For most of its running time, Violeta Went to Heaven plays out as an engaging although not quite intimate biopic – an illuminative portrait of Chilean singer and artist Violeta Parra (Fran…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:52PMWhen vocal teacher Bill Schuman works with an aspiring opera singer, he invokes the past, present and future with equal importance.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:22PMEuripides’s “Trojan Women” is often held up as a model of antiwar sentiment. It is that, but it’s also a masterwork of human psychology in which the title women, bereft of all hope, …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:10PMAlec Baldwin, Tina Fey, James Gandolfini, Nathan Lane, Cherry Jones and others reflect on the unique talents of the Broadway veteran in Chiemi Karasawa's intimate documentary.read more
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It’s been a rough few days for many of us, but we can always count on Broadway to lighten the mood, especially when the week has been as jam-packed as this one. Here’s a look at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:59PMTweetOn my way home today, I remembered the song Everybody Wants to Be a Cat from The Aristocats, and as I started to whistle it, it struck a chord with me. You see I work in an office with …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 07:50PMA bourgeois family blithely, cheerily makes one jaw-droppingly bad decision after another in order to maintain itsexpensive lifestyle.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:39PMThe third annual 10-minute play festival is up and running for the spring season at the Fells Point Corner Theatre. With half the plays being from area playwrights this offering of 10-10 min…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:25PMNBC's musical drama series SMASH leads E Online's poll of 'Save One Show 2013', with a wide margin of over 20 of the total votes as of Friday evening.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PMAngel of music Sarah Brightman talks about her new album, space travel plans and embracing her role in the making of legendary Broadway record-breaker The Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMBetween Ten and Six by Chris Mayo is a cautionary tale made up of all the grisly things your mother warns you of in big, bad London. Set in North London, Ed and Charlie meet when Charlie app…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:15PMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster andTom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, just opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07PMIt’s been a busy week for Broadway’s ORPHANS, Lyle Kessler’s play starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, and Tom Sturridge. The show opened on Broadway last night to critical acclaim and a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 07:05PMBroadway's Leslie Kritzer, currently starring in The Memory Show with The Transport Group through May 18 returns to Joe's Pub with her all-new extravaganza Beautiful Disaster for four perfor…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" will first try to slay an audience in London.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:54PMLaChanze not only has one of the best names on Broadway, she also has one of the most infectious talents, put to good use in shows like Ragtime, Once On This Island, Company and her Tony-win…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:52PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" will first try to slay an audience in London....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:52PMProducers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris announced today that Christina DeCicco will join the cast of Broadway's high-flying spectacular, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in the role of 'Ar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMThe one-and-only Bette Midler makes her long-awaited return to the Great White Way in the new solo play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers. Written by Tony winner John Logan an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:41PMIt's been a busy week for Broadway's ORPHANS, Lyle Kessler's play starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, and Tom Sturridge. The show opened on Broadway last night, and a starry audience includin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMLuminaries of stage and screen will come together on May 20th at LaGuardia Arts High School in Manhattan to pay tribute to treasured alumnus and show biz icon Ben Vereen Pippin, Roots, Jesus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMThe hair-raising Broadway revival of Jekyll & Hyde officially opened on April 18, and the cast wasted no time in celebrating the culmination of the 25-week national tour that led them to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:16PMCreator/Producer Judy Craymer has announced that Mamma Mia! will move from its current home at the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst Theatre in late 2013. “I’m thrilled tha…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:14PMProducer of US television series Glee will script adaptation of satirical thrillerA musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho will have its world premiere in London this yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07PMChristina DeCicco will join the cast of the hit musical Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark as Arachne beginning April 23 at the Foxwoods Theatre. DeCicco takes over the role from Katrina Lenk, wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:07PMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster andTom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, just opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMEmmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston will portray former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning Kentucky Cycle playwright Robert Schenkkan, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PMSam Mendes on making Bond, coming home and turning Charlie And The Chocolate Factory into a musicalCharlie and the Chocolate Factory has taken five years to become a stage musical, for reaso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
What a Bountiful bunch! Stage, screen and sports stars flocked to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on April 18 to catch the new revival of The Trip to Bountiful, starring Cicely Tyson, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:59PMLegendary Broadway diva and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Patti LuPone has just been announced to headline the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-13 NJSO POPS season fina…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMAccording to EW.com, Amanda Seyfried revealed she would not want to reprise her role as 'Karen' should she be cast in the forthcoming MEAN GIRLS musical, currently in development by Tina Fey…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMEver since we heard the totally fetch news that a Mean Girls musical was in the works, we’ve been dying to know who will snag the role of Regina George, the domineering ringleader of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:55PMBecause I don’t read anything about a show before I go see it (I prefer to read about what I was supposed to think after the fact) I thought this was a musical about The Rascals. I also t…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 05:54PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, April 19, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Future Hannigan @janemarielynch on @TheEllenSho…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMThe megahit Mamma Mia! will be moving from the Winter Garden Theater to smaller Broadhurst, now the home of Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks in a limited run. The transfer would clear the way fo…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:44PM"Nurse Jackie" cast member Jake Cannavale will star in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of the world premiere of Mando Alvarado's Basilica, which will begin previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:42PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. at Harvard University has announced that three-time Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston will play the lead role of Lyndon Baines Johnson in Robert S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMUPDATED: Allison Case and Jay Armstrong Johnson from Broadway's recent country-fried musical, Hands on a Hardbody, will offer a special performance of the ballad "I'm Gone" at the broadwayUN…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMBreakfast at Tiffany's will be closing this Sunday, April 21st. A closing notice is always sad and of course we would have liked for this run to continue as long as possible, but the cast of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMThe New Group has canceled preview performances of the new musical Bunty Berman Presents... through April 22 following the injury of cast member Erick Avari.