AMERICAN IDOL begins its 14th season nationwide search for the best undiscovered talent in the country in Minneapolis, MN, on Wednesday, June 18. The search for the next singing superstar co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47PMLast week, you nominated - in record numbers, thank you all - all those worthy nominees that the Tony Nominating Committee overlooked. This week, your voice will be heard again, celebr…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 11:44PMWith its powerful, enchanting cast, cohesive design and diverse, contemporary plot, Neighbourhood Watch is one of the State Theatre Company’s best productions in a long time. Neighbourhood…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMTo make sure that the viewers make fully informed decisions, the finalists performed three songs each a break-up song, a dedication a la Casey Kasem, and then a make-up song. As always with …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19PMGriffin theatre, SydneyA downbeat portrayal of suburban ennui and loneliness in the digital age is lifted by two impressive actorsMarried porn addict meets shopaholic nurse online, has OK t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10PM NY Music Review by Sandi Durell Let’s be perfectly clear – it doesn’t matter what Marilyn Maye decides to call her act. An act by any other...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:05PMDavid Rudkin revamps his radio play for a staged exploration of the man behind the camera.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMThe young Irish mezzo makes her UK stage debut in Richard Jones' new staging of Strauss' 'Der Rosenkavalier' this month.
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'I'm such a nerd," said Julie Diana, a principal dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet, who recently saddened fans by announcing that she would retire after Sunday's performance of the ballet…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:58PMA whopping seven of young talent super-agent Nancy Carson's kids appeared on David Letterman earlier this week, backing up Foster The People, performing 'Best Friend' from their new album 'S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42PM1. Les Misérables at Kensington Arts Theatre. Kensington Arts Theatre has a reputation for excellence in community theatre. Notably, KAT received the Ruby Griffith Award for All Round…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:40PMThe stars of HBO's upcoming presentation of THE NORMAL HEART -- Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo -- pose together on this week's cover of Entertainment Weekly. Scroll …
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Little known in our current awareness is a time in the late 1920s when Harlem, in the ‘high numbers’ of Manhattan Island, was a centerpiece of an artistic, social and intellectual reviva…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:53PMAlthough Eglise Gutiérrez’s performance in the title role of Thais is indeed glorious, equally fascinating in the current edition at Florida Grand Opera is what happens when no one is sin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:45PM NY Music Review by Susan Hasho Tuesday, opening night at the Cafe Carlyle, Steve Tyrell had a plan. He wanted everyone to know that there were...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:36PMThe award-winning play THEY CALL ME Q is set to play two performances only in San Francisco this week prior to making its Off-Broadway premiere. Written and performed by Qurrat Ann Kadwani, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07PMWhat a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon or evening at the theatre! The Washington Stage Guild’s production of Elling, directed by Kasi Campbell, is a show based on the In…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:04PMLearn to distinguish your Obies from your Oliviers with this handy rundown of theater awards across the country (and in London and Toronto).
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It's springtime in New York City; the sun is shining and theater awards are popping up all over. But if you're feeling a little befuddled due to your seasonal allergies and the sheer number …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:52PMLarry Kramer’s heartbreaking and passionate drama The Normal Heart will lead a small screen revolution on May 25, when a new adaptation directed by Ryan Murphy premieres on HBO. The TV…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:46PMEver since that hot, kinky, and wildly successful 50 Shades of Grey novel was published, a number of parody shows have, ahem … ‘popped up’. 51 Shades of Maggie Muff is a one-woman show…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:46PMInc Magazine recently had an article of 100 Great Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask. As you might imagine, there was a lot in the list that have relevance to non-profit organizations. …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:32PMBITTERSWEET Abdullah hasn’t penned a polished play. The mercifully short appearance of a faux comical dreadlocked character named Leafy Green (Peete) is an outlandish, unnecessary distract…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:28PMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:05PMThe singer-songwriter prepares to sing at the New York City Ballet, for a staging of Nico Muhly’s “Two Hearts.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 08:01PMEdward Albee's “A Delicate Balance,” which won the 1967 Pulitzer, was written at a time of unparalleled American preeminence and prosperity. That's reflected in its characters, well-to-d…
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Nominations for the 2014 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced last month at 54 Below, and this morning, the honorees appeared at the 2014 Drama Desk Nominees Reception. BroadwayWorld's Ri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:57PMHubert Point-Du Jour-Theater: The Model Apartment (Primary Stages—Lucille Lortel/Drama Desk nom. for Best Revival, Time Magazine Top 3 plays of 2013); A Map of Virtue (…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:47PMVariations Theatre Group presents a limited engagement of BOOGIE STOMP! direct to NYC from the production's sold out tour of Russia. Performances will begin tomorrow, May 8th, with the Openi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45PMName: Justin AhdootHometown: Alexandria, VAEducation: BFA in theatre-performance from Virginia Commonwealth UniversityWho do you play in The Mysteries?: Kenny and MathiasTell us about The My…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 07:27PMIn this week's super-awesome episode of The Broadway.com Show, the cast of Les Miz dreams of swapping roles, Anna Kendrick and Kristen Bell face off, and sadly, two Broadway shows announ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:20PMI recently experienced Motti Lerner’s The Admission, Theatre J’s production remounted by Busboys & Poets at Studio Theatre (my review is here). The controversy that the play …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:18PMWHO: Blue Man Productions POSITION: Video Engineer DESCRIPTION: Blue Man Productions, the parent company of the theatrical production Blue Man Group, is looking for talented Video Engineers …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 07:08PMMaybe this will become a series: “Directing is Storytelling,” “Acting is Storytelling.” Since I’m right in the thick of season planning and reading a ton of pla…
