The sports-related stories at the heart of the production are endearing and entertaining, and the performers do a satisfactory job bringing them to life. But there are too many distracting e…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:55PMThere seemed to be an unusually abundant display of abdominal muscle on Broadway during the season just ended, almost as if there was an award for Broadway’s Best Abs. So let’s h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMIt takes a lot of living to make great art about dying. Stephen Petronio is no longer the hot, young post-modern dancer he was in the late ’70s. Now 57, he’s something more — a mature …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMWhat would the Tonys be without a little controversy — a little tempest in tap shoes?
And I don’t mean the fact that the infantile “Bring It On” was nominated as Best Musical.
No, th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMIn Mike Bartlett’s off-Broadway hit “Cock” — alternatively titled, for weaker hearts and newspapers, “The Cockfighting Play” — a man couldn’t make up his mind between his boy…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PMHEDY WEISS: The actor, once befriended by Samuel Beckett, mesmerizes in the playwright’s one-man classic.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:24PMThe brutal economic crunch and widescale business downsizing has made corporate dog-eat-dog more feral than ever.
In his fast-paced, fanged and darkly funny play “Bull,” at the …
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Sharone Halevy started directing in the last year after being an actor for almost her life. In this time she has assistant directed Arian Moayed and Tom Ridgley with WaterWell Theater Compan…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:59PMAccording to the Daily Mail, James Corden has signed on to appear alongside Daniel Mays in Nick Payne's play The Same Deep Water As Me at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by John Crawley. Cord…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56PMNEW YORK (AP) — British culture encompasses a governing body whose members regularly holler insults at one another, so it seems not unreasonable for edgy British playwright Mike Bartlett t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:54PMIt is 1919 in the enjoyably bookish drama “Ghost-Writer,” and the novelist Franklin Woolsey has just died. Yet his typist, Myra Babbage, continues to type, insisting that she’s just fi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:43PMIn light of KINKY BOOTS' 13 Tony nominations and the show's upcoming cast album release, it's only fitting that the musical's producers are looking beyond Broadway. According to the Daily Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29PMThis week, Barneys CEO Mark Lee held a reception at his Chelsea apartment for the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award, an annual grant of $25,000 to two playwrights.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:26PMAccording to Deadline, Jessica Chastain has entered negotiations to star opposite Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey in Nolan's upcoming sci-fi film INTERSTELLAR.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04PMAfter a lengthy process spread over five months, culminating in a fifteen-hour marathon session that ended in the early morning on May 2, 2013, the IATSE International and The Broadway Leagu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00PMFor Ashleigh Hauschild this week’s Adelaide opening of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will be a truly scrumptious experience. Having made her professional debut in the acclaimed musical, Hauschil…
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The memorable actordirector duo responsible for recent indie hit DRIVE has teamed up on a moody new action-fueled venture, ONLY GOD FORIVES, and a new poster and behind the scenes look at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58PMIn March 2012 The Really Useful Group released the amateur production rights to one of the world’s most well known and loved musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. Mel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:45PMGo behind the scenes of visionary stage and screen director Baz Luhrmann's new 3D feature film adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY with this new B-roll montage containing myriad looks at the cast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44PMIn Baz Luhrmann’s sumptuous new 3D screen version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age literary classic, Carey plays the selfish golden girl Daisy Buchanan.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:36PMForty years after lifting Sweden's musical profile, ABBA is getting a museum in the heart of Stockholm's "golden triangle" of tourist attractions.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:36PMThe first look at Academy Award-winning superstar Jennifer Hudson in the stage-to-screen adaptation of the classic Langston Hughes drama BLACK NATIVITY has been released.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMLovell Estell III found Chromolume Theatre's production of Do Lord Remember Me stirring, and made it this week's Pick. Neal Weaver also found a multimedia Brecht on Brecht at Atwater Village…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:30PMIn a dramatic twist befitting of a TV series centered upon a near-death experience - or, as the case may be, an actual death experience - DROP DEAD DIVA has been officially announced to retu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:14PMThe two will play MI5 agents in back-to-back thrillers created by David Hare for BBC TV that will also star Hollywood players Winona Ryder and Christopher Walken.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:08PMIn an extensive new interview, Hannibal and PUSHING DAISIES creator Bryan Fuller discusses his desire to re-team with two of his most well-known past collaborators, BroadwayHollywood crossov…
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Apparently, playwright Tennessee Williams was a fan of Anton Chekhov (and, really, who isn't?) and attempted his own adaptation of The Seagull in 1981, where it premiered at the Vancou…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 07:58PMCAP UCLA season to include Robert Wilson and Peter Brook works...East West season will revive the company's Beijing Spring musical...Goodbye, Gibson Amphitheatre...
