Two of the world's most terrifically talented leading ladies will be joining together in song for this week's Friday Night Is Music Night concert, IDINA amp FRIENDS on BBC - Tony Award-winni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMMichael Childers' ONE NGHT ONLY performed on April 24 at the McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts, with special guest Carol Channing. Watch the cast sing 'Hello, Dolly' below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:35PMThe previously announced Broadway in South Africa 5th Anniversary Celebration-a star-studded concert of original music based on essays and letters from South African students who participate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMIt's Latin Night on Dancing with the Stars, as seven remaining couples take to the ballroom floor and perform to a Latin-inspired hit, MONDAY, APRIL 29 800-1001 p.m., ET. In a new twist and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMSelect members of the Chicago cast of “Book of Mormon” will perform in a one-night-only cabaret fundraiser, Monday, April 29 at 7:30pm, at The Laugh Factory, 3175 North Broadway.…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:24PMIt seemed like a stunt at first, inviting the audience on stage to see the set of “The Testament of Mary” – the live vulture (we’re told his name is Pinhead), the cave underneath the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that it will present the 2013 Regional Theatre Award to the Huntington Theatre Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Each year, the Tony Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PM50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL,” the original, critically-hailed parody of the phenomenally popular books, is taking its whips, feather dusters and outrageous laughs on a tour of North America. Th…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:04PMOur featured composer this week is Ryan Scott Oliver. Here is his song Halfway sung by Morgan Karr Spring Awakening and Jay Armstrong Johnson Hands on a Hardbody at our Cutting-Edge Compose…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMThe last Broadway show of the 2012-13 season opened this week, which means that the upcoming madness of the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards (and something called the Tonys) is soon upon …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:03PMThe members of the Tony Award nominations committee better look out: They've snubbed four girls who play a tough little telekinetic heroine on Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:01PMInterviews with artistic directors come and go. Sometimes they are interesting, sometimes they are boring, and just occasionally they make you drop the proverbial marmalade. Step forward Mik…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:01PMA ROCKY ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROMANCE In mountaineering lingo, “committing” refers to forcing yourself into a place of no return leaving nowhere to go but forward; and so it is with life, loss …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PMPatina Miller, Matthew James Thomas and the cast of Pippin had magic to do on April 25, when the new circus-inspired revival officially opened on Broadway! Celebrate opening night with the s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:00PMBroadway's Leslie Kritzer (Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Sondheim on Sondheim) returns to Joe's Pub April 29 for the next installment of her current show Beautiful Disaster. The one-woman comed…
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Bette Midler made her grand return to Broadway as super-agent Sue Mengers in John Logan’s I’ll Eat You Last, and on hand to welcome her back were the biggest stars from stag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:59PMTHE PETITE POLITIQUE Few playwrights have it as good as Beau Willimon at the moment; he’s a critical and commercial success on all three major platforms—stage, screen, and stream. His pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54PMRob Marshall's big-screen adaptation of Into the Woods continues to inch along toward a planned 2014 shoot date, and Variety reports that he's in talks with Johnny Depp (who had his first cr…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:51PMBroadwayWorld recently chatted with featured performer Laura Osnes about her upcoming appearance in the special celebration
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:49PMAt the Fountain Theatricals, a new theatre organization at Stanford University officially announced their Inaugural Event earlier this week with a date set for May 17 at 3pm. The organizatio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:47PMThe seats are cardboard boxes in a truck for playgoers making the journey with the immigrants of “La Ruta.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMWith The Silent Language, TUTA Theatre provides exceptional sensory delight for children and adults alike, providing an experience you can’t get anywhere else. It’s well worth a trip to …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:40PMDiscovery in adolescence; a true coming of age story with the trials of love, sexuality, and death all hovering on the horizons of existence. A stunningly profound musical, winner of 8 Tony …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:38PMTony-winning legend Barbara Cook is debuting her new jazz show at 54 Below. We went in rehearsal with Cook to get a sneak peek and find out why fans will be surprised by Cook’s set lis…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:33PMFor those craving a show after the show, stop by 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street. Loosen your tie and enjoy as Broadway's n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PMTony Award nominee Jonathan Groff has joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's HBO screen adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PMBoston's Huntington Theatre Company has been named the recipient of the 2013 Tony Award for Regional Theatre, the Tony Award administration committee announced April 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:20PMBroadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Jonathan Groff is the latest addition to director Ryan Murphy’s star-studded film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:14PMIn Episode 10, Part 1 of THE GRAHAM SHOW, 'Never Satisfied, A New Canvas amp Your Day,' casting director Bernie Telsey shares his advice for actors, his point of view as a casting director, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07PMThe big moment has finally arrived for Broadway.com video blogger Alan Cumming: Opening night of Macbeth! Find out why Broadway opening nights are like speed dating and watch the Tony w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that it will present the 2013 Regional Theatre Award to the Huntington Theatre Company of Boston, Massachusetts.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 06:01PMRoger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedy Pippin opened last night, April 25, 2013, at Broadway's Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street. This all-new produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PM
A behind-the-scenes feature on the Broadway musical Cinderella -- now at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway at 53rd St. -- will be telecast on E News tonight, April 26 at 7 p.m. and 1130 p.m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, April 26, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway MOTOWNMusical stars on @CBS national and local t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:53PMJohnny Depp is in talks to star as the Baker in Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical Into the Woods, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dep…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:43PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Yellow Moon" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Yellow Moon" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe ★★ ... This should be an edgy, frenetic,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:38PM'Not Exactly Broadway' is a jamboree concert where Broadway artists will display their own original tunes while sharing the stage with other up and coming NYC Pop writers amp singers. This j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMThe recipients of the first annual Berwin Lee Playwrights Awards were announced on April 24. The 2013 winners are Bathsheba Doran (US recipient) and Lucy Kirkwood (UK recipient), who each re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PMAlec Baldwin is currently starring alongside Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge in ORPHANS on Broadway, and he talked to 'Extra's' AJ Calloway about the experience, the play's physicality, and