Lucky timing or a shrewd bet on synergy? Thanks to this weekend’s release of Baz Luhrmann’s new film version of “The Great Gatsby,” the Dead Writers Theatre Collective might just get…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:31PMSong and dance aren’t always perfect partners. Queen Latifah was the guest of honor at New York City Ballet’s spring gala Wednesday, where her singing overshadowed the dancing.
The gala …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMLife and showbiz got uncomfortably close in “Bunty Berman Presents . . .,” a likable but overlong new musical set in the demented world of Bollywood movies.
As it happened, Erick Avari, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMAccording to current conventional wisdom, 1936’s “On Your Toes” could never cut it again on Broadway. After all, it features a goofy fun plot, songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMPicture this: Bunty Berman, the head of a C-list movie studio in 1950s Bombay, finds his empire at the edge of collapse following the release of his latest cinematic stink bomb. So he makes …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:09PMMinutes into the darkly humorous play, “A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney,” it’s clear that for the famous man who made Mickey Mouse, movies a…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMMay 3 marked the 100th anniversary of Bollywood. That's a century since Dadasaheb Phalke's monumental silent film Raja Harishchandra was released to the public. Since that day in 1913, India…
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Theatre Row, The New Group, Off Broadway
By Joseph Samuel Wright
BOTTOM LINE: A new musical in the spirit of Golden Age Bollywood.
Fade in on a fading star at a faded studio in the…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:57PMBE SURE TO VOTE IN THE "HOT OR NOT" FINALS POLL!In her liner notes, Faith Prince mentions that she felt a certain uneasiness back in 2010 when this was recorded. The country was deep i…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:32PMAny honest Brecht performance means a serious workout of mental and physical focus, and this latest production of The Good Person of Szechuan by La Mama does full justice to Brecht’s daunt…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMKatarina Dalayman is one of a handful of top Wagnerian sopranos in the world, but for the first act of the Met's GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, the climax of the Met's second 'Ring' cycle of the season,…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 10:29PMIn a highly competitive online auction in June 2012, the publisher of the highly successful MD Theatre Guide, Mark Beachy purchased the NY Theatre Guide for an undisclosed amount. After a ye…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:15PMWith the Tony nominations out, and the big winners predictable — “Matilda,” “Pippin,” “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — Broadwa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14PM“How Sweet It Is,” an ode to the healing powers of musical theater, centers on a washed-up, alcoholic Broadway producer and a Mafia don to whom he owes money.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 10:02PM“Bunty Berman Presents ...,” about a financially beleaguered Bombay movie producer trying to scrape together the money and momentum for a comeback, provides one of the immortal lessons o…
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Have you ever been so enraged that you’ve almost lost it? I’m talking the kind of red-hot rage that creeps behind the eyes, makes you tense and sweaty, brings you right up to the boi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 09:54PMThroughout Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse, the characters of an ill-defined institution split hairs over the service it provides. Is it a rest home, a nursing home, a sanatorium? They may be…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:42PM A tragic tale of forbidden lust, betrayal and revenge, Bell Shakespeare brings to life the rarely told French classic, Phèdre, starring acclaimed actress Catherine McClements.
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SOURCE: Theatre People Australia at 09:41PMThe organizers of Time Share on how and why this collaboration came to be.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:30PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Michelle Williams is in talks to play 'Nellie Forbush' in a new big-screen adaptation of the musical SOUTH PACIFIC, directed by Michael Mayer with a screenplay b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:05PMConsidering the notoriously scary reputation of Disney lawyers, it's pretty amazing that this show is running at all. Of course, Uncle Walt is now as much a part of American mythology as Unc…
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According to Variety, NBC has officially canceled the Josh Gad-led comedy series 1600 PENN. The series premiered on NBC January 10, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical STEPHEN WARD will take over the Aldwych Theatre as its West End home, with previews beginning after a 16-week run of THIS HOUSE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20PMSEX amp THE CITY star and thespian Kim Cattral takes on the role of a lifetime in the new production of SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH by Tennessee Williams, co-starring breakout GOLDEN BOY star Seth N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15PMThe actress, who appeared in the recent Disney hit Oz The Great And Powerful, has been offered the role of U.S. navy ensign Nellie Forbush, the hick from Little Rock nursing injured sailors …
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:14PMAccording to the Daily Mail, the National Theatre will present David Hare's stage adaptation of Katherine Boo's non-fiction book Behind The Beautiful Forevers Life, Death and Hope in a Mumba…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:14PMPlaywright David Hare has adapted Katherine Boo’s prize-winning non-fiction book Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity for the National Theatre.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:13PMNEW YORK (AP) — Olivier Award-winning playwright Ayub Khan Din's new sunny musical comedy "Bunty Berman Presents..." is a cheerfully irreverent tribute to what's often called the golden ag…
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Tony nominated actress Jessie Mueller, currently starring in the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, appeared on NBC's 'Today' this morning, May 9th in the 1000 a.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59PMMatrix Theatre Company's play of the year...Meet Me at Metro moves on...Recalling Corey Allen...
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:51PMSuperhero franchise frequent player Famke Janssen discusses her pivotal role of Jean Grey in the X-MEN and WOLVERINE films as well as remarks on her starry assortment of co-stars, old and ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:51PMLast week, Fractal Theatre launched a new chapter in both the book of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the history of the Arts Theatre on Petrie Terrace in Brisbane. As the first ever indie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:45PMAt the Mark Taper Forum, August Wilson's play towers once again as it tells of a man, and a nation, seeking wholeness again after dark, dehumanizing days.The setting for August Wilson's magn…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PMKatherine M. Carter is a Michigan born, New York based director. She is the founding Artistic Director of The Other Mirror, the 2011-12 Playwrights Horizons Directing Resident, an…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:27PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonHarold Pinter was, among many other things, a comic writer; and I would distrust any Pinter evening that didn't make us laugh. But, richly pleasurable and boundlessl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMAccording to E, judge Randy Jackson announced today that he is officially leaving FOX's American Idol at the end of this season.
