I’ve been a little sniff-sniffy about “Motown, the Musical,” which opens Sunday at the Lunt-Fontanne.
Its script, by Motown mogul Berry Gordy (with an assist from Dick Scanlan), isn’…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PMThe odd little girl at the center of the spiky and lavishly inventive new Broadway show “Matilda” learns her ABC’s early. By age 5, she’s mastered reading and devoured classics like …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:45PMIt’s been a long voyage home for Dance Theatre of Harlem. The trailblazing company Arthur Mitchell founded in 1969 shut down due to lack of funds nine years ago. Opening Wednesday at Jazz …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PM‘Sleeping Rough” has just three characters, but none of them makes much of an impression. By the end of the show, the first thing that comes to mind is, “Bye. It was dull not knowing y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMOnce in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in Broadway. “Matilda The Musical” is that show.
“Matilda” landed at the Shubert Theatre with daunting advance w…
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No-nonsense direction by Randall Arney and compelling acting by Bill Smitrovich, Freddy Rodriguez and Ron Eldard make this work a pleasure to revisit.David Mamet's "American Buffalo" is set …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45PMThe performers were in top for last night when they sang two songs each. Tonight on American Idol another contestant goes home and Kelly Clarkson and Scotty McCreey returns to the Idol stage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22PMThe Little Orchestra Society announces its Spring Benefit, hosted by two-time Tony Award winning actress Donna Murphy, to follow the premiere of Disney Fantasia Live in Concert on Friday, Ap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17PMActor Brandon Victor Dixon is playing the role of the music executive, who also happens to be the writer and producer of the show
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:15PMThe makers of "Matilda" have turned Roald Dahl's popular children's novel into a big-budget musical that is true enough to the book to satisfy its youthful readers, yet sophisticated enough …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:04PM“Matilda the Musical,” a British import adapted from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel, is a tale of empowerment told from the perspective of the most powerless group — little children. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMIs there much point in complaining when bad is so deliciously good?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMThe New York transfer of U.K. musical “Matilda” opened April 11 at Broadway’s Shubert Theater. The following is David Benedict’s review (Daily Variety, Dec. 13, 2010)…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM“Matilda the Musical,” a British import adapted from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel, is a tale of empowerment told from the perspective of the most powerless group — little children. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMHow do you solve a problem like Matilda? Given that Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel has been beloved for years by girls who identify with the title character — unloved by her parents an…
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The serious intentions of "The Company You Keep" are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Seth Numrich, star of Broadway's War Horse and Golden Boy, will join Kim Cattrall in the Old Vic's production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, directe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:23PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Alex Kingston Doctor Who will play the role of 'Lady Macbeth' opposite Kenneth Branagh in the 2013 Manchester International Festival production of Shakespeare's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11PMAnnie and Cinderella know plenty about evil grown-ups, as Broadway has been telling us in this season of plucky musical heroines. But neither has had to deal with the daft adult meanies who …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:01PMAfter winning a record seven Olivier Awards in London, the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's novel reaches Broadway with all of its considerable magic intact.read more
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Gravitas Ventures will release '1st NIGHT' note the spelling of the title it isn't 'First Night' in select theaters and on VOD daydate on May 3rd. This quintessential English comedy stars Ri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47PMThe first promo for the new ITV comedy VICIOUS starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi has finally been released and it garners us a gander into the bawdy and bitchy world of the tailor-made …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30PMThe world premiere of ‘Tuck Everlasting’ has been postponed. Broadway in Boston announced on Thursday that the musical, which was supposed to run at the Colonial Theatre July 28-Aug. 18,…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:26PMThe locals turned out in force for the opening of Northern Light Theatre Company’s production of Little Shop of Horrors at the swank Shedley Theatre in Elizabeth. There were also plenty of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:23PMThis is a blog post about what you need to know before taking your headshot. This is blogpost from www.linebuddies.com, a virtual resource for actors who need help running lines.
SOURCE: www.linebuddies.com at 08:22PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The last Broadway performance of "Mary Poppins" - that sugary-sweet ode to good children and even better caregivers - was delivered March 3. Twenty-four hours later, the…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:19PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opens tonight April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street. The four girls sharing the ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:17PMI’ve been busting at the seams, waiting to talk to you all about Matilda since I saw it. Definitely one of the best shows this season, but out of respect, I had to hold off until open…
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NEW YORK — Dwelling among us, ladies and gentlemen, is a super-race of tiny entertainment machines. Disguised as children, they sing, act, dance, tumble and generally bedazzle, as if each …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:51PMOne Night With Janis Joplin breaks Pasadena Playhouse's box office record...Michael McKean has the title role in the Geffen's Yes, Prime Minister...Broad Stage and Laguna Playhouse seasons..…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:49PMYou may well have heard that Matilda, the musical based on Roald Dahl’s popular novel, is now on Broadway, following a smashing first year run in London, where it continues to sell out…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMTerrence Malick takes us To the Wonder, and beyond Terrence Malick may be America’s most fuel-efficient filmmaker. Even when one of his movies is average-length it can seem like it will…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:29PMAnother Marriott Theatre triumph, Director David H. Bell’s all-embracing arena staging delivers everything but the vista of Bali H’ai’s twin peaks floating in the distance. It simply r…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:28PMDavid Mamet's career-making classic is revived at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:22PMTony Award Winner Donna McKechnie, Tony Award Nominee Jodi Benson and Broadway veteran Doug LaBrecque will star with the Boston Pops in One Singular Sensation A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12PMWith a voice that rumbles and quakes like an avalanche, Patrick Page unleashes his catalytic energy on “Coriolanus,” the Shakespearean tragedy that builds ever so incrementally to a roar…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:08PMIn the theater industry, there are already a sizable number of videos tagged with #broadway and #musical on Vine, including ones from popular shows such as "Wicked," "The Book of Mormon," "S…
