screenings, a selection of international cinemas, many great documentary films, and a weekend of feminist films.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11AMBlue Elephant, London: In a city driven to the edge of collapse after bloody wars, King Oedipus triumphs, only to be faced with horrifying discoveries about the curse of his birth. For this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMThe musical mouthful A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine is just too much for the busy Twitter generation, so it has been redubbed ‘Hollykraine’ by the cast of high schoo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMImpressionist Rory Bremner is making his theatrical debut, in Bath, playing a butler in a revival of Noel Coward's Relative Values alongside Caroline Quentin and Patricia Hodge.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00AM
Finborough Theatre, London: After helping the Finborough on its way to The Stage's fringe award in 2011 with And I And Silence, Caitlin McLeod is back with a belter of politically charg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMLinbury Studio, London: The award-winning company of black and Asian dancers founded by Cassa Pancho in 2001 comes storming back onto the Linbury stage with a toothsome quartet of works. A b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMPerformances this weekend highlight American opera that's gaining traction.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 07:44AMIt was the month that I attended The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the seventh time - and I've still yet to be in the right place to catch any one of the Fritos, M&M's, Oreos, b…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:34AMCockamamie #2 of the year. The first one being The Madrid. The way you can tell is that without Vanessa Redgrave there would be no reason to watch this play. So let us give thanks that sh…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 07:20AMOne of Poland's hottest political topics - abortion and the Catholic Church - is the animating force in this extraordinary three-hander by 22 year old Anna Wakulik. Already seen in her nativ…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18AMIn 1981 Stephen Sondheim saw Ettore Scola’s film, “Passione d’Amore,” and was so struck by it that he wanted to create a musical based on the character Fosca, who is a woman with a t…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 07:16AMThis year’s High Tide Festival will feature the return of Bottleneck by Luke Barnes as well as a play from Thomas Eccleshare, who was the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2011 for emergi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMThe Theatre Royal Bath has announced a starry summer season, including revivals of Noel Coward's Relative Values directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Patricia Hodge, Caroline Quentin and Ror…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMDanny and David Mantle have teamed up with award-winning writerproducer David Leaf 'The Night James Brown Saved Boston,' 'The U.S. Vs. John Lennon' and 'Beautiful Dreamer Brian Wilson amp Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMOur staff picks the best things to do for the week ahead.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 1 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Marti Pellow will star as Che in a new U.K. national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita, beginning performances May 15 at London's New Wimbledon Theatre for a run throu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57AMIt takes a certain bravery to tinker with one of the great plays of the classical canon – let alone rip out two entire acts and replace them with brand spanking new material. True scholars…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54AMFollowing a critically acclaimed run at the National Theatre Alan Bennett's UNTOLD STORIES, featuring the two autobiographical recollections Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, will transfer to the Du…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:54AMMarti Pellow is to play Che in a new touring production of Evita. Bill Kenwright’s production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical will open at the New Wimbledon Theatre on May …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMLanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, began Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company Feb. 26. The play by the lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:46AMSinger with 1960s hit-making pop group the Troggs, Reg Presley was the archetypal and irrepressible frontman with a swaggering and macho onstage manner. Born Reginald Maurice Ball in Andover…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMRoyal Exchange Studio, Manchester: Theatre doesn't often deal in thrilling, cinematic twists, provoking genuine revelatory murmurs from an audience finally understanding how a plot ties…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMTrevor Nunn is to direct Patricia Hodge, Caroline Quentin and Rory Bremner in Noel Coward’s Relative Values. The production forms part of the Theatre Royal Bath’s summer season, which wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM
Olivier, National Theatre, London: James Graham's astonishingly assured and galvanisingly well-written This House has moved house within the National from the Cottesloe to the Olivier, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMMarti Pellow is set to play Che in a major new tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1978 musical Evita.
Produced by Bill Kenwright by arrangement with the Really Useful Group, the pr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:43AMA house in Bradford, Yorkshire: We traverse Bradford's notorious Thorpe Edge estate before being invited to let ourselves into a council house with a riot of a lawn strewn with empties.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMThe glowing lights rise slowly from dim to strong, and the monotonous hum and titter of the small vintage projectors creates a comforting backdrop to the vast expanse of swiftly moving cloud…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:33AMFive additional cities have been added to the forthcoming UK tour of Wicked.
