Previously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Atlantis: The Lost Empire “The Little Mermaid” was the first film …
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:54PMWhat do politics, Spandex body shapers, Washington area traffic, and colonoscopies have in common? They are all satirical targets in Hexagon 2013: A Raucous Caucus. If you’re not familiar …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMHow do you come up with a new show that also feels comfortably familiar? On Broadway, the current answer is “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” — an actual premiere by the titans re…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PMHot on the heels of Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Revisionist” comes another off-Broadway show depicting Americans in their late 20s as neurotic and immature. The couple in Amy Herzog’s “…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PMNearly a century after Bluebeard’s Castle premiered at the Budapest Opera in 1918, in a double-bill with The Wooden Prince, Perth is treated to the same double-bill as part of the Perth Fe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:13PMIt looks like a tour through West Solipsism. Then the knife (literally) comes out.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:04PMIn storybook terms, Broadway’s overstuffed “Cinderella” isn’t exactly a happily ever after. But there are reasons to embrace this new take on the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musi…
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Review: "Cinderella" on Broadway: Empowering, Enchanting, and Entertaining.
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:43PMBobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:28PMNEW YORK (AP) — She's a whiny, spoiled, would-be yoga teacher with no students, and he's a lying pothead. They're young Americans living an ex-pat dream in Paris while under increasing emo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:24PMCome join me over at the new site, won't you, as I talk about the ticking trust bomb at the suspenseful heart of Amy Herzog's quite enjoyable Belleville.
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:22PMDirected by "Metamorphoses"' Mary ZimmermanHere's a well-worth trip for Connecticut theater-goers:
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:15PMBelleville, now at New York Theatre Workshop, begins with all the trimmings of a standard-issue millennial relationship drama. An apartment door opens, a failed-actress-turned-yogi stumbles …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05PM“Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” wants to be reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:00PMAre you getting a little tired of all these productions of Shakespeare set in clever and unlikely time periods? Don't you just want to see two dudes in medieval doublets hack at each other w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[Warning: The following review includes SPOILERS and one unapologetic use of an f-bomb.] Tim Hendrickson, United States Army veteran, father to an adorable little girl, and fan of the battl…
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Although lauded for its benefits to the University of Colorado and the Boulder community as a whole, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's poor financial performance has stirred unease among s…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:53PMThe Native-American holocaust strikes back - or does it? - in an iconic image from The Shining.There has been a long delay in my return to The Shining - and sorry for the tease; it…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:51PMHEDY WEISS: Akvavit Theatre presents a set of Jon Fosse works with bleak themes but compelling moments.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:44PMNEW YORK (AP) — What's this happening in Cinderella's magical kingdom? Is that a challenge to absolute monarchy we hear amid the romance and dancing? My goodness, it is: There's a demand f…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:34PMNEW YORK (AP) -- What's this happening in Cinderella's magical kingdom? Is that a challenge to absolute monarchy we hear amid the romance and dancing? My goodness, it is: There's a deman…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:32PMOriginally commissioned as a 1957 television musical starring Julie Andrews, the classic fairy tale has been retooled for Broadway as a family crowd-pleaser.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMWill you have a lovely night at the of Rodgers
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMHere are the main reasons to see this lovely production of Much Ado About Nothing: Jonathan Cake as Benedick. Clear and smart direction by Arin Arbus. Jonathan Cake. Delightful scenery (Ricc…
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In the first-ever Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” there is a big clock in the ballroom that speeds from 8 to midnight as Cinderella dances with Prince Ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PMThe provenance of "Cinderella" is long ago and far away — she's been around at least since the 17th century in written form, and some date her all the way to classical antiquity.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:20PMBuzz22 Chicago production shines in annual 3-play series
You'd easily think that "She Kills Monsters" the clever, funny, moving, lively and delightfully geeky standout at this year's Garage…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:20PMDunstan Playhouse, AdelaideAll over Adelaide whispered half-conversations have been taking place: how did you … ? What was it … ? So strong was the consensus against revealing what happ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16PMA classic fairytale got a happy ending March 3, when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella opened at the Broadway Theatre more than 50 years after it premiered on black-and-…
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The National Ballet of Canada’s performance of John Neumeier’s Nijinsky is so powerful and chilling, it stays with you long after the curtain goes down.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:54PMA woman carrying a yoga mat comes home, drops her coat on the floor, starts stretching. She is startled to hear a noise in the bedroom when she is ostensibly alone. Her fear turns to annoyan…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:39PMThere are moments of theatrical magic strewn throughout Douglas Carter Beane’s new adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1957 TV musical “Cinderella.&rdq…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:33PMThe prolific Amy Herzog hits a snag with “Belleville,” a portrait of the seriously dysfunctional marital relationship of a couple of Americans in their late 20s living in the tit…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:27PMThe rambler: He’s a cowboy, a drifter, a marriage-phobe. A migratory species, called to move along at regular intervals. And, as one of the acerbic women in Joe Goode’s dance-theater pie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:23PMIf Nellie McKay did not already exist, Bill Irwin and David Shiner would have had to make her up for their delirious joy of a show, "Old Hats."