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PMNurse Jackie vet Jake Cannavale, son of Tony-nominated Broadway star Bobby Cannavale, will lead the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater world premiere production of Basilica. Writ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:25PMThe Old Globe today announced the complete cast and creative team for the West Coast Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's quirky and tender comedy Be a Good Little Widow. Directed by Hal Brooks, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMTransport Group will present a one-night only presentation of two wonderful solo pieces by David Greenspan, The Argument and Plays, on Sunday April 28th at 7pm, as part of their Dark Night S…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 05:22PMScholarship is for college studies in musical theater.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:20PMRobert Creighton, most recently seen on Broadway in the acclaimed revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will offer his solo show Ain't We Got Fun! at Manhattan nightspot 54 Below April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMStrindberg’s “Dance of Death” can feel like a turn-of-the-20th-century Scandinavian template for Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMThree-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) will play President Lyndon B. Johnson in the American Repertory Theater's production of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMTony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) makes his Met debut with a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto. The new staging moves the opera's tragic events from a decadent 1…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:09PMHere’s one of my favourite acting exercises. You start with a list of descriptive characters. Here are some examples: A firefighter looking for occupants. A jealous significant other. …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM
Fresh off his stint in Broadway's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Robert Creighton is heading down to 54 Below again–this time to perform a one-night-only solo show. His set will featu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMJane Lynch will offer TV audiences a little preview of her Miss Hannigan on April 25. The future Broadway star will sing Hannigan’s signature song “Little Girls” on her mus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMMusical Mondays @ Curtain Call debuts the new stage adaptation of the children's book Merrilee Mannerly and her Magnificent Manners, by Cynthia Whipple and Mary Cashman, with a score by Jeff…
SOURCE: www.stamfordadvocate.com at 04:54PMCasting has been announced for 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone,' which begins previews April 24 at the Center Theatre GroupMark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center. Opening night is May…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMWaiting For Wings, a new orchestral piece co-written by Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt based on Lois Ehlert's children's book of the same name, will have its world premiere, co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMBWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 10 of our On the Road series, Alex DeLeo and Chris Klink bring us along for th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMBest known for its awards, the group supports college arts students.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:51PMPrior to Lynch stepping into the role of Miss Hannigan in the current Broadway revival of "Annie," Sue Sylvester will croon the orphanage den mother's bilious serenade on the Fox series.read…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:41PMMulti-Emmy Award winner and Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston will play President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of Robert Schenkkan's All the W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:41PMIt's a strongly recommended drama that takes place on Manhattan's Central Park West in a beautifully furnished 14-room apartment, the confusing layout of which eventually becomes a metaphor …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:33PMLucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks in the final work by three-time Academy Award-nominee Nora Ephron and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe, has …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:28PMScholarship is for students who enroll at Missouri colleges, as Pollack did.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:26PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, PRINCE OF BROADWAY, the new musical celebrating legendary Broadway director and producer Harold 'Hal' Prince has been postponed indefinitely due to sche…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMYou can’t be in Austin very long without hearing someone wax lyrical about the Armadillo World Headquarters. If you’re not familiar with that legendary venue, just know that the grandios…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:23PMFox has ordered two more seasons of the hit musical series "Glee," it was announced April 19 by Kevin Reilly, chairman of entertainment of Fox Broadcasting Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMInternational recording superstars Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli reunited onstage earlier this week for a reprise of their smash hit duet 'Time To Say Goodbye', performing it on German …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMThe singer-songwriter Somi, the choreographer Faye Driscoll, the Trusty Sidekick Theater Company and the multidisciplinary artists Ralph Lemon and Okwui Okpokwasili and the visual artist Ale…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:17PMThe Easter weekend came right in the middle of our rehearsals. It was frustrating to stop working but perhaps, we thought, no bad thing to take a few days away from thinking about global con…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:11PM By Mike Hallinan Welcome back readers to the second part, or shall be call it the Hyde side to our two week discussion on Jekyll & Hyde. Where we left Jekyll & H…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 04:10PMOrin Wolf (Once) and Maxwell Williams are developing a new musical based on Eran Kolirin's film The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de Couer prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMProducers Orin Wolf (Once) and Maxwell Williams are developing a new musical based on Eran Kolirin's film The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de Couer prize at the Cannes Film Festival…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMThe Guthrie today announced that it has commissioned Tony Award and Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway songwriter and composer Jason Robert Brown to create an original music piece for its 50t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMAaron Sanders reports live from deep inside the Austin Pig Pile.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:01PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MOTOWN opens on Broadwy, the Gyspy Robe gets passed on, BIG FISH is introduced to Chicago, and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM
Tom Hanks shines in "Guy" and "Years" better than the original.
