“Pocahontas, and/or America,” at the Bushwick Starr, repurposes historical material in a nearly two-hour production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:53PMAfter two weeks in New York, I sit in a friend’s home in Vancouver for four days recovering from what I now call the New York Flu. Last time it hit me mid way through my stay in the Big Ap…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMTweet Rappers have their own clothing lines, headphones, TV shows, and movie deals, but as far as I know, none have ended up on Broadway. That said, I just watched The Speed Test from Thorou…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 07:28PMA Love Affair with Liza & Alan: Last night was like being invited to sheer Musical Theatre heaven. Liza & Alan last night at Town Hall was a show not to be missed.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:26PMBROADWAY BACKWARDS is a one-night-only performance produced by Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS and benefiting BCEFA and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual amp Transgender Community Center of New Yo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:23PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Edwin Drood gets a Cast Recording, Michelle Williams leads Fela tour, Liza's celebrates her Birthday in concert, and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:17PMGet Out Your Magnifying Glasses for Rogerandtom: Julien Schwab's Rogerandtom is a mind-blowing “Twilight Zone” where there is no fourth wall.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:14PMThis is the only show in the current West End to show a demonstration of a mathematical proof performed as an encore, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:14PMAs new versions of ‘Miss Julie’ open, Sarah Hemming explores the appeal of Strindberg’s potent cocktail of sex, class and power
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:12PMThe world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, conjures New York City in the 1940s at Broadway's Cort Theatre. Direc…
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This faux-Edwardian musical has its charms, but its animating force is Jefferson Mays as a series of doomed, oblivious aristocrats.SAN DIEGO— All the buzz about "A Gentleman's Guide to…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:55PMA review of “Next Fall” at ArtsWest, a production full of moving moments, writes critic John Hartl. Through April 6, 2013.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:54PMGiven the blessings of the Janis Joplin estate to create a musical tribute show, Randy Johnson devised a plan to honor her alongside the women singers who influenced her -- and to avoid the …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PMProducers of Forever Dusty, the hit new musical about the life and times of legendary British pop star Dusty Springfield, will host a series of Sing-A-Long performances, following the overwh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35PMA musical about the life of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King will open on Broadway next year, producers said on Friday. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," will chart the journey of …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:28PMBroadway is about to get a whole lot kinkier Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMThe hilarious comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike celebrates its big opening night on Broadway on March 14. Join stars Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen and more f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PMComposer Glen Hansard from the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Once will be featured on 'CBS Sunday Morning' this Sunday, March 17th, from 9-1030AM on channel 2. Check local list…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMAs we prepare to say adios to another week on the Great White Way, we're looking back at some of the headlines that really grabbed our attention this week. From Matt Lauria finding love …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:13PMComposer Glen Hansard from the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, ONCE will be featured on “CBS Sunday Morning” this Sunday, March 17th, from 9-10:30AM on channel 2. Check local…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:07PMDoug Hamilton's documentary provides an all-access backstage pass to the rock musical "American Idiot," inspired by the Grammy-winning 2004 Green Day album.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:05PMAussie Theatre’s Jan Chandler spoke with Melbourne International Jazz Festival’s Artistic Director Michael Tortoni about the upcoming Festival. On Wednesday this week, in the plush surro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PM
Recall, if you will, the factors that distinguish Clark Kent from his alter-ego Superman. Yes, Clark gruffly rips open his button-down to reveal that iconic spandex “S,” but tha…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:54PMThere seems to be a rash of two-character plays that pair deceased notables with obvious fictional characters designed only to draw the celebrities out and get them talking about themselves.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:51PMDasha Zhukova is among the collectors snapping up the work of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, the art world’s most unlikely power couple, writes Julie L. Belcove
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:49PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, March 15, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway The Booth Theatre box office opens today for @Be…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMCONCERT TO END BULLYING, a benefit performance featuring the nation's premier vocal group and stage and screen star TAYE DIGGS - best known for his roles on ABC-TV's 'Private Practice' and o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMJeremy HandelmanOff The Leash Productions kicks off the Off-Broadway Premiere of FKING UP EVERYTHING, the award-winning rock musical comedy by David Eric Davis and Sam Forman this week, begi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMAfter nearly 30 years, Cirque du Soleil is still finding new ways to delight and surprise us. But let’s face it—after witnessing the magic of Alegria, Dralion, Varekai, Ka, Wintu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMJeremy HandelmanOff The Leash Productions kicks off the Off-Broadway Premiere of FKING UP EVERYTHING, the award-winning rock musical comedy by David Eric Davis and Sam Forman this week, begi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMMar 15. (Bloomberg) -- Charlotte Moore and Ciaran O'Reilly, co-founders of the Irish Repertory Theater in New York City, discuss two new plays, "Donnybrook" and "For Love," which are both pl…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:33PMCarole King’s life and times – and songs she wrote with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin -- will be the stuff of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” whose producers are…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PMIn my mind, the power and potential of my residency at Arena Stage is that your entire body of work and your entire process is being supported, and encouraged. A commissioned play is about t…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:32PMNOT JUST FOR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS FANS Early in She Kills Monsters, the play’s protagonist, Agnes (Katherine Banks), strikes up a conversation with Chuck (Richard Traub), a high scho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:25PMCarole King joins the long list of pop icons who have become the subject of a Broadway musical. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which follows the life of the singer-songwriter of such cl…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:23PM(photo credit: Marie Eve Kingsley)A Brel-liant spectacleJacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living at Mainline theatreby Sarah DeshaiesIn 1952, recently married with a newborn, Jacques Brel b…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:23PMOlivier Award-winning stage and screen star Benedict Cumberbatch sings a melancholy little ditty in a new clip released of the forthcoming six-part radio miniseries NEVERMORE, forcing one to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMIn an epic first episode of The Cumming Attraction, Macbeth star Alan Cumming shows Broadway.com his first visit to the Barrymore Theatre, a peek inside the rehearsal room with (birthday gir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PMMAY THE RAP BE WITH YOU Before Othello: The Remix it was only Shakespeare’s comedies that received the Q brothers’ trademark, rap-happy revision—Funk It Up About Nothin’ and The Bomb…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:17PMA 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 05:16PMThe infamous internet hacking group Anonymous may have unearthed yet another groundbreaking piece of information - this time a major Hollywood casting coup - by revealing that HARRY POTTER s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM'End of the Rainbow' opens March 20 and performances run through April 21, 2013. 'End of the Rainbow', written by Peter Quilter and directed by Terry Johnson, features Tracie Bennett reprisi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMAll right, I did it again. I went too long, came up with too many exercises, and thought up too many questions. For the first time ever, I’m doing a three part newsletter. There is jus…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMBlack theater institutions today require unique and ongoing support for their vitality, legacy, and agency. These institutions, like The Ensemble Theatre in Houston, not only make important …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
KERRY REID reviews "Vigils" at Gift Theatre ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Vigils" at Gift Theatre ★★★ ... Any theater company can make you fall in love again w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:55PMTom Gold Dance presented two evenings of dance with a program that featured the Word Premiere of La Plage with music by John Zorn, also included on the program were Faure Fantasy with music …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:50PMIn addition to the five "masterpieces of the genre," as Shakespeare Theatre Company artistic director Michael Kahn called them, STC is announcing a sixth mainstage production and two present…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:50PMLES MISERABLES breakout star Eddie Redmayne joins the exceedingly high profile cast of the new Wachowski Brothers film JUPITER ASCENDING, which will also feature Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMThe music of Billy Joel, ABBA, and Green Day have all inspired Broadway adaptations of their work—and now the catalog of Carole King will join their ranks. “Beautiful: The Carole…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:40PMThe eighth annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women, and women singing tunes written for men — will be presented at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMTickets are now on sale for I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, starring Bette Midler. The solo show will begin Broadway performances at the Booth Theatre on April 5, and will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:38PMObie Award winners Kathleen Chalfant (Wit) and Kate Mulgrew (Equus) will star as a pair of old friends contending with the trials of time in the Vineyard Theatre's upcoming production of Jen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:33PMNational Theatre Live, an initiative to broadcast live performances from the National Theatre's stages to cinemas worldwide, will broadcast live performances of People, a new comedy by A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMIn the newest episode of Making Matilda, director Matthew Warchus reveals how he avoided betraying Roald Dahl's "offbeat" vision, why Matilda is a real treat for audiences of a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:29PMTHE NEXT STEP(S) It’s an impressive lineup for this respected Chicago company’s annual “Spring Series”—not just the always impressive Hubbard Street Dance Chicago but, here and els…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:19PMMiami Childrens Theater has found a swanky professional venue for its theater summer camp: the Colony Theater on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road. The ambitious, very active MCT will hold its camp…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:10PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMThis witty and pithy script explores the fragmented relationship between three men who have been friends for 15 years, and Parlor Room Players’ production does justice to the clever script…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:03PMTickets are now on sale for the Broadway revival of Jekyll & Hyde, starring Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis and Grammy nominee Deborah Cox. The musical will play the Marquis Theatre fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of March 4-10, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
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Alright, team. We’ve got some tickets to give a way. And Just like the folks at Jack Long Nissan, we’re hosting a competition. Unlike those guys, though, we’re not going to…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:58PMAnother day, another new song on Smash! Get a sneak peek at the next episode of NBC’s struggling musical dramedy, which features more fresh tunes from a much-improved Hit List. In the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:55PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - A musical about the life of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King will open on Broadway next year, producers said on Friday.