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The Scottsboro Boys plays the Ahmanson Theatre from May 21 - June 30, 2013 and BroadwayWorld is giving its readers a chance to win a pair of tickets to the show on Friday, May 31 at 8PM Clic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMComediennes and occasional awards show hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler join controversial chart-topping rapper Kanye West in cameos in the new ANCHORMAN follow-up, starring Will Ferrell and S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMRyan Heffington's dance performance piece KTCHN, playing at the Mack Sennett Studios in Silver Lake, is inspired directly by the paintings of Nolan Hendrickson.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:51PMAfter 21 Years Hot Shoe Shuffle Wows Brisbane Audiences Once More. From the onset, the creative team set the mood for the opening night of Hot Shoe Shuffle at the Queensland Performing Arts …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:45PMIn this original song by Lewis Flinn and Douglas Carter Beane, these two young talents school the Audience Choice Awards crowd on the power of Broadway kids!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:45PMEarly last year there were doubts that the 2012 Melbourne Cabaret Festival would go ahead. It was thanks to the support of cabaret artists and those who love their work, that a crowd funding…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:44PMAcademy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro has agreed to appear alongside Joaquin Phoenix in Paul Thomas Anderson's new feature film INHERENT VICE according to a new report.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMWatch the Kinky Boots star win a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Funny Performance.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:39PMAccording to the Associated Press, Chuck Lorre, creator of 'Two and a Half Men' and 'The Big Bang Theory' is teaming up with Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello to write a new musical based on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMBroadway and Hollywood crossover star Taye Diggs appears alongside a considerable collection of heavy-hitters in the new feature film comedy BAGGAGE CLAIM and a new poster and trailer have b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PM'Joe Turner's Come and Gone' opened last night, May 8, at CTG's Mark Taper Forum, directed by Phylicia Rashad. BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening night festivities below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PMThe producers behind the Broadway revival of "Pippin" made hundreds of theater fans happy by offering them a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a chance to sing on the cast album of th…
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:18PMConnecticut's Westport Country Playhouse kicks off its new season with "The Dining Room," A.R. Gurney's most fully realized portrayal of the fast-vanishing world of WASPs.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:15PMProducer Global Creatures have today released an 8-track preview of the score of KING KONG which features the work of some of the world's best contemporary artists, including 3D from Massive…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMA guide to area performances, including “Tappin’ Thru Life: An Evening with Maurice Hines,’’ “Icarus,’’ “Glengarry Glen Ross,’’ “Amadeus,’’ “Almost Blue,’’ �…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:04PMWhen she isn’t teaching Benita Scheckel, a choir and drama teacher at Blair School in Pasadena, CA, writes musicals. Her musical “Bend in the Road,” a 2013 Next Link Project based on L…
SOURCE: neatoday.org at 06:03PMHolland Taylor, who plays a politician, and Christine Quinn, who is one, share a love for Ann Richards, a Texas legend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMTony winner Steve Kazee takes the stage at 54 Below with his first-ever concert of original music. Backed by his band The Shiny Liars, Kazee previews his upcoming album of debut tracks.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:00PML.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:00PMLive from the Paley Center in L.A., a discussion with the 2,000 Year Old Man, Mel Brooks about his upcoming biography film, Mel Brooks: Make a Noise. Joining Brooks are Robert Trachtenberg (…
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Voting opened on May 2, 2013 and runs through May 31, 2013 for the 11th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards Here are the current standings as of 59 with just 21 days to go in voting
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMArs Nova's Out Loud series will present a free reading of I'll Get You Back Again by Sarah Gancher May 13 at 3:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PMA ravishingly beautiful Kerry Washington stunned the crowd at the premiere of PEEPLES last night, donning a stylishly long-trained, attention-grabbing monochrone ensemble complete with match…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, May 9, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Tune into WABC this Saturday night for all the hig…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMProducers of the Australian world-premiere of King Kong, which features original music by Massive Attack, Sarah McLachlan and The Avalanches, have released an eight-song sampler medley from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PMYou could win tickets to a participating Broadway show.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 05:34PMA fascinating phenomenon is occurring in the theater, one which was elucidated by many shows that I saw in Chicago over the past couple of weeks. As the art of playwriting (to wit: storytell…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:34PMThe eagerly anticipated, latest The Great Gatsby opens Friday, produced for $127-million, co-written, and directed by stage/screen visionary, Baz Luhrmann.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 05:31PMBroadwayWorld'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 on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMIn a new interview with multi-award-winning modern comedy icon Tina Fey, the actress and comedienne reveals that she is a big fan of the NBC musical drama series SMASH.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMWicked has won Favorite Long-Running Musical nine years in a row! Find out why the musical’s star Kyle Dean Massey was hoping this year it wouldn’t.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:21PMThis weekend, WABC-7 airs a half-hour special covering highlights of the spring season on Broadway, including ANNIE, THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, I’LL EAT YOU LAST, JERSEY BOYS, LUCKY GUY, MATIL…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:21PMKinky Boots headliner Billy Porter won the BACA for Favorite Actor in a Musical for his fabulous performance as drag diva Lola, and he thanks and loves everybody.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:17PMCynics had a field day when the Royal Opera announced Anja Harteros for the role of Elisabeth in Don Carlo, and the no-show diva with a second-to-none cancellation record (or a next-to-none …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:16PMOn May 6, Broadway came together to support those affected by the Boston Marathon Tragedy at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Check out photos from inside the concert below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMThe Broadway blockbuster Wicked welcomes a new green girl on May 28 as musical theater fan favorite Lindsay Mendez steps into the starring role of Elphaba. We caught up with Mendez to get he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:16PMTony and Emmy winner Amanda Plummer will return to the New York stage in the Off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' rarely-seen The Two-Character Play at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMJason Forbach, currently appearing as Enjolras in the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Les Miserables slated for Broadway next season, will present a one-night-only concert 'A New Leading M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMSet in 1978 Frankfurt, “In a Year With 13 Moons” is a stage adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMMonica Bill Barnes and company know how to make the audience laugh. Sometimes the comedy is at the dancers’ expense. Other times it is through an array of tricks. They pull material from v…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMAcclaimed Tony Award winning DirectorChoreographer Jerry Mitchell, whose musical Kinky Boots just received 13 Tony Award-nominations, will be honored with the 2013 Mr. Abbott Award for his o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMThe Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company announced its 2013-2014 season, including a one-night only performance of Barbara Streisand's Funny Girl
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:02PMIt’s not a twinkle in the night sky — it’s a supernova.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:02PMName: Jessica Anne
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Education: I got a BA in English, and currently I’m working on an MFA in creative writing.