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SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 03:58PMFrankly Alec Baldwin knows he’s been upstaged in his Broadway return with Lyle Kessler’s “Orphans.” When I asked him at last night’s after party what he thought…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:54PMYes, after an almost four month hiatus, I’m back. I decided to take a break from posting for a couple of reasons: after twelve years, I switched jobs and wanted, no needed, the time to a…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 03:47PMFox has made it possible for fans to stick with Rachel Berry, Kurt Hummel & co. all the way through their Master’s degrees! Yes, in a somewhat surprising move, Glee has been renewe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMTACTThe Actors Company Theatre, the critically acclaimed company recently named Company of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, will celebrate its 20th Anniversary of presenting neglected or…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMRobert Schenkkan’s play about the former president will open at the American Repertory Theater in September.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of April 8-14, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PMAs Group Rep turns 40, co-artistic directors Larry Eisenberg and Chris Winfield balance many considerations as they extend the legacy of the company and its late founder Lonny Chapman. GRT i…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:33PMBroadway veteran Bebe Neuwirth stars in the Amazon original musical comedy BROWSERS premiering tonight, April 19, 2013. Check out a preview of the pilot episode premiering tonight
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMAfter sustaining an injury during rehearsals, Bunty Berman Presents… star Erick Avari (Bunty Berman) has withdrawn from the production. As a result, preview performances from April 19…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMEmmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, who stars in the hit FOX television show “Glee” as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester and who will soon make her Broadway debut as tyrannica…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:22PMToday is the one year anniversary of the passing of Levon Helm (1940-2012), drummer/ singer for The Band. Tonight, Cinema Village is marking the occasion by opening the documentary Ain&…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:22PMOrin Wolf Once and Maxwell Williams are developing a new musical based on Eran Kolirin's film The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de Couer prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMAn Evening of Fun and Southern Hospitality You Won’t Want to Miss: Vienna Theatre Company Presents The Hallelujah Girls If you’re in the mood for a touching, homespun, often hilarious a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMThanks to director Scott Zimmerman and musical director David Jutt and the cast and crew of ‘Zombie Prom’ for having us at rehearsal the other day. Here’s a look at rehears…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:11PMFox has extended musical dramedy “Glee” for two seasons, extending the series through at least 2015. More to come …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMComposers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk offer a star-studded American Songbook Series concert April 19 at Lincoln Center. Here's a glimpse into rehearsals, including performances fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM
Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge star in the Broadway premiere of Lyle Kessler's Orphans, which opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre on April 18. Find out why this gripping play ha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMStrike up the Band! Legendary director and producer Harold Prince will helm a new musical adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film The Band’s Visit, produced by Orin Wolf and Maxwell Willia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:53PMThe four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE officially began its Broadway engagement last night, April 18, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Gram…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMHere’s a look at a recent rehearsal for “Evita” at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, through the lens of Journal News photographer Peter Carr. Thanks to dire…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:35PMIt's 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain's political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes. In th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMTony Award-winning director Harold Prince will stage The Band's Visit, a new musical based on the 2007 Eran Kolirin documentary about an Egyptian band that finds itself lost in a small I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMAudiences are in for a night of brotherly love and gangster hurly-burly when they treat themselves to the intense drama of Orphans. In the Broadway premiere of Lyle Kessler's play, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PMNew York's QUAD Cinema has announced the New York Theatrical run of ONE NIGHT STAND 74 minutes, Elisabeth Sperling's and Trish Dalton's absorbing, adrenaline-pumping debut documentary, fresh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:28PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Marla Mindelle, who is starring as 'Gabrielle' in Cinderella- currently playing at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PMIn 2011, Nick Bilton of The New York Times asked Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, an interesting question: "Did he try to control what you wrote in the book?" …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:13PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Untitled Feminist Show" by Young Jean Lee's Theater Company at the MCA Stage ★★★ݡ
THEATER REVIEW: "Untitled Feminist Show" by Young Jean Lee's Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:13PMI’m a little slow on the uptake. I’ve had the screener for Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Rickey Jay sitting at my house for days, not realizing it had already …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:05PMGet 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 02:03PMWhat if your friend fell for your girl and no enchanted flower could lift the spell? That is the premise of Shakespeare's rarely performed comedy, staged by director Andrew Hilton and Shakes…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
Conor McPherson on why the supernatural is so fascinating and how very self-destructive the Irish psyche is, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:53PMThe cast is simply terrific, moving confidently through William Dudley’s revolving set amid state-of-the-art video backdrops, writes Francis Carlin
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:50PMThe Broadway season is not quite over—still five shows left—but you wouldn't blame critics if they checked into a rest home after this week. They crammed in six opening in fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMPioneer Theatre Company presents the epic musical Les Miserables. Due to popular demand, the production's run has been extended by two weeks. Performances take place May 3 through June 1, 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMSome ironies are so rich they actually make sense. Case in point: "Live lit" events — storytelling at its most low-tech — have become one of the faster-growing entertainment genr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:48PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre web site on the net, is thrilled to announce the latest addition to its unmatched line-up of exclusive, engaging TV programs. Launching today, CUTTING-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMA new Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” is targeting an spring 2014 opening at the St. James Theater. Variety.com reports that though no official opening or …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:38PMThe Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: With the rampant rise of consumerism, envy is a very modern affliction - everybody wants what they can't have, and as such Iago, a great Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:34PMBroadway.com’s Word of Mouth panelists Phyllis, Ruth and Zander caught the Broadway premiere of Lyle Kessler's drama Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge. F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMThe Glee Report Card is back, and we’re here to rate Glee’s fabulous Funny Girl April 18 episode “Sweet Dreams.” This plot-heavy, song-light episode focused…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PMCan we change the title of Jekyll & Hyde, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse’s musical thriller, to “Jekyll & Hyde…& Lucy”? If there is one reason (and from my perspectiv…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:28PMNew musicals involving Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, the authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, and the composer Lin-Manuel Miranda will be part of the Powerhouse Theater’s season in…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:13PMTHEATER OF CRUELTY (TO THE AUDIENCE, THAT IS) A blast from the past, this 1963 curiosity from the once-living Living Theatre is a tribute to author Kenneth H. Brown’s total recall and recr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:13PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway openings of Jekyll & Hyde and Orphans. Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, Tom Sturridge, Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox were there — and so was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMThe New York Times Arts Beat Blog reports that playwright Richard Greenberg has 'tweaked' several lines from his newest play THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES which opened Wednesday evening at the Samue…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
Jeremy Jordan, Sutton Foster, Laura Michelle Kelly and Nikki M. James took to the rehearsal studio to run through tunes for the April 19 Lincoln Center American Songbook Series concert featu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMThis week’s episode starts with us catching up with Finn as he studies at The University of Lima (pretty campus!). It amusingly switches between being sentimental and party central. Pu…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:57PMWelcome back to another episode of Don't Bump Into the Furniture - an irreverent insider look at the world of theatre hosted by actors Oliver Jackson and Sarah Moyle.This week their guests a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:57PMThe Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton has left its creditors, including theatre companies and ticket holders, an estimated £500,000 out of pocket, according to the venue’s administrator. Admin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PMIn her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:56PMI was at a conference last week and had the great privilege of hearing Jane Golden, director of the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program speak. This woman has turned mural painting i…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:49PMIt is with great pleasure that I write this review. Catholic University’s production of Ken Ludwig‘s Shakespeare in Hollywood is professional, outrageously funny, and brimming wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46PMFollowing a national tour, the 13-week limited Broadway engagement of Jekyll & Hyde officially opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre April 18 at 7:15 PM following previews that began…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMSwan, Stratford-upon-AvonPlays, like musicals, often depend on a moment of ecstasy. One occurs at the end of Tanika Gupta's drama, when Abdul Karim, the aged Queen Victoria's Hindi teacher, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMColiseum, LondonAs the recently appointed director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo has been expertly spinning a new grown-up, sexy and very contemporary image for her company. And ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMWyndham's, LondonIt might seem a doomed idea to turn Hjalmar Soderberg's 1905 novel Doktor Glas into a one-man show. It caused a scandal when first published because of its treatment of sex,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMOrphans - The cliche "better late than never" certainly applies to the belated Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler's much produced play, especially with its three orphans outstandi…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:37PMDespite the crush of Broadway shows opening in hopes of nabbing Tony awards, there's no shortage of interesting happening off the main d…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:34PM“This is the story,” declares a feisty Toby Orenstein, co-owner and artistic director of Toby’s Dinner Theatre, which is celebrated and berated in what sometimes seems to be equal meas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMNEW YORK — Lest you imagine the career’s a wrap for 85-year-old Harold Prince, imagine again. Not only is he working on a retrospective musical, “The Prince of Broadway,” based on hi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMFrom time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring Pan Asi…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:27PMFollowing a national tour, the 13-week limited Broadway engagement of Jekyll & Hyde officially opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre April 18 at 7:15 PM following previews that began…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMThis week's topics Bway musical that used existing songs, Schedule of Matildas, Weinstein Company pursues PIPPIN, Shakespeare play on Broadway, Wendy Williams to play Morton, Did Wicked go t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMMultiple Tony Award- and Oliver Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has his sights set on a West End run for his newest musical, Stephen Ward, by the end of 2013. According to a repo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMToday is the birthday of the late Dudley Moore. Just found this hilarious clip of him and comedy partner Peter Cook on the British music program “Ready, Steady, Go”. I can’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:17PMAndrew Lloyd Webber is hoping to premiere his new musical Stephen Ward, based on the 1963 Profumo affair, before the end of the year.According to the Daily Mail, "If the right theatre can be…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:16PMTom Hanks will be lighting up Broadway a little longer. Lucky Guy, the smash-hit play in which the double Oscar winner stars as tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, will extend its limited engage…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:12PMThe Royal Court Theatre in London has helped develop some of the finest young British playwrights to emerge in recent years. This summer it is looking to discover new voices from a surprisin…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:09PMThis winter, when I heard Barry Manilow sing "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" from the stage of the St. James, I realized that this song was now being performed in two Broadway theaters.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:08PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 4192013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
Is anyone on the Northeast Corridor planning to present JEKYLL & HYDE? If so, don’t hesitate to contact Donald J. Simon. The president of the International JEKYLL & HYDE F…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:59AMIn the season one finale of The Princess Diary, Cinderella stars Peter Bartlett and Harriet Harris bring hilarious auto-corrected texts to life. Tip of the hat to editor …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMToday is the birthday of the High Priestess of camp, Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967). I’d like to take a moment and express my concern about the circumstances of the photo above. Does that…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:51AMJosh Young, Jen Cody, "Smash"'s Andy Mientus and Carrie Manolakos took to the rehearsal studio to run through tunes for the April 19 Lincoln Center American Songbook Series concert featuring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMTony and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) will debut the full orchestral version of her latest concert evening, Far Away Places, June 1 and 2 with the New Jersey Symphony Orc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM“Mamma Mia!” is downsizing. The production will transfer from its current home at the Winter Garden Theater to the Broadhurst Theater this year. Both locations are owned by the Shubert O…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:45AMTheater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:43AMOrphans, Lyle Kessler’s three-character drama, opened on April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Emmy winner Alec Baldwin stars as Harold, a gangster held for ransom by two orphan broth…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:41AMMr. Tate, 32, who has his own theater producing and marketing company, tatetheatrics.com, wanted a “regular kind of walk-up building,” rather than a fancy high-rise. Ms. Blackmore, 27, a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMAfter an extensive national tour, Jekyll
