Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of The Big Knife, by Clifford Odets, opens tonight, April 16, at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway 227 West 42nd Street. This wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20PMTHE RASCALS ONCE UPON A DREAM will premiere on Broadway tonight, April 16th, running this spring for 15 performances only at the Richard Rodgers Theatre 226 West 46th Street. Let's see what …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17PMAccording to Deadline.com, The Weinstein Company has hired Matthew Ponsoldt to pen a film adaptation of the musical Pippin. No film version of Pippin has ever been produced.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06PMThe 2013-2014 Season at The Public Theater is shaping up to be outstanding. There are LOTS of reasons to become a member next season...THE DESIGNATED MOURNER
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SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:01PMIn 1949, when “The Big Knife” was first done on Broadway, Clifford Odets’ disenchanted Hollywood matinee idol Charlie Castle must have seemed like a tragic hero, a gifted…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMClifford Odets’s 1949 drama, “The Big Knife,” opened on Broadway in a sluggish, soulless revival starring the talented Bobby Cannavale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIt's been more than 60 years since Clifford Odets' Hollywood drama The Big Knife has seen the footlights of Broadway. A play about how the choices we made when we were younger can come back …
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They’re back, and this time it’s Gorky.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:33PMThe acclaimed motion picture, television and theater producing team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return to produce the Oscars for a second time next year, Academy President Hawk Koch a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18PMNEW YORK (AP) — The darker side of mid-20th-century Hollywood glamour found movie stars struggling to retain their identities and souls despite the iron grip of the all-powerful studio and…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:06PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The darker side of mid-20th-century Hollywood glamour found movie stars struggling to retain their identities and souls despite the iron grip of the all-powerful studio …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:04PMAccording to BroadwayWorld.com Australia’s Anthony Warlow will be starring in a staged reading of a new musical in New York City next month. Robin Hood — The Final Adventure is a brand n…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:04PMA woman is bent over the back of a couch; a man stands behind her; a sex act is about to take place. The man seems reluctant; the woman encourages him; their discussion is clearly meant to b…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:00PMBobby Cannavale, Marin Ireland and Richard Kind star in the Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' 1949 drama set against the corrupt backdrop of studio-system Hollywood.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMThe Steven Van Zandt-directed musical tells the story of 1960s hitmakers The Rascals -- with plenty of spin but sorely lacking production value.read more
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the Oscars again....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:53PMWe sat down with Beane in the historic Lyceum theater to talk about his works now playing on Broadway.
The post Douglas Carter Beane Talks About Burlesque, Gay History, and <em>Cindere…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:52PMNEW YORK (AP) — In the 40 years since The Rascals disbanded, the band's name has sort of grown a paunch. These days, it's more associated with a brand of motorized wheelchair than a pionee…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:32PMNEW YORK (AP) -- In the 40 years since The Rascals disbanded, the band's name has sort of grown a paunch. These days, it's more associated with a brand of motorized wheelchair than a pio…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:30PMThe greatest songwriters revered him. And his songs-from 'All the Things You Are' to 'The Way You Look Tonight'-remain a vital part of our cultural conversation. It is no accident that Jerom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:23PMCraig Zadan and Neil Meron have signed on to produce the Academy Awards for a second consecutive year in 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced. More to come ̷…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:12PMSuccess did not come easily to either Clifford Odets or many of the characters he created for his plays, and rarely is that made more clear than in The Big Knife.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMQuestion: When is the last time a movie star abandoned his lucrative Hollywood career because his wife asked him to? Answer: More recently than a violinist gave up his music for the chance a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMRoundabout Theatre Company adds to Broadway’s Clifford Odets renaissance with the first Main Stem revival of his 1949 drama about Hollywood, “The Big Knife.” If the show do…
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Rob Fisher has been named conductor for the July staging of the Prohibition-era musical.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:52PMBroadway veteran Harvey Fierstein is set to sit down with Bravo's Andy Cohen tonight on the network's late-night show WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE. Tune in at 11 p.m. to catch his interview
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:43PMNoPassport Theatre Alliance amp Press and The Vicious Circle announce GUN CONTROL THEATRE ACTION WEEK 2013 - a week of international performances and readings from the anthology 24 GUN CONTR…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMBrave, ingenious James Henry Trotter — of “James and the Giant Peach” fame — is larking it up with Mick Jagger, Diana Rigg and the members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Okay, th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PMAs part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations The Adelaide Festival Centre is presenting two exhibitions under the banner of the Spirit of the ‘70s. The first, Signifying Change, will revol…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:27PMThe Language Archive is easily summarized by one bit of breezy irony: A linguist can’t find the words to save his marriage.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:27PMThe soundtrack for any Baz Luhrmann film is always a cause for celebration, but THE GREAT GATSBY could well be his most significant musical contribution to film since MOULIN ROUGE judging fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21PMRoberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican baseball legend, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and died at the age of 38 in a plane crash; he was en route to Nicaragua on a humanitarian aid mission. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04PMIt was over four years ago that I was commissioned by Michael Boyd, then artistic director of the RSC, to write a play which I had vaguely pitched to him as “a costume drama set in t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMTony Winner LaChanze and Rita Wilson met the press to talk about their upcoming 54 Below gigs. LaChanze previewed jazz and Broadway show tunes from her show Love Hangover: LaChanze Sings D…
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Ben Foster, who is now starring on Broadway in Lyle Kessler’s ORPHANS with Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge, is featured in today’s Wall Street Journal. READ IT HERE