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 07:18PMOpera Australia’s Orpheus in the Underworld proves that sometimes the best laughs are the cheapest. When Todd McKenney strikes John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever pose as Pluto,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:04PMThis 1596 Shakespeare history play is seminal as the first English drama to give equal prominence to the ruling class and the disreputable denizens of a dangerous neighborhood. The action mo…
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West End Review: Trelawny of the Wells (Donmar Warehouse), Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios), Quartermaine's Terms (Wyndham's Theatre), Old Times (Harold Pinter Theatre) and A Chorus Line (London …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:07PM“Impossible things are happening every day” sing two women deep in the first act of Cinderella, which just opened at the Broadway — and they have no idea how correct they are....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04PMPeter Filichia, and Michael Portantiere talk about Cinderella, Passion, Glass Menagerie, Talley’s Folly, Carousel, The Old Boy, The Revisionist, and Donnybrook. Please take the…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00PMAussieTheatre has a double pass (valued at $270) to give away to OperaMania — a brand new production presented by Russia’s finest opera singers at Sydney’s City Recital Hall in Angel P…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMSo did March come in like a lion or a lamb for you? For Broadway, it was a little of both... Let's get the negative out of the way first.THE "SAD" NEWSMissed opportunities: Not living …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 06:00PMSometimes I wander around New York, going about my business and all of a sudden a song comes on. You know the type I’m talking about. Those Broadway songs that you not only know and lo…
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The empty Space stage is strewn with rubbish and dirt when writer and actor, Omphile Molusi enters, dragging a big tin trunk. From his appearance and energy we get a good idea of how he is l…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:35PM"We're like racehorses," said Darcey Bussell of ballerinas, "with the things we put our bodies through." The nation's favourite ballet star looked poised and elegant on the Banqueting Room s…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:30PMAustralian pop megastar Helen Reddy returns to the stage for her first concert tour in ten years, and her only Chicago-area play will be at the historic Arcada Theatre on Wednesday, March 13…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:25PMA body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved. The historical moment of the disciplines was the moment when an art of a human body was born, which was directed not …
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Tina Packer wants Hamlet to go f**k himself. Well, not exactly. It’s said in jest, but there just might be some truth to the statement, Packer laughs, while sitting outside her dressing ro…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:52PMThe Human Variations Isn't Varied: Located at 25 Central Park West, the Red Roots Gallery hosts the Blueprint Theater Project's newest production, The Human Variations.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:45PMA scene from Theater for a New Audience’s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” with Jonathan Cake as Benedick and Maggie Siff as Beatrice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:29PMThe Tony Award winning musical, Once, will finally launch a national tour this October. The show won eight Tonys in 2012, a Grammy in 2013, and it is based on the 2007 Academy Award winning …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:23PMDancing tornados. Pop-modern munchkins. And a traffic-light color collision in Emerald City that will blow you away. Think you know Oz? Think again! Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore has …
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It’s “a lovely night” for the stars of the first-ever Broadway staging of Cinderella. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, starring Laura Osnes as Ella and Santino Fontana …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMNew York theater continues to blossom the week of March 4 as Broadway welcomes Matilda, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike to the party. Meanwhile, off-Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMThe world premiere staging of two Anton Chekhov short stories is adapted and directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:32AMA TISSUE OF SONGS An ambitious and sporadically powerful entry in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s fourth annual “Garage Rep,” this 2005 musical by John LaChiusa is a Rashomon-like puzzle…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:09AMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?plays its final performance on Sunday, March 3rd at 3:00 PM. The produ…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:04AMThe Tony Award-winning musical Once will launch a U.S. national tour in October at the Providence Performing Arts Center, in Providence, RI.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMAfter over six years on Broadway, the Broadway production of the award-winning Disney / Cameron Mackintosh musical Mary Poppins plays its final performance at the New Amsterdam Theatre Mar…