SOURCE: PBS at 07:05PMason Robert Brown's painfully intimate story of falling into and out of love benefits from the polished performances of Erin Weaver and James Gardiner and the assured direction of Aaron Posn…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThe last time monologist Mike Daisey visited Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, he shared some uncomfortable truths about the human cost to Chinese workers behind the sleek surface…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” rushes at you from the stage of the Shubert Theatre—often literally—with the …
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According to the Daily Mail, Daniel Radcliffe is busy prepping for his starring role as a young man with degenerative muscle disease in Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMOn Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 700 PM, Randie Levine-Miller will present Broadway Showstopper Divas --'A Swell Party' at the Metropolitan Room 34 West 22nd Street as an Actors Fund Benefit.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PMWord of Mouthers Brad, Brittany and Phyllis bolted to the Shubert Theatre to see the Matilda, starring Bertie Carvel and Lauren Ward and four adorable girls alternating in the titl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:29PMFollowing its, critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Angel Island this winter, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. is pleased to transfer its Jeff Recommended production of Tennessee Williams’ clas…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:22PMThe celebrated British musical "Matilda" has arrived on Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:21PMMitzi Sinnott's one-woman show is part political statement and part theatre. As the former, it is a pretty powerful piece, as she recounts�and, with certain dramatic license, reenacts�her fa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:18PMIn this episode of The Princess Diary, Cinderella star Laura Osnes gives fans an in-depth backstage tour, visiting all the dressing rooms and often getting way more than she bargained for. I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:17PMIt's a satisfying feeling: knowing you got your money's worth. Maybe it was that discounted movie ticket or the cheap student symphony show you took a chance on.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:15PMAccording to an Equity casting notice, a new musical inspired by the work of Tupac Shakur, titled HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME, will get an NYC developmental workshop this Summer. Helmed by Kenny Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMThe actors will lead the Manchester International Festival production of Macbeth, which will be performed in a deconsecrated church in the city centre.
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Paper Mill Playhouse will present Thoroughly Modern Millie, winner of the 2002 Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Musical. BroadwayWorld more highlights from the production below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMAs anyone who reads Broadway.com knows, we love our resident sketch pro Justin “Squigs” Robertson, whose most recent entry in his Broadway Ink series is this dazzling portrait of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMMichael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross—they’re all a part of music history, and you can catch them all in action this spring in Motown: The Musical, a brand-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMThis season the Windy City has a full slate of Pulitzer Prize winners, world premieres, and revised classics. Here’s what we’re looking forward to on Chicago stages this spring.
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SOURCE: Backstage at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 11, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway BC/EFA presents special 20th Anniversary perfor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMThe actress is notable for refusing to be pigeon-holed into simpering English rose roles. She is now due to take part in a 'revolutionary' interpretation of Hardy's classic.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 05:32PM54 Below has announced a two-nights-only concert production of the short-lived Tom Kitt and Amanda Green Broadway musical High Fidelity, May 19 and 20. Original cast members Will Chase (The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMThe result of an interview with Jesse Zaritt and Jumatatu Poe, regarding their studio series at NYLA this week.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:26PMREVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT The Marriott Lincolnshire Theater’s 2013 season started off on a successful note with “Now and Forever, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Now continuing …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:20PMMOTOWN THE MUSICAL is currently in previews at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46 Street and will open on Broadway on April 14, 2013. Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, MOTOWN THE MUSIC…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present a one-night-only 20th anniversary performance of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, which began life as a one-man show by actor/activist David D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMRising stage and screen star Tom Hiddleston opens up about his role as activist for Africa in a new interview, as well as shares some details on the upcoming THOR 2 THE DARK WORLD and set st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMNighttime Traffic, a musical with music and lyrics by Alex Wyse and book by Alex Wyse and Steve Wargo, will have an industry reading April 23 in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Check out photos of Jay Armstrong Johnson …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PM Broadway needs to figure out YA. Wouldn’t it be great if a new musical connected to that hopeful, younger you inside (without pandering)? The above was a tweet that I saw recently an…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWhen the adult Joey makes his entrance, we are reduced to a state of childlike wonder -- amazed by the beautiful, powerful animal that lives and breathes, right there in front of us on the s…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PM
Motown, the new hit-filled jukebox musical about the life and career of music mogul Berry Gordy, starring Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and Valisia LaKae, began Broadway previews March 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMJess Applebaum gives a heads-up about Matthew Paul Olmos' so go the ghosts of méxico, part one at LaMama, opening April 11.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:46PMThe germs of a half-dozen plays at its center, it would be exciting to see this production move from a workshop-feel to full blown dramatization. Such as it is, this is still some potent stu…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:44PMStage and screen superstar Sir Ian McKellen has hit the set of the highly anticipated new entry in the X-MEN franchise according to a new Vine video posted by X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST direc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMThe former star of AMC's "The Walking Dead" will appear Off Broadway in the fall in John Pollono's play about burnouts in a New Hampshire mechanic's shop.