Summertime Entertainment has inked a deal with Clarius Entertainment for a wide theatrical release, with significant prints amp advertising support in the U.S. and Canada, for the 3-D animat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56PMBased on his 1995 memoir "To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown," Berry Gordy’s Motown: The Musical charts his rise to the top of a Detroit-based record empire that def…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29PM“The Flick,” Annie Baker’s new work at Playwrights Horizons, focuses on the lives of three workers at a film theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThere are last-minute changes, and then there are, well, really last-minute changes. When two cast members of Signature Theatre’s “Crimes of the Heart” left the show for personal reaso…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:01PMDominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67,” at the Public Theater, sets its story of a fraying relationship between an adult brother and sister in a vividly specific place.
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William Moody, better known as the professional wrestling manager Paul Bearer, who could summon supernatural powers from an urn of cremated ashes whenever his 6-foot-10, 299-pound client, th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:50PML. A. THEATER RISES FROM THE DEAD With an assemblage of the bravest actors in Los Angeles, Zombie Joe returns with an all-new Urban Death, the naturalistic horror show in the style of Le Th�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:46PMAcclaimed stage and film star Alfred Molina may be lining up a new job. According to Deadline, Molina, the current star of TNT's MONDAY MORNINGS, has entered late negotiations to star opposi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44PMFlamenco dance combines choreography with improvised solos to a three-part harmony of guitar, singing, and dancing with the rhythm of handclaps, known as palmas, and of the dancers’ step p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PMChicago-spawned and now Brooklyn-based art duo Cupola Bobber (the collaboration of Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers) perform their latest project The Field, the Mantel this weekend, March 1…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 09:23PMThe Celebrity Series of Boston offers top-notch artists and performing ensembles from around the world. With a Russian at the helm, it is no surprise that the Shostakovich Concerto would mat…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:19PMLaura Pels Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about unrequited love is staged in a classic pro…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:15PM"If you drink it back in three sips, it goes down smoother than oil," says Caroline, a character in the Public LAB's Detroit '67, describing the proper way to finish off a Bali Hai cocktail.…
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In 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder,' he portrays nine aristocrats bumped off by an ambitious relative. It requires a certain pallor and a lot of color.While Jefferson Mays was perfor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:48PMChristopher Rivas and Aryiel Hartman star in an erotic psychological thriller at Los Angeles' Bootleg Theatre.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:41PMThose who have seen the previous gently-paced, meticulous, near miraculous collaborations between playwright Annie Baker and director Sam Gold — “Circle Mirror Transformation,” “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PMAtlanta's nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre will host its 5th annual A Tony Evening at the Woodruff Arts Center on May 18, 2013. The event benefits the Alliance Theatre's educational pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12PMNEW YORK (AP) — If you're getting repeatedly passed over for promotion in a tedious job by younger co-workers, you'll find a lot to relate to in Annie Baker's latest play, "The Flick."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:11PMNEW YORK (AP) -- If you're getting repeatedly passed over for promotion in a tedious job by younger co-workers, you'll find a lot to relate to in Annie Baker's latest play, "The Flick.".…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:09PMThe New York Choral Society NYCS announced today that award-winning stage and screen star Kathleen Turner will introduce Ralph Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony at Carnegie Hall on April 25 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMAccording to Deadline.com, The Office's Jenna Fischer will be starring in Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Happy off-Broadway at MCC Theater's Lucille Lortel Theater, beginning May 16, the same n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMTwo years after its world premiere, the Royal Ballet's first full-length creation in two decades is back at the Royal Opera House, and this time it is coming to a cinema near you. Alice's Ad…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00PMPlaywright Annie Baker pushes her deliberately anti-theatrical approach to drama past the breaking point in “The Flick,” which spends three hours and 15 minutes detailing the ban…
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Mae West is a lingering icon of a very different time who was well ahead of her time. Remembered for her sex appeal, her early, no-holds-barred feminism, and her bawdy double-entendres, West…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:57PMWe’ll admit it. We’re bored to death with Broadway. Winter is always dull, but this year the fall was just as bad. It feels like forever since we loved ourselves a new show. Prob…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 07:38PMLike heaven and hell, purgatory can look like many things. But who would have expected it to so closely resemble a movie theater?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMHad Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson collaborated on a play, the resulting work might have looked a lot like Detroit '67.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMThe Detroit race riots seem like fertile territory for heated conflict, but Dominique Morisseau’s witty “Detroit ’67” stays on simmer. The riots take a back seat, ent…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30PMIn a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter at South by Southwest, Broadway favorite Aaron Tveit chatted about his upcoming USA series, 'Graceland.' On crossing over from stage to scre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25PMFor Jennifer Leigh Warren, "having it all" doesn't mean the same thing as it did for Helen Gurley Brown, whose book of the same name provided the title for the musical that Warren is in at L…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:17PMSignature Theatre has announced a one-week extension for THE MOUND BUILDERS written by Lanford Wilson and directed by Jo Bonney. The production will now play through Sunday, April 14. The pr…
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Finally touched base with Staten Island on my Park Odyssey blog. It was only a matter of time.