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Manhattan Theatre Club’s acclaimed production of The Other Place, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello ends its extended Broadway run March 3, a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:59AMWhile the weather may be rising at a slow and deliberate pace throughout most of New York, Broadway’s spring season is heating up, and Kinky Boots is leading the way with performances …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:54AMIt wasn't exactly like the scenes that actors Susan Riley Stevens and Greg Wood have played on area stages for years. But, in some ways, their first glimpse of a house in Merchantville felt …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:49AMBad dress rehearsals, they say, make for good runs. If you subscribe to that maxim, Larchmont’s John Treacy Egan should have a great run as Tito Merelli in “Lend Me a Tenor”…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:42AMThis new production of the long-neglected Rodgers & Hammerstein show is an absolute joy, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:26AMBurstein shares the stage with Sarah Paulson at the Laura Pels Theatre
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:22AMHow do you like your Tosca? If it’s
the all-star showcase experience you’re after look elsewhere, for no glass-shattering big beasts are gracing this latest
incarnation of Jonath…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:21AMThere was even a bonus: the artistic director traveled with his dancers and stayed afterward to answer questions from the audience in typically zany and tart fashion.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:20AMTweetI am soo tired of the end of winter in DC where it is cloudy, grey and randomly cold when it looks like it should be warm out. I can’t wait for spring with the cherry blossoms and…
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Lowry, SalfordWherever the dirty, the oppressed and the battle-weary gather, there will always be an opportunist on hand to sell them some tat. Bertolt Brecht's epic may be about a bafflingl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMToday is the birthday of the amazing folk and country music genius Arthel “Doc” Watson (1923-1912). Blind since the age of one, the North Carolina native played just about ever…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:47AMTheatre Royal, BathLenny Henry got away with murder playing Shakespeare's Othello, but he holds the stage as Troy Maxson, the grizzled anti-hero of August Wilson's 1987 drama about black Ame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMShirley MacLaine will reprise her role as the outspoken Martha Levinson in Season 4 of "Downton Abbey," and several new characters will join the series. But one more co-star of the PBS/"Mast…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:40AMOn his public Twitter page yesterday, Los Angeles Times theatre critic Charles McNulty took issue with “The Illumination Business: Why drama critics must look at and look after the the…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:32AMAmong the most influential figures in circus and variety history were the Hanlon Brothers, an English troupe whose nucleus originally consisted of six acrobatic siblings. Three of them had s…
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the release of A Deaf Burglar, Henry “Pathe” Lehrman’s first film as a director for Mack Sennett’s Keystone. In this split reel come…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:54AMBy Isaac Butler Up at the Finanical Times (and not behind their paywall) Matt Trueman has a piece discussing the cultural exchange of plays between the United States and Great Britain, with …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 08:53AMPlaying by heart with these three incredible people is the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done as a musician, and I look forward to many more years of doing this with the Chiara Quartet…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMToday is the birthday of William Macready (1793-1873). Macready is best known in this country for being the unwitting trigger of the Astor Place Riots of 1849, an international embarrassment…
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According to Joel Christie from The Daily Telegraph Christie Whelan-Browne (from Britney Spears the Cabaret & Forum) will be joining the cast of Shane Warne the Musical as Elizabeth H…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:35AMGiven a fair few strange and languishing Brecht-Weill pieces that The Rest is Noise Festival’s Berlin strand might have explored, Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO had a tough time of it by pi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM1. “Passion” (Classic Stage Company) A stirring revival of Sondheim’s strange love story.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMCyndi Lauper admitted it on her first album 30 years ago: She’s so unusual.