As previously announced::E8831352109086, the multiple Whatsonstage.com Award-winning show will launch its first …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:18AM
By Jaye Hunt (opinionated theatregoer) Pretty much everything I saw this month closed right after I saw it (Coincidence? Conspiracy? You decide.) so I won't be insisting that people see thes…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 04:59AMReece Dinsdale (Walter Harrison) & Charles Edwards (Jack Weatherill)
The great pleasure of This House in the Cottesloe::E8831349859233 last autumn was taking your seat on green leather bench…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:51AMBy Gregory Jacobs-Roseman (Composer-Lyricist) Happy Friday and you're WELCOME. GREGORY JACOBS-ROSEMAN is a composer/lyricist and theatrical sound designer currently developing Save The Date:…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 04:50AMAre critics really into "Really Really"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 04:46AMThe U.K. tour of Wicked, which has been previously announced to commence at Manchester's Palace Theatre Sept. 12 and also visit Dublin's Gáis Energy Theatre (beginning No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31AMPlus The Madrid, Passion, The Dance and the Railroad, Katie Roche, and Much Ado About Nothing.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:11AM“I don’t disturb you when you’re working, do I?” snaps stand-up comic Jimmy O at a Comedy Store heckler. “I don’t come in the alleyway and knock the cocks out of your mouth.” H…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:02AM
Watching Teresa Deevy's engrossing 1936 drama Katie Roche made this contemporary woman extremely grateful to be a contemporary woman. Katie is a servant in a small town in Ireland in the 193…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:55AMNobody goes to Wagner operas for the plot. So don't be taken aback that the redemption parable that is his opera Parsifal becomes a mere skeleton for a network of mythology-inspired poetic i…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMIn sports and the military, "professionalism" describes people who go about their work with a calm, dispassionate efficiency - no fuss, no panic when things go wrong, few mistakes,…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMALL NEW POLL! VOTE UNTIL THURSDAY, MARCH 7 AT 7PM!In just 2 days (March 3rd), Broadway's newest musical, Kinky Boots, begins previews at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. This spla…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 01:30AM"Golden Boy" Theo James on Accents & Police Ride-Alongs
The handsome and talented Mr. Theo James stops by the Studio to trade some accent secrets and dish about the police ride-alongs he exp…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMMikhail Baryshnikov Stars In World Premiere Based On Two Chekhov StoiresThe show: World premiere of “Man in a Case” at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMChatting with L.A. Lakers at Practice
We go courtside as the Los Angeles Lakers get their practice on before the big game! In between drills and pick-ups, we chat with the likes of Kobe Brya…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Sundance Trustee Sally Field to Present First Ever Tenessse Williams Award: The Sundance Institute has announced that playwright and Sundance Institute Theatre Lab alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkin…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:49AMThe Public Theater will begin previews for the English language premiere of NEVA, written and directed by Guillermo Calderon, tonight, March 1. NEVA will run through Sunday, March 31 in The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFrom the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes this unique musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, and home and family. More than two dozen classic hits …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe York Theatre Company continues the Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series with Hollywood Pinafore, with book amp lyrics by George S. Kaufman and music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Hollywood Pin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFriday March 1, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Call it a college reunion with music instead of speeches.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:11AMThe musical based on Roald Dahl's tartly magical story has been a smash hit in London and now will try to match that success on Broadway, amid stiff competition.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:06AMVision and Clarityby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonWhen you're reviewing a director it's a bit like judging figure skating. There's a lot of subjectivity about artistic impression and you'…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMTalking UnderMarc Maron doesn't lose his own voice in WTFby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisMarc Maron is a comic you may know. He's put out several CDs, all available as downloads on iTune…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMPlaywright, Arts Administrator Astoria, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Travel! Nothing inspires me more than visiting a new city (favorites include Prague and Barcelona) but…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review two outstanding off-Broadway shows, the Classic Stage Company revival of Passion...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I reflect on the career of Kenneth Tynan. Here's an excerpt. * *...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"They were Germans, and their readiness to obey instructions was a measure of their civilization, and their tragedy." Len Deighton,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMHartford Stage opens the world-premiere production of Man in a Case, a movement-friendly stage adaptation of two stories by Anton Chekhov, March 1 following previews from Feb. 21 in Connecti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA long-dormant Long Island movie house is reopening this month after refurbishment. The Suffolk Theater, built in 1933, will be home to plays, films, concerts, parties and special events. Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Public Theater's English-language premiere of Neva, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón, begins its limited engagement March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony and Academy Award-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli performs the music of Cabaret during a special concert celebrating the music and history of Weimar Berlin March 1 at London's Roy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award winner Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut as late New York Post writer Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, which begins performances March 1 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of the new musical Single Girls Guide, inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma," begins previews at Albany's Capital Rep March 1 prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company's production of Hollywood Pinafore — part of its Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series — plays March 1-3 at the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, who is currently starring as Fosca in Classic Stage Company's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion, will release her latest so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMilwaukee Repertory Theater presents the premiere of a newly reconceived version of Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash beginning March 1, prior to an official opening March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1922 Arthur Wing Pinero's The Enchanted Cottage constructs the story of a couple who find themselves transformed by their love for one another. Owen Nares and Laura Cowie are the lucky p…
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