SOURCE: Reuters at 03:54PMHot on the heels of Dorothy's red slippers - and OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL's 80 million opening weekend - famed Judy Garland and Oz biographer John Fricke discusses the legacy of L. Frank Ba…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:53PM'End of the Rainbow' opens March 20 and performances run through April 21, 2013. 'End of the Rainbow', written by Peter Quilter and directed by Terry Johnson, features Tracie Bennett reprisi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PM“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” featuring Ms. King’s music and the story of her life, is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2014, with a book by Douglas McGrath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMThe Box Office at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street) opened its doors for the upcoming production of I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS – Bette Midler’s return to Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:43PMWell, it's Women's History Month again. Stifle that shrug. The theater -- no doubt by happenstance -- is suddenly flush with biographical solos about women, all dead, most recently and one n…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:43PMYALE REPERTORY THEATRE James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director, dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics that make immediate con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PM'The Mound Builders" always was one of Lanford Wilson's Big Question plays -- easier to admire, perhaps, than to embrace. The drama, set on an archaeological dig in southern Illinois, ran le…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:33PMTheatergoers are furiously taking sides about "The Flick," the latest work from Annie Baker, one of the most interesting young playwrights around. The far-from-superficial question is about …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:32PMCorbin Bleu, who was last seen on Broadway in the revival of Godspell, has joined the cast of the "One Life to Live" soap revival, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMNEW YORK (AP) — Andre Previn's opera version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" finally made it to New York — 15 years after its world premiere.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:26PMPigPen Theatre Co. is set to make its Chicago debut with the Midwest premiere of The Old Man and the Old Moon at Writers' Theatre September 3 through November 10, with a press opening Septem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMThe Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman at 7 pm on Monday, March 18 at the Ailey Studios Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMYou remember Betty Hutton? If not, Nuttin' But Hutton seeks to restore the reputation of the wacky '40s musical movie star -- not in a biographical play but in a tribute to the songs she ado…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:02PMEdinburgh International Festival has scored a coup: the UK debut of LA Dance Project. The company is headed by Benjamin Millepied (pictured), known for choreographing the film Black Swan and…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:00PMMore Hitchcock! Hot on the heels of two films about the director, a new American mini-series will probe the twisted relationship between Psycho hotelier Norman Bates and his mother in Bates …
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:00PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Jay Armstrong Johnson, who is starring as 'Greg Wilhote' in Hands on a Hardbody- currently in previews at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Opening night…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMThe Book of Mormon lets UK critics in next week but it has already taken out adverts full of adoring reviews – from the public.
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:00PMSarah Silverman has teamed up with Juno star Michael Cera, Reggie Watts, and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (aka Tim and Eric) for a new comedy venture – their own YouTube channel, JASH. …
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:00PMHugely enjoyable and cumulatively very affecting, the new play by Peter Morgan unfolds as a series of speculative peeks into the weekly confidential meetings between the Queen and the 12 Pri…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:00PMThe editors of Playbill.com have combed through the past seven years of our popular Cue & A feature to select some of our favorite answers to the question, "What's your worst fl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Joe's Pub recently welcomed Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins in her return to their stage for an ongoing series BRING ON THE MEN. Best known for her celebrated roles in Caroline, or Change an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMIn an interview with TVline, SMASH showrunner Josh Safran admitted that he was 'saddened' when he heard the news that his NBC musical dramedy would be moved to Saturday nights beginning Apri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMTake a peek at rehearsals for ‘Me and My Girl’ at Tappan Zee High School, through the lens of Journal News photographer Peter Carr. Thanks to the cast and director Ed Clinton for…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:52PMTony nominee Fiona Shaw, Deborah Warner and author Colm Toibin are bringing the untold story of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to Broadway in The Testament of Mary. Meet the team behind this int…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMHow Keala Settle makes herself guffaw Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles It might be the most memorable moment in Ha…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:49PMSurprise! We’re giving away a copy of Staged the sequel to Showbiz which we read last summer during the Broadway book club. Ruby Preston was kind enough to give us THREE copies for y…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 02:49PMChristopher Durang's raucous new comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike opened on March 14 at the Golden Theatre, and tons of big names in the theater world came out to sup…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Andre Previn's opera version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" finally made it to New York - 15 years after its world premiere....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:44PMTake a peek at rehearsals for “Seussical” at Blind Brook High School, which runs at 7:30 p.m. March 15 and 16 and at 2 p.m. March 16. $12. [email protected]. Thanks to the…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:42PMBC's musical dramedy series SMASH is set to feature a cover of Justin Timberlake's current worldwide hit 'Mirrors', taken from his remarkable new THE 2020 EXPERIENCE album, on an upcoming ep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMRobert Schenkkan's All the Way, which captures the abruptly changing political landscape of America in the 1960s, will open the American Repertory Theater's 2013-14 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMPhotos by John Meore of The Journal News from rehearsals for Nyack High School’s production of “Big River,” which ends its two-week run with performances at 8 p.m. March 15…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:28PMIt’s generally expected that most shows will play Broadway first, and THEN go out on a national tour. However, it seems lately that it’s becoming a bit more common that this is h…
