‘Hands on a Hard Body' Treads on Broadway By: Isa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:39PMThis season, chimps are champs. In the recent dark comedy “Trevor,” a chimpanzee dreams of making it as an actor, while in David Ives’ newly revived “All in the Timing,” three prim…
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:29PMThe Broadway star Elaine Stritch is irascible and indomitable and, to theatergoers of a certain age or mind-set, irresistible. And now, at 88, she is leaving the city she loves.
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On the agenda: A forum in the Palm Beach area "Mary Poppins" composer Richard Sherman, neuroscience mysteries and the future of museums.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:55PMThis is a comedy... dark and freaky as it is. Playwright Jason Grote wrote a hot mess of a story. And Director Marti Lyons actualizes it with a vengeance that leaves one a little stunned. (r…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:52PMBefore StubHub, Philly had the Carlin family of theater ticket sellers.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:39PMOn Wednesday, the Cleveland Play House leadership announced that it was laying off four people, 10 percent of its full-time staff.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:37PMKathryn Hunter in Kafka's Monkey. Photo: Keith Pattison Kafka’s Monkey is original, creative and one of the great theater experiences. It brings together a great author, a talented playwri…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:18PMNEW YORK (AP) — Performing on pointed toe, scores of 6-year-olds auditioned Friday for coveted slots at the city's School of American Ballet.
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Anthony Fedorov and his fiancee, Jennifer Paz, are now proud parents
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44PMIn a career-spanning new conversation on Q With Jian Ghomeshi on CBC radio, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber discusses acquiring the rights to the 2003 comedy film SCHOOL OF ROCK and his preliminary…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13PMA twisted approach to Chekhov can be a tricky thing to handle, but think of it less as a retooling and more as a personalized approach, an experience catered to the audience, with input from…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06PMProducers Mike Medavoy and Bobby Geisler are developing a re-envisioned and updated film version of George and Ira Gershwin’s iconic opera “Porgy and Bess.” The duo is working wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:03PMThis Sunday, April 7, 2013, Leorah Haberfield will be directing a cabaret featuring young talent from the Broadway community, with musical direction by Norma Jean Curley.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMAnother week on Broadway, another batch of lessons learned from all the news on the Great White Way. Who’s got our brains working overtime this week? Laura Osnes, Patina Miller, Sarah …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:00PMIn this latest episode of OBSESSED!, Seth Rudetsky is joined by old friend Kristine Zbornik to relive horrible moments from their long ago gig at Rose's Turn, a famed piano bar. Zbornik also…
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On Monday, April 8th, 2013 join us at 600 pm for Birthday Bash as Anthony Lee Medina amp Emily Thomas present Broadway Rocks The Living Room at Toshis Living Room and Penthouse in the fabulo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMSince the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award got their start in 2000, 141 stars of the stage have walked home with trophies. But one fan favorite is the undisputed queen of the ceremony, wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:44PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, will open on April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street. The four girls sharing the tit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMLast month I asked the great John Lithgow to write an introduction to my new book “How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare.” He agreed (wonderful man that he is), and the result a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:41PMEveryone is buzzing about Broadway’s enchanting new musical Matilda, the stage adaptation of the beloved Roald Dahl novel. This London transport has been captivating audiences thanks t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:40PMBy Rob Hartmann
Cabaret at its best allows the singing actor to create an
evening which flows effortlessly and inevitably from their own stage
personality. It’s no surprise that some of…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:35PMYou don’t watch Miriam by writer, choreographer, and dancer Nora Chipaumire so much as you experience it. This one-hour performance piece that explores light and dark and black and white, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMBy Judd Hollander
Perception or the misinterpretation of it is the key in Rajvi
Joseph's tension-filled The North Pool
at the Vineyard Theatre. It's April, 2007 in Middle
America and the…
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Judd Hollander
Photo by Carol Rosegg
When making a statement, sometimes
the simplest messages are the best, as brilliantly shown in the Keen Company's
quietly powerful revival of A.R. …
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Hollander
There is
a fine line between love, hate, obsession and disgust. Such is the ground
explored in the 1994 musical Passion
(music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Ja…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:22PMFor those craving a show after the show, stop by 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street. Loosen your tie and enjoy as Broadway's n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:17PMBy Judd Hollander
Photo by Joan Marcus
More than four decades before everyone's favorite wall-crawler
debuted on the great white way, another comic book character did the same thing
in …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:17PMThe Denver Center Theatre Company's DCTC world premiere production of SENSE amp SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL, with book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow and music by Neal Hampton, will be staged by D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Manila Dances Dirty, Andrew Lloyd Weber follows the Yellow Brick Road and Liza is a Smash
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMIt’s been a scary week for Broadway.com vlogger Alan Cumming! The Macbeth star meets the devil, contemplates a murder, sees an eerie message on his arm, has his first dress rehearsal a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:05PMLes Solomon continues his report from a recent trip to NYC. Over the years in New York I have seen my fair share of bad shows. I sadly rememberSweet Smell of Success, Steel Pier, Sideshow (…
