HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE TWO PAIRS OF TICKETS TO SEE TONY AWARD WINNER SUTTON FOSTER ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH AT 8 PM AT THE MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane in North…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMThis year is the first time there has been an independent theatre curator at Brisbane festival. David Berthold, La Boite Theatre's Artistic Director, has curated the programme at the Theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16PMDirected by Andrew Dosunmu. Starring Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankole, Yaya Alafia, and Anthony Okungbowa. by Eric J. Grimm Should nitpicking at authenticity be a deciding factor in judging…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:15PMPort City Playhouse presents The Children’s Hour, the first production of their 2013-2014 Season: A Salute to the American Voice, an homage to distinguished American playwrights that bring…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PMOvation Awards nominations this year reflect a clear domination by companies in areas south of downtown LA. The most-nominated show, 3-D's revival of "Parade," is a product of Orange County.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:13PMThe Atlantic Theater, Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: Ethan Coen delivers a brilliantly devised text philosophizing on relationships, self-awareness, and sperm banks.
At…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:10PM By: JK Clarke It is almost impossible to review a play whose subject matter is thoroughly repugnant and unforgivable. While the Nomad Theatrical Group makes it clear that...The pos…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:04PMIn Bell Shakespare’s 2014 season, there will be four mainstage shows, new exclusive behind-the-scenes access and online dialogue for students, continued work with refugee students and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMEthan Coen’s first full-length play, “Women or Nothing,” is a great-looking, old-fashioned sex comedy that’s built for laughs but not for scrutiny.
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a review of Horton Foote's THE OLD FRIENDS
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:40PMAn overview and review of the 20,000th performance of THE FANTASTICKS
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:39PMBrisbane Festival: Playhouse, QPACNatalie Weir's choreography blends seamlessly with Iain Grandage's score – the musicians on stage among the dancers – in this dazzling eventAt the point…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34PMGuardian Australia's festival liveblog today comes from Brisbane Powerhouse. Join us for reviews, interviews, video and our daily podcast – all with a wonderful view of the riverVicky …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:05PMHarry S. Truman High School, set on a slight incline, is a monument to utility, neither inviting nor forbidding. Buffered on three sides by athletic fields, the school, in Levittown, Pa., ri…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03PMThe Coen brothers have been accused of favoring high style over emotion. Anybody who’s seen “A Serious Man” or “True Grit” knows that just ain’t so. The accusation hits closer...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:01PMAt first, it seems that Ethan Coen's "Women or Nothing" is going to be a light, brittle, improbable -- and probably annoying -- sketch comedy about a couple of privileged New York …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:01PMMichele Spadaro's beautiful set for Women or Nothing, Ethan Coen's first full-length play, now receiving its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, tells its own story before any of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMA lesbian couple go to elaborate lengths to conceive a child naturally in this comedy from Ethan Coen, premiering Off Broadway.read more
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HEDY WEISS: Court Theatre’s “The Mountaintop” imagines an encounter between a motel maid and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Memphis hotel on the night before King was shot. The cruc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:58PMThe best sequels manage to up the ante by not only reprising the favorite elements of the original, but also offering new and even more wondrous ones. The Crownless King fails to do this, bu…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:57PMAs the lethal, fast-healing mutant Wolverine in the "X-Men" movies, Hugh Jackman is no stranger to a fight scene. But in his new film "Prisoners," he had to portray someone who takes matters…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:56PMAnne Kauffman opted to see "The Phantom of the Opera," which is the longest-running musical on Broadway, and also, arguably, the one most likely to provoke eye-rolling among discerning theat…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:52PMALLIANCE THEATRE presents HARMONY - A NEW MUSICAL, with music by Barry Manilow and book amp lyrics by Bruce Sussman, now playing through October 6, 2013. Click below to watch highlights from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMIn the video below, watch Reeve Carney take his final bow as the original lead Peter Parker aka Spider-Man on Broadway before announcing his successor, Justin Matthew Sargent Rock of Ages. R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24PMMeet the nightmare neighbors. Their names are Sharon and Kenny, and they’ve just moved into the unkempt tract house next door. Recent graduates of Rehab U., they seem friendly enough, even…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:06PMPrimary Stages has announced that Richard Topol (Broadway's The Normal Heart, The Merchant of Venice) has replaced Joe Pantoliano in the role of Yogi Berra in the world premiere of Eric …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:04PMThe only original thing about Ethan Coen’s new play, Women or Nothing, which just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, is how unoriginal it is.
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Young People's Theatre presents Louise Pitre as Miss Hannigan and Sterling Jarvis as Oliver Warbucks in its fall production of Annie TYA, along with Jenny Weisz in the title role. Directed b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PMSet to play the mysterious woman who will eventually become Ted's wife on CBS's HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Broadway vet Cristin Milioti will make her first series regular appearance on the seaso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:47PMI know the days of Danny Newman’s subscription parties has probably long past, but I was clearing out some old files a few weeks ago and came across what might be described as an artif…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:43PMWyndham's, LondonAs a piece of black comedy, Clive Exton's play is neither sufficiently dark nor consistently funnyClive Exton made a name for himself writing black comedies for ITV in the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39PMSoprano Patricia Racette has made a career of second chances, including her latest, the title role in San Francisco Opera's "Dolores Claiborne."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:25PMSOMETIMES LONGER WOULD BE BETTER Anxious to have a child with the best possible genes and distrustful of sperm from anonymous donors, Gretchen (Halley Feiffer) convinces her “gold-star” …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:23PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Best-selling author John Grisham's first novel, "A Time to Kill," has been adapted for the stage and is heading for Broadway next month with an ensemble cast that includ…
SOURCE: Reuters at 07:18PMA review of Rajiv Joseph’s play “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” staged by Washington Ensemble Theatre.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:13PMFirst, a warning to those who find certain swearwords beyond the pale - this article contains a few of them, but nothing like the number in the play it reviews. Barking in Essex is not a eve…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PMEXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, in conjunction with Choose Chicago and Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE),…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:03PMTonight's press opening of Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn, has been cancelled due to the illness of cast member Mark Bazeley. It has no been confirm…
