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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]McCarter Theatre Center, in association with The Shakespeare Theatre Company, presents William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which officially opens April 5 following previews that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Assisted Living, a new play penned by Tony-nominated Wicked librettist Winnie Holzman and her husband, actor Paul Dooley, makes its world premiere April 5 at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Following a national tour, the 13-week limited Broadway engagement of Jekyll & Hyde begins previews at Broadway's Marquis Theatre April 5 prior to an official opening April 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]John Logan's I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, the one-woman play starring award-winning singer and actress Bette Midler, begins previews April 5 at the Booth Theatre prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Liza Minnelli join Michael Feinstein for the third season of "Michael Feinstein's American Songbook," which debuts Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Nick Verina, Jeremiah James, Ruth Gottschall, Stephanie Rothenberg, Mary Michael Patterson, Robert Petkoff and Ed Dixon are among the players in the Denver world premiere of Sense & Sens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, April 4, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AM[SHARE]The show: "Ride the Tiger" by William Mastrosimone at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre
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"Kinky Boots" is a brash, if predictable musical that will appeal to fans of composer Cyndi Lauper and book writer Harvey Fierstein
SOURCE: NBC New York at 10:54PM[SHARE]Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Mitchell walked the red carpet for "Kinky Boots" Thursday at the Hirschfeld Theater. Guests included Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Joan Rivers, G…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46PM[SHARE]Wilfrid Sheed nailed Roger Ebert, intentionally or not, in Max Jamison, in which he spoke in passing of a movie...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:13PM[SHARE]HEDY WEISS: Director Susan Stroman remembers crying when she saw the 2003 movie that inspired the new show starring Norbert Lee Butz and Kate Baldwin.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:12PM[SHARE]Here we are, almost at the end the season, and there are just two shows left to qualify the hottest guys and dolls before we start voting in the finals. First up is the cast all of you…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:10PM[SHARE]There may be awesomely flexible drag queens, six-inch stiletto heels, and even a hairy man in a t-shirt, but there is absolutely nothing in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots that will sto…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:07PM[SHARE]Never underestimate the power of a good-bad musical, which can make consenting adults yearn to be dancing queens and adolescent witches and, in the case of "Kinky Boots," drag queens in stil…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]A factory owner and a drag performer combine efforts in "Kinky Boots," the new Broadway musical from Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Kathryn Hunter plays an ape who plays a man in "Kafka's Monkey," a solo show at the Baryshnikov Arts Center adapted from Kafka's short story "A Report to the Academy."
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The contemporary troupes hope to build audiences by working together, starting with two weekends of performances at Millennium Park.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:56PM[SHARE]The St. Paul multi-arts venue will build a 1,100-seat hall for the SPCO.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 09:54PM[SHARE]Movie-to-stage transitions run the gamut from spectacular to paltry. Catch Me If You Can, the musical, edges toward the former: a stylized, colorful tale of one of America's best and brighte…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:45PM[SHARE]I've had a number of laugh out loud moments at the ideas in Arj Barker's shows over the years. I've enjoyed the "Heavy Metal Heckle", his turn as a Guru, what speed-freaks did before there w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PM[SHARE]According to Deadline.com, Jacki Weaver is joining Gena Rowlands and Cheyenne Jackson in 6 Dance Lesons In 6 Weeks, based on Richard Alfieri's Broadway play. Weaver will play Irene, one of M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PM[SHARE]JEREMY BLOOM: In addition to working with new playwrights, new music, and with RADY&BLOOM, Jeremy directs his own original adaptations including PETER/WENDY (DARK) [Walkerspace and …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:09PM[SHARE]Is it a shock to say that "Kinky Boots" just isn't kinky enough? It could have been. Harvey Fierstein wrote the book, he who began his career as a 300-pound teenage drag queen on the Lower E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]Would you pay a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play about Mike McAlary? Especially if it wasn't any good? Such are the questions posed by "Lucky Guy," says Terry Teachout. Plus, "Kinky Boot…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:06PM[SHARE] THE GOOD: – BILLY. PORTER. You cannot convince me that he is anything but perfect in this role. He’s living. He’s giving it everything. He’s obviously h…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00PM[SHARE]Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper makes her debut as a musical-theater composer with this stage adaptation of the 2005 Miramax movie about a struggling British shoe factory.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]The musical about a drag queen and a shoe factory owner has songs by theater newcomer Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, who makes rookie mistakes.NEW YORK — Let the record s…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52PM[SHARE]Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell Director amp Choreographer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46PM[SHARE]There’s no use putting up a fight with “Kinky Boots.” The Broadway adaptation of the hit 2005 Miramax film about a struggling shoe factory in the north of England and the d…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, is currently in previews at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21PM[SHARE]This was a little too good NOT to share " we at the AussieTheatre office laughed (to the point of tears) watching this hilarious spoof trailer of Les Miserables. Hope you enjoy the music…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PM[SHARE]Before we get to the monkey, let’s talk about Kathryn Hunter. Rarely has an actor’s transformation so shocked my senses as this short 55-year-old woman’s impersonation of a…
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Mark it in your diaries, theatre goers " the 2013 Helpmann Awards Date has been announced! It was confirmed today by Live Performance Australia (LPA) that the 2013 Helpmann Award Ceremony wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:55PM[SHARE]For one final weekend, something masterful is taking place at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts. Which is rich, given that one of the themes of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's produ…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:54PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " When it's good, "Kinky Boots," the new Broadway musical with the rocking Cyndi Lauper score, is sweetly, vivaciously, irresistibly good. And when it's not so good " well, let's no…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48PM[SHARE]Gentle readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Innocence of Father Brown, now playing at Fremont Theatre in South Pasadena. Click here to go to the LA Weekly'…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) " On Broadway these days, there are your typical witches, princesses and crooners. What we've been missing is something colorful, something brash, safe and yet a little naughty…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:31PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Steve Buscemi has been named as director of a new livestream concert by rock group Vampire Weekend.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- On Broadway these days, there are your typical witches, princesses and crooners. What we've been missing is something colorful, something brash, safe and yet a little na…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:30PM[SHARE]So, by now you have all seen this piece by Todd London which I think is fantastic and says many things that are true and right and will help the American theatre but there is one area that I…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 07:13PM[SHARE]To conclude its 45th season, Berkeley Repertory Theatre welcomes back a pair of acclaimed collaborators Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters, the creators of Eurydice, Three Sisters, and In the Next Ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PM[SHARE]Renown young actor Ryan Gosling and internationally recognized director Nicolas Winding Refn previously collaborated on the surprise cult hit DRIVE and now they reteam for the gritty and vio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PM[SHARE]It's late in the first act of Kinky Boots, the new musical that just opened at the Al Hirschfeld, and all is hopeless....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PM[SHARE]Sergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM[SHARE]