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Select songs from tomorrow's episode of NBC's Golden Globe-nominated musical drama series Smash Saturdays, 9-10pm ET will be available from NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products and Colu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMBWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 8 of our On the Road series, 'Diva' Bre Jackson takes us on a tour of Miami, F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMComposing duo Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen have played their music everywhere from East Village rock clubs to Sesame Street. Now, they're taking their act to 54 Below for a one-night-on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, April 5, 2013 Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz to star in Broadway revival of ‘Betrayal’ EW.com/PopWatch – by JOHN MITCHELL Daniel Craig is se…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:45PMThe Pace University Department of Performing Arts is producing a concert of works by Adam Guettel, performed Tony award-winning composer of the musicals The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMWhat would you do if one day you could no longer use the letter Z Then Q Then E Goodspeed Musicals, the first two-time Tony Award-winning theatre in the country, announced today that the com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMCyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s fabulously fun new musical Kinky Boots opened on Broadway and we were there! From A-list arrivals to the electrifying soiree, Broadway.com has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:27PMA Kickstarter campaign for the project was launched on Friday morning, March 29, and the goal of 36,000 was met on Monday evening, April 1, as of 11 p.m., approximately 82 hours after it wen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMMatilda The Musical, the Olivier Award-winning production based on the beloved Roald Dahl children's book, debuted on Broadway March 4 at the Shubert Theatre. Olivier-winning West End st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMChad Bauman, a fixture at Arena Stage since 2007, will become Managing Director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater effective June 1, the Company announced today. “Chad’s experience in helpin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:15PMUPDATED: The four actors joining the previously announced Broadway veteran and Drama Desk Award nominee Bryce Ryness (Hair) for The New Theatre at 45th Street's production of Around the Worl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMOlivier nominated for Love Never Dies, Canadian born actorsinger Ramin Karimloo will perform his cabaret act at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal April 21-22. This will mark his cabaret deb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMOne of my favourite activities on our free resources page is the Shakespearean Insult Activity. I don’t know where it originally came from. Way back in the middle ages, Lindsay and I…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSome thoughts on San Francisco-based Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Also. Prophetic movements are part of our marrow as Americans. We are the country of John Winthrop’s City upon the Hill, of…
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The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing firms, will hold another in its series of seminars focused on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMThe Broadway.com staff has been scouring your awesome video submissions for the Broadway’s Biggest Fan contest all week long—and picking a winner is just too hard! How can we cho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMIt's cute because they're married.
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:45PM"Glee" actor Darren Criss, who made his Broadway debut last season in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will join the Yale Whiffenpoofs for a special April 14 conce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMThe Actors Fund Gala to Honor Robert De Niro, HBO and Steve Kalafer: At the Annual Gala on Monday, April 29, 2013 at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel "The Actors Fund" will honor Oscar w…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:41PMPlease enjoy this photo of Anjelica Huston and Liza Minnelli hanging out in New Mexico in 1975. Happy Friday, everyone!
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:36PMWhat the eye sees, the heart feelsby Nanette CormierEdward Curtis (Todd Duckworth) first photographed Princess Angeline, also known as Kickisomlo, the daughter of Chief Sealth of Seattle in …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:36PMPanglossian Productions will present the second installment in its new Plays in Progress series: a live and on-line developmental reading of Steven Young’s new play, The King’s Face , ho…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:34PMREVIEWED BY; JOSEPH HILLENMEYER In Sideshow Theatre Company’s production of Jason Gote’s dark comedy Maria/Stuart we have the pleasure of sitting in on the wonderfully dysfunctio…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:34PMWhen Brian Finney saw a light bulb in a Butoh performance in Australia, a mental light bulb switched on in his head -- of course, why not perform Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a solo show? F…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:32PMProfiles Theatre has a great last minute opening for rental of their Alley Stage at an incredible price for May/June. 65 seats, lights, sound and tech included. Call 773-549-1815 for more in…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:29PMJacob Bernstein, the son of late Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nora Ephron, will direct and co-produce an HBO documentary about his mother, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMRon Eldard Justified, ER, Freddy Rodriguez Rico in Six Feet Under and Bill Smitrovich Drew Thatcher in Life Goes On are set to appear in American Buffalo, a revival of David Mamet's American…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of the new Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThe Parentsby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOHello friends! The semester is over, my classes are done, and it’s time to celebrate with Smash!It’s the following morning for Hit List stars Kare…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:24PMThe 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 04:21PMBroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there for ll of the opening night festivities to chat with the whole cast and creative team. Check out what they had to say on the big night below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMDaniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Rafe Spall will star on Broadway in Harold Pinter‘s Betrayal, directed by ten-time Tony Award-winner Mike Nichols. Betrayal will begin performances on T…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:15PMThe biggest casting upsets of the spring season have been positively inhuman.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:10PMAndrew Wheeler (photo by Bruce Monk)She waswaswas truetruetrue to herselfselfselfThe case of the MPD dameby John Herbert CunninghamWhat does Mickey Spillane have in common with Scott Wentwor…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:10PMI love tissue paper. So much color that takes up so much eye real estate and yet weighs nothing. With just a little touch of tissue one can masque a myriad of deficiencies. So, naturally,…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 04:09PMFollowing complications with cancer, the acclaimed and legendary film critic Roger Ebert passed away yesterday at the age of 70.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of March 25-31, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
