Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner talk about reuniting for "Old Hats," a new work combining their inimitable magic, slapstick, and hilarity. "Old Hats" uses…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]1928 Birthday of playwright Edward Albee, who will go on to write Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Pulitzer-winners, A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]George Street Playhouse's world-premiere production of Victoria Stewart's Rich Girl begins performances in New Brunswick, NJ, March 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The West End transfer of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon that premiered at the National…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Phumzile Sojola, who plays Lord Pinkleton in the Broadway debut of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow, a music-filled drama that imagines the final days in the life of entertainment icon Judy Garland, begins its Los Angels run March 12 at the Ahmanson T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Anita Loos' Happy Birthday, the final production of TACT/The Actors Company Theatre's 20th anniversary season, begins performances March 12, prior to an official opening March 21, at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]O Guru Guru Guru, or why I don't want to go to yoga class with you by Mallery Avidon, the story of a girl who grew up in an ashram, will begin performances March 20, prior to an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten are featured in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Hori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Staged," Ruby Preston's sequel to the Broadway novel "Showbiz" — about the inner workings of, you guessed it, show business — is released by Dress Circle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Ghostlight Records digitally releases the original Off-Broadway cast recording of Fancy Nancy The Musical, the children's show currently running at Vital Theatre Company, March 12. The a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Smash" and Wicked star Megan Hilty's new album, "It Happens All The Time," a collection of songs that will take listeners beyond the realm of theatre, gets released …
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As there always is, there was more to my interview with Nobel winner Elfriede Jelinek than I was able to fit into my Times piece. She asked, through her translator Gitta Honegger, if she cou…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]Ms. Christopher was a former actress, famous ex-wife and founder of Arthur, one of Manhattan's most popular celebrity nightclubs in the 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:47PM[SHARE]Two plays opened this past week that both could be considered political, in very different ways. "Ann" written by and starring Holland Taylor, offers a look at the improbable political caree…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PM[SHARE]In my third video interview, "Call Me Adam" sat down with rising Broadway and cabaret star Hunter Ryan Herdlicka at New York's famous Carlyle Hotel to talk about his new cabaret show "You Ma…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 11:10PM[SHARE]The Juilliard School today announced a 10 million gift that completes the endowment of the School's new four-year masters-level graduate program in Drama. The gift supports increased instruc…
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Coriolanus is full-throttle, action-driven theatre. It's like the video game "Call of Duty" but written by Shakespeare. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:55PM[SHARE]Nina Raine's play, in a David Cromer-directed production at Mark Taper Forum, is noisy but has quiet emotion from Susan Pourfar and Russell Harvard.In the intellectually raucous British hous…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30PM[SHARE]It's spring, the time of year when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of maniacal (but entertaining) lust for pain and degradation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PM[SHARE]The 27-year-old former American Idol runner-up comes out with a new album, and will start in Broadway show
SOURCE: www.enstarz.com at 10:17PM[SHARE]The German Club, AdelaideA couple of days after The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart exits the Adelaide festival, another poetic adaption roosts amongst the tables, chairs and steins of Wei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PM[SHARE]There is something thrillingly perverse about sitting in a plush red seat in a darkened theater that was founded by a committed socialist, surrounded by people who paid $55 for 80 minutes of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]
A year after director David Cromer brought Our Town to LA, he returns with Nina Raine's Tribes, an eye-opening play about a family who tends to drown out its one deaf member, at the Taper. M…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:59PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED "I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me," said war-hero-turned-president Andrew Jackson, a man whose personal and political lives were both defined by tumult. His …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:57PM[SHARE]What better way to excite young imaginations and introduce kids to the fun of creating in the kitchen than this gorgeous new cookbook from writer, healer and cook Nancy Mehagian? Review by P…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:44PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright premieres his new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It is a fictional play about the last days of legendary journalist Oriana Fallaci. Don't miss this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:41PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright premieres his new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It is a fictional play about the last days of legendary journalist Oriana Fallaci. Don't miss this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:35PM[SHARE]“Shaheed” means “martyr,” and that’s exactly what the late Benazir Bhutto was to the Pakistani people. Aware that she might be killed by her country’s Isl…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PM[SHARE]Don't stay at home, wallowing in the past. Take a cue from the play's theme and venture out to Jefferson Park for this wonderful theatrical experience. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:12PM[SHARE]WRITHING INTO REVELATION Alas, it's over " and way too soon. Luna Negra Dance Theater's 2013 spring program celebrated works by two contemporary Spanish choreographers: guest artist Ferna…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:07PM[SHARE]The 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 08:02PM[SHARE]For all the fretting about emotional clarity it contains, one can't help but wish that Neva contained a bit more of it....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM[SHARE]In his play The History Boys, Alan Bennett raised eyebrows with his sympathetic portrayal of Hector, the teacher forced to step down for fondling his teenage pupils.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00PM[SHARE]Anton Chekhov is a popular subject to parody and re-imagine these days. With Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” on Broadway and Annie Baker’s …
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00PM[SHARE]