add…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMJanet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes – the perfect neighborhood until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents. Rai…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:23PMAmerican Airlines, which has served the New York market for more than 80 years, has been named the Official Airline of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL. With a keen understanding of the needs of New York …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMNora Ephron's last written work, Lucky Guy, will be featured in the upcoming collection The Most of Nora Ephron, scheduled to be published by Knopf October 29 35.00. The book will only be av…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMTony Award winning, Kennedy Center Honree and Broadway and concert legend Barbara Cook The Music Man, She Loves Me, Candide, Sondheim on Sondheim, Tony Award-winner Steve Kazee Once, 110 in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMThe 35th anniversary revival of the rags to riches Broadway classic, Annie, has announced that the cast album recorded this past March at the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios will feature ad…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:04PMThere was magic in the air on April 25, when the new circus-inspired revival of Pippin officially arrived Broadway! Directed by Diane Paulus, the new mounting of Stephen Schwartz’s bel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK The gyspy robe gets passed again, Alan Cumming leads the Scottish play, and PIPPIN comes back to Braodway, and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMJason Wells' The North Plan examines a dystopian government's intrusions into personal privacy via a small-town police station. It isn't necessarily a Republican government , but the play is…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
As BroadwayWorld.com previously reported, Meryl Streep will play the witch in the upcoming big screen adaptation of INTO THE WOODS. Now according to Variety, Johnny Depp is currently in talk…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMAt Friday morning's "Creativity Conference" sponsored by TIME, Microsoft and the Motion Picture Association of America, the media masses assembled at the Corcoran Gallery of Art to discuss c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:57PMSinging-dancing mischief-maker Joey Evans is the ideal match for two-faced Chicago, its organized crime and morals-be-damned nightlife, or so says composer-lyricist team Richard Rodgers and …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:52PMUniversal Music Enterprises has announced that the original Broadway cast album of Motown: The Musical, the new Broadway production about the life of music legend Berry Gordy and featuring h…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:50PMWho should be nominated for 2013 Tony Awards? TONY’s experts choose the best of the Broadway season.
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:49PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Pippin. Diane Paulus, Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas and Andrea Martin were there - so was Playbill.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMThe Tony Awards committee has met. White smoke has come up out of their tower. And now we know a few things we didn’t before. Namely: the four young actresses who alternate as the main…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:44PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Pippin. Diane Paulis, Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas and Andrea Martin were there - so was Playbill.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMThe new Broadway production of Macbeth starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, which opened April 21 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, has added an additional twelve performances, and will no…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:39PMSelect members of the Chicago cast of “Book of Mormon” will perform in a one-night-only cabaret fundraiser, Monday, April 29 at 7:30pm, at The Laugh Factory, 3175 North Broadway.…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:39PMSo much for Broadway's gallop toward cutting-edge musicals and boundary-pushing content. The season, which officially ended Thursday, did have a late rush of fascinating new plays. But when …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:38PMEric Morin, Stephen Patterson. Photography: Joanna AkyolThe Joyful Dysfunctions of a Modern Familyby Christian BainesFalsettos is possibly one of the most disarming ‘downer’ shows out th…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:32PMTickets are now on sale for the upcoming off-Broadway comedic drama Rantoul and Die. The production is scheduled to open on June 5 at the Cherry Lane Theatre, where it will run through July …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMThe cast of Broadway's KINKY BOOTS pored over your entries and they've chosen a winner - click below to find out who has won to tickets to the hit show
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMIt's that time of year, actors! The final Tony Awards eligibility considerations were announced on Friday, and the verdict is in: The four Matildas have won the Tony.
Well, a special Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:26PMThe film would mark the actor's first singing role since starring in Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:25PMI open with two examples—let’s call them “behind-the-scenes snapshots” for dramatic purposes—from the devising frontlines of dog & pony dc, the ensemble company I co-lead. Shor…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PMZachary Quinto is going from sci-fi to the stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25PMTwo weeks ago, as I entered The Public Theater’s LuEsther Hall for David Byrne’s world-premiere musical Here Lies Love to thumping disco beats, a seductively enveloping haze, and the eer…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 04:24PMOPENING BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS. Raven Theatre presents Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical story about growing up in Brooklyn in the years before World War II. Directed by Cody Estle. Previ…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:20PMHe who would not leaveby David SklarWe’ve all been there (and if you haven’t, count yourself lucky). We invite a friend to crash at our place, but they end up overstaying their welcome. …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:19PMAcademy Award-nominated actor Johnny Depp, who starred on screen in the title role of "Sweeney Todd," is in talks to appear in the Rob Marshall-helmed film adaptation of Stephen So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMThe four young actresses alternating in the title role on Broadway of the Roald Dahl musical adaptation have been tagged to receive special recognition on awards night.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:16PMwritten by Paulanne Simmons Singers Forum Actors Equity Scholarship Program offers members of Actors Equity affordable vocal lessons from Singers Forum’s roster of musical theater p…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:11PMBrave New World Enterprises, LLC has completed casting for its pre-Broadway workshop table reading of the new musical based on Aldous Huxley's novel, BRAVE NEW WORLD.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMl-r Shiong-en Chan, Danielle Desormeaux (photo by: Ange J. Murphy)Head and Heartby Caitlin MurphyApril has been quite the news month for stories that challenge our ideas about res…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:05PMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:04PMThe Parties Assemble, but Don't Do Much Else
By Lauren Yarger
I am not a fan of plays that make me work. I want to go to the theater and be entertained or thoroughly swept into the action/em…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 04:03PMIt’s not only a brave new world, it’s a hunky one. Main Stem faves Kyle Dean Massey (Wicked, Next to Normal), Colin Hanlon (Rent) and Josh Segarra (Dogfight, Lysistrata Jones) ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PMJujamcyn Theaters Jordan Roth, President and True Colors Theatre Company Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director have announced the judges for the 5th Annual August Wilson Monologue Compet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMIt's Tony time on Broadway, and as always, we can't stop thinking about who'll be going for the gold on June 9! In anticipation of the 2013 nominations, which will be announced o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PMScott Andrews proves that some of the best soloists come from the ranks.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:00PM