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:54PMThe Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie began its limited engagement at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, April 10 prior to an official opening April 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:53PMClare Boothe Luce's classic comedy of manners, "The Women," is reimagined in Silverlake within a contemporary lesbian milieu.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:52PMTweetI was shopping this weekend and saw the entire series for the Animaniacs on DVD and almost bought it. The Animaniacs was an awesome warner brothers cartoon show when I was a kid and o…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 06:40PMAbout a quarter of the way through Samuel H. Hunter’s Chicago premiere of The Whale, which opened last night at Victory Gardens Theater, one wants to place a call to Richard Simmons to do …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:30PMThere are so many characters to root for in "The Wanting" that you tend to read with your head swimming, and with an increasing sense of urgency as the senseless is revealed to have a logic …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:20PMLast night, international rock band Muse performed at Madison Square Garden as part of their new worldwide tour in support of the mega-successful THE 2ND LAW album and lead singer Matthew Be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMWith a Chinese censorship two-step thrusting it back into the news and a brand-new DVD release, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained might seem to be ideal fare for those seeking an evening'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:08PMThe price of used furniture is nothing but a viewpoint. Much like the conflicting viewpoints caught between two estranged brothers after sixteen years of not speaking to one another. You’l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:07PMGet a first look at Judith Light, Jessica Hecht, Jeremy Shamos and the cast of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties. See what kinds of delectable drama this Upper West Side fam…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater in Hollywood dramatizes gay high school love.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:02PMDan Dietz was born in Los Angeles County but spent most of his life in Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Florida before returning to LA to write for a TV series -- and to see his American Misfit, his…
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Tickets are now on sale for the off-Broadway play A Family For All Occasions. The drama, written by Bob Glaudini and directed by Broadway veteran Philip Seymour Hoffman, is set to start perf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMJana Robbins and Better World Productions present staged readings of ROBIN HOOD - The Final Adventure Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Peter Sipos, Lyrics by Martin Charnin on Friday, May 3rd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMVineyard Theatre continues its 30th anniversary season with the world premiere of Somewhere Fun. Written by Jenny Schwartz, the play stars Kate Mulgrew and Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant as …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:55PMOn Sunday, May 12, composerlyricist Michael Mott will present an evening of original work, sung by some of Broadway's best and brightest talents in 'Write Now The Music of Michael Mott.' In …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMAn unusual adaptation at Mustard Seed Theatre reminds us, the novel came first.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:51PMStage and screen actress Brooke Shields is set to try her hand at directing when she takes on the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical Chicago, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:49PMIn John Logan’s new Broadway solo play I’ll Eat You Last, the divine Bette Midler transforms herself into the late Hollywood super agent Sue Mengers. This titan of the 1970s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMAtlantic Theater Company has announced that Olivier and two time Tony Award winning playwright John Guare will make his Off Broadway acting debut in the world premiere production of his new …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMI wanted Creditors to be a ‘comedy with a vengeance.’ Instead, I found it to be a ‘drama without much comedy or drama.’ (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:45PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★ ... Charlie is the dy…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:42PMAustralian actor Anthony Warlow, who currently stars in the Broadway revival of Annie, will lead the upcoming staged reading of the Thomas Meehan-Martin Charnin-Peter Sipos musical Robin Hoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PMABBA songwriter and band member as well as the man behind the scores for the musicals MAMMA MIA and CHESS appeared on the UK morning show BBC ONE BREAKFAST today in honor of ABBA's 40th anni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMThe wizards of mandolin and jazz piano were in perfect sync, blending styles and breaking barriers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:40PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway John Guare to make off-Broadway acting debut in�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:31PMAn Atwater Village staging revisits the infamous 1941 Jedwabne pogrom of Jewish citizens by its Polish population.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:28PMTHE RASCALS ONCE UPON A DREAM, which will premiere on Broadway this spring for 15 performances only, is directed by Steven Van Zandt and Marc Brickman. With music byFelix Cavaliere and Eddie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23PMAtlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce that Olivier and two time Tony Award® winning playwright John Guare will make…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:14PMAlec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, who are now appearing on Broadway in Lyle Kessler's ORPHANS, spoke with The New York Times moderator Patrick Healy last night at the Times Center …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PM“As we experience the enormous pain and loss that is felt by so many victims of violence in our city’s neighborhoods and around our world every day, we renew our commitment to cr…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:12PMThe four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE is currently in previews at the Marriott Marquis Theatre, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Grammy Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMTony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan and Ben Fankhauser, original cast members of the Disney musical Newsies, are among the performers set for Write Now: The Music of Michael Mott May 12 at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PMThe exactness of Shakespeare’s compressed account is wonderful. Daffodils do come before the swallows arrive, and take their chances with the often-cruel winds of March. Violets, primr…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:04PMThis is what it's come to for NBC's Smash: The once-promising series is now doing worse than … Iyanla, Fix My Life.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:01PM Oooooooh I love this. It makes me deliriously happy. Shared Worlds (which is a interdisciplinary creative summer school of sorts for teens through Wofford College) asked writers to…
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Daniel Quadrino (Bye Bye Birdie), Andrea Ross (Whistle Down The Wind) and Lindsey Carothers (Bring It On) are among the cast of Pace University students who will take part in a one-night-onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMA new duet featuring the two tremendously talented leading ladies from NBC's musical drama series SMASH has now been released with Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee joining up on a cover of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMJackie Sibblies Drury, whose latest play is running in Providence, R.I., is a playwright of the moment for creating works that are collaborations by actors, a director and a writer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:47PMBrooke Shields has been announced as the director of the Hollywood Bowl's upcoming production of CHICAGO, which holds the record as the third longest running show in Broadway history. Rob Fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMA grieving mother, whose son has died in Iraq, turns to flag burning and spray painting in “Sleeping Rough,” by Kara Manning.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMAccording to Deadline, Langella has officially signed on to co-star in SummitLionsgate and OddLot Entertainment's upcoming film DRAFT DAY. The actor will portray the fictionaliazed owner of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMMIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) — Mike Piazza knows that some people think it's funny for a baseball player to take up ballet, but the former catcher hopes to turn whoever is jeering him now int…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:27PMTHE AVENGERS standout and stage regular Tom Hiddleston is featured in an eye-grabbing new photo layout with a particularly thespian theme for the new issue of Vogue.