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:57PMTim Drucker writer - Fat Camp, Spider Musical and Tracy Weiler actress - theatre Fat Camp film Fugly with John Leguizamo wrote a pilot called Hot Fail. The half-hour comedy stars Noah Weisbe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50PMSources have revealed that both Hudson and Adam Lambert have been approached to perform alongside previously announced Jennifer Lopez on the Season 12 finale episode, airing May 15 and 16 on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:41PMHello readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Anatomy of the Gazellas, now playing at Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village. Click here to go to the LA Weekly�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:38PMOff-Broadway's Public Theater is presenting the world premiere of "Here Lies Love", a new musical that features music from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:22PMA Red Orchid Theatre AROT announces A Day at the Races, a benefit for the Company's upcoming production of Simpatico by Sam Shepard in celebration of the 20th Anniversary Season. The intimat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMLos Angeles Opera is receiving $4.3 million in new gifts for its young-artists program. The money is coming from the Colburn Foundation and Eugene and Marilyn Stein, the company announced T…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:01PMAugust Strindberg's landmark drama at Geffen Playhouse is set in Jazz Age Long Island. Awkward dialogue and mismatched actors make for a misguided play.August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," a ke…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM
Rikki Beadle-Blair’s Gutted at Theatre Royal, Stratford East doesn’t do things by halves. Covering (spoiler alert) sexual abuse, child abuse, incest, transphobia, violence, fait…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57PMFor anyone interested in what is unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking chapters in the history of 20th century theater, Rick Cluchey’s performance of Samuel Beckett’s one-act, �…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMReaders weigh in with Arts letters.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:53PMWHO: HHC Marketing POSITION TITLE: Administrative Assistant and Event Coordinator DESCRIPTION: HHC Marketing, the award-winning entertainment marketing firm, is seeking an Administrative …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 06:45PMRikki Beadle-Blair is a high-energy polymath. He’s a real phenomenon. Raised by his lesbian mum in sarf London, he wrote his first play at the age of seven and was, he claims, already dire…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:30PMTea with Edie and Fritz is a hot brew with a couple of lumps. Once the cast finds their bearings in Act 2, it's a lingering sophisticated libation with a hint of a bittersweet-ness. (read mo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:21PMTo coincide with the 20-year anniversary of the Ford Partnership Program, which nurtures locally based artists and arts organizations, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission presents the ina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMWith the legit producing landscape and the nation’s network of nonprofit theaters evolving in major ways over the years, the 37-year-old Humana Festival of New American Plays may not occup…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMWelcome back Randy...While the rest of the world has been turning Randy has been busy in New York staging a production of Hello, Dolly! for the National Asian Artists Project. Join Candi and…
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, May 2, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway T.R. Knight returns to @GuthrieTheater for 50th A…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:55PMPlaybill Video caught up with the 2013 Tony Award nominees at the May 1 Meet the Nominees reception in Times Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PMThere's no need to stop the presses for this bit of Broadway foregone conclusion.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:29PMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw just presented ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE, Bernard Shaw's madcap comedy about boxing, on Monday, April 29 at The Players Club 16 Gramercy Park South in Manha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMProducer Andrew Carlberg, at age 28, works overtime to attract his generational peers to LA theater events.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:24PMCreative Alternatives of New York CANY, which uses drama therapy to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults, celebrated 30 years of the CANY mission of creativity, community and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMAmerican Masters Mel Brooks Make a Noise, the newest film in the American Masters series, will premiere nationally Monday, May 20 at 9pm ETPT on PBS check local listings, and will be release…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMWhen French playwright Yasmina Reza's bitterly comedic drama "God of Carnage" (translated by Christopher Hampton) went to Broadway, the living-room skirmish made itself at home for 452 perfo…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:16PMFor every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $45 goes back into the community.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:15PMTalent’s not enough; we demand a more daring theater.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:15PMThrough the generosity of the producers of Nice Work If You Can Get It, two hundred 200 NYC public middle school students and their teachers were treated to the Tony-Award winning production…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMDavid Patrick Kelly from Broadway's 8-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical ONCE, will perform and talk about the hit show on WFUV Radio's Ceol na nGael show this Sunday, May 5 at 12pm. WFUV …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMThe Public Theater’s spring season continues to heat up with the latest production, the world premiere of writer/director Richard Foreman’s Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Roma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMTickets are now on sale for Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming gospel-infused play Choir Boy. The show, directed by Trip Cullman and written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, begins previews…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMTony Award winning actress and vocalist Tonya Pinkins will perform "Tonya Pinkins Unplugged" at Joe's Pub June 3 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMVETERAN OF “GREY’S ANATOMY” AND BROADWAY RETURNS TO HIS FIRST HOME IN THE THEATER FOR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (Minneapolis/St. Paul) The Guthrie Theater today announced that stage, fil…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:03PMWhat is creativity to you? Here’s one picture found over at Creative Something. Click here to see the pic in a larger form. They plunked the word Creativity into Google followed by a s…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSome years, the Tony nominations are announced and Broadway shows fall like dominoes. But this year, two days after the nominations, the news is good: Tom Hanks starrer “Lucky Guy,” nomi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMW.C. Fields famously said "Never work with animals or children." The child-filled Matilda The Musical defied his warning, and earned its cast and creative team twelve 2013 Tony nominations, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM
(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). Sarah Kane in Psychosis 4:48 places h…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:58PMThe Wild Plan was founded in the summer of 2011 by Eric Powell Holm and myself. From the very beginning, when Eric and I set out to devise our next round of projects, we often conceptualized…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:56PMTheir verbosity and omnipresence on multiple media platforms notwithstanding, we don’t expect our celebrities to be particularly witty. Quick, think of a genuinely clever quip by Taylor Sw…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:54PMAfter working in New York for 11 years, Stephanie J. Block has received her well-deserved first Tony nomination. The Broadway star burst out onto the scene in The Boy From Oz, and since then…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:51PMThere are many more nos than yeses uttered in the Edge Theatre Company's production of "The Shadow Box." Yet by the end of Michael Cristofer's bittersweet drama about terminal illness, the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PMThe flagship festival of new one-act plays that has played at EST for over 30 years and proves to be the longest running and most acclaimed one-act play festival in the country…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 04:43PMBWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 11 of our On the Road series, the cast brings us along for their adventures in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMThe Tony Awards Nominators had their say earlier this week and now it's your turn We're pleased to announce that voting has now opened for the 11th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMI’m currently less than a week away from one of the biggest opportunities of my career as a young actor. As a recent graduate from one of the top MFA programs in our country, I’m now pre…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:34PMA SPECIAL OFFER FOR DCMTA READERS: Buy your tickets now! AND WAIVE THE TICKETING FEES WITH CODE: Broadway Tickets are available through WPAS Ticket Services at (202) 785-WPAS (9727) and on…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:31PMThe London weather is warming up as the spring theater season continues its sizzling pace. If you’ve already seen Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench on the West End and are waiting for …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:25PMOPENING 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 04:12PMLabyrinth Theater Company's production of Bob Glaudini's A Family for All Occasions, which is directed by former Labyrinth co-artistic director Philip Seymour Hoffman, has extended i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presents MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION, Bernard Shaw's legendary play about women's rights, on Monday, May 20 at 7pm at The Players Club 16 Gramercy Park S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMOn this date in 1984, Sunday in the Park with George premiered on Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
The complete soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's highly-anticipated new 3D feature film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's heralded Jazz Age novel THE GREAT GATSBY is now available to stream in f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMAt the very same time that Lynn Nottage was at work on what would become her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Ruined” — a scorching look at violence against women in the war-ravaged …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:52PMName: Leah Rose Urzendowski Courser (try putting THAT on a change of address form)
Hometown: South Omaha, NE (the south part is very very important. If you’d been to my ‘hood,…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 03:49PMHorton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful garnered 14 nominations for the 2013 Awards Season! The new production stars Academy Award nominee & Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson, retur…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:43PMA flashy and splashy new promotional advertisement for the new West End revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A CHORUS LINE has just been released, showcasing the razzmatazz riches o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMCenterstage will end its 50th Anniversary Season with artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new play Beneatha’s Place.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMKevin Spirtas and Tyler Maynard are joining the cast of Off-Broadway's smash hit SILENCE! The Musical this Saturday, May 4th at the Elektra Theatre. Spirtas is set to play Dr. Hannibal Lecte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMUPDATED: Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Bobby Cannavale (The Big Knife), and Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Motherf—ker With the Hat) will join the roster of Master Class Artists at Waterwell Summ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:35PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater announced that the world premiere of Buyer & Cellar, starring Broadway fave Michael Urie, will transfer to the Barrow Street Theatre this summer, accordin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced an eight week extension through Sunday, August 11 of its …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMFor Sigmund Freud, it was anatomy. For Neil LaBute, destiny has always been about looks. Good looks, especially in men, mean that you’re a privileged, caddish user. How appropriate then th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMInternationally celebrated soprano superstar Sarah Brightman is currently embarking on a world tour in support of her space-themed new album experience DREAMCHASER and new dates have just be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PM2013 Tony Awards Ballot Make your voice heard and show off your Broadway knowledge by filling out your very own 2013 Tony Awards Ballot! When you submit, we deliver a copy of your ballot to …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:25PMBetty Buckley, Hallie Foote and Lois Smith will star in the world premiere of THE OLD FRIENDS, a new play by Horton Foote as part of Signature Theater's 2013-2014 season.The description read…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 03:20PMThe acclaimed Broadway production of PIPPIN and Ghostlight Records invites fans to sing on the brand new Broadway cast recording. On Tuesday, May 7 at 1230 PM, PIPPIN fans will gather to sin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMIt's officially Tony season, and Broadway.com's complete coverage of the 2013 nominations got readers clicking. From the happy nominees to the stars and shows who got snubbed, our fe…
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SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:10PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz returns to the musical theatre mainstage with his new theatrical venture, BIG FISH, an adaptation of the hit Tim Burton feature film currently try…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMTo all Broadway fans in the tri-state area, the cast of Pippin says: "Join us…" Broadway's acclaimed revival of Pippin, recent recipient of 10 Tony Award nominations, is inviting all inte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMStella & Lou - Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. is offering $10 tickets for theatre industry professionals for performances May 3-12 (Excludes Opening Night). Offer available by p…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:04PM
LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award-winner and Tony Award nominee Tom Hanks, officially recouped its 3.6 million capitalization costs as of the week ending 42813, eight weeks after be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMThe Nance, Douglas Carter Beane's new drama about the backstage life of a homosexual burlesque performer in 1930s New York City, has extended its run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre through Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMLincoln Center Theater has announced that the world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance, starring Tony Award winner Nathan Lane as a gay burlesque performer facing a changing wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMLUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner and Tony Award® nominee Tom Hanks, officially recouped its $3.6 million capitalization costs as of the week ending 4/28/13, eight weeks a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:55PMBroadway superstar Raul Esparza continues his recent TV sojourn and makes his long-awaited debut in a recurring role on NBC's controversial horror-themed series Hannibal tonight.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMThe producers of “I’ll Eat You Last” and “Macbeth,” both of which were blanked in the Tony nomination derby, have decided not to offer free tickets to Tony voters. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL Tony Award nominees Tim Minchin, Dennis Kelly and Bertie Carvel will be interviewed on “Theater Talk” beginning tomorrow night, May 3 at 1am (early Saturday morning) …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:45PMEdward Albee’s play “Laying an Egg” was to have been the centerpiece of the new season at the Signature Theater, which scheduled and postponed the work once before, in the 2011-12 seas…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:39PMThis month, more than 600 Minnesota artists will throw open their studio doors to show and sell art.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:35PMNora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, which marks the Broadway debut of Tom Hanks, has recouped its $3.6 million investment just two months after beginning preview performances at the Broadhurst Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:35PMDespite the initial buzz, the Spice Girls musical fails to overcome critical savaging, and announces final performance dateWhen it launched in December, the Spice Girls musical Viva Forever!…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMWe went down the rabbit hole as Children’s Theatre worked out the magic for its new “Alice in Wonderland.”