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Profiles Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary Season with the Midwest premiere of Wrecks by Resident Artist Neil LaBute, directed by Guest Artist Jason Gerace and featuring acclaime…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:51PMHaving started his music and media industry career at the age of 17 when he opened a record store (Disque Import), it seems fitting that Yves Bigot will come to New York as the new CEO of T…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:43PMIt is in RUR: Rossum’s Universal Robots that the word “robot” made its debut, coined by the playwright as a study on social justice. Here, Strangeloop Theatre presents a flawed but eng…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:33PMReviewed by John Weatherford “I bought a new pair of shoes, especially for you, just like you told me, too.” For me, this line of dialogue brought to a head...The post The Compass Rose…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:30PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, the stage and screen star is set to guest star on Wilson's upcoming ABC comedy SUPER FUN NIGHT, which chronicles what happens when a group of homebodies …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMNederlander Sales amp Patron Services and BroadwayWorld.com will hold the fifth annual At This Stage Education Expo on Monday, October 7th at the Minskoff Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMIn the first episode of First Date Flirts, Broadway newbie Sara Chase lets loose as she reveals her rules for first date foods and gets brutally honest about dating dealbreakers!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:25PMtheatreWashington’s Veteran Board Chair Victor Shargai Passes the Gavel to Kurt Crowl. theatreWashington President & CEO Linda Levy announced today that longtime Board Chair Victor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMPrimary Stages has announced that Joe Pantoliano a.k.a. "Joey Pants" (The Sopranos), who was cast in the role of Yogi Berra in its upcoming production of Bronx Bombers, has left the play bec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:21PMActordirector and noted August Wilson interpreter Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs a revival staging of Wilson's JITNEY tonight as part of a live webcast series presenting the ten 20th century …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMTaglialatella Galleries of New York and Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS welcome the joint art exhibition featuring the works of two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and accomplished art…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PM This week, the towering icon of Tinsletown – the Hollywood Sign – is celebrating its 90th Anniversary with a ‘White Party’ event at Drai’s Hollywood on the rooftop of…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:15PMNo, this isn't the title of a play. This blog is getting a sudden deluge of spam 'comments' from alleged readers who are actually trying to sell bathrooms, garden furniture and other less de…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:13PMShow that attracted cult following during a run on Broadway more than a decade ago plays in London next FebruaryFor months, it has been referred to only as "UGC London", a secret musical tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09PMTheater for the New City, Crystal Field, Executive Director, presents the Lesser America production of Just Right Just Now, directed by Peter James Cook and Stella Powell-Jones. The show is …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08PMThe Criterion Collection, the entertainment industry's most beloved and respected DVD, Blu-ray and digital release procurer and provider bar none, is set to release two films of particular i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMNEW YORK — Reeve Carney, the actor who played the hero in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" for three years on Broadway, returned to his dressing room to clean it out Monday, a day after bi…
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SOURCE: Ticket News at 06:01PMTony winner Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of A Time to Kill, based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel, will begin previews Sept. 28 at the John Golden Theatre. The cast g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 9162013.
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THEATER REVIEW: "In the Heights" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "In the Heights" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½ ... The main …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:58PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, September 16, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway BBB SEASON PREVIEW: @LASOIREELive • • •…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:57PMFollowing the trend of Kinky Boots castmembers to become engaged, Stephen Carrasco's fiance Lee Poulin popped the question Stephen followed a candle lit pathway and was greeted by many of hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PM“Carcass” is a severe and unrelentingly grim play from around 1905 that centers on an embittered family, and this cunning production intensifies every angry scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMBroadway Basics is recruiting high school students for their Stage Management Workshop This one day intensive will be held on October 14, 2013 from 10am-3pm at the Pearl Studios and will fea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMThe Pearl Theater Company is reviving George Bernard Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell,” a subversive comedy of errors about men and women’s negotiations over independence and marriage.&nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMBell rings with truth, a fitting tribute The tribute to the life-loving and life-changing inventor Alexander Graham Bell would be welcome on any stage but feels very much at home in the Gros…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:49PMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:49PMIn this week’s backstage vlog, Krysta Rodriguez interviews her onstage BFF Kristoffer Cusick and the four brilliant swings of First Date! Check out the penultimate episode of Kiss &…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMLike any respectable musical theatre nerd, I reveled in seeing Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s ‘little show that could,’ [title of show], make it to Broadway in 2008. The hilarious musi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:47PM“This ensemble was exquisite” — praise testimony of a theatergoer after seeing Gee’s Bend at MetroStage. Amazing how a cast of just four performers are able to transform the simp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:42PMA preliminary peek at West End stage superstar Sheridan Smith and popular crossover personality David Walliams in the hotly anticipated new West End revival of William Shakespeare's A MIDSUM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMWhat is a problem, however, is that despite a fairly promising start, nothing at the beginning of MGMT can make up for the migraine inducing cacophony of pointless sound that is the album’…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:40PMIt was the same old song of September at the Broadway box office last week — pretty much the same verse as the prior frame, as Rialto sales held generally steady with minor upticks at sev…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PMReeve Carney takes his final bow as Spider-Man on Broadway before announcing his successor, Justin Matthew Sargent. Reeve played his final performance on Sunday, September 15, 2013. Justin b…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:36PMThe full cast of Disney's Aladdin, a new musical based on the Academy Award winning animated film, began rehearsals today in New York City. Aladdin will launch at Toronto's Ed Mirvish Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMKathy Voytko, Scott Logsdon, Kris Koop Ouellette and Bart Shatto will headline a concert version of the musical Chess Dec. 8 at 2 PM at the Richland Performing Arts Center in Johnstown, PA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMMore casting has been announced for NBC's upcoming live production of The Sound of Music, headlined by the previously announced Grammy-winning country singer Carrie Underwood as Maria Rainer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:27PMAcclaimed stage star with a rising screen presence due to her work on AMERICAN HORROR STORY, noted young thespian Lily Rabe has joined the cast of the third and fourth installments of the po…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PM The full cast of Disney’s Aladdin, a new musical based on the Academy Award® winning animated film, began rehearsals today in New York City. Aladdin will launch at Toronto’…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:12PMThe full cast of Disney’s Aladdin, a new musical based on the Academy Award® winning animated film, began rehearsals today in New York City. Aladdin will launch at Toronto’s Ed Mirv…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:12PMAdapted from best-selling author John Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill is the story of Carl Lee Hailey (played by John Douglas Thompson) a black man who kills two white men accused of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced an extension for its New York premiere production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Originally scheduled to run through October 6, the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PMThere hasn’t been this much talk about chemistry since the start of “Breaking Bad” — but what better way to measure our Romeos and Juliets? This fall, we’re get…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:08PMPlaywright and screenwriter Neil LaBute’s (The Shape of Things, Reasons to Be Pretty) high-octane new TV series Full Circle is bringing 11 strangers together in mysterious ways be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMA theatrical phenomenon, a unique and inspirational night of live entertainment, LA SOIRÉE is thrilled to return to New York this fall. Bringing the glamour and glitz of the velvet-drap…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:06PMFour months before beginning previews in the Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County, Kelli O'Hara has become a mother for the second time. The four-time Tony nominee and her husb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PM