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMAs many of my colleagues in the blogging world, have mentioned, it doesn't make sense to write about the usual things today. I originally toyed with the idea of not writing anything at all, …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 04:25PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opened on April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street. The four girls sharing the title …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMWe're lucky to live in Austin. We're lucky to live in a community that's creative and hard working and confident and intelligent. All this new work and all these open minds. We're lucky to l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMCombine two performing veterans, two enthusiastic starlets, a clash of personalities, and a dash of Christmas spirit and the result is the stage adaption of Irving Berlin’s "White Christma…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:21PMThéâtre du Châtelet in Paris is currently offering French audiences its third Stephen Sondheim musical within the last three years: Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMThéâtre du Châtelet in Paris is currently offering French audiences its third Stephen Sondheim musical within the last three years: Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Creditors" by Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center ★★★
The setup feels a tad reminiscent of Noel Coward's "Private Lives": A formerly married couple r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:13PMLess than one year after Shakespeare in the Park's elaborate rendering of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, the McCarter Theatre Center has annou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMWe are thrilled to welcome Timothy J. Shields as the co-curator of the Financial Adaptation arc for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas. To further focus our time Jun…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:02PMStage and screen stars Kerry Washington and David Alan Grier headline the new Tyler Perry-produced comedy PEEPLES and an official poster and trailer have now been released for the family-the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMTony-winning playwright John Guare (Two Gentlemen of Verona, The House of Blue Leaves) will make his off-Broadway acting debut in his latest show 3 Kinds of Exile at the Atlantic Theater. Di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PMNEW YORK (AP) — John Guare isn't merely ready to unveil his new play — he'll also be onstage in it.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:00PM “MY VIEW” written by Stephen Sorokoff Playwright David Mamet, NYC Ballet’s Peter Martin, HBO’s Richard Plepler, Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes, Kenne…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:00PMTwo-time Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare will make his off-Broadway acting debut in the world premiere production of his new drama 3 Kinds of Exile, to begin performances at the Atl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Lonely Runner The Day After, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:59PMTony Award-winning playwright John Guare will star in the Off-Broadway world premiere of his new play Three Kinds of Exile, staged by Neil Pepe, at the Atlantic Theater Company later this sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMThe stars were all out for the opening night of Kinky Boots by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper. Hear from Joan Rivers, Glenn Close and more! \ The film-turned-musical is playing at the Al …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:48PMThe highly anticipated jukebox musical "Motown" recently had a starry opening night in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway, and book writer and music mogul Berry Gordy reunited w…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:46PMIf you like immersive theatre or read our AYT review of The Situation Room and thought it sounded great, then this is just for you…Oscar Mike, in association with Shoreditch Town Hall,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:46PMThe company of MATILDA just celebrated their opening with the Gypsy Robe ritual with the company's recipient Nadine Isenegger. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you full pho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMRecently reviewed by AYT, The Situation Room at Shoreditch Town Hall is an immersive underground adventure that throws you into the Cold War, allowing you to make the choices so that “…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:44PMTHE RASCALS ONCE UPON A DREAM, which will premiere on Broadway this spring for 15 performances only, is directed by Steven Van Zandt and Marc Brickman. With music byFelix Cavaliere and Eddie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater announced that because of rave reviews and sold-out performances, the world premiere of Buyer & Cellar, starring Broadway fave Michael Urie, will extend f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMJoe Mantello, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Ned Weeks in the 2011 Broadway production of "The Normal Heart,” has signed on for a different role in Ryan Murp…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:34PMMOTOWN: THE MUSICAL NOMINATED FOR THE 2013 BROADWAY.COM AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR FAVORITE NEW MUSICAL MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL, the new musical based on the life of iconic Motown founder Berry G…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:32PMRon Eldard is a dangerous bull in a junk shop. His performance in American Buffalo, now playing at the Geffen Playhouse, is explosive even in his quiet moments so that when he finally blows,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMStage and screen star Brooke Shields, who appeared in the Broadway and London productions of Chicago, will direct that award-winning musical this summer at the Hollywood Bowl. Rob Fisher wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance. Nathan Lane, George Chauncey, Jonny Orsini, Jack O'Brien and more chat with Playbill.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMPublic Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced the line-up today for The Public's 2013-2014 season, continuing the theater's nearly 60 year…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMThe Tribeca Film Festival has announced that they will launch a new annual award to honor the late playwright Nora Ephron, according to Variety. The award, to be called 'The Nora Ephron Priz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMThe Atlantic Theater Company announced that the Tony Award-winning playwright will make his Off Broadway acting debut in its production of his new play “3 Kinds of Exile.” &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:08PMBette Midler has received three nominations, tying for most nominations for a performer, from the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards for her performance in John Logan’s new one-woman…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:05PMNEW YORK (AP) -- John Guare isn't merely ready to unveil his new play - he'll also be onstage in it....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:00PM
Last night, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center honored Christopher Plummer at a gala event in New York City. The 13th Annual Monte Cristo Award was presented to Mr. Plummer by fellow stage an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Woman in Mind" by Eclipse Theatre Company ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Woman in Mind" by Eclipse Theatre Company ★★★ ... Gardens can be dange…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:51PMJohn Arenas and Grace Dowling in Rye High School’s “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” Photo by Carucha Meuse/The Journal News. Theater kids keep busy at Rye High Sch…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:50PMCLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, who are now appearing on Broadway in Lyle Kessler’s ORPHANS, spoke with The New York Times moderator Patr…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:49PMAcademy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey presented veteran stage and film actor Christopher Plummer with the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Monte Cristo Award April 15 in New York C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PMActress Brooke Shields this summer will make her first move from stage to director’s chair for the Hollywood Bowl’s production of “Chicago.”
