People sneer at musicals for endless reasons: they hate Broadway brashness, non-naturalistic lurches in and out of song, the sentimentality. One of the least acknowledged reasons, however, i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54PMThe Manatee Players have finally opened their new theater, The Manatee Performing Arts Center, for a soft opening, and what better way to do it than with a spectacular production?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMNEW YORK (AP) — The bickering parents of Broadway's most expensive show have made up — in court at least — and that removes a huge cloud above the future of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the D…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:49PMGrammy Award winner Mika's latest album The Origin of Love was released in October 2012, and it includes the track, 'Popular Song.' The tune samples 'Popular' from Broadway's WICKED, origina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:34PMOn April 12, 2013, The New York Pops continues its 30th season with an evening celebrating the 65th birthday of Stephen Schwartz and the 10th anniversary of his hit musical Wicked with The W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMPeter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play, began performances on March 18, 2013 at New World Stages. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action off-Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMLondon ColiseumRarely has a dance production attracted so much gossip and speculation as Peter Schaufuss's Midnight Express, which last week looked as though it might be cancelled due to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMThe redesign of classical ballet, the expansion of modern dance, the deepening of the Soviet symphony: Art exploded in the 1940s, and American Ballet Theatre captured that energy in a singul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02PMAnthony Neilson is the wild man of new writing. However, this reputation, which has been provoked by shock-fests such as Penetrator (1993) and Stitching (2002), belies the fact that some of …
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BroadwayWorld has gotten ahold of three exclusive production shots from the spellbinding new one-man show playing at the Duplex, ANOTHER MEDEA, starring Broadway's beloved Tom Hewitt and wri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMOxygen is a substance that feeds fire, so it seems apt that “Oxygen,” Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s theatrical concept album, should boast an intensity that smolders. For 70 relentles…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:43PMAndrew Lloyd Webber's controversial stage sequel to the world's most successful entertainment of all time THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, titled LOVE NEVER DIES, has made its way to Denmark and fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PMTony nominee Adam Pascal and Christine Pedi are the newest additions to Chicago's celebrated Murderers Row! Find out what makes the Broadway vets sizzle as sly lawyer Billy Flynn and the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:27PMBobby Cannavale leads the first-ever Broadway revival of The Big Knife, a classic drama set in the dazzling, dangerous world of Hollywood. Check out clips of the all-star cast from the glitz…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater &…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:21PMWant to tell Broadway's biggest stars that they've been nominated for a 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award? Yes, we're talking to you!
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMIt’s been a whirlwind year full of moonshine, showgirls and madcap hijinks at the Imperial Theatre, and on April 10, the toe-tapping Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It is celeb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMOn ths week's 'In Focus with Eden Lane', host Eden follows up with SENSE amp SENSIBILITY's creators -- Neal Hampton music, Jeffrey Haddow book lyrics, and Marcia Milgrom Dodge director amp …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMThe first step is admitting you have a problem. The second step is buying a ticket. Husband and wife playwriting team Dr. Samuel Shem and Dr. Janet Surrey will bring their show about the ea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:05PMMarried theater veterans and TV stars Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are appearing in Sharr White's "Annapurna" at the 99-seat Odyssey Theatre -- as well as "19 other things apiece." That'…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:01PMMatilda the Musical, which is playing to acclaim in London, is preparing to open on Broadway April 11 at the Shubert Theatre.
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The International Order of Sodomites (IOS) will host its next monthly variety show, The Meeting, on Thursday, April 18 — never has such a formal sentence described a tribute to the film Sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:57PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - The producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have reached a settlement with Julie Taymor, the musical's ousted director and co-author, in a copyright disp…
SOURCE: Reuters at 05:52PMAmerican Idol star and Tony Award® nominee Constantine Maroulis joins with multi-platinum recording artist and Grammy® nominee Deborah Cox to inject new life into the classic tale of good …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:52PMBroadway's Danny Quadrino Bye Bye Birdie, Andrea Ross Whistle Down The Wind andLindsey Carothers Bring It On are among the just-announced cast of Pace University students for a one night onl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PM"Billy Elliot the Musical" has two of the most important elements going for it: creative storytelling and engaging subject matter.