SOURCE: bittergertrude.com at 07:06PMThe National Theatre of Scotland features strongly in the nominations for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, including a best director nod for John Tiffany. The CATS nominations, o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMThe Fatboy Slim/David Byrne show will reopen the refurbished Dorfman Theatre
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Our top picks for May span the globe, from Neil Patrick Harris’s star turn on Broadway to a sultry new musical revue in Paris. Take your pick and support live theater wherever you are.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:54PMBongile Mantsai, Hilda Cronje (photo by Rodger Bosch)Mies Julie Missesby Jason BookerThe overly warm theatre. Filled with smoke. A vivid red dance floor, painted to look like brok…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:44PMOn Friday, May 2nd, Broadway Sessions for Broadway Battles Bullying was held at Joe's Pub. Click below to watch highlights from the concert, featuring performers Chondra Profit The Lion King…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMMashable, the leading media company for the Connected Generation, and 'IfThen,' the multiple Tony nominated original Broadway musical from the Pulitzer Prize winning creators of 'Next to Nor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMHello dear theater peeps! My latest theater review for the new critical website Stage Raw — which contains the latest arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team of journalists &#…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:21PMEveryone loves drag queens—even Tony winner James Earl Jones! The legendary stage and screen star took a trip to Price and Son shoe factory on May 7 to catch a matinee of the Tony-winn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:10PMNominees for the 2014 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards will be announced Monday, May 12 at 7 p.m. in a live lohud.com webcast from The Journal News studio in White Plains. There are 3…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:06PMTickets are now on sale for the return of The Awesome ‘80s Prom, the off-Broadway interactive show that’s part comedy, part dance party. Pop Rocks will be consumed, wine coolers …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:01PMNow this, This is Vital Theatreby Christopher DouglasOutside the March has done it again. Site-specific, realistic and environmental, Vitals is a theatrical piece that has to be experienced …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:01PMRECOMMENDED Just like they sing it in the title song, “Hair” is indeed “fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, … bangled, tangled and spaghettied.” But for all of its loose-jointed, …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00PMThe musical adaptation struggles to make a splash with critics as it premieres at the Curve in Leicester
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:00PMEverything is better with a little stagey added in for good measure
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I’ve decided to squeeze in a special request before the official end of my #WhatILearnedToday daily blog challenge. If you follow me on Twitter (@TerriPaddock), you may have noticed – as…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:55PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Au Revoir to LA SOIREE! Just six more performance…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:54PMThe performance schedule has been announced for The Phantom of the Opera stars Norm Lewis and Sierra Boggess, who will join the Broadway cast of the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PM(photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)Together Apartby Zoe Erwin-LongstaffThe beginning of The Road to Mecca, now playing at Soulpepper’s Michael Young theatre, is jarring. A young schoolteacher, …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:50PMIt's a Beautiful week for an all-new THEATER TALK with the Tony-nominated Jessie Mueller Best Actress in a Musical and real-life songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, celebrating the succ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PM(photo by lucetg)Round of applause for 2 Pianos 4 HandsDykstra-Greenblatt classic is still delightful and appealing nearly 20 years laterSarah DeshaiesWho knew piano lessons could impart suc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:40PM“The Fabulous Miss Marie,” a 1971 play revived by Woodie King Jr., features a former showgirl married to a parking valet, and a prodigious amount of drinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMI recently found myself staring over a plastic religious figure on the dashboard of a Salvadoran taxi as it swerved over the center line into the opposing lanes. Any comfort I might have tak…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:34PMFrom “What’s your damage?” to the old favorite “F*ck me gently with a chainsaw,” Heathers has no shortage of quotable moments—we find excuses to work &ldq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMTony Award nominee Nick Cordero and Zach Braff, stars of the new Woody Allen musical Bullets Over Broadway, stopped by "The Today Show" May 7 to perform a song from the Susan Strom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Laura Linney has signed on to join Ian McKellen in Bill Condon's upcoming Sherlock Holmes film A SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND. 'MIND' is based on Mitch Culli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMBroadwayBox reacts in GIF to Alison Fraser's Tennessee Williams: Words and Music.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:19PMJujamcyn Theaters and True Colors Theatre Company Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director have announced that Ashley Herbert from Boston has won first place at the 6th Annual August Wilson…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMIt is often difficult to engage modern audiences with classics like Moliere’s The Miser. However, Rockville Little Theatre’s production succeeds with its unique take. Originally perfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMLove and Sex in an Internet AgeOr How I Was Hacked by an Ideologueby Jason BookerAt one point in Sky Gilbert’s latest, Hackerlove, a character comments about how government regulation of t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:03PMThe soundtrack to the Oscar-winning movie "Frozen," Disney's 3-D animated film that features the voices of Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, Tony nominee Jonathan Groff and stage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMDirector Maria Aitken lends her Noël Coward expertise to the Washington, D.C. production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe cast also features Stephen DeRosa, Chris Sullivan, and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMDenzel Washington surprised participants at the May 5 event.