According to Deadline.com, Law amp Order's S. Epatha Merkerson is in talks to play Marvin Gaye's mother in the biopic Sexual Healing, starring fellow Law amp Order actor Jesse L Martin and d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54PM[SHARE]International superstar Justin Timberlake had proven his adeptness at spectacularly hosting NBC late-night mainstay Saturday Night Live with his four previous very successful hosting gigs an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:38PM[SHARE]On Friday, March 22nd, 2013, please join Award winning Broadway stars David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Marvel 'Picnic'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21PM[SHARE]Producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter present the New York premiere of the new play, Hit The Wall by Ike Holter, a theatrical exploration of the first night of the 1969 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07PM[SHARE]Green day frontman and AMERICAN IDIOT composer Billie Joe Armstrong wowed crowds and made a major return to the stage following his recent stint in rehab and onstage meltdown at a Las Vegas …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PM[SHARE]The coy asterisk in the title of Target Margin Theater’s latest production is meant to promote mysterious fascination. The play in question, a classic of New York City’s Yiddish …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00PM[SHARE]
The League of Chicago Theatres announces the 2013 Spring Gala, an elegant, extravagant evening celebrating the 175th Anniversary of Chicago theater. This one-night-only event…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:52PM[SHARE]This weekend, Justin Timberlake hosted “Saturday Night Live” joining the “Five Timers Club.” Before the show, Steve Martin sent this photo via Instagram featuring LUC…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:48PM[SHARE]"The Drowsy Chaperone," " the highly entertaining Tony® Award winning musical " is coming to the glamorous new Arcadia Performing Arts Center for three nights only, Thursday March 21 thro…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:44PM[SHARE]Music legend Yoko Ono has teamed up with her son, Sean Lennon, as well as a host of celebrities in a new anti-fracking PSA aimed at disallowing legislation of the controversial, purportedly …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PM[SHARE]More than half a century after Graham Greene's The Living Room began its two-year run on the West End, Primavera and the Jermyn Street Theatre have brought back this interesting and chilling…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:28PM[SHARE]ANDREA CIRIE: As a stage actor, Ms. Cirie has worked in New York City, and at many of the top regional theatres in the country. Credits include classical roles as well as numerous contempora…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:27PM[SHARE]Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat and Condola Rashad are gearing up to star in The Trip to Bountiful on March 30 at the Step…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Hey, Broadway.com vlogger Kate Rockwell, is that a Jell-O shot in your pocket or are you happy to see us? Rockwell parties with her Rock of Ages co-stars as the '80s tuner becomes the 50…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:19PM[SHARE]Guillermo Calderon, the man behind the Public Theater’s haunting new political drama Neva, shares his inspiration for creating the show and why theater, art and revolution make for one…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:17PM[SHARE]International music icon and judge extraordinaire Simon Cowell has just unveiled the trailer for his newest reality singing competition, THE YOU GENERATION.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PM[SHARE]A long time ago a friend of mine said in passing that she believed many women fell in love with the men who fell in love with them first.Ain't that the truth. For Sally Talley (Sarah Paulso…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:01PM[SHARE]This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 3112013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PM[SHARE]The cast and creatives of the Broadway revival of Pippin met the press to preview the production fresh from its critically-acclaimed run at A.R.T. in Cambridge, MA. Directed by Diane Paulus,…
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David Ives'Â play at the Rep's Studio Theatre explores the games that men and women play.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:59PM[SHARE]Studio 7Arts presents an evening of 'Rock'N Roll amp Debauchery' April 24th at The Cutting Room beginning at 7PM. This exciting evening of magic, music and performance will be a collaborativ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PM[SHARE]CHICAGO onBroadway's recent Roxie Hart, Hollywood notable Rita Wilson, will headline a week of shows at 54 Below in April.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra" at the Royal George Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra" by Hershey Felder at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Valerie Harper, most recently on Broadway in a Tony-nominated turn in Looped — and diagnosed Jan. 15 with terminal brain cancer — is speaking out …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PM[SHARE]BWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 6 of our On the Road series, 'Diva' Brit West takes us on a tour of Pittsburgh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PM[SHARE]The Paley Center has announced its upcoming events for March-April 2013, including a Marvin Hamlisch tribute concert, the New York premiere screening of the documentary 'The Stages of Edward…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PM[SHARE]While this pseudo-revival of Cinderella teeters between contemporary dialogue and classic songs 'A Lovely Night,' 'In My Own Little Corner,' 'Ten Minutes Ago,' etc., the romantic choreograph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PM[SHARE]American Theater Company (ATC) announces new performance dates for its world premiere production of the revised version of columbinus, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, wit…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]The music of motown comes to Broadway tonight, when the aptly titled MOTOWN THE MUICAL begins previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Then on Thursday, March 14, Christopher Durang's VANYA AN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:27PM[SHARE]I Am Harvey Milk, a new choral piece with solo singers featuring music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa, will receive its world premiere with the San Francisco's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE] Hey theater cats! The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) is holding their Annual awards ceremony a week from tonight, on on Monday, March 18, 2013 at historic, heralded L…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:21PM[SHARE]Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, March 11, 2013 Today's Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway RTÂ @EBONYMag: ‘MOTOWN THE MUSICAL‘ h…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:20PM[SHARE]The Chicago Sinfonietta, under the direction of Music Director Mei-Ann Chen, examines the common struggle for human dignity by featuring works that reflect the history and beauty of th…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]ER vet Maura Tierney makes her Broadway debut this April in Lucky Guy, the final play by Nora Ephron, which also marks the Mainstem debut of co-star Tom Hanks as reporter Mike McAlary. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PM[SHARE]Rehearsals begin today for Bette Midler's return to Broadway in John Logan's new one-woman play I'LL EAT YOU LAST A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS, directed by Joe Mantello. In addition, Booth Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PM[SHARE]Three-time Tony winner Mel Brooks will be the focus of a new PBS documentary entitled Mel Brooks: Make a Noise. The film will provide an inside look at the EGOT winner’s 60 years in en…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:16PM[SHARE]See also:
*Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good
Mike Tyson's much-hyped one man Broadway show (and Spike Lee joint) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth came to L…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:08PM[SHARE]Tony Danza stars in a new musical by Jason Robert Brown
SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:04PM[SHARE]Maura Tierney stopped by this morning's THE VIEW on ABC to promote her upcoming Broadway play LUCKY GUY. Check out her appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PM[SHARE]This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Phoebe Cates in Gremlins. It’s hard to believe that Gremlins, that 80′s-era sorta goofyish/scaryish movie has a monol…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM[SHARE]AussieTheatre and Broadway Unplugged are thrilled to announce the winners of Project X heats 5 & 6. Coral Mercer-Jones (heat 5) and Charlotte Kerr (heat 6) have been voted as the winn…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]March finds the artistic and administrative team at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota focusing on two objectives: one is celebrating the power of art to sustain and uplift cult…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]Caissie Levy made her 54 Below debut on March 10 with a crowd-pleasing new show. Backed by a four-piece band and a backup singer, Levy blew the roof off the intimate club with a voice Broadw…
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Paper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director has just announced the lineup for its 75th Anniversary Season, featuring five musicals, at lea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PM[SHARE]Rhea Perlman, best known as Carla on the hit comedy series 'Cheers,' is set to star as Stella in the World Premiere of STELLA amp LOU at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie, opening May 10, 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PM[SHARE] Reviewed by: Russell Goeltenbodt Have you often wondered while you were in school how wonderful it would be to be a part of history rather than reading the stories from a textbook? …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:51PM[SHARE]The four charming girls who have been selected to share the part of Matilda in the new Broadway show Matilda The Musical (Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro) took …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PM[SHARE]Inside the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie “Catch Me If You Can” is the germ of a great idea for a Broadway show, since antihero Frank Abagnale Jr. ultimately turns out to be less…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:46PM[SHARE]A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Central California filed on March 11 a ruling that the producers of Jersey Boys were entitled to use a seve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PM[SHARE]The 30th Anniversary of Mama, I Want to Sing, the longest running off-Broadway Black musical in theater history, To Benefit The Mama Foundation for the Arts and the Gospel for Teens Program …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:43PM[SHARE]American Blues Theater, Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, proudly closes the Ensemble's 27th season with the Broadway version of the script Collected Stories by Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Some residents in Woodbridge, Conn., believe that "Sweeney Todd" is too violent for the students in the Amity Regional High School drama program.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PM[SHARE]GRIEF TURNS TO POETRY AND MUSIC Composer and poet Ricky Ian Gordon’s partner, Jeffrey Michael Grossi, died of AIDS in 1996, at the age of 32. In response, Gordon created, among his man…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:40PM[SHARE]Rita Wilson, an actress, singer, and producer, as well as the wife of actor Tom Hanks, has announced that she will be performing seven concerts at 54 Below, April 14-20. The concert appeara…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PM[SHARE]The fall 2012 Hartford Stage troupers of the new musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder reunited starting March 8 at The Old Globe in San Diego. Tony Award winner Jef…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PM[SHARE]The Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, will stage revivals of Grease, South Pacific, Oliver! and a remounting of the Off-Broadway production of The Other Josh Cohen as part of its 2013-20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]Director Neil Pepe and choreographer Sergio Trujillo talk about their shared vision for Broadway’s ‘Hands on a Hardbody.’ Inspired by true events, this new musical features…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:30PM[SHARE]The legendary Liza Minnelli will spend her 67th birthday appearing on The Joan Hamburg Show on Tuesday, March 12. The Joy Behar Show airs from 12Noon - 200PM EST on WOR-AM. Liza will be on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announce the cast for the world premiere of Stella & Lou, including Emmy…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for the first Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful. The play, directed by Michael Wilson, stars Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tony …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]Sunny and her understudy Casey move to New York to complete their training. After 8 weeks of rehearsal with Lilla Crawford (Annie) and Bill Berloni, these shelter dogs are ready to be Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:22PM[SHARE]The world premiere of the Broadway-bound musical Honeymoon in Vegas will kick off the 2013-14 season at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. Starring Tony Danza and directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]For the past two decades, a touring show from the Cirque du Soleil has typically arrived in Chicago every other year. The most recent production was "Ovo" in 2011, performed in the parking l…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Ike Holter’s acclaimed play Hit the Wall opened at the Barrow Street Theatre on March 10. The play is set on the first night of the historic Stonewall Riots an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]Rehearsals begin today for Bette Midler's return to Broadway in John Logan's new one-woman play I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS, directed by Joe Mantello. In addition, Booth Theat…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:10PM[SHARE]Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PM[SHARE]KERRY REID reviews "Coriolanus" by the Hypocrites at the Chopin Theater ★★★
If the truculent titular warrior in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" has a parallel in American poli…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:04PM[SHARE]Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 3102013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PM[SHARE]KERRY REID reviews "Analog" by the Neo-Futurists ★★½
The dance between self-revelation and self-indulgence has taken several forms over the years with the Neo-Futurists, but …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PM[SHARE]Megan Hilty is making her solo album debut with It Happens All the Time, due out March 12. The Broadway powerhouse and Smash star stopped by The View on March 11 to promote the album by sing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]
Nathan Lane and director Jack O’Brien answer the question “What is a Nance?” Douglas Carter Beane‘s The Nance recreates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque’…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:57PM[SHARE]The 52nd Street Project pairs kids living in Hell's Kitchen with theater professionals who mentor them through the creation of original theater. Running from April 4-7, the organization's Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PM[SHARE]Luna Negra Dance Theatre continued to prove themselves as one of the preeminent latino dance companies in this country with their program "Made in Spain," which featured work by two conte…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:45PM[SHARE]Roundabout 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–w…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:45PM[SHARE]Looks like Lucky Guy is going to be quite the hot ticket. Nora Ephron's final play, in which Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut, took in over $1 million in ticket sales during the drama&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]"The Last Will,'' the final play in Robert Brustein's Shakespeare trilogy, will open off-Broadway April 17 in a production by Abingdon Theatre Company, to be directed by Austin Pendleton. Th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:32PM[SHARE]As you take your seat at the Royal George Theatre for "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra," Hershey Felder's unique meditation on this country's resilient spirit, the devastation of t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:30PM[SHARE]Rhea Perlman, the actress best known for playing Carla on the NBC comedy "Cheers," is to star in a show at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie this spring.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PM[SHARE]The March 12 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," which is titled "The Fringe," will air at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PM[SHARE]The Great White Way is about to get kinkier The new musical Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PM[SHARE]Premiering nationwide Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9 p.m. ETPT on PBS check local listings, American Masters Mel Brooks Make a Noise features new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleague…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PM[SHARE]All data provided by The Broadway League