Talking about her new musical “Kinky Boots,” the Queens-raised Grammy winner revealed other shades …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMHollis Resnik as Mother Superior eyes Deloris Van Cartier (Ta'Rea Campbell), her sister under the skin, in the national touring company production of "Sister Act." Euclid native Re…
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Virginia Opera’s third installment in their 2013 American series, A Streetcar Named Desire, an opera in three acts premiered at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on Friday, M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:50AMNEW YORK — Matt Mattox, a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who helped shape contemporary jazz dance in the United States and Europe, died Feb. 18 in France. He was 91.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:49AMOne of the most dazzling and beloved singers on the worldwide cabaret and concert scene today, multiple award winner Sarah Rice brings Glamorous Nights and Careless Rapture -- Music of the E…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMInternet 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 12:30AMManhattan Theatre Club's acclaimed production of The Other Place, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 Wes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMLegendary drag entertainer Jackie Beat is known for her bigger-than-life talent and her ballsy and blustery persona, but it turns out she managed to make a few friends along the road to her …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf will play its final performance today, March 3rd at 300 PM. The production, which …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMAn Interview with Owen Egerton » My friend (and dude I used to do a ton of improv with), the Austin-based writer Owen Egerton, was interviewed on the Read to Write website. In the article, …
SOURCE: direct address at 12:06AMYoung Nicolas Goes to "Iceland"by Amy Lee LavoiePlaywright Amy Lee Lavoie interviewed playwright Nicolas Billon about his play Iceland opening at Factory Theatre March 2. In April…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMFrom left to right: Michelle Martin, Robert Moloney, Andrew Coghlan, Nadia BlanchfieldFour Dogs And A Bone: Fame, Art and Keeping It Realby Shawn Macdonald(photos by Gaelen Beatty)I first sa…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMFaith Ringgold, Q-TipDorian and Jeffrey Bergen hosted a lively opening reception for the legendary Faith Ringgold, a Harlem born and raised artist, at their ACA Galleries in the heart of the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:02AMLPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMA British shoemaker turns his business around thanks to a drag performer and a new set of discerningly fabulous clientele in Kinky Boots, the new Cyndi Lauper-scored musical based on the 200…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmy Herzog's emotional thriller Belleville, starring Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller as a fractured American couple living in Paris, officially opens Off-Broadway March 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe TRL Generation: Broadway Loves Britney, a one-night-only concert celebrating the music of Grammy Award-winning pop artist Britney Spears, is offered March 3 at the Canal Room in New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway Scores For P.S. 84: A Celebration of Songs Featuring Kerry Butler & Friends, a benefit for P.S. 84 - The Lillian Weber School Of The Arts, is held March 3 at the Robert H. Smith…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA developmental reading of the new musical The Disappearing Man is presented in Manhattan March 3 at 3 PM at Shetler Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway production of the award-winning Disney-Cameron Mackintosh musical Mary Poppins plays its final performance at the New Amsterdam Theatre March 3 at 3 PM. Upon closing, the family…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMilwaukee Repertory Theater presents the premiere of a newly reconceived version of Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, officially opening March 3, following previews that began March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway premiere of Sharr White's character study The Other Place, starring Laurie Metcalf as a woman in crisis, ends its Broadway run March 3, as scheduled. At close, it …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe acclaimed Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ends its run March 3 at the Booth Theatre, three weeks prior to a previously announced extension…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLook out, Miss Hannigan. Broadway has a new, deliciously wicked villainess, Miss Trunchbull, played by one Mr. Bertie Carvel, already an Olivier Award winner for the new musical Matilda.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column addressed a live recording of Patti LuPone's Far Away Places act from 54 Below, plus songbooks of Jerome Kern ("The Land Where the Good Songs Go") and th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNightlife performer Tori Scott plays Joe's Pub March 3 in an irreverent evening of pop-rock tunes and tales of her misadventures. Broadway Jersey Boys cast member John Michael Dias makes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA classic fairytale gets a happy ending March 3, when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella opens at the Broadway Theatre more than 50 years after it premiered on black-and-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1930 Bert Lahr is a Flying High mechanic who breaks an aeronautical record because he doesn't know how to land the plane. The writing team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson p…
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