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMHello, Dolly! Fully-staged fully-costumed will be presented for two nights only at the brand new Frank Gehry-designed Pershing Square Signature Center on 42nd Street in the heart of New York…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:34AMYesterday, Broadway institution Mamma Mia! announced that it will be vacating its 12-year home at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater and moving south to another Broadway venue, the Broadhurst.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMJekyll & Hyde, the revival of the 1997 musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror novel, opened on April 18 at the Marquis Theatre, starring Tony nominee and American Ido…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:31AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMLondon's Almeida Theatre has announced confirmed dates for the upcoming Headlong coproduction of the world premiere of American Pyscho. The show is based on Brett Easton Ellis' novel of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMFollowing a much-in-the-news rehearsal period, Lyle Kessler's three-person drama Orphans officially opened on Broadway April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Previews began Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMThis morning, the Royal Court Theatre announced Open Court, its summer festival (10 June – 20 July) of plays, ideas and events chosen and suggested by a group of over 140 writers. As well …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:20AMOff-Broadway's new hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER is introducing a "Saturday Late Night Comedy" series immediately after the performance tomorrow evening, April 20th. Written and performe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMRocky the Musical, the new stage production based on the Academy Award-winning film, and featuring a score by Ragtime Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, may arrive on Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMTonight, the Pearl Theatre is opening a bill of one acts by J.M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) called This Side of Neverland. One of the plays on the bill, The Twelve Pound Look” was …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:17AMLooks like Christmas in London is going to be a lot more dangerous as serial killer Patrick Bateman makes his West End debut. The musical adaptation of the thriller American Psycho will play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMLooks like Christmas in London is going to be a lot more dangerous as serial killer Patrick Bateman makes his stage debut. The musical adaptation of the thriller American Psycho will play th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMA monochromatic sensation landed in Bethesda on Thursday night at The Music Center at Strathmore. The Internationally known-Israeli based group, THE VOCA PEOPLE, wowed the audience with thei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMCome if you can!
A reading with Primary Stages
April 23 at 3pm
at 59 E 59 (59 East 59th Street, NYC)
Rare Birds
by Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Jackson Gay
Starring Mar…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:03AMYou know what’s great about kids? They are honest. When we grow up, we learn to be polite. And sometimes that’s boring. And definitely not funny. You know what I mean . . .…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMPlaybill.com has learned that three-time Oscar nominee Diane Ladd will star in the June 27 reading of Scott Alan and Christy Hall's original musical Home, which will be directed by Olivi…
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'Surprise theatre', nightly soap opera, readings by authors and children's week planned under new artistic directorThe Royal Court, Britain's most important theatre for new drama, which has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AM'Surprise theatre', nightly soap opera, readings by authors and children's week planned under new artistic director Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AMFiled under: American Folk/ Country/ Western, Contemporary Variety, Music, PLUGS Tagged: 2013, Brooklyn Folk Festival, Jalopy
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:57AM“There’s a monster in the closet!” might not inspire thoughts of rock music or friendship, but that’s exactly what Laurie Berkner and Barbara Zinn Krieger have created just that. Ada…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:53AMThe playwright Richard Greenberg excised several lines that referred to Boston and to a student bomb-maker at Harvard before the play opened on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:52AMAs always, this will be a star-studded fundraiser, and feature cast members of Broadway, Off Broadway, and tour companies.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:51AMToday is the birthday of Constance Talmadge (1898-1973), the youngest of a silent movie acting clan that also included sisters Norma (1894-1957) and Natalie (1896-1969). Raised in poverty by…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:45AMHave you ever been to a Broadway show and anxiously waited at the stage door for the actors to leave the theatre in hopes of getting their autograph or take a quick photo? The stage door h…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMEach 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 10:42AMEmmy, Grammy and Tony winner (and three-time Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards nominee) Bette Midler is taking a bite out of Broadway as Hollywood agent Sue Mengers in the new play I&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:40AMSierra Boggess, Broadway's Little Mermaid who recently played Christine Daaé during the 25th anniversary celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, is prep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMA by-invitation-only reading of James Hindman's The Drama Department will be presented April 22 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThis week's guest blog comes courtesy of the talented Tim Drucker (CC'd) who is currently working on a new series called Hot Fail. Interested in finding out more about what that is? Read bel…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMYo, Adrian! The new musical adaptation of Rocky, which premiered in Hamburg, Germany in 2012, could be making the move to Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre as early as spring 2014, acco…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans opened last night, April 18, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with many celebrities on hand to support
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMDavid Ives' play opens at the George Street Playhouse
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:18AMThe performing industry can often feel, for many budding young actors, like a daunting and overwhelming environment at the best of times. The unpredictability of this career is, for many bud…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:16AMThe creative team behind the “Pippin” revival has upped the ante on Bob Fosse’s original effects, using circus elements in the opening number, “Magic to Do.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:16AMIn his 1972 book Memoirs, Tennessee Williams says that when people ask him which among his plays is his favorite, "I either say to them, 'Always the latest' or I succumb to my instinct for t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13AMWhatsonstage.com will be co-hosting the live-stream of #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei at Hampstead Theatre from 7.30pm this evening (19 April 2013).
