AlterTheater's latest world premiere, by 90-year-old Marin theater veteran Ann Brebner, proves a sweet depiction of a family helping each other through grief.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:49PMHave you ever had one of those phone conversations where you’ve strung it out because the person you’re talking to is just THAT fascinating? Well, that’s what I’m presently doing. I�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:45PMComing off of her stint as Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S on Broadway, Emilia Clarke has signed on to star in James Franco's upcoming film THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09PMA Christmas Story, The Musical, which played a limited run on Broadway this past holiday season, earned three 2013 Tony nominations: Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musi…
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Kudos to Keely Flynn for a terrific new script, and to 20% Theatre for doing it such justice. Many aspects of the Chicago theater scene may be satire-worthy, but its production of great new …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:56PMTimothy Braun hangs out with Mac Wellman, Steve Mellor and Eliza Bent atThe Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX.
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SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 09:29PMThe wonderful Project Shaw which presents monthly readings of George Bernard Shaw's plays has made an excellent case for Shaw's plays relevance to contemporary audiences. Up next, Proje…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 09:22PMMay is in full bloom. Starting just this week there is the LGBT Festival, screenings of three silent classics with live accompaniment, the beginning of the Harvard New American Black Cinema …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02PMThe Actors Fund's annual gala on April 29, 2013 at the New York Marriott Marquis honored Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro, the pay television company HBO and entrepreneurfilm produ…
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Marco Ramirez's The Royale, based on the story of Jack Johnson, is an example of what he calls "naked theater." It's at the Kirk Douglas.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:53PMA two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:37PMMeet Matt Sax, a rising young star, who will be presenting his play Venice, May 28-June 23 at New York's acclaimed Public Theater, where Artistic Director Oskar Eustis considers Matt one of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:35PMWhat happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Sometimes it comes to Cambridge.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:34PMGlenn Close, Frank Langella, Berenice Marlohe, Lambert Wilson and Olivia Thirlby have joined Anton Yelchin in Victor Levin’s indie dramedy “5 to 7.” The film, set to start …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMAURORA, Colo. — Police and fire officials failed to tell each other when and where rescuers were needed following the Aurora theater shootings, according to reports obtained by the Denver …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:24PMCharles Dickens opens, A Tale of Two Cities, with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” the novel then goes on giving us a feel for living with purpose through the Fre…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:13PMAccording to a recent casting notice, Rob Marshall's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical is set to begin shooting this September in the U.K.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:08PMMatthew McCray by Graham Sibley Matthew McCray is from a small conservative mountain town in Colorado but you would never-ever-ever guess that. He sports stylish Oliver Peoples glasses, dr…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:03PMPerforming Arts Studio West’s “Recovered” features actors who have appeared on “Secret Life of the American Teenager” and “Legit.”read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:03PM
When David J. Miller put “Punk Rock” on Zeitgeist Stage Company’s schedule for this season, he didn’t know just how up-to-the-moment it would become. Often, that sort of confluence i…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:57PMIn a flashback early in the New Repertory Theatre’s production of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,’’ we see the moment when the teenage Antonio Salieri, religiously devout but also desper…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:57PMOn Twitter Watch, Katy Perry wrote 'Just saw KINKY BOOTS on broadway amp cried wjoy from it's powerful, beautiful message. Congrats on every of its deserved 13 Tony nominationsAND if Billy P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56PMBroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet amp Greet earlier today, May 1, 2013, and we wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53PM Changing Everything With One Kiss in Craig Lucas’ Romantic Comedy Prelude to a Kiss: May 3rd through 19th Think back on your youth, of the things you never had the chance to do. If giv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:45PMBarely 24 hours after the Tony nominations were announced, the happy (and slightly dazed) nominees got dolled up and headed to the Millennium Broadway Hotel on May 1 for a mammoth press meet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:43PMOn April 29th at New York City's Pierre Hotel, the National Corporate Theatre Fund NCTF honored Vanessa Williams, American Express and five resident theatres celebrating their 50th anniversa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMIt’s all in the family for Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox, who star as a feuding daughter and mother in The Memory Show, a touching new musical by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler. Direct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:27PMSingle tickets for the 2013 Hollywood Bowl season go on sale this Saturday, May 4 at 1000 AM. Tickets can be purchased in-person at the Hollywood Bowl box office. Five hundred wristbands wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMBroadway veteran and Saturday Night Live favorite, Ana Gasteyer, brings her unique comic wit and style to the stage in her show of songs and stories. The comedy superstar dons a dress and wo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMBroadway.com Audience Choice Award nominee Corey Cott shows us his five favorite dressing room items. See where the Newsies star draws pre-show inspiration, how he relieves stress and some o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:21PMAwards season is at full throttle, and the Broadway.com team is in a star-filled frenzy of activity. Want to see Sutton Foster, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Aaron Tveit, Deborah Cox, Orfeh and many…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:16PMReeve Carney not only shoots webs as your favorite wall-crawling superhero in the hit Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, he’s also the front man of the up-and-coming rock band…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 06:14PMWith enough imagination you can make a puppet out of anything — a kitchen whisk, steel shoe trees, even a leather belt. That’s the chief fascination of “The Amazing and Marvelous Cabin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:07PMIf you attend “The Anatomy of Gazellas,” presented by Playwrights' Arena at Atwater Village Theatre, you might want to hunker down in your seat and pay close attention. That way,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PM