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SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:00PMThe Encores! production of Rodgers and Hart’s “On Your Toes” features the killer legs of Irina Dvorovenko of American Ballet Theater and Christine Baranski’s well-honed musical-comed…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMIt’s the part of being a professional actor that only resonates once you’ve done it. Eight shows a week. Twice on Saturday. On paper it seems so manageable. If you’re in …
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The Steppenwolf Theatre Company said Thursday it had raised $1.1 million at its annual gala last Saturday for its artistic, educational and community programming.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:54PMThere has been much talk in recent years about the lack of "diversity" in American theater. This four part series is meant to redefine the conversation in a way that will move us past the bu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:52PMBertie Carvel accepts his award for Favorite Breakthrough Performance for his role as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, and marvels at going from not knowing a soul when he "got off the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMMusical theatre composer Joe Iconis, whose music has been heard on the NBC musical series "Smash," will host 22@54, featuring original songs by emerging writers from NYU's Grad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMHoughton Library Blog 04/04/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:39PMThe run of Matthew Lombardo's "Looped" starring Stefanie Powers as Tallulah Bankhead at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts this week prompted a letter from Henry E. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:38PMJim Caruso's Cast Party at Birdland Jazz Club will celebrate the 2013 Tony nominees May 13 and May 20 at 9:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMTo the surprise of none but delight of all, Neil Patrick Harris will return to host the Tony Awards for a fourth time this year, the American Theater Wing announced today.
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:34PMThe Recording Academy Honors, which annually present the Grammy Awards, have announced that Les Miserables composers Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer and Claude-Michel Schonberg will be among…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMPhylicia Rashad directs one of the most heralded works from August Wilson's "Century Cycle" at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown L.A.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:30PMBudget has been balanced and debt reduced, officials say.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:29PMAdrianne Pieczonka (centre) photo: Michael CooperBlinded by the lightby Shannon ChristyAs fans of Gothic architecture know, the best-preserved cathedral in Paris is la Sainte Chapelle. …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:29PMEngland’s King Henry VIII is familiar to us as the man who had six wives, who severed ties with the Roman Catholic Church in order to divest himself of one of them, had another beheaded, a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:25PM80s movie queen and sporadic stage star Molly Ringwald has revealed her affection for the Great American Songbook with the release of her new solo album EXCEPT SOMETIMES, out now, and discus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMOn Monday, May 20, the York Theatre Company will host its 9th annual NEO benefit concert. The event will feature the works of "new," "emerging," and "outstanding" musical theater writers inc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:24PMSusan Blackwell and Paul Wontorek interview 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winners, nominees and presenters at the VIP after-party.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:22PMYou are There Drama Desk Meet and Greet: All Day All Night MaryAnn: Yesterday the Drama Desk nominee's meet at the Essex House to receive their certificates.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:14PMBroadway's up-and-coming stars and the West Side YMCA's Kids Company will perform in the third annual benefit cabaret Little Theater, Big Dreams. Held at the West Side YMCA's Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM2013 Tony nominees will be celebrated this month at Jim Caruso's Cast Party on Monday, May 13 and Monday, May 20 at 930pm at Birdland Jazz Club.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMHartt School Educator, Actor Died Earlier This Year
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:08PMThe HBO film adaptation of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart will boast quite a roster of stage and screen stars. The latest additions to the all-star cast are three-time Tony nominee Al…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:08PMIt’s down to the final three on American Idol and the ladies aren’t holding anything back. During the live performances on May 8, Idol favorite Candice Glover tore the house down…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PM
Lauded recording artist and compelling stage performer Nellie McKay will be bringing her appreciably idiosyncratic talents to a number of venues across the East Coast in the coming weeks and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMMark Evans (photo: Joan Marcus)Thank you God! (Ma ha nei bu, Eebowai!)Like a Joseph Smith torpedo from the mouth of Christ, The Book of Mormon is an explosion of all that is good in musical …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:58PMThe 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 03:57PMTony-winning director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell, who was recently nominated for the 2013 Tony Awards for Best Choreography and Best Direction of Kinky Boots, will be honored with the 2013…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMONCE, the Tony and Grammy Award winning Best New Musical based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film currently plays on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre 242 West 45th Street. The p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’s hysterical star Shalita Grant reveals her competitve streak, exciting dream role, Sherri Shepherd connection and the other nominee …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:52PMLincoln Center Theater presents Betsy Aidem, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Anthony Cochrane, Lauren Culpepper, Alvin Epstein, Kathryn Erbe, John Glover, Jennifer B. Grace, Katie Kreisler, S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMDeadline reports that NBC has picked up a comedy series starring Broadway vet Sean Hayes and Victor Fresco titled SEAN SAVES THE WORLD.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMA new summer enterprise, the Three Oaks Theatre Festival, aims to bring single-performance engagements of hit Chicago theater productions to to this small Michigan town, known for its artis…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:40PMLaura Osnes, currently Tony-nominated for her performance in Cinderella, will release her new CD of Maury Yeston music June 4. In anticipation of the album, Playbill.com traces her path as s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMLeslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox don their emotional armor and prepare for battle in The Memory Show, a discordant new musical about a mother and daughter at war. In Zach Redler and Sara Coo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMFrequent stage and screen performer as well as MAMMA MIA movie musical favorite Dominic Cooper apparently will continue his anamolous career trajectory with his next project, co-starring in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMAs BroadwayWorld previously announced, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, which had been scheduled for a 14-week limited engagement through July 7, will extend eight additional weeks and will now run th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PM(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. Check out fu…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:32PMThe 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards will take place on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 800 PM at The Town Hall 123 W. 43rd Street. The Awards show is written by Bill Rosenfield and directed by Jack Cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMThe 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards will take place on Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 800 PM at The Town Hall 123 W. 43rd Street. The Awards show is written by Bill Rosenfield and directed by Jack Cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMThe Beatles are hitting Broadway this summer. Well, a reasonable facsimile of the Fab Four anyway. Let It Be, the hit London production recreating the rise of the legendary pop group, is mov…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:30PMThe York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Andrew Levine, Executive Director, present a one-night only benefit concert celebrating up and coming musical theatre write…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMThe stars came out in force Wednesday night for the opening of August Wilson’s "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone" directed by Phylicia Rashad at LA's Mark Taper Forum.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:26PMThe York Theatre Company will present NEO 9, a benefit concert celebrating rising musical theatre writers, May 20 in New York City. Performers for the evening include Lisa Brescia, Titu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMJoin Billy Magnussen, a 2013 Tony nominee for his performance as Spike in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, as he takes a camera backstage at the Golden Theatre to capture the behind-the-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMMURDER BALLAD, the critically acclaimed new musical which has been nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel Awards, has announced an extension with ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMThe new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” recently received nine 2013 Tony nominations, and producers have just announced that a national tour will be launc…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:16PMThe hit revival of The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote’s tender drama of finding home, will be extending its trip on Broadway. Originally scheduled to play a limited, 14-week run through J…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:14PMThe single most spectacular dance number on view at the moment -- and it won't be for long; get there fast -- erupts in the second act of On Your Toes, the current Encores! series entry at C…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:06PM A ferocious cast giving their all in a powerful play—Marco Ramirez’ The Royale is a tremendously satisfying evening of theater, now playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Set in the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:03PMLizzy Caplan, Brooklyn Decker, Seth Green, Melanie Griffith, Tracie Thoms, Justin Long and Skylar Astin are among the artists who will take part in The 24 Hour Plays in Los Angeles June 22 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMNEW YORK — For three actors, the Tony Award nomination announcement last week was somewhat bittersweet.Sweet, because they'd each gotten a prestigious nod. Bitter, because their shows wer…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:00PMMURDER BALLAD, the critically acclaimed new musical which has been nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel Awards, is pleased to announce an extensio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMThe performances at the Delacorte, on Sept. 16 and 17, are a kind of prelude to the main festival, which runs from Sept. 25 through Oct. 5 at City Center.
