There is churchly ambience to “Henry VIII,” which opened Wednesday night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Catholic clergymen clad in red vestments descend the central aisle to the…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:46PM"Smash," the NBC musical series about the lives of modern-day Broadway babies, will end its run May 26, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40PMDO NOT FORGET! THE FINALS IN THIS YEAR'S HOT OR NOT POLL CLOSE ON SUNDAY! VOTE NOW!!As we have for the past few seasons, let's take a look at the television commercials for …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 11:39PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has officially dropped SMASH after two seasons. The series moved to Saturdays this March, and the show's wide fanbase was unable to boost the numbers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08PMSmash, the TV series on NBC about the making of a Broadway musical that began with such promise and excitement — and more than 11 million viewers — has been canceled after more t…
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There is an endearing earnest community-theater feel to the piece that makes it fun to watch despite its drawbacks. The cast works hard, and their commitment is evident. Now if the adaptati…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:57PMWAAPA graduate and producer Tim Lawson has announced that his acclaimed production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will head to Perth from September this year, marking the fourth leg of the show…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMThe Center for the Performing Arts and the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative announce the 2013 Encore Celebration Gala Weekend presented by Krieg DeVault on Friday, June 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has cancelled freshman comedy THE NEW NORMAL, which stars Broadway's Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha. The show will end after just one season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16PMNEW YORK — Herbert Blau — a fiercely iconoclastic theater director, scholar, and theorist who staged some of the earliest productions of Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean Genet in…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:12PMKelly Ripa and Anne Hathaway were among the guests at Lincoln Center's annual Spring Gala, which honored Reynold Levy, Lincoln Center's president of 11 years and raised $8.2 million.
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It is often said that A. .R. Gurney writes about a dying breed. But the characters in “The Dining Room,” the Westport Country Playhouse, are very much alive onstage. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMIt's been a wild year for Steve Kazee, who starred in the hit musical Once, earned a Tony Award and was named the Broadway.com's Star of the Year. Now, the Kentucky-born singer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:39PMDebra Jo Rupp stars in Becoming Dr. Ruth at TheaterWorks in Downtown Hartford. The comedy will run May 31 through July 7, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PMAEG Live has announced that the southern gothic, supernatural musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, written by Stephen King, with music by John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett, has confir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:16PMNow even our plays are multitasking.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:11PMAs another week wraps on Broadway, we look back at some Tony nominee foolery, Broadway.com Audience Choice Award confessions and secret talents. From stage hunk Steve Kazee to the hilarious …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMWhat a moment it must have been when Dame Helen Mirren walked
into the street in the interval of the West End production of The
Audience in which she plays the Queen and reprimanded a bunch …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:01PMJacob (series co-creator Wesley Taylor) is at his wits' end as his co-star Veronica Bailey (Alison Fraser) attempts to pressure him into buying one of her husband's paintings. Meanwhile, Jac…
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In Love and Lipstick: While Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike arrived at Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ann decided to go to The Other Place. In the meantime, on The Trip to Bountiful , Glengar…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:50PMBENJ PASEK and JUSTIN PAUL have added a second show at Joe's Pub at The Public on Wednesday, May 15. An 1130 PM show was just added due to popular demand after the 930 PM show sold out. The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMSome of Broadway's brightest stars came out to cheer Rebecca Luker in her return to 54 Below on Thursday, May 9. Bernadette Peters, Martha Plimpton, Howard McGillin, Ron Raines, Sally Wilfer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMThe first-time Tony nominee stopped by Show People with Paul Wontorek to talk about his work in Chaplin and the upcoming Honeymoon in Vegas.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:35PMDrama Desk Meet and Greet Part 2: All Day All Night Maryann: The musical theatre alumni showed they have staying power as they collected their awards.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:29PMIn the newest installment of Side by Side, Susan Blackwell caught up with Talley’s Folly star Danny Burstein to get his crazy stories about Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone and the time …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:22PMThe Missouri History Museum restaurant, Bixby's, teams up with its Forest Park neighbor to serve theater-goers.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:22PMBreakfast at Tiffany’s star Cory Michael Smith was adorable when he accepted the award for Favorite Play for the short-lived but fan-loved show. Hear Smith’s humble speech about …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMFans chose Cinderella royals Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana as their Favorite Onstage Pair, and the two stars showed us why we love them so during this sweet acceptance speech.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMFans chose Cinderella royals Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana as their Favorite Onstage Pair, and the two stars showed us why we love them so during this sweet acceptance speech.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMAlex Ko From Iowa to Broadway, My Billy Elliot Story, the celebrated debut novel by Alex Ko that was endorsed by Sir Elton John, was released last week from HarperCollins Children's Books. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PMSierra Boggess and Jeremy Jordan announce the winner of Favorite Play Revival…Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming! Watch producer Ken Davenport accept the honor with a heartfelt speech.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:07PMLittle girls Lilla Crawford, Emily Rosenfeld and Tyrah Skye Odoms took center stage with co-star Katie Finneran and producer Arielle Tepper Madover as their beloved musical Annie took h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMLittle girls Lilla Crawford, Emily Rosenfeld and Tyrah Skye Odoms took center stage with co-star Katie Finneran and producer Arielle Tepper Madover as their beloved musical Annie took h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMBefore the curtain rises on the Washington Ballet’s “Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,” you get a taste of the ruin, decay and vague comfort that the war-scarred writer etched into his bo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:02PMEvery year at this time, there’s usually a Broadway show that legiters say really needs a Tony — a worthy but underselling title for which an award looks like a potential box office savi…