Anderson Lawfer, artistic director of Strawdog Theatre Company’s Hugen Hall, is proud to announce the world premiere of The Hunting Of The Snark, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll and …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:59PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of April 15-21, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMTony Award nominee Patina Miller, who stars as the Leading Player in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Pippin, said "yes" to boyfriend David Mars following the opening-night perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMBroadwayWorld has been given an extensive look at the new Off-Broadway production of Wendy Beckett's LOVE THERAPY, featuring New York notable Alison Fraser, and we have a slew of exclusive p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMLydia Mokdessi on Gwen Welliver's Beasts and Plots.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:43PMThe stars of Motown: The Musical hit the national and local airwaves this weekend with two dedicated television segments. “CBS This Morning” host Anthony Mason will welcome Tony Award no…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:42PMThe committee administering the awards contradicted a precedent set when three performers playing “Billy Elliot” were jointly eligible, and won, the top Tony.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39PMStage Entertainment USA and Sylvester Stallone have announced that the new musical, Rocky, will come to Broadway in 2014, beginning preview performances in February and officially opening in…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:29PM 2 ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ To Play Final Performance on Broadway June 15 The producers of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It have announced tha…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:24PMSing Along, a short film with an all-star cast, will have its world premiere this Sunday in New York City. Filmed in Midtown Manhattan in October 2012, the movie follows a 14-year-old boy wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMNEW YORK (AP) — The members of the Tony Award nominations committee better look out: They've snubbed four girls who play a tough little telekinetic heroine on Broadway. &n…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:21PMBroadway is buzzing about the possible stage debut of Easy A and Amazing Spider-Man star Emma Stone, who may star in the forthcoming 2014 revival of Cabaret, according to The Wrap.
Stone …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMThe Broadway community will gather together to celebrate the life and show business legacy of beloved Broadway performer Kevin Gray on Monday, May 13 at 2PM at The Majestic Theatre 247 West …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMFollowing an acclaimed opening on April 11 at the Shubert Theatre, MATILDA THE MUSICAL was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal and on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Read and l…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:18PMThe Phantom of the Opera alum Kevin Gray, who passed away at age 55 on February 11 will receive a memorial service at Phantom’s Broadway home, the Majestic Theatre. A Celebration …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the fourth and final time this season to determine the eligibility of eighteen Broadway productions for the 2013 American Theatre Wing'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMBroadwayWorld has just confirmed the joyous news that PIPPIN star Patina Miller was engaged last night at an opening night celebration for the new Broadway revival. According to the show's r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Charl Brown, who is starring as 'Smokey Robinson' in Motown- currently playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PM
Two-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser is back on the New York stage in Love Therapy, described as a "seductive" new drama by Australian playwright Wendy Beckett. The play centers on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMSchoenfeld Theatre, Broadway
By Jordan Swisher
BOTTOM LINE: This drama about two brothers and the father figure they never had features a powerhouse trio of performers all living up …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 02:54PM By Mike Hallinan Hello readers, last we left off we had a rather lengthy spook-light on Jekyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn. Though I know you fans of the dark musical m…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 02:54PMNEW YORK (AP) — The members of the Tony Award nominations committee better look out: They've snubbed four girls who play a tough telekinetic heroine on Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:50PMMASTERWORKS BROADWAY has announced the release of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots. Produced by Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Oremus, William Wittman and Sammy James, Jr., the alb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMMembers of the Broadway community will gather May 13 at the Majestic Theatre to remember late Phantom of the Opera star Kevin Gray, who died earlier this year at the age of 55. Harold Prince…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMSophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro, the young ladies who share the title role in the new musical Matilda, will receive special Tony Honors for Excellence in the Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PMThe John W. Engeman Theater will continue its Broadway Concert Series May 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMAccording to a report released this week by the Brookings Institution, actress, singer, and comedienne extraordinaire Bette Midler is finally back on The Great White Way in a dynamite new on…
SOURCE: The Onion at 02:34PMForty New York City high school students are going to Alan Cumming's one-man "Macbeth" on Broadway thanks to the kindness of strangers.
English teacher Eric Jordan of Frederick Douglass Acad…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:33PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee assembled April 26 for the fourth and final time this season to determine the eligibility of 18 Broadway productions for the 2013 American Theatre Wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met on April 26 for the fourth and final time this season to determine the eligibility of 18 Broadway productions for the 2013 Tony Awards, which wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PMAn article in today's The Wrap reports that Emma Stone is currently in talks to make her Broadway debut in the upcoming revival of CABARET in the role of Sally Bowles. The story cites 'an in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMOK, so what it lacks in suspense it more than makes up for in thrill factor. Westchester’s Sophia Gennusa, and her fellow “Matilda” stars Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Mil…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:23PMMax Crumm won our hearts (and the role of Danny Zuko) in the TV reality competition You’re the One That I Want. After making his Broadway debut in Grease opposite Laura Osnes, Crumm re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMWhen 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 02:20PMThe minister probably means well but has cooked up a strategy in which cake can rescue a crumbling economy, writes Tim Harford
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:19PMSee the fourth and final round of eligibility determinations of shows and performers for the 2013 Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 02:16PMChromolume Theatre revives its production of James de Jongh's Do Lord Remember Me, drawn from accounts of ex-slaves who were interviewed in the '30s. Director Wilson Bell discusses the lates…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:11PMAcademy Award nominee Annette O'Toole directs the world premiere of Jeffrey Sweet's Kunstler, featuring Jeff McCarthy and Keona Welch, for the Hudson Stage Company beginning April 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMMaybe this time Emma Stone will be lucky - on Broadway. The "Easy A" star is in negotiations to play Sally Bowles in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret," a source close to the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00PMIt's difficult to see that attitudes to extreme disability have improved much since Peter Nichols first wrote his groundbreaking black comedy, inspired by the experience of bringing up his o…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
“One Night Stand” is a documentary about casting, rehearsing and performing a musical, all in 24 hours.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 01:43PMThe Tony Awards' latest decree about actors' category placement has whipped up real drama among our expert prognosticators.