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LA SOIRÉE leaves town this Sunday May 11. Last chance to hurry to The Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street) to see the naughty and outrageous show that you will never forget. You have…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:58PMTHEATER REVIEWS: "Mill Fire" at Theater Wit ★★★ and "The Next Thing" by Signal Ensemble ★½
THEATER REVIEWS: "Mill Fire" at Theater Wit ★★★ and "Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:57PM(photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)To rags from riches and back again: An awkward tale of recognition and redemption. by Lisa McKeown@lisammckeown Directed by Nina Lee Aquino, Sult…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:51PMPrivate Lives, Noël Coward's comedy of manners, will play Shakespeare Theatre Company, closing out its 2013-14 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMWrap-UpSheMomby Dena Jackson@deendawgI’ve always had a close relationship with my mother, but it wasn’t until watching this talented group of Mom Comics or “Momics” at the SheDot Fes…
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:30PMTheatre Passe Muraille2014.2015 Season AnnouncementHighlights include an innovative concert/theatre hybrid, fresh voices, theatre dynamos and a new “Within Our Walls: Guest Company Series�…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:28PMVisit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy After performing “‘Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do” on “The TODAY Show”…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:22PMProducers of Tony-nominated musical “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel are working with Mashable on a digital-marketing campaign, which the parties tout as the first such collaborat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMAccording to Page Six the Broadway musical Matilda, which features over a dozen children, had an outbreak of lice behind-the-scenes. A Broadway source reported that “at least six of th…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:18PMTony Award winner and Oscar nominee Laura Linney and U.K. stage actress Hattie Morahan will join Ian McKellen in the new Sherlock Holmes film "A Slight Trick of the Mind," which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMNominations for the 2014 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced April 25 at 54 Below by Academy Award winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nomi…
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:12PMThe Joyce Theater will present Pierre Rigal and his company, compagnie derniere minute, founded in 2003, from May 13-18. For this Joyce debut engagement, Rigal and his company of four music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMSutton leads a cast that also includes Tim Rogers and Amanda Minihan
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe RSC's latest production falls a little flat
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe actor will perform in a reading of Irish playwright Jim Nolan's latest drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMJessie Mueller, Chris O'Dowd, Laura Osnes, and more were on hand to meet the press and receive their certificates.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMB Street comedy craftily mashes up plays and themes of the great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.
Stephanie McVay and Greg Alexander star in the B Street Theatre’s staging of &#…
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The star shared her excitement over the upcoming concert on Twitter, posting a photo of the iconic New York City Concert Hall which she calls, 'Too Cool'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMWIN ONE OF 5 PAIRS OF TICKETS (10 TICKETS TOTAL) for WSC AVANT BARD’S BRAND NEW, SCORCHING HOT GLAM ROCK MUSICAL: NERO/PSEUDO FOR TOMORROW NIGHT-THURSDAY, 5/8 AT 7:30 PM AT FORT …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMVisit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy BULLETS OVER BROADWAY stars Zach Braff and Nick Cordero, a 2014 Tony Award® nominee, appeared on “The TODAY Sho…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:48PMAs an avid fan of the Finborough Theatre, I was delighted to return and see it once again transformed. The black box has taken on a brand new form, this time giving a home to the European pr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMBy Jonathan Norton. Jac Alder is Theatre Three’s Executive Producer-Director. Jac and his wife, the late Norma Young, founded Theatre Three in 1961. Norma was inspired by her work with the…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:42PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Broadway Alum Clay Aiken On Track to be a Washington Idol
It doesn’t look like the American Idol runner-up will be …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:41PMBarrington Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Julianne Boyd and managing director Tristan Wilson, has announced casting for the company's 20th anniversary season op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMThe 32nd Just For Laughs comedy festival, which takes over Montreal for most of July, has announced its 2014 lineup
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:39PMIf/Then, the new Broadway musical set at the intersection of chance and choice, may not have come to fruition if Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey — 2014 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMIf/Then, the new Broadway musical set at the intersection of chance and choice, may not have come to fruition if Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey — 2014 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMNick Cordero, who has been nominated for a Tony for his gangster role in “Bullets Over Broadway,” talks about cruise ship antics and pink socks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:34PMProducers of a new version of George Orwell's classic suggest his dystopic fiction is chillingly relevantOn 8 June 1949, George Orwell published his seminal novel telling of a future society…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMNo…not for NBC’s live broadcast. At least, we don’t think so. The May 6 episode of Glee featured a story line in which Kurt, played by Chris Colfer (who also wrote the epi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:30PM(3/5 Stars) Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho begins with the simple, but utterly ridiculous premise that the former Iron Lady accidentally became a gloriously camp cabaret act on the eve of t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:30PMA veteran of the London and Los Angeles scene, he mounted plays all around the world and wrote “Sherlock’s Last Case,” which bowed on Broadway in 1987.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:21PM(3/5 Stars) What happens to the hope at the end of the evening is a large title for what appears to be a pretty small show; two men, mates and performers, on stage with a chair. However, wha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:15PMShawChicago, a company devoted to staged readings of the plays of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, announced its 2014-15 season on Wednesday. Two of the titles belong to the compa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMStephen Sorokoff My View: “The Voice Of The Carlyle” And A Three Minute Standing Ovation: Bobby Short was the voice of Cafe Carlyle from 1968 to 2004.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:14PMToday we continue our Tonys coverage with Tyne Daly and Terrence McNally, nominees for Best Leading Actress in a Play and Best Play for Mothers and Sons, who chat about why they were nervous…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMIn the feature story, NPH shares that revealing his sexuality was one of the best things that ever happened to his career.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMThe one-night-only Broadway event will benefit the Acting Company.
