The Peccadillo Theater Company helps reclaim a fine play by William Inge that should never have slipped from sight, while Connecticut's Goodspeed Musicals presents "Damn Yankees"—tweaked t…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:25PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, presented its 2014 Annual Gala, MUSICAL MASTERWORKS, Monday evening, May 12 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:16PMLa Boite Theatre Company has confirmed that Chris Kohn will assume the position of Artistic Director and CEO later this month. Kohn comes to the position having previously worked as Artistic…
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The world premiere of Kimber Lee's 'different words for the same thing' opened last weekend on May 11 at the Center Theatre Group Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Performances continue …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:57PMINTIMATE, HUMBLE: THE BEST COMMEMORATION The title comes from Philip Larkin’s poem MCMXIV, evoking the rural England of 1914 as young men queued, as if at a football match, to enlis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:45PMJoin co-hosts Florence Henderson and Constantine Maroulis as Broadway legend, Barbara Cook, receives The Julie Harris Award for Artistic Achievement at The Actors Fund's 18th Annual Tony Awa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMThe Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC presents A Gay Man’s Guide to Broadway with special guest Tony Award winner Laura Benanti This Sunday, May 18th at 4 PM at The Kennedy Center’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06PMREVIEW: Two high schools face off for nationals in “Bring It On: The Musical,” unleashing songs — and plenty of pep — along the way.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 07:04PMGoodspeed Musicals will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof with an inspiring new production beginning June 27th at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:03PMLast night, Opera Australia had some mighty shoes to fill. Some 20 years ago today, I was introduced to Bizet’s Carmen sitting in an ancient arena in summertime Verona. It was the quintess…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThe fun thing about the Anywhere Theatre Festival is that you just don’t know where you are going to end up. It’s like a treasure hunt and the gold at the end is a unique theatrical expe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMMore than 80 pieces at Blue Line Gallery in Roseville range from utilitarian objects to figurative and abstract sculptures. … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:00PMLacking balance but most hits the spot, says Carole Baldock of new Liverpool play, Hope Place.
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More a curiosity piece than a great film, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre — the 1979 remake of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent black & white picture Nosferatu — is nevertheless …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:58PMLa Jolla Playhouse presents its Page To Stage workshop production of Chasing the Song, a jubilant new musical by the team behind the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, featuring book and ly…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMJoshua Henry celebrates his second Tony Award nomination for playing Flick in the Roundabout Theater Company revival of Violet with a visit to Show People with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:44PMToday we continue our Tonys coverage with Reed Birney, a nominee for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Casa Valentina, who chats about why the show is 'the perfect acting experiences,' how h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMJoin Anita Gillette and Richard Skipper Live On Stage: Celebrating Anita Gillette’s fifty-year career, candid stories about some of her relationships with Broadway’s and Hollywood's brig…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:35PMEarlier this week BWW introduced you to the creators of the new webseries THAT'S EDUCATIONAL.Created by Eric Mendenhall and Matthew Myers, THAT'S EDUCATIONAL is a comic mocumentary web serie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMThe three-time Tony winner will star with John Lithgow, Lindsay Duncan, Bob Balaban, Clare Higgins and Martha Plimpton in a revival of Edward Albee's 1966 drama.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:34PMA ROAD TRIP YOU HAVE TO TAKE Some may not know this, but Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard is also an amazing short story writer. After reading Cr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PMThe cast of Pam Mackinnon’s revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance is so super starry, we can barely believe it.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 06:24PMBay Street Theatre is pleased to announce that its 23rd Annual Summer Gala will take place in Sag Harbor at the Long Wharf on July 12, 2014 to benefit Bay Street's educational and theatrical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMBlack Ensemble Theater announced its 2014 season on Thursday. Beginning with the previously slated “One Hit Wonders,” the season is made up of three musical productions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:06PMIf you were a child, you would surely beg director Mary Zimmerman to tell you a bedtime story every night of the year.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:05PMOn Twitter Watch, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote 'Happy opening night intheheightsldn
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMDear Kelli O’Hara–We’re crying. We’re crying over Bridges of Madison County‘s untimely closing. We’re crying over the snubbing of your handsome costa…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:02PMThe new Pace School of Performing Arts will be Manhattan’s first new such school in nearly 50 years, the university said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMThe event on 1 June features ten leading actors including Simon Russell Beale, David Harewood and Juliet Stevenson
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:00PMWorking with two separate companies, the youthful director has a pair of very different operas on the stocks.