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At a Lincoln Center gala, Audra McDonald displayed not only her phenomenal voice, but also her gift of balancing singing and storytelling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMThe cast and creative team met the press earlier this week and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with them about the new production. Check out what they had to say below, plus …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMPaper 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. The American premiere of this brand …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMHEMOPHELIA’S HOUSE OF HORRORS: 100% – SWEET SWEET The Visceral Company presents a frightfully fun excursion into laugh-out-loud funny horror; an eclectic collection of sketches that rang…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:55PMTIMON OF ATHENS (PORTERS OF HELLSGATE): 100% – SWEET SWEET I love Shakespeare. I love good Shakespeare. I love when a company of talented performers can make something very old and very fa…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:53PM“The Good Boy,” Michael Bonnabel’s solo show about his experience as a hearing son with deaf parents, is at Abingdon Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMSome will find Ivywild to be a unique and engaging experience. Others will leave the theatre with a pickle button and wonder what in the heck they just witnessed. In either case, kudos goes …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:49PMJOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (MARK TAPER): 93% – SWEET SWEET This powerfully acted production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” which opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum under th…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:48PMIt is not a stretch to recommend the excellent production that is on stage at the George Street Playhouse for providing New Jersey audiences the opportunity to savor it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:47PMAn exciting change is coming soon to the way MTI delivers account information to its customers! Based on years of feedback from customers, as well as months of development work on our end, M…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 05:42PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, May 10, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Tune in to @SIRIUSXM beginning tomorrow to hear …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:41PMLet's consider, shall we, some of The Guilt Trip's cinematic mother-son precursors, and how their various mammeles stack up on the scale of believability.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:39PMTony-nominated composing duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have scheduled an additional Dogfight concert at downtown concert venue Joe’s Pub on May 15. Along with Pasek and Paul, mem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:39PMShana Farr, the multi-talented actresssinger who won the coveted Julie Wilson Award at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 23rd Annual Cabaret Convention last October at Jazz at Lincoln Center, wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMBroadway veteran Melissa Errico will soon be undergoing a surgery to repair a blood vessel on her vocal chord. As previously reported, Errico had to drop out of the Classic Stage Company pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMTBS has greenlit Ground Floor, a new workplace comedy with a romantic twist written by EmmyR nominees Bill Lawrence Cougar Town, Scrubs, Clone High and Greg Malins 2 Broke Girls, How I Met Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMMichael Presser Resigns From Town Hall: Michael Presser has resigned as President of Town Hall effective immediately. In his three months he has attempted to create a vision of rejuvenation,…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:33PMMatilda's Tim Minchin marvels at the fun weirdness of the BACAs and the "fantastic, strange" feeling of being pitted against Cyndi Lauper, whom he watched dance on TV while gro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMThe long-in-the-works southern gothic musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, written by Stephen King and featuring music by John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett, will launch a U.S. nationa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMRobert “Bob” Sickinger, widely considered “the father of Chicago’s Off Loop theater movement,” and the man instrumental in the founding of the hugely influential Hull House Theater…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:20PMRECOMMENDED One hopes the producers and creative team of the deeply problematic “Big Fish,” which recently completed its pre-Broadway tryout here in Chicago, caught a preview of “Ivywi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:14PMIt is hardly a controversy for the ages. It is, however, part of a satisfying reality in the theater.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:11PMBack in 2010, I caught the Tricycle Theater’s ambitious, staggering, and nearly eight hour production of The Great Game: Afghanistan in Washington DC during its US tour. Comprised of 1…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 05:08PMPhoto credit: Monique CarboniBunty Berman Presents... is a great idea in theory--a musical about 1950s Bollywood presented in Hollywood Golden Age style. Occasionally, such as at the end of …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:07PMBecause I’ll Eat You Last headliner Bette Midler was not on hand to accept her Audience Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a Play, Annie’s Emily Rosenfeld got her chance t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PMI don’t hate musicals. I grew up on them, I was listening to You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown when I was too young to know what it was about. I have an original album cover for …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of April 29-May 5, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
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Our featured composer of the week is Jonathan Reid Gealt. Here is an exclusive video of powerhouse performer Katie Thompson, who recently starred in the musical Giant at the Public Theater,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMTony Award nominee Melissa Errico, who was forced to withdraw from the Off-Broadway revival of Passion due to complications from bronchitis, will undergo vocal surgery in the coming weeks, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMGO ON, NBC's comedy starring Broadway regular Laura Benanti, has been officially cancelled, according to The Washington Post.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMTelevision is about to get a whole lot less funny. NBC is still cleaning house this week and it doesn’t look very good for anyone with a comedy on the network. The Peacock network anno…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:51PMBroadwayWorld recently got to chat with Claybourne Elder, who plays Michael Victor in the musical, about the show's unique sound, collaborating with his fellow castmates, upcoming projects, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMThe Young Vic and Catherine Schreiber announced today that Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, stars of the original Broadway production, join the UK premiere of The Scottsboro Boys, direc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMWhen Gossip Girl showrunner Josh Safran took over NBC's Smash, he knew he had to expand beyond the show's existing centerpiece: Bombshell, a nostalgic Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. …