In a wide-ranging interview this week, legendary Fleetwood Mac founding member Mick Fleetwood revealed musings on bringing the turbulent and triumphant story of the internationally adored ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMThe company of PIPPIN just celebrated their opening with the Gypsy Robe ritual with the company's recipient Stephanie Pope. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you full photo …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMPlaywright Katie Forgette's darkly comic new play Assisted Living is perhaps best described as part 1984, part One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and part Cocoon.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:50PMSeattle Repertory Theatre announces its 2013-14 season, which includes a Sherlock Holmes mystery, “Venus in Fur” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” as well as works by regional…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:49PMCasting has been announced for a new production of Cats, which will be performed at Toronto's Panasonic Theatre beginning May 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway RT @JohnStamos: pictured with 2 freshly Tony nom…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:39PMRecommended performances around the area.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:39PMTickets are now on sale for the off-Broadway play Somewhere Fun. The drama, written by Jenny Schwartz and directed by Anne Kauffman, is set to begin performances at the Vineyard Theatre on M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMOn Tuesday April 30th, 2013, members of the Broadway Company of Chicago joined forces with Sing For Your Seniors to bring a very special performance to the seniors at Encore Senior Center. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMNBC has revealed the first look at another new SMASH episode, this one coming up in two weeks, 'The Transfer'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PMAccording to Deadline, stage and screen star Daniel Radcliffe has officially signed on to star in the upcoming crime syndicate thriller TOKYO VICE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMThe spring season has officially ended on Broadway, but there's no shortage of great theater to see across the country! Check out this week's regional highlights from all over the Un…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:27PMSarah Brightman's new album 'Dreamchaser' was released worldwide in April. Watch the US TV debut of the song 'One Day Like This' sung by Sarah Brightman on The Hallmark Channel. Click HERE
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:17PMThe Public Theater presents the world premiere of OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES A TRUE ROMANCE, currently in previews. Written, directed, and designed by Richard Foreman, who has been working wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMA hip-hop musical adaptation of King Kong, written by Randy Weiner and Alfred Preisser, will play as part of the 2013 SummerStage festival. Directed by Preisser, King Kong will be presented …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMWalt Disney Pictures' film adaptation of Into the Woods, the dark, Tony Award-winning fairytale musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, will begin filming in London this fall, acco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMEpisode Thirty-Nine: I Don’t Know Whether it’s the answer to an adjudicator’s question, or it’s what an actor says about certain aspects of their character, the words…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM
The National Tour of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, will launch at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre this November. The tour, accomp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMThe hit revival of The Last Five Years will live on for years to come in a new cast recording! Starring Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor, the recording will be released on Ghostlight Records&mdas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:56PMTheater stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMBack across the pond we go! While New York is just beginning to kick off the beginning of the American theatre awards season, London is wrapping things up! As always, Luner on Theatre brings…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:53PMPlaybill Video caught up with the 2013 Tony Award nominees at the May 1 Meet the Nominees reception in Times Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMThe greatest songwriters revered him. And his songs-from 'All the Things You Are' to 'The Way You Look Tonight'-remain a vital part of our cultural conversation. It is no accident that Jerom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMAfter playing a hard-ass politician in Starz's "Boss," Kelsey Grammer is looking to keep that edge as he has signed on to play a villain in the Paramount's Transformers starring Mark Wahlber…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PMSecond Stage Theatre's hit revival of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, starring Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, will be preserved on a cast album, set to be released and recorded in th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMGhostlight Records will preserve the hit Second Stage Theatre production of The Last Five Years, created and directed by Jason Robert Brown. Second Stage Theatre has extended this production…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMDarcy Gerhart (photo Maxime Côté)A Dance With Timeby Caitlin MurphyIn You Can Do Whatever You Want, a shiny red Thunderbird – stuck in place, but roaring through time – connects the li…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:44PMFollowing a Tony Award-winning run on Broadway last season, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess will begin performances for its first national touring season at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMThe Collegiate Chorale just presented Song of Norway by Robert Wright and George Forrest last night, April 30 at Carnegie Hall. BroadwayWorld was there for the special event and you can chec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Lake Effect" at Silk Road Rising ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Lake Effect" at Silk Road Rising ★★½ ... Rajiv Joseph is best known for "Bengal Tige…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Rabbit" by Stage Left at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rabbit" by Stage Left at Theater Wit ★★★ ... I smell a niche at Theater Wit, t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PMThis week I have portrayed a sex-starved parade of men, a historic civil rights campaigner and an authoritarian father figure from a bygone era. But enough of my personal life… (N.B. t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:41PMAccording to Deadline, Frank Langella and Glenn Close have officially signed on to appear the independent romantic comedy 5 TO 7.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMThe longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince and produced byCameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMParticipation is the core of social media. Individuals share, like, pin, drop hashtags and handles, and otherwise create virtual word-of-mouth. As theaters like New Paradise Laboratories, Ne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMHarvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet."