OnSite Theatre Company, like the name suggests, specializes in site-specific theatre -- very cool and quite exceptional in the local area. Their latest offering is a world premiere tha…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:49PM[SHARE]Taproot Theatre's "The Whipping Man" is a war and reconciliation drama graced with gifted actors bringing to life Matthew Lopez's arresting script, writes theater critic Misha Berson. Throu…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:43PM[SHARE]A review of Rachel Axler's "Smudge," on stage at Washington Ensemble Theatre through April 22, 2013.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:42PM[SHARE]Dear Reader: My humblest apologies for my extended absence from the blogosphere. I've been caught up in teaching, and the semester has really gone into high gear. But one of the things that …
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:41PM[SHARE]Anna Kendrick is unfortunately too busy with commitments to the feature film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS to participate in this year's MTV Movie Awards according t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PM[SHARE]Lessons With Luis: Why didn't someone tell me about these guys when they were at the Fringe last year? Never has awkward been so brilliant, and I dare any show to have me grinning so inanely…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PM[SHARE]Thirty years after its L.A. premiere, Lyle Kessler’s darkly humorous and unflinching drama Orphans is having its Broadway premiere with a top-notch cast led by Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PM[SHARE]Court Theatre in Chicago will produce five productions in its 2013-14 season, including the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning The Mountaintop, directed by resident …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PM[SHARE]A new Donald Margulies play will end Geffen Playhouse's 2013-14 season of nine shows...The Colony's final show of the season is on, although the company has yet to raise its previously annou…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:22PM[SHARE]The Al Di Meola and Gonzalo Rubalcaba concert at the Barns of Wolf Trap could have been billed as an evening of piano and guitar. There was no supporting act, there was no backing band, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PM[SHARE]The first poster for the new season of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT arriving on Netflix May 26 has finally arrived. The Bluths are back
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PM[SHARE]Everyone in "_______ Up Everything," a rock musical and winsome love story, is a Brooklyn faux-hemian desperately trying to prove anti-establishment bona fides.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]Australian actor Matt McFarlane has enjoyed what many would call a 'dream run' since graduating from WAAPA's Music Theatre degree in 2007. From music theatre to television, children's entert…
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Who’s the Boss? favorite Tony Danza is living it up in New York City this week! He’s in town for the April 5 industry reading of Honeymoon in Vegas, the new Broadway-bound musica…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]Bobby Cannavale stars in Clifford Odets's tale of Hollywood in its Golden Age.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 05:55PM[SHARE]On Monday, April 29th, at New York City's Pierre Hotel, the National Corporate Theatre Fund NCTF will honor Vanessa Williams, American Express and five resident theatres celebrating their 50…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PM[SHARE]Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 4, 2013 Today's Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Watch @MOTOWNMusical on @GMA! ' ' '  Watc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PM[SHARE]The Broadway Dreams Foundation is holding summer workshops across the country that will give students a chance to hone their musical theater skills in front of casting directors.
Craig Burns…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:45PM[SHARE]"Kinky Boots" is a new musical which features a score by pop star Cyndi Lauper and a book by Tony-winning Broadway veteran Harvey Fierstein.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:40PM[SHARE]Something smells funky…and it's heading towards Broadway. An Equity casting notice broke news of plans for another workshop for the new soul-funk musical, Super Fly, based on the 1972 fil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PM[SHARE]Theater stints for William Friedkin, William Petersen and Amy Brenneman are on tap for the 2013-14 season at the Geffen Playhouse. Friedkin will direct the L.A. nonprofit's revival of Harold…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PM[SHARE]The stars came out last night when Lee Roy Reams made his 54 Below debut in 'Song amp Dance Man.' After the show, Reams was joined backstage by friends and colleagues including Leslie Uggam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PM[SHARE]The Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated British musical Blood Brothers, a pop parable about twins separated at birth, will be revived by the Astoria Performing Arts Center in May. Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PM[SHARE]Broadway babies will get the rare chance to see some of the most memorable and dazzling movie musicals of all time up on the big screen - some for the very first time in HD restorations - as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PM[SHARE]In this week’s The Princess Diary, Cinderella’s Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana and Greg Hildreth shine a light on the “real life” of a Broadway star. Also, find out wha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PM[SHARE]In the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love"for film, for life, and, most of all,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:31PM[SHARE]The incomparable Barbra Streisand is about to settle back into the director's chair. According to Deadline, the legendary singer and actress is set to helm an upcoming and untitled film foll…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PM[SHARE]BroadwayWorld has confirmed that CHAPLIN star Rob McClure will return to Paper Mill Playhouse this Fall in Jason Robert Brown's Honeymoon in Vegas. The new musical will open September 26 and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera stars Hugh Panaro and Samantha Hill took “The Music of the Night” on location to Tony’s DiNapoli on April 3! The actors headed to the Times Square …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:26PM[SHARE]The 40th Chaplin Gala Awards have announced that president Bill Clinton has agreed to present movie star and musician Barbra Streisand with her award at the April 22 event. Other notables pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:24PM[SHARE]Mel Brooks is one of those rags to riches, only in America stories. But, it's not like Brooks hit the lottery. He worked hard for what he made of himself. Here, Brooks remembers his mother -…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:20PM[SHARE]In 1963, Mel Brooks and director/animator Ernest Pintoff came up with the animated short film The Critic, a satire of arty, esoteric cinema. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:19PM[SHARE]Liliane Montevecchi has been entertaining audiences for over 60 years. Now the French performer, who won a Tony Award for Nine, is taking the stage at 54 Below. Here's a first …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]The veteran English circus performer and Sardine reflecs on growing up in the circus and running away to join the theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PM[SHARE]Site Specific Theater About Toulouse-LautrecTheater and visual art join forces in a site-specific work at the New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St. on Thursday, April 11…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will be honored by Boston-area theatre critics with the 2013 Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award May 13 at the Paramount Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PM[SHARE]I’m working on a new play in a different way this month. Â It’s going to be from the ground up with a class. When we had the first meeting a student raised their hand and asked…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM[SHARE]I get plenty of surprised looks when I tell fellow theater critics that I also write about hip-hop, but the line between actors and rappers is drawn with an extra-fine-point pen. For as much…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM[SHARE]
