'The Lyrics of Jordan Beck' to play The Duplex on July 22nd featuring Dan Domenech, Hannah Elless, Aleks Pevec, and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:41PMPulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Bruce Norris' new play A Parallelogram, directed by the Tony Award-winning Anna D. Shapiro, opens Sunday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at the Center Theatre GroupM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33PMNOBODY LOVES YOU opened last night, July 18, at Second Stage Theatre and BroadwayWorld was there to capture all the excitement. Click below to watch exclusive interviews with Itamar Moses Bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMSebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson are the first actors attached to the bestselling courtroom thriller's stage adaptation.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:06PMLegally Blonde: The Musical is a dog's life, and that's a good thing--just ask Frankie, the show's four-legged star (and his trainer, William Berloni).
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:05PMAs BroadwayWorld previously announced, Ovation has snatched up SMASH from NBCUniversal Cable amp New Media, and is set to premiere the first two episodes of the first season tonight. In addi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PM“Art is fueled by passion, liquor and unrealistic expectations.” Welcome to Glory Box Paradise and the ninth year of Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith’s subversive and celebratory bur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMWhat inspired the Bristol Proms? When we were working on the refurbishment of the auditorium in the run-up to 2011, I got more and more interested in how the theatre was designed and how it…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:00PM
On Thursday afternoon, 106.7 Lite FM continued its annual lunchtime theatre summer series, '106.7 Lite FM's Broadway in Bryant Park.' The 2013 program presents the best of Broadway, FREE to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:59PMThey Call Me Q! ranks among the very best of a large and varied crowd of autobiographical solo shows I’ve seen over eight years of Capital Fringing. Click for tickets to They Call Me Q The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52PMChristopher Zinovitch, who served as the artistic director of the West Seattle cultural center ArtsWest since 2011, will be replaced.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:51PMThe Flea Theater kicks off its Fall 2013 Season with the New York Premiere of Jonathan Caren's THE RECOMMENDATION - a play about class, race, power and what happens to...
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:48PM“Who’s got this card?” Anna Lathrop calls, holding up the nine of diamonds. The woman in front of me raises her hand and Lathrop, the ringmaster of the evening, waltzes ove…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:27PMThe "Smash" star returns to the New York stage in John Patrick Shanley's new play, appearing opposite Tony winner Brian F. O'Byrne.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:24PMBroadway observers can be forgiven for being skeptical when Disney Theatrical Prods. says it’s taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the latest Mouse House-affiliated stage outing, “The …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM
Name: Doug Carpenter
Hometown: Military Brat
Education: BM Voice UNLV, MM. Voice UCLA
Select Credits: Camelot (Lancelot, Pasadena Playhouse); Life Could Be A Dream (NYMF); Pride and Pr…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:56PM"Boston Marriage," a turn-of-the-century euphemism for women living together who may or may not have been getting it on, is a comedy of manners the likes of which you have never se…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:46PMIT’S TIME FOR A LITTLE HAPPY EVER-AFTERING As San Francisco Playhouse opens a promising and highly anticipated rendition of Camelot this week, I am reminded of T. H. White’s The Once and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:40PMAfter a tortuously long wait, it appears that the professional filming of the Broadway production of SHREK THE MUSICAL will at last be available to purchase according to a new pre-order list…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:27PMDeadline.com reports that MAGIC MIKE, THE MUSICAL has revealed its creative team. NEXT TO NORMAL's Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey will write the songs, with SPIDER-MAN's Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa cr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23PMBreak glass in case of Emergency.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:22PMThe most unnerving theater in town is being shared, ever so serenely, over three hours by the three characters in Wallace Shawn's "The Designated Mourner."
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:20PMJust Theater is back with not one but two plays in rep, and the first one, A Maze, is pretty freaking remarkable.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:17PMBroadwayHollywood notable and Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose stars alongside frequent stage and screen presence David Alan Grier in the new Hallmark original film THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMIN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMYou know that feeling, when you’re in the theatre, staring up at that perfect love story on stage? Or maybe you’re on the subway with your iPod blasting that beautiful love song …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 05:06PMWhen the off-network run of NBC skein “Smash” launches tonight, the Ovation network will be doing something NBC couldn’t: Banking on Broadway. Differences of scale between Big Four net…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PM
Pop star and former BroadwayWest End CHICAGO lead Ashlee Simpson returns to the celebrated role for the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production, directed by Brooke Shields, and a first look at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMThe International Order of Sodomites is moving from the West Village — its home for the past four seasons — uptown to 54 Below to hold its monthly comedy/variety show, The Meeting. The g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PMIvoryton has its “Dreamgirls.” Sheniqua Denise Trotman, JennLee Shallow and Ashley Jeudy will star in the theater’s production of the musical, directed by Lawrence The…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:51PM'The Cat and the Canary' In StockbridgeThat old Yale gang is very much a part of “The Cat and the Canary” at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridg…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:47PMTom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning team behind Next to Normal and the upcoming If/Then, will pen the score to the upcoming stage-musical adaptation of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:45PMAs I said in my previous post, Chicago’s summer stages are as hot and sizzling as the 104 degree heat index we’ve been experiencing this past week. And of course, it’s just about the t…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 04:32PMAmerica: land of substances. Land of stereotypes and instant gratification. Land of problems. Land of racism, with inequality and injustice for all. But it’s ok because things have gotten …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMName: Seph StanekHometown: Greenville, South CarolinaEducation: Furman University, L'Accademia dell'Arte (Arezzo, Italy), South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and HumanitiesSelect C…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:24PMAs I promised you, Protea Stage kicked off its Social Media Marketing campaign this week and to make this work, I am going to ask all my readers to help us making it a success. It took us a …