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On the April 13th episode of NBC's SMASH titled 'The Dress Rehearsal,' as Tom Christian Borle and Julia Debra Messing race to ready 'Bombshell' for previews, Tom's eagerness to prove himself…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PM By Karen Feld Lee Roy Reams, 70, is truly an-fashioned song and dance man. He put on a terrific one night show that flowed well at 54 Below earlier this week performing selec…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:39PMVariety reports that Jessica Chastain is in 'final negotiations' to star in Guillermo del Toro's horror thriller CRIMSON PEAK from Legendary Pictures.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMMore often than not there is a reason why a Broadway musical fails to have a long “afterlife.” The expertly mounted, talent-filled Mercury Theater revival of “Barnum,” the 1980 show …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:29PMWe lucked into some tickets to previews for Pinchbottom’s new burlesque production Pretencion last night and I can’t say enough good things about it. I thought it was a brillia…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:24PMBefore the fierce and fun new musical Kinky Boots opened on April 4, the cast and creative team gathered together to honor a very important Broadway tradition: the awarding of the Gypsy Robe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:21PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMNEW YORK—Real-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are to play an adulterous stage couple in a Broadway production this fall of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," the latest bl…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:17PMIn 2008, Sam Buntrock took Broadway by storm with his innovative revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George, a production th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:07PMDrama Desk Panal The Art of Storytelling Adds Insight: On the crisp afternoon of March 23, 2013 critics, producers, the League of Professional Theatre Women, theatre lovers and actors all ga…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:06PMThe Denver Center Theatre Company's DCTC world premiere production of SENSE amp SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL, with book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow and music by Neal Hampton, will be staged by D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMIn celebration of its return to Broadway, we bring you some of our favorite Jekyll amp Hyde performances below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with N'Kenge, who is starring as 'Mary Wells' in Motown- currently playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PM
Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov's widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:52PMThe beauty of being a costume designer is that you can time travel. Just ask Emilio Sosa, who spent months immersed in the world of 1960s soul and pop culture preparing costumes for "Motown:…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:31PMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the whole evening, including the show's star-studded theatre arrivals. Check out who was there for the big night below and CLICK HERE for Part 1
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMThe husband-and-wife duo will appear together in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, a play about an adulterous coupleReal-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are to play an adulterous…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:29PMThe nine-time Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon opened officially March 21 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, following previews that began Feb. 25. We offer a full set of production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the whole evening, including the show's star-studded theatre arrivals. Check out who was there for the big night below and CLICK HERE for Part 2
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMIn our Anablog series*, you have met the six writer performers of Analog: Tim Reid, Lizzie Breit, Hank Vogler, Jessica Anne, Trevor Dawkins, and show creator Kurt Chiang, as well as Analo…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 02:26PMThe League of Independent Theater held its first political candidate forums last month, and is planning to make endorsements in New York City political races. With some 50,000 independent th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMHollywood power couple Daniel Craig (a.k.a. James Bond’) and Rachel Weisz (most recently in "Oz: The Great and Powerful") are to head to Broadway in the fall, costarring as husband and…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:10PMTHE FUN IN FRAUD Famed impresario P.T. Barnum banked on one cynical truth: No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. The undisputed master of the “…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:04PMWho’s the next big star to cozy up on the Broadway.com couch? Pippin powerhouse Andrea Martin! The Tony winner has agreed to sit in the hot seat and answer your questions abo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMStephen Sondheim is two weeks away from his 83rd birthday on the windy, rain-tossed March day when I visit Broadway's reigning king of music and lyrics at his Manhattan home. He hasn't stepp…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMStephen Sondheim is two weeks away from his 83rd birthday on the windy, rain-tossed March day when I visit Broadway's reigning king of music and lyrics at his Manhattan home. He hasn't stepp…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company is offering its Stratford theatre up as a venue for marriage ceremonies – and has just held its first ever wedding open day.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMThere are yelps of scandalised laughter throughout Matthew Dunster's miraculously acted revival of a 1949 gem by Rodney Ackland.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
Post-Beverly Hills, 90210, Jason Priestley has directed, starred in Call Me Fitz and now takes to the stage
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:59PMThe City of Brotherly Love meets the City That Never Sleeps in the Broadway premiere of Lyle Kessler's Orphans. The show began performances on March 26 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMYou’d think that after 16 years and 28 episodes, Jonathan Creek might itself creak a little – how many more variations on the locked-room mystery can there possibly be? – but nothing c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47PMIn addition to giving America Grammy-winning recording artists like Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, American Idol has also provided Broadway with a bevy of stars, including Tony no…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:46PM(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) What do you love about theatre in the U.S. for yourself and in general? The talented, gritty and brilliant pe…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:41PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Daniel Craig and his actress wife, Rachel Weisz, are teaming up on stage this year to play a married couple in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" abou…
SOURCE: Reuters at 01:39PMEnding a 30 year absence, celebrated actress Cecily Tyson, three-time Emmy® Award winner for “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “Oldest Confederate Widow Tells A…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:37PMBeginning tomorrow, April 6th, Laura Jordan will join the cast of Off-Broadway's smash hit SILENCE! The Musical as Clarice Starling. Following the announcement that SILENCE! would be ending …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMWeekend To Do ListHang out with my best friend.Rewrites. I have AlterLab in a week and need to get my draft to them next week so they can print out the scripts for my Wolf at the Door table …