"Making the girls from 'Matilda' ineligi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:42PMLast Tuesday night was the opening of “The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream,” a Broadway reunion of the New Jersey rock band that broke up in 1970.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:42PMPerforming at 54 Below, Barbara Cook sings an earthy, direct mix of pop, jazz and blues that has the feel of a conversation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:41PMThe Collegiate Chorale announces the addition of Anita Gillette, Jim Dale, and Joe Mohan to the line-up for the upcoming performance of Song of Norway by Robert Wright and George Forrest on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMPippin star Patina Miller had the most magical night ever on April 25—she celebrated her official opening on Broadway, and she also got engaged! Miller’s real-life leading man Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:37PMSupremely elegant, and still on stage at 76, the actor has mellowed her political stance, and now worries about interns, sexism and austerity in the arts, writes Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:28PMThe Large Bathers by Paul CézannePaul Cézanne may be unique among great painters in that, well - he couldn't really paint all that well. I know; that sounds paradoxical; perhaps…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:28PMThe tenor takes centre stage as ‘Peter Grimes’ – an opera about a man at odds with himself and society – returns to Aldeburgh, writes Andrew Clark
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:27PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that Universal Music Enterprises will release the cast album for MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, which opened earlier this month at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, on June 4, 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMTonight we're taking over 100 theatregoers to see Rent in Concert at Hackney Empire, followed by a post-show Q&A with the cast, which includes Kerry Ellis and Superstar runner-up Rory Taylor…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:21PMDirector Maria Aberg walks a canny line between rendering the play contemporary and preserving its keen sense of locality, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:19PMRoger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedy Pippin opens tonight, April 25, 2013, at Broadway's Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street. This all-new productio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMThe Muny announced principal casting for the second show of its fantastic 95th Season, Dreamworks Shrek The Musical, directed by John Tartaglia and choreographed by Vince Pesce. Shrek is spo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMNick Adams, Corey Mach, Kate Rockwell and Wallace Smith are among the performers set for Broadway Backs Boston, an evening where Broadway performers will come together to support those affec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMSinger, actor, writer, director and producer Barbra Streisand plays a well-meaning if overbearing Jewish mom in The Guilt Trip. The star says her own mother both encouraged her talents and w…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:10PMThe power went out on Glee on April 25, but the show didn’t need electricity to electrify fans in the episode entitled “Lights Out.” This was Glee’s best episode sinc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM“SHAKESPEARE PRESENTED AFRESH? IT REALLY MUST BE SPRING.” - The New York Times (CLICK HERE to read the full review) THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN’S NEW PRODUCTION OF SHAKESPEAR…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:08PMWhat's Up With All the Producers of Rebecca Major or Minor Being Subpoenaed?: Rebecca, the Broadway joke at The Easter Bonnet. is about to get more tuneful in dramatics. The U.S. Securities …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:07PMDropped by rehearsal for “Footloose” at Alexander Hamilton High School in Elmsford with photographer Ricky Flores. Thanks to producer Rob Jacoby and director-choreographer Lexie …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:02PMWinners are announced at the Royal Opera House on Sunday (28 April) of the 2013
Olivier Awards, in association with MasterCard.Whatsonstage.com will be there, providing live Twitter coverag…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:02PMAfter watching Stanley Tucci's 2007 film Blind Date, No Rules Theatre Company's producing artistic director Brian Sutow knew he had to adapt it for the stage. "I immediately felt that it was…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:02PMFinborough, LondonThe Finborough never fails to surprise. When I was last here, a Glasgow tenement had been built on the tiny stage; this time there's a full band, and very good they are, to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMThe Fulton Theatre continues its 160th Anniversary Season with the show business musical Dreamgirls, representing the first time the show has been presented in the Lancaster region.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM
Primary Stages will produce a revival of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies' 1995 black comedy The Model Apartment as the fourth production in its 2013-14 season, which will also inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMThe full cast has been announced for the new production of Barnum that will premiere at Chichester's Theatre in the Park, beginning performances July 15 prior to an official opening July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThis weekend, you can encounter cowardly lions, dancing zombies, hard-working secretaries, legal eagles, upwardly mobile window-washers, teens itching to dance, twenty-somethings itching to …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:39PM(This post is a part of the Diversity & Inclusion blog salon led by Online Curator Jacqueline E. Lawton for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas. This post was orig…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:37PMIn the wake of the horrors of last week, Jazz Week 2013 comes as almost an act of defiance, an insistence that life will go on in all sectors of the Boston community.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PMMichael Bubl took to the NYC Subway stop at W. 67th Street yesterday for an impromptu acapella performance of 'Who's Lovin' You' -off his new album 'To Be Loved' - with the group Naturally 7…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThe new revival cast recording of Broadway’s Annie will include three bonus tracks featuring the musical’s upcoming headliner Jane Lynch. The album, released for digital download…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:33PMBurn the Floor, the international ballroom dance show, is to shutter at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre June 30. It was originally booking through Sept. 1, 2013, having begun performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMArts prizes clearly have a function beyond making obscure artists more visible and a little less poor. In the case of The Place Prize for choreography, now in its fifth edition, it also enab…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:30PMThe cast recording of the 2012 Broadway revival of James Lapine's new production of ANNIE will feature three bonus tracks by Glee star and replacement Miss Hannigan Jane Lynch in addition to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMThey’re both rebels in leather jackets, but New Rochelle High School junior A.J. Salvaggio, 16, sees one big difference between Danny Zuko — the greaser with a soft spot in ̶…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:30PMTheatre Under The Stars TUTS is excited to announce the cast for the outrageous musical comedy Spamalot, running May 14 - 26 at the Hobby Center for The Performing Arts. Lovingly ripped off …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMA cast album for the 35th anniversary Broadway revival of Annie, starring Lilla Crawford, Anthony Warlow and Tony Award winner Katie Finneran, will be available for purchase at the Palace Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMHello groovy readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of It Goes Like This, now playing at Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center in West Hollywood. Cli…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:24PMShout! Broadway is pleased to announce the release dates for the New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording for ANNIE. The CD will be available for purchase at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:22PMSecond Stage Theatre’s 2013 Uptown Series will kick off with the world premiere of Erica Lipez’s The Tutors, directed by Thomas Kail. The play begins previews on May 22 and opens…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:20PMIsadora Duncan, believer in free love and barefoot dance, had many children. Some of them are in this room. “Bankrupt. Bolsheviks at the door. There is no money for our school,” frets ac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMThe current predicament of the perennially cash-strapped classical troupe WSC Avant Bard is no joke, yet its scrappy response sets up an obvious one-liner. Q: What play sounds right for a su…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMAnd they said the gentle art of literary criticism was dead, confined to irrelevance. Not this week, gentle reader. Not in Chicago. Not in the heat of L'affaire de Shteir. What book review i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PMPrincipal casting has been announced for the St. Louis Muny's upcoming production of Shrek The Musical, which will begin performances at the famed outdoor venue June 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMIt first opened on the Great White Way in 1972 and now the first ever Broadway revival of the hit musical "Pippin" has made its debut.