SOURCE: exilemusical.blogspot.com at 04:21PMManhattan Theater Club artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove announced July 19 that the world premiere of Tony and Oscar winner John Patrick Shanley‘s Outsi…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:12PMOdysseus does not return to the seductive, possessive Kalypso once he escapes her lair in Homer's telling of The Odyssey. But in writer-artist Johanna Kozma's version, he does return. Also, …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:12PMProducers behind the Broadway-aimed Magic Mike, based on the film about the lifestyle of male strippers that starred Channing Tatum, have enlisted Tony Award winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMRyan McKinny as the Dutchman. Photos: Karli Cadel.The eponymous hero of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman is supposed to make landfall only once in seven years - and here I've …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:06PMIf there were a degree in Annie, Richard Sabellico would have earned his PhD several times over. After taking on the role of the "Easy Street"-loving swindler ‘Rooster' in the original Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PM
Relativity School of Film, Media and Performing Arts will host a panel discussion with the creative team behind one of the longest running shows in Broadway history on Monday, July 22nd from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:53PMProducers Daryl Roth and Eva Price announced today that Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson in his Broadway debut, and John Douglas Thompson will star in the new Broadway courtroom drama…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMIn “The Master and Margarita,” an adaptation of the Russian masterwork at Bard College, the Devil pays a troublemaking visit to 1930s Moscow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM Reviewed by: Joseph Hillenmeyer Jackalope Theatre’s “The Casuals” sets mostly in the year 1955, during a decade many fondly recall as, and younger generations have almost ex…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:44PMDirector Refn's craftsmanship isn’t in doubt here, just whether this deadening story was worth all the effort.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMTo much of the world's audiences, Wallace Shawn is, face it, kind of a funny-looking guy -- a master character actor in movies and TV shows that need to cast a balding, squat, pink man with …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:37PM(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham, a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:35PMTony Award-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the score to Broadway's A Christmas Story, the Musical and Off-Broadway's Dogfight, make their San Francisco Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMSTAGES ST. LOUIS continues its record-breaking 27th Season when it turns St. Louis pink, with the romantic comedy, Legally Blonde, The Musical tonight, July 19th through August 18th . A plet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMShowbiz411 reports exclusively that Denzel Washington will be joined by actresses Sophie Okenedo and Anika Noni Rose in an upcoming Broadway revival of A RAISIN IN THE SUN set for next sprin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMSTAGES ST. LOUIS continues its record-breaking 27th Season when it turns St. Louis pink, with the romantic comedy, Legally Blonde, The Musical tonight, July 19th through August 18th . A plet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMAtlanta's Theater of the Stars, the non-profit Georgia company that has offered 60 seasons of theatrical programming and recently revealed that it was in danger of closing its doors due …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMIf Faith Healer is excessively demanding but somewhat nourishing, Enchanted April is excessively undemanding and not nourishing at all
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:24PMWith new plays thin on the ground for the 2013-14 Broadway season, Manhattan Theater Club has lined up one to watch, reteaming scribe John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Pulitzer winner “Doubt…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of July 8-14, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM Producers Daryl Roth and Eva Price announced today that Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson (in his Broadway debut), and John Douglas Thompson will star in the ne…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:17PMAccording to the New York Times, a slew of new plays are setting their sights on Broadway for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced might move to Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMYou could go to Capital Stage's giddy new production "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" for playwright Kristoffer Diaz's inspired blend of poetic storytelling and searing sardonic humor.…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:01PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Sara Chase, who is starring as 'Grandma Ida LaurenAaron's Mother' in First Date- currently in previews at the Longacre Theatre opening August 8.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PM