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SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:29PMSimultaneously storyteller and player, ancient character and modern respondent, Denis O'Hare's performance of "An Iliad" elicits the kind of respect automatically granted this genre of deman…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:22PMHarriet Harris (Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella), Richard Easton (The Coast of Utopia), Matt Doyle (The Book of Mormon), Tony Sheldon (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), and Lenny Wolpe (Ol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:20PMThe Collegiate Chorale, which is led by music director James Bagwell, presented a concert staging of Robert Wright and George Forrest's Song of Norway April 30 at Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMA Dynamite Performance Keeps Us Riveted in a Play That Forces Us to Suspend All Reality
By Lauren Yarger
A stand-out performance by Tom Sturridge highlights the electrifying and terrifying B…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 04:16PMKaty Davies works in media and PR for The Love Bites Plays. Here she gives some thoughts on how the company approaches their brand identity. Setting your company apart as ‘different’ or …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:15PMTen years ago, Inc.com anointed the employee handbook for Ann Arbor, MI’s Zingerman’s Deli as the World’s Best Employee Manual. In all likelihood they have anointed other h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:15PMConnecticut Repertory Theatre CRT will present three great musicals in its 2013 Nutmeg Summer Series, June 6 - July 21 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, Storrs. For tickets and informatio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMActor, singer and songwriter Tituss Burgess will celebrate his R&B/soul album "Comfortable" with a special concert at The Cutting Room May 13 at 9 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMNEW YORK (AP) — "The Testament of Mary," which earned three Tony Award nominations, won't be around next month when they're handed out.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:03PMWhen the techie has to start the applause at the end of a show, you know it wasn’t a good night. I missed the super supportive opening night of Red Stitch’s About Tommy, so saw it with …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00PM
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, 7pm to 9pmSteppenwolf Theatre CompanyAdministrative Offices758 West North Avenue, 3rd FloorThe event will be co-hosted by Douglas Post (Chicago Regional Rep, DG) and …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:58PMThe Tony Award Nominations were just announced yesterday morning by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster and we've got the complete list here. See photos from the big announcement below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMGorilla Tango Bucktown Under New Management. Seeking artists of all stripes to produce at our Bucktown location. New contract options available including a free off-night contract (Sundays -…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:56PMWith 13 Tony nominations, Kinky Boots earned more than any other production this Broadway season. Here, nominees Cyndi Lauper (Best Original Score), Stark Sands (Best Leading Actor in a Mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM Each year following the Tony Award nominations come a spree of announcement regarding shows extending or ending their run. While this is not something that theatre community looks for…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 03:48PMThe Public Theater will release an exclusive sneak-peak song from the forthcoming Shakespeare in the Park production of Love's Labour's Lost, A New Musical every week for the next five weeks…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMThe writer Colm Toibin reflects on his first experience as a Broadway playwright with “The Testament of Mary,” which was nominated for a top award and announced its closing on the same d…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:44PMGhostlight Records will preserve the Second Stage Theatre production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, which stars Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe as a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL will make its first national TV appearance tomorrow Thursday May 2 on Good Morning America between 830 - 9 AM on ABC Channel 7 in New York. See the cast perform the galva…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMCome on, Broadway producers — we already did half the work here.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:21PMENO have opened their summer season in style with a
newly-minted, endearing and engrossing revival of Jonathan Miller’s staging of La bohème. This is its second revival, and the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:17PMChristine Baranski, Kelli Barrett, Walter Bobbie, Jeremy Cohen, Dalton Harrod, Randy Skinner, Shonn Wiley, Karen Ziemba, New York City Ballet Principal dancer Joaquin De Luz and American Bal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMJust a day after being awakened by the news of their awards recognition, the 2013 class of Tony nominees gathered at the Millennium Broadway Hotel on May 1 to celebrate their honors and get …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMPatti Issues, Ben Rimalower's acclaimed solo show about his lifelong love of Patti LuPone and his own relationship with his gay father, has extended its New York run to June, with additi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMConstantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox. Photo: Chris Bennion
Jekyll & Hyde
Music by Frank Wildhorn
Book and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Directed and Choreographed by Jeff Calhoun
What's It…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 03:04PMEmmy Award winning actress Holland Taylor of CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” sweeps the 2013 Broadway nominations for her performance as Ann Richards in the new critically-acclaimed play AN…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:03PMThe Broadway-bound musical about the life and career of the singer-songwriter will begin performances Sept. 24 at the Curran Theatre.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:02PMReality producer Nick Rigg has teamed with Leftfield Entertainment on joint venture Loud TV. Loud TV, an unscripted shingle under recently-established parent company Leftfield Entertainment,…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMDON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE NEW "HOT OR NOT" POLL! CLICK THE LOGO TO YOUR RIGHT! Here's the next in a series of blogs featuring the musicals that opened 30, 20 and 10 years ago. …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 03:00PM
MATILDA THE MUSICAL will make its first national TV appearance tomorrow Thursday May 2 on “Good Morning America” between 8:30 – 9 AM on ABC (Channel 7 in New York). See the cast perf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:57PMThe 2013 Tony Award nominations were announced on April 30. The very next morning, the nominees gathered to pose for photos and give interviews at the annual "Meet the Nominees Press Re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMEW.com reports exclusively that crooner Harry Connick, Jr. will appear on tonight's AMERICAN IDOL to mentor the final four contestants
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMThe morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is thrilled to be among the callers offering …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMThe SHN 2013-2014 season was announced today by Founder and President Carole Shorenstein Hays, featuring five productions at the SHN Curran, SHN Golden Gate, and SHN Orpheum Theatres in San …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMBarrington Stage Company has named award-winning choreographer Joshua Bergasse, actors Gretchen Egolf and Jeff McCarthy, and award-winning director John Rando as new associate artists at BSC…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMFollowing a sold-out Broadway engagement, The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMThe national tour of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Alicia Hall Moran, Nathaniel Stampley and Tony Award nominee Phillip Boykin, will launch in November at San Francisco's G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMThe national tour of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Alicia Hall Moran, Nathaniel Stampley and Tony Award nominee Phillip Boykin, will launch in November at San Francisco's G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMRodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella earned nine Tony nominations this morning, including one for Best Revival of a Musical and nods for its lead actors, Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana. Wit…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 02:28PMChhandika is dedicated to keeping the intricate and expressive art form of Kathak dance relevant to contemporary audiences, particularly to those who are not familiar with the Ramayana.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:11PMLocal celebs offer details about the sculpture park's 24 works of art
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:01PMZoë Wanamaker is no stranger to playing sorely tried wives. Her populous gallery of women in this fix includes, at one end of the social scale, a gutturally Germanic and frizzy-wigged Princ…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
Prior to a planned Broadway run, Beautiful—a new musical chronicling the life and career of singer-songwriter Carole King—will make its world premiere at San Francisco’s SH…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:59PMTwo-time Drama Desk Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson (The Performers) will join Alexandra Silber (Master Class) in a five-day concert series of West Side Story with the San Francisco Symphony.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMThe Big Knife
By Clifford Odets
Directed by Doug Hughes
Roundabout Theatre Company
What's It all About?