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47PM Thanks to director Peter Green and the cast and crew of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” at Rye High School. Here’s a glimpse of rehearsal, through the lens …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:45PMThe Vineyard Theatre will soon prresent the world-premiere of Jenny Schwartz's SOMEWHERE FUN. Ms. Schwartz returns to The Vineyard following her critically acclaimed play GOD'S EAR in 2008. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMGoodspeed Musicals will present The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet, beginning May 9 at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, Goodspeed'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMThe Public Theater's upcoming 2013-2014 season will include a full production of the new Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical, Fun Home, the New York premiere of Wallace Shawn's new drama, Grass…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:43PMThe Irish Repertory Theatre will present a production of Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Conor McPherson's The Weir, which will run May 15-July 7 with a May 23 opening. Ciarán O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMAs someone who considers himself more spiritual than religiously affiliated, I was weary about Bill Cain’s How to Write a New Book for the Bible at Round House Theatre. The tears and laugh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMThe new musical adaptation of Sleepless in Seattle is coming to California’s Pasadena Playhouse, featuring a star-studded cast of Broadway vets! The previously announced production wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:38PM #6: Dallas Knows How to Save Money! If the food extravaganza and the rooftop pool didn’t do it for you, perhaps saving a little cash (or at least knowing the right places to spend i…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:37PMThe Public Theater has announced its 2013-14 season, which will include two new musicals, a ‘radical’ staging of Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra and the final play in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:35PMThe Pasadena Playhouse, in association with David Shor Productions, announced today the full cast and creative team for SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - THE MUSICAL. Single tickets are also currently …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMPaper Mill Playhouse presents Thoroughly Modern Millie, winner of the 2002 Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PMJoin us! The magic of Pippin has returned to Broadway in a new, circus-inspired production helmed by Diane Paulus. The revival stars Patina Miller as the mysterious Leading Player, and Matth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:19PMThe post HSMs | Running Lines at Rye’s ‘Charlie Brown’ appeared first on In the Wings.
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:18PMIn this week’s Land of Lola episode, Kinky Boots star and Audience Choice Award nominee Billy Porter brings fans behind his nightly transformation from Billy to Lola. And like both Bil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMSusan Clark, a Canadian who has amassed many stage and screen credits in LA and elsewhere, is about to perform for the first time with Latino Theater Company, in Canadian playwright Judith T…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:16PMKatie Rose Clarke will return to the Broadway production of “Wicked” later this month to again take over the role of Glinda. Rose played the role on Broadway for almost two years, but le…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:14PMAaron Tveit's sold out concerts in May at New York's 54 BELOW will be recorded and released by Broadway Records. 'The Radio In My Head Live At 54 BELOW' will be released digitally on Septemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:11PMKevin Spirtas will step into the role of Hannibal Lecter’s nemesis Dr. Chilton in the off-Broadway hit Silence! The Musical beginning May 4. He replaces current star Jeffery Kuhn.
I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:11PMActress/singer/producer Rita Wilson makes her 54 Below debut with a new show based off her first album AM/FM, and Broadway.com went behind-the-scenes to find out what fans can expect.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PMLast night, National Dance Institute NDI honored actor Mandy Patinkin for his extraordinary commitment to the arts and culture of New York City, and NDI Board Member Robert D. Krinsky in rec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMDeadline reports that Paul Sorvino has joined the cast of Elizabeth Allen's CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. The actor will join previously announced cast members Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, Graham …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05PMIndeed, for much of the latter part of his career, Colin Davis was that rarest of breeds, a conductor seemingly without ego, one who made music simply for the love of it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:04PMTis the season for pre-Tony Spring openings on Broadway. The opening nights are coming fast and furiously and the theater district street corners and watering holes are echoing with that all…
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 02:04PMLast week I reflected on Adam Thurman’s recent post about wrestling corporation WWE reinventing itself three times to adapt to changing audiences. He followed up with a post about how …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:03PMTim Martin Gleason, Chandra Lee Schwartz and Joe West will star in the world-premiere production of Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical, which will be presented by Pasadena Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMThe exclusive video features just keep coming on Broadway.com, including the latest from all-star vloggers Laura Osnes, Billy Porter and Alan Cumming, a juicy episode of The Broadway.com Sho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMThere’s a lot more reasons than simply seven to go see “Seven Brothers For Seven Brothers” at “The La Mirada Theater Of The Performing Arts” where their latest offering, a high…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:01PMThe festival will annually award its Nora Ephron Prize to "a woman writer or director with a distinctive voice who embodies the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PMSamuel H. Crothers, the Tony Award-winning producer of shows including Sweeney Todd, La Cage aux Folles, and The Will Rogers Follies, passed away at his home in Boynton Beach, FL after battl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMFun Home, the new musical by Tony Award nominees Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, will return as part of the Public Theater's 2013-14 season, which will also include the world premiere of R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMThe Tribeca Film Festival will launch an annual award, named for the late writer-director Nora Ephron, to be given to a female writer or director. The Nora Ephron Prize, which comes with a $…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM
Richard Greenberg’s new Broadway adaptation of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” will close on Sunday. After the final performance, the production will have played 38 regular performances and…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:59PMSoho Theatre, London: Although this is a rather large and long showcase featuring 40 students in 41 items it does manage to give most participants the chance to show what they can do in seve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PM “Broadway Showstopper Divas – A Swell Party,” produced by Randie Levine-Miller, raised always needed funds for a good cause on Sunday, April 14th at the Metropolitan…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:48PMNBC’s “Smash” is on the brink of cancellation. Maybe. When it was announced about a month ago that the network was moving the show from its Tuesday night timeslot to Saturday, it was l…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:47PMMcCarter Theatre Center will present Fiasco Theater’s reimaging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods May 3-June 2. Opening night is May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMThe Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati, plays a limited engagement at Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMPutnam Valley High School sophomore Dennis McNamara plays the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” Photo by Peter D. Kramer/The Journal News. The…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:42PMArtsEmerson , Boston is pleased to invite online viewers to watch a special Viewpoint Workshop led by SITI Company Member Leon Ingulsrud and that will include Emerson College students. You c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:42PM54 Below recently released tickets to newly minted fangirl favorite and Broadway veteran Aaron Tveit's upcoming debut 54 Below solo concert, and nearly the entire four-performance run sold o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties is currently in previews. Directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMTwo-time Tony winner and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominee Nathan Lane and newcomer Jonny Orsini star as an undercover couple balancing love and the