Of the two love stories that unfolded at “David et Jonathas” Wednesday night, it’s hard to say which was more moving: biblical hero David’s affection for his childhood friend — or …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:52PMHastings High School senior Emily Romano signed one of the paper-shrouded columns in the school’s lobby to honor music teacher Dan Kerness, who died on Wednesday. She and a friend wrot…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:24PM"The question that lingers after the swift little dream of Orphans passes is: What just happened? What was that about?"-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:18PMThe climax of “Jekyll & Hyde — The Musical” is the infamous “Confrontation” scene, the peak of the evening-long battle between good Dr. Henry Jekyll and evil Edward Hyde.
The tric…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PMConsidering its agitated gestation, it’s amazing how smooth “Orphans” is. During rehearsals, actor Shia LaBeouf had well-publicized — by himself — arguments with co-star Alec Baldw…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PM‘mamma Mia!” is on the move.
After 12 years and 5,000 performances, “Mamma Mia!” is decamping from the Winter Garden to the Broadhurst in the fall.
The move is a tacit acknowledgment…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:07PMIt’s a show about duality, so Frank Wildhorn’s dark and stormy pop-rock musical “Jekyll & Hyde” deserves two interpretations.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMArtistically, there’s no really good reason to revive Jekyll & Hyde. This 1997 tuner is a shoddily plotted, musically bombastic retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel about …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:00PMAfter seven seasons on “30 Rock” as TV exec Jack Donaghy, a controlling blowhard with parent issues, Alec Baldwin returns to Broadway in “Orphans.” He plays aging crook Harold, a con…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMBefore there was George and Martha, there was Edgar and Alice. The central couple in August Strindberg's play The Dance of Death, hilariously adapted by Mike Poulton at the Lucille Lortel Th…
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After a thrilling night of the top 5 girls, tonight we said goodbye to another contestant. To kick of the show, the ladies performed a medley of Donna Summer hits. Based on that performance …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54PMNEW YORK (AP) — "The Dance of Death," a searing, dark comedy about a bitterly hateful married couple, was written by August Strindberg in 1900. An edgy, sometimes harrowing new adaptation …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:51PMAfter all the hoo-hah about the backstage battles that had Alec Baldwin climbing onto his high horse and Shia LaBeouf crawling off the field, you'd have expected this "Orphans" revival to be…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49PMBobby Cannavale has charisma to spare, which proves to be a good thing since he’s on stage practically every minute of Doug Hughes’ lavish yet leaden revival of Clifford Odets’ melodra…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:44PMThe opening images of the revival of Orphans, which just opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld, are all about animals.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:31PMLyle Kessler's "Orphans," starring Alec Baldwin, has finally made it to Broadway after being mounted by just about every regional theater in America. And while it's far from perfect, it's st…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:03PMGood people of New York, be warned: The execrable 1990s musical Jekyll & Hyde has returned to Broadway for what we’ve been promised will be a limited run. Any performance of Frank Wildhorn…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:02PMDespite its violence, “Orphans,” a revival of Lyle Kessler’s 1985 play starring Alec Baldwin, Tom Sturridge and Ben Foster, has a soft touch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe perils of star casting on Broadway have been constant fodder for gossip mills in the past several years, most recently with director Daniel Sullivan's seemingly ill-fated decision to cho…
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Playwright Douglas Carter Beane spent eight years researching groan-worthy zingers for Nathan Lane's character in "The Nance." Five of his favorites.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:30PMA collection of "Orphans" reviews and news from around the internet.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:22PMBroadway and Hollywood mainstay Jason Alexander stars in one of a series of new public service announcements crafted by hotshot director Brett Ratner for GLAAD's 'Come Out For Equality' camp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17PMThe four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE will open its Broadway engagement tonight, April 18, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Grammy Award n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12PMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, opens tonight, April 18, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12PMMe: The return of Frank Wildhorn’s “Jekyll and Hyde” to Broadway, not a cause for celebration in my household, conjures up a vivid memory of the original Broadway production, when Robe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMFrank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMAlec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge cause sparks to fly in Daniel Sullivan's electrifying Broadway production of the Lyle Kessler play.read more
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Stage and screen star Michael C. Hall has made a major mark on the entertainment realm with his nearly decade-long reign as America's most beloved fictional serial killer sorry Hannibal as a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56PMCreatorProducer Judy Craymer has announced that MAMMA MIA, the global smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, will transfer from the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst Theatre in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54PMYou can’t live in a principle. It’s well and good in theory, but at the end of the day, it comes down to the reality of existence and how despite the passage of time some things never ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:52PMAlec Baldwin returns to Broadway in a new production of the 1983 play "Orphans."