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 01:34PMTrinity Buoy Wharf, London: Franz Kafka's tightly-structured short story, In The Penal Colony, is re-imagined into a large scale ensemble piece. The audience is given the role of colony…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:32PMJeremy Jordan Newsies, Smash, Jennifer Damiano Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, Next To Normal, Justin Guarini American Idol, Caissie Levy Ghost and many more of Broadway's brightest talents app…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMFresh from an award-winning run at both the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe Festivals last summer, Irish Theatre Company 15th Oak’s energy bursts into the Soho Theatre in The Life and Sort of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:29PMThe Tony-winning revival of Chicago will welcome Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal to the role of slick criminal lawyer Billy Flynn beginning April 8. Pascal takes over for Christopher Siebe…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:28PMI’ve never met Roger Ebert. However, I felt like I knew him. I’ve been reading his blog, his tweets and his reviews for many years. The man personified prolific. Robbed of his sp…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 01:23PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Under a Rainbow Flag" by Pride Films and Plays ★★½
KERRY REID reviews "Under a Rainbow Flag" by Pride Films and Plays ★★½
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:22PMAn Evening with Pacino, with famed stage and screen actor Al Pacino, will play the London Palladium for one night only on June 2. The show promises to be a unique evening in which Pacino ex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMThe rough duet begins with the dancers yards apart; when they grow entangled, a strenuous antagonism still reigns, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:16PMKinky Boots, the new musical based on the 2005 film, opened April 4 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre and features a score by pop icon and Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper. The book by four-time Tony w…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:12PMTwo Hollywood legends -- director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler -- are the subject of the Falcon's Billy & Ray, which is about their work together on Double Indemnity. The pla…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:11PMHere are some of the familiar Broadway faces appearing in prime time tonight Friday, April 5, 2013
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMFollowing a much-in-the-news rehearsal period, Lyle Kessler's Orphans began previews on Broadway March 26 prior to an official opening April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMName: Christian BorleHometown: Pittsburgh, PAEducation: Carnegie Mellon UniversityFavorite Credits: I’ve been very very lucky, so when I look at what I’ve been able to do, they’re all …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:06PMActor Ami Dayan gives a powerful performance as a secret Jew during the Spanish Inquisition.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:06PMAround the World in 80 Days, a comedic play by Mark Brown based on the Jules Verne novel, will begin previews at The New Theater at 45th Street May 9.
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Broadway Records will digitally release songwriter Drew Gasparini's music theatre album "I Could Use a Drink" April 19. The album, featuring performances from Jeremy Jordan, Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe Pit, LondonOften, the time spent looking forward to a party and getting ready for it is as enjoyable as the event itself. So it proves in this musical theatre evening, which takes its in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMIt only ran 63 days in 2002, but THE LAST FIVE YEARS has lasted far longer than the last 11 years. Jason Robert Brown’s musical, which has had countless productions around the country, is …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:40PMPhoto: David Shankbone (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons By Kallee Lins What do Ingrid Bergman, Italian statues and Occupy Wall Street zombie walks have in common? They all probl…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:27PMProducer Scott Rudin has lined up his latest star-heavy Broadway revival, tapping Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz to appear in a fall production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PMBroadway’s throwing a real rager eight-times a week at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where the new musical Kinky Boots officially opened on April 4. The fun new musical by Grammy winner C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMIt's cute because they're married.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:12PMOn today's THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW, 'Smash' and Broadway star Megan Hilty and Wendy go head-to-head in a game of 'Celebrity.' Below, watch what happens when Wendy and Megan try to guess popu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMProducers of musical Dirty Dancing claim the show will sell its one millionth ticket this month since it began touring in September 2011. They expect the ticket to be sold on April 10, with …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMNEW YORK (AP) — Like a Christmas pudding, David McVicar's take on Handel's "Giulio Cesare" is so stuffed full of treats and surprises that even if some are not to your taste, you're likely…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:05PMToday in 2007, The Pirate Queen opened at the Hilton Theatre now the FoxwoodsTheatre, where it ran for 85 performances. The Pirate Queen is a musical written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 452013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThis week's guest blog comes courtesy on Mindy Upin. You can see her jumping around in one of the pictures above and view more about her HERE. Mindy's going to tell you all about the STEPS R…
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Dennis Kelly tots up Love and Money in Cardiff, Stan's Café bring their monumental rice installation home to Birmingham and The Arrest of Ai Weiwei takes place in LondonScotland and Norther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMHow inescapable is “A Raisin in the Sun”? It’s not actually being performed as part of the bold two-play “Raisin Cycle” beginning Wednesday at Baltimore’s Center Stage, but Lorra…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AMMatthew Morrison, the man who’s been inspiring musically inclined outcasts with his catchphrases andwhiteboard since 2009, will be performing at the Washington Performing Arts Society Annu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:55AMTom Hanks and Cyndi Lauper had their Broadway debuts this week — working in very different capacities, of course — and faced sentencing by the local judiciary, i.e., the critics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMTom Hanks and Cyndi Lauper had their Broadway debuts this week — working in very different capacities, of course — and faced sentencing by the local judiciary, i.e., the critics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMHelena Carroll, an Irish actress born in Glasgow, Scotland, has died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 84. The daughter of Irish dramatist Paul Vincent Carroll and designer Helena Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMDevelopment agency Film London is to expand its remit to include television after receiving a financial boost from the Mayor of London. Film London, which facilitates filming in the capital,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Barnum" at the Mercury Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Barnum" at the Mercury Theater ★★★ ... "Barnum," the 1980 musical about that great s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:44AMBroadway legend Liza Minnelli guest stars as herself on this week's all new episode of SMASH, titled 'The Surprise