Brett Ryback chats about teaming up with co-star Jeff Blumenkrantz, learning slapstick routines and playing the piano in the zany musical comedy Murder for Two at off-Broadway’s Second…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMTo say that Tony nominees Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have been having quite a year would be a catastrophic understatement. The songwriting duo (who met as freshmen in the University of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PM“Chicago” captures something canny about the metabolism of fame and about the symbiosis between criminals and the hankering public.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:55PMIn Part 1 of her appearance on THE GRAHAM SHOW, titled 'Trampoline, South Pacific amp Boston University,' Jenn Harris talks about how 80's music inspired her to perform, her parents defying …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMProducers Daryl Roth and Eva Price announced July 19 casting for the upcoming Broadway debut of Tony winner Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of A Time to Kill, John Grisham’s best-s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMThe curtain is coming down on another week on Broadway. Before we all head for the beach, let's give some cheers to our most educational headlines: This week we got inside scoop about Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMCasting for the upcoming Broadway debut of Tony winner Rupert Holmes‘ stage adaptation of A Time to Kill was announced July 19 by producers Daryl Roth and Eva Price. The play, which wi…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:42PMLynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer just announced OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, the world premiere play by Tony and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley, directed by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMQuarrat Ann Kadwani is a tour-de-force in her one-woman show It’s got to be tough to do a solo show, opening night at 10 p.m. on a sultry summer night, but remarkable, energetic, and seemi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMAyad Akhtar's Disgraced, which played a fall 2012 engagement at the Claire Tow Theater, part of Lincoln Center Theater's new works initiative, LCT3, and was named named the winner of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMActor Ben Watts gives another appealing performance.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:30PMI had an opportunity to talk to Lily this morning and I know she shares in this apology with me. I believe so strongly in the work of HowlRound because I long for open and transparent conver…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:22PMSebastian Arcelus (House of Cards), John Douglas Thompson (The Emperor Jones), and Fred Dalton Thompson (Law & Order) will star in the upcoming Broadway premiere of John Grisham's A Time to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMSebastian Arcelus (House of Cards), John Douglas Thompson (The Emperor Jones), and Fred Dalton Thompson (Law & Order) will star in the upcoming Broadway premiere of John Grisham's A Time to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMNobody Loves You is the title of both the show and the TV show-within-the-show. Attractive singles seek to pair up as the audience watches, in weekly installments.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:17PMThe Old Vic Tunnels – the cult performance space – could be turned into a skateboard park after the theatre from which it took its name withdrew funding.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:16PMA family affair: Ellen Geer's Merlin melds Arthurian wizardry and 40 years of theater-making at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PMDallas Theater Center announced the complete cast and creative team for the world premiere of Fly, a new musical based on J.M. Barrie's novel, Peter Pan. Three-time Tony Award-winning produc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMI had the good fortune of interviewing Tony Award-winner William Finn last year as part of a feature about the Berkshires for Passport Magazine. The composer/lyricist is known for his humane…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:05PMThe critically acclaimed Broadway hit shows MATILDA THE MUSICAL, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL amp PIPPIN are set to appear on the 'LIVE with Kelly and Michael' morning show during their Broadway week …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMOpening Saturday, July 27, Cella Gallery is pleased to present Paper & Pulp—a group exhibit featuring collage and cut-paper work by the following artists: L. Croskey, Ashley Fisher, Ka…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMFire performer, stilt-walker, rigger and, foremost an aerialist renowned for the art of counterweighting – the process of lifting people or objects by using a pulley system or their body w…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMOrder in the court! Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the Broadway stage adaptation of John Grisham’s bestselling courtroom novel A Time to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMBack in the West End, Graham Linehan's inspired adaptation of the Ealing comedy converts William Rose's original screenplay into uproarious farce, fizzing with fresh gags.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMPlaybill.com offers a sneak peek at the plays A Great Wilderness and Little Children Dream of God at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 19, 2013 Contact: Chris Boneau/ Aaron Meier/ Christine Olver/ Emily Meagher Follow MTC on Twitter: @MTC_NYC (#OutsideMullingar) or on Facebook MANHATTAN THEATRE C…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:54PMIt's been a long time since Laura Innes appeared on stage in New York City; 15 years she approximates. There's a good reason behind that: She raised two children and starred, for twelve seas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PMSecond Stage Theatre got a big dose of reality (TV, that is) on July 18, when the new musical comedy Nobody Loves You opened at off-Broadway’s Tony Kiser Theatre. Featuring music by Ga…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMEmmy winner Debra Messing will make her Broadway debut in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Outside Mullingar opposite Tony winner Brian F. O'Byrne. The world premiere production reunites O…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMIn light of the current financial situation at Theater of the Stars, it was announced today that the upcoming engagement of the ANYTHING GOES national tour, set to run August 20 - 25, has be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMAnd we didn't even think to get her anything! As Matron "Mama" Morton, Wendy Williams takes center stage in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago during her saucy rendition of &l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMThe critically acclaimed Broadway hit shows MATILDA THE MUSICAL, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL & PIPPIN are set to appear on the “LIVE with Kelly and Michael” morning show during their Broadway…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:42PMTony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne (If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet) and Emmy Award winner Debra Messing (Smash) will star in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming world premiere Broadway pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMManhattan Theater Club artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove announced July 19 that the world premiere of Tony and Oscar winner John Patrick Shanley's Outside…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMMatthew-Lee Erlbach is a producer and writer at Nickelodeon who came to New York to do standup, moved on to sketch comedy, and recently appeared in the science-fiction film Another Earth. No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMReviews of Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O’s 2013 free outdoor productions of “Henry V” and “The Tempest.”