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:38PMMany years ago at a public program in San Francisco, science-fiction legend Harlan Ellison offered his answer to the timeless question of "Why do humans do such horrible things?" Ellison's a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:37PMFiled under: American Folk/ Country/ Western, BROOKLYN, Contemporary Variety, Music, PLUGS Tagged: Bayou 'n' Brooklyn, music fest
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:28PMTony-winner James Corden will play the Baker who lives next door to Meryl Streep's Witch.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:24PMFiled under: BROOKLYN, Coney Island, Contemporary Variety, Magicians & Quick-Change, PLUGS Tagged: Coney Island, magic show
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:23PMLena Horne, who broke new ground for black performers when she signed a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Su…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:16PMAccording to her official Facebook page, Broadway veteran Melissa Errico will be soon be undergoing a surgery to repair a blood vessel on her vocal chord. Just last month, Errico had to depa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMSet in the boxing world of the early 1900s, The Royale is loosely inspired by Jack Johnson, the first black pop culture icon and reigning world heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915. The …
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:05PMJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Operators of a Missouri movie theater are apologizing for a stunt in which an actor dressed in black, wearing body armor and carrying a fake rifle walked into th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:03PMThe 16th annual Metropolitan High School Theater Awards are just around the corner and there’s news to report. Producer Danielle Rudess tells me the evening (June 3 in Peekskill) will …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:01PMWhen Cat Rainsford befriended a group of street performers in Mexico, she never envisaged she would end up travelling the country with them for two yearsTrico had left home at 17, taking the…
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Karl Graboshas (l), Jay Baruchel Photo by: Andrée Lanthier Not So Elementaryby Caitlin MurphySherlock Holmes adaptations are in ready supply these days. With Guy Ritchie’s fre…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:58PMWagner still matters – because he was an artistic revolutionaryIt was predictable that in his bicentenary year there should be at least one controversial Wagner production, though glumly t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52PMColman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, the Tony Award-nominated stars of the original Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys, will star in the show's upcoming London premiere, set to play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PM"On Your Toes" was a Broadway musical milestone in 1936, when, for the first time, ballet was integrated into the story and, also for the first time, credit for the "dance stager" was offici…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:50PMOriginal Broadway stars Colman Domingo, Forrest McClendon and more will reprise their roles in the London premiere of The Scottsboro Boys at the New Vic. Directed by Susan Stroman, the new p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMStage and screen star Aaron Tveit makes his New York City cabaret debut in a sold-out — and very buzzed-about — engagement at the swank Manhattan nightspot 54 Below. Playbill.com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMWOW—spelled backwards! Every stage minute in this two-act thriller totally justifies the bravura work that super-skilled, incredibly meticulous TimeLine Theatre Company puts into this Chic…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:37PM(photo by Herman Sorgeloos)Two of Quatreby Chad DembskiDo you like to be surprised? This is one of the central questions at the core of performance, or for the people who enjoy going t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:30PMBy comparison to the boy prodigy, Salieri's talents may have been pedestrian, but there is nothing pedestrian about the New Repertory Theatre's production, directed by Artistic Director Jim …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:25PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Blood and Gifts" at TimeLine Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Blood and Gifts" at TimeLine Theatre ★★½ ... Far from a great game, the British and Amer…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMIn 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:20PMI wrote about him here last year after seeing his movie, Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man, at Outfest.Lambda Literary has a nice obit-- Taylor Mead, actor, Beat poet, performance art…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:20PM(BY MARK CARO) As Mona Golabek signs books immediately after each performance of her one-woman show, "The Pianist of Willesden Lane," at the Royal George Theatre, people ask her variations o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:19PMIt took me a while to warm to Maria Friedman’s production of Merrily We Roll Along. At first I didn’t quite get it. I was bemused rather than enthralled, as song after song appeared to f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:14PMLA STAGE Alliance has announced LA STAGE DAY, a day-long community event for the greater Los Angeles performing arts community. Generously hosted by California State University Los Angeles, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:07PMDarren Criss, best known for playing Blaine on the musical TV show Glee is preparing to kick off a sold-out 16-city tour called 'Listen Up.' In the video below, Criss reminisces about the 90…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMComposer Jason Robert Brown discusses the evolution of Parade, which plunges Fullerton's 3-D Theatricals into darker subject matter.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:05PMIf you say the words, JOHN & JEN, to theater people you’ll inevitably hear something along the lines of, “I love that show!” Before Andrew Lippa made a name for himself with THE WI…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:01PMAs 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 03:00PMGot issues? Of course you do. Keep’em coming—write to me at [email protected] . For previous Holler columns, go here . Dear Holler, I need some help. I am a theater maker running a sm…
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2012 Tony Award-winning Best Actor In a Play, James Corden, has been cast as The Baker in Rob Marshall's feature film version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS according …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMTony Award winners Chita Rivera and Carol Channing, as well as Lorna Luft and Bridget Everett will perform on Fire Island this summer as part of the "Icon Series" at the Ice Palace.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMDavid Hare’s adaptation of Ms. Boo’s award-winning book will be produced by London’s National Theater in 2014.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMIt's a weak production, too. And yet …-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:43PMLarry Pine and Frank Wood star in a mesmerizing fantasia on the man who built the Magic Kingdom.