SOURCE: jonsobel.com at 06:55PMTheo Ubique Cabaret Theatre may very well be the physically smallest Chicago venue producing musicals. But it has an opera house-size mentality that is downright irresistible. The very notio…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:54PMCasting is announced for Westport Country Playhouse's Script in Hand playreading of the romantic comedy 'Beau Jest' by James Sherman, a former actorwriter for Chicago's Second City, on one-n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMPatrick Phillips interviews composer Stephen Schwartz and biographer Carol de Giere about Schwartz's career, his current projects, and the biography "Defying Gravity."
SOURCE: patrickphillipsshow.com at 06:44PMThere are few performers around that can captivate an audience more than Suzanne Petri. Possessing a sultry, sexy and powerful alto voice, Ms. Petri seems to get better every time I see …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:17PMThe Office's Jenna Fischer has found her first post-Dunder Mifflin job. Deadline.com reports that Fischer is heading off-Broadway to lead Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:15PMThis week on Smash, the drama continues as each character is faced with new challenges and Broadway vets Sean Hayes, Jesse L. Martin, Daniel Sunjata, and Nikki Blonsky guest star.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMAs a successful politician who returns to his old prep school, Peter Rini gives us his take on A.R. Gurney’s The Old Boy and why the play is just as relevant as when it debuted in 1991.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMRenowned hotelier Robert 'Toshi' Chan, owner of the Flatiron Hotel, in conjunction with producer Darrel Alejandro Holnes, presents Understudies amp Swingers at Toshi's Living Room. Taking pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMFAKE BOOK COMES TO TRUE LIFE Published in Paris in 1894, The Songs of Bilitis is a book of poems and epitaphs describing the life and loves of an ancient lesbian heroine named Bilitis. With …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:11PMRenowned musical theatre composerlyricist, Scott Alan and Broadway star, Caissie Levy, perform music from Scott's extensive original songbook and share the inspiration and stories behind the…
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Kyle Riabko will interpret the music of Burt Bacharach as part of New York Theatre Workshop's 2013-14 season, which will also include a new drama about boxing icon Cassius Clay and a new…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMThis is not a play about religious doctrine, but instead about the way our beliefs inform our behavior - and Quest has pulled out the puppetry stops to entertain and educate us through story…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:46PMJared Zirilli of the upcoming 'A Few Good Men' Alley Theatre - Houston and the industry reading of 'Bullets Over Broadway' directed by Susan Stroman, as well as FAT CAMP, the original Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway And happy opening to @PublicTheaterNY’s DE…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMNew York Theatre Workshop NYTW Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo just announced that its 2013-2014 subscriber season will include What's It All About Bach…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMOriginally published on NewYork.com View this story online It might just come from abroad. Our roundup of the most promising candidates from across the pond. Where else can a theatergoer cho…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:31PMWHAT DO YOU DO WITH A BAD MOM? Chalk Repertory Theatre continues presenting non-traditional, site-specific theatre with the world premiere of Dorothy Fortenberry’s newest work, Mommune. �…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:15PMTwo time Tony winner Christine Ebersole recently sat down with Ridge for a special conversation with members of the Drama League about her career on the stage and screen. In this special int…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMThen on March 7, the Texas House of Representatives flew the Texas flag in rememberence of Richards and in celebration of opening night of the play. Check out a photo of the certificate below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMThe cast is complete for the Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of The Pajama Game, featuring previously announced stars Hadley Fraser and Joanna Riding as Sid and Babe, respecti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMI want to give a big shout out to Owensboro High School and the Rose Curtain Players. Not only did they win first place at the Southeastern Theatre Conference with my play Among Friends a…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMDaniel Damiano' play "Day of the Dog" makes its debut.
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According to a new interview with X-MEN star James McAvoy, the actor has revealed that Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Alan Cumming will be returning to the hit mutant superhero fra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMBroadway sweetheart and Smash star Megan Hilty has just released the official music video for her single “No Cure”. The aching love song marks the first single off Hilty’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:56PMLeonard A. Mulhern, veteran New York theatrical manager, passed away on Feb. 1 in Manhattan after a brief illness. He was 85.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMMiami's New World School of the Arts has immeasurably enriched the theater, music, visual arts and dance communities in South Florida and around the country. On Friday, you can experience th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:47PMDramatists Naomi Wallace, Stephen Adly Guirgis , and Yale School of Drama grad Tarell Alvin McCraney are the nine recipients of the new writing prize — and one of the most lucrati…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:46PMIt's hard to believe that Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, one of the most beloved plays of all time, has not been seen on Broadway in 60 years. True, the drama has had many off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMDavid Shiner was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently, along with co-star Bill Irwin, to talk about the off-Broadway production of "Old Hats." He also told us that he's a fan of India. Find o…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:41PMIt’s becoming all too often we are finding high school theatre productions in the headlines for something someone finds offensive. From the word “whore” in Legally Blonde t…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:39PMBaz Luhmann's long developing 3D feature film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's heralded 1925 novel THE GREAT GATSBY will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, five days after its state…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMBill Irwinwas on the Leonard Lopate Show, along with his co-star