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful will begin previews March 30 the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PM[SHARE]If Heart Shaped Nebula Were A Sculpture...If my play were a sculpture I think it might look something like this: Light After Death: Mihoko Ogaki's 'Milky Way' Figures Project Stars from With…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 03:08PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson announced CST's full 2013-2014 season, World's Stage Series, and Spirit of Shakesp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:06PM[SHARE]Latino Theater Company's Melancholia examines a recent LA veteran's struggle to survive PTSD after he returns home. Initially produced in 2007, it's begin revived in LATC's Basement Gall…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:05PM[SHARE]The box office is open again at Stephen Sondheim Theatre, which has been dark since Anything Goes closed on July 8, 2012. Horton Foote‘s The Trip To Bountiful began selling tickets tod…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:00PM[SHARE]
Broadway bandleader Charlie Rosen (One Man Two Guvnors) will return to 54 Below for an evening of modern and classic show tunes, sung by the best and brightest Broadway stars and accompanied…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PM[SHARE]It seems that Broadway audiences love a good murderess. Theatregoers during the run of the interactive murder-mystery musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood named Rosa Bud the killer more o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PM[SHARE]'Smash' star Megan Hilty visited ABC's THE VIEW this morning to perform 'No Cure', the new single from her debut album, 'It Happens All The Time.' Check out the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PM[SHARE]Broadway's big names are people too. They do silly things with Photoshop. They Instagram their food. They even take selfies! If you spent your weekend fantasizing about what your life would…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PM[SHARE]Mankind’s saddest occasion will be decidedly funnier when playwright Anthony J. Wilkinson opens his newest comedy My Big Gay Italian Funeral—the sequel to his hit off-Broadway sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is excited to announce that LUV has officially landed in Branson, Missouri! The Branson Community rolled out the red carpet today as Congressman Billy L…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Broadway.com took a trip to Sardi’s on March 11 to meet the talented new cast of Horton Foote’s 1953 play The Trip to Bountiful. Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, Oscar winner Cuba Goodi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher has been tapped to direct a Broadway revival of My Fair Lady, Grammy-winning producer Clive Davis confirmed to Showbiz411.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]The supremely talented singer and pianist Michael Feinstein collaborates with legendary composer-conductor-pianist André Previn for an album celebrating Previn's repertoire from his lesser-…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]Anatoly Iksanov, the theater's general director, told Russian television that he doesn't believe that the mastermind behind the January acid attack on Sergei Filin, the ballet company's arti…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PM[SHARE]Stark Sands received a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut as a young soldier in the World War I drama Journey’s End. He went on to star opposite Anne Hathaway in the Public Theater…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PM[SHARE]In his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck taught us about the Okies, the Oklahoma farmers who sought refuge in California in the wake of the Dust Bowl, an ecological disaster tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM[SHARE]
Welsh-born actor and Richard Burton's first wife, she moved to the US after their split and co-founded a famous New York disco Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PM[SHARE]Welsh-born actor and Richard Burton's first wife, she moved to the US after their split and co-founded a famous New York discoSybil Christopher, who has died aged 83, was the injured party i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PM[SHARE]The cast of Broadway's upcoming revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful met the press on Monday, March 11 at the theater district eatery Sardi's. Directed by Michael Wils
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PM[SHARE]TweetI wasn’t actually alive yet when the Love Boat was on tv, but it was one of those shows that always had a million guest stars on it. On one episode they decided to have their own …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 01:51PM[SHARE]Lawrence Batley, HuddersfieldIf one were to define a vision of hell, it might be a perpetual Sunday afternoon listening to Cliff Adams's vocal ensemble singing something simple on Radio 2. W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThanks to a flurry of co-productions between theatres in Scotland, Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum is currently associated with two top-quality ensembles. While Mark Thomson'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]A week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]I saw this on Pinterest and couldn't think of a better place to share it. This is an animatic, which is a moving storyboard used in the creation of some animated films. This one …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]New choreographies from Liam Scarlett and Russell Maliphant highlight the skill and devotion of the young dancers of 'The Talent', writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:42PM[SHARE]Erick Avari, Sorab Wadia and more will bring Bollywood to the off-Broadway stage in Bunty Berman Presents…, a new musical featuring a book and lyrics by Ayub Khan Din, and music by Kh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]In just under two weeks, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project ensemble, led by Artistic Director Stephen Burns, teams up with West African music and dance experts to present Afro-…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]The Stephen Sondheim Theatre will soon be home to the upcoming Broadway revival of Horton Foote's beloved classic, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for the off-Broadway drama Nikolai and the Others. The play, directed by David Cromer and written by Richard Nelson, stars Tony winners Michael Cerveris and John…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson announced today CST's 2013/14 Season, which includes William Shake…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]The Skivvies just made their Los Angeles debut at the Rockwell Table amp Stage on March 4 at with special guests, Laura Benanti, Daisy Eagan, Barrett Foa amp more. Click below to watch all o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PM[SHARE]Theatre Confetti's first offering, about kids trying to be adutls, features a fine cast of adults playing kids persuasively, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Actor, writer and comedian Leslie Jordan has returned to London with his new one-man show Fruit Fly, which runs at Leicester Square Theatre from tomorrow (12 March 2013) until Saturday