A coal miner's son finds himself the lone boy in dance…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:50PMDirector Rebecca Taichman has fearlessly pared down the play by eliminating supporting roles, and making elisions in the text which include the rendering of key scenes through brief narratio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49PMBroadway.com is hitting the road! We’re highlighting five exciting productions happening all over the United States right this minute. Hop aboard for a cross-country tour of the best r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMBroadwayHollywood crossover star Zachary Quinto was feted at the Dream Downtown last night in honor of his brand new cover for MANHATTAN Magazine and his recent co-stars from the lauded revi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMONCE opened to critical acclaim last night in London’s West End. Read what the critics are saying: The Guardian: 4 Stars “It owes its success not just to its versatile performers but…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:33PMScenic and costume designer Bob Crowley opened his London studio to us to discuss the look of Tony winner Once, which is now playing both on Broadway and in the West End. Find out Crowl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:25PMNew York Theatre Barn will live auction three rare items donated by Barry Manilow from his personal collection to raise funds for New York Theatre Barn when he headlines their benefit A Conv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23PMTaymor filed a lawsuit in November 2011, saying her copyrighted written works were violated when she was fired last year
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:17PMThe producers of the hit Off-Broadway show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES arekvelling to announce that the upcoming engagement at Chicago’s Royal George Theatre will feature a quintet of famil…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:11PMNow here’s something to say yeah about: The original cast recording of Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots will be released on iTunes and in stores on May 28. Featuri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMManhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theater will co-produce the world premiere of The Snow Geese, a new play by Sharr White, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, starring Tony and Emmy …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:08PMCritically-acclaimed Portland songwriter Josh Garrels will be performing with the New York City-based orchestral ensemble Mason Jar Music this Sunday, April 14, at the historic Athenaeum The…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:06PMJody Christopherson: What sparked your interest in “geek” theater? Crystal Skillman : Geek theater, while a movement of its own, is something that is very personal to me. I was made fun …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:05PMThe Brothers Q are the Brothers Popular on Navy Pier. Their high-energy, hip hop-inspired "Othello: The Remix" has been extended through June 15 in the Upstairs Theater at Chicago Shakespear…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:03PMIn the week's fast-paced episode, the Broadway.com staff has the skinny on everything from the March Madness champ to Sutton Foster's return to the New York stage and a You're th…
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SOURCE: Tony Awards at 05:00PMEpisode Thirty-Six: YouTube Fireside Chat. Little Shop of Horrors. Pull up a fake chair by our fake fire with a fake cup of hot cocoa and listen to Craig and Lindsay discuss and dissect diff…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMPlay about a renowned string quartet makes its St. Louis debut.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:00PMArizona State University in Tempe's School of Theatre and Film presents the w orld premiere of soot and spit written by Charles Mee and directed by Kim Weild. Watch the livestreaming of the …
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Strawdog Theatre Company concludes their 25th anniversary season with Big Love by Charles L. Mee, directed by Strawdog Artistic Associate Matt Hawkins, April 18 – May 25, at the Strawdo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:58PMA new interactive musical based on the life of club kid Michael Alig, whose story was adapted into the 2003 film "Party Monster," debuts April 11 at the American Repertory Theater&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMOff-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop will present Sontag: Reborn, inspired by the work of essayist Susan Sontag, beginning May 28, prior to an official opening June 6. Moe Angelos wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMIn a new interview, Hollywood heavyweights and fellow thespians Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave discuss their work together in the new Off-Broadway play THE REVISIONIST, written explici…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMDirect from sold-out engagements at The National Theatre of Scotland and the Lincoln Center Festival, this acclaimed one-man interpretation of Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming, will play a str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMEpic Theatre Ensemble veteran James Wallert will lead the cast of the organization's production of William Shakespeare's Richard III: Born With Teeth, a contemporary retelling of the histori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMTitled "The Last Goodbye," the "Romeo and Juliet" adaptation using tunes by the late singer-songwriter will be produced at the Old Globe in San Diego, a frequent tryout venue for shows with …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:34PM Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago along with Holy Family Villa and the Bishop Lyne Residence are proud to host AN EVENING TO HONOR BISHOP TIMOTHY J. LYNE on Saturday, Apr…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:32PMABT springs into dance Perhaps it was the blossoming cherry blossoms nearby. Or the promise of full spring which always brings a fresh look to art. Or that we’re so hungry for dance that t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMAnd you can't lower an audience's expectations much more than using the title of your work to warn your audience: "You're Gonna Hate This." Lindsay Mendez and Michael Holland, who worked to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PM"Smash" star and Newsies Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan and Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) have joined the lineup for Joe Iconis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director has just announced the full cast for the world premiere of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, directed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMHere, via email, we hear from Broadway singing actress Christianne Tisdale, who can currently be seen in the new web series "Wallflowers," also starring Sarah Saltzberg, Chad Kimball, Angela…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThe original Broadway cast album of the Cyndi Lauper-scored musical Kinky Boots will be released in stores and digitally May 28 on the Masterworks Broadway label.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMWALLFLOWERS, a narrative comedy web series by filmmaker Kieran Turner (director of acclaimed doc Jobriath A.D.) and shot in NY, world premiered last week with Broadway's Sarah Saltzberg, Cha…
SOURCE: www.serialoptimist.com at 04:21PMCountry music mega-star and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood has opened up about her leading role in NBC's upcoming live TV broadcast of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's celebrated classic THE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMThe Sex of StrangersCameryn Moore introduces you to people she knowsby Caitlin MurphyOur feelings about sexuality can have a torturous range: shame, vulnerability, dread, uncertainty�…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:16PMOn Monday, around 3pm, we will find out if the Pulitzer committee has given an award for Drama. Speculation has started as to possible plays/playwrights to recognize but as last year's…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 04:14PMPlaybill.com has a first look at a new series of television spots for the Broadway revival of Annie starring Lilla Crawford in the title role and Australian leading man Anthony Warlow a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMThe complete cast has been announced for the world premiere of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Starring David Morse, Sarah Goldberg …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:09PMBrandon McGibbon, Grace Lynn Kung and Mike Ross (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Socio-Sexual EdgeplaySoulpepper runs Schnitzler's genital relayby Gregory BunkerSoulpepper’s La Ronde is a not…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:01PMProspect Theater Company will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Unlock'd, the Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical by rising theatrical composers Sam Carner and Derek Gregor, beginni…