David Shiner, to talk about the off-Broadway production of "Old Hats." He also told us what he's been reading and what he's l…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:32PMThe Public Theater played host to a double whammy opening night on March 11 as two new shows made their bows on the stages at Astor Place: Neva, the Chekhovian musing by Guillermo Calderon, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMBroadway producer, Gloria Hope Sher, died peacefully on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at The Haven in NYC. Born in Chicago in 1928, Mrs. Sher was 85 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMChicago's TimeLine Theatre has announced it will produce Lorraine Hansberry's classic Chicago play, "A Raisin in the Sun" (directed by Ron OJ Parson), and the Marc Blitzstein musical "Juno,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:17PMSMASH star Megan Hilty's current solo music endeavor has resulted in a brand new music video, 'No Cure'. The featured track from IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, this arresting radio single finds it…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMThe New Settlers would like to show you their compound before a cosmic rift splits reality asunder and they cross over to build a New America on the other side.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:15PMThe revised version of the cult musical Carrie, which was seen Off-Broadway in 2012, will receive its Los Angeles debut in a new immersive production by the Transfer Theatre Group this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMTony Award-nominated Once choreographer Steven Hoggett will stage What's It All About, a new revue featuring the music of Burt Bacharach, as part of the New York Theatre Workshop's 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMIn the mood for some comedy? We are offering you £10 tickets to see Spymonkey’s Cooped at Leicester Square Theatre; the show that has made the company an international comedy sensation. D…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:06PMConnecticut Repertory Theatre will present Simon Stephens' "Punk Rock" March 28 to April 7, in the Studio Theatre on the Storrs campus.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:06PMThe 2013-14 season will feature Ms. Churchill’s “Love and Information,” Will Power’s “Fetch Clay, Make Man,” “What’s It All About: Bacharach Imagined” and a fourth play to …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMFormer In the Heights cast members Luis Salgado and Gabrielle Ruiz, as well as "Smash" actor Manuel Stark, will celebrate the life of late Mexican-American artist Selena Quintanill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PMIt's official. Megan Hilty has infiltrated mainstream media from all angles. After cleverly sneaking into the collective hearts of America by way of Broadway with roles in Wicked and 9 to 5,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:01PMGrammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Destiny's Child Michelle Williams stars in the national tour of the award-winning Broadway musical Fela Check out production shots …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMTriple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis has cited the vanity-free actor Phil Davis as a key inspiration, alongside Brando and Streep. Is it time the star of Quadrophenia and Whitechapel was rec…
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The last time you could see a significant production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love" in Chicago was more than 20 years ago, when a touring company played the old Civic Theatre, no…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:59PMTony Award winner Brent Carver (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Tony Award nominee Hannah Yelland (Brief Encounter), and Broadway veteran Mark Harelik (The Light in the Piazza) are among the cast…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMThe world was dancing! Two-time Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun helmed a one-night-only benefit concert of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World on March 10, starring Broadway favorites N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMCarrie White is finally making her way to the City of Angels. Carrie the Musical, based on the 1974 horror novel by Stephen King, will receive its Los Angeles premiere from The Transfer The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMBritish playwright Nina Raine's drama Tribes – about a deaf man seeking a new life outside his dysfunctional family – officially opened in Los Angeles March 10 at the Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMTaboo-busting musical The Book of Mormon isn't anti-Mormon: it also has Jews, Starbucks, gay people and Africans in its sights. As the show debuts in London, Mark Lawson asks its American st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30PMA new song from a musical-within-the-show on NBC's musical drama series SMASH has just been released, featuring show star Megan Hilty.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:25PMBaltimore's CENTERSTAGE has announced the selections for its 2013-2014 season. The theater will present Henry Wishcamper's adaptation of the Marx Brothers' classic musical comedy, Animal Cr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMEveryone knows they’re going to die, but no one believes it. But when faced with the end of the journey so close at hand you start to reevaluate just how you’ve lived your life and wheth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMThe Public Theater held a dual opening night party for its productions of Guillermo Calderón's Neva and Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67 on Monday, March 11 at their Astor Pl
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMKnown for her strong, salty roles on TV's "Two and a Half Men" and "Bosom Buddies," actress Holland Taylor was inspired to write about a personal hero and subsequently wound up on Broadway w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMThe SPIDER-MAN court battle continues, as the legal proceedings between show producers and fired director Julie Taymor have now lasted seven months. According to the New York Times, federal …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMTheater producer Alia Jones-Harvey is the only woman of color currently a lead producer on Broadway. Her company Front Row productions began with the revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PMMcCarter Theatre Center, in association with The Shakespeare Theatre Company, will present William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale April 2-21 with an official opening April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMLanford Wilson's celebrated play "Talley's Folly" is back on the New York boards, courtesy of The Roundabout Theatre Company.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:00PMMy Name Is Asher Lev, Aaron Posner's play based on Chaim Potok's best-selling novel, has extended its run for a third time at the Westside Theatre.