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:38PMChristopher Fitzgerald and Tamsin Carroll star in BARNUM at the Chichester Festival Theatre. This exhilarating musical follows the irrepressible imagination and dreams of Phineas T Barnum, A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMThis week's guest blog comes from Katie Santos, a new manager who learned some valuable lessons about producing that she has kindly offered to share. Take it away Katie! Excelsior! It was Op…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 01:29PMTravis Greisler's The Orion Experience, described as an "intergalactic space journey meets theatrical live rock concert," will touch down at Manhattan's XL Nightclub August 1. The production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:25PMWith the imminent launch of the new touring production of Evita, we thought it would be a great time to look back at some of the stellar women who have played the title role on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMFilming for the movie adaptation of The Last Five Years is over, so what’s left for the cast to do? Party, of course! Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick had plenty of reasons to celebrate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMSignature Theatre has just announced the cast of this summer's all-new production of Tony Award-winning musical Miss Saigon, directed by Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer. Running i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PMTucked away from Tottenham Court Road, in a room above a pub, some comedy sketches headed for Edinburgh Fringe invite the audience to pay-what-you-can as they try to make us laugh. I wouldn�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:05PMThe nominations for the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning in Los Angeles, and the June 2012 broadcast of the 66th Annual Tony Awards was honored with five Primeti…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:04PMThe nationally syndicated morning talk program "LIVE with Kelly and Michael," which airs in the New York metropolitan area on ABC-TV at 9 AM ET, will celebrate Broadway July 22-26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM
Cush Jumbo, Oliver Cotton and Rory Kinnear are the latest in a long line of actors to employ their stagecraft as writers tooPlaywrights don't always take kindly to being told by an actor tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMAtlantic Theater Company is proud to announce a change to their ticketing structure with the introduction of their new Back20 initiative. For every preview performance of Atlantic Theater Co…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:54PMFiled under: African American Interest, Blackface & Minstrelsy, Comedy, Contemporary Variety, Jews/ Show Biz, Music, PLUGS, Singers Tagged: Fried Chicken and Latkes, Rain Pryor, Richard …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:52PMBush, LondonCountless artists, from Diana Ross to Beyoncé, have been inspired by the story of the legendary dancer and singer Josephine Baker, who was born in St Louis and became the toast …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMThe No Rules Show feels more intimate like a Saturday night in Joshua Morgan’s living room than late night talk show…and that’s a good thing. He gathers together a group of interesting…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35PMDaniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner of the hit off-Broadway show Potted Potter The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff are enjoying their return visit to New York City,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMIf/Then, the new musical starring Rent and Wicked star Idina Menzel, will begin previews at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre March 4, 2014, prior to an official opening March 27, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM 1 10 Best Female Eye Candies on Broadway Since there was such an overwhelming appreciation for this season’s “10 Best Male Eye Candies on Broadway,” we figured you would… …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:27PMHGTV’s newest renovation stud, Francis Toumbakaris is as comfortable in a pair of tights and slippers as he is in boots and overalls. Born and raised in Athens, Francis trained in class…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:25PMThe Broadway Show League continued its 59th annual softball season July 18 with the first round of Playoff games. Key matchup included Rock of Ages vs Annie, Matilda vs Hands on a Hardbody a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe Broadway Show League continued its 59th annual softball season July 18 with the first round of Playoff games. Key matchup included Rock of Ages vs Annie, Matilda vs Hands on a Hardbody a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMWashington’s Nanna Ingvarsson won a leading actress Helen Hayes Award playing Janet in “The Rocky Horror Show” with Woolly Mammoth in 1991. A few years later, performing with a Kennedy…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMThe American Theatre Critics Association has named Stefanie Zadravec winner of the $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The Electric Baby.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMBridesmaids standout Rose Byrne is in talks to join Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Quvenzhane Wallis in the upcoming Annie movie remake, according to Variety. Byrne will take on the role of Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMPeninsula Flight 2549 is in trouble, forced to whirl above the clouds as it awaits a control-tower cue to crash land. So the flight attendants aboard it in Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:13PMCast members Chuck Cooper and Jeremy Pope, from Manhattan Theatre Club's CHOIR BOY, will be appearing on NY1 'On Stage' this weekend, July 20 amp 21. 'On Stage' airs Saturdays and Sundays fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMSignature Theatre has announced complete casting for its all-new production of the award-winning musical Miss Saigon, which will be directed by Signature artistic director Eric Schaeffer. Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMThis production of "Pygmalion" is also a case study in how an accomplished director –- former Huntington Theatre Company director Nicholas Martin – weaves every part of his team into a s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:05PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 7192013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMI can’t be the first person to say this, but as far as I’m concerned, New York is the theater capital of the world. One could argue for London, or Chicago, but when it comes down…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMThe full cast has been confirmed for the forthcoming West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The production, which s…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMIn a surprise move that will add to the chatter over policy and management at cash-strapped English National Opera, Loretta Tomasi has announced that after ten years with the company she wil…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMYou might be forgiven for thinking that somewhere in Britain, perhaps lurking in the sewers, are some witches insistently intoning ‘Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth.' There's a lot of it about t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMLatitude Day 1 Round-Up If there's one thing you can look forward to at the annual Latitude festival, it's a surprise around every corner. 2013's outing, which started this weekend at Henha…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PM
Avalanche Theatre Company is on a mission to uncover the lurid and murky parts of the human experience, through a series of vignettes on the themes of depression, ecstasy, addiction, and bru…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMThe Amoralists, off-Broadway's acclaimed downtown theater troupe, has announced casting for The Cheaters Club, the second and final production of its summer season. Following a successful N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMThe Playwrights Foundation's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco presents " Playwrights’ Roundtable: Mapping Your Career, Taking Action " which will livestream on the global, peer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:55AMPlay Brings Together Cassius Clay and Stepin Fetchit