SOURCE: NY1 at 12:07PMPrimary Stages has announced that a new production of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment will complete their previously announced 2013-2014 season. Evan Cabnet will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMSpider-Man: Turn off the Dark star Reeve Carney celebrated his birthday at Jekyll & Hyde club in Times Square on April 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMToday’s exercise is all about the list and the time limit. Both of which are excellent motivators in getting words on the page. That is the key to writing. We are writers, we are not w…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 4262013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
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Loosely based on blond, finger-wagging TV personality Suze Orman, Dee Hoty's Eve -- a former waitress dumped by her man when she was eight months pregnant -- is as terrifying as she is mesme…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:59AMI met Pavel Dobrusky in the 1980’s shortly after he defected from Czechoslovakia. He came to Perseverance Theatre in Alaska where I was the producing director and a playwright and actor …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:58AMRussell Harvard decided to be an actor at the age of seven when he saw his cousin playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. That ambition was confirmed when his aunt took him…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AMKevin Spirtas will play the role of of Hannibal Lecter’s nemesis 'Dr. Chilton' from 04 May 2013 in the Off-Broadway musical SILENCE! The Musical, playing at the Elektra Theatre. Spirtas as…
SOURCE: New York Theatre Guide at 11:49AMThe SoHo Playhouse presents The Drawer Boy beginning April 19 at the Off-Broadway venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMA blind date can be a boon or a bust for two strangers seeking romance. But what if the couple know each other and use blind dates as a game in an attempt to keep a spark in their relationsh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AMThe hit web series returns after a brief hiatus to find Jacob (series co-creator Wesley Taylor) cleaning up after a wild party and contending with both his ex-boyfriend (Gideon Glick) and cu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe first Broadway revival of Pippin opened on April 25 at the Music Box Theater. Featuring a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson, the musical focuses on the titular char…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:43AMLouis Ozawa Changchien (Second Stage's Warrior Class), Matt Dellapina (The Dream of the Burning Boy), Aubrey Dollar (Guiding Light), Keith Nobbs (Lombardi), and Chris Perfetti (Picnic) are s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMIf It Only Even Runs A Minute 11 is the eleventh edition of the Bistro Award-winning series of rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales, and inspiring photos from Broadway musicals that may not h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMI wrote about him last year in Commentary. This is part of what I said there: Country music, needless to...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AM“Thrilling! A stroke of genius!” – The Associated Press “The season’s Best Musical, jazz hands down!” – USA Today Everything has its season……
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:31AMIt's Tony time on Broadway, and as always, we can't stop thinking about who'll be going for the gold on June 9! In anticipation of the 2013 nominations, which will be announced o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch recently announced that she would be leaving New York City for good, after 71 years here, to relocate to her home state o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMThree score and ten is the life expectancy the bible allots us, and that is the age at which the film critic Roger Ebert died on April 4. He was, as the lengthy obituaries declared, the most…
SOURCE: John Simon at 11:30AMMCC Theater announced plans today to produce a staged reading of Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on June 17. The one-night-only event, cele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMInside the Choreography of “Here Lies Love” Choreographer Annie-B Parson, who founded Big Dance Theater in New York City, creates with a post-modern style all her own, and while …
SOURCE: TDF at 11:26AMToday is the birthday of Anita Loos (1889-1981), best known today as the author of Gentleman Prefer Blondes. We write about her today (and in our recent book Chain of Fools) because she w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:21AMA summer release is planned for the off-Broadway cast recording of Marry Me a Little. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this completely sung-through show weaves together several of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMWASHINGTON, D.C.—Twelve Students from five states and the District participate in the second-annual Ford’s Theatre National Oratory Retreat, May 3 through 5 in Washington, D.C. During th…
SOURCE: fords.org at 11:16AMA British scandal, indeed! Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Stephen Ward is looking to land at the Aldwych Theatre on the West End, according to the Daily Mail. Co-created by Lloyd We…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMThe original Broadway cast album for Motown: The Musical, featuring new renditions of hits from Motown Records, will be released June 4 by Universal Music Enterprises, Playbill.com has confi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMTony Award nominee Patina Miller invites audiences into the circus tent housed at the Music Box Theatre, where the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThe company of the Keen Company production of Marry Me A Little, Lauren Molina and Jason Tam, will enter the studio today, April 26th, to preserve the Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMIn the 80s, Andrew Lloyd Three Names released a bunch of recordings of his shows, before they were actually completed shows. Jesus Christ Three Named Show was one of the first . . . but Evi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMPick a day this week, any day. There was a Broadway opening. It's that time of year, friends.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Tony Award nominee Patina Miller invites audiences into the circus tent housed at the Music Box Theatre, where the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMWith every amazing journey, there is an ending..an ending that comes all too soon. Now that the show has opened my duties have ended, and I will no longer be blogging every day. This exper…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:55AMLouis Ozawa Changchien, Matt Dellapina, Aubrey Dollar, Keith Nobbs and Chris Perfetti will star in the world premiere of Erica Lipez's The Tutors, which will kick off Second Stage Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMMade my second trip to Walter Panas this calendar year, without a photographer, so I took out the ol’ Nikon and tried my best. Director Jim Filippelli apologized for the lack of charac…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:52AMLet it go! The current U.K. tour production of The Full Monty will settle down at the Noel Coward Theatre beginning on February 15, 2014.