The fur flies on Broadway by Doree Lewak

It was Broadway’s big news last week: Vito Vincent,“actor/comedian/model,” according to his Web site, and star of Broadway show “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” fired amid rumors of diva…

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 4/13/2013

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 4132013.

Young at Heart — The Political Hearts of Children by David Allen

The Political Hearts of Children is an interesting play to find yourself observing. It exists largely in a children’s imagination, replete with heightened imagery and emotions. At first i…

‘Pride and Prejudice’ at Annapolis Shakespeare Company by Amanda Gunther by Amanda Gunther

You are cordially invited to an evening of the most splendid company there is to be had in the English countryside at Longbourn. A delightful comedy of manners unfolds upon the stage as the …

Jan van de Stool is vlogging it up for The Voice by David Allen

Well, it seems this year that The Voice Australia has birthed yet another superstar – Jan van de Stool. Known throughout Woy Woy community for her work as a musical therapist, she has gain…

Broadway Unplugged — Heat 2 — 2013 by Matt Edwards

Check out the open mic videos from Broadway Unplugged’s second heat of 2013 Watch all the videos of the performers and vote for your favourite using the form below. The performer with the …

Review: Ryan Landry's "M" by Sandy MacDonald

The comfort level afforded by a well-endowed arts institution is not always propitious. Case in point: Boston's prestigious Huntington Theatre Company extended an invitation to local playwri…

The Last Will – Abingdon Theatre by Sandi Durell

    Reviewed by JK Clarke One doesn’t often stop to consider what William Shakespeare might have been like in his daily life. What we know of him are the brilliant words of his great…

Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BEAUX’ STRATEGEM (A Noise Within in Pasadena) by Jesse David Corti

RESTORED RESTORATION Northern Irish playwright George Farqhuar died at the tender age of 30, in 1707. However, he finished writing one last play before his passing, The Beaux’ Stratagem, a…

Highlights From Alliance Theatre's Zorro Starring Adam Jacobs

Adam Jacobs stars as the masked legend Zorro in the Alliance Theatre production of the Gipsy Kings-scored Zorro: A New Musical. The Atlanta production, which began performances April 10, reu…

Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed by Debra Cash

Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.

Photo Flash: Saturday Intermission Pics, April 13 - Broadway Bids Farewell to HANDS ON A HARDBODY and More! by BroadwayWorld

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up. Today's photos feature fond farewells to HANDS ON A HARDBODY from the casts of the WICKED n…

Rita Wilson singing at 54 Below by Magda Katz

While husband Tom Hanks is in town performing on Broadway in “Lucky Man” Rita Wilson will be singing  at 54 below from April 14-20 2013.

Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review by Susannah Clapp

Royal Court, London; Royal Exchange, Manchester; Phoenix, LondonIt's a tribute to Nicholas Hytner's mighty reign at the National that the news of his standing down outshone, or outdarkened, …

20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield – review by Clare Brennan

Crucible Studio, SheffieldSixty people on a studio stage, hemmed on three sides by audience – they surge, they pulse; they shimmer like a shoal of fish changing direction, shiver into cont…

La Bayadère; Midnight Express – review by Luke Jennings

Royal Opera House; Coliseum, LondonIt's an ill wind that blows no one any good. So far, April has been marked by substitutions, injury and last-minute departures. At Covent Garden, Alina Coj…

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – review by Clare Brennan

Playhouse, LiverpoolAll creatures are mysterious. A child with the kind of brain that doesn't allow for co-ordinated movement or communicative speech or gesture is more mysterious than most.…

Los Angeles Theater Review: ROUND ROCK (Theatre Unleashed at Studio/Stage) by Jesse Herwitz

WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER ROCK Since the first ship landed, since the first boot heel dug into the earth, since the first wagon ventured west, the American frontier has stirred the word’…

Is this a new golden age for ticket touts? by Laura Barnett

Do resale websites selling seats to hit shows at grossly inflated prices pose a genuine threat to London's theatreland?It's Saturday night on Shaftesbury Avenue in London's West End. A crowd…

Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tobacco Factory, Bristol by Mark Kidel

In spite of a text that feels at times like Shakespeare by numbers, Andrew Hilton’s tightly-knit company has once again pulled off an evening of captivating theatre. As in other production…