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It’s been a quarter of a century since Miss Saigon first opened on the West End, starring Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce and an unknown Filipino man named Jon Jon Briones in the ensemble.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMScott Foley, David Rasche and Sarah Steele have joined the cast of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies' The Country House, which will premiere at the Geffen Playhouse June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM(2/5 Stars) Two girls and two boys meet by chance in a bar and decide to go to Paris. The twist: the protagonist, Matty, appeals to the audience to make his decisions for him. When Matty nee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:53PMThe Tony Award nominations, Broadway’s top honors, were announced on Tuesday, and once again there’s quite a bit of Irish and Irish American talent in the final lineup, including first t…
SOURCE: www.irishcentral.com at 02:51PMThe three stars of Irma La Douce (Rob McClure, Jennifer Bowles and Malcolm Gets) share the craziest things they've done for love.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:50PMTwo works by Igor Stravinsky and Wynton Marsalis are staged in Long Beach with librettos by Kurt Vonnegut.read more
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:47PMFrom playing hyper-masculine Barney Stinson to transsexual Hedwig, how the onetime child star met himself
SOURCE: Rolling Stone at 02:45PMiLUMINATE: This multi-disciplinary theatrical experience is on track to be New York's next big thing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:45PMGeffen Playhouse announces that Scott Foley Scandal, The Unit, Felicity, Eric Lange The Bridge, Weeds, David Rasche Speed-The-Plow Broadway, Lunch Hour, Emily Swallow The Mentalist, Manhatta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMCBS's THE TALK, recently nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show-Entertainment and Outstanding Talk Show Host, will return to New York City
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMJoshua Henry received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Flick in the Broadway premiere of Violet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMPatti LuPone will step back into the role that led to her Olivier Award, and being cast as the original Fantine in LES MISERABLES, on Monday, May 19 in The Cradle Will Rock at 7pm at Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMIn the video below, go behind the scenes with Katie Rose Clarke and Adam Halpin as they sing three songs from Long Wharf Theatre's upcoming production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMNeil Patrick Harris, who is currently starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, is featured naked on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMPoetic but imperfect, this tale of boxing scores in the subtlety of Playwright Billy Roche's writing, and Kevin Christopher Fox's tempered direction. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:16PMNoel Coward's fast-talking comedy of manners Private Lives will close the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2013-2014 Season. Directed by Maria Aitken 2009-2010 Season's As You Like It, Private …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMThe City Center Encores! production of Irma La Douce, starring Jennifer Bowles and Rob McClure, begins its limited run May 7. The Playbill Vault looks back at the musical's bow on Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMThe national tour of Jonathan Tolins' one-man comedy Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie, will play San Francisco's Curran Theatre in August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe cast of After Midnight says farewell to their most recent guest star, Vanessa Williams. Williams' last performance is on Sunday, May 11 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 W. 47th Street…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMTalk about lousy press: According to a report from the New York Post's Page Six, the Broadway musical "Matilda" has been stricken with a lice outbreak, with at least six of the show's young …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:04PMApril 29 was a special day for Andy Karl, who plays Rocky Balboa in the new musical #Rocky, based on the award-winning film of the same name.
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:59PMLouis C.K.'s "Louie" is a master class in straddling highbrow and lowbrow.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:57PMPlaybill.com's Job Listings offer an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry. From auditions to administrative roles, Playbill.com is the online source for care…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMBarrington Stage Company BSC, the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, has announce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMRamin Karimloo sings a pared down, acoustic version of “Bring Him Home” from Les Miz on Katie Couric.
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:45PMBroadway fans know him as pretty-boy killer Clyde Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde" and as Jack Kelly in his Tony-nominated turn in the megahit, "Newsies." Followers of TV musicals watched him cr…
SOURCE: www.edgeonthenet.com at 01:39PM“Neil Patrick Harris is wearing nothing but a bowtie and a discretely placed top hat on the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone,” the magazine says in its tease for a profil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMThat's one way to tip your hat. Neil Patrick Harris stripped down naked with nothing but a top hat covering his private bits for the May 22 issue of Rolling Stone.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:30PMRolling Stone has shared a first look at HEDWIG star and recent Tony nominee Neil Patrick Harris. The actor poses in his birthday suit for the newest issue of the magazine which hits newstan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMBy Katherine Bourne. I ended up staying in Dallas more through a process of elimination rather than an initial zeal for the theater scene here. But I chose right, plain and simple. I’ve li…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:22PMWith Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway and everyone going crazy over it, did you ever wonder what happened to Neil Patrick Harris’s “Trouser Weasel”? Let’s face…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 01:18PMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:13PMIn his newest play, “Act One,” Tony Shalhoub navigates the mannerisms of three characters and the disorientation of a rotating stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PM“Dutchman,” the incendiary 1964 play by LeRoi Jones that delves into incendiary racial politics, is revived at the National Black Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMIt’s a case of too many favorites — or not enough. Even now that the 2013-14 Tony nominations are set, the race for Broadway’s biggest awards remains wide open. Voters find themselves …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMIt's Tonys season The 2014 Tony Awards will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on CBS, on Sunday, June 8th 800 - 1100 p.m. The ceremony is still weeks away, and in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMThe festival's president and son of its founder, Sir John Christie, dies on the eve of the 80th anniversary season
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMEncores! opens the last musical of its 2014 season this evening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance is bringing on internationally renowned choreographer William Forsythe to join the faculty as a professor in fall 2015 — just in time to greet the ne…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMYou learned a ton of great lessons in theater school, but not every program prepares you for the realities of this industry.