Hampstead artistic director Edward Hall…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:13AMThe cast and creative team of the new Broadway revival of “Pippin” deconstruct their version of the famed opening number, “Magic to Do.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:10AMIf you haven't had the chance to catch up on your theater news, look no further than today's recap of all things theater - exclusive features, interviews, reviews and more - around the Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMAlex Fast, Brad Fryman and William Laney are bringing a big dose of the Canadian countryside to New York City in The Drawer Boy, beginning performances April 19 at off-Broadway’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMOrphans was one of the most talked about shows of the season before it even started previews because of the firing of Shia LaBeouf and his e-mail-posting frenzy on Twitter. It seemed like th…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AMIn response to Monday’s bombings in Boston, Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg made last-minute changes to his new play, "The Assembled Parties," before its Broadway opening on …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM
Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict. In this hour, TED speakers conjure up beauty both ancient and modern, and suggest reasons why humans are hardwired to crave …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:59AMAnd then there were four.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMStar of stage and screen Dick Van Dyke has been forced to cancel an upcoming public appearance due to an undiagnosed neurological problem. The actor was set to accept the Lifetime Achievemen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMCabaret venue the Crazy Coqs has launched a musical open mic night allowing singers and composers to “showcase their talent”. The open mic night began this week at the venue, which is pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMLONDON (Reuters) - A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho", the disturbing tale of a Wall Street banker turned sadistic serial killer, will have its world premiere in London …
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:42AMLesley Manville, Jack Lowden and Will Keen will star in the previously announced new production of Ibsen's Ghosts that Richard Eyre will adapt and direct at London's Almeida Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMLeanne Jones, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her professional debut as London's original Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, will head the cast of a new production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMSince 2000, Broadway.com's Audience Choice Awards have honored the best of the best—so, naturally, Stephen Sondheim has received his share of love from the fans! Shows with scores …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:33AMWhatsonstage.com Award-winner Leanne Jones is set to lead the cast of sci-fi musical Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, which is revived at Leicester Square Theatre from 7 August to 15 Se…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:32AMBaldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge form an unusual family in Lyle Kessler's fascinating "Orphans," at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
SOURCE: NBC New York at 09:31AMThe complete line-up for The West End Men — who will be appearing at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre beginning May 25, prior to an official opening June 3, in a theatrical concer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMAn experiment at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire aims to assess the success gap between male and female dance professionals – putting women back on the front footWhere have all the wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMWill Keen, Jack Lowden and Lesley Manville will star in the Almeida Theatre's upcoming production of Ghosts, running from 3 October to 23 November 2013 (previews from 26 September).