VIDEO: Cyndi Lauper Talks KINKY BOOTS with Jay Leno! by TV News Desk

Last night, April 12, Jay Leno's guests included Adam Levine and Cyndi Lauper, with musical guest The Airborne Toxic Event. Lauper discussed her Broadway musical KINKY BOOTS, and you can che…

Danny & The Deep Blue Sea Is an Actor’s Fishing Expedition by Michael J. Roberts

When watching shows for the purposes of reviewing, one has to be careful to keep the current production as the main focus.  But as theatre is the most alive of any type of entertainment, ce…

Hall & Schreiber In New Showtime DEXTER/DONOVAN Promo by Pat Cerasaro

Stage regulars and screen stars Michael C. Hall and Liev Schreiber are prominently featured in a new Showtime promotional ad depicting the dashing leading men on their respective series, Dex…

In the Spotlight Series: HANDS ON A HARDBODY's Jon Rua by Walter McBride

The new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Check out photos of Jon Rua in the Broadwa…

Emotional ‘Morrie’ on stage

The Center for Arts in Natick will present three showings of “Tuesdays with Morrie,” a play based on Mitch Albom’s popular book that explores the relationship between Albom and his dyi…

Los Angeles Theater Review: OUR CLASS (Son of Semele at Atwater Village Theatre) by Tony Frankel

SO MANY ATROCITIES IN ONE EVENING When stories appear which elucidate the carnage during WWII, many look to heaven and ask, “Why?” But the script and execution of Our Class, about a true…

Going Postal by Sam Hurwitt

There's nothing like driving to Bolinas to see a production of Love Letters to make you question your life choices.

Theater spotlight: 'Broadway Songbook: Cole Porter' at the Ordway

Dance spotlight: Momix at the Cowles Center

At the History Theatre, Scott and Zelda and all that jazz

The Fitzgerald legend gets another treatment, this time as a jazz musical, in “This Side of Paradise” at History Theatre.

Rory Kinnear, national treasure

When Rory Kinnear was summoned by National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner back in 2007, during the run of The Man of Mode, he thought he was about to get his marching orders; inst…

Kate Bassett on Once: A song's less sweet, second time around

You can't reprise Once, can you? The title implies as much. Moreover, what rendered John Carney's original, award-winning, low-budget 2006 movie so extraordinary was that, while being at hea…

Dance review: Petrushka/The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky puts a Spring in your step

Why pay money to turn out on a wet night when you could stay in with a DVD? Because nothing compares to the liveness of live theatre, to that sense of being in the moment. Two premieres last…

‘Hands on a Hardbody’ Ends Broadway Run by Broadway's Best Shows

Hands on a Hardbody will play its final performance tonight, Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 8pm after playing 28 preview and 28 regular performances at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256…

Heads Up: War and peace, and dancing monks – the seaside beckons

What are we talking about? Michael Rosen, writer and former Children's Laureate, is guest director for this year's three-week season of theatre, music, dance and film.

Ant Hampton’s Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) by Robyn Ross

Fusebox Festival blogger Robyn Ross writes about Ant Hampton's "Cue China" currently in Austin, TX and coming to NYC May 1-5, presented by PS122 as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.

Jesse Luttrell: Bawdy by Sandi Durell

  March 30, 2013 Stage 72 Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. In 2009, Jesse Luttrell, who has played leads in Cabaret, The Rocky Horror Show and Cats, originally conceived Bawdy, a combinat…

Zoetic’s Savannah Disputation Lampoons Religious Zealotry by Bill Hirschman

“Act as if ye had faith and faith shall be given ye” goes the maxim and the performers in Zoetic Stage’s production of The Savannah Disputation seem to have taken it as their watchword…

In the Spotlight Series: HANDS ON A HARDBODY's Jacob Ming-Trent by Walter McBride

The new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Check out photos of Jacob Ming-Trent in th…

A Look Back • Chicago artists tell story of early St. Louis in fresco in 1942

Two painters won a national competition to portray Missouri's history across the walls of the new main Post Office in St. Louis.