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:50AM‘Bend in the Road’ (Saturday, Wednesday & Thursday) Remember Anne of Green Gables? The heroine of Lucy Mauds Montgomery’s 1908 novel of that title, she was a spirited redheaded orphan …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49AMAnd you should see it, for the high production values and so you can be singing "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" for the next week. Myself, I can't get the "Carousel Waltz" out…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:46AMTony winner Nikki M. James and Tony nominees K. Todd Freeman and John Earl Jelks will lead the previously announced New York Theatre Workshop production of Fetch Clay, Make Man, Will Power&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMShida, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Jeannette Bayardelle, begins preview performances July 19, part of the Ars Nova Summer Fling series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMThe Broadway.com staff has been so busy binge-watching the awesome new Netflix series Orange is the New Black, we barely had time to think of a Weekend Poll! We’ve had the hilarious ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMIt was a 'Full House' reunion last night as John Stamos, Lori Loughlin and Bob Saget met up at the evening performance of PIPPIN. The Tony-Award winning musical is now playing at Broadway's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMSting at the Public Theater Up Close and Personal: For the first and only time, Sting will perform songs from his new album, The Last Ship for 10 concerts to benefit The Public Theater in th…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:41AMREVIEW: No power outage at the Southern, as two troupes bring boldness and beauty.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:38AMName: Isabel (Izzy) ShillHometown: It's complicatedWho do you play in Serious Money?: Dolcie Starr, goddess of PRTell us about Serious Money: It's a raucous spectacle of the greed and abunda…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:37AMTony Award-winner Faith Prince returns to Broadway beginning July 19 as evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway production of Annie at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway betwe…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:35AMDavid Hyde Pierce, Liz Callaway, Andrea Burns, Charles Busch, Edward Hibbert and More to Sing the Music of Sam Davis at 54 Below: Jonathan Larson Award-winning composer Sam Davis makes his 5…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:35AMWhat often keeps the evening on fascinating track is the melding of vocal and instrumental music with visual images projected behind the piano.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:35AMThe piercing opening scene of an indelible production of Extremities, at The Unicorn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as part of Berkshire Theatre Group's current season, is singularly shockin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:33AMO2, London: Faces fell when Alegria, Cirque du Soleil's most gorgeous production - from its pre-financial-woe glory days - was reduced to touring arenas as a way of extending its run. I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMThe world premiere of Matthew-Lee Erlbach’s Handbook for an American Revolutionary begins performances off-Broadway at the Gym at Judson on July 19. The solo play, whic stars the playw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMStewart Lee thinks they should. But plenty of other top comedians are happy to pay writers to come up with gagsHave you ever laughed at a comedian's pithy joke and then felt dirty and u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMOn Saturday, July 20th at 2:30, The Silent Clowns Film Series presents: photo courtesy Niles Essanay Film Museum Edward Everett Horton – in – “Helen’s Babies” Persnicke…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:20AMThe stars came out on Wednesday, July 17 to see Mimi Hines as she celebrated her 80th birthday with a special, one-night-only concert at Broadway's nightclub, 54 Below. Among those in attend…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMIt’s time for Billy Elliot to leave the stage. A dearth of female ballerinas is causing a crisis in the dance world, Carlos Acosta, acclaimed as the greatest performer of his generation, h…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:18AMIt’s time for Billy Elliot to leave the stage. A dearth of female ballerinas is causing a crisis in the dance world, Carlos Acosta, acclaimed as the greatest performer of his generation, h…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:18AMThe second annual Intiman Theatre Festival buoyant kicks off with a laugh-laden staging of Italian Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo's slapstick farce We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15AMAMERICAN IDOL XIII AUDITIONS – DETROIT, MI SUNDAY, JULY 21 (PRE-REGISTRATION ON JULY 20) WHAT: Open call auditions for AMERI…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:14AMSecond Stage Theatre's New York premiere of the new musical comedy Nobody Loves You, about a grad student who is unexpectedly cast on a reality TV dating show, officially opened July 18 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMCast members Chuck Cooper and Jeremy Pope, from Manhattan Theatre Club’s CHOIR BOY, will be appearing on NY1 “On Stage” this weekend, July 20 & 21. “On Stage” airs Saturdays a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:09AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presents Tony nominee Martin Vidnovic and Kevin Ligon (Sister Act, The Producers) in Bend In The Road beginning July 18 at the PTC Performance Sp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMAnthony Slide lists Adgie and Her Trained Lions as one of vaudeville’s top animal acts. The photo above, which demonstrates that part of her act was to do a ballet dance amongst the bi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:09AMRumors of a coming film adaptation of “Jersey Boys” have been circulating for some time now, and now it appears that Broadway actors John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda and V…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:05AMKarina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy stopped by the 'Good Day New York' morning show to talk about their starring roles in Broadway's FOREVER TANGO. The dancers will appear in the show th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMEntertainment industry history was made yesterday when Netflix, the service I formerly referred to as Blockbuster-online, was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards for its original programming. It wa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe Between the Seas Festival stages the Mediterranean experience — If we watch the news, then we know that southern Europe is in the throes of a financial and political crisis, but wh…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:00AMConjectural sequel to "The Crucible" bogs down in words, words, words.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 11:00AMForm Theatricals in association with Judson Arts presents the world premiere of Handbook for an American Revolutionary, written and performed by Matthew-Lee Erlbach, beginning July 19, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMChicago's Circle Theatre has pulled the two remaining productions in its 2013 season, Lovesong, by Abi Morgan, and Evil Dead: The Musical, according to Time Out Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMIf shallow rom-coms leave you feeling hollow, this is the show for you - brimming with passion on a knife edge, sometimes quite literally, Skin Tight is the real deal. Originally premiered …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMLife in Theatre Productions bring their second Broadway production to the Epstein Theatre this Summer, following their recent revival of The Last Five Years.