SOURCE: The Road 101 at 02:27PMIt's a busy spring for Kelli O'Hara. Having just come off of a successful run as Julie Jordan in the New York Philharmonic's Carousel, she continues to star in Broadway's Nic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMAlan Bennett is one of Britain's most celebrated playwrights, and the much anticipated People is the sixth of his plays to have its premiere at the National Theatre. Following its original r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMTake a look at a recent rehearsal of Ardsley High School’s production of ‘Once Upon a Mattress.’ Thanks to the cast and director Flori Doyle for their hospitality. Photos b…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:11PMDeadline reports that Amanda Peet will star in the Duplass Brothers' upcoming HBO comedy pilot TOGETHERNESS. The single-camera project is written, directed and executive produced by brothers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMKathleen Chalfant is going Somewhere Fun this spring! The Tony nominee will star in the previously announced world premiere of Jenny Schwartz’s new play. Directed by Anne Kauffman, Som…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PMThe Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere production of Jenny Schwartz's Somewhere Fun, to begin Off-Broadway May 15, will star Kathleen Chalfant, Kate Mulgrew, Greg Keller and more. Ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMJames Graham’s “This House” finds suspense in the wheelings and dealings of Parliament; Heather Headley shines as a pop goddess in “The Bodyguard”; and William Boyd tries his hand …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMThe Ethel Barrymore Theatre box office will open March 18 for a new one-man production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, which will begin previews April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Here are Ricky Flores’ photos from a recent rehearsal of “Sweet Charity” at Yorktown High School. Thanks to director Tom Arduini and producer Karli Wheeler for having us. S…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:59PMSimon Cowell is bringing “The X Factor” — or a version of it — from television screens to the London stage in early 2014.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:55PMTom Hanks is cool, so cool that when he does something awesome like pose with an apparently drunk idiot in a bar we all enjoy it once right after it happens. And then again, about seven mont…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMIf you’ve realised that you want to work in theatre but you just don’t know where to start then Susan Elkin (Education and Training Editor for The Stage) has just written the perfe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:50PMToday we are talking to a Grammy Award-winning performer who has carved out a unique career in the entertainment industry between his many platinum albums, notable contributions to film soun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMRoy Nevans, John Lant and FABCO Productions will present invitation-only staged presentations of the new musical Fabulous! The Queen of New Musical Comedies March 20 and 22 at 7 PM at 7…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMProduction is underway for a concert film of Clay, Matt Sax's one-man hip-hop musical that draws from Shakespeare's Henry IV and Falstaff, which played an Off-Broadway run at LCT3 in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMOn March 15, 1987, three days after Les Misérables began its historic Broadway run, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express opened at the George Gershwin Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMThis Monday, March 18 at 10 a.m., the Ethel Barrymore Theatre Box Office opens for business for Broadway's powerful new production of Shakespeare's MACBETH, starring Tony and Olivier Award w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFor the poet and playwright Lemn Sissay, adapting Benjamin Zephaniah's 2001 novel about a 14-year-old Ethiopian-Eritrean boy's turbulent passage through the Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMYoung Vic, LondonIn Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, the local doctor, Astrov, charts the decline of the forests. "Almost everything has been destroyed now, and nothing has yet been created in its pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMPentameters Theatre, London: Two women struggle with mental illness at different times of life and with contrasting results in Tennessee Williams' pair of single act plays.
Read the fu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:32PM Okay. It’s really his character, big hick Benny Perkins’ fanny pack. But still. We couldn’t take our eyes off it from the minute it hit the Hardbody stage. 1. Condom…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:28PMChristopher Durang enjoyed his first Broadway production in 17 years this week. (In the spirit of charity, we won't count the text he contributed to the 2010 Dame Edna outing All About M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMThe three-time nominee has a central role in Victoria Stewart's update of 'The Heiress'
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:27PMThe producers of Rebecca are continuing to push their case that the show's former press rep scuttled the Broadway production last fall by scaring off an "angel investor." In a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMPeople who see "People" are the luckiest people in the theater world.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:25PMGood news! My new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, is now available to order in a Kindle edition via Amazon.com. It doesn’t sit hands…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:16PMBill W. and Dr. Bob, a play based on the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, is coming back to off-Broadway. A revival of the 2007 production that ran at New World Stages will begin performanc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMThe time has finally come for us to move into our new home at the beautiful Music Box Theatre Once we get there we will begin 'tech' and shift our focus to the technical aspects of the show.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PMScreenwriter-director Douglas McGrath has lined up a Broadway project, penning the book for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” which is aiming for a Rialto run in spring 2014, accordi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PMThe 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 01:00PM
Each Friday David Singletary takes Broadway fans through the most fun and important events of the previous week! Have something you think belongs in our next weekly round up? Email us!…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 12:59PMDominic Cooke makes his swansong at the Royal Court with The Low Road, Will Adamsdale's The Victorian in the Wall opens in Bristol, and the brilliant Takeover festival takes off in YorkCentr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMMany theatres have improved access to disabled theatregoers in recent times, but there is still work to do. Claire Mitchell provides a detailed overview of venues in London and beyond.