dangers of gay life in 1930s New…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:38PMAaron Tveit’s string of sold-out 54 Below concerts this May will be preserved on a live solo album, recorded by Broadway Records. Tveit begins his cabaret debut on May 3 and will perfo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMThe Russian National Ballet Theatre dropped by the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas on Friday to perform a ballet double-header of classics. First they performed Chopiniana (also…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMKelli O'Hara celebrates a birtdhay April 16. Having just come off of a successful run in Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It, she will next be seen in Far From Heaven at Playwrigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMAs Kilmer gains momentum with Citizen Twain, he has plans to turn it into a film that focuses both on Twain and on Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMHEDY WEISS: Chicago Children’s Theatre and Redmoon have a reputation for devising imaginative projects that take the most sophisticated approach to entertaining kids — and “The Elephan…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:30PMCelan began a long poem in which “what’s real happens.” It was his follow-up to “Todesfuge” and moved deeper into inaccessible terrain. “Engführung”…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 01:24PMThanks to some of our awesome fans, this year’s Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards nominees have officially been announced. With a bevy of brilliant stars in the running, competition …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMRoyal Court Theatre, London: When you are faced with 36 duologues in an afternoon you really have to pack a punch to be noticed. Fortunately the graduating students of ALRA's Three-Year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PMRoss School will host the tenth annual Live Club Starlight benefit to raise funds for Ross School programs and scholarships, including the Steven J. Ross Scholarship Fund, which helps ensure…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMNice of director Gerry Micera, production manager Susi Cummings and the cast and crew of ‘Phantom’ to have us at rehearsal last night. Here’s my Running Lines video.The pos…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:08PMDouglas Carter Beane's new play The Nance, directed by Jack O'Brien, opened last night, April 15 at The Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street. This production features Jenni Barber, Andrea Bur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMFortune Theatre, London: This impeccably directed, rather enchanting showcase opens with a compelling musical number devised and nicely performed by Oliver Grant, Michael Fox and Steve McCou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMCOMPRESSED CRUELTY IN A SMALL STRINDBERG SHOCKER August Strindberg, the “father of modern psychological drama,” told his publisher that Creditors, a drama that he prized as much as he di…
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Rita Wilson was in town to play a gig at 54 Below, her debut there actually, and also to catch a Broadway show...something about a certain newspaper, called "Lucky Guy."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:59PMThe world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Manhattan-set family drama The Assembled Parties is now playing on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The play, set in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMHEDY WEISS: Chicago Children’s Theatre and Redmoon have a reputation for devising imaginative projects that take the most sophisticated approach to entertaining kids — and “The Elephan…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:45PMThe Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin dares audiences to enter the tent of a new circus-inspired staging, conceived by Tony Award-nominated director Diane Paulus and circus artist G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!” — Carl Sagan As a Texas raised African American female playwright born to a working class military family, I think about d…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:33PMCan a play have a halo? “How to Write a New Book for the Bible” arrives at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre with an almost holy glow: It’s the deeply autobiographical account of a Jesu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:30PMThe Gallery Players, Brooklyn's award-winning Off Off-Broadway theatre, will continue its 46th season with Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger's Dreamgirls, beginning April 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMShoreditch Town Hall, London"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy," declared the late 18th-century US president, John Ada…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThe logic here is, as long as it isn't happening to Mel Brooks, it's funny.
SOURCE: PBS at 12:24PM"I'm fifteen! I never did this before! I'm not an actor!" That's a Mel Brooks ad-lib from his first stage appearance. The crowd loved it. The director did not.
SOURCE: PBS at 12:23PMWant a guest spot to perform in the off-Broadway hit OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES? Tell us your funniest joke and your career to win the chance. OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES found some of New York’s …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:22PMTelly Leung, the Broadway actor seen in the world premiere of the new musical Allegiance, will make his U.K. concert debut this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMLaura Benanti, LaChanze, Rita Wilson and Karrin Allyson and more will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming months. They offered a preview the morning of April 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PMHarriet Thorpe will reprise her role as Madame Morrible in Wicked from April 22 to November 16. She replaces Louise Plowright, who has withdrawn from the role due to ill health. A spokespers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMBroadway Records has announced plans to record "The Radio In My Head," a live solo album based on Aaron Tveit's sold-out 54 Below concerts this May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMRita Wilson makes her debut at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below beginning April 14 at 9:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMWant 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 send it to us …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMANNIE has received six nominations for the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, tying for the highest number of nominations among this year’s musical revivals. Along with a nomination…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:06PMThe New Jersey bred band from the 1960s takes the stage on Broadway for 15 performances only when The Rascals begins a limited engagement run tonight with their new production, “The Ra…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:01PMRockwell: Table & Stage is hosting a live performance by funny lady Missi Pyle for ONE NIGHT ONLY, Monday April 22 @ 8pm. Hollywood actress Missi Pyle returns to LA’s Rockwell: Table …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMBroadway’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 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 492013 - 4162013.
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Norman Collier was a leading light in the generation of comics who learnt their trade on the often gruelling Northern club circuit and later found fame on television in the 1970s. More famil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s new Broadway production of Clifford Odets‘ The Big Knife directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, featuring Rachel Brosnahan, Bobby Cannavale, Marin Ir…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:52AM(BY DOUG GEORGE) Second City is headed back to the opera in June; a performance this weekend at the UP Comedy Club will preview what's to come. "Improv & Arias: A Sneak Peek," from Second Ci…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:52AMPIPPIN star, Matthew James Thomas, greets fans at the stage door after the first preview performance. Royal heir Pippin is spurred on by a mysterious group of performers to embark on a death…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:41AMOn April 8th, producer Marty Richards' feast of friends and loved ones gathered in celebration of his extremely accomplished life at The Edison Ballroom 240 West 47th Street where they were …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMRoger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedy Pippin is currently in previews at the Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street. This all new production is directed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMBeginning performances on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Katie Rose Clarke will return to the role of Glinda in the Broadway company of Wicked. Ms. Clarke last played the role of Glinda on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:36AMAndrew Kober, who appeared on Broadway in Hair, will host Carner & Gregor's Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza, which will return to NYC Aug. 5 at (le) Poisson Rouge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMThe Nance, the new play by Douglas Carter Beane (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella), opened April 15 at the Lyceum Theatre. Set in 1937 New York, the Lincoln Center Theater production s…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:30AMIt appears that NBC's gallant attempt to put on a successful musical drama series is destined for failure. Is it too late for writers and producers to give SMASH one last chance