Next month, Liverpool theatreg…
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A French company walks on water at Salford Quays, King Arthur and his knights are in York, and there's spectacular circus in NorfolkScotlandIt's still very quiet before Edinburgh fringe show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMA French company walks on water at Salford Quays, King Arthur and his knights are in York, and there's spectacular circus in NorfolkScotlandIt's still very quiet before Edinburgh fringe show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMTony Award-winner Faith Prince returns to Broadway as evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway production of ANNIE at the Palace Theatre 1564 Broadway between 46th and 47th St…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMProducers of Peter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning musical play written by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice and directed by Tony Award winner Roger Rees and Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:51AMCasting has been announced for this year's Broadway Meows concert, a yearly performance of the songs of composer/ lyricist Seth Bisen-Hersh. Proceeds will benefit to the Humane Society of Ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMBenj Pasek and Justin Paul, the Tony-nominated composing duo behind Broadway's A Christmas Story, will make their San Francisco debut with two performances at Feinstein's, the legendary nigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMThe Williamstown Theatre Festival production of G.B. Shaw’s 100-year-old classic, "Pygmalion" – which only plays nine more performances – delivers an evening of superb theater on all l…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:46AMHartford Stage will open its 50th anniversary season with Macbeth, starring Matthew Rauch.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMNew York Theatre Workshop NYTW Artistic Director James C. Nicola has announced that Fetch Clay, Make Man, written by Will Power and directed by Des McAnuff, will begin performances Friday, A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMNow, BroadwayWorld has learned from an insider with the West End version of LET IT BE, that the London production is a separate entity and will not be affected by this lawsuit. They released…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMSeth’s pal Paul Castree (remember him from this classic episode?) returns to OBSESSED! to share a unique, bizarre and hilarious mashup of 80s tunes (with some revised lyrics…) that he pu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMFull casting has been announced for the national tour of I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE, the hit stage show adapted from the most beloved program in television history, which will come to the Kni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMNeil Patrick Harris knows what it takes to put on a high-profile awards show.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMFeaturing book and lyrics by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics by Gaby Alter, choreography by MAndy Moore, and direction by Michelle Tattenbaum, NOBODY LOVES YOU began previews on Thursday, Jun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMThe Amoralists will conclude its "Summer of The Amoralists" with The Cheaters Club, written and directed by Amoralists co-founder and resident playwright Derek Ahonen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMHaworth Tompkins has won two awards for its theatre design work at the New London Architecture Awards. The architecture firm’s work on Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre won the pub…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMAccording to the LA Times, SPIDER-MAN co-book writer Glen Berger has written a 'tell-all' book about the behind-the-scenes battle that took place during the development of the Broadway music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AM“Money money money Water water water” The great American poet Theodore Roethke penned those lines in his famous poem, The Lost Son. I couldn’t help but remember the phrasing after ex…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:18AMThe upcoming musical episode of the USA Network series "Psych," which will feature appearances from Tony Award winner Barry Bostwick and Anthony Rapp, is scheduled to air Dec. 15, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMNobody Loves You, the new reality-television-inspired musical by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, celebrated its opening night at Second Stage Theatre on Thursday, June 18. Directed by Michelle …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMFaith Prince returns to the Broadway stage in a role practically tailor made to her Tony-winning talents: Miss Hannigan. Prince joins the company of the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:04AMGolden Globe nominee Rose Byrne, known for her television work on the series "Damages," is in talks to join the cast of "Annie," the upcoming film remake of the 1982 movi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMBy Mike Hallinan Hello, dear readers. I do hope this finds you well and enjoying the summer. As we have very well, creep-icled the silver screen has often served as a source for many of the …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMThe full cast has been announced for the return of Jonathan Church's production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which premiered at Chichester's Minerva Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Mark St. Germain play will find favor with fans of vintage American Lit.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 09:53AMScottish comedian tweets updates to fans while fasting to protest treatment of last British detainee Shaker AamerComedian Frankie Boyle has started a hunger strike in solidarity with Guantá…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMJewel Box Theatre, MITF, Off Off Broadway
By Regina Robbins
BOTTOM LINE: A short, sweet tale of music, therapy, and delusions, as told by an appealing cabaret performer.