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:34PMSeven-time Grammy nominee Katy Perry kicked up her heels at the Tony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominated musical Kinky Boots. Perry was eager to take in Cyndi Lauper’s fir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMActress Plays Tallulah Bankhead In Odd Convergence Of Life And Art At The Bushnell "There are lots of decisions you make that, if you think twice, you won't do them," says Stefanie Powers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:27PM“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” a new production based on the music and life of Carole King, will have a pre-Broadway run in San Francisco before its previously announced New York …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:26PMPlaying to capacity houses since the start of previews, the late Nora Ephron's posthumously produced play starring Tom Hanks shifts into profit after only eight weeks.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:23PMFollowing on its five Tony nominations, the Douglas Carter Beane play starring Nathan Lane will be extended eight weeks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:21PMCadence Theatre Company, in partnership with Virginia Repertory Theatre, closes its 2012-13 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which began performances April 25 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMThe Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks as Pulitzer Prize-winning tabloid writer Mike McAlary, has recouped its $3.6 million capitalization in eight wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMThe Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, has officially recouped its $3.6 million capitalization , producers have announced. Nomina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMA chat with Wrenn Schmidt, who will play the young muse Hilde in a production of Ibsen’s “Master Builder” at the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PMNEW YORK (AP) — Newcomer Tom Hanks has led "Lucky Guy" into the black.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:12PMThe Broadway production of the cirque-inspired revival of Pippin and Ghostlight Records are inviting fans to sing alonside 2013 Tony Award nominee Andrea Martin for the upcoming cast re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMOh Pavel. Wildman of the universe, you who actually did make magic happen in the theater—it seems strange to have you gone now. The theater got a little smaller with your passing… I fi…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:10PMNEW YORK—Newcomer Tom Hanks has led "Lucky Guy" into the black. Producers said Thursday that Norah Ephron's final work has recouped its $3.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:08PMGirl power didn't last long on stage: Producers announced Thursday the Spice Girls musical will close early in London after a lackluster six-month run. The final performance is June 29.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:08PMVladimir Putin is to attend gala concert for opening of new ballet and opera house, 10 years in developmentAmid the winding canals and stately 19th-century buildings that line the streets of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMThe world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand's basement, will tran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will celebrate the new Ghostlight Records cast recording of Dogfight with a special concert at Joe's Pub at The Public on Wednesday, May 15 at 930 PM which will fe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMPBS has announced broadcast dates for its summer programming.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMTHE FANTASTICKS, the world's longest running musical, will celebrate its 54th anniversary on Friday, May 3, just as producers Al Parinello and Catherine Russell announce plans for a major ce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMOn Saturday, June 1 at 8pm, 9-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune will take the stage at The Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street to offer Steps in Time - A Broadway Biography in Song amp Dance, hig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52PMMusic Theatre International (MTI) will bring a musical flair to the Scene Partner e-Script library, thanks to a new Distribution Agreement between the world’s premier musical theatre licen…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:38PMNominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 67th Annual Antoinette Perry'Tony' Awards were announced on Tuesday by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster. Check …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMCriterion Theatre, London: This showcase features just 12 scenes from modern plays, each with four or five roles. In this way we see 50 students in action in just 55 minutes which is quite a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:36PMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical, including Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the original 1983 film, are holding open auditions to find exceptionally talented ki…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:33PMMichael Wilson will direct the Off Broadway production for Signature Theatre, starring Betty Buckley, Hallie Foote and Lois Smith.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:31PMThe theater critics for The New York Times answer readers’ questions about musical adaptations, their biggest disappointments of the season and what awards season means. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:29PMPBS today unveiled a summer line-up that features a diverse array of new programming. A summer of intrigue presents new episodes of MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! productions: “Inspector Lewis, S…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:21PMBeacon, Greenock For those of us who grew up watching Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, the idea of trading your old toys for someone else's carries a certain allure. After selected performances of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMProject: Theater has announced that it will present the world premiere Joe Jung-directed production of Ken Ferrigni's Occupation, June 6-23 with an opening on June 12. Performances will take…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMMATILDA THE MUSICAL made its first national TV appearance this morning on 'Good Morning America'. The cast performed the galvanizing 'Revolting Children' and iconic 'Naughty.' Check out phot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMFor her version of “Pippin,” director Diana Paulus reached back to the wisdom of the Ancients – distracting us from a dud by offering bread and circuses. This first Broadway revival of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMRoyal Danish Ballet’s director Nikolaj Hübbe continues to refresh the comany’s core Bournonville repertoire with these two pieces, writes Gerald Dowler
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:07PMBenj Pasek and Justin Paul, 2013 Tony Award nominees for their original score of A Christmas Story, The Musical, will celebrate the recent release of their Dogfight cast album with a reunion…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMBroadway’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 01:05PMMichael Bubl's 'To Be Loved' CD debuts at the No. 1 spot on Billboard Magazine's Top 200 Pop Charts. Next for the Canadian superstar is a 40 city US concert tour beginning in Chicago on Sept…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMThey have overcome deafness, joint disorders, amputation and cancer to compete against the best b-boy dancers on the planet. Warning: contains popping, locking and top-rocking
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMBy now, everybody and their brother has weighed in on this year's Tony Award nominations. It's the usual outrage and jubilation, dismayed and pleasantly surprised, the commercially via…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 01:00PM
Michael Urie’s one-man play will transfer from the 99-seat Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to the 199-seat Barrow Street Theater starting in June.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PMVictoria Fried has only been at photography for three years, but the 18-year-old Ossining High School senior is certainly making up for lost time, compiling an award-winning portfolio of ima…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:56PMI almost never tire of dry, quirky, understated Canadian humor, and when that is the main thrust of The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey's play is a delight. But this tale of two farmers with a my…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:54PMSignature Theatre has announced a change to the theatre's Legacy Program for the 2013-14 All-Premiere Season the theatre will produce the World Premiere of Horton Foote's THE OLD FRIENDS, di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMJennifer Blood, Jillian Gottlieb, Sydney James Harcourt and A.J. Shively will lead the cast of the Prospect Theater Company's Off-Broadway premiere of Unlock'd, the Richard Rodgers A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe day after the Tony nominations were announced, the class of 2013 assembled in New York’s Millennium Broadway Hotel to meet the press. Playbill photographer Monica Simoes captured s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMThe cast has been announced for Signature Theatre's upcoming production of The Old Friends. The world premiere play, directed by Michael Wilson, will begin performances on August 20 at T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMWall to Wall, the signature event of Symphony Space, will conclude its multidiscplinary Harlem Resonance Festival May 11 with "Wall to Wall Harlem Resonance."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMDavid Patrick Kelly from Broadway’s 8-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical ONCE, will perform and talk about the hit show on WFUV Radio’s “Ceol na nGael” show this Sunday, May 5 at …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:34PMCan you bodypop with one leg? Can you dance to music you can't hear? As Breakin' Convention opens in London, the crew of ILL-Abilities explain how anything's possible in hip-hopHis nickname …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMI’m proud to be a co-producer of the Broadway revival of PIPPIN. In recent weeks our opening night festivities, the overwhelming number of award nominations, and the night after nights…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:29PMIn the musical See Rock City & Other Destinations, various traveling characters embark on important trips ... intrepid jazz journeyer Mark Winkler navigates the adventurous Laura Nyro songb…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:20PMAge and Hometown: 41; Stockholm, Sweden
Current Role: Bringing the Music of the Night to the Majestic Theatre as Broadway’s newest masked man in The Phantom of the Opera.