Ryan Raftery: Black and Better than Ever by Sandi Durell

April 10, 2013 Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr.     On April 10 Ryan Raftery, clad in a tight grey suit and yellow tie, returned to the Laurie Beechman Theatre for his ninth solo show cel…

Meet Jackie Wilson! Motown's Eric LaJuan Kicks Off Special Series on the Musical's Legendary Stars by Broadway.com

Get ready, ‘cause here they come! Broadway.com is taking a deep dive into some of the musical icons who grace the stage in Motown: The Musical, which charts the life of Motown mog…

Meet Jackie Wilson! Motown's Eric LaJuan Summers Kicks Off Special Series on the Musical's Legendary Stars by Broadway.com

Get ready, ‘cause here they come! Broadway.com is taking a deep dive into some of the musical icons who grace the stage in Motown: The Musical, which charts the life of Motown mog…

Playwriting Exercise: Dead words brought back to life by Lindsay Price

Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them. As a lover of words, nothing tickles me more than seeing words that used to have a life and do no l…

Hands on a Hardbody by Broadway's Best Shows

Fuse News Film Review — “The Gatekeepers” — Full of a Sense of History by Harvey Blume

Israel has genuine enemies without, to be sure. But "The Gatekeepers" leaves the impression that it has no less mortal an enemy within.

HANDS ON A HARDBODY Gets Original Broadway Recording with Ghostlight Records; Set for June 2013 Release! by BroadwayWorld

Ghostlight Records has announced plans to preserve HANDS ON A HARDBODY with an Original Broadway Cast Recording. The album will be recorded next month and released in June 2013. The show wil…

The Sunday Conversation: Dana Delany's power play by Irene Lacher

Her character in South Coast Repertory's 'The Parisian Woman' enjoys being part of the political scene. And for her role in ABC's 'Body of Proof,' she decided to get real-life experience. Sc…

Musicals hit a deeper note as directors bring serious themes to the stage by Maggie Brown

A new wave of productions forgoes the feelgood factor and focuses instead on issues such as poverty and homelessness"Musicals can tackle anything," says Rufus Norris. As the director who set…

Music News: Despite Closing, Broadway's Hands on a Hardbody Will Record Cast Album by David Gordon

Despite closing on April 13 after 28 previews and 28 performances, the cast of Broadway's Hands on a Hardbody will head into the recording studio in May to lay down tracks for the musical's …

Photo Flash: Laura Benanti, LaChanze, Rita Wilson, Karrin Allyson Preview Upcoming 54 Below Concerts by David Gordon

Tony Award winners Laura Benanti (Gypsy) and LaChanze (The Color Purple), as well as Rita Wilson (Girls) and Grammy Award-nominated jazz singer Karrin Allyson offered previews of their upcom…

Ticket Offer: £14 tickets to see Moby-Dick at the Arcola Theatre by A Younger Theatre

From the makers of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Simple8 are back at the Arcola Theatre with their new play adapted from Herman Melville’s novel, Moby-Dick. Critically acclaimed and award…

BWW Flashback: HANDS ON A HARDBODY Leaves Broadway, Drives Into Sunset by BroadwayWorld

HANDS ON A HARDBODY will play its final performance tonight, April 13, 2013, after playing 28 preview and 28 regular performances at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. …

10 Years Ago Today: A Year with Frog and Toad by JK

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE NEW "HOT OR NOT" POLL!  CLICK THE LOGO TO YOUR RIGHT!  POLL CLOSES THURSDAY!Here's the next in a series of blogs featuring the musicals that opened 30, …

SOUND OFF World Premiere Exclusive: 'The Goodbye Song' By Joe Iconis by Pat Cerasaro

Featured on the new Ghostlight album THE JOE ICONIS ROCK AND ROLL JAMBOREE and soon to be performed full-out on NBC's musical drama series SMASH, take a listen to this BroadwayWorld World Pr…

InDepth InterView: Joe Iconis Talks ROCK AND ROLL JAMBOREE Album, 54 Below, SMASH, Upcoming Projects & More by Pat Cerasaro

Today we are talking to a uniquely gifted talent who has found a featured spotlight of late with some of his most celebrated tunes being included on NBC's musical drama series SMASH just as …

Actors Fund Benefit by Barry

                Randie Levine-Miller's Broadway Showstopper Divas--                     "A Swell Party" To Benefit The Actors Fund*Randie Lev…

Review: Goldor $ Mythyka: A Hero Is Born at curtainup.com by Jordan Teicher

Like its hero and heroine, this is an impressionable, over-excitable 20-something of a show. But what it lacks in grace, it makes up for with honest-to-goodness enthusiasm.