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:27AMNo matter how much the marketing team at the National pushes its £12 Travelex ticket deal in order to diversify audiences, watching a piece designed to ridicule the collective middle class …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMIncoming Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone has announced her inaugural season at the helm of the theatre, both at its home base in Sloane Square and further afield.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMLyle Kessler's three-person drama Orphans officially opened April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMThe Place, London: Once again, the bi-annual Place Prize For dance brings audiences a diverse range of contemporary artistic exploration at the cutting edge of the art form. It also gives th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMAndrew Lloyd Webber hopes to bring his latest musical, Stephen Ward, to the West End before the end of the year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMHoneysuckle Weeks is to star in the UK premiere of Melanie Marnich’s play These Shining Lives. The play is the inaugural production at the Park Theatre, which will open in Finsbury Park, n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMOkie dokie then. This is one that will make you sit up and take notice. Don’t get too comfortable because Lyle Kessler is the kind of writer who likes to move the furniture around – an…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 09:08AMThe Frank Wildhorn-Leslie Bricusse gothic-pop musical Jekyll & Hyde, starring Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox, opened on Broadway April 18 at the Marriot Marquis Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMWallenstein’s director Michael Kahn, poet laureate Robert Pinsky who adapted the original work by Schiller, and lead actor Steve Pickering, all share with the central figure of Wallenstein…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the entire night. Check out photos from the curtain call below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the entire night. Check out photos from the opening night guests on the red carpet below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the entire night. Check out photos of the cast and creative at the opening night party.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMOPEN CALL AUDITION: By Eric Tipler Directed and Choreographed by Craig Cipollini Presented by Belle Époque Productions and the New Musical Foundation as a part of the 2013 Capital Fringe Fe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMCITYDANCE, THE DC COMMISSION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RASTA THOMAS PRESENT THE DREAM CELEBRATION AT WASHINGTON’S HISTORIC LINCOLN THEATRE Proceeds to Support the CityDance DREAM Program …
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Tanika Gupta mixes fact, fiction and musical numbers in illuminating the story of Asians living in Britain during the Raj
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:56AMUnlike the situation in continental Europe, the relationship between Modernism and the English-language stage has always been uneasy. Several “High Modernists” wrote for the stag…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:49AMThe National Ballet of Canada returns to London after a long absence but its rendering of Ratmansky’s ballet is gaudy and too earnest
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:44AMOn last night's AMERICAN IDOL results show, Season Three IDOL winner, Grammy winner and Broadway star, Fantasia, performed her new single, Lose To Win. Check out the performance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:39AMLondon Coliseum: As a corrective to the pretty narrative ballets toured by ENB as a financial imperative, this triple bill is illuminated by a high voltage eroticism. Jiri Kylian's Peti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMImmediately, speculation began at what might replace MAMMA MIA in the theatre, which was previously home to CATS. Today, Michael Riedel reports that Broadway might see a Spring transfer of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:31AMPlaywrights take the reins at the Royal Court.
The post Vicky Featherstone Unveils Open Court Festival appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:29AMToday is the birthday of Virginia Fox (1902-1982). A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, she was a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty by 1919. Within a year, she had become Buster Keaton’s le…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:24AMThe Royal Court Theatre’s new artistic director Vicky Featherstone will present a six-week festival of productions and events chosen by more than 140 writers this summer designed to “giv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMFor my thoughts on what's happening in Boston, go here....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:17AMBAC, London: The crackle of the gramophone gives way to the thunder of drums as the Little Bulb company, in the opulent surroundings of Battersea Arts Centre's Grand Hall, begins to tel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMSome Shakespearean renderings make loud footfalls. This production is one of them.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AMThe over-dosing Dr. Jekyll and his demented alter ego Mr. Hyde are back for the first time since they created their share of havoc on Broadway in 1997
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:13AMIf someone grabbed you on the street and yelled in your face for the next two and a half hours, what would you do? Well, the cast of the Jekyll & Hyde revival at the Marquis scream until…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:12AMThe cliche "better late than never" certainly applies to the belated Broadway debut of Lyle Kessler's much produced play, especially with its three orphans outstandingly portrayed by Alec Ba…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:10AM Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. April 18, 2013 When one thinks of an all Burt Bacharach program, one shudders remembering the ill-conceived Broadway show some years ago entitl…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:04AMTabard, London: A claustrophobic psychological thriller set in 16th century France, Patrick Hamilton's The Duke in Darkness never achieved the success of his earlier plays, Rope and Gas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 19 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLong known for the joyous 'Revelations,' the company visits Los Angeles with a Jewish piece added to its repertoire: Ohad Naharin's 'Minus 16.'Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has long bed…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM
Today is the birthday of Leonard Harper (1897-1943). A second generation performer, he got his start as a child with medicine shows in the rural south. For a time he traveled with a small st…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:59AMOh puh-leeze!!! What in the heck is going on here? Halfway through the first act I leaned over to my chum and said, “I didn’t know we were going to see American Idol! And when I looke…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 07:56AMToday is the birthday of Vivienne Segal (1897-1992). Originally from Philadelphia she was classically trained in voice and made her debut in Carmen in 1915. The following year she went strai…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:23AMAscroft, Croydon: The little dog that launched a whole lift-the-flap publishing phenomenon has seen about 33 birthdays, all told. He's still the exuberant young pup he ever was, as this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMMichele Dumoulin plays Velma, the brainy one, in "Scooby-Doo Live Musical Mysteries."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMOur staff picks the best things to do for the week ahead.