SOURCE: NY1 at 08:51PMTalk about being an over-achiever. True, this might be the very last term playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes would use to describe herself, yet the evidence suggests it could not be more accura…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:50PMNew production photos have emerged of stage and screen stars Dame Diana Rigg and Emilia Clarke from upcoming episodes of HBO's tentpole epic fantasy series GAME OF THRONES.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45PMGolden Globe-winning screen star Colin Farrell is joining recent Broadway headliner and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain in Liv Ullmann's new screen adaptation of August Strindberg's MISS JULI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27PMWendy Beckett (Playwright) has written more than 25 plays and directed more than 40. She has also written biographies, books, librettos, radio plays for the Australian Broadcasting Corp…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:20PMThe short-cropped hairdo that topped Anne Hathaway's head as she made her way to Academy Award glory as put-upon prostitute Fantine in the mega-successful stage to screen transfer of LES MIS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:17PM“First of all, forget about the Thirty Years’ War,” the conflict-hardened and battle-weary Gen. Albrecht Wallenstein advises an audience in the first seconds of Shakespeare Theatre Com…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:14PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Tamsin Carroll will play 'Charity Barnum' alongside Broadway's Christopher Fitzgerald as 'P. T. Barnum' in BARNUM at the Chichester Festival Theatre from July 15…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13PMBette Midler stars in Tony Award winner John Logan's new play, I'll Eat You Last A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, in a strictly limited 89 perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:11PMGlengarry Glen Ross won a Pulitzer, a Tony (for actor Joe Mantegna), and the ultimate prize in our Hollywood-driven culture: a film. The play is sort of an economic parable with a twist, a c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:08PMNEW YORK (AP) — The Broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" will be dancing to a slightly smaller theater in Times Square later this year.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:05PMAudra McDonald, Patti LuPone, and Chita Rivera are among a bevy of Tony Award-winning musical theater stars slated to take the stage this summer at the Art House in Provincetown. In its thir…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:05PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" will be dancing to a slightly smaller theater in Times Square later this year....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:04PMThe long-running ABBA musical Mamma Mia! is packing up its bags and moving to the Broadhurst Theatre! After 12 years and nearly 5,000 performances on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:03PMIn the much-publicized fracas over “Orphans,” when Shia LaBeouf was fired after clashing with co-star Alec Baldwin and replaced by Ben Foster, the one actor in the cast barely mentioned …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMLongrunning Broadway tuner “Mamma Mia!” will shift from the Winter Garden Theater, its home of the last 12 years, to the Broadhurst Theater later this year. At 1,182 seats, the B…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMThe hit Broadway musical “Mamma Mia!” will transfer from the Winter Garden Theater to the Broadhurst Theater six blocks south this year so the Shubert Organization — which owns both th…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMThe long-running, international hit musical Mamma Mia!, which is currently celebrating 12 years on Broadway, will transfer from the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst Theatre, presently…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PMThe long-running Broadway hit Mamma Mia! will pack its bags and move from the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst later this year, producer Judy Craymer has announced. The move is expect…
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According to the Daily Mail, Lorraine McIntosh and Ewan Stewart will participate in the stage version of Tomas Alfredson's film Let the Right One In, directed John Tiffany Once at Dundee Rep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical STEPHEN WARD is still searching for a West End venue, with hopes to begin rehearsals in October in time for November previews. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:41PMNEW YORK (AP) — There is a moment in Andreas Homoki's staging of "David et Jonathas," where Jonathas sings of his world closing in around him.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:39PMNEW YORK (AP) — Yes, it is bombastic and overwrought. It's true that there's enough smoke to make three Whitesnake videos. OK, it sometimes makes "The Phantom of the Opera" seem small and …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:39PMNEW YORK (AP) — Lyle Kessler's play "The Orphans" is apparently the kind of thing movie stars fight to be in. But it's not always clear why we have to fight to get a ticket. &nb…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:39PMBroadway.com’s Word of Mouth panelists Brad, Elissa and Jane caught the new revival of the cult hit musical Jekyll & Hyde, starring Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox. So what&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:36PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Yes, it is bombastic and overwrought. It's true that there's enough smoke to make three Whitesnake videos. OK, it sometimes makes "The Phantom of the Opera" seem small a…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:34PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Lyle Kessler's play "The Orphans" is apparently the kind of thing movie stars fight to be in. But it's not always clear why we have to fight to get a ticket....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:33PM1. Amanda Seyfried told Allure that if the Mean Girls musical happens, "I desperately want to be Regina." We told ourselves that if this musical doesn't happen, we're going to fall int…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 07:32PMWhen I saw the original Off-Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s “Orphans” back in 1985, I found the play to be a tiresome mix of pilfered Pinter and stolen Shepard, notab…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30PMThose who have long found the Frank Wildhorn–Leslie Bricusse musical Jekyll & Hyde incomprehensible will not have their minds changed by the bewildering new revival of it that just opened …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMBette Midler stars in Tony Award winner John Logan's new play, I'll Eat You Last A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, in a strictly limited 89 perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:09PMKatselas Theatre Company becomes Skylight Theatre Company...La Mirada's next season includes a second Onstage production, Floyd Collins...Cristal Gonzalez discusses her trilingual assignment…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:07PMScandi thrillers have a lot to answer for. Ever since the small-screen success of the Swedish Wallander series, based on the books by Henning Mankell, there has been a host of other must-see…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMIn August, John Frost’s new production of Grease will premiere in Brisbane. With 35 years since the film was released, and alongside the die-hard fans, there is a new generation waiting fo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThe bill for stage smoke must be a big one over at the Marquis Theatre. The stuff billows forth in unrelenting profusion during director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun’s expressionistic, w…
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Rosie's Theater Kids RTKids will present Passing It On An Evening of Mentorshipto Benefit Rosie's Theater Kids at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater on April 23, 2013 at 7pm. This year's even…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMA story examining the future of the Fringe of Marin festival after the death of founder Annette Lust, and a chat with Ann Brebner about breaking new ground in playwriting at the age of 90.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:31PMProducers Letty Aronson and Julian Schlossberg have just announced that the world premiere production of BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, the new Broadway musical adaptation of Woody Allen's and Dougl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:29PMThe new South Bank Show has glided into its second season with a seemingly effortless profile of multi-hyphenate Tim Minchin. In case we’ve forgotten what exactly we admire him for these d…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:29PMAs super-agent Sue Mengers, Bette Midler tells tales from the comfort of her comfy sofa. Watch clips here of the beloved star in her new Broadway solo show I'll Eat You Last.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:27PMJoe's Pub at the Public has announced its cabaret, Broadway and comedy acts April 21-July 28, 2013, including Lindsay Mendez and Michael Holland, Leslie Kritzer, Megan Hilty, Bridget Everett…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMAs a catalyst for professional development between choreographers, directors, producers and creative team members, BC Beat provides a platform for curious and innovative theatrical choreogra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PM(photo by Dora Tuch)Authenticity and ShakespeareAnd Why She She Pop Has Itby Jason BookerIn theatre, things are rarely what they first seem to be. In She She She Pop and Their Fathers: Testa…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:18PMA list of theater auditions for Northeast Ohio
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:15PMRoundabout Theatre Company has presented a grand total of six plays and one musical since last June, starting with the Jim Parsons-led Harvey and concluding with The Big Knife, which just op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMThe Susan Stroman-helmed musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Academy Award-nominated film Bullets Over Broadway will open on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in April 2014, producers have a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:10PMWith Blind Shake, Shake38 invites everyone to play a classic role.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:08PMRiding the wave of strong ticket sales, Tom Hanks has added 16 performances to his Broadway run in the Nora Ephron play "Lucky Guy." The play had been scheduled to close its limited engageme…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMThe Assembled Parties stars Judith Light, Jeremy Shamos and Jessica Hecht celebrated the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's dramedy about an Upper West Side Jewish family. Watch the c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMLyle Kessler’s drama has lost much of its kinetic energy since its off-Broadway arrival in 1985, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:05PMAndrew Lloyd Webber will be bringing his new musical, set against the backdrop of scandal and betrayal in the Sixties, into the West End before the end of the year.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:03PMJohn Shévin Foster’s “Plenty of Time,” at the Castillo Theater, is a journey through time via two people who meet just once a year.