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No week of DANCING WITH THE STARS is complete without at least one gross hyperbole, so thank goodness this week's results show opened with a tacky montage of the stars warning that last nigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMWhat do you get when you combine the classic Shakespeare tragedy Romeo and Juliet with the songs of late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley? The Last Goodbye, a new musical kicking off the 2013-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:55PMIn the 1950s and 1960s, 88-year-old Ivan Massar worked as a photojournalist, shooting news events for magazines such as Life, National Geographic, and Paris Review.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:46PMOn Monday night's The Voice, Broadway's own Sasha Allen caused a sensation when she performed the Dixie Chick's 'Not Ready to Make Nice' during the competition's Blind Auditions Round. Speak…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMThe Old Globe will open its 2013-14 season with The Last Goodbye, a new musical that marries Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the incendiary songs of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMMary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White’s “The Snow Geese.” The Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theater said Wednesday that previews will begi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:34PMEleemosynary – adjective: Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable. And while the notion of such giving is not immediately apparent in Lee Blessing’s play Eleemosynary, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMUPDATED: Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Emery (Relatively Speaking) and Mad Men star Rich Sommer (Broadway's Harvey) will complete the cast of Steven Levinson's The Unavoidable Disappearance …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced complete casting for the world premiere of Steven Levenson's The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, which will begin previews May 31 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM"I've always wanted to be on Broadway -- it really is a dream come true," says Tyrah Skye Odoms, who plays Kate, one of the little orphans in the current revival of Annie. The eight-year old…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:24PMThe Sunset Strip meets the Vegas Strip as the Tony Award-nominated musical Rock of Ages enjoys a sit-down engagement at the Venetian Hotel & Casino. Justin Mortelliti, who stars as Drew,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PMThe web of legal arguments over Broadway's most expensive musical has finally comes to an end, as producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" and Julie Taymor, the show's former d…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:20PMFamily Shows Unseen For 30 Years"Cinderella" and" Beauty and the Beast" will make up "The Dick Meyers Project," featuring UConn puppet Arts graduate student Seth Shaffer at the Studi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:19PMOPENING AMERICAN IDIOT. Broadway in Chicago presents the raucous, politically charged rock musical featuring the music of Green Day. Directed by Michael Mayer. Opens April 16. Tue-Fri, 7:30 …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:18PMOur Photos of the Week are two snapshots of Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks clowning around backstage at LUCKY GUY. The first is Hanks with pals John Stamos and Bob Saget (originally posted o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:14PMFor those of us who have longed for the soothing voice of Laura Osnes to sweeten our morning commutes with the classic tunes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, the wait is almost over. Ghostlight R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMThe Old Globe will open its 2013-14 Season with The Last Goodbye, a new musical that marries Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the incendiary songs of the legendary singer-songwriter Jeff B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMTalk about ideal timing. Lookingglass Theatre’s production of “Still Alice” — a stage adaptation of the best-selling 2009 novel by Lisa Genova that looks at an accomplished 50-year-o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:08PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opens tomorrow, April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMWant to get your kid involved? Enter to Win free enrollment in Camp Broadway's Shining Stars summer program. Enter now.
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:06PMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, playwright Christopher Durang's currently running Broadway hit, will play Berkeley Repertory Theatre this fall. The production, which will be helmed by d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:06PMNo! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:05PMKansas City Repertory Theatre announced their 2013-2014 season today. Kicking it off is the world premiere production of The Tallest Tree in the Forest, written and performed by award-winnin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02PMManhattan Theatre Club Lynne Meadow, Artistic Producer Barry Grove, Executive Producer and MCC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executiv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMOn Friday 3 May and Saturday 4 May at London’s Print Room, members of Howard Barker’s Wrestling School will present readings of four new plays by the dramatist — Concentrat…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:00PMThe rules for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama state that "productions receiving a press opening in the United States between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012 are eligible."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMAs they prepare lock horns as Othello and Iago at the National Theatre, the actors talk about jealousy, the horrors of war – and who Shakespeare's play is really aboutAdrian Lester and Ror…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM
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SOURCE: Vulture at 02:52PMMaude Maggart was destined to be a singer. “It was something that came naturally,” the Los Angeles-based cabaret artist said. “When you find something that feels natural and enjoyable,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:46PMOn Monday, June 3 at 730pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the 31st Annual Fred amp Adele Astaire Awards will honor dance legend Marge Champion with its Dou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMThe first thing playwright Samuel D. Hunter wants you to know about “The Whale” is that even though the play’s main character is a 600-pound man this is not a play about obesity. “If…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:44PMPodcast with Black Ensemble Theater’s JACKIE TAYLOR & RUEBEN ECHOLES Founder of the groundbreaking Black Ensemble Theater, Jackie Taylor discusses the history of this Chicago jewel…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:42PMManhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Producer; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) and MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Exe…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:37PMThe Last Goodbye, a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet using the songs of legendary singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, will launch the upcoming 2013-2014 season at San Die…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMWhen faced with the pressures of life at what point does it all become too much to handle? A deeply moving and richly emotional tale of struggle and acceptance during the delicate years of h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMThe Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Wednesday announced the line-up for its 8th annual First Look Repertory of New Work, coming July 29 to Aug. 25 in the Garage Theatre. The program features …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:29PMThe eagerly anticipated MATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opens tomorrow, April 11, 2013 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street).