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Memorable performances sometimes pop up where you don't expect them. Sheridan's The Rivals is best known as the play that features the word-misusing Mrs. Malaprop, but the best performances …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:59PMIt's the first episode of James Snyder's new vlog, and he's taking us backstage and giving If/Then fans some serious screen time.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMWilliam Inge's half-remembered plays are finally making a slow but sure comeback. Witness the Peccadillo Theater Company's new off-Broadway revival of "A Loss of Roses," which broke his four…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 05:55PMNow in its second year on Broadway, CINDERELLA continues to play to large and enthusiastic audiences at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. The show currently stars Grammy-nominated recordin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMIt was a mini 2004 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Broadway revival reunion at the wedding of celebrity fitness expert Craig Ramsay and celebrity hairstylist Brandon Liberati at the Riviera Palm Springs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMBrochu won multiple awards for 'Zero Hour' and returned this year with an autobiographical tribute to character actors, 'Character Man'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMVocal Selections are now available for First Date, which features 10 songs 'First Impressions,' 'I'd Order Love', 'The One', 'Safer', 'Something That Will Last', 'The Things I Never Said' an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMAlva Chin-TV: Law and Order SVU; Guiding Light; All My Children; Spin City; The Cosby Show. Film: Torch Song Trilogy; Regarding Henry; Great Expectations; Bright Lights, Big City; Brotherly …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:45PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, May 15, 2014 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Watch @BULLETSOVERBWAY star @iamNickCordero inter…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMThe choreographer Paul Taylor sold four of his Robert Rauschenberg pieces on Wednesday and Thursday to help pay for the new center of modern dance he is creating.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:41PMJames Scruggs was awarded a grant from Franklin Furnace in August of 2002. In March 2003 he became a resident artist at HERE Arts Center. Disposable Men his solo performance piece …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:40PMKristin Chenoweth, who's heading back to Broadway next spring in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, covers this month's issue of Women's Running magazine, and the Tony winner recently opened up to En…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PMWe have 2 x double passes to give away to Perth Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed It’s Dark Outside at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta from 26th to 29th May. Inspired by expe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:36PM Mark Rayment has been a professional theatre director and actor for 25 years. Originally from the United Kingdom, he has worked internationally and now lives …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:35PM£10 tickets to see Microcosm at Soho Theatre. Be quick, the offer is valid for performances from 16 May – 18 May. Alex has his flat. His home. He’s building a life with Clare. Noth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Lucky Stiff, Starring Jason Alexander and Nikki M. James, Scheduled for 2015 Release
The previously reported film adaptat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PMTriple Tony-award winning actress Glenn Close will return to Broadway later this year after a 20-year absence, starring opposite John Lithgow in a new production of Edward Albee's "A Delicat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:27PMFran Drescher, currently starring as wicked stepmother Madame in Cinderella on Broadway, is offering an all-expense-paid trip to New York in support of her charity Cancer Schmancer, which pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PMPHOTO FUN: The Ensemblist hits If/Then
Mo and Nikka loved checking out If/Then at the Richard Rogers Theatre. Check out Mo’s blog spot to hear about the exciting night: http://tmblr.co/ZV…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 05:15PMCaitlin Kinnunen (Spring Awakening) is featured as teenage daughter Carolyn in the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County. She shares a two-show day at the Schoenfeld T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMCaitlin Kinnunen (Spring Awakening) is featured as teenage daughter Carolyn in the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County. She shares a two-show day at the Schoenfeld T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMAdler & Gibb by Tim Crouch Royal Court Theatre TOP PRICE TICKETS FOR £10 Claim the offer: Get top price tickets for Adler & Gibb for just £10 (normally £32) for performances betwe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:05PMreview: Sally Ann Wright mixes maternal love and brassy narcissism in “Gypsy.”