Zachary Quinto is currently making his Broadway debut in John Tiffany's revival of Tennessee Williams' lauded play THE GLASS MENAGERIE - but before he joined co-stars Cherry Jones and Celia …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMFrozen, an upcoming American 3D computer animated musical-fantasy, is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen, and will be the 53rd animated feature in the Walt …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMWin FREE tickets to the Festival of Indian Dance and Arts in Washington DC Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company is giving away 25 pairs of tickets to the Fall Festival of Indian Dance…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:55PMAdam Jacobs (The Lion King), James Monroe Iglehart (Memphis), Courtney Reed (In the Heights), and Jonathan Freeman (The Little Mermaid) will lead the cast of Disney's upcoming Toronto and Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMLast week, The Book of Mormon bumped ahead of the competition in grosses. This week, The Lion King pounced its way back to the top of the pack. Of course, the Mormon boys are still packing t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMDance New Amsterdam has put its 2013-14 season on hold and is scheduled to move out of its home at 280 Broadway by Oct. 15, organization officials announced Monday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PMThe very first promotional poster featuring country music superstar and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood as Maria Von Trapp in NBC's highly anticipated live TV production of Rodgers amp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMThe hills will be alive with the sound of Tony winners, when NBC's new production of "The Sound of Music" is broadcast Dec. 5.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PMMAGIC TREE HOUSE: DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK KIDS is the newest addition to the MTI Broadway Junior Collection and we couldn’t be more excited to let you know about special performances of …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:47PMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC's upcoming live broadcast of 'The Sound of Music' will feature a handful of Broadway veterans to join previously announced Carrie Underwood and Steph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMAdam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, who co-starred as Aladdin and Jasmine in the Seattle premiere of Disney's Aladdin, will reprise their performances on Broadway. Producers announced the com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMAdam Jacobs will stay one jump ahead of the rest as the title star in the Broadway premiere of Aladdin. Jacobs, who originated the role in the 2011 world premiere production in Seattle, will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMAdam Jacobs will stay one jump ahead of the rest as the title star in the Broadway premiere of Aladdin. Jacobs, who originated the role in the 2011 world premiere production in Seattle, will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMThis year's Tony Awards show was one of the top winners at Sunday’s 65th Annual Creative Arts Emmys.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:35PMWe’ve heard all these gripes before, in life, in books, on TV, and in piles of movies. But Kathryn Hahn, a newcomer to me, is so enthralling and right that Rachel’s alienation, her poor …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:29PMThe critically acclaimed revival of Horton Foote's American masterpiece, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, will host a special free talkback following the performance on Tuesday, September 17 with accl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMAdam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, who co-starred as Aladdin and Jasmine in the Seattle premiere of Disney's Aladdin, will reprise their performances in Toronto. Producers announced the comp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMAnne Washburn's new work Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play has extended its run at Playwrights Horizons through Oct. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMThe play veers wildly from one extreme to another. One moment it's wisecracking and sardonic, and in the next, dripping with pathos.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:16PMMy View: Stephen Sorokoff Sondheim Unplugged: A celebrated New York event since 2010, the Bistro Award-winning series Sondheim Unplugged features some of Broadway and cabaret’s most dynami…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:12PMAnne Washburn’s terrific new play, in an elegant, understated production directed by Steve Cosson at Playwrights Horizons, addresses a near-future dystopia in which American civilization h…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 04:12PMSony Masterworks recording artist Ramin Karimloo returns home to Toronto this fall to star as Jean Valjean in the Toronto premiere of Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Boublil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMBawdy, rip-roaring comedy, scintillating drama and plot twists that involve vampires, werewolves and men in drag - The Mystery of Irma Vep serves up all this and more in a sidesplitting two-…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:08PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 9152013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMWith a little help from his castmates and a very popular Michael Jackson tune, Andy Kelso serenaded and then popped the question to Sheila Coyle on stage right after a performance of Kinky B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMThe 2013 Broadway fall season is in full swing! As many productions prepare to begin on Broadway within the next few weeks, there are quite a few productions that have already started their …
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:01PMDisney Theatrical Productions announced a cast of 34 actors on Monday for its next Broadway musical, “Aladdin,” led by Adam Jacobs in the title role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00PMDirected by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman Contact, The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys, with music and lyrics by Grammy and Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa The Wild Party, The Add…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMJonathan Freeman, the actor who portrayed the villain Jafar in Disney’s 1992 animated pic “Aladdin,” will reprise his role onstage in the Broadway-bound legit adaptation of…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
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The new musical Big Fish has cast its line in the Broadway seas, and we’ve got a colorful first look at the heartwarming production. Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMFour-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara — who will return to Broadway in 2014 in Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman's The Bridges of Madison County — and husband Greg …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMJames Seol will join the off-Broadway company of Around the World in 80 Days on September 17, replacing original cast member Jimmy Ray Bennett. Mark Brown's adaptation of the classic adv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:52PMPodcast with ‘Signs of LIfe’ Producer VIRGINIA CRISTE from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Signs of Life producer Virginia Criste discusses this poignant new drama with music based on …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:50PMLily Rabe volunteers as tribute! The Tony-nominated stage and screen star is joining The Hunger Games: Mockingjay films as Commander Lyme, a past victor of The Hunger Games and one of the le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMBirdland Jazz Club has announced their brilliant line-up of marvelous talent for the month of October 2013. Birdland will kick-off their electrifying month of programming with the following …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMVerdi's Joan of Arc - Chicago Opera Theater at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. Chicago, is offering a 20% discount on tickets by calling our box office at (312)70…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:44PMProducers Howard Panter and John Frost have announced that the 40th anniversary production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show will play a limited engagement at Melbourne'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMThe Tony-winning trio of Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti and Christian Borle have joined the cast of NBC’s upcoming live production of The Sound of Music, starring Carrie Underwood …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:41PMTony Award winners Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti and Christian Borle will be part of the cast of NBC's live Dec. 5 broadcast of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that, Kirsten Wyatt will take over for J. Elaine