I don’t …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:31AMGrammy winner Fantasia Barrino, who came to fame as winner of the third season of “American Idol,” is heading to Broadway to star in “After Midnight,” producers said …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMShawn Roday and Gus Hill dive into a world that's equal parts mystery and melody to track down an escaped playwright mad man, Z played by Broadway's Anthony Rapp.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMCasting has been announced for New York Theatre Workshop's upcoming production of Will Power's Fetch Clay, Make Man, which will begin performances Aug. 23 at NYTW.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMMiss Tess and the Talkbacks -- the group will be at MA's Green River Festival on Saturday. Catch them if you can.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMDavid Krumholtz, of TV's "Numb3rs" fame, will join the previously announced Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, which will begin performances at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMThere are certain shows that hit you with a sledgehammer (Rent) to get their point across. There are others that cut you slowly and nimbly until you realize that your heart is exposed and yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Here’s a band I’ve been listening to for more than a decade, whose music has always had the power to absolutely level me, and it never even occurred to me that I knew next to nothing abo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMSeven actors walk onto a bare stage dressed in semi-grunge outfits. And so begins an enthralling presentation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AM New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola has announced that Fetch Clay, Make Man, written by Will Power and directed by Des McAnuff, will begin performances Fr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AMReaction is divided to The Drowned Man, Punchdrunk's vast Hollywood promenade show. Has it been overhyped? Or should audiences go prepared to dig deeper for their experience?The reviews are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMReaction is divided to The Drowned Man, Punchdrunk's vast Hollywood promenade show. Has it been overhyped? Or should audiences go prepared to dig deeper for their experience?The reviews are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMJulia Murney will be at Wolf Trap on Sunday, July 28th at 8:15 PM to perform Wicked Divas with Stephanie J. Block. and The National Symphony Orchestra. I asked Julia about what audiences wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41AMToday is the birthday of French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), often associated with, but not quite of the impressionists. Over half of the paintings in Degas’s oeuvre depict fem…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:27AMWe pick the best events in the week ahead, plus a look at what's to come.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:15AMDCMetroTheaterArts Readers: This is a Unique Advance Purchase Opportunity To Purchase Tickets to If/Then At The National Theatre World Premiere of a pre-Broadway Musical November 5 R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMWe have now lived with the ubiquitousness of terrorism for more than a dozen years. During that time we have learned to hate the “terrorist” quite well. We have also learned to kill …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 19 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
Hunter Styles explores the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, alongside videographer Todd Clark, looking to interview an eclectic series of theatre artists about their Fringe shows. The people inte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:51AMby: JK Clarke Grieving the death of a loved one is universal. We all experience loss — devastating loss — at some point in our lives. So, it would...
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:50AMToday is the birthday of Johaann Nepomuk Hofzinser (1806-1875), famous as a close-magic sleight of hand man, and inventor of many lasting illusions. A minor functionary in the Austrian-Hunga…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AMI had a dream the other night in which I was transported to a quaint European city where the sounds of gypsy violins pervaded the air and romance was just around the corner. Actually, this w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30AMBroadcast over consecutive evenings, Run followed the stories of four disparate and desperate characters in crisis on a south London housing estate, whose lives, and fates, are tentatively c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMIn Costa Rica, there exists a wasp that paralyzes spiders. It then lays an egg on the spider’s abdomen. When the egg hatches, the emerging larva lives off the spider’s blood then essenti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMPark Theatre, London: Gary Henderson's Skin Tight turns romance into a gladiatorial contest. Two reminiscing lovers violently spar before tenderly taking care of the resultant wounds. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMGlyndebourne, Lewes: Premiered by Glyndebourne on tour in 2011, Mariame Clement's alluring staging of Donizetti's comedy arrives at the festival proper. The French director's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMKing Street Open Air Arena, Bristol: Needs must forced the Bristol Old Vic to stage its 2011 flagship production of Treasure Island on the cobbles outside its King Street home. The main hous…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMThe MD Theatre Guide is pleased to announce that the MD Theatre Guide mobile app has just been released for iphone and is featured in the iTunes App Store exposing the MD Theatre Guide to …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AMThe New Orleans-based performer — whose latest album is “We Partyin’ Traditional Style!” — will bring his swinging music to the Gramophone.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AM
After the final curtain of Landless Theatre Company’s Haute Mess, I sit in stunned silence. My mind spins with the outrageous things that occupied the stage in front of me. As my widened e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:59AMWe’re extremely happy to be able to offer a free download of this track by Philip Ridley, whose new play, Dark Vanilla Jungle, premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the end of this…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:59AMDrayton Arms Theatre, London: Juggling the roles of writer, director and lead actor - all in the same production - is never easy. And Raymond-Kym Suttle unfortunately doesn't quite pull…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThink you know Aesop’s fables? Think again. Sally Cookson’s production of the famous tales presents a happy-camper tortoise opposite a onesie-sporting hare, a grumpy teenage boy who crie…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:55AMHelp Yourself is a short one woman show written and performed by Lauren Hunter about the effort to discover and accept yourself. It plays like a work-in-progress, and it is worthy of being f…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:52AMSapphire is hard to stomach. Written by God’s Boo and directed by Tyrell T. Lashley, the play involves a series of unflinchingly revealing therapy sessions between a troubled middle-aged w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:45AMThe Pirates of Finance, at the Alice Griffin Theater on 42nd Street, is just what it sounds like, but so much more. It is a send-up of Wall Street’s recent excesses draped in the lively, c…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:42AMLaura Zam’s humorous one woman show treads a fine line and masters it beautifully. It centers on sex and marriage, and her quest to free herself from the effects of being sexually abused a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:35AMBurlesque troupe wants the audience to have a sense of play at its new show, "Bra and Order."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:30AM iLust for G-Love: An Auto-Ethnography is probably the most enjoyable play I’ve seen at Fringe, but take that with a grain of salt, because I’m a Millennial. It’s probably the first p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:19AMHave you ever had the dream where you go to work naked? You look down and realize all at once that strangers and friends are staring in shock, and your feet won’t take you away from the sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:00AMThose with fond feelings for the show will find it faithfully rendered by director and choreographer Norb Joerder and a capable cast.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AMAmong the highlights are a concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 musical, "Merrily We Roll Along," three new multimedia concerts and three new cabarets.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM
Fringe has turned literary with Murder on the Bare Stage, a collection of murder-themed poems either written or compiled by poet Magus Magnus and dramatically performed by actor Stephen Mead…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:50AMWhy must two-and-a-half hours pass before Ephraim Levi sends a sign to his widow Dolly that says he'll permit her remarriage? Now I finally understand. He doesn't need time to adjust to the …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:48AMThere have been knock-knock jokes, ethnic jokes, and how many light-bulb jokes. But 50 years ago, the joke that was sweeping the country was the Tom Swifty.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:47AMWe’re a quarter of the way through our tour, hurray! We’ve had some beautiful rides and had very positive feedback, and couldn’t be more chuffed with how it’s all going; thank you to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMEquity has published statistics highlighting the disparity between male and female acting roles in Scotland and is now calling on Creative Scotland to fund further research. Basic research b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMUnseen images from the new publication The Treasures of Bruce Lee, by Paul Bowman with a foreword by Shannon Lee (Bruce Lee's daughter). It is released on the 40th anniversary of Bruce Lee's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:27AMMy inner child – never far from the surface – was well and truly unleashed at Bristol Old Vic’s gloriously enjoyable The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Re-telling the tale of the bored boy sh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04AMSave The Date takes shape By Gregory Jacobs-Roseman (Composer-Lyricist) I suppose it's time for another update from the Fringe. And I promise it's not because tickets for the New York Intern…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:04AMFirst Date on Broadway was a different story. By Geoffrey Kidwell (actor) I'm not the sort of person who wants people to fail. I'm the kind of guy who drives past the car wreck on the freewa…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
Fantasia, Duke Ellington, Jazz, Wynton Marsalis and Broadway After Midnight: In its heyday, the Cotton Club featured a cavalcade of guest stars each week, known then as “Celebrity Nights,�…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:59AMSan Jose Rep presents its sassy and sentimental summer hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The cast features Dawn Wells Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island, Zuzanna Szadkowski 'Gossip Girl', Tony-n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAfter recently announcing over 200 hours of original programming, Ovation, America's only arts network, has additionally acquired all episodes of critically acclaimed series SMASH from NBCUn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTony Award-winner Faith Prince will return to Broadway as evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway production of ANNIE at the Palace Theatre 1564 Broadway between 46th and 47t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBarrington Stage Company BSC, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, presents …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMJane Howard: Productions for children and young adults are delighting audiences in Australia and internationally. Which have impressed you?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review two unconventional West Coast festival productions of a pair of well-loved...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I take a close look at a little-known list from yesterday, and see...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Democracy, in fact, is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them." H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFresh Finds at the ESPYs with the Best in Sports
YH hands the mic over to Eagles star DeSean Jackson and sets him loose on the red carpet at the ESPY Awards, where he chats with everyone fro…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMGrosvenor Park, Chester Fine words butter no parsnips, as they say (in that curious turn of phrase), something the three protoganists discover to their cost. For that matter, Rostand must b…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AMTheatre by the Lake, Keswick
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus notoriously features two children baked in a pie. There is stronger meat in John Ford's early Caroline tragedy ‘Tis Pity She's…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AMABOUT THE SHOW: 9 to 5 - the musical
Dolly Parton's musical based on the film of the same name is headed back to Manchester next month. Starring Jackie Clunes, Amy Lennox and Natalie Casey…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AM
If not for the almost Herculean efforts of the show’s eight multitalented performers, this lightweight confection might actually evaporate while you were watching it.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 12:16AMFriday July 19, 2013
PITTSFIELD -- It all started with a game of baseball.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:10AMFriday July 19, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Happy ending? Those are fighting words.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:10AMFriday July 19, 2013 WILLIAMSTOWN -- Happy ending? Those are fighting words.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:10AMIt’s Sizzlingby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonAll I can think of right now is it is hot. It is damn hot. Summer time in Ottawa is wall to wall festivals. A lot of them are indoors but mo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThis is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column.
Click here to read part I. The recent revival of Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord supplies useful leverage for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02AMBenchMARKS produced by Project E/C, written by Melanie Fiona Bevell-Jackson, and directed by Colleen Theresa Brown “is dialogue and flashback vignettes that provide a peek into the liv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMStarring Klea Blackhurst, Tony Sheldon, Ashley BrownThe show: "Hello, Dolly!" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, July 18, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe results are in and Broadway legend Elaine Stritch (A Little Night Music) has nabbed herself an eighth Emmy Award nomination for her guest performance on NBC's comedy series "30 Rock." I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMTony Award winner Faith Prince, who was last seen on Broadway as Ursula in The Little Mermaid, steps into the shoes of Miss Hannigan in the current production of Annie, which was Tony-n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTriArts Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of executive director Alice Bemand and artistic director John Simpkins, presents Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlisch's award-winning musical com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBarrington Stage Company presents the BSC Musical Theatre Lab world-premiere production of Southern Comfort, a new musical with book and lyrics by Dan Collins and music by Julianne Wick Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSan Jose Rep's production of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore plays the Bay Area venue July 19-28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first season of the recently canceled TV series "Smash" begins airing on the arts cable channel Ovation July 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSummer Shorts 2013, the seventh annual festival of new American short plays from established and emerging writers, begins performances at 59E59 Theaters July 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichelle London stars as Elle Woods in the Stages St. Louis production of the Tony Award-nominated musical Legally Blonde, which begins performances July 19 at the Kirkwood Civic Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1938 Stage and film actor Burgess Meredith divorces Margaret Perry today. Perry, an actress, is the daughter of Antoinette Perry, after whom the Tony Awards are named. The union was rather s…
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