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports that The Full…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:44AMDavid Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s new musical Here Lies Love has announced an additional four-week extension at the Public Theater. Due to popular demand, the Alex Timbers-directed musical…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:43AMChichester Festival Theatre will unveil its temporary state-of-the-art auditorium, Theatre in the Park, with a major new production of the musical Barnum, presented in association with Camer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMJake Silbermann makes his Broadway debut in the dual role of ScottyTim in Tony-winner Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties. The talented actor spoke with BWW about Greenberg's new hit p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMThe Keen Company's 2012 revival of the Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me A Little, which starred Lauren Molina and Jason Tam, will receive an Off-Broadway revival cast recording to be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMIf 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 10:30AMThis week's guest blog comes courtesy of Adrienne Muller and Radio Musik. I met Adrienne as she was making her transition from performing to producing and have enjoyed seeing her progress. T…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMRed Bull Theater will present a staged reading of The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie April 29 at 7:30 PM at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMGillian Lynne, a former prima ballerina and choreographer of countless West End shows including Cats and Phantom of the Opera, will receive a special award for outstanding contribution to th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:29AMThe setting is the dilapidated, modest Connecticut farmhouse of tenant farmer Phil Hogan during a fateful eighteen hours between early afternoon of one day in early September, 1923, and sunr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:27AMDeborah Cox currently stars as Lucy Harris in the Broadway revival of Jekyll & Hyde. Here are performances from her Broadway outings, R&B career and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMPORTER IS THE ONE WHO CARRIES THIS SHOW H.M.S. Titanic, they say, was unsinkable, but the S.S. American — the setting for Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, his biggest hit before Kiss Me Ka…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:26AMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce a two week extension for The Assembled Parties, the world premiere play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC’s award-winnin…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:24AMThe Wall Street Journal 04/26/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMToday is also the birthday of Bobby Rydell (Robert Ridarelli, b. 1942). The Philly native started out as a child performer — he appeared on Paul Whiteman’s television program as …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMThe David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical about Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos has become a tight ticket, in part because it’s playing in a theater that can hold only 160 people. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:16AMThe Public Theater has extended its critically acclaimed production of the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, which will now continue to immerse audiences in the world of Filipi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMNew 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 10:12AMThanks to the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, fans are able to show their love and appreciation for their favorite Broadway play, musical, revival, actor, actress and more. But what abo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM“It is so large,” says successful 19th century artist Jules when he gets his first glimpse of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” And yet, when …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:10AMAndrea Burns currently stars as Carmen in the Broadway burlesque drama The Nance. This standout singer, known to fans for her roles in In the Heights, Songs for a New World and The Full Mont…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:07AMThe rock concept album Lizzie, which tells the story of accused axe murderess Lizzie Borden, will be released by Broadway Records June 14. The double-disc set will feature Carrie Manolakos a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMLet me start with John Logan's I'll Eat You Last and why this column might as well have been titled, "Why Bette Midler Should Receive a Tony Nomination."
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01AMOld Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein's inaugural season kicks off with The Last Goodbye, a new musical that marries Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the electrifying songs of the le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM
There are over 100 films to choose screening tomorrow through Wednesday. To get you started, here are four that I have seen and highly recommend.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMDrew Seely stars in the ABC Family original TV movie Lovestruck The Musical which had its World Premiere on Sunday, April 21. The talented actor spoke about his experience filming the exciti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMThe Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards ceremony makes all manner of Broadway stars excited—but some get more riled up than others! Which 2013 BACA nominee embraced her inner Kanye Wes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMOn the April 25 broadcast of "American Idol," it was announced that the final four contestants – Amber Holcomb, Angie Miller, Kree Harrison and Candice Glover – will al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMDiane Paulus' revival of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's classic musical Pippin, which played an acclaimed run this past winter at
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMThe other night at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Cuba Gooding Jr. came bounding onto the stage.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 09:42AMThe HighTide festival of new writing begins in Suffolk, the Celtic festival is in full swing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Wales and GIFT offers boundary-breaking work in GatesheadScotland and No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMToday is the birthday of Duane Eddy (b.1938), whom along with producer Lee Hazelwood, was progenitor of the “twangy” sound, heard on such hits as “Rebel Rouser” and &…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:39AMThe Seagull gets a racy makeover, Othello decamps to a modern military base and Cherkoui's dancers are beautifully and violently busy … it's the week on stage as seen by Tristram KentonTri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMBrave New World Enterprises, LLC will present an industry reading of the new musical Brave New World, based on Aldous Huxley’s novel, May 3 at 3 PM at the Snapple Theatre Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMNBC's David Gregory sat down with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Dallas, TX yesterday following the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The extende…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMRoger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedy Pippin opened last night, April 25, 2013, at Broadway's Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street. The stars came out…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMContinuing a long tradition of top notch performances, The Barns at Wolf Trap featured the compositions of contemporary jazz pianist Joe Sample on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Even…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27AMAfter the opening night show, the cast and crew celebrated and BroadwayWorld.com was there to snap them, all glammed up
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMCheck out photos below from the cast at the curtain call