Wher…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:05PM[SHARE]Whoever says women aren't funny hasn't watched The Daily Show. The polarizing topic of gender and comedy was addressed Christopher Hitchen's 2009 article in Vanity Fair, where the late Hitch…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:03PM[SHARE]THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards® including Best Musical, has broken the house record in Rochester for the week ending March 10 at the Auditorium Theatre. The First National…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:00PM[SHARE]A 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 01:00PM[SHARE]A 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…
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Broadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:56PM[SHARE]You’ve read all about Tom Hanks’ Broadway debut in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, but how much do you really know about the man behind the drama? Pulitzer Prize-winning colu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:51PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher has been tapped to direct a Broadway revival of My Fair Lady, Grammy-winning producer Clive Davis confirmed to Showbiz411.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM[SHARE]Before seeing them onstage at the Shubert Theatre, meet the four girls sharing the title role of MATILDA THE MUSICAL on Broadway. Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:34PM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Ike Holter's rock-propelled gay rights drama Hit the Wall, set in the early hours of the Stonewall Riots, opened March 10 at the Barrow Street Theatre &ndas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Another new musical is set to begin previews on Broadway tonight as Motown: The Musical starts performances before an audience at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The Berry Gordy penned book has u…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:33PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the world-premiere musical Bunty Berman Presents…, penned by Olivier Award nominee Ayub Khan Din and Grammy and Emmy Award winner Paul Bogaev, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Solas Nua Presents: Tonight, March 11 – Reading of New Play by Seamus Collins The Man Who Monday, March 11, 2013, 7:30 pm At Flashpoint – Mead Theater Lab, 916 G Street, NW, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27PM[SHARE]Â Â By Linda Amiel Burns Steven Reineke leads the New York Pops as it swings into spring with a concert featuring Megan Hilty and Ryan Silverman.The NY Pops' first concert of 2013 began…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:27PM[SHARE]New casting has been announced for the forthcoming premiere of 60s jukebox musical Carnaby Street, which runs at Hackney Empire from 6 to 14 April 2013 before embarking on a UK tour.Replacin…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:17PM[SHARE]Just days after Valerie Harper announced she is living with terminal brain cancer, the brave actress of stage and screen gave an exclusive interview with The Today Show anchor Sava…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PM[SHARE]Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â By Linda Amiel Burns Jackie Hoffman stars in "Scraping the Bottom at Baruch!" as part of Baruch's Performing Arts Center series 'So…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:06PM[SHARE]Producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter present the New York premiere of the new play, Hit The Wall by Ike Holter, a theatrical exploration of the first night of the 1969 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PM[SHARE]At The Hansberry Project, we present the work of Black playwrights. We produce Black plays. We produce Black plays because we believe that black theater artists"artfully expressing their obs…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM[SHARE]
Children from the Garden of Dreams Foundation auditioned on February 27 in front of celebrities and Broadway stars for a coveted spot in the Foundation's Annual Talent Show on April 16 at Ra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AM[SHARE]Health and wellness guru — and sweat mistress of TV’s “The Biggest Loser” — Jillian Michaels will bring her “Maximize Your Life” tour to the Bu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AM[SHARE]The gossip queen is a unique expert on the Broadway season If you’re looking for an expert on this spring’s Broadway plays, then start with Liz Smith. Not because she wrote the s…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:52AM[SHARE]The music is unmistakable. A quick drum lick pattern introduces a characteristic, throbbing beat that says steel drums and a relaxed island atmosphere. The words insist on a benevolent compl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM[SHARE]Get ready, 'cause here it comes- MOTOWN THE MUSICAL that is MOTOWN begins preview performances tonight, March 11 and will open on Broadway on April 14, 2013 at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AM[SHARE]Double, double, toil and trouble…Things are about to get creepy at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre thanks to Macbeth star Alan Cumming, and the Tony winner will share the spooky expe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Luck Be a Lady: Megan Hilty Sings Sinatra and More, featuring the "Smash" and Wicked star backed by the New York Pops, was presented March 8 at Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AM[SHARE]Founded in 1960 by songwriter Berry Gordy, Detroit's Motown Records primed such iconic acts as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Trey Anastasio is making his Broadway composing debut with the score of the new musical Hands on a Hardbody, which opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on March 21. Anastasio, who's also…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo, star of London's The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies, will kick off his 2013 concert tour April 22 at The Federal in North Hollywood, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]REVIEW: “Yellow Fever” parodies the noir style to make a serious case about the racism that affected Canada’s Japanese community.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:29AM[SHARE]My trusty colleagues have been doing double duty covering shows I had to cancel after a misstep on the subway put me into a surgical boot to heal a&…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:26AM[SHARE]Travels With My Aunt, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same name, is to be revived at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, beginning performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]ShaRell Productions (Sandi Durell & Shari Upbin) is thrilled to presentBROADWAY LIVE! The Songs, The Shows, The Stars at the newly restored Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverh…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AM[SHARE]Travels With My Aunt, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same name, is to be revived at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, beginning performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Christopher Luscombe will helm the stage adaptation of Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. The production will begin performances on May 2, wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]The new play Hit the Wall celebrated its opening night off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre on Sunday, March 10, 2013. Directed by Eric Hoff and written by Ike Holter, the play originat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19AM[SHARE]The U.K.'s Shakespeare's Globe is to take two new productions of King Lear (starring Joseph Marcell in the title role) and The Taming of the Shrew (presented by an all-female cast) o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Cabaret shows with a theme, from "The Songs of Jule Styne" to "The Great Ladies of the Silver Screen," are the staples of many of an uptown venue. But leave it to the always original, always…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AM[SHARE]Cabaret shows with a theme, from "The Songs of Jule Styne" to "The Great Ladies of the Silver Screen," are the staples of many of an uptown venue. But leave it to the always original, always…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AM[SHARE]A new website designed to help people find qualified dance teachers has been launched. The Dance Register acts as a search engine by providing an online directory of local teachers, artists …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AM[SHARE]Ultimately, "The Elimination" is less a literary effort than an act of witness by both writer and reader.