Well, you tell me. The second Odets play to grace a Broadway stage this season had me…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 01:52PMBeautiful, the new musical based on the life and work of Grammy Award-winning musician Carole King, will premiere this fall at San Francisco's Curran Theatre prior to a 2014 spring Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMThe Berkshire Theatre Group's 85th summer season, which will feature productions of The Lion in Winter, Oklahoma!, Extremities, Same Time, Next Year, The Cat and the Canary and Anna Chri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMEverybody loves Tom Hanks — and that includes nearly every theater award nominating committee. For his role in “Lucky Guy,” Hanks has been nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PMLee Wochner's The Size of Pike fondly recalls a "lost" generation of men who knew how to handle situations in the great outdoors. It's being revived by Moving Arts.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:30PMSimon Cowell's classical pop il Devo: Urs Bühler, Sébastien Izambard, David Miller, and Carlos Marín will rock the Revel this weekend.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:27PMToday is the birthday of Jack Paar (1918-2004). I’ll admit to you right here and now that my exposure to him has been nearly nil. His time as the “middle caretaker” of The…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:20PMSasha Allen spoke by phone yesterday to share her thoughts on Monday night's round of competition
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMDON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE NEW "HOT OR NOT" POLL! CLICK THE LOGO TO YOUR RIGHT! Here's the next in a series of blogs featuring the musicals that opened 30, 20 and 10 years ago. …
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MOTOWN THE MUSICAL leading lady Valisia LeKae, who stars as Diana Ross in the new hit musical based on the life of Motown founder Berry Gordy, took on the role of guest bartender on last nig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PM“It smells of hairspray and farts”, snarled the man next to me in the, admittedly airless, basement of the Leicester Square Theatre. This tells you all you need to know about the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:50PMEric Rosen book and lyrics and Matt Sax music and lyrics discuss the meaning of VENICE, the music, and the love story behind this New York Premiere Musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:49PMIbsen’s paradoxical reputation as the fearless experimenter and driver of social change of his day, and as a writer of somewhat fusty GCSE drama texts, makes him a risky choice for a small…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMTonight we're taking over 200 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers to see War Horse at the West End's New London Theatre.The play, which hardly needs an introduction, is adapted from Michael M…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:44PM “I am one of millions of out, proud gay people who didn’t choose to be gay—I was born this way! So begins Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay, the charming and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:40PMThe opposition leader’s appearance at the rally in Putrajaya was calculated to press his advantage home in hostile territory, at the seat of government
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:39PMHBO has announced that it will premiere the original film BEHIND THE CANDELABRA on Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 9 pm. The film stars Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover Scott…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMEven at his most insouciant, the choreographer also conveys a sense of emptiness, as this NYCB programme deftly demonstrates. By Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:37PMJean-Christophe Maillot’s intellectually stimulating new work incorporates Hollywood musicals and Hiroshima, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:37PMPopular Song is a hit from The Origin Of Love, MIKA's third album to date described as a two year DIY labour of love, completely self-created and self-imagined.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMMark Bautista, Arnel Ignacio, Jamie Wilson and Marco Sison lead the cast of the Broadway favorite The Full Monty playing a new production at the Carlos P. Romulo Theater in Manila.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM"I think Hank Greenberg was the great American hero," Washington filmmaker Aviva Kempner says. "What he did on Yom Kippur. What he faced. He was our Jackie Robinson."
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 12:25PMAs Merrily We Roll Along transfers to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, we talk to its debutante director Maria Friedman (pictured in rehearsals), who was nominated for a Whatsonstage.co…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:23PMThe National Tour of THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS, winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, will launch at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre this November. The tour, ac…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:02PMYou have to maneuver artfully when you embark on a love affair. That truth sashays into the open with dashing verve and cynicism in the Studio 2ndStage production of “2-2 Tango,” a short…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:01PMTransport Group presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Memory Show, which officially opened April 30 at 7 PM following previews that began April 16 at The Duke on 42nd Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre Books and DVDs for May 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related CDs for May, 2013.