1. Audition for everything—even if you are not right for th…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:00PMGina McKee, Forbes Masson and Jo Stone-Fewings will join the Hobbit star in Jamie Lloyd's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMMaking its world premiere in Leicester, this musical adaptation impresses with its creative and imaginative music, lyrics and staging
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(4/5 Stars) This gripping adaptation of M.R. James’s classic ghost story Casting the Runes is a slick and perfectly-pitched hour of tense theatrical enjoyment. With excellent performances …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:53PMIt is safe to say that we are rarely, in a single week, introduced to not one but two Off Broadway productions with sandwich makers as central characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:53PMThe cast and creative team of the hit Off-Broadway musical Murder for Two are teaming up with some of New York's brightest up and coming composers and BroadwayWorld.com every Monday night fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMThe Danish photographer's interactive ibook The Essence of Ballet showcases the possibilities of the digital future of dance photography Ingrid Bugge's The Essence of Ballet in picturesBack…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMPhotographer Ingrid Bugge spent nearly two years in residence with the Danish Royal Ballet and employed digital techniques to capture movement and animate dance sequences. The result is The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMThe chart-topping soundtrack to Disney's FROZEN refuses to budge from its No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for the 13 week
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMAdrian Bryan-Brown’s Top 10 things you need to know about HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME, part 1: https://www.culturalist.com/lists/best-things-you-need-to-know-about-holler-if-ya-hear-me-on-broadwa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:45PMTony nominee Neil Patrick Harris is baring his soul and his svelte bod every night in the hit Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch—but he’s taking even more off in the n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMOne aspect of commercial Broadway theater not really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-office grosse…
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:21PMCheck out an all-new TV spot for the show featuring Will Swenson, Caissie Levy and Tony nominated lead actor Ramin Karimloo
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMCAA has signed Broadway director Jack O’Brien, the prolific helmer whose Tony-winning Main Stem work ranges from razzledazzle tuner “Hairspray” to Shakespeare’s ̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMIn an effort to help support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, HBO is auctioning off a special package through Charity Buzz: the chance to attend the NYC premiere and after party of ‘…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:13PMThe Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical ONCE, will play its 891st performance, passing the Broadway run of Carousel, tonight, Wednesday, May 7.
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:11PMWell f*ck me gently with a chainsaw, did they seriously change that?-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:09PMAt least it wasn't bed bugs?-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:09PM"An utterly original, totally immersive sound world."-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:09PMAiken is currently enjoying a slim lead over his opponent, former North Carolina Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco and is ahead by a narrow 372 votes
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMThis rarely performed drama is a mix of lust, greed and dark humour, says Charles Spencer
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:00PMRECOMMENDED Quiche is a pretty funny word. It’s funny enough when it’s just used to represent the quaint egg-pie dish that it is, but once it starts getting thrown around as a euphemism …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PMProduction images, including a first glimpse at the infamous helicopter, have been released for the musical, which opens at the Prince Edward Theatre later this month
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMLucy Bailey's bloody Titus Andronicus, returning after its notorious premiere in 2006, caused at least one critic to wince
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PM
What happens when you put five Tony-nominated leading ladies in a room together? (No, they don’t have a Hunger Game-style fight to the death. How dare you even suggest that?) As we fou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMBEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL has received 7 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical Check out an all-new TV spot for the show below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMIn celebration of Marxfest, every day this month we will be paying tribute to a different Marx Brothers film. While there are only 13 extant cinematic features including the entire team, we…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:46AMThe concert version of the award-winning musical Like You Like It, based on As You Like It and set at a mall in the 1980s, was held April 23 at 54 Below in celebration of William Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMAcademy Award nominee Marsha Mason will star as Tallulah Bankhead in the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara staging of Matthew Lombardo's Looped.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMAs part of “Best of Broadway Week” from “The Today Show,” Bryce Pinkham, Lisa O’Hare and Lauren Worsham from A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder performed on the Today…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:38AMThe Paley Center for Media will offer a screening of the 1966 telecast of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon May 17 at 3 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMBelow, check out a first listen of two tracks from the album- 'Be on Your Own' from Nine and 'It's Raining on Prom Night' from Grease.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMThe New York City Center Encores production of Irma La Douce, starring Jennifer Bowles, Rob McClure, and Malcolm Gets will runs for seven performances, beginning tonight, May 7, and continui…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMOn May 8, The Chain Theatre will kick off a 17-show run of BOOGIE STOMP!, which tells the story of this vibrant music, its artists and its audiences with help from two of the country’s bes…
SOURCE: queens.brownstoner.com at 11:31AMName: Joseph PalestinaHometown: Glen Ridge, NJEducation: BFA Acting, MA CounselingFavorite Credits: Be True to Your School and WWhy theater?: It's raw. It's flawed sometimes. It's awkward as…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:30AMBroadway stars John Cudia 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Les Miserables', Michael James Scott 'Book of Mormon,' Disney's 'Aladdin', Kathy Voytko 'Nine,' 'Oklahoma', Raymond Jaramillo McLeod 'Jekyl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMLES MISERABLES star Ramin Karimloo just received his first-ever Tony nomination for his portrayal of 'Jean Valjean', and he stopped by KATIE last week to chat about making his Broadway debut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMThe 2014 honorees for the 70th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony have been announced. Winners for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance, the Dorothy Loudon Award for Exce…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:25AMThe cast of After Midnight, the musical that received seven 2014 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, celebrates Vanessa Williams final performances as the special guest star voca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMSee Rob McClure, Jennifer Bowles and more en francais in the new Encores! revival of Irma La Douce, playing May 7 through 11 at New York City Center.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMThe 12th edition of the Bistro Award-winning series If It Only Even Runs a Minute, celebrating rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales and inspiring photos from underappreciated musicals, was he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMThe Tony race for Best Leading Actress in a Musical is a tight one this year, with five Broadway powerhouses earning well-deserved nods- Sutton Foster, Kelli O'Hara, Mary Bridget Davies, Idi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMThe City Center Encores! production of Irma La Douce, featuring Jennifer Bowles and Tony Award nominee Rob McClure, begins performances May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMAfter celebrating a total of ten Tony nominations—the most of any show this season—including one for Best Musical, the cast of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMLes Miz has received 3 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical Revival! Check out the new TV spot below:
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:02AMEveryone knows that January/February and back-to-school September are tough times for Broadway box offices. When I’m producing a show, I call these traditional sales slump periods &…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMIn many creative aspects we are taught from a young age that versatility is key to success. Actors and performers spend half of their life worrying about finding their niche, and later worry…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AMNorthern Broadsides' impressive production explores the impact of the First World War on a rural community in East Lancashire
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMAlastair Brookshaw impresses as Oscar Wilde in the musical adaptation of his famous love letter
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 War Department propaganda film directed by William Wyler. Some...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM
Of course critics go to the theatre a lot. It’s our job, after all. But we also (most of us, anyway) love the theatre; it’s why we do it. And you can’t keep some of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMAward-winning actor Kevin Spacey appeared on "The Tonight Show" and sang an a cappella version of Jason Derulo's hit song, "Talk Dirty," with Jimmy Fallon's favor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMThese Boots Were Made for Rockin', two concerts organized by Mark Fisher Fitness and featuring Kinky Boots company members, will be presented May 26 at 9:30 PM and 11:30 PM at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe New York City Center Encores production of Irma La Douce, featuring Jennifer Bowles, Rob McClure, and Malcolm Gets will run for seven performances, May 7 - 11, 2014. Irma La Douce is dir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMBeautiful has received 7 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical! Check out the new TV spot below:
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:45AMThe Look of Feeling
Off Off Broadway, Susan Batson Studio Theater
Reviewed by Zahra Sadjadi
BOTTOM LINE: An inspiring portrait of a woman who impacted modern dance, loved being an artist,…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:45AMIt seems to be an impressive figure on its own: A development consortium has purchased the air rights of two Manhattan theaters from the Shubert Organization for a record $409 per square foo…
SOURCE: Capital at 10:42AMJefferson Mays and the stars of the hit Broadway musical A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER joined NBC's Today on the plaza to perform the number, 'I've Decided to Marry You.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMTony Award nominee Laura Bell Bundy has released a new music video "That's What Angels Do," inspired by the divorce of her parents and featuring her mother, Lorna Bundy-Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMToday is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin film A Busy Day. This one is priceless — priceless! Directed by the man Mack Sennett himself, this is one o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:34AMSNL alum Maya Rudolph revitalizes the classic variety show format with THE MAYA RUDOLPH SHOW, premiering May 19 at 109c on NBC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMGeorge Christie, the chairman of Glyndebourne Opera from 1958 to 1999, has died aged 79. A statement issued by his son and current executive chairman, Gus, said: “My father passed away pea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMA celebration of all things swingin’ ’60s. A cultural mish-mash from go-go boots to the pill. One, long “Dear Abby” column. And, a rainbow of fun. Literally. SHOUT! The Mod M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMWednesday, April 16 - The sixteenth annual Otto Rene Castillo Awards for Political Theatre executive producer, Diane Stiles will be held on Sunday, May 18, 2014 at 200 p.m. at the Castillo T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThe Tony Randall Theatrical Fund just announced the award winners for the 2014-2015 season. Furthering its commitment to non-profit theater companies, innovative productions, initiatives in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThe Mabel Mercer Foundation will present an evening celebrating famed singer Margaret Whiting (July 22, 1924-Jan. 10, 2011) June 23 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMStage and screen actor Finn Wittrock will join Aaron Eckhart in the new football film "My All American," about the University of Texas Longhorns, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMActress Julia Roberts stopped by yesterday's ELLEN and discussed her heartbreaking new role in the groundbreaking HBO film 'The Normal Heart.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMNew York City Ballet’s season will also include the principal dancer Wendy Whelan’s farewell performance and the company premiere of “La Sylphide” by its ballet master in chief, Pete…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMThe Southbank Centre is launching a major new festival of performance, events and installations to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web from this autumn. The eight-month even…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMFifty years ago this week, Entertaining Mr Sloane opened at the Arts Theatre Club in London. Joe Orton became the talk of the town and his short but extraordinary career took flight. Revisit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMCitizens of the Capitol! It is time to announce the winner of the 3rd Annual #BwayHungerGames!!! There is no doubt that EVERY tribute has fought valiantly so without further adieu, here is E…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMRivera's voice is distinctive, and the play is at once brutal and poetic, fantastical and resonant of truth
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AM"She had given him that existential certainty, that confidence in his own judgement, which had allowed him to live his...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin is imposing a ban on swearing in Russian movies, music, public performances and books, Bloomberg News reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM Today’s Highlights: * Encores! Irma La Douce, by Marguerite Monnot, Julian More, David Heneker & Monty Norman, directed by John Doyle, featuring Jennifer Bowles, Rob McClu…
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 09:55AMStage and screen star Gina McKee (King Lear, Notting Hill) will play Queen Elizabeth alongside the previously announced Martin Freeman as Richard III in London's West End.The produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:46AM2014's breakout star and Bullets Over Broadway Tony nominee, Nick Cordero talks badass wise-guys, memorable Woody Allen moments and the importance of Thriller.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:42AMReviews of the latest musicals into movies on Broadway.
SOURCE: Popdose at 09:42AMCasting has been announced for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Bruce Norris' The Qualms, which will begin previews July 3 prior to an official opening July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMJoshua Henry, who plays Flick in the Tony-nominated musical Violet, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox — hosted by Seth Rudetsky — May 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMThe last time I tried to rally support for an underappreciated show, I failed miserably. Despite my appeal for The Bridges of Madison County (click here to read what I wrote) the show failed…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:36AMShaw Festival artistic director Jackie Maxwell talks about "re-oxygenating" classics, like "The Philanderer," in the 2014 season, which officially begins May 9 in Ontario.