Party.' The 4-time Tony Award winner stopped by this morning's Today Show o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMUPDATED: Rob McClure, who recently shot to Broadway stardom in the title role of Broadway's Chaplin, will be joining the previously announced Tony Danza in Honeymoon in Vegas, the latest mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMSoho Theatre is partnering with regional venues for the first time in judging this year’s Verity Bargate Award. The £5,000 prize is given biennially to first time and emerging writers, an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMSlow Burn Theatre Company, the scrappy young Palm Beach County troupe with a reputation for skillfully mounted and thought-provoking musicals, will tour two of its productions next season to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:37AMBilly 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 11:36AMDue to overwhelming demand, Off-Broadway's new hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER today put a new block of seats on sale through August 24th. Written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Ke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMAl Pacino will bring An Evening with Pacino to the West End's London Palladium for one night only on June 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMBefore there was Forbidden Broadway...there was Scrambled Feet.Scrambled Feet was an Off-Broadway musical parody of Broadway and the theater business. Opening in June of 1979 (th…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:26AMTen-time Tony Award winner Mike Nichols will direct the revival of Harold Pinter's 1978 drama, being produced by Scott Rudin in a limited engagement later this year.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:24AMWhen Jacob (series co-creator Wesley Taylor) invites friends to a small gathering at his new apartment, he has no idea it will turn into a crazed party fueled by the drug-laced cake provided…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMInside the casting for Broadway’s “Motown: The Musical” Casting a Broadway show is never easy, but finding the right actors for Motown: the Musical was especially daunting.…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:22AMIt’s easy to forget when you see a play that what you’re watching didn’t spring fully formed out of somebody’s forehead. At first, it’s a rough draft, with the emphasis on rough. W…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMBilly Porter and Stark Sands star in the colorful and fun new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. Find out if the show won over Word of Mouth panelists Anna, Travis and Yiping.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMSeveral folks have posted online photo albums of Monday night’s Theater Prom and the after-party sponsored by the South Florida Theatre League. Let us know if you have more collections you…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:15AMBroadway’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 11:15AMOn Monday, April 8, 2013, Broadway's CHICAGO welcomes Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal in the role of slick criminal lawyer Billy Flynn.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMThe new one-man Broadway production of Macbeth starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, which begins previews on April 7 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, will offer a “$30 Under 30R…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:10AMKandis Chappell (Rumors), Robert Foxworth (Ivanov), Robin Pearson Rose (Holiday), Dana Green, and Andy Bean have been selected to star in The Old Globe's upcoming production of Jon Robin Bai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMUPDATED: Adam Pascal, made famous by his Tony Award-nominated performance as Roger Davis in the 1996 Jonathan Larson rock musical, Rent, is returning to the Broadway stage. He will play the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMThe Olivier Awards (London’s Tonys) announced their nominations last week. If you didn’t catch them, click here to see the complete list. And then let me know if you noticed anyt…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Kinky Boots, the new Broadway musical with a score by Grammy Award winner Cyndi Lauper and a book
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMOn April 5, Jekyll and Hyde begins previews at the Marquis Theatre before officially opening on April 18. This much-anticipated musical is currently scheduled for a 13-week limited run …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:57AMTony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Idina Menzel and Glee star Matthew Morrison are crossing the pond for the 2013 Olivier Awards! Menzel and Morrison, alongside singer and We…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMNobody is sure how applause began, or when — babies applaud; applause is mentioned in the Bible — but we all know where it wound up: In the theater. In The Atlantic, Megan Garber…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMOn April 5, previews begin for John Logan‘s (Red) new play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, the one-woman play starring Bette Midler that will officially open at the B…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:51AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has announced plans to conclude its 45th season with a reunion of Broadway talent. Tony Award-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters, who have col…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMBilly 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 10:50AMTwo-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver is set to join Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Cheyenne Jackson in the upcoming film 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks. Deadline.com reports that …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMI'll Eat You Last, starring Tony Award recipient Bette Midler as female superagent Sue Mengers, begins Broadway previews April 5. In celebration of the production, Playbill.com looks bac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMOne day until the final dress rehearsal…only one. How quickly time is flying by! Last night was the first complete run through of the show, now that the creative team has gone through …
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThe late Nora Ephron, whose new play Lucky Guy bowed on Broadway earlier this week, will be the subject of a documentary at HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ephron’s son Ja…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:44AM“Passaggio… used to describe the transition area between a series of notes, usually occurring between registers of the voice” – www.vocalist.org.uk The Mason Players and the Departme…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AMDaniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Rafe Spall will star on Broadway in Harold Pinter’s BETRAYAL, directed by ten-time Tony Award-winner Mike Nichols. BETRAYAL will begin performances on Tue…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:39AMDespite claims that he's on the straight and narrow, the talented young dancer has quit a new show days before opening night. Is ballet culture itself to blame? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:29AMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, a documentary of the late journalist, writer and director Nora Ephron is currently in the works at HBO. Journalist Jacob Bernstein, son of the acclaimed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMNoël & Company will present a staged reading of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom April 23 at 7 PM at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South).