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London's Crazy Coqs, a cabaret room located within Brasserie Zedel next to Piccadilly Circus, will host appearances by U.S. theatre and cabaret stars Amanda McBroom and Gregg Edelman in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMSoho Upstairs, LondonI first came across Cat Jones's 60-minute play when it was submitted for one of the playwrights' bursaries annually awarded by Pearson. I'm happy to say that this story …
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMWHITE-COLLAR BULLYING Mike Bartlett’s play Bull begins with a team of three white-collar salespeople, Tony (Adam James), Isobel (Eleanor Matsuura) and Thomas (Sam Throughton) awaiting the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52AMMan, I’m ready to be done with J. Michael Straczinski and Phil Hester’s “Odyssey.”
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:50AMThe Circle in the Square School's graduating class will perform in the school's annual Spring Festival of Theatre, featuring five full-length productions of plays and musicals. Perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThree contributors to Broadway's newest smash Matilda - composer-lyricist Tim Minchin, librettist Dennis Kelly and actor Bertie Carvel Miss Trunchbull, are the guests on THEATER TALK this we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMDonna Murphy, Terrence McNally and Jack O'Brien were among those who gathered at a private residence April 30 to honor the inaugural recipients of the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award. This …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM"Ideas are a strange thing. They pop up in the weirdest places at the strangest times," Israeli-born, New York-based choreographer Zvi Gotheiner said last month about the inspiration for his…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:36AMProduced by Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Oremus, William Wittman and Sammy James, Jr., the KINKY BOOTS Original Broadway Cast Recording will be available on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013. The show will h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMThe Project Shaw series will continue May 20 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM Today is the birthday of the hysterically funny Louie Nye (1913-2005). Born Louis Neistat in Hartford, CT he started out as an actor in radio before doing his hitch in World War II (w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AMINTERVIEW: JANE PACKMAN COMPANY
Director Jane Packman, writer Ben Pacey and performer Lucy Ellinson talk to Diana Damian about their surround sound action adventure show A Thousand Shards O…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:26AMAwards season has been in high gear for both Broadway and the West End this past week. On the evening of April 28, London hosted its 37th annual Olivier Awards, where top prizes in theater f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMAwards season has been in high gear for both Broadway and the West End this past week. On the evening of April 28, London hosted its 37th annual Olivier Awards, where top prizes in theater f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMGoogle and the Royal Shakespeare Company have teamed up to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that will be presented over three days and available to watch online. The two org…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMKinky Boots Dominates Everyone Since basically September, anyone who was anyone viewed the Tonys as the race for second place to Matilda. In basically all relevant categories. And then, Ben …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:09AM"The Phantom of the Opera," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has entertained multitudes of Chicagoans over the last two decades, is returning to Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:09AMWest End favorite Dianne Pilkington will take over the role of Donna Sheridan in the hit musical Mamma Mia! later this year as part of the largest cast change the London show has ever seen. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMSoprano Allison Oakes and the chorus in BLO's The Flying Dutchman - Photos: Eric AntoniouThere is so much to praise in the singing, conducting, and design of Boston Lyric Opera's new product…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:01AMSomething funked up my fortune telling powers this year, because I bombed on my Tony Predictions, scoring only a 69%! Yikes. Not even a Satisfactory C on this report card! Here’s w…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHBO Films' "Behind the Candelabra," starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, will debut on HBO May 26 at 9 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
What do a Romanian mother of a sickly baby, a Nigerian-immigrant cab driver, a foul-mouthed part-time hooker and a middle-aged couple with marriage issues have …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 10:59AM Janet Lehr's ARTMKT Report May 4, 2013VERED GALLERY LOAN HEADLINER WORK AT CHANEL EXHIBITION OPENING MAY 5 AT THE PALAIS d'TOKYO, PARISYoung Woman in Large Chapeau-The Chester Dale …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:58AMToday is the birthday of George Dewey Washington (1898-???). Named after an Admiral in the Spanish-American War, George Dewey Washington was a African American bass-baritone who sang in vaud…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:57AMThe National High School Musical Theater Awards NHSMTA has announced that its 5th annual talent showcase will take place on Monday, July 1, 2013 at 730pm at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre 200 W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMIn a recent series of emails this week, SMASH creator Theresa Rebeck called the show's sophomore season a 'complete disaster.' Had SMASH already hit a 'point of no return' even before new sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMThe 2013 Tony nominations were announced on April 30, and while fan favorites like Kinky Boots, Matilda and Cinderella were recognized with heaps of nominations, other well-loved shows and l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMThe National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards. The Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:50AMBring it On for Best Musical Really, though? This hot mess of a musical — the moral of which is that cute, popular white girls can get away with anything and still get the boy — …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:50AMThis week, we're thrilled to feature concert pianist and Grammy nominee Mona Golabek
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMTo celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Critics' Circle is honouring five leading figures for services to the arts, including directors Max Stafford-Clark and Danny Boyle.