Marcos as 'Lily St. Regis' in ANNIE on Broadway. Marcos will play her final performance on September 29, and Wyat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMPaul Barnes, co-founder and former producing and artistic director of Minnesota's Great River Shakespeare Festival, will direct a free reading of Michael Raver's new play Fire on Bab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMThe Theatre @ Boston Court announces its 2014 Season. The season begins January 26 with Se Llama Cristina, by Octavio Solis, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The sprin…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:25PMThe acclaimed revival of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful will host a free talkback with famed news anchor Dan Rather following the Sept. 17 performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMPlease rise for Sebastian Arcelus and the honorable cast of the new stage adaptation of A Time to Kill, who met the press on September 16. Arcelus, Patrick Page, Tonya Pinkins, John Douglas …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PMArtsEmerson: The World On Stage , Boston presents The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma— a conversation with PJ Paparelli, the co-writer and director of columbinus , Betty Shoels,…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMReeve Carney departed the Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre on Sunday, September 15. Photographers were on hand to capture the actor's final flight…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMZoë Alexis Scott has been hired to lead Seattle Public Theater. She comes to SPT from The Grand, an historic theater and nonprofit in Maine, where she was executive director from 2008-13.…
SOURCE: blogs.seattletimes.com at 03:10PMWe asked which 'Sally Bowles' of CABARETs past is your favorite. Check out your response below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMWashington National Opera opens the season with a transformative production of Richard Wagner’s epic tragedy Tristan and Isolde for his bicentennial birthday. He wrote both the music and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PM
I went into this show thinking the biggest shock would be the casting of a black actor (Nathan Lee Graham) as Kander & Ebb's "Emcee," who gleefully guides us down a rabbit hole and into the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMMs. Brumley as Eliza is the true joy and sorrow of the piece, lifted (as everyone knows) from selling flowers on the street to passing as a duchess at an embassy ball.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:57PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced initial casting for the 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at New World S…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:55PMRupert Holmes' stage adaptation of John Grisham's A Time To Kill is set to open on Broadway on October 20, 2013 at the John Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street. Ethan McSweeny will direct, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMHow can a play that features a 9/11 terrorist fucking a Ponzi-scheme master in ass be as tame and trite as Lee Blessing's A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoof? Given the current …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:47PMBroadway's landmark musical event THE LION KING, the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history, welcomes JEFFREY KUHN, in the role of Zazu, and TSHIDI MANYE, who rejoins the production …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has announced that Lilla Crawford, who created the title role in the current revival of Annie, will join the cast of Disney's movie adaptation of the Step…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMHBO’s Liberace biopic “Behind The Candelabra,” CBS’ “The Tony Awards” and legendary comedian and sitcom star Bob Newhart were the big winners Sunday at the Creative Arts Emmy Awa…
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 02:31PMSmith portrays The Gentleman Caller in a stunning new production, that is a new take on this heart-breaking story of a desperate family weaned on impossible dreams.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PM"Collaborations," a new album celebrating the work of British writer/composer Elliot Davis, will be released Sept. 23, featuring material co-written with James Bourne, Stephen Clar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe new Broadway musical Big Fish, a father-and-son tale based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August, swan onto Broadway Sept. 5, when it began prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PMAssociated Press writer Mark Kennedy sat down exclusively with Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen to discuss the prolific film maker’s world premiere production of his first full length pla…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:16PMCurrently starring in Broadway's Motown The Musical as Teena Marie and others, Morgan James brought her smoky and soulful renditions of songs from her debut CD to 54 Below. Check out photos …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMOnce again, playwright Mark St. Germain brings an imagined and compelling conversation, this time between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, to this inviting space.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13PMLarry Eisenberg, directing "Awake and Sing!" at Group Rep, says his experience acting in the play more than30 years ago elevated his skills as an actor beyond what he had learned in classes.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PMThe Joffrey Ballet in Chicago has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation to help create and produce full-length story ballets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:10PMFollowing an unprecedented thirty show run, SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED, the acclaimed and award-winning cabaret series, continued on Sunday, Sept 15 at 54 Below. Sondheim Unplugged is currently cele…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMBringing London's renowned West End theater culture to select U.S. cinemas this fall, NCM Fathom Events, CinemaLive and Digital Theatre present Maria Friedman's award-winning production of S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMDisney’s Broadway blockbuster The Lion King is welcoming two stars: Jeffrey Kuhn makes his Pride Rock debut as the hornbilled bird Zazu, the advisor to the King, and Broadway&rsqu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PMIn honor of Newsies Fan Week (which began on September 15th), the Broadway hit has released a fan lyric video to continue to celebrate Fansies everywhere! Check the official Newsies website …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:04PM By: Patrick ChristianoIn Lauren Yee's quirky new play, The Hatmaker's Wife, directed by Rachel Chavkin, a young woman, a copy editor named in the program only as voice, moves into…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:04PMChaired by Sarah Jessica Parker, three ballets with choreography from Benjamin Millepied, Justin Peck and Angelin Preljocaj, and costumes from Iris Van Herpen, Prabal Gurung and Oliver Theys…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:03PMOn paper this looked a slightly unpromising prospect but it turned out to be a cracking evening at the opera. Much of this was due to Giandrea Noseda and the LSO, fresh from giving ten perfo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PMPlaybill.com talks with Anne Washburn, scribe of the new play Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
More molehill than mountaintop, this wholly preposterous and trivializing depiction of King’s last night on earth is earnestly but hopelessly staged at Court Theatre by the excellent Ron O…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:59PMThe musical phenomenon The Fantasticks celebrated its 20,000th Off-Broadway performance September 15. Writer Tom Jones and other special guests were on hand for the milestone.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMThis week, A Night With Janis Joplin begins previews at the Lyceum Theatre. This special musical experience that brings to life the music of Janis Joplin--and the woman herself--will begin p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA, the new play by Amanda Peet, directed by MTC's award-winning artistic director Lynne Meadow, begins rehearsals today. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association will honor Woody Allen with the 2014 Cecil B. De Mille Award for his outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment during the 71st Annual Go…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMA Noise Within presents Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott NOW – Nov 24, 2013 This action-packed production is a tempest-tossed hero’…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:53PMA new block of tickets for Pippin, which won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, has gone on sale. Tickets are now available through Aug. 31, 2014, producers for the musical a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:48PMREVIEW: In Lee Blessing’s “Perilous Night,” the Queen is a mental patient, and she must confront harsh reality.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:47PMREVIEW: Jon Cranney directs himself and his wife, Katherine Ferrand, in Yellow Tree’s solid ‘On Golden Pond.’