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMIan Talbot is an Olivier-Award nominated director, who is currently directing the debut of Dermot Canavan’s play, Third Finger, Left Hand, which opened at the Trafalgar Studios last ni…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:21AMDaniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall will star in a new Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, opening on November 3. Directed by ten-time Tony winner Mike Nichols, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMThe long-running, Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago will welcome Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal to the role of slick criminal lawyer Billy Flynn beginning April 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMThe four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE will begin its limited Broadway engagement tonight, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Grammy Award no…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMJekyll & Hyde begins Broadway performances at the Marquis Theatre on April 5. The musical, starring Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis and Grammy nominee Deborah Cox, will play a limited …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11AMNow here’s a party you won’t want to miss! The one and only Bette Midler is back on Broadway in the new one-woman-show I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers. Penned by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:10AMThe journey of Anders Zorn, from Swedish hamlet to the top echelon of society portraitists and back again, has a couple of messages for us. The first leg of the journey tells us that careeri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05AMMusic lovers who have seen "The Audition," the documentary about a vocal competition at the Metropolitan Opera, may remember tenor Michael Fabiano as the dark, almost brooding presence who s…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:04AMThey’re on track to break Las Vegas records for longevity, they’ve been staples on TV for decades and they’re Broadway vets, but Penn & Teller are still pushing out into new ventur…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMBy Mike Hallinan Fans of the theater, welcome back and what a welcome it is because this is going to be one hell of an experiment. When I agreed to do this weekly column, I asked myse…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMThe NYT Critic Watch project was designed to gives us some numbers about modern theater criticism. We are awash in opinion, in curiosity, in hurt feelings, in hopes for a hit, and in the dua…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:00AM“Kinky Boots,” a new Broadway musical about a sole-saving drag queen, high-stepped Thursday night into the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM
A petition has been launched to stop railway redevelopments going ahead that could force the Union Theatre in London to close and move to different premises. Members of the Union Street Trad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AMIf you haven't had the chance to catch up on your theater news, look no further than today's recap of all things theater - exclusive features, interviews, reviews and more - around the Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMAfter an absence onscreen for six years and as director for three years, two-time Oscar winner and Kennedy Center honoree Robert Redford returns with a powerful punch and edge-of-your-seat s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMThe April 8 broadcast of Katie Couric's new talk show "Katie" will feature a reunion of the female cast members of the award-winning situation comedy "The Mary Tyler Moore…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMHusband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz will play an adulterous couple on stage on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:49AMComing off his Broadway debut in 'The Heiress', actor Dan Stevens is currently talks to take on the role of James Turner, aka 'Captain Flint' in a film adaptation of the beloved childrens bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMOn the April 4 broadcast of Fox's "American Idol," the fourth of the season's 10 finalists was eliminated from the singing competition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM“Awesome.” If there is one word to sum up McLean High School Theatre Company’s production of RENT School Edition it is awesome, according to audience member David Parker…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35AMReading University: At last Reading has its own professional repertory theatre company to offer discerning theatregoers an intimate experience of small-scale drama in the studio environment …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMINTERVIEW: INDHU RUBASINGHAM The new artistic director of The Tricycle Theatre in north London talks to Suman Bhuchar about her first year in the job, and about the pleasures as well as the …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:32AMThe Denver Center Theatre Company's DCTC world premiere production of SENSE amp SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL, with book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow and music by Neal Hampton, will be staged by D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMFull casting has been announced for the world premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's Chimera, which will begin performances May 20, prior to an official opening May 28, for a run through July 6, in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMDvorak 5th Symphony, Stephen Albert's "Rivering Waters" also shine.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 09:29AMRob McClure, who was critically acclaimed for his performance in the title role of the recent Broadway musical Chaplin, has joined the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's Broadway-bound produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMTweet I went to see Hello Dolly at the Fords Theatre in Washington DC the other night and absolutely loved it. You expect Carol Channing to take the stage or Barbara to sing in her NY acce…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 09:26AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the whole evening, including the after party. Check out photos below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMin Light My Fire at Teatr.doc
This time last year, thanks to the generosity of the Center for International Theatre Development, I was in Moscow to cover the Golden Mask festival, a sort …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:21AMTony nominee and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Adam Pascal will assume the role of slick lawyer Billy Flynn in Broadway's Chicago beginning April 8. Pascal replaces two-time …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:16AMThe line-up for this year's Olivier Awards, being held April 28 at London's Royal Opera House and being broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and in an edited highlights package on ITV1, wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AMRoger Ebert looked at the tools almost all of us have, social media and the internet, and had a choice to make. He could have used it the way many of us do. He could have numbed himself out …