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SOURCE: Vulture at 04:56PM[SHARE]Following complications with cancer, the acclaimed and legendary film critic Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70. The Chicago Sun-Times, where his career began in 1967, confirmed th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PM[SHARE]There is something very unusual about Nora Ephron's bio in the Playbill for her new play, "Lucky Guy," a piece about famed tabloid newspaperman Mike McAlary, which opened Monday night on Bro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:44PM[SHARE]Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma today announced major casting decisions for its 50thAnniversary Season in 2013, featuring new and returning national talent including Nicholas Rodriguez, Heather Bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PM[SHARE]For all Roundabout productions, Education at Roundabout creates an issue of UPSTAGE, designed to enhance students' theatre-going experience. Each edition features interviews with the product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PM[SHARE]Barbra Streisand has selected a period romance project as her directing vehicle with Aldamisa International. She has closed a deal to direct love story between photographer Margaret Bourke-W…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:34PM[SHARE]Barbra Streisand is getting back in the director's chair for the first time in nearly 20 years. Streisand’s next gig will be directing and overseeing the screenplay for an untitled…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]Starting in 1960, Carl Reiner teamed with Mel Brooks as a comedy duo on The Steve Allen Show. Their performances on stage and television included Reiner playing the straight man to Brooks' 2…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:33PM[SHARE]Fusebox Festival blogger Shannon McCormick reporting from Austin, TX. For the past nine years, Austin's Fusebox Festival has sought to bring a sense of local, national, and international com…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 04:32PM[SHARE]Los Angeles Opera wheeled into its final three performances of Rossini’s “Cinderella” Wednesday night with a new Cinderella toiling amid her cadre of lovable, helpful rats.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:30PM[SHARE] Amitai Marmorstein and Celine Stubel (Photo: Barbara Pedrick)The First Cut is the Deepestby Shannon Christy Atomic Vaudeville's production of Legoland is a rich explora…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:23PM[SHARE]Super Fly, the new soul-funk musical based on the 1972 film of the same title, is preparing for another workshop shepherded by Tony Award Bill T. Jones this summer in New York City, accordin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]The cast met the press just yesterday and you can check out photos from the special performance preview below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PM[SHARE]Jeffrey Cirio and Misa Kuranaga, the perfect couple.To turn from Boston Ballet's "All Kylián" program of two weeks ago to the lush embrace of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:18PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of the Broadway's MOTOWN THE MUSICAL performed live on Good Morning America this morning from the heart of Times Square. Check out the fu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PM[SHARE]The Geffen Playhouse announces nine plays for the 20132014 season three world premieresadaptations, three West Coast premieres and two productions of familiar works from Pulitzer or Nobel Pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PM[SHARE]Dying to get a ticket to the new hit Motown the Musical? All you’ve got to do is turn on your TV! In a new sneak preview on Good Morning America, the cast of the soulful new tuner (led…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]KERRY REID reviews "Dawn, Quixote" at the Building Stage ★★★½ and "The Night of the Iguana" at The Artistic Home ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Dawn, Quixote…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PM[SHARE]Producing theater isn't easy. Solo producing is even harder. But such is the task the redoubtable Hershey Felder has set for himself at the Royal George Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PM[SHARE]Rob McClure is heading to Vegas! McClure will join previously announced star Tony Danza in the world premiere of Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman’s new musical comedy Ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PM[SHARE]Stuart Hughes (photo: Cylla von Tiedemann)True West is Strangely Directionlessby Christian BainesSam Shepard's furious tale of brotherly feuding isn't the easiest play to pull off. But somet…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:07PM[SHARE]
Reviewed by: Russell Goeltenbodt Chicago's "Broadway in Chicago's" 2013 musical theater season is proving to be  exciting is creating wonderful theater experiences for Chicago audienc…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles will produce three world premieres, three West Coast premieres, the return of Donald Margulies' Coney Island Christmas and the classic thriller Wait U…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]It is 2 in the afternoon on a Friday in the south of France, and Pablo Picasso is taking a bath. He uses an oven mitt as a washcloth. He smiles at us. He cheerily pontificates.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:49PM[SHARE]BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre ... Even as the U.S. Supreme Court debates what is marriage, the se…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PM[SHARE]Opening next weekend at the Lillian Theatre – previews start tonight – is a play from an exciting New York theater company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. READ ALL ABOUT IT! He…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:41PM[SHARE]A host of Broadway favorites, including Tony Award winners Laura Benanti (Gypsy), Donna Murphy (Into the Woods), James Naughton (Chicago), and Leslie Uggams (On Golden Pond), as well as nomi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PM[SHARE]What's in a new pope's name? The recent election of Pope Francis is prompting a flurry of showbiz opportunities.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38PM[SHARE]Here are some of the familiar Broadway faces appearing in prime time tonight Thursday, April 4, 2013