The …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:53PMThe claws came out on the March 14 episode of Glee. With Will still fuming over Finn's kiss confession, vicious fights started to break out left and right. From Ohio to New York City, te…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMProducers Paul Blake and SonyATV Music Publishing announced today that Beautiful The Carole King Musical, about the life and career of legendary singersongwriter Carole King, will begin perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMNext week's episode of SMASH titled 'Musical Chairs,' will feature an all-new song for the fictional show 'Hit List' titled 'Rewrite This Story.' The duet between Katharine McPhee's Karen an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMIn Episode 7, struggling actor Jacob (series co-creator Wesley Taylor) has a successful audition for sexy new musical The Ice Queen, whose leading lady Veronica Bailey (Alison Fraser) has ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMBroadway’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 12:38PMNEW YORK (AP) — A musical based on the woman behind such pop standards as "It's Too Late," ''You've Got a Friend" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" hopes to make it to Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:36PMThe Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC is performing the musical XANADU this weekend, with a cast of dozens. Director Craig Cipollini tells us how he pulled it off. Joel: Why did yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMTonight at the Box, the Gotham Chamber Opera is opening its run of Eliogabalo, which the Dutchess and I are planning to catch next week. Both of us are huge fans of Austin McCormack of Compa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PMOur weekly roundup of the performances you've seen over the last seven days, and what you thought of themthere was a lot of this stuff on the pavement of shaftesbury avenue. so thank you to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMWonderstone has little magic, but intermittent funny moments; Jennifer Love Hewitt displays assetts and acting ability in Client List, Season One.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:29PMInitially launching in 2010 with a two-parter from Lion King cast members Ben Jeffrey and Fred Berman, Playbill.com's Two-Show Day photo feature series has taken readers backstage and in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMBeautiful: The Carole King Musical, a new tuner about the life and career of singer/songwriter Carole King, has announced that it will begin performances on Broadway in spring 2014. The prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMThe Walter Kerr Theatre 219 West 48th Street will soon be home to Fiona Shaw in The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin, directed by Deborah Warner. The 12-week limited engagement begins previ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMREVIEW: Dancer Kyle Abraham gets at intimate truths at Walker Art Center.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:21PMOscar-nominated screenwriter Douglas McGrath will pen the book for the show, which aims for a spring 2014 opening.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:12PMThe iconic tunes of singer-songwriter Carole King are heading to Broadway! Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which tells the story of the Grammy winner’s life and features her hit so…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMAmanda Whittington’s new play invites us into the world of Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged for murder in Britain.
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:10PMBeautiful, the new musical based on the life and work of Grammy Award-winning musician Carole King, will premiere on Broadway in spring 2014. It will feature hits penned with her Brill Build…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMToday is also the birthday of slide guitarist Ry Cooder (b. 1947). Just a quick post here for a shout out for one of my favorite soundtracks, to a movie that’s always been a guilty fav…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A musical based on the woman behind such pop standards as "It's Too Late," "You've Got a Friend" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" hopes to make it to Broadw…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:04PMAlong with three plays by William Shakespeare, the 2013-14 season at Seattle Shakespeare Company will offer a production of the classic Oscar Wilde comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest…
SOURCE: blogs.seattletimes.com at 12:02PM 3 Nathan Lane and Jack O’Brien on Design for ‘The Nance’ (VIDEO) Nathan Lane and director Jack O’Brien discuss the set and costume design for The Nance on Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:00PM“The priest departs. The divine artist arrives.” —Walt Whitman In the vibrant bacchanal that exists under the rubric “theater,” I have lived many lives: actor, director, musician…
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Let’s face it: Justin Timberlake is having the best week ever. After hosting Saturday Night Live for the fifth time and killing it, he’s been a hilarious fixture on Lat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMWalking to the parking garage after seeing “Jekyll & Hyde — the Musical” now at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in a pre-Broadway stop of its “all new” edition, I tailed a thirtysometh…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:52AMToday is the birthday of Sam John “Lightnin’” Hopkins (1912-1982). A Texas native, he was mentored in the blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson, whom he first heard playing at a c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:50AMBECTU general secretary Gerry Morrissey has called on the West End to “give more support to regional counterparts”, in a bid to prevent theatres closing as a result of cuts. The backstag…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AMAACHEN, Germany (AP) — The Bolshoi ballet artistic director badly burned in an acid attack said Friday he is "full of strength and faith" that he will eventually see well enough to return …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:45AMMovie star and Broadway veteran Val Kilmer (Top Gun) is taking his solo show, in which he plays crotchety writer Mark Twain, on tour. The show, entitled Citizen Twain, will visit venues in C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMAfter an acclaimed run at Bath’s Theatre Royal and a subsequent U.K. tour, a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences will transfer to London’s Du…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMMurder Ballad, the new rock musical about a New Yorker pulled between her uptown present and her downtown past, is expected to have a commercial life this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMHer name was Stella. She was a heavy-set girl who was a techie in the high school drama club for which I was an advisor. Between scenes of every show, you could see, if you looked carefully …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:39AMIt’s not very often that I feel a genuine chill go down my spine. In fact, until tonight I had completely forgotten the feeling of that particular sensation. But after David Rosenberg and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:39AMDue to extremely high ticket demand, Second Stage Theatre's production of JASON ROBERT BROWN's musical, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, has been extended a second time for an additional two weeks throu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMDirector Liesl Tommy’s unflinching approach gives Lorraine Hansberry’s classic a surprising urgency more than half a century after the drama first played on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:34AMNo more Phoenix, apparently - although we've heard this rumor before, this time it's apparently true. The paper that hijacked the counter-cultural bona fides of what became The Real Paper, a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMThe much-praised revival of Stephen Sondheim's 1994 Tony Award-winning musical Passion will receive a deluxe, two-disc cast recording, Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMThe 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 11:33AMThirty high schools around the country, including three New York-based schools, are currently final contenders for the “Smash” Make a Musical campaign. The NBC musical show has p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:32AMTickets go on sale today at the Booth Theatre Box Office 222 West 45th Street for Bette Midler's return to Broadway in John Logan's new one-woman play I'LL EAT YOU LAST A CHAT WITH SUE MENGE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMZora Neale Hurston’s stories come to vigorous life as the theater company re-opens its doors