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"She Kills Monsters" provides a constant stream of creative, amusing, and outrageous moments.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:59PMBullets Over Broadway has found a home on the Great White Way! Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath’s comedy is sl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMPreviews have begun for Nicholas Hytner’s terrific Othello, with Adrian Lester as the Moor, giving the performance of his career, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 05:48PMPatsy Cline nominally is the star in "Always ... Patsy Cline," but it's her exuberant friend, a housewife with a Texas-sized personality, who steals the show.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:44PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 18, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Broadway gets more Lucky! 16 performances added…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone headlines the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's 2012-13 NJSO POPS season finale in Newark and New Brunswick, June 1-2. The legendary diva, who last appe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMThe Susan Stroman-helmed musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Academy Award-nominated film Bullets Over Broadway will open on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in spring 2014, producers a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PMPlaywrights Horizons will soon present the World Premiere production of Far From Heaven, the eagerly-awaited new musical with a book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PMThe Covenant House 'Night of Broadway Stars' will take place on Monday, May 13th at the Kimmel Center. The evening will feature performances by top Broadway stars to poignant stories told by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMThe Broadway musical version of “Bullets Over Broadway” has targeted the St. James Theater, with the show locking the venue and the timeframe for an April 2014 bow. Production wi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMDouglas Carter Beane‘s The Nance recreates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque’s heyday and tells the backstage story of Chauncey Miles and his fellow performers. At a time w…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:27PM Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. LaChanze, the diminutive Broadway star of Once on An Island and The Color Purple, exploded on the stage of 54 Below Wednesday night in o…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:21PMAlec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge lead the Broadway premiere of Orphans, Lyle Kessler's modern classic drama set in a dilapidated North Philadelphia row house. Check out clips o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:17PMWrite, compose, cast, direct, rehearse, tech, and perform — even if a production is in a hurry, that process will take at least two years… Has Smash taught us nothing? For the fifth tim…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 05:12PMThe York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Andrew Levine, Executive Director, will present a one-night only benefit concert celebrating up and coming musical theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMThe “Jekkies,” members of the international Jekyll & Hyde fan club, are taking the Marquis Theatre by storm as Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde - starring Tony Award nominee …
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 05:10PMAnna Christy and Brian Mulligan (Photo: Michael Cooper)Because I’m a Girl!by Shannon Christy(My father worked with abused youth on the 7th floor of a county hospital in the rural south of …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:10PMThousands of items from the University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign have now been listed and archived on the Digital Public Library of America's official website.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMRichard Greenberg is a very lucky man. This production is a gift that elevates his text to a dizzying height. Truly a shining example of the best of ensemble work.This is the story of a fa…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 05:06PMOn Thursday, April 18, 2013, Broadway's CHICAGO will welcome back television star and author Paige Davis in the lead role of merry murderess Roxie Hart.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMRoundabout Theatre Company has presented a grand total of six plays and one musical since last June, starting with the Jim Parsons-led Harvey and concluding with The Big Knife, which just op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMI spend a lot of time thinking about the titles for my plays. It’s an important part of the process, mostly because in the bigger picture I’m an unknown. People who pick up my wo…
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Acclaimed stage and screen actress Ellen Burstyn is the lastest star to sign on for Lionsgate's DRAFT DAY, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company presents an electrifying new production of Clifford Odets’s classic tale about keeping your integrity in the face of success, starring Emmy® Award–win…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:57PMThe York Theatre Company will present a one-night only benefit concert celebrating up and coming musical theatre writers, with the NEO 9 on Monday, May 20, 2013 at The York Theatre Citicorp …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMTony Award winners Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Christine Ebersole and Joanna Gleason as well as "Smash" star Megan Hilty have joined the lineup for t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMWilliamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced that Festival veteran Steven Pasquale will play 'Robert Kincaid' in this summer's World Premiere of The Bridges of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThe art of collective story telling. by Keely KwokThe Laramie Project is not for the faint of heart. The play tells the story of the aftermath in Laramie, Wyoming after the brutal beati…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:45PMJudith Light, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos star in Manhattan Theatre Club’s stunning world-premiere drama, Richard Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties. The limited engagement of The Ass…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:44PMRECOMMENDED Seated behind me on Monday night at Victory Gardens Theater was a woman laughing uncontrollably while a six-hundred-pound man choked on a sandwich. My jaw dropped to the floor. T…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:41PMThe Cincinnati Pops' Lollipops Family Concerts are interactive programs specifically designed for children aged three to ten and their families. This weekend, the program will feature a new …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMThe 26-year-old opened the small-stage production of 'Slipping' in L.A. while filming a pilot in Virginia, and now he's off (early) to rehearse a play in London.Convincing a rising Broadway …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PMIn a surprising revelation, international screen superstar Johnny Depp has confessed that the next character he would ideally like to take on would be none other than the one and only Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMAndy Cohen’s show Watch What Happens Live got a whole lot more kinkier on April 15. The Bravo host (and Broadway fan) welcomed Kinky Boots scribe Harvey Fierstein as his guest for the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMThe former series regular on FX's "Rescue Me" will step into the Clint Eastwood role in the adaptation's world premiere run at this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:34PMBefore its opening on April 23, the new musical Here Lies Love has announced yet another extension for its limited run. The David Byrne and Fatboy Slim-penned musical will now run through Ju…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMDreamy play blurs the natural and the supernaturalVancouver’s one French-language theatre presents a captivating taleby Chris LaneWhat happens when a biochemist firmly rooted in trusting s…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:32PMJekyll and Hyde officially opens on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre tonight, April 18. The much-anticipated musical is currently scheduled for a 13-week limited run with Constantine Maroulis…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:27PMNEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to the …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:27PMI’m going to take the precarious position that, as designers, what we put on stage in front of an audience should never be an apology. Why should lack of resources become an excuse for sho…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to t…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:24PMSteven Pasquale will play the hunky National Geographic photographer at the center of The Bridges of Madison County’s love story. Pasquale has been tapped to take on the role of Robert…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMNEW YORK — Playwright Richard Greenberg has edited parts of his new play "The Assembled Parties" following the bombings at the Boston Marathon to cut an unflattering reference to the city…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 04:24PMThe Public Theater has extended the world premiere of the new David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love a second time through June 2. The environmental production, staged by Tony Award …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMPaige Davis will join the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Chicago for her second stint as Roxie Hart beginning April 18. Davis, who previously made her Broadway debut as the Merry Murderess…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PMAccording to a new interview with Theatre du Chatelet's Jean-Luc Choplin, the renown Paris theater will be taking on yet another musical by Stephen Sondheim in their upcoming 2013-14 season,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMTony Award-winning Once leading man Steve Kazee will play two concerts at 54 Below in May. The evenings will feature the actor-musician's band, The Shiny Liars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMSteven Pasquale will return to the Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer as part of the world-premiere Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County. The season will also incl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, opens tonight, April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Thea…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:10PMStephen Pasquale, currently in rehearsals for the Playwrights Horizons off-Broadway production of the new musical Far From Heaven, will star in the Williamstown Theatre Festival world premie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMA team of nearly 100 stars from Broadway, film, television, and music will cast, write, compose, direct, rehearse, tech, and perform four original musicals - all in the obscenely short time …