SOURCE: www.detroitnews.com at 09:35AMMatt Bomer stopped by last night's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON and talked about losing, and regaining, a lot of weight for his role in the upcoming HBO film The Normal Heart.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMIn An Octoroon, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins explodes theatrical history — What do we do with melodrama today? Can a world of excessive emotion, mustache-twirling villains, tragic heroines, …
SOURCE: TDF at 09:21AMTone is the secret behind the tragically soon-to-close Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s lovely, heartfelt and thought-filled musical, The Bridges of Madison County. The theatric…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:11AMFull casting has been announced for Morphic Graffiti's new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel that will begin performances June 18 at London's Arcola Theatre, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AMToday is the birthday of Gary Cooper (1901-1961). Over a half century after his death, Cooper remains one of the greatest movie stars of all time. Modern stars struggle mightily to fill thos…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:07AMGina McKee Di amp Viv amp Rose, King Lear, Ivanov, Our Friends In The North, Notting Hill will play Queen Elizabeth, alongside the previously announced Martin Freeman
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news the 2014 Drama Desk Award nominees rec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMYou know, I've been compiling this list in my head since the beginning of the season. But as a blog entry (or two), it really came together as I stood there in the St. James Theatre, having …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:00AMThe COC’s Don Quichotte, opening May 9, and Man of La Mancha, in previews May 8 at Stratford Festival, are two versions of the same classic tale.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
Directors Michael Blakemore and Blanche McIntyre discuss their productions of Blithe Spirit and Tonight at 8.30Michael Blakemore, aged 85, is directing Angela Lansbury in Sir Noël Cowar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMDavid Baddiel's one man show looks at the perils of being recognised and in a delightfull self deprecating way
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AMOne can almost smell the salt of the sea in Gardner McKay's poignant love story about a long-distance relationship between two middle-aged people
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:46AMCurve, LeicesterThis show based on a sermonising Victorian story has a fatal mix of blandness and mawkishnessVictorian morality is alive and well, and has been given an all-singing, all-danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMGlowing! Ringing! Flying! That can only mean one thing! Peter and the Starcatcher has landed at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre as a part of the Broadway Across America— CareFirst Hippodr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMGina McKee has been cast as Queen Elizabeth in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Richard III at the Trafalgar Studios in London. She will appear opposite the previously announced Martin Freeman,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMDirector Nik Partridge argues that if regional theatres had more provision to support emerging artists, everyone would benefitChris Chibnall, whose play Worst Wedding Ever was staged at his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonLaudable performances and stage design save the RSC's contemporary makeover of this 16th-century true-crime dramaMuch as I welcome the idea of a Swan season …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMToday is the birthday of the great wild west show man William Frank “Doc” Carter (1851-1937). His nickname originated in the fact that he had originally been a frontier dentist…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:09AMThe Department for Culture, Media and Sport has revealed a decline in the percentage of its black and minority ethnic staff. Data released in a report entitled Department for Culture, Media …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMKelli O’Hara, Sutton Foster, Idina Menzel, Mary Bridget Davies and Jessie Mueller, the 2014 Tony nominees for best actress in a musical, discuss their lives in the theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMNoel Sullivan and Ben Richards rock out in the UK tour of the hit Broadway/West End musical.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
When absorbing any artistic experience we can be confounded by our own expectations. Such was the case for me with Bonanza. Rather confusingly, Berlin are a Belgian outfit majoring in cinema…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:50AMWe're very excited to kick off our content series launch for the hit new revival of LES MISERABLES, revealing exclusive content from LES MISERABLES - EVOLUTION OF THE REVOLUTION.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:44AMAthol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca is one of the great plays of the 20th century. David Storch’s production, however, falls short of doing it justice.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:42AMGemma Sutton and Tim Rogers will star in a production of Carousel at London’s Arcola Theatre this summer. Sutton will play Julie Jordan, with Rogers as Billy Bieglow in the new interpretat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMIn Part 4 of our series of interviews with the director and cast of Kensington Arts Theatre’s Les Misérables, meet Harrison Smith. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell us who you play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:37AMFurther casting has been announced for Richard III — the opening production in Jamie Lloyd's second season at the helm of Trafalgar Transformed — which will be presented in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AMSouth African adaptation of August Strindberg classic, at Enwave Theatre until May 10, explodes with erotic intensity, but its potency starts to fade in the final stretch.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:30AMSoho theatre, LondonThe Super Furry Animals frontman brings his concept album, American Interior, to the stage in a ramshackle showIn 1170, as you no doubt know, America was discovered by th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMPeacock Theatre, London: Apart from needing a little updating, and a little editing of one or two dance numbers, Havana Rakatan is a near perfect dance show. Purist may quibble about its his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMDespite the efforts gone into creating this new musical, Water Babies is carried along on a dread tide of earnestness, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:22AMNEW YORK (AP) -- In a room in a lower Manhattan skyscraper, a musical is being born, song by song....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:16AMEpisode 91: The 25 Hour Play Project Playwright and educator Corey-Jan Albert talks about working with student playwrights and how to get students from idea to finished product in 25 hours, …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 07:00AM