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PM[SHARE]Film critic Roger Ebert was not only the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, but one of the only critics known to the general public, thanks to his long-running movie review shows suc…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:36PM[SHARE]We love the idea of a play based on a biblical tale and performed in an original Shakespearean actors' church, and if you do too we have just the competition for you: win a pair of ticket…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:36PM[SHARE]Works by Enda Walsh and Caridad Svich on tap at Frank Theatre and Mixed Blood.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:31PM[SHARE]With the 2012-13 Broadway season coming to a close this month (April 25 is the cut-off date for eligibility for the 67th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a four-part look at the curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]A passion for outsider art has guided Tom Hazelmyer, punk rocker turned bar owner turned printmaker.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:29PM[SHARE]A bevy of Broadway’s brightest stars are aligning at Carnegie Hall! Stephanie J. Block, Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Nick Adams, Leslie Uggams, Megan Hilty and more h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director announced that tickets are now available for the world premiere of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PM[SHARE]BROADWAY BARES returns again to its roots as the 2013 BARES season continues with BROADWAY BARES SOLO STRIPS at 9 pm on Sunday, May 5 at XL Nightclub 512 West 42nd Street, NYC. As the weathe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PM[SHARE]This summer, New York City Center Encores! will be launching Off-Center, a series of performances that features some of off-Broadway's most seminal musicals, presented by some of Broadway's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PM[SHARE]Maltz Jupiter Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse join forces to offer a co-production of the Tony-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. The show begins at Paper Mill April 10 for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]News of Broadway fave Aaron Tveit and Game of Thrones fun gobbled up four of the 10 slots in this week's list of most-read stories on Broadway.com. In case you missed any of our exclusiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PM[SHARE]Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy will get a run at off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, beginning performances on April 19 and running through June 16. The official opening night is set…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PM[SHARE]The SoHo Playhouse and its artistic director Darren Lee Cole announced April 4 the addition of The Drawer Boy to the theatre’s Off-Broadway lineup.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM[SHARE]The Humana Festival of New American Plays is a major event in the theater world. More than 400 plays by some of the world's top playwrights have made their world premieres there since Actors…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:00PM[SHARE]On this date 42 years ago, Stephen Sondheim's Follies premiered on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]
On April 28 at 930pm, Krysta Rodriguez Smash, The Addams Family, Lindsay Mendez Dogfight, 35mm A Musical Exhibition, and Barbara Walsh Company will join bright new composer and lyricist team…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PM[SHARE]Reeve Carney took a night off from superhero duty to indulge in an evening of drag-tastic fun. The actor/singer, who has starred in Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark since its i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PM[SHARE]Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Tony Award® nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of the Broadway's MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL performed live on "Good Morning America" t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:58PM[SHARE]When NBC confirmed the news "The Tonight Show" changeover in 2014, Broadway ears perked up. For legit publicists, the cross-country move could be a boon: The opportunity to promote Main Stem…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PM[SHARE]In 1987, SDCF and the Dramatists Guild jointly held a panel discussion exploring the symbiotic and complex relationship between playwright and director. Peter Stone moderates a panel of Play…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PM[SHARE]Broadway has a new crowd- pleasing musical: Kinky Boots, a generously entertaining collaboration between Broadway veteran Harvey Fierstein, who wrote the book, and Cyndi Lauper -- yes, …
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 02:46PM[SHARE]Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Company will present the Tony Award-winning musical Hello, Dolly!, featuring a cast of young performers from the Amas Teen Academy,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]The new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Inspired by true events and based on the a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater dips its toe in LA theatrical waters with a revised production of Daniel Talbott's Slipping, which played at Rattlestick in 2009. Talbott i…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:42PM[SHARE]New York City Center is going off-Broadway this summer with the launch of Encores! Off-Center, a new series that will bring together current artists and groundbreaking musicals. This su…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PM[SHARE]Broadway stars of today will celebrate three Broadway icons of yesteryear — namely, songwriters Frank Loesser and Jule Styne and actor Danny Kaye — at the April 29 gala performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]New York City Center goes Off-Broadway this summer with the launch of Encores Off-Center, a new series featuring seminal Off-Broadway musicals filtered through the lens of today's most innov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PM[SHARE]Ukrainian dancer fails to turn up for rehearsals for London ballet version of Midnight Express Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PM[SHARE]Ukrainian dancer fails to turn up for rehearsals for London ballet version of Midnight ExpressSergei Polunin, the Ukrainian who shocked the dance world by walking out of the Royal Ballet las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PM[SHARE](Photo by Alissa Moore. Pictured: Anthem Salgado) The following video was taken at the Audience (R)Evolution Learning Convening from February 20-22 in Philadelphia. Below you may find …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:15PM[SHARE]Everyone, whether a 'Jekkie' or not, has a special JEKYLL amp HYDE moment. Maybe it's when you first caught the show, rocked out to the cast album, or even that time when you felt particular…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PM[SHARE] Jerry Scott was a mainstay in the cabaret community for over 40 years as a singer/pianist. It is with great sadness to report that he died peacefully at 1:00 a.m. on April 4 at Calvar…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:07PM[SHARE]Broadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:06PM[SHARE]New York City Center has announced that Tony Award-nominated composer Jeanine Tesori will serve as artistic director for Encores! Off-Center, a new production series celebrating Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man sees a wounded Confederate soldier and two of his former slaves scraping together a makeshift Passover seder just a day or two after the Civil War.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:01PM[SHARE]New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the Los Angeles premiere of Slipping, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, which begins previews April 4 at Elephant Stages' Li…
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Even the blackest storm clouds can have a silver lining of hope and amid the dark tempestuous drama a gleaming beacon of light pierces this tragic story as Iron Crow Theatre Company presents…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PM[SHARE]Kinky Boots, the new musical that brings together four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy® Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Music & Lyrics), officially…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:53PM[SHARE]Cinderella stars Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana welcomed two-Tony winner Cherry Jones and 80s A-lister Rebecca De Mornay to the Broadway Theatre on April 3. Mornay and Jones (visiting …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Everyday Ways from Works Progress on Vimeo. After meeting Mankwe Ndosi for the first time, we knew that our process for creating this video would be different than the others in the s…
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 01:46PM[SHARE]BROADWAY BARES returns again to its roots as the 2013 BARES season continues with BROADWAY BARES SOLO STRIPS at 9 pm on Sunday, May 5 at XL Nightclub 512 West 42nd Street, NYC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PM[SHARE]Producers have announced a "$30 Under 30" rush ticket policy for the new one-man Broadway production of Macbeth starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, which begins Broadway previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PM[SHARE]The latest edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips will be presented May 5 at 9 PM at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street).