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:47PMAfter winning his fourth Emmy Sunday night for producing the 66th Annual Tony Awards, Neil Patrick Harris came backstage to tease next week's Primetime Emmys ceremony, which he will host…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:45PMMelbourne Theatre Company (MTC) will feature Once and Pennsylvania Avenue in its 2014 season, according to AussieTheatre.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMThe producers of the 2013 Tony Award winning Best Revival of a Musical PIPPIN have announcedthat a new block of tickets have gone on sale and seats are now available for purchase through Aug…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMThe Public Theater will offer a limited number of free tickets through a lottery system for An Evening With Sting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMBringing London’s renowned West End theater culture to select U.S. cinemas this fall, NCM Fathom Events, CinemaLive and Digital Theatre present Maria Friedman’s award-winning production …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:29PMDisney's 'Into the Woods' kicked off production last week, featuring an award-winning production team and all-star ensemble cast - including a surprise addition ANNIE's Lilla Crawford as 'Li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMEveryone knows Broadway.com leads the pack with fabulous photo features of all the happenings on the Broadway scene, but these days, the stars themselves have become their own photogs, shari…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PM By: David ShewardHallie Foote, Betty Buckley, Cotter SmithThe plays of the late Horton Foote (The Trip to Bountiful, The Orphans' Home Cycle, doz…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:19PMBefore leaving London in 1923, Florence Vandamm photographed Sybil Thorndike in at least five additional roles. Thorndike was known for her ability to play comedy and tragedy, so there was …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:18PMBroadway legends Tommy Tune and Ben Vereen have joined the cast of Chita: A Legendary Celebration, a benefit concert to be held on October 7 at the August Wilson Theatre. This one-night-only…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMManhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA, the new play by Amanda Peet, directed by MTC’s award-winning artistic director Lynne Meadow, begins rehearsals today.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:08PMSlim Ingram, who has died aged 88, started his life in the theatre as a boy doing odd jobs for his uncle, the manager of the New theatre in Northampton, where Slim was born. In the 1940s, he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMSlim Ingram, who has died aged 88, started his life in the theatre as a boy doing odd jobs for his uncle, the manager of the New theatre in Northampton, where Slim was born. In the 1940s, he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PM By: David ShewardCan you imagine two more unlikely historical figures to form a friendship than Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit? One wa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:02PMLast week I was not posting on this blog, I rarely posted on social media, and didn't spend much time online at all. The Reason? I needed to go dark. In the theatre world, shows have dark ni…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 01:00PM
Here comes a cheery piece of news: Former Broadway.com video blogger Lilla Crawford has replaced Sophia Grace Browlee as Little Red Riding Hood in Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of Int…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMBOB: Blessed Be the Dysfunction that Binds and Becomes Theatre: Anne Pasquale is talented and has been through more than most people should, but is theatre becoming a version of therapy?
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:52PMLilla Crawford, who originated the title role in the 2012 Broadway revival of Annie, will play Little Red Riding Hood in the Disney feature film adaptation of Into the Woods, Walt Disney Stu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMThis is Londontown! When Urinetown the musical debut back on Broadway in 2001, the production brought to life the idea of a monopolized business world where even the most basic human needs m…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:50PMThis coming Monday, September 23rd I’ll be at NJ Rep participating in A SPECIAL EVENT: JOHN BIGUENET’S “RISING WATER TRILOGY” On Three CONSECUTIVE Mondays, SEPTEMBE…
SOURCE: www.kimweild.com at 12:46PMThe Pearl Theatre Creates a Gem With Shaw: George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell, in co-partnership with the Gingold Theatrical Group, opens the Pearl Theatre Company's new season…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:43PM Shaw's Delicious ‘You Never Can Tell' Opens Pearl Festival By: Sandi DurellCount on George Bernard Shaw's wit and the perfection of comic timin…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:41PMOn top of the antic hilarity in Faction of Fools’ new production of Molière’s Don Juan, I had the funny feeling while watching this company’s work for the first time that I’d been a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:40PMActor Ben Miller is to star in a new West End production ridiculing the Parliamentary expenses scandal which led to a number of MPs being jailed.
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:39PMElmo looks shocked to be in the company of such aristocrats of the theater as Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. It’s not the only odd pairing: Muhammad Ali’s friendship w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMTwo-time Tony nominee Patrick Wilson may be heading back to the Great White Way in an as-yet unnamed musical. Wilson, who hasn’t appeared in a Broadway musical since 2002, told the Exa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PMThe cast of Broadway's A Time to Kill, led by Sebastian Arcelus and John Douglas Thompson, met the press on Monday, September 16, at The Heath at the McKittrick Hotel. Inspired by th
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMA new block of tickets for Pippin, which received the 2013 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, has gone on sale. Tickets are now available through Aug. 31, 2014, producers for the musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMAmerican screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen, best known for his screenplay for Stephen King's classic horror story 'Carrie,' will attend the opening night of Atlantis Productions' staging of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMIn Kung Fu, a play which incorporates dance and music into an exciting new form, a young martial artist comes to America from Hong Kong in the 1960′s with a dream as audacious as his t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:21PMA new £12,000 award to enable the creation of a brand new musical has been announced. The Perfect Pitch award is a joint initiative between Perfect Pitch, which supports the development of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM“Saturday Night Live” made its new casting hires official on Monday, including the addition of New Trier grad Beck Bennett, best known as the straight-faced adult polling youngst…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:19PMIn a recent interview with the Examiner, stage and screen star Patrick Wilson revealed that he'll be heading back to Broadway next year. When asked if he had plans to return to the stage, he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMFull of visual and sonic beauty, PigPen Theatre's lush production maintains the narrative's pleasant intrigue. The ensemble is almost balletic in its graceful physicality, and its puppet pro…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:17PMUSA Today reports that late actors James Gandolfini and Cory Monteith will receive special honors at Sunday night's 65th Primetime EMMY AWARDS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMTwo-time Tony nominee Patrick Wilson told Examiner.com that he will be returning to Broadway in spring 2014 in a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMThe 2013 Fox Fall Eco-Casino Party was held Sept. 9 at The Bungalow in Santa Monica, CA. The event celebrated the launch of Fox's new fall season and raised money and awareness for a num…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMOn Sept. 24 the long-running, Tony-winning musical hit revival of Chicago, which currently plays the Ambassador Theatre, will celebrate its 7,000th performance on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” an ambitious new work penned by Anne Washburn and developed with The Civilians, is a refreshingly original take on the fast-growing genre of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWe're still waiting for Sean Holmes' "Secret Theatre" season to shake things up as he's promised. The second revelation, Show 1, turns out to be another well-known classic, strippe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMLibby Purves is being relieved of her position as lead theatre critic for The Times from next month, she has revealed. Purves has been in post since 2010, when she replaced longstanding Tim…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PM