SOURCE: Time Out at 02:40PMTony Award winner Victoria Clark, a 2013 Tony nominee for her performance as Marie in the Broadway debut of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, will be a guest on Fox TV's "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMIf you want to start fresh, visit Illyria. The setting of Twelfth Night is, like happiness itself, more a state of mind than solid ground, rife with opportunity for reinvention. The reality …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PMThe world-famous dancer and former star of the Royal Ballet, Sylvie Guillem, has strongly criticised Britain’s biggest dance company, and revealed her dislike of its recently departed dire…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32PMWall Street Journal 05/10/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28PMToday, NBC added to its roster of upcoming series with the comedy UNDATEABLE, starring 'Whitney's Chris D'Elia and a reboot of the 1967 drama classic IRONSIDE, starring Blair Underwood.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMIf you’ve survived high school English class, chances are you’ve read (or at least pretended to have read) the seminal F. Scott Fitzgerald classic The Great Gatsby, a jazzy tale …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMThe acclaimed National Theatre production of This House, starring Julian Wadham, Phil Daniels and Reece Dinsale, will transfer to the Aldwych Theatre in September, according to U.K.’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMDancing in Your Seats Motown: The Musical: The script is weak, the harmonies not as tight as you would like and the singers go flat, but you don’t care.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:13PMFor years the most nagging question in U.S. foreign policy was this: How did we get into Vietnam? In more recent times, that question (among many, many others) has been replaced by this one:…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:10PMIf rightwing writer Melanie Phillips can launch her own line of branded goods, maybe those of a leftish bent should do so too✒ When I saw that my old chum Melanie Phillips – once a Guard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PMAt 48 she sells out dance houses around the world. On stage she is simply mesmerising. It is not only her long legs, which seem to stop only just before her mane of red hair. It is her uniqu…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMThe Menier Chocolate Factory's superlative Sondheim revival is all the more astonishing in that it marks the directing debut of singer/actress Maria Friedman.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
Midnight in Paris. (A real one.) It’s May 1922. There’s a dazzling soiree going on at the Hotel Majestic: Picasso is there, and so is Stravinsky. Serge Diaghilev, head of the Ballets Rus…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:59PMI had no intention of seeing Nice Work If You Can Get It. I'm not a Matthew Broderick fan, and word-of-mouth made the show sound lame. Then nicely discounted tickets became available, and Je…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:58PMNBC's "Smash," the Emmy Award-winning musical drama about the creation and inner workings of a Broadway musical, will end its run with a two-hour series finale airing May 26 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMBunty Berman Presents... is bringing a taste of India to off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row, and on May 9, the cast of the new musical comedy celebrated their official opening…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PMThree-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams has been offered the lead role in an in-development remake of the 1959 movie musical South Pacific, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. William…
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:39PM‘Present Tense” begins with a heartbeat. Six teenagers, all of whom have experienced a death in the family, create what the Arena Stage Voices of Now program calls “a group breathing t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PM“The Memory Show,” a musical, reflects the tensions of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease — and being someone with Alzheimer’s disease.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:35PMPatina Miller, Matthew James Thomas and the cast of Pippin welcomed a few very special guests into the big top on May 9! Jessica Biel joined stage and screen alums Patricia Clarkson, Melina …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Adult Swim says it's turning Mike Tyson into a cartoon detective....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:32PMTony Award nominees Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin, respectively the book writer and composer of MATILDA THE MUSICAL can be heard this weekend and next week on “Broadway Names with J…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:28PMJessica Walker has a pretty mezzo-soprano voice and a fascination with the male impersonators of the late 19th and early 20th century. With co-writer Neil Bartlett, she has turned these into…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:28PMWalt Disney’s insistence on steamrolling over, or editing out, those aspects of the world that did not fit his vision is one aspect of him that Lucas Hnath explores in his new play. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:23PMLater this year, Hollywood will release its own big, grand version of August: Osage County, Tracy Letts' critically acclaimed Broadway play that won a bevy of Tonys and the Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMRobertson's programming proves insightful and effective.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:20PMI wrote my first play when I was 16, starting putting them on about 19, and somehow managed to start making a living from it at 24. Brilliant Adventures is my first ‘major’ produ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:10PMKinky Boots is up for a whopping 13 Tony Awards, so it’s only expected that every celebrity ever is making a their way to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to catch this kick-ass crowdpleaser.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMA new theatre in Brighton has opened this week in an abandoned chapel to “fill a gap in the market” for mid-sized venues hosting professional productions in the town. Emporium, which is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMHidden away in the heart of the docklands lies a hidden gem. The Space, on the Isle of Dogs, home to Rum and Monkey’s new production of The Gut Girls, is an old converted church. This unco…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:04PMSoho theatre, LondonVentriloquist Nina Conti's show is based on the "seven ages of man" speech in As You Like It: seven of her puppet alter egos are introduced for our amusement. There's a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMThe season finale starts with two administrators from MIT who are talking to Brittany about admittance and some “math speak” that resulted in one of them claiming “Brittany it’s poss…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net 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
Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba and youngster Dalton Harrod (a sixteen-year-old who's been tap dancing since he was two!) star as a family of Vaudeville performers in City Center's Encores! prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMOff-Broadway's hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER will celebrate its 100th performance tonight, May 10th. Written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, HOW TO BE A NEW YOR…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMAudra McDonald stepped onto the stage at Avery Fisher Hall in a flowing teal-colored gown last night and once again demonstrated how reliably superb she is on the concert stage. The event, e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe Headstrong Project hosted Words of War in support of comprehensive mental healthcare for military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. This presentation of wartime poetry, literature, theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMMulti-platinum singer-songwriter Josh Groban told CBS THIS MORNING co-hosts Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell and Charlie Rose that the next goal for his celebrated career is to appear on the Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMToday is Donovan’s birthday! Donovan pretty much represents the summit of what I’m looking for in a pop music experience. (What’s another way to say that? Oh, yeah: “…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:52PMWatch Video When Jon Robin Baitz's family drama "Other Desert Cities" closed on Broadway last June, it concluded a strong run and had been showered with high praise for showcasing its cr…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:48PMWhen I toured with Les Mis in 2005, our wig master, Barry Ernst, kindly let me grow my hair as long as I wanted.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMNBC has picked up a comedy starring Broadway vet Sean Hayes and Victor Fresco titled SEAN SAVES THE WORLD. Today NBC released the first image from the new series