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Â Written by Linda Amiel Burns Sandi Durell and Shari Upbin's Sharell Productions have been producing and booking Broadway Live! and Hollywood Live! (originally named Timele…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:30PM[SHARE]Midsummer Night's Dream is a long-time favorite of Shakespeare's plays. It has been done by actors, dancers, and musicians alike. Now the Casper College Department of Theatre and Dance has t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PM[SHARE]The National Tour of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, will star original Broadway cast members ALICIA HALL MORAN as Bess and NATHANIEL S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PM[SHARE]NEW YORK " Mikhail Baryshnikov is dancing. He is 65. And so, as a friend asked when I told him the news, what is there to see? Well. A great joyous appetite, for starters. The former ballet …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26PM[SHARE]LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) " Nigeria's iconic National Theatre rises out of the brackish swamps of Lagos near its islands, a massive concrete and marble structure resembling a military officer's ca…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:24PM[SHARE]Marin Theatre Company (MTC) has announced their 2013-2014 season lineup, which will feature six productions in the company's Boyer Theatre. Opening the season is the regional premiere of Pul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PM[SHARE]Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley have been revealed as the stars of the upcoming national tour of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess." Both actors were involved in the Broadway revival o…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:21PM[SHARE]Blue Elephant, London: The original text of You and Me was about a husband and wife ageing together in a relationship of Becketian absurdity.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:20PM[SHARE]Mr. O'Shea was an Irish actor known for his roles in films like "Ulysses," "Barbarella" and "The Verdict" and plays like "Staircase" and "Mass Appeal."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:14PM[SHARE]TLC today announces that it has commissioned the two-hour film LETTERS TO JACKIE REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY, executive produced by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Bill Couturi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonFifty-eight-year-old Eric Argyle is one of the quiet ones. His grave mistake was to try to save time by crossing the road without looking. Now he is dead and the cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tickets are now available for the forthcoming production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, starring Christopher Lloyd. The production will begin previews at off-Broadway&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]Broadway’s hunkiest men will cast off their costumes for Broadway Bares: Solo Strips, a burlesque benefit that will play XL Nightclub on May 5 for one night only. Tony Spinosa will dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM[SHARE]At Lantern, it's all done with spitfire delivery that comes at you head-on " even comic scenes with the rascally brawler Pistol (Jake Blouch) are delivered with ferocity. And in the end, the…
SOURCE: NewsWorks at 01:03PM[SHARE]I'm going to go out on a limb and say that over the last nights, Bristol Riverside Theatre's large-scale production (two dozen cast members and a 12-piece orchestra) of "The Pirates of Penza…
SOURCE: NewsWorks at 01:00PM[SHARE]The complete cast has been announced for Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Previews begin at the off-Broadway theater on May 3. D…
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Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will present a new production of Bertolt Brecht's THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PM[SHARE]Octagon, BoltonDavid Thacker has unfinished business with The Glass Menagerie. In 1981, he was due to direct the play with the Hollywood star Gloria Grahame playing the role of Ama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PM[SHARE]BROADWAY BARES returns again to its roots as the 2013 BARES season continues with BROADWAY BARES: SOLO STRIPS at 9 pm on Sunday, May 5 at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street, NYC). As the wea…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:52PM[SHARE]MARY T. & LIZZY K. EXTENDS THROUGH MAY 5 AT ARENA STAGE WITH SIX ADDED PERFORMANCES Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that due to popular demand, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49PM[SHARE]The latest edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips will be presented May 5 at 9 PM at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]One State Together in the ArtsJune 24-25, 2013Quad Cities, ILConvened every other year by Arts Alliance Illinois and the Illinois Arts Council Agency, One State Together in the Arts is the o…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:48PM[SHARE]Broadway's long-running hit The Phantom of the Opera was honored April 3 with the unveiling of a portrait that will adorn the Broadway Wall of Fame at Tony's di Napoli Restaurant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event that blows through Brooklyn every couple of months. CATCH is curated by Jeff Larson, An…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:47PM[SHARE]Two things we love here at BroadwayWorld Jr. Broadway shows for families and the development of terrific new public schools in New York City. Here's your opportunity to be a part of both. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PM[SHARE]Last week in this post we looked at THE STORY OF MY LIFE, the beautiful and highly produceable two person musical about two best friends. I had the opportunity to talk with another pair of f…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:40PM[SHARE]UPDATED: The Classic Stage Company has released complete casting for its upcoming off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle. Joining the previously announced Christophe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PM[SHARE]Rose theatre, KingstonTen years ago Richard Bean wrote this black comedy about a drug-dealing family living in leafy suburbia for Live Theatre Newcastle. Now it has been relocated to Kingsto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM[SHARE]Audience-building is the name of the game for all arts institutions, from the most established brick-and-mortar operations with multi-million-dollar budgets, to tiny itinerant troupes whose …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:34PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Mary Testa and Elizabeth A. Davis have joined the Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, starring Christopher Lloyd, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:29PM[SHARE]Three years before his breakthrough movie, Jim Carrey was a remarkable standup, displaying his originality and his brilliance at making a physical spectacle of himself Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PM[SHARE]Riley, NSCD campus, Leeds: Any showcase performance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance is a refreshing and stimulating experience. Always there is the temptation to compare the per…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PM[SHARE]Artists Rep will present the West Coast premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's new play, Ten Chimneys, this April. Incoming Artistic Director Dámaso Rodriguez makes his directorial debut at Artist…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PM[SHARE]The BBC has appointed Louise Rainbow as the new executive producer of Strictly Come Dancing. Rainbow, who was most recently the executive producer of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, replaces A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PM[SHARE]It’s back to school for Nathan Lane and Norbert Leo Butz! The two Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winners unite on the big screen as the drama teacher and vice principal of a Pennsy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PM[SHARE]THIS MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013 AT 7 PM Shugoll Research Presents: ARTSPEAK With: Jennifer Damiano and Adam Chanler-Berat When: THIS Monday, April 8th, 2013, at 7:00 P.M. Where: Paint Branch HS-1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18PM[SHARE]New, Exeter: Fizzing like champagne this elegant and entertaining production perfectly captures the period's style and formality in Brandon Thomas's well-loved play. Director Amand…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PM[SHARE]With summer not so far away, Miami's City Theatre is gearing up for its annual Summer Shorts festival June 6-30 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts -- and for a rich week of…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:08PM[SHARE]Producer Ken Davenport has announced details for the '30 Under 30' rush ticket program for the upcoming Broadway engagement of MACBETH, starring Tony and Olivier Award winner and two-time Em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PM[SHARE]This week's A.P.T. is the wonderful Mary Dimino. A few years back I had the absolute pleasure of working with Mary on her show Sacred Skinny in the Fringe festival and we have since stayed i…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:03PM[SHARE]Barbra Streisand's vast underground display of collectibles makes a delicious target for satire in Jonathan Tolins's "Buyer & Cellar," a one-man show starring Michael Urie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]Sure, baseball is the main attraction. But there's plenty to do (and eat) while you're at Busch Stadium.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM[SHARE]