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMLife on the road was a hard-knock life for Dorothy Loudon, who spent much of the sixties traveling to far flung locations all over North America to perform in her cabaret act and, later, in …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:26AMSilence! The Musical, which recently resumed performances Off-Broadway at the Elektra Theatre, will welcome Kevin Spirtas to the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s nemesis, Dr. Chilton, beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMThe four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE is currently in previews at the Marriott Marquis Theatre, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Grammy Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMLate 1930's New York and the twilight of the burlesque era come to life in Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance, a new dark comedy starring Nathan Lane as a gay entertainer with everythi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMEmmy winner and Tony Award and Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin, SAG and Emmy Award winner Ben Foster and London Newcomer of the Year nominee Tom Sturridge visited the TheTimesCenter on yesterday,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMAlan Cumming says he has no truck with theatrical superstition – but his producers are taking no chancesThere's an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer and the family visit London. Walki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMBarbra Streisand, recipient of the Film Society's annual Chaplin Award, is answering select reader questions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:01AMIt seems senseless to write about producing drama today, when a real life drama with real life tragedies is happening just a few hundred miles from here, in my home state of Massachusetts. S…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMCall Me Adam sat down with Steven Reineke, Musical Director/Conductor of The New York Pops to talk about The New York Pops 30th Anniversary Gala on Monday, April 29 at 7pm featuring Megan Hi…
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Point Foundation Point, the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer LGBTQ students of merit, honored Nigel Barker and The Estee L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMBroadway vet Sasha Allen kicked off the battle rounds on the fourth season of The Voice, and the Hair alum definitely delivered on her powerful rendition of P!nk’s “Try.” B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMTheatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, and Blue Star Families, a national non-profit for military families, are pleased to announce that 85 theatres in 33…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:53AMThe Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street presents Douglas Carter Beane's new play The Nance directed by Jack O'Brien, which opened last night, April 15. This production features Jenni Barber,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George is playing its Paris premiere through April 25 at the Théâtre du C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMNancy Dell'Olio's forthcoming bio-play at the Arts Theatre has been cancelled in mysterious circumstances. In The Powder Room was due to premiere in June with a six-week run and had been bil…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMAs music legends watched their stories take the stage at Motown: The Musical, Valisia LeKae, Brandon Victor Dixon and the rest of the cast dished about the backstage buzz before their big op…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMDouglas Carter Beane wrote a play, “The Nance,” about burlesque that opened April 15 on Broadway. Did he realize that the only character who completely strips to get naked is the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:50AMHarriet Thorpe will return to the West End production of Wicked as Madame Morrible, succeeding current star Louise Plowright. Due to illness, Plowright had to withdraw from the role. Thorpe …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMThis is the moment… for Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson to tackle the bloody musical drama Jekyll & Hyde! The first-ever Broadway revival of the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMBoggess recently chatted with BroadwayWorld about the upcoming concert, her biggest influences, upcoming projects, and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMWriting a daily blog is much harder than it appears (I have no clue how Ken has managed to come up with new and fresh ideas for so many years…truly amazing)! Over the past few days, …
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMRadio France has announced plans to broadcast a live performance of the Théâtre du Châtelet production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMA woman prays amid the carnage on Boylston Street.For Boston yesterday, it was like 9/11 all over again. Shock. Horror. Disbelief. That sickening sense of encountering naked huma…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:44AMNational Asian Artists Project will present a Rediscover Series production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hello, Dolly! for two performances only on April 29 and May 6 at The Pershing Squ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMA new block of tickets is now on sale for the Off-Broadway musical F#%king Up Everything — a winner at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival — which recently opened at the E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMJust 60 for Roundabout's 'dazzling' Talley's Folly, a grown-up love story. Buy tickets today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMBroadway is about to get some good lovin’ thanks to the hit-making '60s group The Rascals. Their new show, The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, opens on Broadway on April 16 at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AMIt’s opening night for the first-ever Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife, the showbiz drama starring Bobby Cannavale that raises its curtain on April 16 at the Ame…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:28AMLaurie Veldheer plays the title role in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:25AMWatermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury: The Miser is the first production at the Watermill under the auspices of Freewheel, the theatre's initiative to support emerging young artists, mento…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMGet 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 mogul Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMEach 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 10:18AMThe BBC Two series "The Many Faces of…" will trace the career of Tony Award-winning Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford April 20 on the U.K. network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMRemember to mark this new musical on your calendar! The Memory Show, starring Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox, begins performances on April 16. Directed by Joe Calarco, featuring music by Z…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:06AMThe spring season is in full swing as two musical behemoths, Matilda and Motown, officially opened on Broadway. Both are making a strong showing at the box office, with Matilda pulling in $7…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMBroadway producer Sam Crothers died April 13 in his Boynton Beach, FL, home after a year-long battle with lymphoma. He was 75.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMAt Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre In ChestertDanny Rutigliano (Broadway's "The Lion King," the national tour of "How to Succeed in Business...") will be featured in the cast of the new m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:04AM“The Nance,” a new play that deals in sexual identity on and offstage, opened Monday at the Lyceum Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:03AMTop litigators include Lawrence Iser, Mark Holscher, Christopher Landau, Neville L. Johnson, Neville L. Johnson, Neville L. Johnson, Glenn D. Pomerantz, Daniel A. Rozansky, Robert M. Schwart…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMInhouse attorneys in the spotlight include Wayne M. Smith, Patrick T. Perkins, David Sussman, Jim Meenaghan, Richard B. Levy, Rosalind Lawton, Paul Iannicelli, John Fukunaga, Brian Burkin, M…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM If you thought Matt DeAngelis was the last Idiot we were going to have doing a vlog for us, you’ve got another thing coming! They’re still out on tour and this time weR…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM By Camille Ring We’ve all been through a certain awkward stage in our lives. It’s a part of growing up. I, personally, have had many awkward stages in my life. But I had a certain pha…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMThe actor sings the number “Come Rain or Come Shine” in a scene from the play about the Stonewall uprising.