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Neil Patrick Harris will return to host the Tony Awards this year for the fourth time. Harris, one of the stars of the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” first hosted the awards in 2009,…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:58PMOn January 7, 1987, Artistic Directors Nagle Jackson (of Hartford Stage) and Mark Lamos (of McCarter Theatre) sat down with Mary Robinson to speak about leadership in regional theatre. Thi…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PMAli Ewoldt (Aladdin, Les Misérables) will join the Off-Broadway cast of The Fantasticks as Luisa, beginning May 13 at the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMNEW YORK (AP) — Anyone who's had to endure the forced collegiality of brainstorms, trust exercises and role-playing with co-workers in stuffy, enclosed spaces will recognize the sense of b…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:49PMIn her white top and plain black skirt, the dancer could be any office drone. But with that towering crown of feathers on her head — fluffy, cascading, Ziegfield Follies showgirl feathers …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMShelter dogs throughout New York City make their Broadway debuts on the way to adoption thanks to SANDY'S RESCUE PALS, a new dog adoption partnership between the current Broadway production …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMDeadline reports that NBC has picked up the comedy series CRISIS starring Broadway vet Sean Hayes and Victor Fresco.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMThe 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 02:39PMHelmer Phylicia Rashad delivers a splendid revival of August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum. Thesps Keith David, Glynn Turman and John Dou…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:38PMMinneapolis Institute of Arts curator Barton Kestle disappeared under strange circumstances 60 years ago. Or so it seems in a new installation.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:31PMJenna Fischer is making her New York stage debut in Neil LaBute’s new play Reasons to Be Happy on the same day (May 16) as her TV show, The Office, airs its series finale. Fischer drop…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:29PMFor Keith Carradine, it was going to the opening of “Hair” when he was 19. For Andrea Martin, it was seeing Chita Rivera at 12; for Jay Armstrong Johnson it was “Disney on Ice” at ag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:27PMMURDER BALLAD, the critically acclaimed new musical which has been nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel Awards, is pleased to announce an extensio…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:22PMCreative Cauldron’s Thunder Knocking on the Door has critics raving! “A powerhouse fable full of mythical, magic, intense vocals,and very real emotion..make this production a rea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMCleveland arts calendar for Northeast Ohio for May 10-17
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:05PMSomething emotional (perhaps even passionate) whirls underneath the well-worn modernist pieties of "Old-Fashioned Prostitutes," though not to the point of disrupting the daffy routine.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:01PMStaff in the Executive Office Building scramble over yet another incident involving the Vice President. This time, while the President and his advisors are photographed tensely following the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMJohn Ellison Conlee, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Caissie Levy, and Will Swenson will sing a sexy Murder Ballad a little longer. The acclaimed musical, currently running at the Union Square Theatre,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe Off-Broadway return of Murder Ballad, the new musical that premiered in an acclaimed, sold-out run at Manhattan Theatre Club's The Studio at Stage II, has extended its engagement at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSeason kicks off with the Art Fair at Laumeier this weekend.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:00PM
Synetic Theater opens a new adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas’ novel, The Three Musketeers in Crystal City. Brothers Ben and Peter Cunis have worked on the new adaptation for over 10 m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMWhen the costumes are referenced in the title of your multi-million dollar Broadway musical, you better hire the best to design them. Such was the case with Kinky Boots, the new high-spirite…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMWatford Palace Theatre: Pravesh Kumar's latest production has a simple premise: a young boy, Zain (Daniel Uppal), wants to fulfil his dreams of dancing, but is hampered by family expect…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50PMCity Center Encores! ends its 20th season with a bright and flavorful production of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 musical, On Your Toes. Guest conductor Rob Fisher—the organization's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMTristan Bates Theatre: This tight, exceptionally well directed showcase really gives 13 students the chance to show what they can do. For once, careful choice of material and casting allows,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44PMWith less than a month until the Tony Awards, New York Times reviewers Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood released their list of Tony picks today, including who they believe will win, who sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMEducational theater consultancy firm iTheatrics is establishing an annual Sharidan Giles Technical Theater Award Scholarship. Giles was a respected theater production manager and technical…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:33PMCo-founders of Theatre Movement Bazaar, Tina Kronis and Richard Alger have been staging their cheekily experimental shows for more than a decade now. The duo typically commences with a class…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMEveryone is talking about Motown: The Musical, the electrifying new Broadway show featuring the music of the Supremes, the Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and more. Recording ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PMAudra McDonald, the five-time Tony Award-winning actress last seen on Broadway in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, performs material from her new album "Go Back Home" May 9 at Av…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMThe Public Theater's world-premiere production of the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, starring Ruthie Ann Miles and Jose Llana, will receive an Off-Broadway cast album.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMNEW YORK — Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:16PMNEW YORK (AP) — There's been plenty of chatter on Broadway these days about how the revival of the musical "Pippin" has brilliantly combined circus elements. At New York City Center, it's …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:13PMToday in 2007, the first Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 94 performances. 