Faye Castelow as Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis inhabited the seedier parts of London’s glamorous nightclubs. Supposedly groomed into the role of nightclub hostess by the Profumo-pimp Stephen W…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:54AM[SHARE]The Olivier-nominated West End musical The Bodyguard welcomes 13 year-old Joshua-James Thomas and 12 year-old Michael Matias to the cast as Fletcher, the young son of Tony winner Heathe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Nikolai and the Others, the world-premiere play from Richard Nelson that imagines a weekend shared by Russian artists George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Nabokov and more, begins Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]LMNOP, the new musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get a full production this summer at Goodspeed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for Transport Group's The Memory Show, a new musical starring Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox. The off-Broadway two-hander will begin preview performances o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St. will produce the world-premiere of the musical THE LANDING this fall, with music by the Tony Award-winning composer John Kander and book and lyrics by Greg Pie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AM[SHARE]March came in like a lion, with five big Broadway openings (Ann, Cinderella, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Hands on a Hardbody), countless off-Broadway ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AM[SHARE]Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor working for a mega-superstar, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Age & Hometown: 31; Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Current Role: Breaking down opposite Tom Hanks as Abner Louima—a Haitian immigrant whose brutal assault by police earned national attenti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]The 2013 Boston Pops season, May 8-June 15, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, will present a season-long tribute to the world of movie music, along with programs featuring a wide variet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AM[SHARE]Marilyn Monroe liked the ladies -- so proposes this week's Pick of the Week, Marilyn -- My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Will Manus' new play in MACHA/Globe Theatre in West Hollywood. See below f…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:30AM[SHARE]Veterans of the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley have been selected to star in the show's national tour when it kicks off this fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AM[SHARE]Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots stomps onto Broadway on April 4, packing plenty of laughs, heart and the showstopping drag troupe The Angels. The new musical stars Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Australian musical star Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut as Liza Minnelli in Liza (on an E), running at the Vaudeville Theatre from May 14 through May 18.
The show will “d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AM[SHARE]Today in 1971, Follies opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 522 performances. Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AM[SHARE]Wicked welcomed its five millionth theatregoer to the West End's Apollo Victoria Theatre over the Easter bank holiday weekend. Stewart Lyons, together with his partner Cristina Kan…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:08AM[SHARE]Yesterday, April 3, Tony's di Napoli Restaurant Times Square presented the addition of a new portrait to their Broadway Wall of Fame, honoring the stars and cast of the legendary Broadway mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AM[SHARE]The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in 90 Minutes is one thing, while the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in one weekend is entirely another. But that is exactly what Company's M…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:03AM[SHARE]Ten years ago I had an idea for a show. Â I knew what the concept would be. Â And I knew who the characters would be. Â And that’s about it. I put about 20 actors in a room and m…
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Paper Mill Playhouse will present Thoroughly Modern Millie, winner of the 2002 Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Musical. This effervescent musical romp will feature Ashley Kate Adams Miss …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's landmark musical Follies premiered on Broadway April 4, 1971, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with a cast including Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long present the world premiere of Buyer amp Cellar, written by Jonathan Tolins, directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AM[SHARE]One day closer and the clock continues to tick down towards our first public performance! Â Tech is in full swing, and the show is really starting to come together. Â Of course after sev…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Alison Fraser stars in the Off-Broadway production of Wendy Beckett's new play, Love Therapy, which will begin previews at the DR2 Theatre April 20 prior to an official opening April 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Philly Shakespeare's production blends comedy with darker themes in this exuberant, joyous production.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:43AM[SHARE]Hello and welcome again to Vaudephone, your one stop shopping for all the best contemporary variety acts! Today we feature the terrific Noah Diamond, a show biz Renaissance man: vaudevill…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AM[SHARE]The Vineyard Theatre announced that it will present the world premieres of Nicky Silver's new play, Too Much Sun, and the new John Kander and Greg Pierce musical, The Landing, as part of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AM[SHARE]Tim and Charlie's Farewell Tour, an evening celebrating the composer and lyricist team Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, will be presented April 28 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955). A colleague of Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker at Vanity Fair, he was one of the founding members of the informal club of wits …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:28AM[SHARE]Singer Sarah Brightman, who created the role of Christine in the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera, will release her 11th studio album, "Dreamchaser," Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) is officially critically acclaimed. On Monday, May 13, the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) will present the liv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AM[SHARE]Today we are talking to the originator of Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES onstage and a preeminent Phantom and the first to actually play the role in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA who has clearly …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AM[SHARE]Broadway 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 10:09AM[SHARE]David Byrne, the frontman of Talking Heads, creates a disco evocation of the world of Imelda Marcos for a Public Theater stage in "Here Lies Love."