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMFull casting has been announced for the West End return of The Ladykillers, the 2011 stage version of the iconic 1955 Ealing film comedy that was subsequently remade by the Coen Brothers in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMThe Full Monty, a new stage version based on the 1997 British film of the same title scripted by Simon Beaufoy, who also wrote the film's screenplay, will transfer to the West End, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMThe first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning 1972 pop musical Pippin opened April 26 at the Music Box Theatre in a new, circus-inspired staging from Tony Award-nominated director Dia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMIn "Like Lazarus Did" renowned choreographer Stephen Petronio and his magnificent collaborators (Son Lux on score; Janine Antoni, performance artist and creator of a “living” set; Ken T…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 09:10AMShana Dowdeswell, 23 — who has acted onstage alongside Cynthia Nixon and appears in the new Robert De Niro movie “The Big Wedding” — died five days after downing several whiskey shot…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:07AMDropped by Walter Panas for my second musical visit of the school year. Last fall, it was “The Sound of Music.” This spring, it’s “The Music Man.” I joked with …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:00AMOur critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble a…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 09:00AMThe Old Globe has announced the lineup for its 2013/14 season — Barry Edelstein's inaugural season as the company's artistic director. On the roster are a series of premieres, Pulitzer Pri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMThe Old Globe's 2013-14 season in San Diego will include the world premiere of Dog and Pony, a new musical by Rick Elice and Michael Patrick Walker; as well as The Last Goodbye, a r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Dropped by Alexander Hamilton High School the other day to catch director Lexie Frare and her team working with kids from grades 7 through 12, and two elementary-school siblings who were the…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:56AMIn 2002, Brian Childers wowed DC area audiences with his spot-on and high-energy performance as Danny Kaye in Danny and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story, first at The American Century Theatre …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51AMOn Friday, March 15, 2013 I had the pleasure of watching a reading of the new musical Everything I Do by John Becker. The play is based on a contemporary adaptation of Shaw’s Man and Su…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:42AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonWhy, 16 years after its premiere, does Conor McPherson's play still grip us? After all, it seems to consist of little but people telling ghost stories in a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMEarly birds will be served what looks like a promising treat when Bashir Lazhar receives its American premiere courtesy of the Barrington Stage Company.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMThe four-year-long UK-wide Cultural Olympiad marking London’s hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 attracted an audience of 43.4 million – 25.8 million outside of the capi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMThe Finborough Theatre provides a fittingly intimate space for the European Premiere of ROOMS – A Rock Romance, a tale of unlikely romance between two Glasgow musicians in the 1970s. T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:13AMFour in ten people think UK businesses have a duty to support the arts sector through corporate sponsorshop and more than a third say wealthy individuals should offer more financial support …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMRoxanna Myrhum of the Puppet Showplace Theatre the came by the office and answered the question: What is Puppetry? It was a great conversation–hope you enjoy it here, or on iTunes! BIO…
SOURCE: StageSource at 08:00AMDon’t invest on Broadway unless you love the show. There’s an 80% chance you’ll get little more back than tickets on opening night and a backstage tour. If you do see a rec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
Disgraced, the story of an American lawyer born in Pakistan who is forced to confront his Islamic heritage, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the organization has announced. Ayad Ak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58AMBurn the Floor, currently running at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, will close two months earlier than planned. The production, which features Strictly Come Dancing stars Robin Windsor a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #319: Ma Rainey (for my full article on this important performer go here). Here she is in a 1925 recording of that old blues standard “See S…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:56AMNEW YORK (AP) — The good news for Sigourney Weaver was that her friend, the playwright Christopher Durang, had a juicy part for her in a new play. It wouldn't even be too much of a stretch…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:45AMNEW YORK (AP) -- The good news for Sigourney Weaver was that her friend, the playwright Christopher Durang, had a juicy part for her in a new play. It wouldn't even be too much of a stre…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:42AMHollywood comedy character actor Edgar Kennedy (born this day in 1890) is most famous for his so-called “slow burn” reaction, although for the life of me, I can’t see what&…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AM
What’s most missing in this Hollywood artifact dug up by the Roundabout Theatre Company - not seen here for sixty years? A biting edge and that most important word - STYLE.
I…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:39AMSo, this makes it 3/3 – with the date of each of our first three debates being rescheduled due to issues with participants and availability. Sorry. Thanks for playing along with us whi…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 07:32AMToday is the birthday of the great magician Charles Bertram (b. James Bassett, 1855-1907). He was originally a hotel keeper. When his establishment went belly up in 1882, he turned to magic.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:30AMSophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro needn't make room on their mantles for a Tony Award. These four talented tykes -- who each play the title role in the tuner &…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30AMDonmar Warehouse, London: Finbar (Risteard Cooper), the big fish entrepreneur, had a lot going for him when he swaggered into the small pond of his local village pub when this play premiered…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMCasting has been announced for the West End return of Graham Linehan's Whatsonstage.com Award-winning adaptation of The Ladykillers, which opens at the Vaudeville Theatre from 29 June. The n…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:20AMIt's a circus! It's a Dance Feast! It's Fun .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AMToday is the birthday of Percilla Roman Bejano (1911-2001). Born covered head to toe in fur, and possessing two rows of teeth, she was billed as The Monkey Girl and exhibited alongside chimp…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06AM
Sometimes it is easier to review something I didn’t like. There are always words for that. But when I see a show that is takes me out of this world, it is a challenge to find words for t…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:48AMConor McPherson's The Weir established itself as an instant classic when it opened at the Royal Court in 1997.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:46AMDance show Burn the Floor, which is currently playing at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre, has posted early closing notices for Sunday 30 June.