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LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, will extend its run through Wednesday, July 3 only. Lucky Guy, which opened April 1 to critical acclaim at the Broadhurst Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMBroadway just got 16 times more "Lucky"! Tom Hanks has extended his starring role in “Lucky Guy” as Daily News Pulitzer winner Mike McAlary.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:54PMDave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, which received its world premiere at Ars Nova last summer, is heading back to New York City and into its own all-new venue. On May …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMTony Award nominee and four-time Olivier Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw stars in The Testament of Mary, the Broadway world-premiere stage adaptation of Colm Tóibín's rece…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMThe Tony Award-winning, long-running revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago welcomes the return of Paige Davis in the role of merry murderess Roxie Hart beginning April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PMAccording to the New York Times, Julie Taymor came out of her lawsuit against the producers of SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK with better billing. As of March 2011, when Taymor was officially …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMGentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Orange Flower Water, now playing at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Hollywood. To read it, click here to go to the L…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:35PMChicago's About Face Theatre has hired Andrew Volkoff, who spend five years as associate artistic director of the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts, as its new artistic director.&nbs…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PMThe Testament of Mary tells the unheard story of Mary, the mother of Jesus, after the Crucifixion. Starring Tony nominee Fiona Shaw and directed by Deborah Warner, Testament is set in the ci…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:31PMThe Broadway production of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, has extended its Broadway run for an additional 16 performances, through Wednesday, July…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PMLUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, will extend its run through Wednesday, July 3 only. LUCKY GUY, which opened April 1 to critical acclaim at the Broadhurst The…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:22PMOpening Night is Monday, April 22 at 630pm for award-winning stage and screen actress Fiona Shaw's return to Broadway in The Testament of Mary, a new playby acclaimed author Colm Toibin, dir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMTickets are now on sale for the off-Broadway play Reasons to Be Happy starring The Office alum Jenna Fischer in her stage debut. The drama, written and directed by Neil LaBute, is set to sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMTom Hanks is staying on the Great White Way a little longer! The Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy has extended through July 3, playing an additional 16 performances at the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMGayfest, a not-for-profit New York City arts organization dedicated to developing LGBT and other minority works for the stage, film, and television, has announced the lineup for its fifth bi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMAfter the tremendous success of Hatched New Work in New York 2012 and Rated RSO College Edition 2011, Ryan Scott Oliver and Pace University's Musical Theater Class of 2016 will present a cab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMCleveland arts calendar for Northeast Ohio for April 19-25
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:05PM“Happy” Jack Eckart (1874-1937), the son of a Fort Wayne cigar maker, weighed 19 lbs. at birth. At the time of his passing at age 63 he weighed 739 lbs and had to be buried in a …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:01PMGrammy and Tony winner Steve Kazee is bringing a soulful country sound to 54 Below. Joined by his band, The Shiny Liars, the Broadway.com Star of the Year will perform two shows May 10 and 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:01PM
The Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks as Pulitzer Prize-winning tabloid writer Mike McAlary, has extended its engagement for 16 additional performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMEight-time Tony-winning composer Stephen Sondheim and nine-time Grammy-winning trumpet player and bandleader Wynton Marsalis are joining forces at Encores! The duo will team up for A Bed and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMAppropriately, Nashville’s 2013-2014 Broadway season will lean heavily on musicals featuring popular music. There’s a reason the place is known as Music City, after all, and the Tennesse…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:56PMHBO has acquired all U.S. broadcast and home video rights to MOMS MABLEY I GOT SOMETHIN' TO TELL YOU, from first-time director Whoopi Goldberg, it was announced today by Sheila Nevins, presi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMMy recent post on why I depart from the chorus of hallelujahs for Matilda led the paper of record to ask me to write about my (relatively) lonely position (though I see that Feingold ha…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:50PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Todd Haimes, Artistic Director national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning Anything Goes celebrated its' 200th performance at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, PA yeste…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMAdam Guettel's Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza glimmers anew in its New York City high school premiere at the Beacon School. The son of the production's original B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMTony winner Richard Greenberg Take Me Out, The American Plan and MTC begin their 10th collaboration with the world-premiere production of The Assembled Parties. MTC Artistic Director Lynne M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMWalking through the auditorium doors at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College to see The Department of Theatre’s production of Charles Mee’s Big Lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PMFollowing the April 15 tragedy in Boston, where two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring over 100, playwright Richard Greenberg …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMChanhassen heads into spring and summer with a tuneful show that has been a crowd favorite.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:39PMLegendary musicians Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis will collaborate on the new musical event, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Story, to be presented by New York City Center Encores!…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMIt sounds gimmicky, but I was really impressed with the creepy, evocative Macbeth now on Broadway, in which Alan Cumming gets to stretch his Shakespeare muscles by playing all of the major c…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:38PMStephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis will collaborate on A BED AND A CHAIR A New York Love Story, a new musical event featuring Sondheim's music arranged and performed by the Jazz at Lincoln…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMYoung stars from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals, including Annie’s Emily Rosenfeld, The Lion King’s Caleb McLaughlin and Kelsey Fowler (Grey Gardens, Sunday in the Par…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:34PMIn the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, Tony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Judith Light and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht star as sisters-in-law …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMLindsay Nyman, co-writer and co-director of Theatre for the Blind's new play Yesterday's at Promenade Playhouse, talks about the methodology of working with blind actors. The title of t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:11PMA writer reflects on what it’s like not to agree with popular opinion, prompted by his lukewarm response to the much-celebrated “Matilda.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:08PMIn a super-busy spring week, theater fans kept clicking on Broadway.com's exclusive features, including portraits, polls, recaps, news and scoop on the forthcoming Broadway.com Audience …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMDetails have been announced for the April 27 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," which will air at 9 PM ET.