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMIf you're looking for a theatrical experience that's as accessible as the bottom-shelf sugar cereals in a grocery store, you should probably turn around and go home to your TiVo'd episode of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMNobody puts Baby in the corner, but somebody's putting baby on the West End! The record-breaking musical adaptation of the classic film Dirty Dancing will return to London’s West E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:45PMThe set of Passion Play is a stark contrast to its content. Bright white, with light to illuminate every crack in the happy couple façade that Eleanor and James present. The play opens gent…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMUncensored, MCC Theater's annual event, runs May 10-18 at the Lion Theater with a special benefit performance May 13 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMA limited engagement of John S. Anastasi's I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan will begin performances July 15 at Off-Broadway's Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThere was more Tony Awards nominations fallout—and fallout from that fallout—this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMThe Wick Theatre, currently renovating and refurbishing the former Caldwell Theatre toward a fall opening, will sell off hundreds of Caldwell items from 9.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMShe’s coming back … The first trailer for “August: Osage County,” the movie, has been released by the Weinstein Company via ABC. Follow the link . &…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:22PMDirectors, Directors, Every Where...You know me, I love riffing off that Coleridge line. This week is my week of meeting with, talking to and hanging out with directors--I love it! Especiall…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:19PMDavid Hare will adapt Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s acclaimed non-fiction novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in Mumbai Undercity for the National Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMWhen Jeff Whitty, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez created the “School Edition” of their Tony-winning AVENUE Q, they had high schools in mind. And yet, this abridged and expurgated edition was…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:16PMLa Off-Broadway Alliance, organización formada por productores, managers, representantes de prensa y responsables de marketing del Off-Broadway, ha anunciado los nominados de la tercera edi…
SOURCE: www.todomusicales.com at 12:15PMFrom time to time, TDF Stages will highlight exciting Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre companies with exclusive “getting to know you” videos. Today, we’re featuring Transpo…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:11PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Justin Matthew Sargent, who is starring as 'Drew' in Rock of Ages- currently playing at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMThe Glee season four finale aired on May 9, and it was quite a doozy. If you haven't seen the jam-packed episode yet, STOP reading this, we're gonna spoil your gleeeful fun…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08PMWhether it's loose-lipped Lurleen or dope-smoking Fontaine, Whoopi's alter egos let her go further – and be funnier – than other standup comedians might dareTitle: Back to BroadwayYear: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 5102013.
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Everyone loves a good dose of nostalgia, especially the paragons of random brilliance over at BuzzFeed, who enlisted Glee star Darren Criss to take a time-warping trip back to the ‘90s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMTony Award-winning animal trainer Bill Berloni and cast members Jaidyn Young, Sadie Sink and Brooklyn Shuck were on hand May 8 for the official launch of Sandy’s Rescue Pals at the Pal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMAge & Hometown: 30; Honolulu, Hawaii
Current Role: Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos, whose catapult to stardom and subsequent fall into infamy are chronicled in the Public Theater&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMA film remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony Award-winning musical South Pacific may be on the horizon with three-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams as Nellie Forbush, accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMAt the end of this evening, we would know who would be competing in the finale. The night started off by Candice, Kree, and Angie singing Who Says by Selena Gomez.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMLucas Hnath’s indictment of Disney is both clever and total.
The post Melodrama for the Anti-Capitalist Crowd: <em>A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Wal…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:51AMThe Broadway League has just partnered with the Department of Education on a very unique High School internship program. 22 NYC Public High School seniors from four boroughs were selected t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMOlivier Award-winning playwright Ayub Khan Din stars in the title role of his new Off-Broadway musical Bunty Berman Presents..., which officially opened May 9 under the wing of the New Group…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMStepping into 54 Below is a little bit like entering a time warp. From the doorman's cordial greeting (no barking demands to see an ID here) to the rounded martini glasses masquerading as ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMWhere were you last night? I only ask because I saw what appeared to be everybody else! First we went to Clay McCleod Chapman’s book launch at Books of Wonder for his excellent-looking…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AMAll musicals descend from The Black Crook, but On Your Toes is truly its great-great grandson.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:28AMLUCKY GUY star and Tony nominee, Tom Hanks will appear on CBS Sunday Morning, on Sunday, May 12. Hanks recently sat down with correspondent Rita Braver to speak about making his Broadway de…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMThe first trailer for the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY has been released. Starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Margo Martingdale, Andre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AM 1 Cast Your 2013 Tony Awards Ballot! Make your voice heard and show off your Broadway knowledge by filling out your very own 2013 Tony Awards Ballot… SUBMIT A BALLOT! | …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:27AMNathan Lane "The Nance"The Drama Desk hosted a champagne brunch for the 2013 nominees to meet with the press in the Grand Salon of JW Marriott Essex House on Central Park South in New York. …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:21AMKelli O’Hara sings the love song “If It Is True,” accompanied on piano by composer Ricky Ian Gordon. Gordon’s music was inspired by the work of Marcel Proust.