Colin McPhillamy Reads From His Book On Working In China by Bill Hirschman

Colin McPhillamy is currently starring as the addled and doomed King in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ acclaimed of Exit The King, but the surreal nature of Ionesco’s play reportedly pales in co…

Laumeier exhibit explores the shared history of St. Louis, New Orleans

Exhibit features works from Ken Lum, Matts Leiderstam, Robert Stackhouse and other artists.

Theater News: Vicki Lewis, Linda Purl, Davis Gaines, and More Set for Laguna Playhouse 2013-2014 Season by Bethany Rickwald

Laguna Playhouse has announced their 2013-2014 season, which will kick off with Davis Gaines (The Phantom of the Opera) and Vicki Lewis (Damn Yankees) starring in the musical I Do! I Do! fro…

The New York Pops by Sandi Durell

STEPHEN WAS CELEBRATED STEVEN WAS FANTASTIC STEPHEN WAS CONFUSED       My View   written by Stephen Sorokoff         Last night the New York Pops and its audience hono…

I Interview Playwrights Part 571: Katherine DiSavino by Adam Szymkowicz

Katy DiSavino Hometown:  Lancaster, PA – although my mother always told me I should tell everyone I’m a “child of the world.” This makes me sound a little crazy, but at least …

How It Happens: The New York Pops Rehearsal by Sandi Durell

  My View written by Stephen Sorokoff       I have always been intrigued with the process.  How does it happen?    My piano teacher was a “staff musician” at CBS.…

Getting a Kick Out of "Kinky Boots" by Jan Simpson

It may not be politically correct to say this but I’m getting tired of drag queens. Not the real people but the theatrical versions of them that keep turning up in Broadway musicals in far…

22 Days to Go! How Many Audience Choice Award Winners Have Also Won Oscars? by Broadway.com

Broadway has had its fair share of Hollywood star power, and there have been a slew of Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards winners who can also brag about winning an Academy Award. Of course…

BWW's On This Day - April 13, 2013

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 13 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Intimacies shape Sarah Ruhl's plays

Washington University performing arts department will stage comedy "In the Next Room"

'Trouble in Tahiti' opens Union Avenue Opera season

Bernstein's one-acter is paired with a Bernstein cabaret.

Boom! Vanya Standout Shalita Grant Takes Us Behind the Scenes at the Hit Broadway Comedy by Broadway.com

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike scene-stealer Shalita Grant gives us a laugh-out-loud backstage tour of the Golden Theatre complete with trash, props and co-star David Hyde Pierce.

Samuel Beckett by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), probably the twentieth century’s greatest and most influential playwright, also much admired for his essays, fiction and poetry, bo…

Review: Sunken Garden **

English National Gizmo is back. The prevailing Coliseum precept that new commissions must include cutting-edge technology has taken ENO on a Barbican Theatre awayday for what they term ̶…

Ticket Offer: 2 for 1 tickets to The Bear at Jackson’s Lane by A Younger Theatre

We love a great ticket offer and we love Jackson’s Lane so we are really pleased to be offering you 2 for 1 tickets to see their co-production with Improbable, The Bear. Presented as a…

Forgotten Shows of My Nonage #37: Don Adams’ Screen Test by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of Don Adams (Donald Yarmy, 1923-2005). It’s inevitable that I’ll write about the television perfection that was Get Smart. I just watched an episode a coup…

Ubu Roi, Cheek by Jowl, Barbican Silk Street Theatre by David Nice

Or, The Lord and Lady Macbeth of the Seizième, as imagined by a bourgeois teenager who fancies himself to be Bougrelas, heir to the Polish throne. That's one way of looking at the concept s…

Boy triplets a sensation at top Cuba ballet school

HAVANA (AP) — Visitors to the elite feeder school for Cuba's renowned National Ballet might be forgiven for thinking they're suddenly seeing triple.    