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The Call, Playwrights Horizons' coproduction with Primary Stages starring Kerry Butler has extended its run through May 26. Tanya Barfield's The Call features direction by two-time Obie Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMTony-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and jazz musician-composer Wynton Marsalis will collaborate on A Bed And a Chair: A New York Love Story, a new musical event for New York City…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMIn last week’s Small Show Feature, we focused on EDGES, the four person, coming of age, rock musical by one of Broadway’s hottest young writing teams, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. I had…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:49PMTo tell the story of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood properly, director Marcia Milgrom Dodge wanted a hill. On that, she said, she could not budge.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:48PM(This post is the first post of the Artistic Innovation arc #TCG13 blog salon–learn more here). Making new work for live performance demands every bit of fiber and muscle, sinew and st…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:46PMAdapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:45PMForget the boots, it’s all about the bon-bon! Pop star Ricky Martin, who starred last season as Che in the Broadway revival of Evita, returned to the Great White Way on April 17 to che…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMActors’ Equity Association’s Equal Employment Opportunity Committee and the Members Education Committee presents “Working with the Musical: From Audition to Closing” Design…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:39PMSpend a day with Olivier Award-nominated West End star Alex Gaumond, currently appearing as "Alberto Beddini" in Top Hat, based on the classic film of the same name. He documents h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMThe stars will align for the 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition when Tom Hanks, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, Andrea Martin, Nathan Lane and more than 200 of Broadway and Off-Broadway's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMStephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis are collaborating on a new show that will feature jazz interpretations of Mr. Sondheim’s love songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20PMOriginally constructed in 1860, the Tobacco Warehouse, in its roofless state, lies between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges as a symbol of the downtown Brooklyn waterfront's shipping activ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMOn last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central, host Stephen Colbert found inspiration in Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's new duet 'Accidental Racist.' Below, watch a performance of 'Oops…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PM“I brought consommé!” the hostess says brightly as she enters the room. Never mind that the room is dimly lit, plagued by leaks and almost empty of people. Every course of this gourmet …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:13PMThe fantastical world of Big Fish has arrived at Chicago’s Oriental Theatre, starring two-time Tony winner (and two-time Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner!) Norbert Leo Butz an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PMTom Hanks, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, Nathan Lane, and Andrea Martin are among the Broadway veterans who will take part in the 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, to be held April 22…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMCyndi Lauper, Tom Hanks, Harvey Fierstein, Nathan Lane, and Andrea Martin are among the Broadway veterans who will take part in the 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, to be held April 22…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMA bevy of Broadway’s brightest stars are uniting at the 27th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition! Lucky Guy star Tom Hanks, The Nance headliner Nathan La…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe Actors Fund has announced that their 2013 annual gala will honor Oscar winner and Broadway veteran Robert De Niro, entrepreneur/film producer and Actors Fund trustee Steve Kalafer, and t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMA new production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's pop musical Jekyll & Hyde officially opens on Broadway April 18 at the Marquis Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
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Current Role: A Broadway debut as Ned, a drifter turned burlesque performer who falls unapologetically in love with Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane) …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMAge & Hometown: 27; Cheshire, CT
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Ned, a drifter turned burlesque performer who falls unapologetically in love with Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane) …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMIn this exclusive new TV ad for Broadway’s Annie, see young stars Lilla Crawford, Emily Rosenfeld, Madi Rae DiPietro and more break it down to “It’s the Hard Knock Life.&rd…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMGet 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 12:55PMThis fluidly delivered play is a modest yet tremendously powerful piece of political theatre, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:52PMWord of Mouth panelists Fernando, Elissa and Jane took a trip back to the classic age of moviemaking for the Hollywood drama The Big Knife, starring two-time Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale. Wa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:52PMPatti LuPone (Gypsy), Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), Sutton Foster (Anything Goes), Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens), Megan Hilty (Smash), Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMSyracuse Stage has selected six plays for its upcoming 2013/'14 season that honor the memory of the late Arthur Storch (1925-2013), the company's founding producing artistic director. "For …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMThe stars will align for the 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition when Tom Hanks, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, Andrea Martin, Nathan Lane and more than 200 of Broadway and Off-Broadway&#…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:49PMSince launching the series two years ago in Provincetown, Broadway The Art House's success has most recently spawned runs in New Orleans, Sydney, Melbourne, this June in London and this com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMA result of the settlement of a legal battle over “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is enhanced billing for Julie Taymor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:41PMHarvey Fierstein, bookwriter for the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, stopped by Tuesday night's 'Watch What Happens Live' on Bravo and revealed the exciting news that he is currently writi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PMReach the Grant Park Music Festival’s passionate, arts-loving annual audience of more than 300,000 patrons when you advertise in our concert program books. Customize your ads to promote yo…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:37PMFirestation Arts Centre, WindsorWhat happens to a rapper when he grows up? Doc Brown is 35, with a wife, two kids, and a promising career in comedy, twinning his macho artform with softie su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMBIG FISH has its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre 24 West Randolph Street in a limited 5-week engagement opening Friday, April 19, 2013, and playing through Sunday, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMKERRY REID review "Richard III" by Wayward Productions ★★★ and "Augusta and Noble" by Adventure Stage Chicago ★★½
KERRY REID review "Richard III" by Wayward P…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:31PMOn Monday, Ayad Akhtar, author of the terrific play "Disgraced," which began life at the American Theater Company in Chicago, won the Pulitzer Prize in drama. He beat out writer Amy Herzog, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:31PMArts theatre, LondonThe number of gay couples in the audience is testament to how much has changed since Jonathan Harvey's gay teenage love story premiered at the Bush theatre, London, in 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMCelebrity participants and judges have been announced for the 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, presented by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which will be held April 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMThis morning the Cannes Film Festival announced the 66th Official Selection titles. Among the selections premiering at the festival will be Roman Polanski's upcoming big screen adaptation…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThree of the central figures in “The Call,” now running at Playwrights Horizons, can particularly relate to the script: All have children they’ve adopted from Africa, a dynamic that’…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:14PMThe upcoming film adaptation of David Ives’ Venus in Fur will be among the competing films at this year’s 66th Cannes Film Festival, reports Deadline.com.