My Favo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMLegendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick will receive the Dutch Treat Club Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts on Monday, May 6th at The Harvard Club.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMHow big of a deal is it that Baltimore's biggest theater has at its helm a Brit, and not just any Brit but Kwame Kwei-Armah, the London-bred son of Afro-Caribbean immigrants from Grenada? If…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:18PMWin two tickets to Broadway's most romantic night, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:17PMA Family For All Occasions is sticking around a little bit longer! The Labyrinth Theater Company has extended its premiere of Bob Glaudini's family drama before opening off-Broadway. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMRichard Nelson’s new play, “Nikolai and the Others,” dramatizes the artists behind the Balanchine-Stravinsky ballet classic “Orpheus.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMKwame Kwei-Armah has written a play inspired by “A Raisin in the Sun” that is being staged in repertory with “Clybourne Park” at CenterStage in Baltimore under the umbrella title “…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMPreview the magic of Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:12PMFor Backstage’s 2013 Broadway Power List, we asked more than two dozen New York City theater professionals to name the most powerful Broadway players. The results are fairly similar to…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:07PMThis Broadway season, a young woman with a big dream and some fabulous costume changes has become an audience favorite. Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella recently snatched up nine Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:06PMThe Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards honor the best of Broadway each year, but not all recipients can be present to accept their awards. Enter comedienne and Broadway veteran Jackie Hoffm…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThe first thing you notice are the trees in the new Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. “We wanted the forest to remain prevalent on stage, and natural elements to…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:05PMBetty Buckley, Hallie Foote, and Lois Smith will star in Signature Theatre Company's upcoming world premiere production of Horton Foote's The Old Friends, set to begin performances on August…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related DVDs for May 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMIn "Maple and Vine," a couple looks for retro happiness.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM
The early end of the show's run comes amid weak ticket sales following negative reviews.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:58AMINTERVIEW: MARIA AHBERG The director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of As You Like It, in conversation with RSC Events Coordinator Nicky Cox, discusses her approach to t…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:57AMLincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced an eight week extension through Sunday, August 11 of i…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:56AMThe Miss Glamouresse contestants will once again compete for New York audiences this summer when the Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant returns for an Off-Broadway run at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMViva Forever!, the new London musical with a score culled from the hits of the Spice Girls, will end its West End run at the Piccadilly Theatre on June 29 after six months, WhatsonStage.com …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMLONDON — "Viva Forever"? Not as it turns out.Producers announced Thursday that the Spice Girls musical will close at London's Piccadilly Theater June 29 after a disappointing six-month ru…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:53AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley and Tony Award nominees Hallie Foote and Lois Smith will appear in the world premiere of Horton Foote's The Old Friends as part of Signature Theatre's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMActors' Equity Association AEA or Equity today announced the extension of Mary McColl's contract as executive director for another three-year term, effective January 2014. The decision was a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical, including Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the original 1983 film, are holding open auditions to find exceptionally talented kids…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AM By: Linda Amiel BurnesThe New York Pops Celebrates its 30th Birthday with a Gala Evening at Carnegie Hall on Ap…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:46AMCHICAGO (AP) — Gemze de Lappe first danced in "Oklahoma!" in 1943 as a member of the Broadway hit's first national touring company. Seventy years later, at age 91, she's still with it — …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:45AMAyub Khan Din’s strange journey with his new musical at The New Group It sounds like something out of an old Hollywood screwball comedy: A madcap new musical is about to bow on the boa…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:45AMTom Hanks and Maura Tierney in Lucky Guy (photo by Joan Marcus)
The Tom Hanks/Nora Ephron romance, which brought them so much success with romcoms onscreen, has continued even after Ephron…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:45AMLucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner and Tony Award® nominee Tom Hanks, officially recouped its $3.6 million capitalization costs as of the week ending 4/28/13, eight weeks a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:40AMAlec Baldwin, Tony nominee Tom Sturridge and Ben Foster are bringing the turbulent world of Lyle Kessler Orphans to thunderous life on Broadway. Set in a ramshackle row house in North Philly…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMThe cast has been announced for Paper Mill Playhouse's American premiere of a new Disney production of The Little Mermaid. Directed by Glenn Casale, the musical will begin performan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMIt's My Party: The Women and Comedy Project, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Produced by 1812 Productions, written and directed by Jennifer Childs, with Melanie Cotton, Charlotte Ford, Drucie …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:37AMTony Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick will receive the Dutch Treat Club Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts May 6 at The Harvard Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMSignature Theatre (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) announced a change to the theatre’s Legacy Program for the 2013-14 All-Premiere Season: the t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:32AMNEW YORK (AP) — Albee is out at the Signature. Foote is in.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:31AMTony winners and Oscar nominees Frank Langella and Glenn Close join Stark Trek’s Anton Yelchin in the new indie film 5 to 7, according to Deadline.com. Written and directed by Victor L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:29AMBreakfast at Tiffany’s headliner Emilia Clarke will star in director James Franco’s adaptation of Andre Dubus III’s novel The Garden of Last Days.