…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:28PM“The Last Goodbye,” the tuner mash-up of “Romeo and Juliet” and the songs of Jeff Buckley, will open the 2013-14 season at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater. Produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PMPlaywright Sharr White, fresh off the critical success of his The Other Place on Broadway, answers a few questions about his Annapurna and its stars at the Odyssey Theatre, the real-life mar…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:19PMStage and screen actor John O'Hurley will star in the first show of the St. Louis Muny's 95th season, Monty Python’s Spamalot, which begins performances at the famed outdoor ve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMHarry Connick, Jr. has built a reputation for musical and emotional honesty. Never one to rest on his ever-growing list of laurels, Connick exposes his feelings as never before on Every Man …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMA Chorus Line is back on the London boards for its first West End revival in almost four decades. In an Anglo-American cast of hard-working hoofers, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, 31 in May, sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:13PMSantino Fontana, who stars in the Broadway debut of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox — hosted by Seth Rudetsky…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMThe fans have had their say! After a month of fierce debates, difficult decisions and tens of thousands of votes, Broadway.com’s March Musical Madness has finally found a winner for th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PMIt has now been almost 3 weeks since Breakfast at Tiffany's opened on Broadway on March 20th. It's hard to believe we started rehearsal on January 28th Time really does fly when you're havin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMNEW YORK (AP) — Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:07PMNEW YORK—Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:05PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:05PMIn-demand director Daniel Sullivan will stage the world-premiere drama by Sharr White, who had a hit this season with "The Other Place."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:01PMTony and Emmy Award winner Mary-Louise Parker will return to Broadway this fall in the world premiere of Sharr White’s The Snow Geese, a co-production of Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMMary-Louise Parker circles back to Broadway this fall, returning to Manhattan Theater Club for the Gotham nonprofit’s co-production of Sharr White’s “The Snow Geese.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThe hit off-Broadway show Potted Potter The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff returns for a 13 week engagement to off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre 422 West 42nd S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMTony and Emmy Award winner Mary-Louise Parker will return to Broadway this October in Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theater's world premiere coproduction of Sharr White's new drama, The Sno…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe report, "Your Investment. Strengthening Community," shows that the agency received a total of nearly $16.9 million in 2012 from the cigarette tax, compared with nearly $17.3 mi…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:00PMTony and Emmy Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker will star in the Manhattan Theatre Club-MCC Theater co-production of Sharr White's The Snow Geese, a new WWI-set drama about a fami…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
-The Muny announced that John O'Hurley will star in the first show of its fantastic 95th Season, Monty Python's Spamalot, directed and choreographed by Denis Jones.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMThe couple finished 'Assisted Living,' at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, after beginning it almost 30 years ago. Hurricane Sandy provided the final push.As a writer behind the musical "Wicked," W…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:56PMNEW YORK (AP) — The Harry Potter play parody "Potted Potter" is magically returning to New York City.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:55PMNEW YORK—The Harry Potter play parody "Potted Potter" is magically returning to New York City. Producers said Wednesday that off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre will once again h…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:53PMA little spring may be in your step after seeing Kinky Boots, the musical adaptation of the 2005 movie currently in performances at the Al Hirschfeld Theater. With a book by Harvey Fierstein…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:50PMTony Award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King) will never see her day in court, but according to a joint statement from all litigants, she's cool with that. "I'm pleased to have r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMIn the video below, Barbra Streisand speaks about her National Scopus Award and congratulates Patricia L. Glaser, Vice Chairman of the AFHU Western Region, on winning the 2013 National Scopu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMOrphans star Alec Baldwin could be the newest addition to NBC’s late-night lineup! According to The New York Times, the Peacock network is currently considering a late-night show hoste…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMTom Hanks made his Broadway debut last week in Lucky Guy, written by Nora Ephron and directed by George C. Wolfe. At the Sunday, April 7, 2013, matinee Hanks auctioned off a reporter's noteb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMNEW YORK (AP) — Danielle de Niese stepped into the Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Handel's "Giulio Cesare" on a few hours' notice as if she knew every detail of the production. &…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:38PMThe artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, will depart in 2015, and the executive director, Nick Starr, will leave in 2014.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:35PMoriginally produced during the 2010 New York Fringe Festival, this more elaborate and polished production should have a prosperous afterlife in regional theaters.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:34PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that A Christmas Story, The Musical, which played the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for the 2012 holiday season, might be heading back to the Great White Way this year. A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMVisit NYPL's BiblioCommons for these lists and many more. See below for some interesting staff picks from the past couple months, on topics both timely and timeless:
Love Game of Thr…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:28PMThe soprano Danielle de Niese came for a relaxing evening at the Metropolitan Opera – in the audience – with her husband and parents on Tuesday night. Instead, she found herself onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:16PMMommie Dearest Inc. in association with producer Jerry Rosenberg will present the New York premiere of Surviving Mommie Dearest, starring Christina Crawford — actress, activist and aut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMThe Broadway Beauty Pageant has announced that four-time Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actress Tovah Feldshuh will serve as the host of this year's show, which will take …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:15PMI smell witchcraft. After leaving New York's Little Shubert Theatre in September 2012 for a North American tour, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience has boomeranged its way back…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:15PMThe family that plays together stays together: That’s certainly the case for the close-knit headliners of the Broadway-bound (we hope!) revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMPalace, WatfordSporting no-hopers from Humberside are clearly a dramatic draw. But while Tom Wells's new play owes a big debt to John Godber's Up 'n' Under, it also confirms the flair for co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMNBC has announced that it will air this Saturday's SMASH up one hour. The episode, titled 'The Dress Rehearsal' will now air at 800PM - 0900PM. Encores of 'The Voice' and 'Saturday Night Liv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMA new production of Broadway’s coming-of-age musical about a royal heir spurred on by a mysterious group of performers to embark on a death-defying journey to find his “corner of the sky…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 01:09PMCicely Tyson stars in Horton Foote’s masterpiece about memory, mortality and the undeniable, universal yearning for home.