Polanski’s scr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMTen Freedom Summers is a masterful, supple series of compositions that has the gravitas of a major work that also, from time to time, it swings dramatically.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMRita Wilson made her debut at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below beginning April 14 at 9:30 PM. Here's a backstage look at soem of her starry visitors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMPopular show takes inspiration from legendary jam session that included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PMTheresa Caputo, TV’s “Long Island Medium,” makes a stop at the Fox Theatre on Sunday.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PMDON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE NEW "HOT OR NOT" POLL! CLICK THE LOGO TO YOUR RIGHT! POLL CLOSES TODAY AT 7PM!Here's the next in a series of blogs featuring the musicals that o…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PM
Good news for fans of The Princess Diary: Backstage at Cinderella with Laura Osnes! The popular video blog is getting its act two and will return after a short intermission. Broadway.com Aud…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMGood news for fans of The Princess Diary: Backstage at Cinderella with Laura Osnes! The popular video blog is getting an act two and will return after a short intermission. Broadway.com Audi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMImaginative retelling of ancient Greek play hits and misses in DC debut.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 11:56AMDaytime talk show host and soon-to-be Broadway star Wendy Williams will serve as the host of the 14th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. The ceremony will take place on May 5 a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM10,648 performances later, Perfect Crime, a tense murder mystery and NYC's longest-running show, is celebrating its 27th anniversary today, April 18. Perfect Crime plays at the Anne L. Berns…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:46AMThe world premiere of the new musical Big Fish, based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, began its pre-Broadway engagement April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMBeginning Saturday, May 4th, Kevin Spirtas will assume the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s nemesis, Dr. Chilton, in Off-Broadway’s smash hit "SILENCE! The Musical" at the Elektra Theatre.
SOURCE: www.welovesoaps.net at 11:35AMBrooke Shields has performed in both the Broadway and London production of “Chicago,” but this summer she’ll find herself directing a production of the musical at the Hollywood Bowl. T…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:29AMThe John Wilson Orchestra will return to this year’s BBC Proms for the fifth consecutive year, to perform an evening of music dedicated to “unsung Hollywood composers”. Called John Wil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMJust got word that Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar will be on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” program tomorrow (Friday) at about 9:20 a.m. (Earlier, they had said it wo…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:24AMIn what may be the shortest retirement of all time, Steven Soderbergh is heading back to the cinema.
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:17AMGuests including fashion guru Gok Wan, TV presenter Melanie Sykes and Superstar winner Ben Forster were among those attending the opening of the 20th anniversary revival of Jonathan Harvey's…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:16AMTony winner and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominee Alan Cumming showed off some serious rap skills (skillz?) on the April 17 episode of The Colbert Report, when he sang a few ve…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMLondon Road, about the Ipswich prostitute murders, paved the way for unlikely musicals. Now, get ready for Parkway Dreams, an all-singing, all-dancing drama about the transformation of Peter…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:15AMTony nominee Andrew Rannells joined Joe Iconis & Family for the April 15 performance at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMAfter being juggled around the programming schedule the past several weeks, NBC has announced that SMASH will remain in its current 800pmET time slot this Saturday night.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMThe Paris production has turned Stephen Sondheim’s musical into an extravaganza, with elaborate sets and a 46-member orchestra.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMThe world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the Manhattan-set family drama starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, officially opened on Broadway April 17 in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMOne of my first lessons in manners from my Mom was the simple, “When people give you something, say thank you.” The beginning of baseball season made me think of the Baltimore Or…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Celebrity Series of Boston, a program that brings world class performers to Boston, has announced its 2013-2014 75th anniversary season. Set to begin on September 28 with jazz tenor saxo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMWith the 101st anniversary of the Titanic's sinking only days behind us, news of an upcoming London production of the musical that honors the ship's fateful maiden voyage could not have come…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMSleeping Beauty, the last of Tchaikovsky's ballet trilogy to be directed by Matthew Bourne, has proved the award-winning choreographer's most successful production to date.
According to fig…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:55AMJeklyl Chirs Bennion Photo By: David ShewardWhy revive Jekyll & Hyde, the hideous, overwrought 1997 musical based on the classic thriller? The only saving grace of the original prod…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:51AMRoman Polanski's film of Venus in Fur, the steamy two-hander by Tony Award nominee David Ives, will debut as part of the Cannes Film Festival, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMA blaring show-choir romp through countless rock stereotypes and clueless affectations — punk kids do not dance like this — the show, now at the Cadillac Palace for a weeklong return eng…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:49AMOH BROTHERS! Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Talk about a musical with a strange history! It begins with the Ancient Roman legend “The Rape of the Sabine Women” – attributed to Plutar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:48AMOnly 3 more days! As usual, the office is only getting busier. Opening night gifts are being finalized and delivered. Seating arrangements are being confirmed. Tickets distributed. F…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMEveryone, whether a 'Jekkie' or not, has a special JEKYLL amp HYDE moment. Maybe it's when you first caught the show, rocked out to the cast album, or even that time when you felt particular…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMThe best Off Broadway productions so far this year would probably make lousy movies.
The post The Best of Off-Broadway’s Theatricalization of Film: <em>The Flick</em>, <em&g…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:42AMThe Provincetown Theater production of Myra Slotnick's The Weight of Water will make its New York debut May 12-16 at The Producers Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMIn its American premiere, Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by Shakespeare Theatre Company is a tour-de-force, surprisingly funny, sharp, and shattering. It’s paired with their ex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41AMThis week's A.P.T. is Angela Slemp. Angela started a group called Chivalrous Shelter which is a community for those who are traveling to help find great places to stay. You can read more det…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMTony winner Richard Greenberg Take Me Out, The American Plan and MTC begin their 10th collaboration with the world-premiere production of The Assembled Parties. MTC Artistic Director Lynne M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMTony winner Richard Greenberg Take Me Out, The American Plan and MTC begin their 10th collaboration with the world-premiere production of THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES. MTC Artistic Director Lynne M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThe Swan, so atmospheric with its dark wood and warm light, welcomes me with projected waves crashing upon a shore. I'm on board a ship's deck, and the year is 1887.