The 66th Annual Tony Awards and the HBO film "Behind the Candelabra" were among the winners at the 2013 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which were held Sept. 15 at the NOKIA Theater L.A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMAdditional artists have been announced for the star-studded, one-night-only celebration of Tony winner Chita Rivera, which will be presented Oct. 7 at the August Wilson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe Creative Arts Awards portion of the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards took place on September 15 in Los Angeles, and the June 2013 broadcast of the 67th Annual Tony Awards was honored wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMIt’s the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history and AMRA FAYE-WRIGHT Leading lady starring on Broadway as merry murderess Velma Kelly, has played the iconic …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:51AMChicago About to Break Another Record With 7,000 Performances:On Tuesday, September 24, the Tony Award-winning stage musical sensation CHICAGO will celebrate another extraordinary milestone …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:42AMThe 66th annual Tony Awards telecast won four 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony held in Los Angeles on September 15. The Tonys took home the Outstanding Special C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMThe St James Theatre today revealed that its ‘secret’ musical will be Urinetown, written by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis. Tickets for the show have been on sale for months, despite the t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMNeil Patrick Harris has established himself as an ideal awards-show host. He won rave reviews the four times he hosted the Tony Awards, and he's returning for his second time as host of the …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:35AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Neil Patrick Harris is magical, and not just because he can sing, dance, act and host the Tony and Emmy awards. He's actually magical, like in the abracadabra way, an…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:34AMUrinetown the Musical, which won three Tony Awards in 2002, will premiere in the West End next year. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the show is set to begin previews at the St. James Theatre on Fe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMAnne Washburn's new work Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play officially opened at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Sept. 15 following previews that began Aug. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMPlaywright Mark St. Germain, author of “Freud's Last Session,” will discuss the inspiration for the show and his writing process in two talks after the 8 p.m. performances of the show on…
SOURCE: www.shorenewstoday.com at 11:31AMThe musical phenomenon The Fantasticks celebrated its 20,000th Off-Broadway performance Sept. 15. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM I’ve been waiting on pins and needles to share this class with you since I watched and edited it. As you all know, Doug is fairly new to the New York theatre scene, but w…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 11:30AMMy View: Stephen Sorokoff....Morgan James At 54 Below: Currently starring in Broadway’s Motown: The Musical as Teena Marie and others, Morgan James brings her smoky and soulful renditions …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:28AMProducer Ken Davenport has announced that The Awesome 80s Prom will end its record-breaking nine-year run at The Wall on November 2. The production is reported to have lost its lease of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMOn September 22, 2013 PRELUDE FESTIVAL and BROOKLYN COMMUNE join will forces for a tour de force afternoon of drinking, mingling, discussion and the launch of the 2013 Performing Arts Census…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:21AMKirsten Wyatt is heading to Easy Steet. The actress will take over the role of Lily St. Regis in the Broadway revival of Annie beginning October 1, according to a production spokesperson. Wy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMThe cast is set to perform selections from the 2-CD recording and will be joined by music director Andrew Gerle and Mr. Shire on Friday, September 20 at Barnes amp Noble 150 East 86th Street…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMComedian Ben Miller will lead the cast of the West End premiere of Dan Patterson and Colin Swash’s The Duck House, an outrageous comedy set to begin previews on November 27 at London&#…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMIt’s the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It’s now in its 17th record-breaking year on the Great White Way. It’s been seen in over 30 countri…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:16AMLegendary screen actress turned Tony nom Sigourney Weaver recently nabbed a 2013 Emmy nomination for her role as tough-as-nails Secretary of State Elaine Barrish on USA's 2012 miniseries POL…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMCongratulations to our friend and sometime collaborator Jim R. Moore was is being honored by the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York with an aptly named Local Hero Award in a special c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:07AMAfter nine years of partying off-Broadway, The Awesome ‘80s Prom is finally turning off its disco ball. The interactive ‘80s dance party will play its final performance on Novemb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMA real-life married couple since 1999, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon have worked together several times before on stage -- sometimes playing spouses, sometimes not. Now, they're taking on two o…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:05AMIt’s the due date for Ethan Coen’s pregnancy comedy Women or Nothing. The first full-length play from the Oscar winner officially opens off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Compa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMWhat lies ahead on the road to Broadway, off- and off-off always looks bright in the Fall.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02AMJenn Colella, George Dvorsky, Christiane Noll, and Sal Viviano will gather together at Barnes & Noble (at East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue) on Friday, September 20, at 5pm to celebrate …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMAlthough the Emmy Awards are a week away, Broadway.com got an early start on our predictions for this year’s ceremony by asking readers which Broadway veteran most deserved to take hom…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AM
Pop star Nick Jonas, most recently on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, celebrates his 21st birthday today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMThe Awesome 80s Prom, the immersive theatrical event that invites theatregoers to prom night, will end its nine-year Off-Broadway run this November at The Wall, producers announced Sept. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “A Time To Kill,” playwright Rupert Holmes’ stage adaptation of the first-ever of John Grisham’s bestselling novel to be ada…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMIf anyone can make Shaw's early play sparkle, David Staller's the man. And so he has done. This is a colorful production, rich in whimsy and musical movement that has some of the actors danc…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:47AMTVGuide.com gives an exclusive first look at Broadway vet Patti LuPone on the upcoming season of FX's AMERICAN HORROR STORY COVEN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMKirsten Wyatt, who has been seen on Broadway in Grease, A Christmas Story, Elf, Shrek and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, will join the cast of the Tony-nominated revival of Annie in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM Broadway rocker Justin Matthew Sargent, best known for his star turn as “Drew” in Broadway’s Rock of Ages, has landed the coveted role of Peter Parker / Spider-Man role i…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:36AMStage and screen star Patrick Wilson will return to Broadway in spring 2014, according to Examiner.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe Awesome 80s Prom was my very first show in New York. After a decade of Company Managing and General Managing Broadway shows and National Tours and dreaming about creating my own, I jumpe…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AM We are so excited to be hosting a ticket give away for Donna Vivino’s solo concert at 54 Below. This is your chance to win two tickets! This contest is super easy. Get on instag…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:30AMThe 66th Annual Tony Awards telecast (June 2012) received 4 Emmy Awards in the Creative Arts Awards ceremony on September 15.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 10:28AMA musical version of Anthony Neilson’s The Night Before Christmas is to be staged at the Soho Theatre this Christmas as part of the venue’s winter season. The play was originally perform…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMRECOMMENDED After careening from the elegant wit of Wilde to the absurdist work of Beckett, Irish theater of the 1990s saw radical changes. Ensembles focused on gritty, darkly humorous urban…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:26AMTrevor Nunn’s new staging of Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre has cancelled its opening night, due to one of its cast members falling ill. Mark Bazeley, who plays Johan i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMThe film stars Carey Mulligan The Great Gatsby, Drive, Matthias Schoenaerts Rust and Bone, Bullhead, Michael Sheen Midnight in Paris, FrostNixon, Tom Sturridge Tony Nominee for 'Orphans', On…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMBroadway rocker Justin Matthew Sargent, best known for his star turn as 'Drew' in Broadway's Rock of Ages, has landed the coveted role of Peter Parker Spider-Man role in Spider-Man Turn Off…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMWHO: Theatre Development Fund (TDF) POSITION: Assistant to the Executive Director DESCRIPTION: Theatre Development Fund seeks a full-time Assistant to the Executive Director to provide admi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:10AMTen years ago, Euan Morton ignited the fall season with a charismatic Broadway debut performance as Boy George in Taboo. The short-lived musical attracted passionate fans, but its Scottish-b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMThe original cast of the York Theatre Company's 2012 revival of the musical revue Closer Than Ever, with lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire, will reunite Sept. 20 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMToday is the birthday of magician David Copperfield, who is really only David Seth Kotkin of Metuchen, New Jersey — but thanks for making it harder for children to Google the Dickens&#…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:02AMOriginally posted in 2012 Today is the birthday of the great Broadway impresario Earl Carroll (1892-1948), best known for his series of revues Earl Carroll’s Vanities , which ran fr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:01AMDon Juan—we all know him—the womanizer, the deflowerer of virgins, the cad … the hypersexual hedonist and habitual liar … the atheist. In other words, an all-round wonderful 21st …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMLeading Broadway actors, including Annaleigh Ashford, Phoebe Strole, Lauren Pritchard and Chuck Mead, will perform in the Third Annual James Moye's Boogie in the Butt Benefit concert tonight…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMSTOMP, the award winning international sensation, is a unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy. STOMP has created its own inimitable, contemporary form of rhythmic expre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMUrinetown, which transferred to Broadway in 2001 after debuting at the New York International Fringe Festival and a subsequent staging at Off-Broadway's American Theatre for Actors, is t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