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:42PMA list of the best stage entrances ever would have to include a group of middle-aged men climbing out of a river dripping wet onto a stark, rocky island. It is the perfect preface to Tim F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMSometimes it is good to be reminded of just how transcendent the familiar can be. A case in point: Director David H. Bell’s sublime revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, “South…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:39PMHorton Foote’s touching 1953 drama The Trip to Bountiful has returned to the Broadway stage, starring Oscar nominee Cicely Tyson as an elderly woman who longs to return to her hometown…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMThe ALLIANCE THEATRE's production of ZORRO, a new musical, is set to the flamenco sound of The Gipsy Kings. The show opened April 10, 2013, and runs through May 5, 2013.BroadwayWorld has a f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMStars As Lover To Nathan Lane's Character Jonny Orsini sits in his sparse dressing room on the second floor of the Lyceum Theatre prior to a matinee of Douglas Carter Beane's new play, "The …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:21PMSarah Brightman's sensational new solo release DREAMCHASER is now available and you can now listen to a special bonus track that is only included on the Target Limited Edition, 'Hawai'i '78'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMJohn Pollono’s Small Engine Repair is the little engine that could, and now it will celebrate its New York premiere this fall. MCC Theater previously postponed the show’s planned…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:09PMWill Chase and Jenn Colella, original cast members of the short-lived Broadway musical High Fidelity, will reunite for a concert staging of the Tom Kitt-Amanda Green-scored musical at Manhat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMMCC has announced the first two productions slated for its 2013/14 season. As was previously reported, its first production, jointly produced with Manhattan Theatre Club, will be the world p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMBroadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS presents a one-night, 20th anniversary performance of the landmark show THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME at 8 pm on Monday, May 20 at the Gerard W. Lynch The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMThe Surprise Partyby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTOHi friends. Did you forget that Smash moved to Saturdays last week? So did I! And so did everyone else it seems, because the show recorded its …
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Editor, consultant and fashion icon Isabella Blow lived a tumultuous life that encompassed trend-setting style, two marriages plagued by infertility, championing designers like Alexander McQ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:57PMOff-Broadway's Mint Theater has announced the complete cast for its upcoming American premiere of English dramatist N.C. Hunter's A Picture of Autumn. The play will run from May 23-July 14 w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:57PMMy parents' church had a soloist whose wavering singing sounded like that of the Cowardly Lion when he holds the "king of the for-rest" notes.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PMMusical theater giant Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning to develop a new musical based on the 2003 film School of Rock. The comedy, written by Mike White (The Good Girl, HBO’s Enlightened) a…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:54PMJon Robin Baitz's family drama "Other Desert Cities" wastes no time acquainting us with the Wyeths.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:52PMPodcast with American Idiot’s ALEX NEE from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:49PMMary-Louise Parker is heading back to Broadway to star in the new World War I-era drama “The Snow Geese.” The play is written by Sharr White and will be co-produced by the Manhattan Thea…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:49PMExciting new playwright Abby Rosebrock's DIFFERENT ANIMALS will open on May 4th at The Cherry Lane Theater. Previews will begin on April 20th. Rosebrock, an Upright Citizen's Brigade alum, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMDeadline reports that Stanley Tucci and Anne Heche have joined the cat of the action thriller HEAT, based on the novel by William Goldman
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMPodcast with American Idiot’s ALEX NEE from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Northwestern University’s own Alex Nee discusses his role of Johnny in the national touring company of Green…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:46PMRecent Lincoln Center Theater Golden Boy revival standout and Dexter Season Seven featured player Yvonne Strahovski discusses her surprise return to the hit Showtime serial killer-themed ser…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMThe musical’s run in Boston has been postponed because, press representatives said, no theater is available for a transfer to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:34PMThe 2013 Monologue Madness competition last Sunday at The Miracle Theatre saw two relative newcomers to the DC scene compete their way through a pack of 32, and elbow out of the running su…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:33PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present a reimagined production of David Drake's acclaimed solo show, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, on May 20 at the Gerard W. Lynch Theater at Joh…
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SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:26PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present a 20th anniversary performance of David Drake's solo show, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, May 20 at 8 PM at the Gerard W. Lynch The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMA classic Harold Arlen and EY Harburg earworm ditty from the celebrated movie musical THE WIZARD OF OZ has re-entered the iTunes charts and now skyrocketed all the way to 1 in the UK today i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents a one-night, 20th anniversary performance of the landmark show THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME at 8 pm on Monday, May 20 at the Gerard W. Lynch Th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:15PMJohn Doyle, best known for his minimalist direction of Stephen Sondheim musicals including the Broadway productions of Company and Sweeney Todd (for which he won a Tony Award), as well as Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMAfter four weeks of online voting at makeamusical.org, five schools emerged as winners of NBC's Smash Make a Musical Constructed by Lowe's initiative. The winning schools will each receive a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMUPDATED: The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) has announced its complete list of Elliot Norton Award nominees, as well two additional special honorees who will join the previous Lif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMCasting has been announced for the American premiere of Yes, Prime Minister, one of the more successful London West End plays in a decade, which will begin performances at the Gil Cates Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMBroadway’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 03:06PMJonathan Lynn will direct the American premiere of Yes, Prime Minister, co-written by Lynn and Antony Jay, one of the most successful London West End plays in a decade, at the Gil Cates Thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMHelena Carroll, a Scottish-born actress who did stage, film and television work in the United States, died on March 31 in Marina del Rey, CA. The cause was heart failure. She was 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMOn this date 22 years ago, Miss Saigon opened at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMNEW YORK - No smart kid likes condescension. And any halfway clever mum or dad quickly figures out that the way to get a willful child, and they must all be willful, to love something is to …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMYou might recall the Elvis Costello lyric in "Tramp the Dirt Down," referencing Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who died Monday: "I'll stand on your grave and tramp the …
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On Broadway, Robert Duvall and Al Pacino played David Mamet’s two-bit hustler Teach in “American Buffalo,” and did so memorably. It is to Ron Eldard’s credit that he presents…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PMShakespearean star Mark Rylance skates into the world of ice fishing in a play he wrote with Duluth poet Louis Jenkins.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:53PMThink of it as suds and sopranos: Opera on Tap Seattle, which aims to bring great operatic works to nontraditional spaces, will drop by The Comet Tavern on Capitol Hill at 6 p.m. Sunday (Apr…