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:17AMThe orphans are back! Sheffield Theatres' artistic director Daniel Evans (My Fair Lady) will helm a new revival of the beloved musical Oliver! at the U.K.'s Crucible Theatre. The pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMThe orphans are back! Sheffield Theatres' artistic director Daniel Evans (My Fair Lady) will helm a new revival of the beloved musical Oliver! at the U.K.'s Crucible Theatre. The pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMThe film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County” with a sterling cast led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, will be in movie th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMPaper 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 11:12AMThe Sean Hayes/Victor Fresco comedy, "Sean Saves the World," has been picked up by NBC for the upcoming season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMOne day after releasing images from the SMASH season finale which features a fictional Tonys ceremony, NBC took a step back to give viewers a first look at Broadway stars Christine Ebersol, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMHooray for Bollywood! Lipica Shah, who plays fabulous diva Shambervi in Bunty Berman Presents, chats about the fun new musical comedy that depicts life at a 1950s movie studio in India.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMAccording to The Stage, original Broadway cast members Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon will reprise their roles of Mr Bones and Mr Tambo respectively, in The Scottsboro Boys at the Youn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMYOU MIGHT ENJOY THE ACTING, BUT WILL YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? It’s not easy to believe in magic watching Phylicia Rashad’s direction of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. While Rashad has a kna…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:02AMWatch the Cinderella headliner win the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a Musical.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMRing the bells, for the Dinner Theater is no more. Ok, I’m being slightly dramatic. There are a few dinner theaters still around serving up so-so steaks, and the National Dinner Thea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: The feature that first strikes you about this tale of the last moments of John Lennon's life is how much Valentine Pelka looks like Lennon. The likeness i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMAs another school year draws to a close, BroadwayWorld's Student Center signs off for the summer break. Before we go, take a look back at some of the high-school and college stories that we …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMFresh off the news that three-time Tony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris would be returning to host the ceremony for a fourth time, we couldn’t help but daydream about when we'll ge…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMThe trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, has been released.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMTony Award nominees Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin, respectively the book writer and composer of MATILDA THE MUSICAL, can be heard this weekend and next week on 'Broadway Names with Julie Ja…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMThe world premiere of Stella & Lou, starring Rhea Perlman, opens May 10 at the Northlight Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM"Broadway Backstage: Spring Preview" will air in the New York metropolitan area on WABC-7 beginning May 18 at 7 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMThe first trailer for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, has been released. Just in time for Thanksgiving, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AMGet ready for a slamming battle of the bands at Adventure Theatre MTC when Big Nate goes up against Goody Girl Gina, and his own beloved Jenny all while staying out of detention. Bursting …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMThe Off Broadway Alliance today announced its nominee selections for Best Family Show, a category not often recognized in a season packed with honors for excellence in theatre. The award rec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMMaybe I’m crazy, but I thought that Tony Winner Steve Kazee would want to be interviewed somewhere discreet. The back of some dark restaurant or something, so as not to be recognized. In a…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:38AMIf you haven't had the chance to catch up on your theater news, look no further than today's recap of all things theater - exclusive features, interviews, reviews and more - around the Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMThis week's guest blog come courtesy of my first ever guest blogger! Matthew Putman always has a something great to share whenever he guest blogs. In this post he makes some very interesting…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMAugust Wilson's Joe Turner’s Come and Gone officially opened May 8 following previews that began April 24 at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Cent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMMayfest comes to Bristol with bare-knuckle Beowulf, Live Theatre in Newcastle takes a unique walk backstage and the Norfolk and Norwich festival kicks off in spectacular styleScotland and No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMDigital Theatre, the company that provides filmed theatre and opera productions on demand, has signed a deal with YouTube enabling the video site to offer paid access to its content. The mov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMLUCKY GUY star and Tony nominee, Tom Hanks will appear on “CBS Sunday Morning,” on Sunday, May 12. Hanks recently sat down with correspondent Rita Braver to speak about making his Broa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:21AMI Used To Be Darker, talented filmmaker Matt Porterfield’s third feature film, is gaining attention and will be screened at the Maryland Film Festival tomorrow at 8 PM and Sunday at 3 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMWatch the Edwin Drood star win the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Diva.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AMTheatre tickets are expensive so we’ve drawn up a guide on how to get cheap theatre tickets in London. Whether you’re looking for discounted ticket outlets, schemes for young peo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:07AMThe Rachael Ray Show will welcome the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time on Monday, May 13.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AM By Mike Hallinan Hello readers of the night! I do hope that this finds you ghastly well. Welcome back to another freakish Friday. In creating this cryptic column, I realize as …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
BroadwayWorld'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 09:58AMAnd then there were two. The finalists who will vie for the title of "American Idol" were named during the May 9 broadcast of Fox's singing competition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMKinky Boots Tony nominee Stark Sands sits down to reveal some of his secrets to Broadway.com. Find out why he doesn't think he'll ever play one of his dream roles and the best a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:50AMAward-winning actress-singer Liza Minnelli will be a guest on "The Rachael Ray Show" May 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMMy old friend and boss at the Downtown News, Jack Skelley, used to insist that classical music should be played loud, and I took him to mean not only that he had a taste, as I did, for noisy…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:45AMFull casting has been announced for a new production of Macbeth that will begin performances at Shakespeare's Globe in London June 22, prior to an official opening July 4, for a run in r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMDiry Dancing, the stage version of the 1987 film of the same name that first premiered in Australia in 2004 before transferring to the West End two years later, will return to London followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMComedian to end 15-year absence with fortnight-long run of new show Fame: Not the MusicalDavid Baddiel will present his first full solo show in 15 years at this year's Edinburgh fringe.The c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMDaniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, will direct a new production of Lionel Bart's Oliver! as this year's Christmas musical at the Crucible Theatre, beginning perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMJamie Lloyd's production of Pinter's The Hothouse::E8831368166860 opened last night (9 May 2013) at the Trafalgar Studios.