According to The Holly…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AM(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 wa…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:26AMStage 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: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMMaria Friedman's production of Merrily We Roll Along has transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre, having opened last night (1 May 2013).
Stephen Sondheim's musical, which
travels backward…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:20AMSam Shepard's True West comes home to Marin in an overstated but animated production by Marin Actors' Workshop.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:20AMPaper Mill Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for its production of Disney's The Little Mermaid, scheduled to run from May 29-June 30 (official press opening set for June 2).…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19AMCHICAGO (AP) -- Gemze de Lappe first danced in "Oklahoma!" in 1943 as a member of the Broadway hit's first national touring company. Seventy years later, at age 91, she's still with it -…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:18AMWhat is Harvard Square today but a shopping spree waiting to happen, a student lounge, a food court? What could a novel gain by being set in that venue?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMCheyenne Jackson and Alexandra Silber will star in “West Side Story in Concert” with the San Francisco Symphony this summer. The shows will be presented June 27-July 2 at Davies Symphony…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:10AMUniversal Stage Productions, Working Title Films, Old Vic Productions and NETworks Presentations, LLC in association with Time for Fun (T4F) announced May 2 that the North American tour of B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMJames Lee Taylor, Jack Dimich, Tom Cappadona, Adam Pagdon, Samantha Slater, Luka Mijatovic, Anthony Guerino, Alessandro Colla, and Maria Riboli have been selected to star in Sheri Graubert's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMIf you “wanna be” able to see the Spice Girls inspired musical live on stage, you better hurry over to London's Piccadilly Theatre. Viva Forever! announced it will play …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMThere’s not much time left to get in your vote for the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, but maybe this will jolt you non-voters into action! Some of our favorite nominees are …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMAlright racing fans . . . buckle your belts, because it’s about to get serious. It’s Tony Pool time!!! That’s right, the nominations have been announced, so it’s time…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Daniel Radcliffe, who got bowtied in How to Succeed and nude in Equus, has set his sights on his next project. The Broadway favorite will star in the crime thriller Tokyo Vice in 2014, repor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMJacqueline Brookes, an actress and teacher who appeared on stage and film for more than four decades, passed away on April 26 at age 82.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMA terrible "Jekyll" and the music IS the thing in "Motown." Reviews appear in other North Jersey Media Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 10:50AMPlaywright Lisa D'Amour is among the recipients of the Doris Duke Performing Arts Awards, which were announced this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMBattersea Arts Centre has a fine track record for picking out fresh talents, nurturing them and then letting them bloom in the nooks and crannies of its magnificent building. Jerry Springer …
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:47AMHarold Pinter Theatre, London: Once again the <a href="https://www.menierchocolatefactory.com/">Menier Chocolate Factory</a>, a tiny theatre in Southwark, proves itself…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMJerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s Classical Musical at Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center. This is not my first time on the Boat. Back in 2009, I was part of Signature Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMRichard Todd Adams (The Pirate Queen, The Woman in White) will join composer David Mallamud for The Magical and Mysterious Music of Mister Mallamud May 6 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMCast members from Dogfight, Kinky Boots and Cinderella, including Lindsay Mendez, Annaleigh Ashford, Billy Porter, Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, will perform at New York City Barnes and N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMI woke up early to watch the Tony nominations. The categories amp nominees were announced so fast I could barely register the names, much less process a reaction or live tweet my thoughts N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMThis Monday, the Computer School brings Broadway to the Upper West Side The school's annual Night of Stars concert raises money for the Computer School After School Music Program, helping to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMMichael Fassbender and Natalie Portman will play Lord and Lady Macbeth, respectively, in a new film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMRocco Sisto, Stephanie Hayes, Alenka Kraigher, Nicolas Norena and David Skeist star in the Public Theater world premiere of Richard Foreman's Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance).
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMLiveWire Chicago is looking to donate some of the stock from our set of A Permanent Image closing May 5. Stock includes: 2 flats that are 4x8, 2 flats that are 2x8, 4 jacks at 10ft, 1 jack a…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 10:35AMRegular readers will know that I have a love/hate relationship with the Tony Awards, with all awards, in fact. On the one hand, I'm as interested and fascinated as the next showtune queen wh…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 10:34AMNominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 67th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced on Tuesday at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement spons…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMJay Miller, artistic director of Hackney venue The Yard, exlains the venue's proudly anarchic ethos
Here at The Yard we don't know what we're doing. We didn't know what we were doing when …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:31AM The Broadway at Birdland concert series is proud to present the New York solo debut of Cortés Alexander in “The Swell Show” on Monday, May 13 at 7pm. Alexander last appea…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:30AMThis week's A.P.T. is Sarah Volage Bellin. I first met Sarah when she was working on festival shows and pursuing a career in directing. She recently has embarked on a much bigger project whi…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThe Mystery of Edwin Drood 's Stephanie J. Block and Will Chase met with Playbill at the annual Tony nominations media day to talk about their nominations
(Best Actress in a Musical and Bes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," a new stage biography of the American singer-songwriter, will have an out-of-town tryout in San Francisco in September before making its scheduled Broad…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AM Adelaide Mestre‘s TOP DRAWER: Stories of Dysfunction and Redemption from Park Avenue to Havana, a poignant musical memoir that recounts a life of privilege and secrets. An aut…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:28AMIt's ever harder getting work off the ground, but the space and support of bigger organisations can make all the differenceTheatre attendance and revenue for West End theatre rose by 9% in 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMDon't miss the second convening of the Brooklyn Commune, May 12 2PM-6PM at The Invisible Dog Art Center.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:15AMThe Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond has launched a fundraising appeal to save it from closure. The grade-I listed building, which was built in 1788, needs more than £100,000 to secure it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMThe Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has been awarded £1.5 million from the Scottish Funding Council to provide free performing arts training for children from poorer backgrounds. The scheme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMNorthern Stage, NewcastleIt's curious that Dennis Potter is primarily honoured – in the theatre at least – for one of the slightest pieces he wrote. Originally conceived for the small sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMEnglish National Opera has claimed it has reduced its £2 million deficit by around two thirds. The company’s accounts for 2012/13 indicate that it is now left with a deficit of around £8…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMDerby theatreJill is in a domestic science class when she hears that her Elvis-impersonator Dad has suffered a terrible accident. After that, she can't stop cooking and eating. Two years on,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMBig Vision Empty Wallet (BVEW) and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences present a reading of BVEW Playwriting Fellow Alex Rubin’s First Love May 2 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMPlaybill Video caught up with the 2013 Tony Award nominees at the May 1 Meet the Nominees reception in Times Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMMusic Theatre International and MyTheaterApps.com Announce Agreement for e-Script Distribution Through the Scene Partner® Webstore. Scene Partner to Join MTI’s Suite of Theatrical Resourc…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:00AM20 scholarships are launched this week which could see you training at a Razzamataz Theatre School near you. Kevin Berry sets out the details