110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMNEW YORK (AP) -- There's been plenty of chatter on Broadway these days about how the revival of the musical "Pippin" has brilliantly combined circus elements. At New York City Center, it…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:11PMEducational theatre consultancy firm iTheatrics is establishing an annual Sharidan Giles Technical Theatre Award Scholarship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PMTom Hanks will jump right from his Tony-nominated performance in Broadway's 'Lucky Guy' to the big screen when the highly anticiapted drama CAPTAIN PHILLIPS hits theaters on October 11. Belo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMMenier, LondonFour middle-aged men, dressed in boring suits with matching red waistcoats, sit facing the audience in what appears to be an old-fashioned railway station waiting room. It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMThe illicit love triangle continues! Murder Ballad, a new musical starring Caissie Levy, Will Swenson, Rebecca Naomi Jones and John Ellison Conlee, has been extended through September 29 at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMDue to strong demand, The Public Theater has announced a four week extension for the critically acclaimed world premiere musical HERE LIES LOVE, with concept and lyrics by David Byrne, music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMLeslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox in “The Memory Show.” (photo: Carol Rosegg) The opening of The Memory Show begins with a brittle and sharp-tongued Catherine Cox in a doctor̵…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:01PMWhen the costumes are referenced in the title of your multi-million dollar Broadway musical, you better hire the best to design them. Such was the case with Kinky Boots, the new high-spirite…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMNominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 67th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced just last week by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster. C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM(l-r) Valérie Laroche - Lola (photo by: Vincent Champoux)Sex, Drugs...and a lack of Rock 'n' Rollby Isabelle-Ann CharleboisLet’s talk about sex, and watch puppets have some.Les Enrob…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:00PM
Yesterday, the 58th Annual Drama Desk Award nominees gathered at the Marriott Essex House Ballroom to receive their nomination certificates and celebrate! Check out some photos below of our …
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:56PMOakton Community College is currently undergoing a major classroom renovation project as part of our Master Plan. We have classroom furniture to donate as noted on the attached document. We …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:54PMSay what you will about the joys and shortcomings of Memphis the Musical -- starting with exuberant performances and unimpressive lyrics –it has one of the most infallibly infectious final…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:53PMTwo big shows announced impending closings this week. Jekyll & Hyde will end its run Sunday, May 12, while Orphans shutters the following Sunday, May 19. While we extend our sympathies t…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:51PMSing A Song of Sondheim Veteran leading man Wayne LeGette and Mia Mathews, his co-star in The Plaza Theatre’s recent production of Chapter Two, will perform a revue of show tunes by Stephe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:51PMOne of Roald Dahl’s most famous works, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory makes its world premiere as a stage musical at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane beginning May 17, and fa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMOne of Roald Dahl’s most famous works, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wil make its world premiere as a stage musical at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane beginning May 17…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMYou Bring: 10 - 15 lines of Shakespeare’s text, Comfy Pants, A Generous Spirit// Two Pence Brings: A Guided Warmup, Space to Play, Fresh PerspectiveNEXT LAB IS: Sunday May 12th 7:30-9:30pm…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:48PMActor Neil Patrick Harris will take a fourth spin as host of this year's Tony Awards on Sunday, June 9.
SOURCE: NY1 at 12:45PMFor most of the past week, Broadway.com editors have been concentrating on coverage of the 2013 Audience Choice Awards—and readers responded by loading up our top 10 list with BACA-rel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMFor most of the past week, Broadway.com editors have been concentrating on coverage of the 2013 Audience Choice Awards—and readers responded by loading up our top 10 list with BACA-rel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMJoe Brancato is fond of saying he likes plays that entertain while “stirring the gray matter.” In 35 years as founding artistic director at Stony Point’s Penguin Rep, he ha…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:38PMMay 9, 2013By Aneesha KudtarkarDirecting Fellow In the last few weeks we finished technical rehearsals, previews, and opened A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room. It’s been such an exciti…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 12:38PMIn final episode of NBC's SMASH's sophomore season titled 'The Tonys', the teams of Bombshell and Hit List head to Broadway's biggest night. Get a first look below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PM(This post is a part of the Financial Adaptation blog salon curated by Adam Thurman for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). 20 venues, 300 artists, 150 volunteer…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:29PM(BY DOUG GEORGE) Oh, it's just the way you'd want it to be. Rhea Perlman is playing Stella in the soon-to-open "Stella & Lou" at Northlight Theatre — you likely know Perlman as Carla f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29PMNINA METZ reviews "Incident on Run #1217" from Factory Theater at Prop Thtr ★★★ and "So I Killed a Few People" at The Annoyance Theatre ★★★
NINA METZ rev…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:28PMAfrican-American actress Patrese D. McClain showed up at auditions for "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe" at the Court Theatre a few weeks ago thinking she was reading for the maid. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:28PMThe Union Theatre in south London has been saved from closure after its owner, Network Rail, withdrew its application to the local council to change the site into offices. However, other bus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMRobert Sickinger, a pivotal figure in the development of Chicago's Off-Loop theater scene died on Thursday morning at his home in Delary Beach Florida. Sickinger was 86. His daughter, Erika…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:25PMRecipients of the New York Recording Academy Honors include Grammy-winning Les Misérables creators Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer and Claude-Michel Schönberg, songwrit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThe Almeida Theatre has announced the full line-up for its annual summer festival, which takes place between 9 July and 9 August 2013.
Billed as the "most ambitious and extensive Almeida Fe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:19PMThe Tony Award-nominated production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, which charts a new journey for the fairytale heroine, will launch a national tour during the 2014-15 season…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:18PMDouglas Hodge's Willy Wonka will be "more Gene Wilder than Johnny Depp", the told Whatsonstage.com recently.