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Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of The Big Knife, by Clifford Odets, begins previews tonight, Friday, March 22nd at 800PM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AM“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” –Leonard Bernstein It’s already starting. The G…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AM“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that,” a quote by Martin Luther King Jr., was one of the many sayings projected onto the wall of the Brooklyn Academy of Mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMUnited Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, has announced the nominees for its uAward, which recognizes those with outstanding achievements in popularizing the form of solo p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMColorado Springs' TheatreWorks has announced the productions planned for its 2013-2014 season, which will include several classics by some of history's best-loved playwrights. Shakespeare's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMGoodspeed Musicals kicks off its 50th Anniversary Season with a new production of the classic musical Good News. This high spirited musical comedy will run from April 12 - June 22 at the Goo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMToday is the birthday of the heavenly Dusty Springfield (1939-1999). I have nothing to say about her but that just watching this clip and listening to the tune (which she admittedly only lip…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:51AMBerkshire Theatre Group Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire has announced three new additions to the company's 85th summer season. On the heels of a successful children's production of O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMAbout the author:
Mark Brokaw has guided the New York premieres of plays by America’s best contemporary writers, including the original staging of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize win…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:47AMLabyrinth Theater Company's board of directors has announced that Mimi O'Donnell will take over as the company's artistic director beginning with the 2013-14 season. O'Donnell has served as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMStephen Schwartz’s 65th Birthday Celebration with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. (photo: Richard Termine) While most teen boys probably want to sneak a six-pack and get drunk behi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:44AMFor the current production of Bill Cain’s deeply personal How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Ryan Rilette, producing artistic director at Round House Theatre, has moved to the directo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMAyad Akhtar's debut play, which tackles racism, Islamophobia and sexism, receives prestigious new-writing awardAyad Akhtar's play Disgraced, which will receive its UK premiere at the Bush th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMToday is the birthday of the Polish Prince, Mr. Bobby Vinton (b. 1935). In the clip below Clive Davis calls Vinton a performer in the “vaudevillian” tradition, which is true, alt…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AMHe’s one of Broadway’s brightest and funniest stars, and when he isn’t on stage making us laugh, he’s cracking jokes with his co-star—even in the middle of acce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:33AMGuthrie director Joe Dowling has announced the 12 mainstage productions for the theatre’s 2013-14 season. The 51st season will include first-time Guthrie productions of playwrights Bet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMHere is Part 4 and our final interview of our behind-the-scenes look at Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s Pride and Prejudice. Meet Artistic Director and Director Sally Boyett-D’A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture all of the excitement of THE NANCE's opening night, scroll down for photos from the red carpet below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMAussieTheatre is excited to have 4 Double Passes to giveaway to Mockingbird Theatre’s How I Learned To Drive by Paula Vogel and directed by Chris Baldock. The tickets are for opening night…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:29AMThe creation of a new theater on the site of the Coconut Grove Playhouse came one step closer at midnight Monday when the state’s lease application process closed with only one party expre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:26AMToday is the birthday of the original Mademoiselle Fifi. For my full bio on this interesting chanteuse go here. And here she is in a clip from The Girl from Calgary (1932): For more come…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:21AMMichelle Terry will return to Shakespeare's Globe this summer to play Titania alongside John Light as Oberon in Dominic Dromgoole's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs from 2…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:20AM8 Plays Named To Be Developed At O'Neill Theater CenterTwo leading playwrights will be among the 8 eight whose new works will be developed at the National Playwrights Conference in July at…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:17AMAi Weiwei appears to be standing in front of a London theatre, which would be some trick, even for the provocative and unpredictable Chinese artist.
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:15AMHubba hubba! Snarl, snarl! Today is the birthday of of Edie Adams (1927-2008). With her birthday falling on the same day as Christine McIntyre’s, today we are essentially a porn site f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:11AMThe Broadway production of Douglas Carter Beane's new drama, The Nance, celebrated its opening night on Monday, April 15 at the Lyceum Theatre. Following t
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:08AMDouglas Carter Beane's The Nance, a new dark comedy starring Tony Award winner Nathan Lane as an embattled gay entertainer during the dwindling days of New York City's burlesque era,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMTransactional attorneys include Harry “Skip” Brittenham, P. John Burke, Stan Coleman, George Cooke, Jay L. Cooper, Jacqueline Eckhouse, Craig Emanuel, Matt Galsor, Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, J…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM
A look at the top on-demand streaming music libraries “Could it be? Yes it could. / Something’s coming, something good.” So Mr. Sondheim wrote over half a century ago.The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMOn last night's THE VOICE on NBC, Broadway vet Sasha Allen faced Amber Carrington in a spirited battle round as they sang a dueling duet of Pink's hit song 'Try.' Check out the performance b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55AMThe first thing I tried to come up with was “To whom am I singing this?”
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:54AMA human moment at last (photo by Joan Marcus)
It’s hard to wear a smile and a sneer at the same time, but Matilda the Musical sure does try. This new British import is both day-glo bright…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:50AMTRANSFORMERS 4 director Michael Bay announced at last night's CinemaCon in Las Vegas that Stanley Tucci has signed on to the cast of the upcoming sequel.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:34AMFull casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of David Mamet's Race, beginning performances at London's Hampstead Theatre May 23 prior to an official opening May 29, for a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:24AMA collection of "The Nance" reviews and news from around the internet.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:22AMLet dreamers dream what worlds they please; Those Edens can't be found. The sweetest flowers, the fairest trees Are grown in solid ground. We're neither pure nor wise nor good; We'll do the …
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 08:20AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMWorks by Samuel D.Hunter, Bekah Brunstetter and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof playwright David Auburn are among the eight plays that will be nurtured as part of the Eugene O'Neill Theater…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM
LONDON — Audiences around the world will be able to access London’s West End legit productions at movie theaters after event cinema producer and distrib CinemaLive struck a deal with…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:59AMINTERVIEW: IAN TALBOT The director talks to Aleks Sierz about his production of Dermot Canavan’s two-hander Third Finger, Left Hand (Trafalgar Studios), which stars Imogen Stubbs and Amand…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:31AMI'll be posting a April's Musical of the Month later this week, but before I do, I wanted to share the results of a little experiment.