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM
Stage and screen star John Barrowman will return to SECC's Clyde Auditorium this winter to play the title role in the pantomime adventure Dick McWhittington.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM“Everybody’s looking for love” in The Nance, Douglas Carter Beane’s moving new play in performances at the Lyceum Theater. This lyric, crooned onstage in a vaudeville performance, ap…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:46AMWhen the world premiere of CenterStage’s production of Beneatha’s Place by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah joins with their production of Clybourne Park on May 15th, the ful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AMText: But I can tell you the truth now Because this space is a space where we pretend we are pretending But really we are telling the truth Our subjective truths Image: Sound: http://www.you…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:39AMMartin Laurello (born Martin Emmerling in Nuremberg Germany in May 1886) was born with the unique gift of being able to turn his head around 180 degrees backwards. The above photo may look l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:26AMThe annual Gypsy Caravan is coming, and for now it's discounted.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:26AMPioneer Theatre Company presents the epic musical LES MISERABLES. Due to popular demand, the production's run has been extended by two weeks. Performances take place May 3 through June 1, 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMPaper Mill Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, based on the classic animated film of the same title, which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMBroadwayWorld.com has learned that Ryan Murphy's upcoming HBO adaptation of THE NORMAL HEART on HBO will begin filming in June of 2013 in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMHey BroadwayWorld.com Hello from Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, where we're deep in rehearsals for Les Miserables. This ever-popular musical is making a comeback - literally - an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMA musical based on the meteoric rise of British pop band The Spice Girls that was mauled by the critics is closing six months after its premiere in London, the show's producer said on Thursd…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:10AMPaper Mill Playhouse has just announced the cast and creative team for Disney's The Little Mermaid, based on the classic animated film of the same title.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10AMMost people are at least passingly familiar with the villainous Richard of York, and have at least heard of England’s War of the Roses, but Margaret of Anjou? Not nearly as familiar. Yet…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMThis month’s theater quiz is a special theater awards edition.About half the 10 questions have something to do with one of the many awards whose nominations were announced in April. Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01AMTired of their careers sending them in separate directions, the couple decided to work it out — literally. 'Annapurna' at the Odyssey Theatre is their latest project.Nick Offerman race…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Forget Viva Forever!, Jennifer Saunders' Spice Girls musical which is to close after just six months, here are some of the most embarrassing theatrical flops the other side of the pond.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:59AMRosie Kay’s latest work, There Is Hope, is intelligent, thoughtful, soothing and provocative. A deliberate use of set and visual imagery throughout the performance, alongside strong m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMChanging my musicals hat into my high-school-arts hat (a top hat for a fedora) to chat with Tori Fried, a senior at Ossining High School who is old school when it comes to photography. She s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:41AMSpice Girls musical Viva Forever!, which premiered at the Piccadilly Theatre in December, will close on 29 June 2013, after just six months in the West End.In a press statement released this…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:37AMThe third annual Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (GIFT) kicks off this evening (2 May 2013) at Gateshead Old Town Hall, offering performances and workshops throughout this bank h…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:23AMProducer Judy Cramer announces 'with heavy heart' that musical will have last performance in JuneStop right now, thank you very much. Viva Forever!, the musical based on the songs of the Spi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 2 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMEdward Farrow served as chef at the Cafe at MIM in Phoenix
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:00AM
Harold Pinter, LondonA flawed diamond, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 musical flop polishes up beautifully in this revival by Maria Friedman. The show is so astute, it's hard to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMMy View written by Stephen Sorokoff It’s the process of thickening and intensifying while evaporating, in food lexicon. In music it refers to the shrinking of a chart (arrangement) origi…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:50AMIt's looked after the children of some of our biggest stage stars, and now the Royal Shakespeare Company's Nursery - one of the very few nurseries run by a theatre company in the UK - is cel…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:45AMIt was called, optimistically, Viva Forever! But six months of scathing reviews and audience indifference has forced the producers to call time on the Spice Girls musical which is to close, …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:35AMIt was called, optimistically, Viva Forever! But six months of scathing reviews and audience indifference has forced the producers to call time on the Spice Girls musical which is to close, …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:35AMToday is the birthday of Pinky Lee (for my full article on this important burlesque comedian and children’s tv host go here). A special treat today: a clip of him doing his old schtick…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMIt's getting to be a habit for the Menier Chocolate Factory to transfer their acclaimed Sondheim revivals from the quirky intimacy of their own venue to the big bad world of the West End.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:26AMLyric Theatre, Belfast: He's back - 25 years after falling out with his sister Lorna, boarding a boat for England and disappearing, Billy Martin returns home to post-ceasefire Belfast. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMI had a chance to go down to Philly this past weekend to see a show with Cynthia Fujikawa (she of this sextet of posts). On the agenda was If She Stood, a new play by Cyndy’s old fri…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:10AMTerry Gilliam and Simon McBurney are returning to direct for English National Opera as part of a newly-announced season.Monty Python star Gilliam will stage a production Berlioz's Benvenuto …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:06AMBy Johnny Oleksinski David Adam Moore is an anomaly in the cast of Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” A baritone who performs …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM
Producer JUDY CRAYMER has confirmed that VIVA FOREVER the new musical, inspired by the songs of the SPICE GIRLS, has posted closing notices at the Piccadilly Theatre for 29 June, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57AMToday is the birthday of Vernon Castle. For more on him and his wife Irene (the pair of whom revolutionized social dancing in America) go here. If you’ve heard of their famous dance …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:24AMLONDON (Reuters) - A musical based on the meteoric rise of British pop band The Spice Girls that was mauled by the critics is closing six months after its premiere in London, the show's prod…
SOURCE: Reuters at 06:22AMStaging of Alexander Masters' award-winning debut novel to premiere at new 200-seat Underbelly theatre TopsideA stage adaptation of Alexander Masters' bestselling debut novel Stuart: A Life …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14AMThe critics are unanimous in their praise for A Chorus Line. The ‘sizzling and exhilarating’ (Independent) show that revolutionised Broadway is now back in the West End for the first tim…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:13AMToday is the birthday of pop singer Lesley Gore (b. Lesley Goldstein, 1946), best known for her 1963 #1 hit “It’s My Party”. While that tune has its musical virtues, far…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:01AMRECOMMENDED There’s no better home for Michael Estanich and Lucy Riner’s “Homeland” than the Old Town School of Folk Music. The creative partnership behind RE|Da…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00AMLaurie Metcalf stars in The Other Place, a drama about a woman whose life is unraveling at the seams.