Led by Simon Russell Beale and John Simm, this play marks Lloyd's…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AM
DC Shorts Brings You Short Comedy Films and Stand-Up Comedy All in One Night with “DC Shorts Laughs” DC Shorts Laughs – May 17- 18, 2013 Next Friday and Saturday – get ready t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMThe U.K. premiere of Kander and Ebb's The Scottsoboro Boys, which begins performances at London's Young Vic Oct. 18 prior to an official opening Oct. 29 for a run through Nov. 23, is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM
Lindsey Ferrentino Hometown: Merritt Island, FloridaCurrent Town: Brooklyn, New YorkQ: What are you working on now?A: I've been polishing up some plays, ironing out wrin…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:28AMRespect for the building and its makers, respect for the historical study of art, respect for the visitor’s relation to the displays. These are qualities that I find in the New Rijksmuseum…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AMIn his Director’s Notes, Paata Tsikurishvili quotes a line from Hamlet: “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” In its latest show, The Three Musketeers, written by brot…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:11AMOne of the more memorable performers that ever hit the AMERICAN IDOL stage, Season 8 runner up Adam Lambert was spotlighted on last night's results show. The singer will perform on next week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:10AMou definitely do not have to be Indian to have a good time at this Bollywood spoof .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:07AMTrafalgar Studios, London: The idea that Harold Pinter developed his beliefs about the horror of unchecked state power later in his career can be swept away by this 1958 work (which premiere…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMIt’s touch-and-go at times for the latest big-screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby. But in a hotly contested three-way wrestling match between Baz Luhrman, 3D technology, and novelist F. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM“Kinky Boots,” which had a run in Chicago before coming to Broadway, and “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” with no out-of-town run, both got major surgery because of surveys of…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMNo gift baskets allowed but plenty of politicking as plays like the Tom Hanks starrer "Lucky Guy" and musicals like "Matilda" pull out all the stops to win voters' hearts.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00AMI remember I used to watch clips of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's song cycle, Edges, from my dorm room in Georgia my Freshman year of college, a turbulent time in my life when I found myself …
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AM
The actor talks about the source of her bossy streak and how it was hard being in The Good Life when her first marriage was disintegratingI inherited my slightly bossy streak from my father,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AMWell, this opens nationwide today. I, for one, intend to cut it lots of slack. The story has never been adapted successfully for the screen before, so there is nowhere to go but up. Though…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AMDigital Theatre has made full-length theatre productions available on YouTube with the launch of its new paid channel.
For £3.49 per month, audiences can subscribe to watch full-lengt…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:44AMRECOMMENDED One of the most diverse dance programs this year will take place in the Loop, on the stage of the Auditorium Theatre. The Movement + Music Showcase is a collection of all new pie…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThe BLT Triple Grilled Cheese at Alumni St. Louis — new at the Park Pacific downtown — combines two of my favorite comfort foods, but with a twist on each. Cheddar, American and provel c…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMOur staff list the best events in the week ahead.
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Thanks to Whatsonstage.com's new owners TheaterMania, we're increasingly looking across the pond at the growing number of shows making transatlantic transfers.One of the biggest West End hit…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:51AMAlexandra Palace has been given around £850,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop its plans for regenerating the site, which includes restoration of its Victorian theatre. The money…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMToday is the birthday of playwright Arthur Kopit (b. 1937) I only know the plays below, but it seems to me he is one of our most important contemporary dramatists, not far behind Shepard�…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:31AMSteve Martin and David Letterman at the Broadhurst Theatre seeing Tony-nominated Tom Hanks in “Lucky Guy” . . . Hayden Panettiere and her boxing champ boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko at Bon…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:18AMBoyle joins growing list of illustrious directors ruling themselves out of artistic director roleDanny Boyle has become the latest high-profile director to rule himself out of contention to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:01AMIn this special video interview, Call Me Adam strips down with the cast of Let My People Come: A Sexual Musical to find out what gets their gears grinding with this flirtaciously fun show pl…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:01AM
From tea boy to managing director at 20th Century Fox – the stuff of which legends are made, but also the true-life story of the British film producer Tim Hampton. During a cinema career m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMDirty Dancing is to replace Viva Forever! at the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End. The musical previously played in London at the Aldwych Theatre from 2006 until 2011 and has since been to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMColman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, who starred in the original Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys, will return to the musical in the Young Vic’s production later this year. Domi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMCasting has been announced for the Young Vic's forthcoming UK premiere of Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys.
Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, the Tony-nominated stars of the o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:33AMFollowing the success of acclaimed productions Philistines and the Olivier Award-winning The White Guard, director Howard Davies reunites with Andrew Upton and designer Bunny Christie to sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:28AMSheffield Theatres are to stage a new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at the Crucible Theatre this Christmas. The show, which will be directed by Sheffield Theatres artistic direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMSimon Russell Beale has transformed himself into a manic version of Ronnie Barker in this merciless, very funny revival of Harold Pinter’s second major stage play, one he wrote and discard…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:01AMLaura Turner goes behind the scenes of new musical Part A playing at the Roundhouse's Accidental Festival.The post House parties and beer goggles: Part A the Musical appeared first on A Youn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AM"Trafalgar Transformed" is the title of director Jamie Lloyd's adventure in the Trafalgar Studios with host company Ambassador Theatre Group and, indeed, it's all change all round, with one …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00AMWhy a peak behind the curtain makes a better audience. By Rachel James (Treasurer/Writer) I had the pleasure to see the final dress rehearsal of On Your Toes at Encores! this week. It’s th…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's musical "The Drowsy Chaperone," at once original and nostalgic, begins with a die-hard musical fan in his lonely New York apartment.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:59AMOrphans Bounces onto the Stage: The stirring revival of Lyle Kessler’s dark comedy Orphans has you in its grips as soon as Tom Sturridge, acrobatically leaps from place to place like a fly…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:40AMJames Graham's hit political drama This House::E8831362133543, charting the political stalemate that afflicted the House of Commons in the mid 1970s, is transferring from the National Theatr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:27AMHi Simply Hi Meet The Nance: Nathan Lane pulls off a tour de force performance in Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance over at the Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:26AMChristopher Durang has enjoyed great success off Broadway with long-running hits like "Sister Mary Ignatius" but found little love on Broadway till now. However, that could well ch…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:16AMThe National Theatre will stage an epic "true-life Slumdog Millionaire play" next year, according to the Daily Mail.
David Hare is reportedly adapting Katherine Boo's non-fiction book Behi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:08AM
The touring production of Dirty Dancing will come to the Piccadilly Theatre - where Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! closes next month - for a seven-month run from 7 July 2013, according to…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:40AMRhea Perlman, best known as Carla on the hit comedy series 'Cheers,' is set to star as Stella in the World Premiere of STELLA amp LOU at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie, opening tonight, Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMProfiles Theatre Artistic Directors Darrell W. Cox and Joe Jahraus present the World premiere of Resident Artist Neil LaBute's revised stage version of In the Company of Men, opening at The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMPaper Mill Playhouse is hosting its largest fundraising event of the year, The 75th Anniversary Gala tonight, May 10th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMHurricane Sandy was truly a show-stopper for Landmark on Main's Spotlight Gala planned for November 3, 2012. But the company is taking it from the top and hopes you'll join the Spotlight Gal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMJamie Lloyd's high-energy "Trafalgar Transformed" season continues with an outrageously funny production of Harold Pinter's weirdly unfinished second major play, one he wrote shortly after T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:24AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review an out-of-town show, Westport Country Playhouse's revival of A.R. Gurney's The...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I talk about how audiences respond differently to different art forms--and how the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Authors give away their books like drug barons give free snorts, hoping to start an expensive addiction." Reginald Hill, Death's...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMGabby Douglas Raises The Bar With 2nd Book
Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Gabrielle "Gabby" Douglas vaults into the Studio to fill us in on her 2nd (best-selling!) book, 'Raising The Bar…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMWhy 'Star Trek' Star Alice Eve Winks at Kate Bosworth
We sit down with 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' star Alice Eve at Tribeca, where she is in town to support her indie flick 'Some Velvet Morn…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM"The Office" Series Finale Wrap Party
When the final episode of NBC's hit series "The Office" called it a day, we, along with Subway spokesman Jared Fogle, were there for the cast and crew w…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM'Star Trek' Star John Cho Boldly Goes 'Into Darkness'
Star Date 051713. These are the voyages of one Mr. John Cho as he ventures to the Young Hollywood Studio to seek out new lifeforms and t…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Robert Sickinger, a director who played an significant role in shaping Chicago's modern theatre scene, died May 9 in Delray Beach, FL. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMFriday May 10, 2013
STOCKBRIDGE
It sounds like the beginning of one of those "a guy walks into a bar" jokes.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:12AMThe Essentials, Part I[We pestered our contributors to offer one essential theatre book and explain why it is essential. Here are the first two essays.]Angels in America by Tony Kushner...mo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMThe Futureby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonOne of the things that happens after the bittersweet moment of another project being done is a time for reflection. All the goodbyes are said and…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, May 9, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMUrgent Reminder: Mother's Day is this Sunday. To get you in the spirit (or possibly to give you a last-minute gift idea), here's a double helping of some heartwarming mom love. Not only ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM2012 was a year of high highs and low lows for Steve Kazee. Just months after the musical Once, in which he starred, took Broadway by storm, Kazee lost his mother, Kathy, following a long an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMAri Graynor, last seen on Broadway in The Performers, has joined the cast of the one-night-only reading of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others, which will be presente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM3-D Theatricals presents Jason Robert Brown's award-winning musical Parade, featuring original Broadway cast member Rufus Bonds, Jr., beginning May 10 at the Plummer Auditorium in Califo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, recently seen as Fosca in Classic Stage Company's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion, will release her latest solo recording…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA revised production of In the Company of Men, an early play by Neil LaBute better known for its controversial film version, premieres May 10 at Chicago's Profiles Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRockers Anonymous returns to The Underground Lounge May 10 for its ninth engagement, 80's-Tastic! Jason Gotay, Cortney Wolfson and Matt DeAngelis are among the evening's lineup.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIt's a tale nearly as old as Broadway and Hollywood. The successful playwright is lured to California with promises of riches and sunshine, hates the experience, then returns to New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