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 01:06PMThe New York Times 04/10/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PMOff-Broadway’s jaw-dropping musical NEWSical the Musical welcomes back Hairspray vet Susan Mosher beginning April 15. Mosher will step in for current Chicago star Christine Pedi, durin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMThe original Broadway cast recording of Cinderella, the new Rodgers and Hammerstein production starring Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana and Victoria Clark, will be released digitally May 7 from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMCo-Stars in CRT's "Hairspray" at UConnTina Fabrique, best known for her starring role in “Ella” on three Connecticut stages, will join Kevin Meaney i n the cast of the Connect…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:03PMThe Lark Play Development Center has awarded the 2013-14 Playwrights of New York fellowship to Kimber Lee, who nabs one of the heftiest legit development awards out there, including a year o…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSir John Mills, IpswichMelody is a mental hospital psychiatrist treating a patient who sometimes thinks he's Neil Diamond, but mostly thinks he's the 19th-century poet John Clare. The poet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMPotted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and Jeff, which played a limited summer engagement in 2012, will return for a 13-week run at Off-Broadway’s Lit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience is back in New York City for more hilarious wizardry! The Harry Potter parody play returns to the off-Broadway stage for a 13-week engagement…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMThis musical love story between two unnamed protagonists exerts a delicate, slow-burning charm, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:53PMThis dance-drama fashions a new story from a Cambodian folktale of love and crocodiles, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:52PMNEW YORK — A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has become Bro…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:51PMFurther casting details have been announced for several upcoming plays.In Jamie Lloyd's upcoming production of Harold Pinter's The Hothouse, John Heffernan, Harry Melling, Clive Rowe, C…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:51PMHello and welcome again to Vaudephone, your one stop shopping for all the best contemporary variety acts! Today we feature — me! With a very special message for – you! (Watch …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:50PMTom Wells’ drama finds extraordinary beauty in the ordinary lives of its characters, all members of a five-a-side football team in Hull, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:46PMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:46PMBette Midler performs on Broadway for the first time in more than 30 years in a one-woman play about a legendary Hollywood superagent.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 12:43PMGhostlight Records will present the Original Broadway Cast Recording of RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA with a digital release on May 7 and the CD in stores on June 4.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMIt’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 12:41PMAlso "In the Continuum"'s Nikkole SalterA playwrights panel featuring Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay Abaire (“Rabbit Hole”) and Pulitzer finalist Theresa Rebeck will be …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:39PMLacking a formal musical education, the pianist Katharina Wolpe nonetheless won great acclaim for her performances of the Viennese classics, especially Schubert and Mozart. She was born in V…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMDisney has begun laying off around 150 staffers at Walt Disney Studios. Employees began receiving pink slips early Wednesday morning. Individuals working in home entertainment, production, d…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:33PMDirector Julie Taymor has reached a settlement in her epic legal battle with the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark." In a joint statement released Wednesday, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:32PM'Seinfeld' actor plays King Arthur in 'Spamalot.'
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:31PMShe’s taken her End of the Rainbow show Stateside, but Tracie Bennett is appearing on British screens in a decidedly less glamorous role. She talks to Matthew Hemley about embracing tunele…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMThe cast of Murder Ballad was just announced, but co-stars Caissie Levy and Will Swenson are already at it! See the hotter-than-Alabama-asphalt actors get it on in this promotional and very …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PMNEW YORK (AP) — A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has becom…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:27PM“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — coming soon to an arena near you? The legal settlement reached April 10 between Julie Taymor and producers of Broadway tuner “Spider-Man” not onl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMNEW YORK—A settlement has been reached between the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor, ending a bitter legal fight over what has become B…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:27PMIf there was a theatrical equivalent to baseball’s All-Star team, Jessica Hecht would be the starting shortstop. Her range encompasses comedy (Harvey, TV’s Friends), drama (Juliu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMThe intense tangle of litigation between director Julie Taymor and the producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has been settled, the parties announced Wednesday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:22PMThe original director of the most expensive production in Broadway history has finally come to terms with the show's producers, ending a long and very public saga.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:21PMOff-Broadway’s award-winning The Silence of the Lambs parody, Silence! The Musical, has extended again at the Elektra Theatre through September 1. Starring Sean McDermott and Laur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMMany of this year's Olivier Awards nominees gathered together on stage at the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket yesterday (9 April 2013) for a celebratory group photo, ahead of the ceremony…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:16PMHustle creator Tony Jordan is penning a five-part drama about the First World War for BBC1. Called The Great War, the drama is being made through Jordan’s own production company Red Planet…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMThe original Broadway cast recording of Cinderella, featuring Laura Osnes and Sanitno Fontana, will be available for digital download beginning May 7. Released through Ghostlight Record…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMJulie Taymor, Glen Berger and 8 Legged Productions LLC, the Producer of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark, have just announced that the pending litigation between them has been settled by mutual …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PM209 The Parents and 210 The Surprise Party 211 The Dress Rehearsal.By: David ShewardMegan Hilty, Bernadette PetersSmash has limped to its new berth on Saturday nights, but in the same week i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:04PMHallmark Channel announces the start of production in Atlanta, Georgia, for THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM, a Hallmark Channel Original Movie set to have its World Premiere on Friday, Septemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMHenry Darrow (b. Enrique DelGado, 1933) is best known for his role as Manolito Montoya on the hit tv western The High Chaparral (1967-1971). The good looking Darrow was one of tv’s f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:02PMWe most this one today in conjunction with our post on the new book about Henry Darrow. The High Chaparral (1967-1971) is one of the very first tv shows I can remember watching. (I have a d…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:01PMThis week's retro Wednesday post is all about organizing your network. Enjoy! Excelsior! August 24, 2011 Your network and Christmas lights I know, I know. We're not even in the fall yet, and…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:00PM