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:02PMThe Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is New York’s premier eco-friendly/socially conscious theatre, music and film festival. From May 14 to June 8, the Paradise Factory will be h…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:00PMYou can easily see why "The Gondoliers" – the last major triumph of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership – remains one of the most popular of all the Savoy operas.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00PMTim Rice's new musical, which closed earlier this year, will be broadcast on the 60th anniversary of the original film's Oscar wins
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00PMForbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! parodies popular Broadway shows including Hedwig, Aladdin, The Bridges of Madison County, and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe play will make its New York premiere under Hershey Felder's direction.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMChicago playwright Brett Neveu's new play will open off-Broadway this summer.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:56PMAn attention-grabbing new promotional trailer for the upcoming movie theater presentation of recent West End musical FROM HERE TO ETERNITY is now available to view.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMFrom two couples struggling with their relationships on the days leading up to 9/11/01 to one man's indecision to reunite with his ex-boyfriend or continue his new-found relationshi…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 04:47PMJonathan Groff, Denis O'Hare, Taylor Kitsch ("Friday Night Lights"), Frank De Julio ("Smash," "Gossip Girl") and Sean Meehan ("Blue Bloods," "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3") took to the red car…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMThe 2014-15 season on Broadway is shaping up to be just as starry as the current one, with Glenn Close now confirmed for a fall opening in a Rialto revival of “A Delicate Balance”…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMJason Robert Brown, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Ally Sheedy, Jarrod Spector and Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson are among the artists scheduled to honor singer, songwriter, humanitarian and LaGu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMWe’re giving away tickets to the final show of INCOMING Festival 2014. Winners will also receive exclusive entry to the Incoming Festival closing party! The New Wolsey Young Associates…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39PMYou only have three more weeks to catch Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre. Michael Blakemore’s production – and, more specifically, Angela Lansbury’s performance in it as dotty clai…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:33PMJerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens San Francisco Opera's Summer Season on June 1 with nine subsequent performances through July 2, 2014. A watershed of American musical t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Triple Tony-award winning actress Glenn Close will return to Broadway later this year after a 20-year absence, starring opposite John Lithgow in a new production of Edwa…
SOURCE: Reuters at 04:19PMThaïs, the sexiest woman in Alexandria during the Byzantine era, and Blanche DuBois, the steamy Southern belle slipping past her prime in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,”…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:19PMBill Irwin, Harriet Harris, Kristen Wyatt and John Bolton headline San Francisco Opera's large scale summer production of Hammerstein and Kern's Show Boat helmed by Francesca Zambell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMPhoto by Elj van RielLost in Translationby Beat RiceIf one reads the Artistic Director’s notes in the program before a performance, they will find themselves moved and humbled by Franco Bo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:14PMThe cast of Gerard Alessandrini's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY COMES OUT SWINGING records the original cast CD for DRG Records today at Avatar Studios. Produced by Hugh Fordin, the release date is soo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMCelebrated film and stage star Neil Patrick Harris returns to Broadway in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," a show that received a total of eight Tony nominations, including one for Har…
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:09PMCelebrated film and stage star Neil Patrick Harris returns to Broadway in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," a show that received a total of eight Tony nominations, including one for Har…
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:09PMPaul Taylor, widely considered “the greatest living pioneer of America’s indigenous art form of modern dance,” has managed to keep his dance company alive and creatively vibrant for 60…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:08PMOne-hit wonder. It’s a tag with certain connotations for singers, denoting pretty much their only brush with musical fame. Black Ensemble Theater reaches into this grab bag of artists and …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:06PMFUN HOME, MURDER FOR TWO y DISASTER! son algunos de los musicales nominados en la cuarta edición de estos galardones que premian los mejores espectáculos de la temporada del Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: www.todomusicales.com at 04:03PMIn William Burke’s “the food was terrible,” at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, the discussion in a bar revolves around people who died and the services for them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMGentleman's Guide star Bryce Pinkham talks about finally getting to make out with a Broadway babe and his big ideas for both Bryan Cranston and Hugh Jackman.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PMTwo Minnesota artists probe American culture and character in a smart new show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:00PMThe first production in the latest Globe on Screen season is Jeremy Herrin's Tempest starring Roger Allam, Colin Morgan and Jessie Buckley
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe cast and crew held a cupcake party to toast the special occasion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMDrama Desk Special Award Winner Ed Sylvanus Iskandar directs.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe theater's Victory Dance program will launch this summer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe Grammy Award winner joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars in the production for one night only.