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Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) launched their 2013 Creative Development Series last week announcing the involvement of some of Queensland's shining stars of the stage. Celebrated actress C…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:57AM[SHARE]Don't miss the all-new, all-American musical that just drove onto Broadway, HANDS ON A HARDBODY. Inspired by true events, and infused with a 'fresh roots-rock vibe' The New York Times, this …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AM[SHARE]Carvajal plays Nicola, the fiancee of Charlie (American Idiot's Stark Sands), who's torn between an exciting new life in London with Nicola and one in Northampton, where he has the chance to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of McKinley Morganfield (1913-1983). Performing and recording as Muddy Waters, Morganfield was perhaps the most influential Chicago bluesman of all time, largely throug…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Boston Pops 2013 Season, under the baton of conductor Keith Lockhart, will feature performances from several Broadway favorites as well as a tribute to the late Tony and Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre will present the world premieres of Nicky Silver's new play, Too Much Sun, and the new John Kander-Greg Pierce musical, The Landing, as part of its 2013-2014 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:35AM[SHARE]"Ann" boasts an amazing performance by Holland Taylor. "Wall" well meaning but unsatisfying.
Both reviews appear in other North Jersey Media Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 09:31AM[SHARE]From April 5th to May 12th, Compass Rose Theater ushers in the spring with a fully professional production of Lee Blessing's glorious and life-affirming play, Eleemosynary. On a stage fil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's award-winning Vineyard Theatre has announced two of its mainstage productions for the 2013-14 season: the world premiere of the new John Kander and Greg Pierce musical The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Traverse, Edinburgh: Powerful and spellbinding, Rob Drummond's new play for the Traverse looks and feels exactly as it should - a beautifully defined retro-TV quiz show land. It is a sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AM[SHARE]Australian musical star and impersonator Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut next month, channelling the iconic Liza Minnelli in Liza (on an E), which will run for six performances on…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AM[SHARE]Clifford Odets' The Big Knife is the story of Charlie Castle (Bobby Cannavale), a dynamic stage actor who has become a Hollywood star at the expense of his art, his values and his marriage. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Digital Theatre, sponsor of the Whatsonstage.com Awards, has announced its latest production released for download: last summer's acclaimed West End revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Jo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AM[SHARE]Synetic Theater’s Teen Ensemble  Storms Into Spring With The Taming of the Shrew Synetic 2012 comedy hit is back! The Synetic Teen Ensemble will remount Synetic’s ̶…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]New York theater institutions don't come much feistier or more dynamic than Elaine Stritch. The tart-tongued, 88-year-old force of nature -- whose stage career includes memorable collaborati…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tonight marks the official Broadway opening of the fabulously dragified musical Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Featuring a score by Grammy Award-winning pop star Cyndi Lauper and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM[SHARE]Most college seniors are confused about their life path, but not Jacob Porter. He's been mentored by legendary Broadway producer/director Hal Prince and record producer Kurt Deutsch, and int…
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Hey, guys! We're back with another contest to win free tickets-- this time, it's to see The Memory Show, a musical by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler that will be playing at The Duke on 42nd fro…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:52AM[SHARE]Australian musical theatre star Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut in Liza (on an E), in which he, of course, impersonates Liza Minnelli. The show will begin a six-performance run Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Usually, acting and performing are escapes for Betsy Wolfe, but with "The Last Five Years" she is experiencing something new.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:44AM[SHARE]Originally posted on 18 February 2011.
Though he wrote more extensively about it in his English Drama Since 1940, David Ian Rabey first suggested a “New Expressionism” as one of…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:37AM[SHARE]Queuing for theatre tickets, or day seats for sold-out shows, doesn't have to be a chore. Some people actually enjoy itI'd rather stab myself in the eye than queue outside a shop for the Box…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]The latest play from Tony winner Richard Nelson, Nikolai and the Others, begins performances at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on April 4. The off-Broadway pre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:17AM[SHARE]The crowd-pleasing new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, starring Billy Porter and Stark Sands, officially opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4. Kinky Boots features music and lyrics by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]St. Louis Browns exhibit features 200 photographs, jerseys and artifacts
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:15AM[SHARE]Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A first-rate production of a love letter to journalism.
Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy is a highly likeable production. The late …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:09AM[SHARE]Colm Toibin describes how he tried to recognize the humanity as well as the exalted status of Jesus' mother in his play "The Testament of Mary."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 4 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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The 2013 theater award season began with the announcement on April 3 of the nominees for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring Off-Broadway. Both Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Redgrave rece…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57AM[SHARE]Soho Theatre will present a new season of political productions this summer that will include a stage adaptation of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's novella Address Unknown, which was originally …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AM[SHARE]James Ward, who has died in Nanyuki Cottage Hospital in Kenya, was for 35 years an actor and director at the Donovan Maule Theatre in Nairobi and later at the Phoenix Theatre. When that, too…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: While staff and cast at the North Staffordshire theatre in-the-round prepare for their next homegrown production, the New Vic has struck gold with this timeles…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]The Robinsons - the clan at the heart of Richard Bean's latest, intermittently uproarious new play - are to drug-dealing, money-laundering and protection-racketeering in Petersham what the v…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:29AM[SHARE]Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: David Bruce's family opera is based on Philip Pullman's fairy tale novel via Glyn Maxwell's libretto. One of the co-commissioners of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AM[SHARE]Martyn Rose has been made the new chairman of English National Opera. He will take up his new position from May 1, when Ffion Hague and Glyn Barker, who currently share the role, will step...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]Halfway through "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named Sharon explains that she has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16AM[SHARE]The main character of "The Whale" is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universally …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11AM[SHARE]Monks from China's Shaolin Temple stand perched on tall wooden boxes. Swaying from side to side, they rock the crates until they fall, leaping free at the last moment. Famous for their warri…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:08AM[SHARE]Rose, Kingston-upon-Thames: A domestic comedy about a family of murdering drug dealers might seem like a tall order but the resourceful Richard Bean is nothing if not ambitious.