It was announced today that four-time Tony Award nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actress Tovah Feldshuh will return to host the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant. Celebrity judge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMCanal Cafe, London: Within today's secular society it should be easy for us to laugh at the religious hypocrisy so deliciously lampooned in Moliere's Tartuffe. What could be more h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMGhostlight Records has announced that the original Broadway cast recording of Cinderella, the new Rodgers and Hammerstein production starring Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana and Victoria Clark,…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:57AMFrom an opera about Jerry Springer to Helen Mirren appearing live in cinemas around the world: 10 landmark productionsAndrew Dickson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMWith as much intrigue backstage as onstage, The Last Five Years returns to the region in a smart, attractive production at Arlington's Signature Theatre. The work, directed by D.C.'s Aaron P…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:54AMThe Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) was packed on Thursday of last week for the Washington, D.C., premiere of 50 Children: The Res…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:51AMThe ALLIANCE THEATRE's production of ZORRO, a new musical, is set to the flamenco sound of The Gipsy Kings. The show opens tonight, April 10, 2013, and runs through May 5, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMWalls talk, people float and monsters rise from beneath the floorboards in Lauren Yee's unabashedly fantastical comedic drama A Man, His Wife, and His Hat.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:47AMJoan Crawford’s daughter Christine Crawford will star in the off-Broadway premiere of Surviving Mommie Dearest, which will play five performances during the week of Mother’s Day …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMThe Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the Manhattan-set family drama starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began previews March 21 in a Manhattan T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMWho are these bald characters, their faces painted clown white, their lips bright red? Wearing matching white sharkskin suits, they sing multipart harmony, doo wop, beebop, pop, disco, and R…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:44AMDrama Desk-nominated musical theater writer Joe Iconis is calling upon some famous friends for his upcoming concert series at 54 Below. Described as a “mash-up of showtune cabaret and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMCan't get enough of Patti LuPone A documentary following the legendary performer has just been released on Youtube, titled 'Entrances, Exits, and Everything In Between.' Creator Josh Johnsto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMNINA METZ reviews "L'imitation of Life" by Hell in a Handbag Productions ★★★ and "Maria/Stuart" by Sideshow Theatre Company ★★½
NINA METZ reviews "L'imitation…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:37AMSusan Mosher and Carly Sakolove will join the cast of the Off-Broadway musical revue NEWSical the Musical beginning April 15 at Theatre Row.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMTony-winning director Julie Taymor, Glen Berger and 8 Legged Productions, the production company behind Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, announced that the pending litigation between them…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMThe Public Theater’s new community-based theater initiative Public Works will kick off with a crowdsourced original musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMTUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A circus veterinarian says the Asian elephant wounded in a drive-by shooting in Mississippi should be fully recovered within a few weeks.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:34AMNEW YORK (AP) — A settlement has been reached between the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and its fired director, Julie Taymor.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:33AMThough he tells his rascal father it's all to help him out, we don't really see where Frank Jr.'s scams are steps toward the greater goal and as a result we don't get invested in his journey…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:31AMLear deBessonet and Todd Almond will create a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, utilizing a cast comprising professional actors and members of the public, which will b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMThe London production of Once opened last night, April 9 at The Phoenix Theatre and is currently booking to 30 November 2013. Check out photos from the opening night curatin call and after p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMThe Benj Pasek-Justin Paul stage production A Christmas Story, The Musical, which played a Broadway run during the 2012 holiday season, will return with engagements in Boston and Hartford la…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMThe Ford Theatres in Hollywood is featuring a new performance series named after county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky as part of its new 2013 summer season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AMAmelia Broome channels the divine Maria.Theatre is about dreaming. Dreaming big.But there are limits. And I think everyone involved in Master Class at the New Rep was dreaming ju…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:13AMThe lawsuit between “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” creator Julie Taymor and the show’s producers has been settled. Here’s the release: New York, NY – Julie Tay…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:11AMAnd the crowd goes wild! Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth made a surprise appearance at Mika's sold-out concert on April 9, causing the audience to go absolutely insane when she bounded up …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMJulie Taymor, Glen Berger and 8 Legged Productions LLC, the producer of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, announced April 10 that the pending litigation between them has been set…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMNicholas Hytner will step down as artistic director of the National Theatre in London in March 2015, according to the U.K.'s The Independent. Hytner took over from Trevor Nunn in 2003 an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:08AMStuck Elevator, a new musical featuring a hybrid of musical theater, opera, and solo performance, receives its world premiere at San Francisco's A.C.T beginning April 4 for a run through…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMGrammy Award winner Mika's latest album The Origin of Love was released in October 2012, and it includes the track, 'Popular Song.' The tune samples 'Popular' from Broadway's WICKED, origina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMMark Ravenhill is to direct Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire as part of a season of plays he is curating for BBC Radio 3. The plays have been chosen by Ravenhill because …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMLook around. Behind most successful businesses, you’ll see not one man/woman but two. Why sure, one may be more in the spotlight (Bill Gates/Paul Allen), it usually takes two brains …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSee also:
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SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AM
Watch the set for Macbeth on Broadway come together at the Barrymore Theatre. Directed by Tony winner John Tiffany (Once) and Andrew Goldberg, this Macbeth is set in the clinical green-tiled…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:53AMJason Robert Brown's two-person song cycle, The Last Five Years, which replaced the previously announced Crimes of the Heart, began performances at Virginia's Signature Theatre April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMAustralian playwright Wendy Beckett's seductive new play Love Therapy will open at the DR2 Theatre on April 29. Currently in rehearsals, Love Therapy is the fourth in a ten-play series of Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMTony Award nominee Robin de Jesus (In the Heights, La Cage aux Folles) and Rent star Anthony Rapp are among the artists who will join singer, songwriter and actor Blake Pfeil for Blake Pfeil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMAnother busy day here at Macbeth. I attended our weekly ad meeting which was attended by the usual crowd of managers, ad agency team members, press rep, Davenport Theatrical’s marke…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMBritish-born singer Mika didn't need any help selling out Manhattan's (le) poisson rouge on Tuesday, April 9, but the packed venue got an added bonus when Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMAdam 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 10:43AMWilliam S. Yellow Robe, Jr. Hometown: I was born and raised on the Fort Peck Indian reservation located in northeastern Montana. The reservation is often referred to as Assiniboine and…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:41AMEach day, we'll be combing through submissions and picking a 'Hot Entry' in the JEKYLL amp HYDE 'Tell Us Your Moment' Sweepstakes. Scroll below to check out today's entry - and make sure you…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMJohn Tiffany's production of multiple Tony Award-winning screen-to-stage musical Once received its West End premiere at the Phoenix Theatre last night (9 April 2013).