Hodge is playing the mysterious sweetmaker in the blockbuster new musical adapta…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:15PMOld show. New discovery. Musical theater rookie Irina Dvorovenko provides the real high — and the high kicks — in a surefooted Encores! revival of “On Your Toes,” through Sunday at N…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:11PMAnyone who loves and longs for juicy gossip but feels a bit shamed by the desire should hurry to the Booth Theatre, where I’ll Eat You Last, the new play about Hollywood superagent Sue Men…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:04PMIt was down to wire tonight on American idol. With three rounds, each had its star and America would have the most difficult task of sending one of these ladies home. It was also a chance fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PM
Tricycle, LondonLeanne Best received glowing notices when she first appeared in Frank McGuinness's demanding one-woman play, at the Liverpool Playhouse in June 2012. The praise was richly de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMIrina Dvorovenko has got legs — and she knows how to use them. The great Russian ballerina's remarkable flexibility is no surprise to regulars of American Ballet Theatre, but Broadway musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:58AMHave you heard? Tom Hanks is in a movie! The latest feature film from the newly-named Tony nominee and recent Broadway debut is Captain Phillips, a dramatic thriller set aboard the cargo shi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMREVIEW: Stephen Yoakam finds the horror of war in a singular performance of Homer’s epic.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:50AMEmmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, who stars in the hit FOX television show “Glee” as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester and who makes her Broadway debut this Wednesday, May 1…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:48AMEmmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, who stars in the hit FOX television show Glee as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester and who makes her Broadway debut this Wednesday, May 15 as t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMHello, how are we I'm feeling a little drowsy myself.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, best known as the mastermind behind the rap musical In The Heights, is packing up his rhymes and bringing them downtown. In an 8 Mile-meets-Whose Line …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMOn last night's AMERICAN IDOL on FOX, Top 3 contestant Candice Glover closed the show performing Somewhere from the Broadway musical West Side Story. Her stunning and emotional performance e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMThe Drama League (Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks) has announced Emmy® Award winner Debra Messing will join Tony® and Emmy® Award winner David Hyde Pierce as co-host of the 79th Annual…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:42AMThere is a currently wonderful opportunity available to all audiences to see one-off, adrenalin-fuelled, unique performances of the Shakespeare canon in RSC theatres. I was there this week f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:42AMHumbolt penguins, a camel and a mountain bongo are among the new arrivals
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:42AMBroadway’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 11:40AMDavid Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s new musical Here Lies Love, which has extended three times at the Public Theater, has announced plans for a cast recording of the genre-hopping show. The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMDavid Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s new musical Here Lies Love, which has extended three times at the Public Theater, has announced plans for a cast recording of the genre-hopping show. The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMExtending this season's hot streak of productions that make bold artistic statements, Asolo Repertory Theatre presents Noah Racey's Pulse. A song and dance celebration that harkens back to t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMJust got word that the great Taylor Mead has passed on. He was kind of what “downtown” used to be all about, the star all of those seminal early off-off Broadway plays by the lik…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:33AMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, is currently presenting the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein favorite South Pacific. Marriott regular Alexandra Palkovic, who is featu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMRichard Wakely, the former managing director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, has been announced as the new director of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s. Wakely brings with him to Northern Ire…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AM600 Highwaymen Find Actors in Unconventional Places Welcome to Borough Play, our exclusive series on theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond — When they’re looking for actors, Ab…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:20AMPBS has announced a fall primetime lineup that includes Barbra Streisand's 2012 Back to Brooklyn concert, a documentary on the late award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMI am the founding artistic director of Theater Grottesco, a Lecoq-based company formed in Paris in 1983. We create devised physical theater, producing one show a year. When we moved to the U…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:13AMTHE VIEW host Whoopi Goldberg surprised audience members yesterday when she appeared on her live morning talk show sporting a pairs of high red patent leather lace up thigh boots, straight o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AM“Let It Be,” the concert show created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles, is coming to Broadway this summer. The original production continues to play at Savoy Theater in L…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:08AMThe Shubert Organization and Career Transition For Dancers along with the host committee welcomed The Broadway Dance Community for a Buffet Dinner amp Between-Shows-Get-Together at Sardi's, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Neil Patrick Harris will return to host the 67th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 9th in what will be his fourth stint on the show that honors the best…
SOURCE: Reuters at 11:06AMIn 2006, while translating an excerpt of an essay on theater and economy by German dramaturg Carl Hegemann for a month-long simulation of a German state theater (financed by the German Feder…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:03AMSalt Lake City's Pioneer Theatre Company storms the barricades of the hit musical Les Misérables May 3. The cast features Joe Cassidy, Josh Davis, Kelly McCormick, Manna Nichols a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMBig corporations hire Mystery Shoppers to test out their salespeople, their stores, and every other aspect of the purchasing process. And every theater should too. In case you’re wonde…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Tim Spears as Mozart reacts to Salieri's machinations. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.Peter Schaffer's biggest hit, Amadeus (now at the New Rep through May 19), a highly fictionalized accoun…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AM"The Simpsons"'Mike Reiss Play Opens At Ivoryton Playhouse In JuneJerry Adler (Hesh in TV's "The Soprano,s" "Mad About You") and Harris Doran will reprise their roles in Mike Reiss ' rom…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AMJimmy Smagula will host and perform in a benefit concert for Lyndhurst High School featuring numerous Broadway performers May 19 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMMr. Harris, a star of the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother,” first hosted the Tonys in 2009 and has won two Emmy Awards for his Tonys work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50AMTheater fans can breathe a sigh of relief that there will be no Seth MacFarlane-style misfire on the Tony Awards show this year: Neil Patrick Harris is to return as host.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMJessica Hecht, Judith Light and Jeremy Shamos are confronting deep-seeded family squabbles in The Assembled Parties, a poignant drama by Richard Greenberg. Set in a sprawling Central Park We…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:49AMAlex Bourne and Tiffany Graves are to star in The Witches of Eastwick at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. The production, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, opens at the the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMA rare Renaissance-era bust that was among many great works of art bought or looted by the Nazis has joined the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection, in time for the anniversary of the A…
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:44AMDinner and a show anyone? How about with Tolstoy friends? The “electropop opera”s an elaborate tent venue in the Meatpacking District.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:32AMFollowing the recent Privates On Parade, another play by David Nichols has been revived in the West End - his 1981 drama Passion Play.
The play, last seen in the West End in 2000, charts th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:31AMNEW YORK (AP) — Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30AM"American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken, plays Man in Chair in North Carolina Theatre's production of the award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone alongside the Tony Award-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThis week's A.P.T. comes with quite the back story. As many of you know, I began my career as a high school English teacher and I also ran our drama program. While I was teaching I had one s…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:23AMNeil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards.
Producers of the show announced Thursday that Harris, a stage veteran and star of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:12AMBunty Berman Presents…, a new Bollywood-themed musical comedy by Ayub Khan Din and Paul Bogaev, opens May 9 at off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. Directed by Scott Ell…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMNEW YORK (AP) — Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:10AMTony and Golden Globe-nominated actor Matthew Morrison has announced two dates at the Kennedy Center, as well as three other upcoming concert dates on the East Coast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMGoodspeed Musicals, the first two-time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is happy to present The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet. Thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMNow is the perfect time to catch the enchanting Tony-Nominated Rodgers Hammerstein's CINDERELLA Tickets start at just 39.50 so take advantage today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05AMAs rumored all week, it's now official that Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, returns to host The 67th Annual Tony Awards live from …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMProgram this weekend will feature contemporary works.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
Stolen Chair, an adventurous, innovative indie theater company presented The Man Who Laughs (adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel) in the style of a silent film back in 2005. Shortly after t…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 09:58AM“Can you dance? Can you sing? Well, whad’ya got?” In Keegan Theatre’s version, it’s the short balding guy who shows the folk at the audition, upstage, mind you, what God has given …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMHarris previously hosted the Tonys in 2009, 2011 and 2012.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:55AMIt’s official -- Doogie’s doing the Tony Awards again. Emmy winner and Broadway vet Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tonys on June 9, as the Daily News reported this week in Confidenti@…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:52AMTHE PLAY’S NOT REALLY THE THING, THE PRODUCTION IS Further earning a proud name, Chicago Shakespeare Theater has produced Henry VIII for the first time in professional Chicago theater …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:52AMPaddy Considine talks about the reprisal of his Mr Whicher role and gives Matthew Hemley an honest account of his television career choices
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMMichael Urie, best-known as the catty fashion editorial assistant Marc St. James of the TV series “Ugly Betty,” is playing some half dozen characters in an acclaimed new play by Jonathan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50AMDouglas Hodge's Willy Wonka will be "more Gene Wilder than Johnny Depp", the told Whatsonstage.com recently.