Amy Morton is nominated for her role as Martha, a woman who trades sadistic barbs wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00AM
Guests including Andy Nyman, David Bedella, Jill Halfpenny and Michael Xavier were among those celebrating the West End transfer of Merrily We Roll Along, which opened at the Harold Pinter T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:59AMThe New York Times 05/01/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:56AMAfter Tuesday night's Apocalypse Now experience with Beyonce's helicopters drowning out The Tempest, I'm glad to report that on Wednesday there wasn't even a whisper of a helicopter overhead…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:53AMThe Guardian (UK) 05/01/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:52AMWhen Peter Hall directed a disappointing Othello at the National Theatre (with Paul Scofield, and Michael Bryant as Iago) you could see where his heart was: at Glyndebourne, where his produc…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:51AMThat didn’t take long. The first plays about the death of Margaret Thatcher have been commissioned and will be performed at Theatre 503 in Battersea, south London next month.
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:36AMViva Forever!, the West End musical featuring songs from the Spice Girls, has announced that it will close on June 29, following a run of little more than six months. The show, which is prod…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:25AMZoë 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 04:00AM
We've started our crowdfunding efforts for The Miss Julie Dream Project. Check out our RocketHub campaign here.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:37AMI've updated the Fell Swoop website and added a page for our show.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:36AMFell Swoop's Night of Dreams was a big hit last weekend. I don't even think I've posted that much about it since I've been so swamped with getting ready for it. And auditions. And casting. A…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:34AMActor Hugh Jackman will chat live with fans about his upcoming action film THE WOLVERINE on Twitter via RealHughJackman today, May 2nd at noon ET. The actor will respond to questions via vid…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMichael Attenborough and Dan Jarvis MP on the future of arts, agreement with Sinden on acting nomenclature and a call for Latin music
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake." H.L. Mencken, A Little Book...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Go On" Star's Bromance With Matthew Perry
If it's not one Mr. Perry, it's another for Tyler James Williams! First, the actor tells us about his blossoming bromance with "Go On" co-star Matt…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEWS: "Core of the Pudel" by Trap Door Theatre ★★★ and "Comrades Mine" by City Lit Theater ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Core of the Pudel" by Trap …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM(BY KEVIN WILLIAMS) ... The Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMOn Saturday night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago officially gets into the business of Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM'Iron Man 3' Marvel-ous World Premiere
We are at the superpowered world premiere of 'Iron Man 3' at the El Capitan in Hollywood where we catch up with stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Sir Ben Kingsley…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
After a surprising results last week, four contestants still remain. This week the ladies will be singing song from now and then. The first round will be songs from 2013 while the second wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56AMDespite some fine individual work and a plethora of timeless music, the show still needs more than shining moments to come together as a solid whole - especially with such a creaky script. (…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:29AMManhattan therapist Colleen Fitzgerald has an unorthodox twist on treatment: She sees only the patients she likes.
Good luck with that in this town.
And good luck to audiences at “Love The…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMHead: Delivering the head shotby Art Hindle(reprinted with the kind permission of ACTRA Toronto Performers Magazine)In boxing, the head shot delivers a telling impact. So too does it i…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMLet's talk about both photo and content because this week we'd like to draw your attention not only to Joanna Aykol's wonderfully rendered image from Falsettos, but also to its subject, acto…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, May 1, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated British musical Blood Brothers, a pop parable about twins separated at birth, is revived by the Astoria Performing Arts Center beginning May 2 in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMotown Tony Award nominee Valisia LeKae and Brandon Victor Dixon bring a complex relationship to the stage as music icons Diana Ross and Berry Gordy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway's York Theatre Company presents a three-week engagement of I’m a Stranger Here Myself, written and performed by Mark Nadler, which officially opens May 2 at 8 PM follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTravels with My Aunt, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same name, begins performances May 2 at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe effervescent Jenni Barber made her Broadway debut as the sweet and lonely Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2007. Recently, she did a 180 to star in the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMFriends, Bostonians, countrymen, lend Mike Tyson your ears.Um, well, not literally.Tyson was one of the greatest boxers in history, but his bizarre behavior overshadowed his pugilistic skill…
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