With Kneehigh's Emma Ri…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:24AMOLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE) Snapshots from an enigmatic fairy-tale in which Suzie, the elusive coquette, brings Samuel to his knees – from where he worships a life he only h…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:23AMEach 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 10:21AMIf Richard Kind’s vicious studio chief Marcus Hoff wasn’t terrifying enough in The Big Knife, then he certainly takes the spotlight in Justin “Squigs” Robertson&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:04AMTony Award nominee Gavin Creel, who is currently starring in the London production of The Book of Mormon, celebrates his birthday April 18. He made his Broadway debut on this date in 2002 in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde has returned to the Broadway stage, officially opening at the Marquis Theatre on April 18. Directed by Newsies helmer Jeff Calhoun, the new prod…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:58AMShakespeare Theatre Company artistic director Michael Kahn will return to Arlington's Signature Theatre this fall for the first time in nearly 20 years to direct the world premiere of Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMThe four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE will begin its limited Broadway engagement tonight, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Grammy Award no…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMThe first revival of the fan-favorite musical Jekyll
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:52AMTony Award-winner Alan Cumming stopped by THE COLBERT REPORT last night to discuss his starring role in Broadway's production of 'Macbeth.' Check out the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44AMPianist Randy Weston and arranger Melba Liston will be honored in a celebratory concert at the New England Conservatory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMThe world premiere of Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, starring Tony winner Judith Light and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht, officially opened on Broadway April 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMMusicals Tonight! will continue its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys, understudies and alternates with its next edition of At This Performance, which will be held April 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMShakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn returns to Signature this fall for the first time in nearly twenty years to direct the world premiere of Pride in the Falls of Autr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMElektra Theatre, Pinchbottom, Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: Pretençión showcases some of New York City's best burlesque performers.
Pinchbottom’s Pretençión: …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:32AM(Photo by Alissa Moore. Pictured: Theatre Communications Group staff members Sandra Nance, Zach Chotzen-Freund, J.P. Smith, Jessica Lewis, Abby Lynch, Jacob Lasser, Kevin Bitterman, Laurie B…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 09:31AMSadler's Wells, LondonIt was brave of National Ballet of Canada to mark their first London visit in 26 years with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The Sergei Prokofiev classic is at the hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMMamaroneck has a tradition of presenting one big musical per year, for graduating seniors only. Last year, it was “Xanadu,” a show that had students on rollerskates in a funny sp…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:28AMIf you're wondering what Molly Ringwald has been up to since her heyday as the reigning redheaded queen of the '80s, the short answer is a slew of TV appearances and a handful of minor film …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMThis May, at the newly revitalized historic Jan Hus Playhouse (351 E 74th St., NYC, 10021), director Anaїs Koivisto brings playwright Caroline Angell’s inventive take on the classic Sleep…
SOURCE: www.everydayinferno.com at 09:23AMA company of more than 25 stars of stage and screen entertained a packed house at the historic Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on Saturday night April 6 at the 29th Annual Southland Theatre A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMKids at New Rochelle High School get a theatrical workout every year. Some kids arrive for school early and enroll in the PAVE curriculum, earning a special designation on their diplomas. It…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:06AMArts, London: One of the joys of Jonathan Harvey's 1993 play, Beautiful Thing, is that despite occasional references to celebrity it manages to remain a fairly contemporary piece. The t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMSynetic Theater Announces Its 2013-2014 Season The Picture of Dorian Gray Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili Sept. 26, 2013 – Nov. 3, 2013 Fearing the ravages of time and realizing the im…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMDirector Mike Bradwell has criticised the “predominance of Oxbridge tossers” running venues in the theatre industry, claiming the sector has been “annexed entirely by the middle class�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
“Don’t wanna be an American idiot!” I can commiserate. Since seeing the concert-like show—playing a brief and generally enjoyable touring engagement at the Cadillac Palac…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:54AMDropped by the beehive of activity known as the Major Bowes Auditorium at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains yesterday and chatted with members of the cast of “Evita,̶…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:50AMPaul Raymond's daughter wants to convert part of Britain's first-ever adult entertainment bar into an off-Broadway-style venue Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMPaul Raymond's daughter wants to convert part of Britain's first-ever adult entertainment bar into an off-Broadway-style venueSoho could be about to have a new theatre in an unlikely locatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMChris Ricketts, artistic director of Sherman Cymru in Cardiff, will step down from his role to “pursue new interests” in the performing arts sector. He has held the position since 2007, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMThe Broadway premiere of Orphans, starring Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, officially opens on April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Penned b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36AMThe countdown to the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards continues! With BACA-nominated turns from television personalities like Alan Cumming in Macbeth and Jim Parsons in Harvey, this seaso…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:35AMFollowing a somewhat rocky start::E8831355319799 in the West End, Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! has made some "major" creative changes and embarked on a new marketing drive, including r…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:26AMAs part of the “Tracing Our Roots” series of discussions at NYU Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program, Marilyn Nonken will offer a unique program focusing on her own career an…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:23AMKyle T. Wilson Hometown: Several small towns in Arkansas. My father's a retired Methodist minister, so we moved around every few years. Current Town: Los AngelesQ: What are you working…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:20AMRichard Greenberg is a prolific playwright whose Take Me Out established him some years ago as a welcome new voice. That play about the locker room aspects of a baseball team and the coming …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AM"Blancanieves" is not quite as charming as "The Artist," but it’s less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:17AMDifferent types, Andrea McArdle and Faith Prince entertain their audiences, relating high points from their careers (with song samples). Included in both acts are things from Jerry Herman, t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17AMThis documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:17AMAmazing what a little perspective shift can accomplish. Throughout this week’s installment, Karen and Jimmy behave at what I can only assume is their most petulant level ever. They bot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:11AMINTERVIEW: STEVE GREEN Ella Parry-Davies meets the artistic director of theatre company and training institution Fourth Monkey, along with performers Lauren Young, Abbey Gorton and Euan Fors…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:05AMWhen I was a young stagestruck lad, Faith Prince WAS the sound of musical theater to me. I’d been obsessed with the cast recording of William Finn’s Falsettoland, including Princ…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:04AMA new chamber version of the Tony-winning 1997 Broadway musical Titanic will be produced at London's Southwark Playhouse, beginning performances July 26 prior to an official opening July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