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AM[SHARE]Get ready, 'cause here it comes Tony Award-nominee Brandon Victor Dixon 'The Color Purple' stars as Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr. in MOTOWN THE MUSICAL featuring the classic hits of that …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AM[SHARE]Jason Robert Brown's beloved musical The Last Five Years is officially back off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, starring Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor! To celebrate the show's l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]Producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter present the New York premiere of the new play, Hit The Wall by Ike Holter, a theatrical exploration of the first night of the 1969 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AM[SHARE]Graham Linehan’s stage adaptation of the classic comedy The Ladykillers will return to the West End this summer for a run at the Vaudeville Theatre. The show will begin previews on Jun…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]A great lesson in business comes to us today from a new company called Pogoseat, who has developed some brand new software that could have a serious application in the theater. Remember that…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The 86th Street Barnes & Noble hosted the March 8 cast album release event for the new 2012 Broadway cast recording of Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of The Myst…
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Producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter present the New York premiere of the new play, Hit The Wall by Ike Holter, a theatrical exploration of the first night of the 1969 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AM[SHARE]Broadway is getting a major dose of star power this season with performances from Tom Hanks and Alec Baldwin in Lucky Guy and Orphans, respectively. But while they’re in New York, thes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AM[SHARE]The scantily-clad music duo The Skivvies made their Los Angeles debut March 4 with special guests including Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Daisy Eagan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tom Wopat joins host Robin Milling to talk about his new CD, I've Got Your Number; a cool collection of classic standards, with renditions of artists like Bruce Springsteen (The Meeting Acro…
SOURCE: BlogTalkRadio at 10:49AM[SHARE]Screen stars Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce are returning to their theatrical roots to star in the new Broadway play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The Oscar nominee and the To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:49AM[SHARE]Bestselling author William Boyd's adaptation of two short stories by Chekhov, titled Longing, premiered at Hampstead Theatre last week (8 March 2013).
When Kolia is invited to visit his old…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan, Tony nominee Robin de Jesus and "Glee" actor Telly Leung are among the performers who will take part in the inaugural evening of The Supper Club: Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 2013-14 season will feature The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, Harry Groener as Cyrano de Bergerac and a simultaneous pairing of works by Stephen Sondheim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Just putting on stage a full complement of performances is enough to tax us. And mid-season is when we (should) acknowledge where we are falling short in terms of financial performance.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42AM[SHARE]MOTOWN THE MUSICAL begins preview performances tonight, March 11 and will open on Broadway on April 14, 2013 at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46 Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending March 10, 2013: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm ANN $337,687 6,536 73.41% $51.67 ANNIE $790,117 9,786 71.62% $80.74…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:35AM[SHARE]A former army sniper recently returned from Afghanistan finally finds a job...on a monstrously cynical right-wing political campaign.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:35AM[SHARE]Olivier award-winning actor Bertie Carvel is leading a campaign aimed at preventing performers having to work two shows on a Sunday. Equity and the Society of London Theatre's proposed settl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AM[SHARE]Everybody panics. It's a pretty natural thing in any enterprise. What I've learned about it, is that you need to really be careful of when you choose to hit that panic button. There are very…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AM[SHARE]One of Helen Mirren's four-legged co-stars in the new play "The Audience"Â apparently has been fired after it failed to obey the actress' royal commands in her role as Queen Elizabeth II.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AM[SHARE]Today is Shemp’s birthday! For more on his involvement with the Three Stooges see my article here. What didn’t really get covered in that post is Shemp’s awesome solo caree…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) " From a starting field of nearly 1,500 aspiring opera singers across the country, it came down to 10 " three sopranos, one tenor and six deep male voices " on the stage of the…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:19AM[SHARE]The scene-stealing corgis in The Audience are a reminder that while audiences love a star, they love a cute animal even moreThe Audience has had mixed reviews, but Helen Mirren and the corgi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tickets for the Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful are now on sale at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre Box Office. Set to begin previews on March 30 and to open on April 23, its four-pers…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]
Today at 2pm Eastern, TCM is screening a bit of show business history. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) was Jack Benny’s last feature film, and was so legendarily bad that Benny immor…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:58AM[SHARE]Picture yourself stuck in a run down 100 seat movie theatre in Worcester County, Massachusetts in the summer of 2012. You are hidden from view, and you cannot speak, so for 3 hours you must …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AM[SHARE]Well Kinkettes a potential name for the fans of the Broadway musical Kinky Boots... thoughts, all good things must come to a pro tempore end. And thus, I give you the final installation of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51AM[SHARE]For ten hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humor and ambition, they'll fight to keep at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51AM[SHARE]This observer had trouble sussing out the cerebral depths that playwright Annie Baker intended in her quite funny meditation Body Awareness at the Island City Stage/Empire Stage production. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:47AM[SHARE]… Nothingness is a profoundly political notion. It is an implicit critique of a social order obscenely bulging with matter. In Beckett’s case, of course, it has a more particular…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:43AM[SHARE]Elaine Paige is a rarity among the many that tread the boards on Broadway and the West End not only in terms of her sheer vocal power, but also a power of a different sort " her staying powe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30AM[SHARE]I'm very fascinated by the recent discussion of working for exposure/free that has kicked up. This is a particularly vital conversation for the arts because so many artistic fields rely on a…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AM[SHARE]When we last spoke with Cinderella's Cody Williams, he was in the midst of rehearsals for the show. (Click HERE for Part I, and HERE for Part II.) This time around, he shares the …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:30AM[SHARE]In an interview on this morning's TODAY show, Savannah Guthrie sat down with Valerie Harper, the Broadway and TV star who has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Harper told Guthrie abo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AM[SHARE]Lizzy the corgi, the dog in West End's THE AUDIENCE, was replaced just days before opening night at London's Gielgud Theatre because she would not obey stage directions.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AM[SHARE]Neva, Guillermo Calderon’s political drama about actors and revolutionaries in Russia, opens at the Public Theater on March 11. The production marks the English language premiere …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24AM[SHARE]Motown: The Musical begins Broadway performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on March 11. The new show chronicles the life of Berry Gordy, Motown's legendary founder who launched …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:21AM[SHARE]Here’s the list of this year’s Top 32 actors who will compete on Championship 2013 Sunday Sunday, April 7, 2013, 6pm-8pm The Miracle Theatre, Washington, DC John C. B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19AM[SHARE]A post in honor of Women’s History Month. Beatrice Herford (1868-1952) was one of the very first women monologists, i.e., comical storytellers of the modern stage. The daught…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:14AM[SHARE]
Written by Karen Feld Thirty talented women pay tribute to songwriter and cabaret performer Amanda McBroom over four evenings and two weekends at the intimate Laurie Beechman T…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:59AM[SHARE]In an interview with The Wrap published yesterday, Brooks came closer than ever to confirm that he will be bringing a stage adaptation of his 1974 satirical Western comedy 'Blazing Saddles' …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AM[SHARE]Irwin and Shiner put a spade to their clowning roots and grow a brilliant new piece that has one foot in the past, one in the present, and surely plants them in the genealogical line of grea…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:49AM[SHARE]The time is coming - maybe sooner than you expect - when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don't think "Harry Potter."
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:40AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street Theatre will host the London premiere of Alexander Marshall's And in the End - The Death and Life of John Lennon in May.
Set in the final moments of Lennon's life after his 19…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:39AM[SHARE]The Kennedy Center will be offering a season of proven box-office successes for the 2013-2014 season, Center President Michael Kaiser announced last week. The season, which will also be Kais…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AM[SHARE]The Morecambe and Wise BBC Television shows, dozens of which were produced by John Ammonds, are now regarded as leading examples of the golden age of television " especially the Christmas sp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street Theatre will host the London premiere of Alexander Marshall's And in the End - The Death and Life of John Lennon in May.
Set in the final moments of Lennon's life after his 19…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:35AM[SHARE] "MY VIEW'  written by Stephen Sorokoff "Call Security"   If you've been to Cast Party at Birdland you know that's the "ad lib" that Jim Caruso shouts out w…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:27AM[SHARE]Big League Productions, Inc. in association with Troika Entertainment produce the national tour of Hair directed by Diane Paulus
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25AM[SHARE]She has incurable cancer, but Valerie Harper says she's not ready to say good-bye and she's keeping herself open to a miracle.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:24AM[SHARE]Time Out Chicago announces that Chicago Shakespeare Theater will produce that American musical comedy classic, Gypsy, along with Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show, a show that got one of it…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:24AM[SHARE]Royal Opera House, London: Premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2012, George Benjamin's first full-scale opera arrives at Covent Garden in the same production - staged by K…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AM[SHARE]Broadway star tweets she is 'completely devastated' after British shows called off at last minuteTony-award winner Kristin Chenoweth has been forced to cancel her UK tour three days before h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM[SHARE]Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth's planned UK tour has been cancelled, only days before her first performance at the London Coliseum. Chenoweth had been due to play the Coliseum tonight (Marc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AM[SHARE]Jermyn Street Theatre, London: The living room is a room in which no one has died. Helen and Teresa Browne, with the concurrence of their priest-brother James (symbolically cut off at the kn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AM[SHARE]Rose Bankside, London: House on the Hill's production of Christopher Marlowe's first play is solidly done, if a little frayed at the edges. Taking place above the archaeological re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AM[SHARE]The Carriageworks, Leeds: Time spent on remand in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison led to Ben Tagoe writing about humans living in a harsh system, where the first instinct is survival and emoti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AM[SHARE]Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM[SHARE]
The Queen's own PR machine could not do more for her standing than this play. . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:42AM[SHARE]There are some lovely things in it, and there's one riotous surge of profane comic energy, but a faint sense of disappointment lingers over this much-anticipated reunion of director Tom Morr…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:39AM[SHARE]Yesterday I was meant to be facilitating a discussion with a senior relationship manager of the Arts Council for the MA Arts Management students that I lead in their course. At 1.30 for…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:33AM[SHARE]Gretchen Parlato, winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, has toured internationally with her own band and as a guest of many world-renowned artists; …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21AM[SHARE]Well, if I'd gone away for the weekend I wouldn't have had nearly so much fun. It all started on Friday night with the London premiere of George Benjamin's extraordinary opera, Written on Sk…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:18AM[SHARE]MS Stubnitz, Wood Wharf, London: Woolwich-based AirCraft Circus has chosen a novel and atmospheric venue in the MS Stubnitz. Climbing aboard a former East German fishing vessel on a freezing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AM[SHARE]The Ladykillers, a 2011 stage version of the iconic 1955 Ealing film comedy that was subsequently remade by the Coen Brothers in 2004 in a version that starred Tom Hanks, is to return to the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11AM[SHARE]LONDON (AP) -- The time is coming - maybe sooner than you expect - when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don't think "Harry Potter."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:05AM[SHARE]LONDON " The time is coming " maybe sooner than you expect " when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don't think "Harry Potter."The 23-year-old actor has gone from boy wizard to Broadway hoof…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 06:04AM[SHARE]