It marks the fir…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:47AMLaurie Veldheer (Broadway's Newsies) is spending the month at Paper Mill Playhouse, taking on the title role in the Tony-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. She teamed with castmat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMTime for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective The most read post of the month: Why the Veronica Mars movie backers got screwed…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMWINNER of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2012 Special Award for bringing artists together: La-Ti-Do Here were are with a very special evening -This Friday, May 3rd at 6:30 PM - a La-Ti-D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMARI GRAYNOR, last seen on Broadway this season in The Performers, has joined the cast of the 35th anniversary benefit reading of Wendy Wasserstein's acclaimed play UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMGenerally in New England we’re outspoken about nearly everything – politics, social issues, sports – so why not the arts?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMWith an increasing divide between 'cast' and 'creatives' in productions, how much input can actors have nowadays?"Acting," said Sir Ralph Richardson, "is merely the art of keeping a large gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWith an increasing divide between 'cast' and 'creatives' in productions, how much input can actors have nowadays? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMElaine Stritch: Shoot Me, the new documentary about the Tony and Emmy Award-winning legend that premiered April 19 at the Tribeca Film Festival, has been acquired by Sundance Selects, accord…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:35AMThe world premiere of Marco Ramirez's new play The Royale, which is now in previews, will open May 5 at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMAs the classical-music world continues to struggle with graying and shrinking audiences, companies are experimenting with ways to attract new crowds. On Tuesday, 13 opera companies across th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMThis week's Retro Wednesday post is all about something I developed a little while back called the G.A.T.E. strategy. I've even created a workbook for it that I give my clients. The next few…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMStrap on in, dear readers. The Tony noms have been announced. From here on out it’s a grip-and-grin, luncheon attending, sobbing-interview-filled race to June 9th. But first. Heres our…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:25AMBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Cutting through the shadows of moonlight, three brothers climb out of a truck and trudge slowly, silently toward a dark hill. There, wrapped in a blanket, they find…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:21AMCheyenne Jackson and Alexandra Silber will play Tony and Maria in the San Francisco Symphony’s five-day concert version of West Side Story. The performers will take Davies Symphony Hal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:19AMOne of the oldest working theatres in the country has launched a fundraising campaign to save it from closure.
The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, Yorkshire, which first opened in 1788,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:17AMThe nominees for Best Original Score certainly weren't singing the blues on Tuesday morning. Every person but one in this category is a first-time composer for the Broadway stage, and, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMIt’s no secret that Wicked fans are a passionate bunch. Since its first Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards win for Favorite New Musical in 2004, the gravity-defying crowd-pleaser has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:05AMThe Hollywood Reporter reports exclusively that Jessica Chastain is currently in talks to star in Niki Caro's upcoming drama THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE. The project is an adaptation of Diane Acker…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AM
"We did a bit of theatrical magic to make that happen in a small space."
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:55AMLONDON (AP) — The English National Opera says its 2013-14 season will include the world premiere of Oedipus-inspired opera "Thebans" and the return of Monty Python member Terry Gilliam to …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:52AMSilence! The Musical, which plays Off-Broadway's Elektra Theatre, will welcome Sarah O'Gleby to the cast beginning May 4. As previously reported, Kevin Spirtas (Dr. Hannibal) and Tyl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMRuthie Ann Miles (center) and the cast of
Here Lies Love. Photo : Joan Marcus
Add Stages, Subtract the Seats and This Innovative Pop Operetta Equals a Whole New Way to Do Theate…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 09:43AMA staged reading of Lindsey Ferrentino’s Moonlight on the Bayou will be presented May 3 at 4:30 PM at The Marilyn Monroe Theatre in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMLe Foulard (or The Veil) is a somewhat ominous title for a play, let alone that dreaded theatrical angst receptacle, the one-woman-show. Having nothing but the poster to go by, I came expect…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30AMTwo Los Angeles-based artists -- jazz musician Billy Childs and theater director John Malpede -- are among the 20 recipients of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards for 2013.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMI just learned that Christopher Shinn's extraordinary three-character two-hander Dying City will get its L.A. premiere in the capable hands of Rogue Machine Theatre—a troupe whos…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:27AMThatcherwrite, a series of short plays looking at the politics and legacy of the late Margaret Thatcher, will premiere at Battersea's Theatre503 in June. Playwrights involved include Dan Reb…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:22AMDerby Theatre : What a fine writer Lee Hall is - theatrical moments come thick and fast in this play and there is so much to savour in the dialogue. It's about cooking, sex, loss, despa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMStage and screen star Cheyenne Jackson will play the role of Tony in West Side Story in Concert this summer with the San Francisco Symphony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AMStephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 Broadway flop Merrily We Roll Along is having a full West End outing, opening officially May 1 following previews that began April 23 at the Haro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AMLTA and 33 Variations Partner with Local Musicians Enjoy a night of theatre and music! Join LTA for a night of theatre and music! 33 Variations, playing at The Little Theatre of Alexandria…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMRiverside StudiosIn the Bible, the city of Nineveh is a godless place: its people do not know the difference between right and wrong. God sent Jonah to speak out against their wickedness, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AMRiverside Studios Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AMVaslav Nijinsky's brief career and doomed existence is tackled with angry unsentimentalityVaslav Nijinsky was almost immobile at the last moment of his real life. Only his expressive hands m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMDespite Broadway's commercial direction, there are nods to work that deserves a salute. Tom Hanks' deserved nomination underscores the wealth of acting talent.The Tony nominations were annou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Barbican, LondonTheatre-makers are constantly trying to recapture the shock of August Strindberg's once-revolutionary 1888 play. In Mies Julie, currently at the Riverside Studios, it is done…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMBarbican, London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMIn which Spooky Action Theater’s production of OPTIMISM! and its bow to the great Voltaire inspires Hunter Styles to let loose his inner poet. —————R…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMLos Angeles