It’s difficult to see that attitudes to extreme disability have improved much since Peter Nichols first wrote his ground-breaking black comedy inspired by the experience of bringing up his…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:54AMMusical Titanic will get its European premiere this summer at the Southwark Playhouse. The show, which has music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone, won five Tony awards o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMElisabeth Gray, Breakfast At Tiffany's Understudy
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:32AMWhatever headaches Richard Greenberg might be having, what with this month’s closing of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Broadway and next month’s opening of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMAward-winning Little Bulb Theatre are currently staging an epic, jazz-infused production of Orpheus at Battersea Arts Centre (until 11 May 2013). Here, company member Dominic Conway gives us…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:22AMFeaturing Austin Pendleton (who also directs the piece) as William Shakespeare, this bio-drama speculates on the Bard's final days as a man suffering from syphillis that severely debilitates…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:10AMTwo parties, two decades apart, at which those assembled in a spacious Central Park West apartment to rejoice in the Amen moment when life's complicated times can be forgotten long enough fo…
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Sadler's Wells, London: Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular and most performed ballets in the world, with most of the major troupes having a version in their repertories. National Ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMHampstead Theatre, London: The artist Ai Weiwei has become famous for using his work to highlight Chinese state oppression. James MacDonald's production of Howard Brenton's new pie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMSouthwark Playhouse has announced a further three shows - including a new production of the Tony-winning musical based on the Titanic disaster - to be staged this summer in its new Elephant …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:31AMBrunton, Musselburgh: It's 166 years since John Maddison Morton's one-act farce Box and Cox burst onto the Victorian stage. The title entered the language, its subject precipitated…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMSwan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The stage of the Swan has been designed to resemble the London docks, a place of arrival and intersection, for Tanika Gupta's new play, which sees her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMWriters have become the latest group to express concern about the lack of opportunities for women working in the television industry. Their concerns follow those expressed by Equity and trad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMTanika Gupta's new play kicks off from an idea that is almost profligately rich in potential. An epic piece spanning the fourteen years from 1887 to 1901, it sets out to show us Victorian Lo…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:28AMThe Key Theatre (Studio), Peterborough: This is a creative, fun but inconsistently entertaining take on some Aesop tales by fledgling, unfunded, Peterborough-based company Small Nose Product…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMI make no secret of being more drawn to classical and choral music than I am, in general, to other genres, although it’s a very personal thing and I do my best to be open-minded...
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Jared Michael Delaney’s first full-length play, presented by Inis Nua Theatre Company, barrages us with ridiculousness. Adam Altman, Harry Smith and Delaney himself are dim-witted Irish la…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:46AMThe Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has launched an annual campaign to engage primary school children with the playwright’s work. The inaugural Shakespeare Week, which will take place from Ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMReturning to London after more than quarter of a century, the National Ballet of Canada brings Alexei Ratmansky’s Romeo and Juliet as a calling card. Now based at American Ballet theatre, …
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:27AMSuranne Jones & Jake Davies
It’s 20 years since Jonathan Harvey’s gay coming-of-age story first hit the London stage. Premiering at the Bush Theatre in 1993, the story of Ste and…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:11AMDeclan Donnellan's gift as the veteran director of Cheek By Jowl is usually in subtraction; he shaves down Shakespeare and Chekhov classics to their bare essentials, relying on the actors an…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:08AMBlowing stuff up, playing music and being inspired by the city you're from: three artists taking part in WYP's Transform season of new work tell Laura Turner about what theatre means to them…
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Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox star in Frank Wildhorn (music), Leslie Bricusse (book and lyrics) and Steve Cuden's (lyrics) Jekyll & Hyde. Jeff Calhoun directs and choreographs th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49AMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal, TheatreSquared's first Broadway-scale musical, begins tonight, April 18 in downtown Fayetteville. Broadway veterans Rita Har…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, opens tonight, April 18, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMOn the next live results show airing tonight, April 18 800-900 PM ET livePT tape-delayed, one woman's IDOL journey will end. Also, Grammy-winning artist, Broadway star and Season Three winne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNEW YORK (AP) — The air inside the theater gets heavy. It gets hot, too, and the seats are not comfortable at all. By the time the show is over, you walk out thankful for a breeze and soli…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:07AMNEW YORK (AP) -- The air inside the theater gets heavy. It gets hot, too, and the seats are not comfortable at all. By the time the show is over, you walk out thankful for a breeze and s…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:05AMI have another bonus drama column in today's Wall Street Journal. In it I review two more Broadway openings, The...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies." Rudyard Kipling, "The Phantom 'Rickshaw'"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM'42' Star on Playing Jackie Robinson
We welcome Chadwick Boseman to the Studio, who has landed the role of a lifetime as legendary baseball star Jackie Robinson in the film '42'! The actor t…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMHot Stars in Fast Cars at Toyota Grand Prix
We're in Long Beach for the Toyota Grand Prix celebrity race where the stars get behind the wheel to race for a great cause! We chat with competit…
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Talley’s Folly a Sweetheart of a Play: True love, how hard will most of us fight for that? On one remarkable evening two lives change forever as chutzpah wins out.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:51AMFor the first time in American Idol history, 5 girls made up the top 5. It may have been obvious from the beginning, but it wasn't an easy road for any of the ladies.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43AMBreakfast at Tiffany’s Lacks Pizzazz: “The Game of Thrones” may be the hottest thing on TV but even without clothes, this Holly Golightly is a bore.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:38AMPlaywright Richard Greenberg had an unenviable problem yesterday. Just as his excellent new play “The Assembled Parties” was about to debut, he had to change a bit of it because …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:36AMIra Glass may be a terrible dancer but that won’t stop him from getting down onstage at the Annenberg this weekend.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:31AMWe don't often publish horizontal pictures, especially not as our picture of the week. Our site's format requires vertical photos for maximum impact. But we could not resist this gem from ph…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Daniel Davis, Laila Robins and Tony nominee Derek Smith star in the Red Bull Theater production of August Strindberg's Dance of Death, which officially opens Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a much-in-the-news rehearsal period, Lyle Kessler's three-person drama Orphans officially opens on Broadway April 18 at 6:15 PM at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award recipient Carol Burnett is honored April 18 with the naming of Carol Burnett Square at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Selma Avenue in Hollywood, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a national tour, the 13-week limited Broadway engagement of Jekyll & Hyde officially opens at Broadway's Marquis Theatre April 18 at 7:15 PM following previews that began …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLyle Kessler's dark comedy Orphans, opens on Broadway tonight at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Making their Broadway debuts, Ben Foster (The Messenger) and Tom Sturridge (Being Julia) take …
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