The "hot-blooded" show, which features "ja…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:42AMFinborough, London: The room above the (now defunct) pub in Earl's Court that is the Finborough is one of London's most consistently surprising theatres, from new plays to rare red…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMVic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are creating a new sitcom in which they will star for BBC2. The comedians are writing House of Fools for the channel. It is set in a flat that Reeves...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMOur staff picks the best things to do for the week ahead.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:30AMLittle Angel, London: This glitteringly good show is billed "for adults" but actually would appeal to anyone over, say, nine. It retells a dark, Nordic version of Beauty and the Be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWhen producers of American and British musicals book a theater in Amsterdam, Theatre Carre is their first choice. The three-balcony, eight-chandeliered house is where popular hits go to thri…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:17AMProducers Jeffrey Richards and John N. Hart, in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), are pleased to announce that the critically-acclaimed revival of The Glass Menagerie…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:15AM
Guests including actors Rupert Penry-Jones and Catherine Tate, and musical theatre star Steven Webb were among those attending the opening night of The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse last nigh…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:56AMCulture secretary Maria Miller met with high-flyers in the arts for the second day running yesterday, following her British Museum cry for highlighting the economic benefits of subsidy with …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:38AMBuskers are staying away from a market in east London for fear of being fined by local council enforcement officers, who have warned them not to play there in future. An initial noise compla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMComedy duo Watson and Oliver are back with a second series of sketches, despite the somewhat lacklustre reception their first outing received. So all credit to BBC Comedy for keeping faith w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMThe roar of the Celtic Tiger is a long way behind us now, but the regulars in Conor McPherson's Sligo pub, who first turned up in 1997 at the Royal Court in exile in the West End (during the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:29AMDo you want to be part of the Hot Shoe Shuffle opening night celebrations in Brisbane? We are looking for people to come along to the Opening Night performance of the show in Brisbane on S…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:25AMA new play based on hit 1997 film The Full Monty, which premiered in the story's home town Sheffield in February, will transfer to the West End next year for a limited run.Directed by Sheffi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:12AMIt was back-to-back Verdi for me this week. Opera Australia are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth by performing six of his 30 operas this year. Melbourne gets t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:09AMCicely Tyson is favored to win Best Actress (Play) at the Tony Awards for headlining the acclaimed revival of Horton Foote's play "The Trip to Bountiful."
T…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:02AM
Cave explorer Chris Nicola traveled to some of the worlds longest caves in a search for his heritage, but instead unraveled the harrowing true story about a group of Jewish WWII survivors. N…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54AMAt the beginning of Michael Healey’s play, The Drawer Boy, a young actor/director named Miles (Alex Fast) shows up uninvited at the door of a farmhouse, hoping to carry out research on fa…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:44AMThey added a circus!-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:39AMTwo of the world's most terrifically talented leading ladies will be joining together in song for this week's Friday Night Is Music Night concert, IDINA amp FRIENDS on BBC, to be broadcast t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLive From Lincoln Center presents the New York Philharmonic's production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's iconic American musical, Carousel, featuring a star-studded cast including Kelli O'Hara,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Little Orchestra Society announces its Spring Benefit, hosted by two-time Tony Award winning actress Donna Murphy, to follow the premiere of Disney Fantasia Live in Concert tonight, Apri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMOnce upon a time, there was a sweet little musical called Charlotte Sweet. With libretto by Michael Colby and music by Gerald Jay Markoe, the NY Times said that the show, “mixes the ado…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:30AMThe 2013 - 2014 Broadway season has begun! But first...The First: Opening Night: June 14, 2012The Last: Opening Night: April 25, 2013Although there was far less of it than last season,…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 01:22AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I wrap up my coverage of the current Broadway season with unenthusiastic reviews of Pippin...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I report on a conversation I recently had with a stage director who...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers." Simone...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMA big letdown, leaving me hungry for the 1955 film version and a big bag of popcorn.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM"Vikings" Star on Series (and Hair) Extensions
"Vikings" star Clive Standen lands upon the YH Studio shores to talk about the smash-hit History Channel series and the deep-rooted motivations…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
ALMOST A FULL MOON The theater has been sorely affected by electronic communication. Since the advent of the internet, at least, the cumbersome amount of news bits and twittering has infecte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48AMAdam's Call: Call Me Adam's ON THE GO Review...."I'll Eat You Last": Mesmerizing
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:37AMIf you’ve ever wanted a chance to drift down the Mississippi river on a raft with Mark Twain and his fantastical imagination, then Greenbelt Arts Center is giving you your chance with thei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13AMReally! It's Tennessee Williams!The Play's the Thing?Theatre and cinema - not always a match made in Heavenby Gaëtan L. CharleboisThis week we're going to have a bit of fun. We all lik…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMRunning for Itby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonThe Taming of the Shrew Opened last Friday. There are a lot of things about it that went very well and a few things less so. It is definitely…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, April 25, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMAfter coming through the dark tunnel of the Divine Miss M's decades-long hiatus at Wednesday's opening of I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, something we've all learned is that a Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award nominees Larry Bryggman and Helen Carey play Republican parents whose secrets are to be revealed in their daughter's memoir, in Arena Stage's in-the-round production of Ot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLyric Stage of Irving, TX, produces the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart classic Too Many Girls, featuring such standards as "You're Nearer" and "I Didn't Know What Tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMReal-life husband and wife actors Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield star in a reading of Arthur Kopit's 1962 play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In The Closet and I’m Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLynda Carter, the singing actress best known for her work on the TV series "Wonder Woman," performs in concert April 26-27 at The Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith the 2012-13 Broadway season now at an end (April 25 was the cut-off date for eligibility for the 67th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a four-part look at the season. Here are t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Drama Desk Awards will announce the nominees for the 2012-2013 season at an 11am event this coming Monday, April 29 at 54 Below. As previously announced, Drama Desk Award winners Linda L…
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