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The English Patient star talks about her big breakthrough, bad reviews – and why her worst performance is always screening on cable TVWhat first drew you to acting?Wanting to be somebody e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59PMHarrogate theatreAlan Ayckbourn is not the first to suggest there's something a bit sinister about Santa Claus. Even so, this cautionary tale about a young woman's friendship with an apparen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:58PMRiverside Studios, LondonSouth African playwright-director Yael Farber has taken the bones of August Strindberg's 1888 play, in which an aristocratic woman has sex with a manservant, and sti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMI want to have a conversation. I want to talk to you about subjects that normally insight shock and outrage, that polarize and divide as much — or more often — than they unify and inspi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PMAfter 40 years, Stephen Schwartz's beloved musical Pippin is returning to Broadway…with a circus-inspired twist! See Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin and the sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PMWOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR SEASON 34 WOOLLY INVITES AUDIENCES TO TEAR UP THE PLANKS TO DISCOVER WHAT LURKS BENEATH WITH “AMERICA’S TELL-TALE HEART” Woolly Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMSteve Yockey has found a way to get four successive "premieres" for his new plays -- the National New Play Network. His Wolves is completing the final chapater of its four-pronged" premiere"…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:41PMThe cast of Broadway’s Annie headed to Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens on March 11 to lay down tracks for the highly anticipated revival cast recording. Featuring stars Lilla Crawfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMRumors have been flying that ABC Family’s ballet-centric series Bunheads, starring two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster, has been renewed for a second season—but sadly, according t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:21PMA DEATH IN THE UNION Hershey Felder has already regaled audiences at the Royal George Theatre with his uncanny and heartfelt recreations of George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Frederic Chopin,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMTwenty-five years after its spellbinding debut shocked critics and audiences from Stratford to New York, CARRIE, the most legendary Broadway musical of all time, will arrive in Los Angeles f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMThe Tony Award nominated musical Rock of Ages has been melting faces Sunset Strip-style for nearly four years on Broadway. Playbill.com photographer Monica Simoes recently gained unprecedent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMThe glitzy spring gala for Roundabout Theatre Company was loaded with more stars than a planetarium as dozens of celebs came out to the Hammerstein Ballroom to honor the evening’s main…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PMA quick-changing Jefferson Mays plays an octet of heirs in the new musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, now at The Old Globe in San Diego. The Tony Award-winning actor …
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MOSCOW (AP) — The artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet said the dancer arrested on suspicion of giving the go-ahead to an acid attack that badly burned his eyes and face had long threat…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:50PMWe should all be grateful for Billy Magnussen's adolescent wrestling accident; without it, he may never have become an actor. Billy Magnussen is one of the brightest new stars of the Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMThis hour-long work for 12 dancers is perfectly pleasant, though close inspection reveals the choreography to be unoriginal, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:46PM"Smash" actor Wesley Taylor, Jill Abramovitz (Cinderella) and Michael Winther (Mamma Mia!) will be special guest performers at 54 Below on March 13 to celebrate the release of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMLenny Henry gives a powerful performance, but this Pulitzer Prize-winning play is somewhat heavy handed, writes Griselda Murray Brown
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:44PMProclaiming itself ‘the ultimate ballroom sensation’, this is in fact an evening of unfocused boisterousness, lacking in physical wit, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:42PMGerard Alessandrini's, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY ALIVE AND KICKING, which received unanimous raves from critics and audiences alike, broke all box-office records at the 47th Street Theatre, and won…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMThe track listing has been announced for the two-disc deluxe soundtrack of the Golden Globe Award-winning film "Les Misérables," starring Hugh Jackman and Academy Award winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMThree Trees, Alvin Eng's new play about Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti and the art of creation, will begin Off-Broadway performances March 23 under the wing of the Pan Asian Repertory…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMThree Trees, Alvin Ing's new play about Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti and the art of creation, will begin Off-Broadway performances March 23 under the wing of the Pan Asian Repertory…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMA new play looks at the color-coded world of advertising If advertisers convince us to buy their products—and we like the products we buy—then does it matter how they get our att…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:26PMLt. Van Buren and Detective Green may be working together again soon. S. Epatha Merkerson is in negotiations to play the mother of Grammy-winning legend Marvin Gaye opposite her former Law &…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMAcademy AwardR winners Al Pacino HBO's 'You Don't Know Jack' 'Scent of a Woman' and Helen Mirren HBO's 'Elizabeth I' 'The Queen' star in HBO Films' PHIL SPECTOR.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMUnsungMusicalsCo. UMC will present a developmental reading of the 1958 backstage comedy SAY, DARLING by Tony Award winner Richard Bissell The Pajama Game, Tony Award winner Abe Burrows Guys …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, is eyeing a second season, according to Deadline.co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The woman Richard Burton left to marry Elizabeth Taylor has died. Theater producer and nightclub founder Sybil Christopher was 83....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:17PMAbout the Author:
Doug Wright has a knack for writing acclaimed plays based on true stories. After adapting the life and work of Marquis de Sade into off-Broadway’s Quills, Wright won…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMThe Hartt School at the University of Hartford will present the musical “On the Twentieth Century,” Thursday, March 14 through Saturday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PMBroadway.com is your top source for exclusive video features designed to delight stage fans. Our five most-watched video stories from March 6 through March 12 include a revealing conversatio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMBroadway’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 01:11PMWith a recent gig performing at the Oscars, a new film coming out and concert engagements on her calendar, Kristin Chenoweth just won’t slow down! Accordingly, the Tony winner mad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMIt’s been a while since I posted an actual blog post that I wrote myself that isn’t to promote one of my projects. Here goes. I’ve been reading a bunch of plays recently for contest…
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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 12:57PMIn the video below, Chenoweth sits in the hot seat to answer some rapid fire questions to promote the upcoming concert. Check out what she has to say below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMLive theater has played in some offbeat places. But this one’s a doozy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:49PMCharles Dickens, vintage records and a soundtrack spanning Elvis to Prof Green. Welcome to Theatre Alibi's Curiosity Shop.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:43PMThe National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which officially opens in the West End tonight, has won the Theatre prize at this year's South Bank Sk…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:41PMGerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! will end its run at Off-Broadway's 47th Street Theatre April 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMRaymond Cusick was the cause of countless nightmares for generations of children he never met. In 1963, for the first series of what was to become a perennial teatime television favourite, h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMOn this date 26 years ago, Les Misérables began its historic Broadway run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMPopular entertainer Hedda Lettuce will host New York's Next Top Drag Queen, a six-week competition to run April 1-May 6 at the Metropolitan Room. The event will also feature special guests a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PM“Trelawny of the Wells” is a portrait of the Victorian era in theater; Betty Buckley brings her distinctive gifts to “Dear World,” a revival of a notorious ’60s flop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMI have worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than twenty years. I am currently an Artistic Associate at The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) and work as the Marketing Director for B…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:31PMTickets are now on sale for the New York premiere of Cirque du Soleil’s Totem. Written and directed by Robert Lepage, the company’s latest production beings performances March 14…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:27PMBroadway director and actor Arthur Storch has died at the age of 87. The youngest of three brothers, Storch was born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1925 to Sam Storch, a baker, and his wife, Bess…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Adam Driver is set to join the cast of Warner Bros upcoming dramedy THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMTony Award nominated Linda Eder (Broadway’s “Jekyll & Hyde”) will be giving a master class for the Warner Theatre Center for the Arts Education in Torrington on Saturda…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:23PMQueen's Theatre, Hornchurch: Based on the real-life relationship between renowned composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, Matt Devitt dusts down Neil Simon's turbulent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMUnsungMusicalsCo. will present a developmental reading of the 1958 backstage comedy Say, Darling March 21 at 3 PM at the MTC Creative Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMUSA Today reports that Motown Records founder Berry Gordy will be the recipient of the Songwriters Hall of Fame 'Pioneer Award' at the 44th annual induction and awards dinner, set for June …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMThe Music Box Theatre will soon be home to The American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, directed by Diane Paulus. Check out a photo of cast mem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMComplete casting has been announced for the Tony Award-winning musical The Pajama Game, which will open the 2013 U.K. Chichester Festival Theatre and star Hadley Fraser and Joanna …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMHappy Birthday, Liza Minnelli Minnelli was born in Los Angeles into show business royalty. With her mother Judy Garland and her father the Award winning director Vincent Minnelli, her's is t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMA gripping, disturbing and darkly funny study in psychosis, Steve Yockey’s latest play, Wolves, subverts your expectations at every turn. The play opens as the audience is seated. A young …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:02PMThe Shaftesbury Theatre, where dance show Burn the Floor opened last night (11 March 2013), has been granted planning consent for major redevelopment of the Grade II* listed building.
The p…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMThe Paper Mill Playhouse located in Millburn, New Jersey is one of the nation’s premiere regional venues for professional theatre. Located not too far from New York City, Paper Mill Pl…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:00PMPanglossian Productions will present the first installation of its new Plays in Progress series: alive and on-line developmental reading of Elford Alley’s new play In Search of the Amh…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMHOW TO BE A NEW YORKER is adding an additional performance to its weekly playing schedule on Thursdays at 7:30 PM beginning March 14th. Written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 352013 - 3122013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMIf you are planning on a long career in any field be it the arts, entrepreneurship, or both you will need to have established significant trust from your partners, employees, and clients. Th…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:00PMWell, it was bound to happen. Everything I generally dislike about solo cabaret acts put on by Broadway stars came together in this latest in the 54 Below series by Broadway Records. &…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PM