SOURCE: blogs.seattletimes.com at 02:53PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that acclaimed Tony Award-winning director John Doyle will j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PMPBS presents 'ANNIE It's The Hard Knock Life, From Script to Stage,' a documentary which offers a memorable behind the scenes look at every step of a single ANNIE production number, through …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMThe Pace University Department of Performing Arts will present a concert of works by Tony Award-winning composer Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza), performed by the composer and accompa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMClassic Stage Company announced that Tony Award-winning director John Doyle will join the company for its 2013-14 season as an associate director. Doyle, who directed CSC's production of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMLost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwi…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:18PMOur Video of the Week is the trailer for HBO Films’ Behind the Candelabra, the Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas as The Glitter Man and Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson. Th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:17PMWhen Paula J. Caplan first looked at the effects of war on families in Shades, America seemed to be at peace. The first reading of the play occurred in September 2001, a few days before 9/11…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:15PMThe first time Martha Lavey performed with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, she was naked in body paint playing a South American Indian. Her then acting teacher John Malkovich cast her in wh…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:14PMA Manhattan judge released Hilary Kole Thursday from a pair of contracts with her ex-boyfriend — Birdland owner John Valenti — that had put the jazz singer's career on ice for most of th…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:13PMThe original Broadway cast album of the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots will be released in stores and digitally May 28 on the Masterworks Broadway label. The cast of Kinky Boots began reco…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:10PMNobody Everybody needs to know!
THE LAST FIVE YEARS, written and directed by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World), received its third and final Off-Broadway e…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 02:02PMTony Award-winning director John Doyle, whose production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion is playing an extended run at Classic Stage Company, has been named an associ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMFor 11 seasons, David Hyde Pierce played Dr. Niles Crane, the persnickety perfectionist younger brother of Kelsey Grammer’s Dr. Frasier Crane on TV’s “Frasier.” It…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:00PM"It Could Be Worse," the showbiz-minded, scripted comedy series co-created and written by longtime actor-collaborators Mitchell Jarvis (Rock of Ages) and Wesley Taylor (The Addams …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMegan Hilty, star of TVs hit show SMASH and Broadways WICKED, joins Candi & Randy to talk about her new debut CD - "It Happens All The Time." Known for her Broadway roles as "Glinda" in Wick…
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What is a storefront theater? Ask three artistic directors this question, and you’ll get three different answers. “Small, non-Equity house.” “Itinerant company.&rdquo…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:57PMSecond Stage Theatre's acclaimed production of Jason Robert Brown's musical, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, has received a third and final one-week extension, and will now end its run on Saturday, May…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMMovies arriving from overseas are the bread and butter of Filmfest DC, the annual tour of cinematic works Washingtonians would otherwise have little chance to see. The French drama “In the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMThis excellent production by InterAct of Thomas Gibbons' 2003 "Permanent Collection" tells the story of a fabulous trove of art and the people entrusted with its care. Fascinating, says Davi…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:52PMAs BroadwayWorld previously announced, ANN, the new critically acclaimed play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor and directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein, has b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMRoald Dahl's beloved children's novel is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical. The musical's creators say the show skews closer to the beloved book than to Danny DeVito's 1996 movie, l…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:40PMRoald Dahl's beloved children's novel is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical. The musical's creators say the show skews closer to the beloved book than to Danny DeVito's 1996 movie, l…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:40PMWant a chance to win 2 tickets to the hottest show in town All you have to do is snap a photo of your favorite, most colorful, snazziest pair of footwear or kinkiest boots and upload it here
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMWe reported in November that Harrison’s Sophia Gennusa, 9, was one of of four young actresses chosen to play the lead role of Matilda in a Broadway musical based on Roald Dahl’s …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:38PMLogic is a wonderful thing of which there is all too little in our world. It would, for instance, be nice if a course in logic were part of the high-school curriculum, or, failing that, a le…
SOURCE: John Simon at 01:34PMMatilda, both the musical that opens tonight, and its source material—the beloved 1988 Roald Dahl children’s novel—challenges the typical mythology of childhood, where angelic preschoo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:31PMThe long-awaited opening of the critically acclaimed across-the-pond musical has finally arrived. Matilda The Musical, will celebrate its opening this evening at the Shubert Theatre before i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMCleveland arts calendar for Northeast Ohio for April 12-18
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:30PMThe world premiere production of the new musical TUCK EVERLASTING, scheduled to play Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre 106 Boylston Street from July 28-August 18,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMThe Last Five Years fans rejoice! The new revival of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical has extended for a third time off-Broadway. Previously scheduled to perform through May 12, th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMThe Last Five Years fans rejoice! The new revival of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical has extended for a third time off-Broadway. Previously scheduled to perform through May 12, th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMWhen I was a kid, a guy named Louis Mastrobatisto used to visit our house regularly. Most times he would bring along his guitar and a portable amp. He’d sit in the living room and play. …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:19PMUPDATED: The world premiere the Boston production of Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, and Claudia Shear's Tuck Everlasting has been postponed "due to a lack of theatre availability for its planne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMHere are some of the familiar Broadway faces appearing in prime time tonight Thursday, April 11, 2013