I recently discovered a new music streaming subscriptio…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18AMathan Lane allows us to see into the heart-breaking core of a disconsolate man who is compelled to endure the slings and arrows of an unforgiving society, .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:16AMBorn into unimaginable poverty and obscurity, by his mid-twenties Charlie Chaplin was one of the richest and most famous men in the world. One of capitalism’s great success stories, he was…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:15AMToday is the birthday of the head-turning Christine McIntyre (1911-1984). Trained as an opera singer, her film career began in 1937, for the next seven years appearing in RKO musicals and B-…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06AMDigital Theatre, the U.K. company that partners with British theatre companies to capture live performances on screen in High Definition from multiple camera angles, has joined forces with C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:02AMASIAN VOICES: GOLDY NOTAY The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about her latest role for Kali theatre company, Parveen the ambitious Muslim lawyer in Jabine Chaudri’s My Daughter’s Trial (Br…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:00AMThe work of playwright Clifford Odets officially returns to the Broadway stage tonight with Roundabout Theatre Company's opening of The Big Knife at the American Airlines Theatre. Tony Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM
Taras Pozdnyakov has an uncompromising vision of a progressive circus that values creativity over commerce - an outlook that has resulted in some of the most electrifying and innovative acts…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMJane Fonda was in the audience Sunday at a preview of “I’ll Eat You Last,” and got to hear a dig at her expense in the Bette Midler Broadway show about agent Sue Mengers.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:53AMHarriet Thorpe is returning to the role of Madame Morrible in Wicked from 22 April 2013.
Thorpe, who previously played the role at the Apollo Victoria for two years from April 2008, replace…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:49AMHarriet Thorpe will return to the West End's Wicked to play Madame Morrible, beginning performances April 22 for a run through Nov. 16. She replaces Louise Plowright, who has withdrawn f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49AMThe galloping success of "Once" is set to continue in a London production whose quietest moments are its most piercing, and "Narrative'' takes getting used to but rewards the audience in the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:46AMLet’s be clear about this; we’re only back for Plácido.
Nothing has changed in Daniele Abbado’s indifferently received staging of
Verdi’s Nabucco save the tena…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:31AMPaul, Inez and Trinidad Rodriguez were a trio of midget siblings from Spain (they also had twelve normal sized brothers and sisters). Paul, the smallest, was 19″ in adulthood. Carmen, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:20AMAlmeida cast members past and present helped celebrate Michael Attenborough's 11 years as artistic director of the Islington theatre on Saturday (13 April 2013).
Michael Attenborough
Stephe…
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LONDON — Ai Weiwei appears to be standing in front of a London theater, which would be some trick, even for the provocative and unpredictable Chinese artist.The sculptor, photographer and…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 05:54AMHaworth Tompkins' bright red timber auditorium learns from the nimble speed and agility of theatre production itselfA startling red box has landed on the South Bank, nestled near the Nationa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AMThe play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar has been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year’s Pulitzer winners were announced on the afternoon of April 15 at New York City’s …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMThe 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama has been awarded to American actor/writer Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, which receives its UK premiere at the Bush Theatre next month.
The play, which premiered…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:13AMBy Zach Freeman As a twenty-six-year old graduate student studying Shakespeare at Berkeley and working on her dissertation, a frustrated Young Jean Lee, fed up with academia, went to a thera…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMExamining the lives of serving and ex-servicemen, Second Shot Productions developed Glory Dazed in collaboration with HMP Doncaster to reveal the difficulties of readjusting to normal life. …
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An elephant could no doubt fit in the Kimmel Center's rooftop Hamilton Garden, and the Kimmel's lobby expanse well suits the carnivalesque staging of The Trial of Murderous Mary.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMGhostlight Records has announced the digital release of THE JOE ICONIS ROCK AND ROLL JAMBOREE today, April 16, 2013. The new album is a collection of songs performed by Joe and his merry ban…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMSarah Brightman's new album 'Dreamchaser' will be released worldwide today, April 16. The track list for iTunes Deluxe Edition is below
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 createdhosted by Ben Cameron Wicked, Aida, Foot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThis deeply satisfying production hits all the themes and storylines of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic musical.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:28AMThe talented cast of can't redeem a lackluster script and its undeveloped themes.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:23AMSo many shows are opening on Broadway this week and next that The Wall Street Journal has given me extra...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Everyone is more or less mad on one point." Rudyard Kipling, "On the Strength of a Likeness"...
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Ancient Rome doesn’t seem quite the same in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new “Julius Caesar”: Reset in modern-day Africa, with an all-black cast, it opens with much of the ensembl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMIf your public personality is the same as your personal one, you can safely be yourself, right?
Not so for Nathan Lane’s character in Broadway’s “The Nance.”
His Chauncey Miles, a bu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AMReview Roundupby Valerie Cardinal@vscardinalSome people may tell you that theatre is a dying art, and that no one goes to see that stuff these days. I say they can be proved wrong by the she…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMIn June jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and producer Cassandra Wilson is returning to Australia to perform at The Melbourne International Jazz Festival, The Adelaide Cabaret Fe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:02AMThe Jaded Amongst UsHave we become cynical (old)?by Gaëtan L. CharleboisWhen Les Misérables hit the cinemas Christmas Day, among theatrephiles it had the effect of an atom bomb. Facebook a…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMLesli Margherita, making her Broadway debut as Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda The Musical, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA new play a Pulitzer winner and another by a fast-rising up-and-comer are among the brewing legit works tapped for development as part of the 2013 National Playwrights Conference at the Eug…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, April 15, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati, opens in a limited engagement at Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBobby Cannavale, C.J. Wilson, Marin Ireland, Chip Zien, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more star in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The Big Knife, officially open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning set designer Derek McLane's 30th Broadway production, Breakfast at Tiffany's, transports audiences into the smoky haze of 1940s New York City. McLane shared insigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTransport Group presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Memory Show beginning April 16 at The Duke on 42nd Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSinger Sarah Brightman, who created the role of Christine in the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera, releases her 11th studio album, "Dreamchaser," April 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEpic Theatre Ensemble presents Richard III: Born With Teeth, a contemporary take on William Shakespeare's Richard III, beginning April 16, prior to an official opening April 21, at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree," a collection of songs performed by musical theatre songwriter Joe Iconis ("Smash") and his "merry band of musical theatre mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe high-flying Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark celebrates tax season with a special post-tax-day ticket giveaway for certified public accountants for the 7:30 PM perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Roundabout revival of The Big Knife opens April 16 at the American Airlines Theatre. The Playbill Vault looks back on the play's Broadway premiere in 1949.
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