The new reality show WENDY WILLIAMS HOW YOU DOIN' BROADWAY is a candid, up-close presentation of Wendy Williams that will give fans an inspiring look behind the curtain at her personal life …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMGala Hispanic Theatre begins its 38th season by paying homage to the Spanish Golden Age. The spirit of a 17th century corralas found its way to 14th Street with the world debut of Cabaret…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47AMFor all the years I lived in Connecticut, I used to feel I was missing out, as I saw offers for advance screenings of films dropping into my inbox and plastered on various websites. But, ala…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:42AMFans of "Spider-Man" heaved a collective sigh of relief on Sunday when they learned that Ben Affleck hasn't been cast in the role of the high-flying masked superhero.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AMTheatre critic Libby Purves will stop reviewing for the Times from next month, following the termination of her contract. She has been notified by editors that as of October 11 she will no l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AMFollowing a five-week U.K. tour, The Duck House, which is billed as "an outrageous new comedy set in a world of dodgy receipts, dodgier deceit, and pure Parliamentary panic," will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMOrange Tree, RichmondSusan Glaspell's convoluted exploration of US involvement in the second world war is kept afloat by an adroit castThis is the fifth full-length play by the American femi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMIf you missed the new musical Murder For Two during its sold-out summer run at Second Stage Uptown, there’s good news: The show will transfer to New World Stages for a 10-week off-Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:25AMBiography reveals Brendan O'Carroll was taken into custody after death of former business partner, Kevin MooreBrendan O'Carroll, the creator of smash-hit BBC sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, was onc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMCanada Water Culture Space has been open for a while now, but the billing of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf has probably been the most well-known �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:17AMBroadwayWorld caught up witih Jessica Grove who will be coming home to Ohio to celebrate Columbus Children's Theatre's 50th Birthday on Sunday, September 22, 2013. Jessica is one of the feat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMProducers Jayson Raitt, Barbara Whitman, Steven Chaikelson and Second Stage Theatre announced that the acclaimed comedy Murder for Two, recently seen at Second Stage Theatre Uptown, will tra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AMA Northampton DIY clown has caused a social media stir. But what lies beneath the outlandish makeup and enforced fun?In December 1992, the Fox network broadcast a particularly memorable epis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AM Broadway rocker Justin Matthew Sargent, best known for his star turn as “Drew” in Broadway’s Rock of Ages, has landed the coveted role of Peter Parker / Spider-Man role...Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:09AM“The question is what side are you on?” Family matriarch Vera Joseph wants to know, but the truth is, the answer isn’t always clear or easy. At least that’s how the characters in pla…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AM
Lousy with Sylvianbriar proves that of Montreal is still fully capable of crafting catchy and rollicking rock songs when it wants to.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMThe Tony Awards telecast took home four Emmys including Outstanding Special Class Program, Outstanding Musical Direction and Outstanding Musics and Lyrics for 'If I Had Time' with lyrics by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:39AMCulture Monster tried to get a little orchestral dust-up going this week but didn't get far.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:34AMI believe the first job of any arts marketer is avoiding disaster. Marketing can't make art a "hit". Only the art can do that. But I've learned from experience that what effective marketing …
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 08:33AM Today is the birthday of Daisy Ann Peterkin (1884-1952). Originally from St. Louis, as a youth she was interested in the modern dancing of Ruth St. Denis and Isadora Duncan, and went to Eu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:22AMI have written a great deal about the requirements for a successful turnaround of an arts organization....
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:13AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01AMRep Stage’s A Young Lady of Property is an unobtrusive, atmospheric period piece that takes you back to a simpler time. Set in the 1920’s but written for television in the 1950’s, the …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMThe Lowry A young boy with a nasty habit for kicking pigs. A recorder playing older sister with a beloved Pig called Trevor. Two newspaper workers delighted at the mere sniff of a "cla…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AMThe Lowry, Salford It is impossible to watch Bill Bailey and not find him funny. Indeed in the first few minutes of the show he managed to do absolutely nothing and have people in fits of l…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AMThe Royal Exchange's Truth about Youth programme, which sets out to challenge negative perceptions of young people, has become even more ambitious. In 2012 My Young and Foolish Heart brough…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AM
Today is the birthday of Renée Claire Angèle Élisabeth Napierkowski, a.k.a. Stacia Napierkowska (1891-1945). The Polish-born actress, pantomime and interpretive dancer lived and performe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AMCasanova. Lothario. Bill Clinton. Among the world’s famous playboys, the figure of Don Juan holds a special place in the theatre. Faction of Fools, DC’s premiere commedia troupe,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30AMDo critics recommned climbing "The Hill Town Plays"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 07:14AMNatalia Kaliada, co-founder of the Belarus company, explains how Jude Law and the London theatre helped her underground group find a home after the ill-fated presidential elections of 2010Re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMTwo actors with very different concerns meet at an airport and find that they have more in common than it at first seems. Starring Nicolai Khalezin and Jude Law
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMEnglish Touring Theatre is marking its 21st anniversary next year by launching a survey to find the 'nation's favourite play'. Audiences are invited to vote for the play of their choice via…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:00AMThe Lowry Monkey Bars, a play that reproduces by adults, the sayings of seven to 10-year-olds, proves the truth of the biblical expression, "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.&…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:00AMFormer Emmerdale'' actress and Liverpool star Cathy Tyson will feature alongside Only Fools and Horses' actress Gwyneth Strong when a hilarious and truthful piece of verbatim theatre comes t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:00AM
Southwark Playhouse, London: Just as Aaron Sorkin began his career in the theatre before being largely lost to television (most notably as creator of The West Wing), a similar trajectory has…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMBen Miller is to star in a new West End play about the parliamentary expenses scandal, opening at the Vaudeville Theatre in December. The show will also feature Nancy Carroll, Debbie Chazen,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMEnglish Touring Theatre is on a mission to find the nation's best-loved theatre piece. Let's give them a helping handLeafing through an old theatre guide to playwrights, living and dead, whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AMOld Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere: Victoria Wood's BAFTA award-winning TV play of one woman's wartime experience was based on the diaries of Nella Last, a married mother of two fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMWales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: The second of Welsh National Opera's Tudor Trilogy of Donizetti historical operas takes to the stage in the shape of Maria Stuarda - his 1835 take on t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMWith his male-model good looks and sparkly smile, Max Irons (the womanising King Edward in the TV adaptation of The White Lady) is natural casting as a golden boy. In this UK premiere of Bea…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:16AMCockpit Theatre, London: This new musical is the quirky but heart-warming tale of six Londoners and their aspirations. The central focus is initially on Bart Edwards as Toby and Aiden Crawfo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMWith rumours starting just last week, it has now been confirmed that Melbourne Theatre Company will produce the hit Broadway musical Once as part of their 2014 season in partnership with the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AMDavid Auburn’s title takes on multiple meanings as the authorship of a mathematical proof is called into question, as are characters’ sanity, love and intelligence.