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Sci-fi musical Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is to be staged at the Leicester Square Theatre this summer, starring Leanne Jones. Jones is best know for playing Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMWyndham's Theatre, London: "Life is short, but hours are long," the haunted doctor notes in the course of this solo narration of the story of his unconsummated passion for a female…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThe traditional New Orleans–style funeral processional will organize on April 27 at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:53AMUstinov Studio, Bath: The growing reputation of successive seasons of new plays at the Ustinov is being enhanced this time round by a couple of A-list names among the cast. Diana Quick opene…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMRiverside Studios, London: "Lights up (fade) � three soldiers from three countries are sitting in the belly of a whale." So begins Nineveh, Theatre Temoin's allegorical and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMNew Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone has announced plans for her first season in charge of the venue. Rather than being director-programmed, Featherstone has instead asked ov…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:18AMFollowing a much-in-the-news rehearsal period, Lyle Kessler's three-person drama Orphans officially opened on Broadway April 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Previews began Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15AMInstallation art work is often passed off as theatre these days, so it's refreshing to have a theatrical exposition of installation art in Howard Brenton’s new play about Ai Weiwei, whom t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:09AMIf there was a (realistic) Pinnacle of Social Awkwardness award, it would probably go to the premise of It Never Rains. Being trapped in a house with an estranged ex, the small talk rapidly …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMWho wouldn’t want to watch a sitcom about three magicians who live together and practice law? Somehow Alex, Luke and Vyom’s show gets cancelled, but as luck would have it, the morning TV…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AMPhoto Credit: Isaiah TanenbaumJoshua H. Cohen is a playwright, composer, and lyricist who's work received a Jonathan Larson Grant and has been nominated for multiple awards. His newest play,…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
The first thing to note about Brazil is its sheer size. Its population, nearing 200 million now, occupies an area into which the European Union would fit comfortably. A closer look shows tha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMThere are some plays that knock you sideways. It’s not necessarily the best-written or the most moving, but there are times when something you see on stage chimes with your own circums…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMThe umbrella title for English National Ballet’s latest triple bill suggests decadent abandon.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:32AMThis was a real curiosity. I'm glad I made the trip to the BFI on the South Bank, where each month they exhume forgotten television programmes of the past half century. At the moment there's…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:15AMWhich walking wreck of a Wallander did you prefer on television? The surprisingly convincing Kenneth Branagh version of the wiped-out alcoholic detective, or the more obviously authentic Swe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:14AMIt's the day of the show, y'all. By Gregory Jacobs-Roseman (Composer-Lyricist) First, a disclaimer: any and all photos or video of the rehearsals for the show posted below are done so with p…
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Full dates have now been confirmed for Headlong's musical adaptations of Bret Easton Ellis' cult 1991 novel American Psycho, which Rupert Goold will direct at the Almeida Theatre shortly aft…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:55AMElaine Stritch Isn’t Leaving New York Quietly And we wouldn’t want it any other way If April hasn’t already been declared “Elaine Stritch Month” in New York, it should be. After se…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 04:48AMSong is described as theatre without actors and songs without singers. From Melbourne’s Ranters theatre, it’s an unexpected project from a company known for their exquisite writing and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:44AMTring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire and professional company Ballet Theatre UK have launched a touring dance company to showcase final year students at the college. En…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:35AMBritain’s Got Talent returned to serve up more of the same meticulously stage-managed emotional manipulation disguised as a talent show, with Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMComposers and writers of new musicals will be given a platform to showcase their work at a major new event aimed at raising the profile of up and coming UK talent. Musical Theatre Network an…
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To commemorate its sesquicentennial, BAM Brooklyn Academy Of Music commissioned BAM150, a feature length documentary conceived by award-winning director Michael Sladek that weaves together t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM Best Play Tony Race: 'Parties' vs. 'Guy' By: David ShewardJessica Hecht, Jeremy Shamos, Judith Light in "The Assembled Parties"The crit…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:19AMIn the third of this week's Wall Street Journal drama columns, I review the Broadway premiere of Orphans and a...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMMeet the Actress Portraying Anna Nicole Smith
We welcome the lovely Agnes Bruckner to the Studio, who tells us all about the daunting task of portraying none other than the notorious Anna Ni…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
We’re nearing the end of MICF for 2013. You have probably seen standup, maybe even some improvisational acts or musical comedy. If you want to round out the experience, I’m pretty confid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AMThe Whale is ugly. It’s magnificent. It’s essential. It’s theater. Don't miss this show! (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:20AM By: Ellis NassourBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' very haute couture 27th Annual Easter Bon…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:19AMThe Coolest Thing[Publisher: We are enormously pleased, today, to be offering the first in an occasional series of excerpts from published Canadian books by theatre writers. GLC]Mark Leiren-…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:06AMExcuse Us, We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties...Louis CK's new HBO show arrivesby Gaëtan L. CharleboisFrom the first moments of Louis CK's new special, Oh My God, now in rotation on…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThe Moment of Truthby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonAs I write this I have just finished the first day of tech rehearsal in the theatre with lights and sound and costumes for Taming of The…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, April 18, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AM"Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," the new documentary about the Tony Award-winning stage veteran, premieres April 19 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith the 2012-13 Broadway season coming to a close this month (April 25 is the cut-off date for eligibility for the 67th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a four-part look at the curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Commercial Theater Institute, the New York City-based program committed to the development and training of emerging producers, offers its 32nd annual "3-Day Weekend Producing Intens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winners Nikki M. James and Sutton Foster and Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan and Josh Young are among the performers taking part in composers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 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, officially opens in a pre-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe SoHo Playhouse, which is under the artistic direction of Darren Lee Cole, presents The Drawer Boy beginning April 19 at the Off-Broadway venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAh, to be a leading lady in a great big Broadway show… That's all Motown superstar Diana Ross has ever wanted. But alas — save a brief concert engagement at The Palace Theatre in 1976 a…
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