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:30AMThe title and cast have been announced for Anthony Neilson's previously untitled new play Narrative, which will begin performances April 5 prior to an official opening April 10 at London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMIn the second of our new blog series following two young actors performing in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s summer season, AYT’s Becky Brewis asks Rosie Hilal, currently in product…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:28AMIn a live performance, technology typically plays the role of fairy godmother, dressing up the stage with wondrous special effects. But it’s far more interesting when it plays God. When te…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28AMThis week's topics Smash Uncancelled, Vanya and Sonia, CINDERELLA Cast Recording, What do most posters on BW do for living, Tony For Best Musical, Backstage Visit Etiquette
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMHarold Pinter's The Hothouse will play Trafalgar Studios beginning in May. The play is the next in a season called Trafalgar Transformed, an initiative between director Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMToday is the birthday of Joe E. Ross (1914-1982). Ross had gotten his start as a singing waiter as a teenager. By that time vaudeville was already a thing of the past. he spent the bulk of h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:25AMThe Old Globe presents the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a new musical comedy with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak and lyrics by Freedman and L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMWilliam Inge’s timeless American classic about the line between restraint and desire.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 11:24AMWalnut Street Theatre continues its 204th season with the Philadelphia premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play Good People. The production began previews on March 12 with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMSierra Boggess, Julian Ovenden and David Pittsinger are among the stars heard on the new album "Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Movies," featuring the John Wilson Orchestra.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMGreat news, Last Five Years fans! The off-Broadway revival of Jason Robert Brown’s beloved musical has been extended for a second time. Previously scheduled to perform through Apr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMFollowing a critically embraced Off-Broadway run, Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which whips Chekhov's dramatic themes into an evening of existential Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMThe 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 11:01AMThe 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 11:01AMWhenever I scan a production budget for a new show, and see that hefty figure allocated to the opening night party, the scrooge in me always takes over and wonders, “What if we didn’t ha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMLondon's Hampstead Theatre will present Say It With Flowers, a promenade performance created by director Katie Mitchell around the writings of Gertrude Stein, and the premiere of Nichola…
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The stage musical based on the hit British talent competition The X Factor has been given the green light for a run at the London Palladium, reports The Daily Mail.
After two workshops, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMAs a child, my backyard was 18 holes of a golf course, as my parents ran the accompanying bar and restaurant. In the long summer months I’d find myself tangled in the reeds by the pon…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:55AMThe Broadway production of Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike celebrated its opening night on Thursday, March 14 at the
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMThe Broadway production of Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike celebrated its opening night on Thursday, March 14 at the
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMFull casting has been announced for Headlong's forthcoming tour of The Seagull, directed by Blanche McIntyre.
A co-production with The Nuffield, Southampton, the production premieres at th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:54AMThe Puppet Co. presents Jack and the Beanstalk, a favorite childhood tale suited for all tastes. Performed by Allan Stevens and Christopher Piper and recommended for ages K-6, Jack and the B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMSimon Russell Beale and John Simm are pairing up to lead a London production of Harold Pinter’s early play The Hothouse. The revival will run at the West End’s Trafalgar Stu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMNEW YORK (AP) — Two spontaneous eruptions from the audience just about said it all as the Metropolitan Opera revived Willy Decker's brilliantly stripped-down and de-romanticized production…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:44AMIt's the ultimate question: What is the best Broadway musical of all time? There's no better way to hand out this showbiz superlative than to host the smackdown to end all smackdowns…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:43AMThe Green Day frontman will pen songs for a new rock 'n' roll adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:43AMWhoever said that travel is broadening never met a modern-day flight attendant. The three women of Marisa Wegrzyn’s world premiere, world-wearily funny play Mud Blue Sky, are drudges at 50…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMToday is the birthday of Chang Yu Sing (a.k.a Chang Woo Gow, 1847-1893). Born in Fuzhou, Fuijan China, he began to grow with startling speed at age 7; by age 18 he was nearly 8 feet tall and…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:39AMSecond Stage Theatre's new production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, with Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe as the couple who falls in and out of lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMTickets go on sale today at the Booth Theatre Box Office (222 West 45th Street) for Bette Midler’s return to Broadway in John Logan’s new one-woman play I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:36AMStraight from their recent TV series ABC's Private Practice and Starz's Boss, Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson have signed on to star in an upcoming TNT drama pilot titled MURDER IN THE FIR…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMBack when I started producing I met an enterprising young woman who was still in school at NYU interested in producing. Over the years we've stayed in touch and recently she made the move to…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:32AMTennessee Williams looms large over Richard Greenberg’s The American Plan, but this delicate tale of wasted lives and frustrated potential is not overshadowed. The piece examines the m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:30AMThe box office at the Booth Theatre, soon to be the home of John Logan's new play I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, opens for business March 15. The one-woman play, starrin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMKaitlin Colombo is 26, but she's been working as a comic and writer for 13 years. Her new play, The Choking Game, is part of IRT's 3B development series. IRT is a theater for the development…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:30AMThe original Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical My Fair Lady opened March 15, 1956. In celebration of the production, Playbill.com has put together various versions of &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMClassic Stage Company's revival of Passion will record an original cast album on the PS Classics label. The recording will take place on April 8, with the two-disc record sched…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMIn an interview yesterday with Hitfix.com, 'Veronica Mars' creator Rob Thomas spoke about the record-breaking Kickstarter campaign he began this week in an effort to bring the popular TV se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMIf you haven't had the chance to catch up on your theater news, look no further than today's recap of all things theater around the Broadway World for the week of March 11 Scroll below for t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMWelcome to Debate Day #1 – Creative Cities WHEN: Doors @ 7pm, debate @ 7.30pm WHERE: The Theatre Centre Pop-Up, 1095 Queen St. West, at Dovercourt PWYC at the door. No RSVP required. …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:21AMDances of Death, a new adaptation of August Strindberg's play by Howard Brenton, will begin performances at London's Gate Theatre May 30, prior to an official opening June 6 for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMDo you remember your first live concert? Steven Van Zandt certainly does, almost 50 years ago.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 10:14AMThe West End transfer of the National Theatre's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has extended booking at the Apollo Theatre until 4 January 2014.