NY Music Review By Joel Benjamin Barbara Cook has opined that singers are healers. Certainly, Jason Graae fits that description with his 49-½ Shade…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:57AMPalace, Manchester: Critics were not kind to this mid-1980s LA-set, hair metal-inspired jukebox musical when it transferred from Broadway to the West End in 2011, largely dismissing it as pu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThere was a lot of melding going on at Round House Theatre/Silver Spring last Saturday night — eras, genres, generations, linguistic styles, political paradigms — and some of the combina…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:43AM NY Theater Review by JK Clarke The rivalry between England and France is long-standing and hasn’t always been a peaceful one. Hundreds and hundreds of years...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:29AMThe front wall of the newly rebuilt Liverpool Everyman Theatre feels like a statement of intent. It’s not often you can say that about a wall, but this one features portraits of 105 pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMRaoul Bhaneja's Life, Death and the Blues, Andrew Templeton’s Angus Drive and Sara Farb’s R-E-B-E-C-C-A on playbill.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon: Arden of Faversham is described both as an early domestic tragedy and a black comedy. Polly Findlay, making her RSC directorial debut, has plunged enthusia…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMThe 2001 staging at Shakespeare's Globe, with Mark Rylance tackling a trio of roles, gave clarity to this convoluted playNot a play for rationalists. Dr Johnson wrote of its "unresistin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58AMSuicide attempts may not be the most obvious material for a comedy, but that’s exactly what daring play Way Back explores as it comes to the Brighton Fringe this month – just a few miles…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47AMCurve, Leicester: After Broadway's now infamous Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark took the musical into new territory with aerial feats that had actors hurtling all over the auditorium and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMCuts to local authority funding in England have led to greater reductions in arts and culture spend in poorer areas than in wealthier areas, data collected by a shadow culture minister’s o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM
Are critics burning "The Substance of Fire"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 03:50AMEric Idle introduces The Lousy Song as an 'extraordinary, silly release', ahead of Monty Python's run of live shows at the O2 and a reissue of their Monty Python Sings LPMonty Python have re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39AMThe Palm Springs Follies is an old-fashioned musical revue with a difference: the performers are old enough to have been in shows like this in their heyday. After 23 seasons, the show closes…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:35AMPeople who attend plays have a level of wellbeing equivalent to the amount of happiness derived from a £1,000 annual income increase, new research on the social impacts of culture has found…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMBITTER Instead, Lazar and his cohorts have kicked Chekhov aside and substituted their own sensibilities for his. Subtle realism has been replaced by vaudeville shtick. In other words, the di…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:23AM2014 Tony Award nominee for Best Featured Actress In A Musical Lena Hall shares her personal perspective on her daily routine and preparation for portraying the gender-bending character of Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AM
What do you get when you mix 10 gallons of blue paint, 360 pounds of Jell-O, 15 pounds of Cap’n Crunch cereal, 30 boxes of Twinkie Lights, 550 feet of PVC piping, and 40 drum heads? A thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30AMMusic superstar, acclaimed concert performer and vocalist Josh Groban follows up his acclaimed solo album ALL THAT ECHOES with a special deluxe edition containing four bonus tracks, which is…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLong Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joshua Borenstein, will present The Last Five Years, written and composed by Jason Robert…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThough I believe the rezzies are already at capacity for this next incarnation of my play, I thought I’d get it out there for those of you who missed the last read at Rogue Machine bac…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:23AMTony the Frank tears the scab off the dirty little secret concerning a couple of America’s “golden boy” playwrights with this week’s COW. He casts his net a bit far…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:15AMTreason is common at a time of ideological divisions, and traitors may be brave and honourable men, says Allan Massie
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:10AMThe New York City Center Encores production of Irma La Douce, featuring Jennifer Bowles, Rob McClure, andMalcolm Gets will run for seven performances, beginning tonight, May 7 and playing th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01AMAn all-comedy performances, all-lady hosts episode from Lindsay, Nicole, and Elise. Hear the tale of Lindsay and Nicole’s harrowing bus ride to Boston and subsequent run-in with Wyatt…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:00AMA visually arresting new lyric video showcasing one of the most memorable anthems from the celebrated score for Disney's hit screen-to-stage adaptation NEWSIES.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMCharli XCX on Miley Cyrus and Writing the Icona Pop Hit "I Love It"
YH hangs out with synthpop singer/songwriter Charli XCX at SXSW, where the British artist tells us about her experiences i…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMCallie Prendiville, left, Luverne Seifert and Becca Lustgarten in South Coast Repertory's production of Moliere's "Tartuffe."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMNew and recent works by director Robert Wilson, artist Matthew Barney and avant-garde musician John Zorn are among the highlights of the new 2014-15 season of the Center for the Art of Perfo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
American Theater Company’s production of “Hair” is one of the best productions of the musical in ages.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:58AMThe great director Peter Brook comes to ACT with an Apartheid-era South African fable, and the results are... eh.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 12:12AMLa Boite’s 2014 Indie season kicks off with Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles. Clever and unpretentious, 4000 Miles delivers contemporary writing with a traditional feel, merging current ideas wit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:05AMA Play With...Music?by Gaëtan L. CharleboisNadia Verucci is a META award winning actor, singer, director and choreographer, and the Artistic Director of In Your Face entertainment. She has …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMOne thing you can say for Montreal's FTA organization: they give good vid. This gem is for the upcoming dance piece, Solitudes Solo from Daniel Léveillé Danse.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMIn Baltimore’s art scene, we’re accustomed to viewing dainty, craft-inspired artwork in former auto-body shops, looking at delicate paintings in filthy warehouses, and encountering conce…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMRussell De Ocampo, the owner of the Windup Space, accidentally told City Paper photographer J.M. Giordano that he could photograph Chris LaMartina, the director of Call Girl of Cthulhu, for …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Words and music by Stephen Sondheim; book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by Ryan Haase
Presented by Stillpointe Theatre Initiative at Area 405 thr…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, May 6, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe latest silver-screener to migrate to the Great White Way is Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen’s 1994 film about a playwright who becomes entangled with mobsters. The musical-comedy, s…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMIn Your Arms, a new dance musical with a score by Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty featuring vignettes by playwrights including Douglas Carter Beane, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, Raj…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Boston Pops spring season, which runs through June 14, kicks off May 7 with Tony Award winner Jason Alexander. Keith Lockhart conducts the famed orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Long Wharf Theatre presents Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed Off-Broadway musical The Last Five Years beginning May 7, prior to an official opening May 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe City Center Encores! production of Irma La Douce, featuring Jennifer Bowles and Tony Award nominee Rob McClure, begins performances May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"The season will feature two New York premieres, garment and K I N G D O M, that use small performance ceremonies to observe antiquation, literacy, transfiguration, and reformation."
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM 