Times 04/30/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:41AMA campaign has been set up to inform commercial dancers about their rights within the sector and to improve working conditions. Dancers United UK, a campaigning body that has been founded by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMTerry Gilliam will once again work with the English National Opera to direct a new production of Benvenuto Cellini as part of the company’s 2013-14 season. The co-production with Amsterdam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMUnion, London: Book of Mormon, Geek the Musical, Loserville, High School Musical - the list goes on. Still in the mood for yet another teen angst show with a religious twist? Bare ticks all …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMOne little move effects so many people’s lives. A statement proven true as the Dundalk Community Theatre presents Chess The Musical. With beautiful and utterly haunting music composed by B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMHere are celebrities eligible for the 2013 Tony Award nominations who were not nominated: Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannaval, Jessica Chastain, Alan Cumming, Katie Holmes, Scarlett Johansson, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMNew York City Center Encores presents Rodgers amp Hart's ON YOUR TOES, May 8-12, 2013. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge visited the cast in rehearsals and stopped to chat with Artistic Director…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe singer performs the number “Someone Like You” from Frank Wildhorn’s musical, now in revival on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 1 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThey earn 13 and 12 nods, respectively, as the committee honors largely relatable works including 'Lucky Guy,' 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.' NEW YORK — About seven years ago, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM
You don’t even have to be a theater lover to know that the
Tony nominations were announced yesterday. There were, as usual, the fairly predictable nods. Hollywood heavyweight Tom Hanks
got…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:56AMFrom the Barrington Stage Musical Theater Lab to the Duke on 42 Street comes an odd, ambitious and contemporary new musical THE MEMORY SHOW by Sara Cooper (Book & Lyrics) and Zach Redler…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMToday is the birthday of Marion Walter Jacobs (1930-1968), a.k.a. “Little Walter”. This legendary master of the blues harp was born and raised in rural Louisiana, leaving as a te…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:42AMEleven cities have bid to be named City of Culture 2017, the initiative established by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the back of Liverpool's success as European Capita…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:39AMIn the past year, we have been treated to a slew of high-profile French, South African and home-grown takes on Strindberg's 1888 masterpiece. But it would be a shame if theatregoers felt too…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:39AMIs Alzheimer's really something to sing about?
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AMFrom a nervous Damian Lewis to Helen Mirren greeting the press … we go behind the scenes for an intimate look at this year's Olivier awards with Guardian photographer David LeveneHelen Mir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM By: David ShewardChip Zien, Bobby Cannavale, Richard Kind, and Reg RogersTo cover a scene change during the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:10AMBlackpool Opera House will be the only venue to host the international touring production of Mamma Mia! next year. The touring version of the West End show will run at the theatre for ten we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMGrand, Leeds: Handel's 1748 oratorio is rarely performed, so Opera North's staging - imaginatively directed, designed and lit by Charles Edwards - is an all the more welcome additi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM
Today is the birthday of Mary Florence Cecila “Babe” Egan (1897-1966). A California native, she moved to Hollywood in 1919, playing her violin on silent film sets as a profession…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:50AMEdinburgh Young Critics Scheme Are you an aspiring arts journalist or critic? Would you like the chance to go to one of the biggest arts festivals in the world, to be mentored by an experie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:39AMToday is the birthday of Charles K. Harris (1867-1930). A master of the banjo, he sang in minstrel shows and early variety and vaudeville. His importance to posterity however lies in the ove…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:35AMPlanned events in Derry-Londonderry’s City of Culture programme are under threat of cancellation following lower than expected income from sponsorship and ticket sales. The disappointing f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMJenni Putney and Mark Alhadeff star in David Ives' play
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:33AMTony Award winner Judith Light returns to the Broadway stage in the new play "The Assembled Parties".
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:30AMProspero's magic unfortunately doesn't have any effect on helicopters. Last night's performance at Shakespeare's Globe was seriously disrupted by what seemed like a scene from Apocalypse Now…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:21AMFollowing its Such Tweet Sorrow::E8831271087782 project in 2010, the Royal Shakespeare Company is entering into another digital venture next month with Midsummer Night's Dreaming, in collabo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:20AMEven Planet Uranus knows Eve Ensler wrote “The Vagina Monologues.” That was ’96. Back again with “In the Body of the World,” she says:
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:19AMLisa Kron's one-woman show comes to Two River Theater
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:18AMAhead of the RSC and Google's real-time digital version of the Shakespeare classic, here's a potted plot reminder of the lives of Hermia and Lysander, Bottom and Puck proving their story wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:16AMAhead of the RSC and Google's real-time digital version of the Shakespeare classic, here's a potted plot reminder of the lives of Hermia and Lysander, Bottom and Puck – proving their story…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:16AMAfter their last social media experiment suffered a critical mauling, this new digital collaboration will allow audiences to watch and interact with play on Google+ over three days in JuneFo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AMAfter their last social media experiment suffered a critical mauling, this new digital collaboration will allow audiences to watch and interact with play on Google+ over three days in June C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AMTen years after its debut, Seth Rozin’s staging of InterAct Theater Company’s marvelous drama still hits home.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 06:11AMSadly, and somewhat surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find a photo of this whole amazing family in one shot. The Baroness Sidonia de Barcsy (born this day in 1866) was a bearded lad…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:07AM
The New York Times 04/30/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:58AMThe New York Times 05/01/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:51AMEnglish Touring Theatre founder Stephen Unwin is returning to the company to direct a co-production of Ibsen's Ghosts with the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Unwin, who steps down::E8831362764246 …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:41AMYou could write a book about performances of Miss Julie, probably in recent years the most adapted classic of the modern repertoire, and Katie Mitchell's meticulous, slow-moving new version …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:24AMThe international tour of hit ABBA musical Mamma Mia! will visit Blackpool Opera House next summer - the only UK venue outside of London to host the production in 2014.