Tony Award nominee S. Epatha Merkerson is in talks to join Jesse L. Martin for the new Marvin Gaye biopic "Sexual Healing," which will center on the life of the late music icon, ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMMany people ask me what it's like to work with Diane Paulus, our Tony nominated director whose recent Broadway revivals of Hair and Porgy and Bess each won Tony Awards for Best Revival of a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMPaper Mill Playhouse will open its 2013-2014 season with the world premiere of the Broadway-bound musical Honeymoon in Vegas, which will run September 26 through October 27. Gary Griffin (T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMThe Public Theater's English-language premiere of Neva, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón, officially opened March 11 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMTwo-time Tony Nominee Christine Andreas, Tony Nominee Emily Skinner, Drama Desk Nominees Kerry O'Malley and Jeffry Denman, and two-time Nightlife Award Winner Scott Coulter starred in The Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMMOSCOW (AP) — A leading Bolshoi dancer suspected of involvement in an acid attack on the theater's ballet chief would keep his job if acquitted by a court, the Bolshoi director said Tuesda…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:49AMThere will be so many instruments on stage at BIB this year and next that producers would nix the orchestra pit.Well, not really. But the rock-heavy line up - "Million Dollar Quartet" feat…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:45AMThe Public Theater began previews for the world premiere of DETROIT '67, a Public Lab production by Dominique Morisseau, on Tuesday, February 26. Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, DETROIT '67 wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMDrama Desk Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson has replaced Sean Hayes in the feature film version of Richard Alfieri's Broadway play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. In the film, to be directed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMQueen Latifah will perform George Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” and Mr. Stoltzman is set to perform the “Interlude” from André Previn’s “Sonata for Clarinet and Piano,” and Le…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMDouglas Carter Beane and I were getting along pretty well--I did a nice interview with him, which was included in my last book--but when I didn't rave about Sister Act, calling it "rote but …
SOURCE: Village Voice at 11:39AMThe Second Annual Spotlight on St. Jude, Broadway's Tribute to the Kids, was presented March 11 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMThirty schools from across the country have been selected as finalists in NBC's Smash Make a Musical Constructed by Lowe's initiative to improve school theater facilities. The schools will c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMThe 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 11:31AMGrace Gummer guest stars on next week's all-new episode of NBC's SMASH titled 'Musical Chairs.' Get a first look below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMDominique Morisseau's Detroit '67, a new drama set against the riots that ravaged the Motor City, featuring De'Adre Aziza and Brandon Dirden, officially opens March 12 after prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMToday in 1987, Les Miserables opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 6680 performances. Written by Claude-Michel Schonberg, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables is set…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMCasting has been announced for the La MaMa world premiere of Matthew Paul Olmos' so go the ghosts of mexico, part one, the Ellen Stewart Award-winning work that marks the first drama in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Klea Blackhurst. Also, we review Ann, The Drawer Boy, Jackie @ Women’s Project, RENT @ Wagner College, The Lying Lesson …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 11:23AMRoundabout Theatre Company held its annual spring gala, A Celebration of Your Favorites, on Monday, March 11 at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Hosted by
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMRoundabout Theatre Company presented 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 11:19AMSelect songs from tonight's episode of NBC's Golden Globe-nominated musical drama series 'Smash' Tuesdays, 10-11pm ET will be available today from NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, has been renewed for a second season, according to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMThe next episode of Live From Lincoln Center features the New York Philharmonic's staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconic musical Carousel, which stars Kelli O'Hara, Nathan Gunn and Step…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater, which will present the short-lived musical Rags beginning May 29, will celebrate the songbook of that musical's composer, Charles Strouse, March 23 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMBook by Head Writer of "Cosby Show" and Mark St. GermainA new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet penned by the head writer of “The Cosby Show” and the writer…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:09AMPeople in the opera world travel miles to hear a voice like Angela Meade’s. Many made such a pilgrimage Saturday night. In the soprano’s debut in the fully-staged production of Norma a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMJason Robert Brown's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD was performed last night, March 11 at XL Cabaret 512 West 42nd St. The evening, directed by two-time Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun, starred Nick Adams,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMSongs for a New World helped audiences believe in tomorrow at a one-night only benefit concert supporting The Performing Arts Project on March 11 at the XL Cabaret. B
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMA news alert from my neighbors upstairs! (Did you know I was in the same building as NYMF? Well, ya do now!) NYMF’s annual networking extravaganza is this coming Saturday, March 16…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMJulie Walters has been honoured at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards for a career in television, film and theatre that spans four decades. The performer was awarded the outstanding ac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AM
UPDATED: The final list of panelists for the Drama Desk luncheon and panel discussion has been released. The March 22 discussion will bring together an impressive group of five Broadway vete…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMMusic mogul Berry Gordy, whose life story is currently dramatized in the Broadway musical Motown, will be presented with the Songwriters Hall of Fame's Pioneer Award June 13 in New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM6. John McCain’s Air Quotes In response to Senator John McCain speaking derisively of various political concerns, including ones related to abortion and women’s health, Bee thank…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:48AMThe Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables opened on Broadway on March 12, 1987. Playbill.com looks back at the at the original Broadway and London companies and some notable alumn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMJupiter Rising, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.Abstract photography with Oil and Water.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:43AMThis week and next, March (14-17 and 21-24) the Massachusetts-based No Theater return to New York City to perform Richard Maxwell’s Caveman at The Performing Garage ~ 33 Wooster Street T…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 10:42AMTrey Anastasio can now add "musical composer for a Broadway musical" to his already stellar resume.