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:09AMDaniel Craig (A Steady Rain), Academy and Olivier Award winner Rachel Weisz (A Streetcar Named Desire), and Olivier Award nominee Rafe Spall (Constellations) will star in an upcoming Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:08AMThe Colony Theatre will present the world premiere of Falling For Make Believe, about the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and featuring music by the songwriting duo, beginning April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the whole evening, including the show's rocking curtain call at which the cast was joined by the create team to celebrate. What are you waiting for Scr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMThe Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's time-bending, three-person drama Betrayal, starring Daniel Craig, Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz and Olivier nominee Rafe Spall, will begin per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMIt turns out Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang are not the only Broadway stars that socialist playwriting duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill creatively inspired. Before the Grammy Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMReview of the Saturday, March 16 matinee preview performance at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City. Starring Stark Sands, Billy Porter, Annaleigh Ashford, Celina Carvajal, Dani…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:00AM
How do they do it? We talk with Jerry Whiddon, Renee Calarco and Linda Levy Grossman Every year, the Helen Hayes Awards show prompts some musing on tradition. Why is it that on this night ab…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55AMWell, the series on criticism at Howlround has finally wound its way to the end of its weary week; you’ll find essays by Rob Weinert-Kendt (American Theatre and the New York Times), Ja…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:53AMIdina Menzel returns to the UK following her sell-out series of concert dates last year to perform at the prestigious 2013 Olivier Awards with MasterCard ceremony and give a special one off …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMDaniel Craig, Rachel Weisz,and Rafe Spall will star on Broadway in Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL, directed by ten-time Tony Award-winner Mike Nichols. BETRAYAL will begin performances on Tuesday,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMBeyond the Hills is not the horror film the trailer seems to advertise, but it is certainly horrific.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMThe Rose Lipman Building, London: Part II of Retz theatre company's reimagining of Franz Kafka's The Trial in London's East End has each person in the audience implicated for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMNEW YORK (AP) — Real-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are to play an adulterous stage couple in a Broadway production of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal." &nb…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:46AM Randie Levine-Miller's Broadway Showstopper Divas "A Swell Party" To Benefit The Actors Fund*On Sunday, April 14, 20…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:40AMHollywood icon Al Pacino is bringing his one man show An Evening with Al Pacino to the UK for the very first time. The show will be at the London Palladium on 2 June 2013.
Exploring Pacino'…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:38AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Real-life husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are to play an adulterous stage couple in a Broadway production of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:23AMHere is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday. It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers on DCMT…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17AMMyra SlotnickHometown: Winthrop, MA.Current Town: Provincetown, MA.Q: Tell me about The Weight of Water.
A: The story takes place nine days after Hurricane Katrina, in the destr…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:08AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 5 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMTony Award nominee Austin Pendleton stars as Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare in the Off-Broadway premiere of Robert Brustein's The Last Will, which begins previews A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM
Today is the birthday of famed producer and director Roger Corman (b. 1926). The subject of Corman and his career is so large and unwieldy that to talk about all of it in one post would be l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMAn Interview with Olney Theatre’s Jason King Jones and actor Michael Russotto Take four middle-managers from a Manchester business firm – think the UK version of “The Office.” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMPort City Playhouse, Alexandria’s award-winning theatre company, is pleased to conclude its 2012-13 season with Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare. Performances are Friday-Saturday,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AMA special offer exclusively for DC Metro Theatre Arts readers 4 tickets for $40 to Sunday matinees on April 7th and 14th at 3 PM Must call (410) 997-9352 to reserve in advance and mention co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47AMA bit more than 60 years ago, a musical called "Wish You Were Here" opened to mostly terrible reviews. The future looked bleak, but then director Josh Logan decided to return to the show and…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:44AMA collection of "Kinky Boots" reviews and news from around the internet.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:43AMAce theatre photographer Tristram Kenton has been out and about at the week's big openingsTristram Kenton
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMHen and Chickens, London: A vibrant comic piece adopting Ayckbourn's tears-behind-the-laughter sensibilities, Marlborough Road hits the right note from the get-go, as loose woman Mel (g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMDecatur, Alabama native William Ingram (b.circa 1930) learned at the age of four that he had a unique gift: the ability to thrust his eyeballs up to an inch outside of their sockets. He j…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06AMWittgenstein famously remarked that “If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand him” (because, as a different form of life, he would play wholly distinct language games).