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMPlayhouse, LiverpoolAt the age of 85, Peter Nichols finally seems to be back in fashion. Michael Grandage's revival of Privates on Parade was garlanded with praise; a new production of Nicho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMAs previously tipped, the stage adaptation of Roddy Doyle's The Commitments, directed by Jamie Lloyd, is readying to premiere at the West End's Palace Theatre, where it's due to open later t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:10PMAcclaimed actor and international film and television star Jason Priestley Call me Fitz, Beverly Hills, 90210 returns to the stage in his first live theatre role since 2000 in Canadian Stage…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMKinky Boots had quite an exciting day on April 10. The new musical by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein welcomed Today hosts (and major Broadway fans) Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMThe company of Kinky Boots had quite an exciting day on April 10. The new musical by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein welcomed Today hosts (and major Broadway fans) Kathie Lee Gif…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMYoung actress Sophia Gennusa, who shares the leading role in Matilda The Musical with three other girls, has been announced to perform during the April 11 opening night at the Shubert Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMSecond Stage Theatre's new production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, with Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe as a couple who falls in and out of love…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMIn his new show American Utopias, award-winning monologist Mike Daisey ties together three unlikely places: Disney World, Zuccotti Park, the home base of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:00PM
The Laguna Playhouse has announced the lineup for its 2013-14 season, which will kick off with the marriage musical I Do! I Do!, starring Broadway actors Davis Gaines and Vicki Lewis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMWhen stage fans want the latest news and coolest features, their top source is Broadway.com! The site's most-read stories from April 5 through April 11 include news of a hot new tuner fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMJohn Neumeier’s dance odyssey displays the kind of sweeping ambition that ballet often shies away from, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe world premiere production of the new musical Tuck Everlasting has postponed its pre-Broadway run in Boston due to "lack of theater availability in New York" for the show's …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMProducers have postponed the pre-Broadway Boston world premiere of Tuck Everlasting, the new musical based on Natalie Babbitt's popular 1975 children's novel, due to a lack of an ava…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMAnother installment of the Culturebot Scanner to help put performance on your radar.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:37PMAnnie fans are going to get closer than ever to the lady in red, her fellow orphans and all of the talented people behind the scenes who helped make this musical happen. Thanks to PBS’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34PMThe BBC has revealed plans for a London-based hub that will be “an unrivalled centre of excellence and expertise” in music broadcasting. As part of the plan, the Corporation has appointe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMJudith Light, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos star in Manhattan Theatre Club’s stunning world-premiere drama, Richard Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties. The Assembled Parties on Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:28PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:28PMFor better or worse — and playwright Samuel D. Hunter is smart enough to see it's probably very much for the better — the play titled "The Whale" has become known in theater circ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:28PMAlterLab Here I ComeThis weekend is the second AlterLab retreat of the year. They're quarterly this year, as opposed to monthly which was the format last year.At this second retreat of the y…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:27PMThere might be a total of four pint-sized ladies playing the lead role, but only one gets to portray the title character on opening night. Ever wonder how the big decision is made BroadwayW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMMusical theatre star Liz Robertson is premiering her new show Liz Sings Her Favourite Songs, which will run from 23-27 April 2013 at the Crazy Coqs.
The show will consist of songs that have …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:23PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards®including Best Musical, has broken its own house record in Pittsburgh for the week ending April 7 at the Benedum Center. THE BOOK OF MORMON …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:22PMOn Tuesday, April 30th, WNYC's Leonard Lopate will host an up-close-and-personal lunchtime conversation with actress Fiona Shaw and director Deborah Warner about their long-standing creative…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMIt’s been a year since Disney’s mega-popular, two-time Tony-winning musical Newsies opened at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre. In honor of the show's birthday, Broadway.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMIn celebration of this day, we bring you a collection of our favorite performances from the show. Click below to check it out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMDaniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall will star in the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal this October. This production will mark the Broadway debut for both Weisz and Spall …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMEverybody's favorite pixie-dusted portrayal of the boy who refused to grow up is still flying high off-Broadway, and we’ve got an adventurous first look at the Neverland you never …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:17PMFORGING COMEDY FROM CHAOS Early in The Second City’s 101st revue Let Them Eat Chaos, the excellent Second City veteran Katie Rich sits on the stage alone and alternately chats with the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:16PMAge & Hometown: 22; Highland Park, Illinois
Current Role: Stirring up trouble for Bobby Cannavale as Dixie Evans, a struggling Hollywood starlet who knows too much in Roundabout Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMThe Mountaintop is an award-winning play about the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died. But some critics don't love playwright Katori Hall's portrayal of the civil rights icon as a regul…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMA group of second graders from the Bronx's PS 69 Journey Prep school attended the Wednesday, April 10 matinee performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre. Following t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe new 2013-14 season of Dance at the Music Center will feature works by choreographers Matthew Bourne, Ethan Stiefel and Alexei Ratmansky. The season, which the Music Center announced this…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM
The cast of Lebensraum - Photo: Natalia BoltukhovaIn case you hadn't noticed, another intrepid small theatre troupe has joined the fringe - the Hub Theatre Company of Boston (no relation to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:59AMOn the morning of its April 11 opening on Broadway, MATILDA THE MUSICAL announces that Sophia Gennusa, one of four girls who share the title role, will take the stage as “Matilda” for th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:58AMToday, we're featuring Betty Garrett circa 1981. Garrett made her Broadway debut in 1942 in the revue Of V We Sing, which closed after 76 performances but led to her being cast in the Harold…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMMatilda The Musical, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opens tonight, April 11, 2013 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). Sharing the title ro…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:56AMI had the great pleasure recently of spending time with the family of the late, great, musical genius, Jonathan Larson. Larson, who we lost way too young in 1996, changed the face of musical…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:56AMBroadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It celebrated one year on Broadway April 10. The cast celebrated with an onstage cake presentation following the matinee performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMDue to overwhelming demand, the producers of SILENCE THE MUSICAL today put a new block of tickets on sale through September 1st.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Check out photos of Keala Settle in the Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMBroadway is buzzing about the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Richard Greenberg's new play The Assembled Parties, starring Tony winner Judith Light and Tony nominees Jessica Hecht a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMYou’ve got to be versatile to make it on Broadway, but only a select few stars can boast of having won Audience Choice Awards for their performances in both a play and a musical. How m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMTony Award nominee Kenny Leon will direct a summer workshop of Holler If Ya Hear Me, a new musical based on the music of late rapper Tupac Shakur, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMTony Award-winning composer Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) is set to perform a concert of his own works, accompanied by Pace University BFA Musical Theater students and alumni, at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMAs Motown: The Musical prepares to make a toe-tapping smash on Broadway when it opens on April 14, Broadway.com’s resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson took in the soul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMKacie Sheik, Cale Krise, Daniel Everidge and Bret Shuford have joined the lineup for the 11th edition of the Bistro Award-winning series If It Only Even Runs a Minute, which will be hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMThe hit musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, which recently welcomed Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller, John Treacy Egan and Conrad John Schuck to the production, celebrated one year …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMLegendary comedian, actress, and author Carol Burnett will be honored by the City of Los Angeles with the naming of Carol Burnett Square at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Selma Aven…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMJust yesterday, the cast of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark got a visit from a second grade class from PS 69. The 26 students, most of whom had never seen a Broadway show before, stuck around a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMAlicia Minshew is heading off-Broadway for a zany Wedding! The All My Children alum will take over the role of Aunt Toniann in My Big Gay Italian Wedding on May 4 and 11. Minshew is tak…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMazz hands. Cocked hips. Feet turning sharply inwards and out.
It's the "Manson trio," one of Bob Fosse's signature dance numbers, first introduced in the original production of Pippin -- …
SOURCE: USA Today at 11:24AMMusic icon Berry Gordy wanted to tell his story his way, and he’s doing just that in Motown: The Musical, the soulful new Broadway show that Gordy wrote and produced about his own rise…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:22AMWe open our musical book of singers to the 'R' page this time, and spend some time with recent recordings by Johnny Rodgers and Molly Ringwald and a reissue of early record albums by Chita R…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:21AMUPDATED: Kinky Boots, the most fabulous new musical to hit Broadway this season, will release its original cast album (both in stores and digitally) on May 28, after opening to widespread cr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMThanks to one and all who came out to Dixon Place for our Chain of Fools launch event. I was so grateful to all those who braved the rains to come out. It proved to be a veritable who’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:19AMThe passing of the Gypsy Robe is a Broadway tradition dating back to the 1950s which celebrates the dedication of long-time but often under-appreciated performers — for each new musical, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMToday in 1991, Miss Saigon opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 4092 performances. Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMJames Brining has announced his first season as artistic director of West Yorkshire Playhouse since he took over from Ian Brown in September 2012.
Headlining the season will be Brining…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:10AMWatch the video and read the full feature here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2013/04/10/broadway-pippin-preview/2053579/
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:06AMA host of stage veterans — including Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and Tony Award nominees Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher), Li…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AM“I’m not dead yet,” is an oft-quoted line from the 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot, has a whole number based on this line and, likewi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMThe NCAA Championship could be one of the best designed competitions in the world. March Madness, The Brackets, The Betting, The Sweet 16, The Final Four . . . The Champion. Every step of …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe project will likely incorporate new songs from the composer behind "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AM
It's so delishious! The cast of Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It, led by two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller, celebrated the
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMEach 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 10:54AMThe American Repertory Theater productions of Pippin and The Glass Menagerie, David Cromer's staging of Our Town at the Huntington Theatre Company and the world-premiere play Operation E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMAlverthorpe Club, Wakefield: This is the third review of such a showcase The Stage has published and this event was just as well-organised and presented as the previous two. The idea is that…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMEntertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed a new poster for director Joss Whedon's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, opening in North America on June 7 and in the UK and Ireland on June 14. The fil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMRemember my lesson two days ago about listening to the audience? Well, just as important is TALKING to our audience. Broadway ticket sales are structured where audience members purchase …
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMRick Holmes, Jason Ralph and Nicole Lowrance star in the Off-Broadway transfer of the Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher, an imaginative riff on the origins of Peter Pan, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThis week's A.P.T. is the dynamic Rupa Mehta who has founded her own program called Nalini Method which you can read more about HERE. Rupa is an entrepreneur who is doing really amazing thin…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMSt. Louisans have been wowed by building's sculptural beauty and returned for its laser light shows.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:30AMBill W. and Dr. Bob, Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey's play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, will begin Off-Broadway performances July 8, prior to an official opening July 16, at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMThe death of Margaret Thatcher this week has created renewed public interest -- and, for some, nostalgia -- for British politics during the 1980s. "Yes, Prime Minister," the play based on th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:28AMThe Collegiate Chorale has announced Song of Norway by Robert Wright and George Forrest on April 30, 2013 at 630pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC. Tickets are on sale at www.carnegieh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AM- Luis Caballero arrives, wearing a wool scarf coiled around his neck. The morning, April 3rd, was unseasonably cold. He is wired with energy for our interview in the chilly, white-walled ba…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMNew York Stage and Film will present its final reading in the 2012-13 NYC Reading Series at Barnard College April 15 in the Glicker-Milstein Blackbox Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMIt's time to answer all the questions, fight all the creatures and get a little bit naughty! The Broadway musical Matilda, starring Bertie Carvel as Miss Trunchbull and four young perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:09AMShakespeare’s Coriolanus is one of his least popular plays—its language lacks the normal Shakespeare smoothness, it’s violent and bloody, it’s long, and there are a lot of sc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AM