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SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:34AMMOSCOW (AP) — The Bolshoi Theater's general director says a dancer suspected of attacking the theater's ballet chief with acid would keep his job if acquitted by a court.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:33AMMonologue Madness, the brainchild of actor/producer Edward Daniels, is ready for its 3rd year of determining who will take home its top prize of $1,000 on Championship Sunday, April 7th. 32 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMI, Jack, am the Knave of Hearts, a play for actor and audience, will be at the DC Arts Center – 2438 18th Street, NW, from March 14th through April 6th, Thursdays through Sundays at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28AMWe’re thrilled to announce that–after last year’s great success–we’re bringing back the Monologue Fest! Join us on Monday, April 1 at 7 pm at Ri-Ra Irish Pub in Bethesda as local…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28AMIn the newest episode of Making Matilda, composer and lyricist Tim Minchin reveals Matilda's "message of anti-establishment," the reason he wrote "When I Grow Up" fir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:25AMLooks like two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster will be hanging out in Paradise, California for another year! Bunheads, a ballet-centric series on ABC Family written by Amy Sherman-Palladino a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMAll of last season, the NBC television series Smash chronicled the creation of a new Broadway musical. Each episode gave fans of show music a tantalizing taste of what the score would be lik…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMBroadway alum and Girls star Adam Driver is in negotiations to join Tina Fey and Jason Bateman in the film adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's novel This Is Where I Leave You, according to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:17AMNick Jones’s play “Trevor” was inspired by the story of a Connecticut woman assaulted by a pet chimpanzee.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMGuillermo Calderon and company do so much with a small light at the foot of the tiny stage that one realizes that moving theater can be made anywhere — even on a small, dim stage, behind t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:12AMABC News reports that Willy Switkes, a Broadway actor best known for his roles in the films 'Tootsie' and 'Taxi Driver' has died at age 83. According to Switkes' niece, the actor was battlin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AM
Critics and audiences alike have fallen in love with Roundabout's new production of LANFORD WILSON's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly. See it now starting at just 60, a savings of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMCheyenne Jackson has been tapped to replace Sean Hayes as an energetic dance instructor in the independent film 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks, reports Deadline.com.
Jackson will star as Mich…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMWho could ever think of the songs "New York, New York," "Cabaret" or "Ring Them Bells" without hearing the voice of Liza Minnelli giving them the full-throttle …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMThe world premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ‘67 opens on March 12 for a five-day run at the Public Theater.
Tony nominee De’Adre Aziza (Passing Strange) sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:45AMCharlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band will return to the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below March 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMWhether or not there’s a real lover, or whether all of this is an elaborate fantasy is beside the point. For Harold Pinter, it may all be the same thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AM"Celebration: Stephanie Blythe Meets Kate Smith," part of the Live from Lincoln Center series, will air April 19 on PBS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMA post in celebration of Women’s History Month The Fadettes (1888-1920) were a Boston-based all female orchestra led by Caroline B. Nichols. From a sextet the band expanded to 20 piec…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:21AMToday is the birthday of Gracie Doll (Freida Schneider, 1888-1970), one of the quartet of four German midget siblings known as the Doll Family. Along with her brother Harry (best known for h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:20AMCheyenne Jackson, most recently seen on Broadway in The Performers, has replaced Tony Award nominee Sean Hayes in the lead role of the independent film "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks,&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMIt's sequins, sparkles and torsos galore in this dazzling show which reinvents the often dated persona of ballroom dancing. Burn the Floor, first seen back in 1999 and now returning to the W…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:19AMSeveral new Broadway shows are off to good starts at the box office, none more so than the Tom Hanks vehicle “Lucky Guy,” which last week became the rare play to take in more than $1 mil…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMAnnapolis Opera’s year-long celebration of its 40th anniversary will culminate on March 15 and 17 at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts with Verdi’s Rigoletto. First performed in Venic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSo, this poster is hanging in Times Square, scaring the bejesus out of tourists and natives alike. No, it's not Tony Award winner Al Pacino (Glengarry Glen Ross) in very fishy drag and Acade…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
The RSC's hit production still faces strong competition from a revival of Annie and Rodgers and Hammerstein's CinderellaMatilda the Musical is off to a strong start on Broadway, playing to 9…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMTwo major musicals will receive their European premieres at Off-West End venues next month care of Whatsonstage.com Award-nominated producer/director Paul Taylor-Mills.First up, Stiles and D…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:48AMNEW YORK (AP) — Do you remember your first live concert? Steven Van Zandt certainly does, almost 50 years ago.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:46AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Do you remember your first live concert? Steven Van Zandt certainly does, almost 50 years ago....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:43AMThis 90-minute play scores on many levels and casts a new light on the Stonewall Riots. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:41AMThe evening was a celebration of the company's artistic achievements under Artistic Director Todd Haimes' 30 years of leadership and the future ahead. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:35AMYou know it's a farce when you notice that the set has 6 doors, am I right? This one, written by French playwright Marc Camoletti debuted in 1960's Paris and the translated version cam…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:27AMMr. Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:15AMSome people's lives are remarkable for what they've done. Others are remarkable for what they've seen. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, the 23-year-old Army surgeon who was present when John Wilk…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13AMThis year's Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), which runs in the Scottish capital from 9 August to 1 September, will be themed around the relationship between art and technology.
Intr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:08AMIn this splendid revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1980 Pulitzer award winning play TALLEY’S FOLLY the language of love reigns supreme. It’s July 4th 1944.