Hodge is playing the mysterious sweetmaker in the blockbuster new musical adapta…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:46AMThe San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus has added an additional performance to the world-premiere presentation of Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa's oratorio I Am Harvey Milk, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMThe Lisps et al in an earlier incarnation of Futurity
In this final installment of my three-part interview with César Alvarez (here are part 1 and part 2), we talk about the future of mus…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:42AMThe "How I Met Your Mother" star returns to his post for the June 9 Broadway honors.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:40AMEmmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, will return to host The 67th Annual Tony Awards, presented live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, Jun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMThe Olivier Award-winning Slava's Snowshow, which has previously enjoyed West End seasons at the Piccadilly Theatre and Old Vic, and played both Broadway and Off-Broadway, is to return t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMFLYING V PRESENTS SPECIAL PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN STAGED READING OF ONE HALF OF THE UPCOMING NEW PLAY UNPLUGGED BY SEAMUS SULLIVAN & HUNTER STYLES The 27 Club – a group of brilliant, trou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMThe plug has been officially pulled on a controversial new German production of Wagner's "Tannhauser" that used Nazi costumes and other imagery from the Third Reich.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AM“Matilda the Musical” offers children and adults hope in a reminder that everyone can rewrite their stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:29AMAs previously speculated, Emmy-winning TV star and Broadway alum Neil Patrick Harris will host the 67th Annual Tony Awards, which CBS will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on June 9…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:26AMAs previously speculated, Emmy-winning TV star and Broadway alum Neil Patrick Harris will host the 67th Annual Tony Awards, which CBS will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on June 9…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:26AMPBS announced today a fall primetime line-up featuring a strong roster of wide-ranging programs. Among the exciting highlights will be Barbra Streisand Back to Brooklyn in which the legendar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMCBS has confirmed that Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris will return to host the 67th Annual Tony Awards on June 9 at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMCBS has confirmed that Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris will return to host the 67th Annual Tony Awards on June 9 at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AMI am now officially obsessed. I never heard of this guy before Tuesday, when Michael Cumella, host of WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program, told me about him over lunch. “You …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:05AMCutting It creator Debbie Horsfield is adapting Winston Graham’s Poldark novels into a six-part series for the BBC. The series is one of four new dramas that has been announced by outgoing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMI am the host and creator and writer and editor of The Lunch and Judy Show. For six years DCMTA’s Joel Markowitz and I have been schmoozing about theatre in DC, Philly, and NYC and o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMThe earnest staging at Segerstrom Hall is painfully faithful to the 1983 film that starred Jennifer Beals, save for the dancing body double."Flashdance the Musical" has its way over "Flashda…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
The fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival, held April 25 to 28 in Hollywood, included screenings of roughly 80 films and featured at least as many special guests, including Jane Fonda, Eva…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:58AMEmmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother,” returns to host The 67th Annual Tony Awards® live from Radio City Music Hall in New York Ci…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 08:58AMLast night's THE VOICE on NBC kicked off with contestants Sasha Allen, Danielle Bradbery, Holly Tucker, Justin Rivers, The Swon Brothers, Garrett Gardner, Karina Iglesias and Kris Thomas sin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMWarnings of strobes and loud bangs are commonplace at the theatre. Now lily-livered audiences are being protected from trailers too.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:57AMThe list of tenors who can sing the title role of Wagner's "Siegfried" is such a short one that any newcomer tackling the part at the Metropolitan Opera is worthy of note — and there's alw…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:56AMThe 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed on Sunday night to recipients in 14 categories and 4 special honors were bestowed. The Lortel Awards were …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMSongwritersperforming artists Ashford amp Simpson, GRAMMY-winning violinist Joshua Bell, , GRAMMY-winning creators of 'Les Misrables' Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer and Claude-Michel Schn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMI didn't realise that I had stumbled into the opening night encore of La Traviata at La Scala in Milan, until I realised I hadn't. This was most definitely Holborn, and I was sitting in the …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:40AMLinbury Studio, London: Liam Scarlett, the Royal Ballet's artist in residence, is taking no prisoners. This is no ordinary fairy tale. Even the brothers Grimm couldn't have predict…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMThere is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe's writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16AMAustralian director reveals desire to follow Romeo + Juliet and The Great Gatsby with a third DiCaprio-driven film adaptationLaurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh and even Mel Gibson have done i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMYou will be amazed, surprised and thrilled. You will laugh. You will sing along. You will come under the spell of the magic created by some of the best creative minds and performers on…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:11AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 9 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
New Wolsey, Ipswich: Miss Nightingale is an intimate, original musical set in the nightclubs of Forties London with an equally original score by composer and lyricist Matthew Bugg.
Read the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMNEW YORK (AP) — For three actors, the Tony Award nomination announcement last week was somewhat bittersweet.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:54AMLinbury Studio, LondonAs Liam Scarlett premieres his first full-length narrative ballet, it's clear he has some very nasty things in the woodshed of his imagination. Not even the brothers Gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMLa MaMa Theatre, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This well-acted and well-staged production explores the problems one faces when they depict their personal life in…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:49AMThe Flea, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This dark comedy is appealing and often laugh-inducing in its exploration of violence and depravity.
What does one have …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:43AMMore than 30 years after Sid Vicious snarled “My Way,” punk is busting out all over once again. There is a punk couture show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spikes adorn clothes and b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:43AMJoanna Lumley and Andrew Scott will star in two short Harold Pinter plays as part of a series of events complementing Jamie Lloyd's production of The Hothouse at Trafalgar Studios.