When an Irish busker a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:40AMCellist Yo-Yo Ma was in Washington this week to press for an increase in arts funding from the federal government. The musician was joined by former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum, and th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:18AMWONDER WEDNESDAY On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments. Wonder Woman: Odyssey vol. 1, DC Comics, 2011. So, all right, f…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:16AMHotel Nikko San Francisco and Grammy winner Michael Feinstein have announced that Feinstein’s at the Nikko, a new 140-seat cabaret, will open its doors May 8 with a limited concert eng…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMCostume designer Murell Horton has a simple philosophy: “Theatre, to me, is really good storytelling if it’s done well. It’s also about coming together to create a world that had not …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMToday, we're thrilled to feature Shenandoah Conservatory graduate Ryan Neal Green
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMFour-time Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actress Tovah Feldshuh will host the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, an all-male contest benefiting New York's Ali For…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMHere's the next in a series of blogs featuring the musicals that opened 30, 20 and 10 years ago. Others in the series can be found under the "Back in Time" tab at the top of the page. …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
The festivities surrounding Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Awards get bigger and better every year—and the 2012 ceremony featured a photo booth in which ceremony host/Favorite Re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:59AMCleopatras out of Caesar's Palace join the cast of 'Antony and Cleopatra'
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:58AMNicholas Hytner will step down from his role as Director of London's National Theatre at the end of March 2015, the organization has announced. Since succeeding Trevor Nunn as director in 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who is scheduled to return to Broadway in spring 2014 in If/Then, a new musical by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal writing team of Tom Kitt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMThe ALLIANCE THEATRE's production of ZORRO, a new musical, is set to the flamenco sound of The Gipsy Kings. The show opens tonight, April 10, 2013, and runs through May 5, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMIf all goes as planned, four weeks from now I'll be flying to Portugal to do two marketing workshops with artists in Lisbon and Porto. When I first got the invite, I did the natural thing: I…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:46AMINTERVIEW: AMANDA WHITTINGTON The playwright tells Aleks Sierz about her fascination with the case of Ruth Ellis, who in 1955 became the last woman to be hanged in Britain after murdering he…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:38AMWatford Palace Theatre: The delicate balance between humour and pathos is seldom achieved with such deftness as is displayed in Tom Wells' remarkable new play.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:31AMNicholas Hytner has announced that he will step down as director of the National Theatre at the end of March 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMTickets are now available for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Murder Ballad, starring Caissie Levy, Tony nominee and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Will Swens…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:21AMIt’s always sad to hear that a show is closing prematurely.
And that’s true whether or not you had a good time when you saw it. Cause I’m
feeling badly for the cast and crew of Hands o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AM“Ivy Lynn! Where are you going? Sit down!” “Ok…sorry…Liza Minnelli…” Let’s talk about “A Love Letter from the Times” for a second. First off�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMYoung ballet star Sergei Polunin has been found in Moscow after disappearing from his Midnight Express rehearsals days before the show was set to premier in London.
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:00AMJeremy Johnson interviews Costume Designer Molly Trainer in this episode of “Live from the Library”. BIO: Molly Trainer (USA 829) is a Boston-based freelance costume designer for…
SOURCE: StageSource at 09:00AMFor those of us who first became aware of actor Bertie Carvel when he won an Olivier Award for his performance as Miss Trunchbull, a hulking, hunching raging bull of a headmistress in the We…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner has announced that he'll be stepping down in March 2015 (See Today's News::E8831365587116). In the past ten years, since Hytner took over f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:53AMThis is why I love the theater, or keep coming back to it, in any case: It holds my attention like nothing else. It may be my age, and it most certainly has to do with the multi-screen age w…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:45AMEpisode 7 of Compulsive Love is here! Watch it and previous episodes on Koldcast or Blip or Daily Motion or Boomtrain or Youtube&…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:41AMLONDON (Reuters) - A slate of new musicals has given the two major international theatre districts, New York's Broadway and London's West End, an upbeat start to 2013 despite economic weakne…
SOURCE: Reuters at 08:18AMMarsha Norma Choose PlayJen Silverman is the winner of the 2013 Yale Drama Series for her play "Still," chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:13AMLONDON — The widely praised chief of Britain's National Theatre says he will leave his post in two years.Nicholas Hytner plans to step down from one of the biggest jobs in the theater wor…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:10AMCan a bevy of high kicking and singing drag queens led on by Lola (a phenomenal Billy Porter - a composite of Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Whitney Houston and Effie from Dreamgirls) save the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:05AMIn 10 years, Hytner has given the National a sense of purpose, large new audiences and great drama. Who can succeed him?It's no great surprise to learn that Nicholas Hytner will be leaving t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMWritten by Paulanne Simmons After Liliane Montevecchi sang her first two songs, “Je Cherche Un Millionaire” and “Formidable,” she told her audience at 54 Below (254 West 54th …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:03AMAdam Grabau has appeared in several productions of Spamalot and returns home to DC to play Lancelot and others at The National Theatre – which opens tonight and runs through April 14t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMAfter a 40-year absence Bette Midler returns to Broadway, playing the Hollywood agent Sue Mengers in the solo show “I’ll Eat You Last.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMOld Gurney Hand, Mark Lamo,s DirectsHeidi Armbruster (Broadway’s “Time Stands Still”), Chris Henry Coffey (Playhouse’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart"), Keira …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM
Dan Jenkins Cast, TooLeRoy McClain (Broadway’s “Cymbeline," "The History Boys") will join Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley (Broadway's "Next to Normal") in the cast of Bruce …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:56AMSir Nicholas Hytner, who has led the National Theatre through triumphs and controversy over the past 10 years, has announced he is to step down from his post as director in 2015.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:52AMSir Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, the pair credited with taking the National Theatre to “undreamt levels” of success, are to step down within two years.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:52AMSir Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, the pair credited with taking the National Theatre to “undreamt levels” of success, are to step down within two years.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:52AMAre critics sold on "Buyer & Cellar"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 07:50AMWest Cliff Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea has seen its ticket sales nearly double since last year after changing its programming policy and increasing its social media and marketing efforts. The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMCompletes Three-Musical Series at Second StageThe musical fantasy, “LMNOP” will have a workshop production at Goodspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre July 25 to Aug. 18