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"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55AM"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55AMLifeforce is a new Australian musical by Joanna Weinberg (Goddess, Every Single Saturday) that is currently making its debut at the King Street Theatre as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:44AMLast week at a casual chic affair at the Bar at the End of the Wharf – a very welcome STC addition that has been embraced as an institution by its theatregoers – Andrew Upton announced h…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:38AMThe American Theatre Wing honors legendary director and producer Harold Prince tonight, Monday, September 16 at its annual Gala at the Plaza Hotel Fifth Avenue at Central Park South. Anki Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe cast recording for the 2013 West End revival of A Chorus Line is now available, as of today, September 16th, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMRehearsals begin today, September 16 in London for the critically heralded all-male Shakespeare's Globe repertory productions of William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT and RICHARD III on Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMA reading of the new musical comedy, The First Gentleman, which began rehearsals on September 9th in New York, will play tonight, September 16th and tomorrow, September 17th. The show featur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTonight, September 16 at 700 PM, Randie Levine-Miller presents and hosts Broadway Showstopper Divos --'A Swell Party' at the Metropolitan Room 34 West 22nd Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMary-Louise Parker, star of Manhattan Theatre Club and MCC Theater's world premiere of Sharr White's The Snow Geese, will appear on Fox 5's 'Good Day New York,' as a live guest today, Monday…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe blurb on the Blue Room Theatre’s website for Happy Dagger Theatre’s production of The Boat Goes Over The Mountain suggests a confronting story filled with horrid darkness, however I …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:13AMA 1974 TV interview with Alfred Knopf: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMTheatre launches ambitious project to find and perform UK's best-loved play written in EnglishHamlet and Macbeth will be up there, you would imagine, along with Waiting for Godot, An Inspect…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMKatori Hall's 'Mountaintop' fills in the space between Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech, death
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Ten…
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Brisbane festival: A Western is a comedic tribute to the nostalgic glory and memorable tropes of classic western cinema. Here Gemma Paintin talks about her showChristian Bennett
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, September 15, 2013 - Sunday, September 15, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46AMYou’re free to fiddle with your phone during “Bell,” the one-man bio-drama about Alexander Graham Bell now playing at the National Geographic Society. Bell, after all, invented the tel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:41AMBrisbane festival: QUT Theatre Republic, La Boite StudioI ended up lying beneath the performer in this immersive piece – a new take on up close and personal theatreNicola Gunn's Hello My N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36AMScreaming Billyby Estelle RosenBorn in Montreal in 1972, Sylvain Bélanger studied acting at the National Theatre School of Canada. He is a founding member of Théâtre du Grand Jour and has…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMMany will argue that the Bard's Comedy of Errors is his funniest play. We think it's also the most difficult to make funny. But another company takes a kick at the can. (Halif…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe trials and tribulations of life in the world of theatre are being materialized on computer screens. In the three-part series "Broadway on the Web," Playbill.com profiles the th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTickets are now on sale to members of the general public for Il Divo – A Musical Affair: The Greatest Songs of Broadway, a concert engagement featuring the operatic pop group and Tony …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLauren Bacall, who will be a special guest on an upcoming episode of "Family Guy," celebrates her birthday September 16. Playbill.com takes a look at her stage career. Happy birthd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, Capathia Jenkins and Leslie McDonel are part of the Sept. 16 installment of The Pop Show, celebrating the music of late entertainer Michael Jackson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAngela Lansbury, Glenn Close, Richard Kind, Sierra Boggess and more salute Tony Award-winning Broadway director-producer Harold Prince during the American Theatre Wing's annual gala Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChristine Andreas, Darius de Haas and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among the actors participating in Sophisticated Lady: A Gala Evening Honoring Phylicia Rashad Sept. 16 at the Westport Country Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIndustry readings of the new musical comedy The First Gentleman are presented in New York Sept. 16-17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Valerie Harper, "Glee" actress Amber Riley and Godspell actor Corbin Bleu are among the cast of Season 17 of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArtwork by two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster and artist Julien Havard is featured by Taglialatella Galleries of New York and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTo celebrate the 10th anniversary of New York City Center’s "Fall For Dance" festival, the Public Theater hosts two free evenings of dance at the Delacorte Theater in Central…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith the impending 75th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz" and the IMAX 3D release of the movie, Playbill.com offers a selection of of the film's most-famous song, "Over th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe classic film "The Wizard of Oz" will be released in IMAX 3D in celebration of its 75th anniversary later this month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Frances Ruffelle, who created the role of Eponine in the London and Broadway productions of Les Misérables, returns to the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below beginning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEthan Coen’s first full-length play, Women Or Nothing, officially opens Sept. 16 following previews that began Aug. 28 at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gros…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRichard Thomas, the British opera composer and librettist, burst onto the theatrical scene in 2004 with his controversial Jerry Springer: The Opera, a sung-through musical comedy about the t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMEntertainment legend Barbra Streisand published the coffee-table book My Passion for Design in 2010, about the architecture and construction of her newest homes — one of which happens to h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, September 15, 2013.
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