The show, which recently W…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:12AMFollowing Nova Y. Payton’s debut at Signature Theatre in the 2011 production of Shaiman and Wittman’s Hairspray, there was more than just a little buzz about the new theatre girl in town…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:08AMBillie Joe Armstrong has the theater bug. He is writing songs for a rock-and-roll updating of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, called These Paper Bullets, which will premiere at Yale Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMAdventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo, MD, presents the world premiere musical, Three Little Birds, March 15-April 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMLiv Lorent's dance version of Rapunzel, written by Carol Ann Duffy, brings the fairytale alive for children and adults with a tale of romance, rescue and lossThe story of Rapunzel, the girl …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMLiv Lorent's dance version of Rapunzel, written by Carol Ann Duffy, brings the fairytale alive for children and adults with a tale of romance, rescue and loss Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMThe York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Andrew Levine, Executive Director continues the Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series with the 1956 musical hit, Happy Hunti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMIf you are an actor attending the StageSource auditions and you don’t have the required 45 copies of your headshot and resume yet, Talent Tools is here to help! We provide high quality, af…
SOURCE: StageSource at 10:00AMLauren Molina, Kate Rockwell, Mitch Jarvis and Dee Snider are among the artists who will be part of Rock'N Roll & Debauchery, an evening presented by Studio 7Arts, April 24 at T…
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Phyllida Lloyd has joined the creative team for the world premiere of Cush Jumbo's Josephine and I, which begins performances July 12, prior to an official opening July 17, for a run thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMAlthough it seems like Hal Holbrook has owned the role of Mark Twain for decades, another actor has staked a theatrical claim to the white-haired novelist and wit. Val Kilmer has been worki…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMOn the March 14 broadcast of Fox's "American Idol," the first of the season's 10 finalists was eliminated from the singing competition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMLONDON—Simon Cowell is bringing "The X Factor"—or a version of it—from television screens to the London stage in early 2014.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33AMThe current touring production of August Wilson's Fences, which premiered at Bath's Theatre Royal in February starring Lenny Henry, is to transfer to the West End's Duchess Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMRaina is a teenager kicked out of the Middle East, forced to live with her relatives in Brooklyn, for reasons that nobody will tell her cousin Tariq – so he hacks into her computer to find…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMThe American Debut Reading of the Controversial play THE RIVER AND THE MOUNTAIN In August 2012, one line from one play changed Ugandan history. “I’m gay” was uttered by the main cha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AMAACHEN, Germany (AP) — German doctors treating the Bolshoi ballet chief's wounds from an acid attack say they are hopeful he will eventually recover enough of his eyesight to work again.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:08AMSimon Russell Beale and John Simm will star in a new production of Harold Pinter's early play The Hothouse, which will begin performances May 4 prior to an official opening May 9 for a r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMX Factor - It's Time to Face the Musical!, a new musical comedy based on the top-ranking U.K. and U.S. television show "The X Factor," is to be brought to the West End stage, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMMark Owen Martin presents a new chamber opera Sweeter Than Roses, on March 22 and 23, 2013 at 8 pm in the Lab at Convergence – 1819 Quaker Lane, in Alexandria, VA. Free parking availab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMBefore Tony nominees Christopher Durang and Sigourney Weaver went all Chekhovian on us with Durang's new Broadway play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, in which Weaver is currently starr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThe legendary Bette Midler makes her long-awaited return to Broadway, and you can be there. Tickets to the one-woman show, entitled I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, written by Ton…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Writing her first musical turned into a time machine for Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:43AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Writing her first musical turned into a time machine for Cyndi Lauper....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:42AMExcellent word of mouth, not to mention Rimalower's own tireless efforts to promote the show, has caused it to be extended again and again at the Duplex, and he has begun to take it on the r…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AMHe might be a soloist with the Royal Ballet, but McRae has a dark secret: he's also a genius at tap-danceReading this on mobile? Please click here to view videoChristopher Wheeldon's Alice i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMLONDON (AP) -- Simon Cowell is bringing "The X Factor" - or a version of it - from television screens to the London stage in early 2014....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:25AMThird Rail Projects resumes performances of an immersive theater event inspired by the writings of Lewis Carroll
SOURCE: NBC New York at 08:23AMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that PS Classics, home to a dozen Sondheim cast albums, will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AM"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Patti LuPone," says the lady to the packed house - with an as-if-you-didn't-know tone to her voice.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:12AMDCMetroTheaterArts is one year old today. Thanks to all our readers for supporting and visiting our site. A special thank you to the theatre and arts communities who welcomed us and reached …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMThe Theatre Royal Bath production of Fences by August Wilson will transfer to the West End this June. The show, which stars Lenny Henry, will run at the Duchess Theatre from June 19 to Septe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Lemn Sissay tells Natasha Tripney about his play Refugee Boy, a stage version of Benjamin Zephaniah’s novel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMAt the very least, any production that wants to address the Stonewall Riots of 1969 has to be acknowledged as ambitious. The events of June 28, a969 are iconic. The gay community finally g…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 07:45AMA post in celebration of Women’s History Month. Today is the birthday of Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (1857-1939). In 1918, this Scottish aristocrat, phil…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:38AM– We talk to Mary Zimmerman, director and creator of Metamorphoses, now completing a successful run in the Fichlander at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Zimmerman …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22AMThe Barry Manilow musical “Harmony,” now gearing up for a regional nonprofit co-production that will play Atlanta and L.A. next season, has been an on-again, off-again Broadway contender…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM
When the Broadway producer David Merrick "invented" critical plaudits in a full-page ad for his feebly reviewed 1961 show Subways are for Sleeping, the stunt backfired, the phoney blurb maki…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:57AMAs previously tipped::E8831358340489 by Whatsonstage.com, Jamie Lloyd's second production in his five-play residency at the Trafalgar Studios will be Harold Pinter's The Hothouse, which runs…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:57AMNew Theatre has announced its second entry in its Boomfrog Series of theater works with a bit of an edge and aimed at a younger, diverse audience: Bird in the Hand by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48AMBob Godfrey received his first Academy award nomination for his 1972 short Kama Sutra Rides Again, based on the ancient Sanskrit sex manual. Sex was a theme he returned to in 1980 with Dream…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMThe long-rumoured musical based on TV show The X Factor will premiere in the West End early next year, it has been announced.
Titled X Factor - It's Time To Face The Musical!, it will featu…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:43AMShetland. I ask you. What a mind-numbingly boring and unimaginative title for a drama. It would be dull enough if the subject matter were a pony or a pullover, but naming a police procedural…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AMBecause working on Broadway is just as glamorous as it sounds. By Rachel James (Treasurer/Writer) Working as a treasurer is filled with amusing stories. You learn some useful things and deal…
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Yale Repertory Theatre presents Paul Giamatti in HAMLET by William Shakespeare, directed by James Bundy, at the University Theatre 222 York Street, tonight, March 15-April 13. Opening Night …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBette 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 celebrates the Booth Theatre Box Office 222 West 45th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAt long last here is the exclusive I am so happy to announce: “Beautiful” is the name of the absolutely much anticipated musical based largely on the music of Carole King. But th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:16AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I report on three outstanding off-Broadway shows, Talley's Folly, Belleville, and The Old...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMToday's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column is devoted to the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Plan, a document that...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be...
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Last week, as crowds were filling the Shubert Theatre for previews of Matilda, you were voting in record numbers! (Thank you!) You selected 2 Featured Male Actors (a tie!) and 1 …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:49AMCAN MUSIC be a powerful uniting factor, when politics, religion and geography constantly force people apart?
Udi Bar-David, an Israeli cellist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, has spent the la…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:26AMFew Chekhov-inspired shows make you laugh out loud, and repeatedly at that. In fact there’s probably just one such rare bird on the planet: Christopher Durang’s riotous “Vanya and Soni…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AMChristine Quinn may be the Democratic front-runner for mayor, but there’s one patch of New York where she’d face some formidable competition: Broadway, an area that would handily be won …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AMA Sensory Feast from the Bayouby Christian BainesIn the lead-up to Oscar night, I approached Beasts of the Southern Wild with little more than a vague knowledge of its four nominations and a…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMWhen Men were Womenby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonThe time for me to take this soapbox that has been given me and shamelessly self promote has come. I will be taking time over the next f…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, March 14, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Will Eno's Gnit, directed by Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Les Waters, begins performances March 15, prior to an official opening March 17, at ATL …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDirector Scott Schwartz's Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, featuring Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, with Matt Harrington, Te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStephen Sondheim's score to Passion will gets its second American cast recording when PS Classics preserves the work of the current Off-Broadway Classic Stage Company production starring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Yale Repertory Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, starring Golden Globe Award winner and Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti as the melancholy Dane, plays the Universit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMax Crumm, who starred in the most recent Broadway revival of Grease, heads the cast of the new Off-Broadway musical F#%king Up Everything — a winner at the 2009 New York Musical Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company's production of Happy Hunting — part of the Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series — is presented March 15-17 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Pete…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGeorge Street Playhouse's world-premiere production of Victoria Stewart's Rich Girl officially opens in New Brunswick, NJ, March 15 following previews that began March 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFord's Theatre's revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vandergelder and Nancy Opel as Dolly — begins March 15,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1926 Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock has its U.S. premiere at Broadway's Mayfair Theatre. It runs 74 performances.
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