The run, from 20 Ju…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:15AMFollowing a sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, Noël Coward's classic comedy PRIVATE LIVES - directed by Jonathan Kent and starring Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens - comes to the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:11AMPeter Michael Marino shows that self-deprecation is the height of humour in this one-man-band show about how his West End musical staging of the cult-but-corny 80s film Desperately Seeking S…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:02AM
NBC's musical drama series SMASH has a particularly showstopper-filled hour coming up this week, featuring this just-released cover of Radiohead's hit 'High And Dry' as performed by Jeremy J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMThis week's episode of SMASH is stacked to the gills with major musical moments and yet another taste of the feast to come has been released by way of Tony Award-winner Christian Borle's sen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32AMA song for the musical-within-the-series HIT LIST on NBC's musical drama series SMASH has now been released, uncharacteristically penned by the erstwhile shows-within-the-series BOMBSHELL an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32AMYou have to hand it to ABC if you're going to stretch a results show that should take all of five minutes to fill an hour, it's a respectable and classy thing to bring something to the show …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29AMIt says something about Hobart that I’ve witnessed more wonderful singing here in six months than in my 12 years in Melbourne. This island state rarely sees our national performing compani…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:17AMThe Transport Group has had great success matching shows with unusual settings — placing the basketball musical “Lysistrata Jones” in an actual gym, letting the gay-male bitch-a-thon �…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:15AMLast week in this column, I wondered whether Bette Midler would win a Tony for her delicious comic turn as Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers.
But as one of my readers — Chris Galka — thou…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:04AMHe’s probably Broadway’s best-kept secret. At least, you won’t find his name in Playbill. But when Porridge takes the stage in the new, Tony-nominated revival of “Pippin,” the audi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:04AM
NEW YORK - Kinky Boots, the adaptation of the cross-dressing comedy film with a book by Harvey Fierstein and score by Cyndi Lauper, led the pack when Tony Award nominations were announced Tu…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:33AMBroadway Global Partners and Queens Theatre will present the world premiere of BROADWAY ROMANCE from tonight, May 1 - 5, 2013 at Queens Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTony nominee Neil LaBute's world premiere adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, starring Tony nominee Lily Rabe American Horror Story, Merchant of Venice, Broadway actress Laura Heis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMWhen you write as much as I do, you sometimes forget about having written certain pieces. Even so, I was...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMHenri Matisse makes a cutout: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The presence of death makes itself felt in the sadness of beauty." Hanns Sachs, The Creative Unconscious: Studies in the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMEmma Roberts Transitions Into 'Adult World'
The lovely Ms. Emma Roberts chills with us at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC to fill us in on her indie flick, 'Adult World', and her thoughts o…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMPad-Crashing L.A. Kings' Dustin Penner
Did we come at a bad time?? L.A. Kings forward Dustin Penner is only slightly caught off-guard when we arrive to crash his pad, but being the tough hoc…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMRevving Up for IZOD IndyCar Series Race
We make an extended pit stop at the IZOD IndyCar Series during the Long Beach Grand Prix to catch up with all the top racecar drivers suited up and re…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMAn art house, chamber like musical that is anti melodic in the extreme.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM"Rectify" Star on Her Wild 'Great Gatsby' Character
It's good to be Adelaide Clemens! Not only is the talented Aussie actress starring in Sundance Channel's first original scripted series, "…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Apparently, there’s no room for original musicals on Broadway. At least that’s the message we can take from this year’s Tony nominations. (Read full report on nominat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:50AMEven Tony Nomination Could Not Save The Testament of Mary: Having attended the The Testament of Mary on Sunday, I was surprised to see it nominated.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:37AMThere’s no questioning the sincerity and commitment of this company to a piece that is an intelligent examination of unique challenges gay men and women face in fully integrating all their…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:35AMCyndi Lauper musical gets 13 ‘Boot’-iful nominations and Farrah Abraham, her sex tape sold, talks about getting her master’s.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:28AMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. We also review Orphans, J&H and Macbeth.
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:24AMIn Sans Merci, written by Johnna Adams and directed by Heather Cohn, two young women, Kelly (the awkwardly, impressively real Rachael Hip-Flores) and Tracy (the lovely and intense Alisha Spi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:10AMRay Ellenwood standing next to a portrait of Claude Gauvreau done in 1993 by the Ontario painter Milton Jewell (photo by Brenda Ellenwood)No Small TaskTranslating a dense, enigmatic work&nbs…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMThis video is as compelling and as enigmatic as the company that produced it and as most of the works they create. The MAP Project.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMNatasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy’s critically praised "electro-pop opera" based on "War and Peace," which played an extended Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe stars in Tony Award-nominated playwright Neil LaBute's new adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, which officially opens May 1 after previews that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGoodspeed Musicals' new adaptation of the Jazz Age musical Good News!, about college romance, football and a certain dance called "The Varsity Drag," officially opens May 1, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe scene is now set for Broadway’s big night, the 67th annual Tony Awards. The nominations were announced Tuesday and among the musicals up for the most awards are Kinky Boots, Matilda, P…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMTopdog/underdog
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson
through May 19 at Everyman Theatre
Coming into a play like Topdog/Underdog, you expect a certain degree of symbolism.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMCaitlin Cunningham has had a good month. She was chosen as one of the six finalists for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape prize only days before her first solo show opened at sophiajaco…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMUPDATED: Before it hits Broadway next spring, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will have its world premiere at San Francisco's SHN Curran Theatre, from September 24-October 20. Marc Bruni …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM 