Review: Oliver! (Drury Lane Theatre) by Scotty Zacher

Your eyes and ears will thank you for every second that you enjoy this matchless production! (read more...)

Broadway's Stephen Schwartz feted for birthday

NEW YORK (AP) — How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Well, you could practice, practice, practice.    

This week's new theatre by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner

Beautiful Thing | Tranform: My Leeds, My City | Doktor Glas | Sons Without Fathers | Queen Of The Nile | Ti Sir GârBeautiful Thing, LondonIt's 20 years since Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thi…

'Oliver' wins with youth by Chris Jones

THEATER REVIEW: "Oliver" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Oliver" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½ ... Where you h…

Golden Boy's Seth Numrich Stars in Los Angeles Premiere of Slipping, Opening April 13 by Andrew Gans

New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the Los Angeles premiere of Slipping, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, which officially opens April 13 following previews that …

Kinky Boots ***1/2 by Barry

Lauper, Fierstein, Porter... Get ‘Kinky' on BroadwayAnnaleigh Ashford       By Isa Goldberg The big fat drag musical of the season, "Kinky Boots," arrives fully loaded with…

creating a/broad, April 13, 2013 by The Charlebois Post

I'm Here!by Cameryn MooreI’ve been living in Montreal a little over four months, but people are only now starting to realize that I’m here. Like, they think of course Cameryn lives here,…

Theatre For Thought, April 13, 2013 by The Charlebois Post

WHEN THEATRE IS LEFT BEHINDjoel fishbaneThe world lost Roger Ebert, Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funnicello this week, but Canada lost its own luminary with the sudden passing of actor / di…

First-Person: Director Rio Mitchell on MAP Project by The Charlebois Post

why make theatre… why make this next show?by Rio Mitchell This Fall in Montreal, we watched as MainLine Theatre pulled themselves out of a $15,000 deficit with the help of many individual …

Hands Off! Broadway's Hands on a Hardbody Rides Into the Sunset April 13; Cast Album Will Release in June by Michael Gioia and Kenneth Jones

Hands on a Hardbody, the cultural pulse-taking about a cross-section of Texans hoping to win a pickup truck in a grueling endurance competition, plays its final performance on Broadway April…

STAGE VIEWS: Kinky Boots Star Celina Carvajal by Andrew Gans

Playbill.com's series features actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they're looking forward to and more. Here, via email, we hear from singing…

Hands Off! Broadway's Hands on a Hardbody Rides Into the Sunset April 13 by Michael Gioia and Kenneth Jones

Hands on a Hardbody, the cultural pulse-taking about a cross-section of Texans hoping to win a pickup truck in a grueling endurance competition, plays its final performance on Broadway April…

Hottest Articles on BWW from Friday, Apr. 12

Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, April 12, 2013.

"Broadway Idiot," Full-Length Documentary of Billie Joe Armstrong's Road to Broadway, Will Screen at Berkeley Rep by Michael Gioia

"Broadway Idiot," a full-length documentary film following Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong as he made the journey to Broadway in the rock musical American Idiot, will scree…

Documentary Spotlight to Shine On the "Female Brando," Method Actress Kim Stanley by Amy Asch

A documentary-in-progress will return attention to Kim Stanley, a major stage, film and television actress of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

The Boys of Burlesque: Nathan Lane, Jack O'Brien and Douglas Carter Beane Dish on The Nance by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Nathan Lane explores the darker side of burlesque's laughs in The Nance, which opens on Broadway April 15.

THE SCREENING ROOM: Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Nick Blaemire Sing With Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band by Michael Gioia and Andrew Gans

Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band returned to the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below March 30. Here are highlights from the evening. 

Happiest Song, Final Chapter in Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot Trilogy," Begins April 13 by Michael Gioia and Kenneth Jones

The Happiest Song Plays Last, the final play in Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot" Trilogy, begins performances April 13 at the Goodman Theatre. Armand…

THE WEEK AHEAD, April 13-19: Motown, The Nance, Big Knife, Assembled Parties, Orphans and Jekyll Open on Broadway by Blake Ross

Playbill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Motown is "Sign, Sealed, Delivered" to Broadway… Nathan Lane and Alec Baldwin reemerge on the boards… "This is…