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:04AMCharing Cross, London: Billie Holiday's iconic voice dripped with life experience, and with good reason. The jazz and blues star's 44 short years were littered with rape, child pro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMTrafalgar Studios, LondonThis first play by Dermot Canavan is about two Preston sisters who, having grown up together, inexorably grow apart. What might once have been a modest memory-play t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMOur staff picks the best things to do for the week ahead.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMComposer-conductor Don Davis began his career as a TV and film composer and orchestrator at the tender age of 22. He worked primarily in television (for such shows as “Hart to Hart” and …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AM
Top seats now cost average of £81, with most expensive single ticket – for The Book of Mormon and The Audience – at £127The price of West End ticket prices has reached an all-time high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMTrafalgar Studios, London : Dermot Canavan describes himself as "a blunt Northern man with a good ear and a decent pencil". A sometime actor, he wrote this two-hander when his frie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMA tattered shoe-box containing old photographs becomes a chest of memories in Dermot Canavan’s spirited play about the trying relationship between siblings, Niamh and Grace. Based on t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:53AMCindy Lauper and Harvey Fierstein have proven themselves fortuitously formidable partners who have found a formula that has transformed a so-what film into a so-fine musica Cindy Lauper and …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:49AMSoho, London: Nominated for a Foster's Edinburgh Comedy award, three-piece sketch group Pappy's (once also nominated as a four-strong troupe) delivered one of the feel good shows o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMGlee stars Matthew Morrison and Idina Menzel will perform as part of this year’s Olivier Awards. They will feature as part of the ceremony on April 28 alongside Petula Clark, with the even…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Take an obscure British film about a failing shoe factory, hand it over to openly gay actor and writer Harvey Fierstein, add music by pop star Cyndi Lauper and what have…
SOURCE: Reuters at 06:33AMAs Peter and Alice continues its run in the West End, Eleanor Turney talks to its young stars, Olly Alexander and Ruby Bentall, about getting started, working with Judi Dench, and playing Pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AM
Al Hirschfeld theatre, New YorkMost New Yorkers would hesitate to don the dazzling footwear displayed in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. When you live in a city of potholes, sloping si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:57AMGraeae Theatre’s Judith Kilvington has been appointed executive director at the Glasgow Citizens, working alongside artistic director Dominic Hill as the theatre moves towards a £10 m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMTickets go on sale today for new musical adaptation of From Here to Eternity which, as previously announced, receives its world premiere at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre on 23 October 2…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:24AMAmerican stage and screen star Matthew Morrison, of Glee fame, will give a special solo turn at this year's Olivier Awards, marking at his first major UK event performance.
Morrison’s man…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:17AMWhat's better than Michigan? A new best friend! By Jaye Hunt (soon to be Jaye Stritch?) Dear Elaine Stritch, Tomorrow, you will perform your last show at the Café Carlyle before you leave N…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:01AMFear not! Broadway is not dead. It lives!!! I witnessed Fiona Shaw perform lifesaving, Broadway CPR just yesterday! By Geoffrey Kidwell (actor) I'm not gonna be cute about this. I'm going to…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
Theatrical legends Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi team up for the new ITV UK TV series VICIOUS and the first stills from show have finally leaked, also showcasing featured player Fran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55AM'To suffer love." This unusual line appears three times in quick order toward the end of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's fresh, exuberant produc…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMNow in its 15th season, Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook celebrates the best in American singing and songwriting with a new chapter in the Songbook story 'American Songboo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMStephen Sondheim, Liza Minnelli, Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and other great stars of American music and musical theatre share the spotlight with the country's most passionate music …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMStage and screen regular Gillian Anderson appears in the new trailer for NBC's gruesome new thriller series HANNIBAL. Anderson joins fellow BroadwayHollywood crossover stars Hugh Dancy and L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26AMOperating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 01:16AMDuane Foster, a graduate of the north St. Louis County high school, connects art to real-life struggles.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I have nothing very good to say about two new Broadway shows, Lucky Guy and...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMI'LL EAT YOU LAST A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS, written by John Logan and directed by Joe Mantello, will begin previews tonight, April 5 and open Wednesday, April 24 at the Booth Theatre 222 West…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AM"What a loathsome sub-species dramatic critics are." P.G. Wodehouse, letter to Denis Mackaill, July 2, 1957...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
You now have two more additional chances to see sensational Broadway regular Tom Hewitt in a tour de force solo show created by PATTI ISSUES director Aaron Mark, ANOTHER MEDEA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AMTalk about having all the right ingredients: Mark Morris opened his season Wednesday night in his intimate, 150seat theater with live music and a legend— Mikhail Baryshnikov, who joined th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMThere are few things theatergoers love more than musicals about persistence and selfacceptance. Cyndi Lauper’s taken those themes to heart, too, in songs such as “True Colors,” so it�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMBond is coming back to Broadway, this time with his better half.
And I don’t mean Blofeld! Daniel Craig, the reigning 007, will star opposite his wife, Rachel Weisz, in a revival of Harol…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMIt was another night of American Idol and by the end there would be 6 contestants left. The show kicked off with a group performance of Somebody to Love.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19AMFriday April 5, 2013
NEW YORK -- Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:15AMCyndi Lauper is the hardest working rock star I know. She started out when Madonna debuted. Everyone thought Cyndi would be the bigger star. She writes her own hits and is a serious composer…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:04AMDiving Inby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonThe first day of rehearsal is fun. It's like stepping into cold water. The best approach is likely to dive in, but you're a little nervous about t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMSinging Through the BleaknessNext to Normal is brilliant on so many levelsby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI have seen it. I have seen and heard about it. It is darkness so enveloping that you realiz…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AM"It’s never boring; it’s never shocking; you are likely to leave entirely entertained and satisfied."-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, April 4, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMNick 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 12:00AMStephen 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 12:00AMJohn 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 12:00AMFollowing 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 12:00AMAssisted 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 12:00AMMcCarter 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 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe show: "Ride the Tiger" by William Mastrosimone at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM 