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AM The acclaimed comedy/variety show “The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre” has been called “delicious. . . droll . . . fearless. . . funny” as it continues its Spring seas…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:40AMFrom time to time I like to pull a disc from the back reaches of my theater shelves. I like to spread the word of things the rush of recent releases might obscure. Staying current with new r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:39AMAt NYC Gala For Eugene O'Neill Theater CenterOscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will present the Monte Cristo Award to Oscar and Tony Award winning actor Christopher Plummer at the annua…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:37AMBilly Porter and The Angels (L-R: Kyle Post, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Joey Taranto, and Paul Canaan). Photo: Matthew Murphy
The Latest Film-to-Stage Musical is Kinky and Politically Correct En…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 07:35AMLow, Hite and Stanley was a highly vaudevillian act of the post vaudeville era who performed together from the mid 1930s through 1961. Amusingly, Roland Picaro Low was not the little person:…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:33AMGuy Retallack will direct the world premiere of a new musical called The Golden Voice at the Arts Theatre. The musical is written by Nick Fogarty, and will open on June 19. It will run...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMTeen Angel Project is celebrating our first year of community service in the arts with our Inaugural Gala: Wings! 2013. This would not have been possible with out the ongoing support of many…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:31AMNew Play About Walt Disney and Igor Stravinsky And The Making Of "Fantasia"A new play that had its premiere earlier this year in Newtown will have a New York reading later this month.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:27AMImagine a female Dead Poets Society without the encouraging teacher where “carpe diem” is replaced by “living in the moment.” Following Sarah is skillfully written by Baltimore pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20AMDirector credited with giving National Theatre a golden decade of hits will leave along with closest colleague Nick StarrSir Nicholas Hytner, who has presided over what has been, by near uni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMThere's a mock-up of a Dublin bar on the stage of the Phoenix Theatre (all foxed mirrors and nicotine-stained walls) and in the build-up to the show and during the interval, punters are invi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:15AMBonnie Langford is to return to the musical Spamalot and reprise the role of The Lady of the Lake. Langford previously played the part on tour last year and when the show ran at the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AM
We chat with actor Tod Strike about his role in the new production of Assassins, which will commence performances tonight at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne. Tod Strike was most recently se…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:44AMPaper Mill Playhouse presents 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 Doro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTimeless. Enchanting. Impactful. These three words clearly describe the classic musical SOUTH PACIFIC, coming to the DTC stage April 10th through May 5th. From the hauntingly beautiful first…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, previously announced that tickets will go on sale today, April 10, 2013 for the 58th Annual Obie Awards on Monday, May 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMGuest reviewer David Wicks shares his thoughts on The Ensemble Theatre’s Frankenstein. I’m probably the wrong person to review Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre’s new production – FRANKENS…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:20AMAs of today, here's how things stand with Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington: • I had my first face-to-face...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIt’s Tony time and many of this season’s major productions are raising the curtain (although most shows don’t even utilize a curtain anymore) on what producers hope will be the big hit…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:00AMPeter Pears and Julian Bream perform lute songs by Dowland and Rosseter: (This is the latest in a series of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else." O. Henry, "Makes the Whole World...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIf you can only see one show see KINKY BOOTS – a life affirming, passionate ode to finding the way – being accepted and accepting each other
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
A one-night only concert performance of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1973 Broadway musical A Little Night Music will be held at the U.K.'s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre June 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56AMMargaret Thatcher was, like her good friend Ronald Reagan, a politician with theatrical flair. She gave one of the best performances I’ve ever seen — in the House of Commons right before…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AMIt contains EVERYTHINGAlison Darcy is co-artistic director of Scapegoat Carnivale in Montreal, as well as an actor who has appeared at most of the city's main and secondary houses.CHARPO:&nb…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMTom Hanks is The ‘Lucky Guy' in Nora Ephron's PlayTom Hanks Maura Tierney By: Isa Goldberg
Wide-eyed with furrowed brow, a pouty chin that puckers into contortions, and enorm…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:01AMIs it just us or has there been a resurgence in interest for the works of Anton Chekhov? Three one-act works in Ottawa, a production of And Slowly Beauty... which uses Chekhov as a departure…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, April 9, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Daniel Davis, Laila Robins and Tony nominee Derek Smith star in the Red Bull Theater production of August Strindberg's Dance of Death, which begins performances April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTheir Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week we spotlight the choices of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA revised American production of the Gipsy Kings-scored Zorro: A New Musical, which first premiered in London in 2008, begins a new adventure at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. The musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie begins its limited engagement at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, April 10 prior to an official opening April 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTom Hanks, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, is making his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, a new play by the late Nora Ephron.
Directed by George C. Woolfe and now playing at the Broadhurst T…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMTwo sets of lives unexpectedly commingle in “Assisted Living” at the Odyssey Theatre. This amiable item from real-life married couple Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley isn’t e…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMThe Other Real
by Conor Backman
Through April 28 at Nudashank
Two revolutionary ancient Greek painters, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, had a contest.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMA House, a Home
Adapted from Chekhov’s Three Sisters by Ben Hoover
Through April 14 at the EMP Collective
At Glass Mind Theatre’s A House, A Home—based on Anton Chekhov’s …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM 