“Imagine the outcry if there were no awards for Director.” “Imagine the outcry if there were no awards for Choreographer.” “Imagine the outcry if there were no …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:52AMThe world-premiere production of Howard Brenton's #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, which begins performances at London's Hampstead Theatre April 11 prior to an official opening April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMParveen Akram, a young Muslim barrister, fights for her clients’ liberties in the Westminster County Court but soon realises that separating her professional life and her domestic nightmar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:48AMJames Brining, the new artistic director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, has announced his debut season that will include him revisiting his award-winning 2010 production of Sondhe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMThe reading will star Celia Keenan-Bolger as 'Kate Quin,' Laura Benanti as 'Samantha Stewart,' Merritt Wever as 'Holly Caplan,' Lisa Joyce as 'Muffet DiNicola,' Aya Cash as 'Rita Altabel,' L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AMToday is the birthday of Louise Lasser (b. 1939). Some may know her as Woody Allen’s first wife and the co-star of his early films through 1972. (Very few) others of you may know her …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:35AMDerren Brown, two-time Olivier winner for Best Entertainment, will return to the West End's Palace Theatre with his latest show, Infamous, beginning performances June 24 prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMWatch the latest TV spot from ROCKY -. THE MUSICAL at Hamburg TUI Operettenhaus News.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMA one-night-only reading of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others will be presented May 13 at 8 PM in the Theresa Lang Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College, home of the landmar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AMRoyal Court, LondonIn his final days at the Royal Court, you couldn't accuse Dominic Cooke of playing it safe. Before Christmas, he directed Martin Crimp's dizzyingly experimental In the Rep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMHoward Brenton’s new play about Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei will be streamed live on the internet for free later this month. Called #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Narrative tension is entirely absent in this production – though Johan Christensen shows an intelligent presence as the hero, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:56AMFeaturing Broadway’s most beloved favorites and the unfamiliar, PLUS original numbers from locally produced musicals. This show is STACKED with moving and unforgettable performances by…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMHackney Empire, London: Over 16 years in the making, Carl Leighton-Pope's musical Carnaby Street offers a peek at London in the swinging sixties, when youth culture began to make an imp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMAnthony Neilson's work at the Royal Court has been remarkably varied in tone and psychological provenance. It has ranged from a telling fantasia on the operations and import of bipolar disor…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AMThis Saturday at 8.00pm, Marilyn Nonken and Sarah Rothenberg will perform a two-piano version of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913) and Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Ame…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:31AMOn April 7th at Dance Exchange, the room was filled Saturday night when Georgia storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin was in Takoma Park for a show sponsored by the Institute of Musical Traditions.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMColiseum, London: The abrupt departure of Sergei Polunin and Igor Zelensky from the production days before it was due to open hangs heavy over the gala night, given in aid of the Dancer for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMIn her recent program at the Boston University Dance Theatre, Corbett riffed on the eerie, 1967 Diane Arbus photograph of identical twin girls in Roselle, New Jersey.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMDELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Frank Wildhorn sits in the lobby of a South Florida hotel, wearing a baseball cap and flip-flops, happy to be back home by the ocean. He's remarkably unfrazzled, …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:20AMDELRAY BEACH, Fla.—Frank Wildhorn sits in the lobby of a South Florida hotel, wearing a baseball cap and flip-flops, happy to be back home by the ocean.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18AMDELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Frank Wildhorn sits in the lobby of a South Florida hotel, wearing a baseball cap and flip-flops, happy to be back home by the ocean. He's remarkably unfrazzle…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:17AMThe emotional peak of the entire night was Bob Dylan's gently understated performance of “What Good Am I?” from 1989’s Oh Mercy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:08AMOn Broadway, designer Tobin Ost isn’t a perfect Victorian — Tobin Ost is not interested in being Victorian. Or at least not slavishly so. He might be designing sets and costumes …
SOURCE: TDF at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMHarry Weber creates animal statues to be unveiled at ballpark
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:00AM
MR. BROADWAY APRIL 2013TERRENCE MANNWHY HE'S MR. BROADWAY: Depending on how old you are and/or how closely you study modern Broadway history, you may know this month's Mr. Broadway,&nbs…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:56AMRoundhouse, London: If you are going to make your audience mill around for a couple of hours at a promenade circus, there'd better be something to keep them on the edge of their seats, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMWhat if there were no magic potion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? What if your best friend fell for your girl and no enchanted flower could lift the spell? That is the premise of Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:37AMThe onstage drama can’t compete with the goings-on behind the scenes. A week before the London premiere of the Peter Schaufuss Ballet’s Midnight Express, its star Sergei Polunin left the…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:26AMWhat do you get if you ask the entire cast of The Big Bang Theory – and gay hairdresser Bobby from The Only Way Is Essex – to dress up for a night out in Dalston and then punctua…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:17AMMariah MacCarthy is no stranger to women and sex. The founder of Caps Lock Theater, who is also a playwright and director, is mounting her original work Lysistrata Rape Play in a fully-stage…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:13AMThis month Emma Jane Denly speaks to Tom Penn of Little Bulb Theatre, who are currently in residence at the Battersea Arts Centre. She plays devil‘s advocate with the question of musi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05AM