Read the ful…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM[SHARE]Finborough, London: The way we treat our elderly is an increasingly pressing question so the Finborough Theatre's revival of Stewart Conn's I Didn't Always Live Here is a pert…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM[SHARE]It’s hard not to feel a little bit grubby after watching Amanda Whittington’s play about the last woman in England to be hanged: we are invited into her life in such a way as to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AM[SHARE]"Call Me Adam" chats with Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star magician Steve Cohen about his hit show "Chamber Magic" which plays every Friday and Saturday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York C…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Playing a 5,000-year-old poet decrying humanity's addiction to rage and violence, clothing his warning in a modern retelling of Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War, this is not your grandma'…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:41AM[SHARE]Rodney Ackland's Before The Party, a play about a family painfully attempting to maintain their veneer of upper-middle class respectability, was a real hit when it debuted at St. Martin's Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AM[SHARE]The first memory which might be stirred by this complicated but ultimately gripping psychothriller about truth and perspective from rising star Rob Drummond is a faded one of evenings watchi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:12AM[SHARE]For awhile there one of the biggest areas of discussion was about whether arts organizations should be like airlines an adopt dynamic pricing that responded to the demand for the show. I hav…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:09AM[SHARE]
Kinky Boots, the quirky independent British film, has been turned into a splashy Broadway musical with a score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper. Reporter Jeff Lunden takes look.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:17AM[SHARE]Kinky Boots, the quirky independent British film, has been turned into a splashy Broadway musical with a score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper. Reporter Jeff Lunden takes look.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:17AM[SHARE]We adopted a consistent methodology for buying tickets, to compare prices on as close to a like-for-like basis as possible. For the purposes of defining West End theatre, we considered all t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Jonathan Brown, secretary of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers: "This year's survey by The Stage appears to show much lower booking fees but I think this will be as a result of how.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]The average extra booking fees being charged on West End theatre tickets have nearly halved in the last year. Additional fees charged after the initial price quoted to customers has fallen f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tickets for the best seats in the West End have risen to more than £80, with the price of the cheapest falling by nearly £1 to an average of £21.07. These are the findings of...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]
Only heaven and producer Whoopi Goldberg know why Sister Act - the 1992 film featuring Goldberg as Deloris Van Cartier, a soul singer who spies a murder committed by her gangster boyfriend a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AM[SHARE]Commedia dell'Arte, the 16th century Italian theatrical form, is a gift that keeps on giving. Not only did it give us sketch comedy and Punch and Judy shows, it gave us Carlo Goldoni's Serva…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:30AM[SHARE]The new comedic musical WILSHIRE, with music and lyrics from singersongwriter Drew Brody and a book by Bobby Goldman 'The Curvy Widow', will receive a New York reading today, April 4th at 3p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater previously announced that Betsy Aidem, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Anthony Cochrane, Lauren Culpepper, Alvin Epstein, Kathryn Erbe, John Glover, Jennifer B. Grace, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM[SHARE]Left Field Productions, Neil Berg, Adam Friedson and MSC OPAS at Texas AampM University welcome veteran Broadway actor Marc Kudisch to direct the world premiere project that will close the 4…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM[SHARE]Northampton's Royal and Derngate has announced James Dacre as its new artistic director. Dacre previously directed the world premiere of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, which beat Jerusalem …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM[SHARE]"The theatre owes us, the workers, nothing. It owes its audience stories and truth, and now we give it careerism...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM[SHARE]
In David Harrower's intense 2007 drama "Blackbird," Alison Pill played a grown woman seeking out the man (Jeff Daniels) she slept with back when she was 12 to his 40.The past also catches up…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]'it's not like a cabaret," gushed Elaine Stritch. "It's like all my friends in New York got together!" And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her Café Carlyle…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]When shows are inspired by stars, they tend to be either fawning tributes or studies in self-destruction. With Judy Garland alone, just think of Rufus Wainwright's enamored cover of her Carn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM[SHARE]What's not to like about this Rodrigo Moreno photo of Paloma Nuñez for Chile Con Carne? We like the way the photo is split between mad colours on one side and the blonde wig on …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AM[SHARE]Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa Media Platform for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM[SHARE]Bergen County resident and playwright Stephen Kaplan is the winner of the ninth annual New Jersey Playwrights Contest for his play Exquisite Potential, which starts performances April 4 unde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Riverside Theatre production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer plays the Waxlax Stage in Vero Beach, FL, April 4-14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Rob Ashford, recently represented on Broadway with the revival of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, directs industry readings of the new musical comedy Wilshire April 4-5 at Chelsea …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Christiane Noll, most recently seen on Broadway in Chaplin, returns to 54 Below April 4, singing her solo show Gifts, which was seen at the Manhattan nightspot in October 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Adam Jacobs stars as the masked legend Zorro in the Alliance Theatre production of the Gipsy Kings-scored Zorro: A New Musical, which has been revised since its 2008 London premiere. The Atl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Billy Porter stars as an indefatigable drag performer whose broken heel helps mend a broken wing for a foundering shoe-maker, played by Stark Sands, in the new Cyndi Lauper-scored Broadway m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Three new one-act plays by acclaimed playwrights Neil LaBute (Reasons to Be Pretty), John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and Winter Miller (In Darfur) will be presented at the Planet Connections Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
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