Hackney Empire, London: It is a reflection of English Touring Opera's enterprising outlook that the last of its three spring tour operas, Donizetti's The Siege of Calais, is receiv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]Grahame Greene's first play is 60 years old, but a period piece of such power and warped Catholic emotional intensity that not even the loss of lighting for the first act at a weekend matin&…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:25AM[SHARE]Among this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Burn the Floor, the West End transfer of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the Young…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:17AM[SHARE]Graham Linehan’s stage adaptation of Ealing Comedy The Ladykillers is to return to the West End this summer. The production, which is directed by Sean Foley and produced by Edward Snap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Chuckle muscles at the ready, I prepared to be simultaneously tickled and enlightened by David Mitchell's History of British Comedy. Sadly, however, it turned out to be an all-too-familiar t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Two extraordinary companies"San Francisco's Alonzo King LINES Ballet (ethereal, neoclassical) and Chicago's own Hubbard Street (grounded, contemporary)"merge into a supergroup of…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM[SHARE]
The Barrow Street Theatre is so close to the Stonewall Inn, where gay Americans famously fought back in 1969, you could carry over your Stella to the theater without the beer losing any of i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:21AM[SHARE]DRG Records has released the new 2013 Broadway cast recording of Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical comedy The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01AM[SHARE]Richard Powell, my first music teacher, died eight years ago, on which occasion I wrote about what brought the two...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM[SHARE]The word "jazz" first started to appear regularly in print a century ago this month. On Saturday, the weekend edition...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM[SHARE]Kristin Chenoweth's UK tour was canceled on Friday, just three days before it was set to start today, March 11. The tour's promoter, Spekulation Entertainment, released a press announcing th…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:00AM[SHARE]"The Music Box," starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and directed by James Parrott: (This is the latest in a...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM[SHARE]"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM[SHARE]Diving Practice With The Stars of "Splash"
Only a show like "Splash" could bring together the likes of actors, beauty queens, Playboy models, and extreme athletes! We're on set of the ABC ce…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM[SHARE]"REVENGE" Star Nick Wechsler Gets Personal
Actor Nick Wechsler drops by the Studio and gets triple the Young Hollywood treatment! Three of our own biggest "Revenge" fans get to know Nick a l…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM[SHARE]Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, March 11, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AM[SHARE]
Overall, though, Analog is a breathtakingly unusual, wonderfully and cleverly written, solidly entertaining piece that will get in your head and stay there. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:46AM[SHARE]Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, March 10, 2013 - Sunday, March 10, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AM[SHARE]nothing is impossible when you are imaginative, bold, wild and cleverby Estelle RosenBelzébrute defines itself as a theatre band that enjoys creating great shows on small budgets. Through i…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AM[SHARE]Target Margin Theater continues the exploration of Yiddish theatre The (*) Inn, *empty, vacant, abandoned; usually translated as "Haunted" by Peretz Hirschbein, officially opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]The Week in Theatreby Chris Lane@chrislanetweetsAn ousting: The Manitoba Theatre for Young People has unexpectedly dismissed their artistic director and company founder, Leslee Silverman. Sh…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AM[SHARE]If you were living in a cave or away from all media for the last two or so decades you may not know that Two Pianos, Four Hands is a Canadian cultural phenomenon that has even blossomed beyo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM[SHARE]ME: Hi, Dr. Albert.
MARV ALBERT: A playoff atmosphere in here tonight!
ME: Well, it’s been a tough week. My mother came to visit me.
MARV ALBERT: From downtown!
ME: And, of course,…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Songwriter Scott Alan, who recently relocated to Nashville, returns to Los Angeles' Rockwell March 11 for an evening celebrating his compositions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1930 Edward Franklin Albee, vaudeville producer and theatre owner, dies today in Palm Beach, Florida. He joined B.F. Keith in the presentation of variety shows and by 1920 had a vaudeville c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Public Theater's English-language premiere of Neva, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón, officially opens March 11 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Nick Adams, Ashley Brown, Jessica Rush and Michael James Scott star in a one-night-only concert presentation of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World March 11 at X…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Motown, the new hit-filled jukebox musical about the life and career of music mogul Berry Gordy, starring Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and Valisia LaKae, begins Broadway previews March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alice Ripley, whose recent Off-Broadway credits include A Civil War Christmas and Wild Animals You Should Know, plays Manhattan's Cutting Room March 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway Musicals of 1961, part of the acclaimed Broadway by the Year series, is presented March 11 at The Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Second Annual Spotlight on St. Jude, Broadway's Tribute to the Kids, is presented March 11 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company presents its annual 2013 spring gala, A Celebration of Your Favorites, emceed by Tony winner Alan Cumming (Cabaret), March 11 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The box office for the Broadway production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, which will begin previews March 30 the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, opens for business March 11 at 10 AM …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Former boxer Mike Tyson tours the country with his Spike Lee-directed solo show Undisputed Truth, in which he talks about his hard-knock life in and out of the ring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Target Margin Theater continues the exploration of Yiddish theatre The (*) Inn, *empty, vacant, abandoned; usually translated as "Haunted" by Peretz Hirschbein, officially opening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Songwriter Scott Alan, who recently relocated to Nashville, returns to Los Angeles' Rockwell March 11 for an evening celebrating his compositions.
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