Lumley, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:32AMProduction of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser leaves some in audience so traumatised they have to seek medical helpA controversial Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser has bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMBERLIN (AP) — A modern version of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" has been canceled in Germany after the opening-night audience complained about new scenes showing Jews being executed and dy…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:31AMThe Place
In 1963, a small not-for-profit theater called the American Place Theatre was founded in St. Clements Church, a Victorian Gothic church tucked away in Manhattan's Theater District.…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:10AMThis rather stylized play explores the emotional tailspin of new parents after the birth of a hideously deformed, special needs baby and is like tough love – hard to take at the time b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:09AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: Even when you know the turns of the plot this play still grips like a vice, especially when it is as strongly acted as it is here.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMGraeme Gilmour was one of Scotland’s greatest designers and sculptors who created theatrical and outdoor public events that featured spectacular steel-framed structures, often encased in h…
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Menier Chocolate Factory, London: Theatre can be the ultimate make-believe, summoning up a world of people and places from thin air. Giles Havergal's stage version of Graham Greene'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMLarisa and the Merchants is making its English premiere at the Arcola theatre. With a name like that, one would be forgiven for mistaking it for a band. The title is actually a touch added b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51AMShami Chakrabarti on how Harold Pinter's play about the connection between mind-control and torture is more prescient now than ever"It was fantasy when I wrote it, but now it has become, I t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMIn this first of a two play evening, playwright Allyson Currin covers safe, familiar territory of friendship, commitment and support. Here, three playground Moms share aspects of their lives…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:27AMTheatre companies DV8 and Tamasha and membership organisation Dance UK are among the successful groups to receive money from Arts Council England’s £7 million Catalyst funding scheme. DV8…
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Helen Mirren, who hit the headlines::E8831367936771 over the weekend for berating a group of drummers outside the Gielgud Theatre, will take part in a fundraising event for her alma mater th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:49AMToday is the birthday of Sir James Matthew Barrie, First Baronet, OM (1860-1937). This novelist and poet had much to his credit besides his most famous creation Peter Pan. Just two things I&…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:43AMIain Mitchell, Jonathan Hyde & David Bamber in Travels with my Aunt (photo: Catherine Ashmore)The Menier Chocolate Factory has a thing about aunts of late. Following on the heels of last yea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:29AMAt the end of a difficult time as the assistant director general of the BBC, Alan Protheroe left the Corporation in 1987, concerned at what he saw as its declining standards. In particular, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMA controversial staging of Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser set in a concentration camp during the Holocaust has been cancelled after it proved so shocking some audience-members were for…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:17AMJoin the cabaret with Aussie Trevor Ashley playing the title role in LIZA (ON AN E), a one-man show which follows the scandalous life of Liza Minnelli. Come on our Whatsonstage.com Club Grou…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:14AMIs it theatre? Dance? An installation, or a pop gig? Artists are smashing boundaries – and audiences are keen to exploreOver the last couple of weeks, I've been to Wales to see Tir Sir Gar…
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Turning Hansel and Gretel into a ballet, Liam Scarlett is determined to be very, very dark. Updated to the 1950s, his version of the fairy tale features domestic violence, a paedophile witch…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:59AMIn 1929, the French surrealist journal Variétés published photos of Violetta as though she were a living, breathing work of surrealistic art — which, if you think about it, she wa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:50AMNeil Patrick Harris
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Producers of the annual Tony Awards have announced that Neil Patrick Harris will once again host the Tony Awards this June.
Harris can be…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:43AMA controversial staging of Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser set in a concentration camp during the Holocaust has been cancelled after it proved so shocking some audience-members were for…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:17AMThe Critics' Circle celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Here, its president Simon Tait tells us how the organisation came into being and reflects on some of its most memorable episod…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:07AMHundreds of circus performers could be forced to give up their jobs if planned education reforms are introduced. Equity is warning that a proposal to remove a section of the Education Act, w…
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William Shakespeare and his company were not the first artistic entity to suck up to their funders and protectors, and they surely weren't the last. Still, it's hard to watch the last scenes…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:52AMThe world renowned a cappella group The Australian Voices is bringing their new choral-theatre experience to Sydney’s City Recital Hall on 16th May. Moon by the Australian voices features …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:30AMGoodspeed Musicals, the first two-time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is happy to present The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet. Thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMDisney first turned their empire onto the music theatre stage in 1994 with the Beauty and the Beast. Less than two decades later, following six smash-hit Broadway musicals and a host of inte…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:19AMWith its diverse population and embrace of multicultural influences, Arlington finds many ways throughout the year to celebrate communities all around the world.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17AMOnce a year, St. Louis County residents are reminded that Laumeier Sculpture Park has a strong reputation in the world of art. It is enough to draw artists from hundreds of miles away.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15AMPaul Moravec, my operatic collaborator, is currently in residence at the American Academy in Rome. He's writing the score of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMVerdict on ITV's Oliviers coverage, Maria Miller in the firing line, who represents the theatre-goer and joy at Lacy/Samuel French collection finding a home
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM"Cap, who sometimes had a problem working out when Dalziel's political incorrectness was post-modern ironical and when it was prehistoric...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMEverything moves the story along while amazing us every two seconds by its ingenuity.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMPNC Arts Alive! initiative to distribute $2 million to local groups
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMIt plans to tear down the Exploradome, one casualty in effort to balance budget.
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Talk about setting the scene: For “Core Values,” Lauren Helpern’s vividly realistic set design depicts the cramped, dreary conference room of a small Manhattan travel agency.
Lit by f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMNow that she’s 73, Christina Crawford might want to resolve her mommy issues. That’s the main feeling evoked by “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” a bizarre show in which Crawford rehashes …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMThe Boston Pops opened its 128th season Wednesday night, bringing Hollywood and honky tonk to Symphony Hall.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:11AMEverything about this Bruce Monk photo for Other People's Money at MTC is delightfully screwy. There is the terrific, crooked smile on actor Ashley Wright's face, Julia Arkos' expression as …
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMLaura Osnes, who was nominated for a 2013 Tony Award for her performance in Broadway's Cinderella, will release her new PS Classics solo album "If I Tell You (Songs of Maury Yeston)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFive-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald takes the stage of Avery Fisher Hall May 9 for a special concert featuring songs from her new album "Go Back Home."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOlivier Award-winning playwright Ayub Khan Din stars in the title role of his new Off-Broadway musical Bunty Berman Presents..., which officially opens May 9 under the wing of the New Group …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLarry Pine, Amanda Quaid, Brian Sgambati and Tony Award winner Frank Wood appear in the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGoodspeed Musicals presents The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet, beginning May 9 at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, Goodspeed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAround the World in 80 Days, a comedic play by Mark Brown based on the Jules Verne novel, begins previews at The New Theater at 45th Street May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn this video interview, Call Me Adam gets fit with playwright Daniel Levin as we sat down to talk about his new show Spandex the Musical playing at 777 Theatre (777 8th Avenue) in NYC from …
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