Howard Brenton’s new play about Chinese artist and political prisoner Ai Weiwei will be live-streamed online, in keeping with the real-life story’s themes of freedom of speech an…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:51AMNicholas Hytner is stepping down as artistic director of the National Theatre. Who will take his place? It's a crowded field – with some surprise inclusionsThe National Theatre's artistic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMThis week we were lucky enough to be able to send a member of Filskit Theatre along to a very exciting event happening at our old Drama School. Every year Rose Bruford College holds a sympos…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:32AMJerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: As it was in the beginning, so shall it be at the end: Anthony Neilson's masterpiece, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, was part of artisti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMPlayhouse, Liverpool: Written in 1967, Peter Nichols' play still has the power to devastate. Its potency comes in part through the juxtaposition of the heightened theatricality of the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMTobacco Factory, Bristol: Good fortune continues to alight on Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Hard on news of a £121,988 Arts Council England grant, to improve the comfort of i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMClico (1857-1940) was actually Franz Taabosh, a Bushman native of what is now South Africa. Fond of, and skilled at, his native Khoisan folk dances, the four foot tall Taabosh was first pres…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:16AM
The Broadway producers of Alan Cumming’s one-man Macbeth are taking no chances with the so-called curse connected to the play, posting a sign on the front doors of the Ethel Barrymore …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AM“Who steals my purse steals trash,” says Iago in Othello. But if you doubt that Shakespeare knew the power of money — and its ability to corrupt — look no further than his Timon of A…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:56AMThe thrust of Andrew Hilton’s second Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory play of this season is simple: men are idiots. Some are more or less idiotic than others, but, in essence, none …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46AMSingleton, 22, was found dead along the subway tracks in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, in what appeared to be a tragic accident.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:33AMArts venue Jackson’s Lane has become the latest organisation ordered to be more open about its booking fees, after an investigation found that advertising for its pricing was misleading. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMBy Johnny Oleksinski “I’m a sock guy. I love socks,” says Tarell Alvin McCraney, glancing down at my feet. I’m wearing striped socks with an alternating spectrum of pinks divided by …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:30AMToday is the birthday of Rosa Richter (1862-1922), known professionally as Zazel, one of the first of the human cannonballs. Born in England, she was already an acrobat and tightrope walker …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:15AMRECOMMENDED Frank Chaves was born in Cuba, but left as a very young child, well before he could form distinct memories of his birthplace. When Chaves, founder and artistic director of River …
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:53AMBass player Rick Huxley co-founded the Dave Clark Five in 1958 and remained with them until they disbanded 12 years later. At their peak, the group had enough pop clout to knock the Beatles …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:38AMJames Brining has announced his first fully programmed season as artistic director of West Yorkshire Playhouse, headlined by a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. Brining will make…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:15AMAnthony Neilson is one of the most interesting, provocative and unpredictable playwrights around, brilliant at creating creepy atmospheres and danger in a theatre.
But his new piece, Narrat…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:03AMOlivier award-winning lighting designers Paule Constable and Neil Austin are spearheading a global campaign aimed at protecting the future of the traditional tungsten light bulb in theatre p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMJonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, getting a 20th anniversary revival, had an unforgettable first night. Tell us your favouritesThere are few more thrilling things in the theatre than hearin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Clayton Corzatte, the lauded Seattle actor who graced many local stages — often with his wife, Susan Corzatte — and who was nominated for a Tony award during his early career in New York…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:36AMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, will open tonight, April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street. The four girls sharing t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTHEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05AM"It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are." O. Henry, "The Octopus Marooned"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMBeyond the Athlete: Marcedes Lewis
We spend the day with Jacksonville Jaguar tight end Marcedes Lewis, which starts with a vigorous workout -- just because it's off-season doesn't mean the t…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Slutmonster and Friends is a bit like Sesame Street doing porn with Annie Sprinkle, but so divinely filthy and wrong that it makes Avenue Q look like Disney on Ice and leaves most artis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:39AMSalon has an important article to read if you are an artist trying to use Kickstarter to fund a project. Apparently people don’t realize the money they receive via Kickstarter is consi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:35AM In a Garden Written by Howard Korder Directed by Lou Contey A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells (m…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:34AM‘Do you believe that free will is just an illusion?” Rob Drummond asks in “Bullet Catch.” Whether you do or not, you’ll willingly suspend your disbelief watching this mesmerizing s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AMRadio drama is alive and well and playing at a theater near you.
So hopes Air Pirates Radio Theater, whose wacky on-air comedies — replete with a game audience providing sound effects — …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AMThe Boston Theater Critics Association has announced its nominations for the 31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards, which recognize excellence in Greater Boston theater, will be prese…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04AMThere is something about the gentle trangressivism of the works of Atomic Vaudeville that lends itself to great pictures. We saw it with Ride the Cyclone and with this photo for the revival …
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMA 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 12:00AMThe La MaMa world premiere of Matthew Paul Olmos' so go the ghosts of mexico, part one, the Ellen Stewart Award-winning work that is the first drama in Olmos' trilogy of plays about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRoald Dahl's beloved children's book about a precocious bookworm with magical powers comes to life in a new mischievous, visually-absorbing production Matilda The Musical, which open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRiverside Theatre concludes its current season with the audience-friendly musical comedy Grease, which runs April 11-May 4 in Vero Beach, FL, on the Stark Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Kara Manning's Sleeping Rough, directed by Tony Award nominee Sam Buntrock, officially opens Off-Broadway April 11, following previews that began April 3, at the Wi…
SOURCE: Playbill 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…
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