As beautifully direc…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 12 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
When tiny Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, Virginia, decided to stage a musical about the boy who wouldn’t grow up, they tapped the talents of three in-house artists for a fresh appr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMJohn Kerr was 23 when he won a Tony award for his performance as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson’s Tea and Sympathy. It was his second gong in as many years, winning...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AM Written by Paulanne Simmons Jackie Hoffman, second in the Baruch Performing Arts Center’s line-up for “Solo in the City: Jewish Women, Jewish Stars,” like Sandra B…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:41AMWritten by Paulanne Simmons Sandra Bernhard, not exactly a shrinking violet (after all, her credits include The Richard Pryor Show and Roseanne), delivered her well-known brand of in-…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:31AMSOHO THEATRE PUBLIC PLATFORM: NEW WRITERS (1/2) Soho Theatre artistic director Steve Marmion chairs a panel of writers to discuss developing and supporting new work: Arinze Kene, whose play …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:03AMSo we’re called the Huntington Theatre Company, right? Our primary artistic home for the last 30 years has been and remains the BU Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts/Huntington Avenue, but …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 07:00AM
Well this one has me stumped. Not that I don’t get what is going on. I don’t get why.Olga Knipper (Bianca Amato) is waiting in a St. Petersburg theatre for a rehearsal of The Cherry Orc…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:57AMThe programme has been announced for the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), which runs in the Scottish capital from 9 August to 1 September. Bringing together artists from ar…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:55AMSOHO THEATRE PUBLIC PLATFORM: NEW WRITERS (2/2) Soho Theatre artistic director Steve Marmion chairs a panel of writers to discuss developing and supporting new work: Arinze Kene, whose play …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:51AMPhotographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:28AMSingers and dancers who appeared at the historic cabaret club Talk of the Town in London will be reunited next month at the Hippodrome, the site of the former theatre restaurant. They will j…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMBallroom show Burn the Floor pushes from tireless into relentless. It’s slick and brisk, with a hard-working cast who are always ready to throw themselves into kicks and tricks. Everybody …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:17AMThe Edinburgh International Festival will examine the relationship between art and new technology this summer, in a programme that is particularly strong in theatre and sees two mini-festiva…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMBut legendary Broadway composer/lyricist Jerry Herman has spent his life as an unapologetic champion of leaving audiences after two hours feeling diverted. So diverting is the right word for…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:01AM
Shaftesbury Theatre, London: As an exhibition of Ballroom and Latin dance styles, <a href="http://www.burnthefloor.com/westend/">Burn the Floor</a> predates the BBC…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMIn the imaginative world of Graham Greene, “Leaving the miraculous out of life is rather like leaving out the lavatory or dreams or breakfast,” wrote Kenneth Tynan in a 1953 profile of t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:47AMProduction images have been released for the West End transfer of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which opens at the Apollo Theatre tonight (12 March 2013).
Luke Tr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:47AMNot so much a new version as a total re-write, this raw and coruscating post-apartheid South African transplant of Strindberg's play was the buzz production at last year's Edinburgh Festival…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:06AMTOFT Should Get Online By Rob Shapiro (musical theatre writer) The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) at Lincoln Center Library is theatre heaven. If you've never been there, here's the…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
Why The Madrid: I could have attended the Elaine Paige concert at Town Hall, but since I had already rescheduled seeing The Madrid once, I felt obligated to review it.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:50AM'End of the Rainbow,' begins previews tonight, March 12 at the Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center. Opening night is March 20 and performances run through Ap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMYork Theatre Company and its Developmental Reading Series presents the reading of the new musical, Howling Hilda, with book and lyrics by Anne Berlin, and music by Andrew Bleckner will be di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLast Monday was March 4, according to my grandmother, the most commanding day of the year. (March Forth!). I am guessing other people’s grandmothers must have used the same line becaus…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:12AMMy mother's house in Smalltown, U.S.A., is no longer empty. David and Kathy, my sister-in-law, moved in this weekend. I've...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom 2004: The last time I finished writing a book (as opposed to editing a collection, which feels much less...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMEven if you are not a romantic you will succumb to the spell cast by its two leading actors - Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson - who couldn’t be a better match for each other.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Broadway Producer Gloria Hope Sher Passes Away: Broadway producer, Gloria Hope Sher, died peacefully on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at The Haven in NYC.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:59AMSALVATION IN A STORM Who is the titular Flying Dutchman? Is he a mythological figure, a type of the wandering Jew bound to traverse the earth in travail until his day of salvation comes? Is …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:57AMYou’ll definitely want to review those program notes before watching “Neva,” the ponderous play by Chile’s Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public.
It’s set in a St. Pet…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMImagination Stage presents From Here to There, a show all about playtime! Brought to the North America for the first time through England’s Tell Tale Hearts Company, actors Megan Dominy an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10AMNext Sunday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s “March Madness” will officially begin. We’ll know which sixty-eight teams will play for the 2013 NCAA’s men’s basketba…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:07AMDelivering Good News and Bad Newsby Valerie Cardinal@vscardinalWhen I set out to write my column this week, I already had an idea in mind. However, I’ll talk about that a little later. Fir…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMWeb Three-Point-CrapWhat is happening to the internet may turn theatre's friend into our worst enemyby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisThe famous Web 2.0 has come and gone and during its re…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGhostlight 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"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 12:00AMAlex 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 12:00AMO 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 12:00AMAnita 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 12:00AMPeter 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 12:00AMPhumzile 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 12:00AMThe 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 12:00AMGeorge Street Playhouse's world-premiere production of Victoria Stewart's Rich Girl begins performances in New Brunswick, NJ, March 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1928 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 12:00AMTony 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 music…
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