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Tickets are now on sale for the off-Broadway premiere of Joan Beber’s Ethel Sings, starring Tracy Michailidis as real-life convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg. The play, under the direction …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:56PMBroadway’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 03:55PMYou can’t sell your soul for money. But at what point does the sentimental value of a family heirloom become diminished enough to sell it for money? When ghosts of the past, both figurativ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMSongwriter and music director Georgia Stitt, producer Ken Davenport and casting director Cesar Rocha will judge BroadwaySpotted's Next Big Star competition finalists, who will sing live …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. at Harvard University, under the leadership of Diane Paulus, Artistic Director and William Russo, Managing Director present the last production of its 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carrie Fisher is excited about her "Star Wars" return, even if she can't say much about it....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:49PMThe Pearl Theatre Company revives The Rivals, a 1775 comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by The Pearl’s new artistic director Hal Brooks. Carol Schultz reprises th…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:42PMTheatre is often at its best when it’s making fun of itself, and new musical Ushers, written by Yiannis Koutsakos and directed by Max Reynolds, makes a wonderfully affectionate mockery of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:41PMOprah paid a visit to the Broadway production of After Midnight the evening of May 14. She met with the cast after the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PM(3/5 Stars) Not knowing much about this relatively new musical I took my seat in the audience with genuine excitement: the stage was already beautifully lit, with a single, large monochrome …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:33PM Glenn Close will be returning to Broadway this Fall, in a new production of Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance” opposite John Lithgow. The cast includes: Lin…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:31PMName: Sam GarberHometown: San FranciscoEducation: BFA from NYU and the Stella Adler Studio of ActingWho do you play in The Mysteries?: James the Great, YentaTell us about The Mysteries: It i…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:24PM(5/5 Stars) I must start my review of Northern Stage’s production of Catch 22 by declaring a bias: Joseph Heller’s seminal novel is my favourite. I was intrigued, and slightly concerned,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:23PMFew people look directly at Violet (Sutton Foster), and those who do tend to react in unsettling, unsubtle ways. Badly scarred as a child by an axehead that flew off its handle, Violet has g…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:23PMThe company of the latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway, which is entitled Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!, recorded the show's original cast album May…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMHeathers star Elle McLemore answers seven questions about parties, crushes and surviving high school.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:19PMThe theater community is expected to celebrate late great actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, but some of the most heartfelt salutes have come from people far from New York stages.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:19PMBy Patricia Davis. Although it is based on Ovid’s account of the myth of Philomela in "Metamorphoses", "The Love of the Nightingale" goes beyond the simple outlines of that myth. Wertenbak…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:11PMFun’s Home’s Beth Malone will play the titular role in the “refreshed” revival of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Helmed by three-time Tony winner Kathleen Marshall, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PM(2/5 Stars) A series of subversive songs originally from the twenties through to the fifties, A Berlin Kabaret focuses on the dissenting voices against the growing tide of Nazism, before mov…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:10PMAnyone who travels for work knows that living out of suitcases and sleeping in hotels every night can be taxing. Well, recently three members of the SISTER ACT First National Tour decided to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMGlenn Close, John Lithgow, Lindsay Duncan, Bob Balaban, Clare Higgins, and Martha Plimpton will star in a new Broadway production of Edward Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE this fall at the Golden…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMThe artist, whose new show is based on lines from film and TV, explores what our favourite pop culture quotes say about usMy new solo show, American Boy, is made up almost entirely of film a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM The 68th annual American Theater Wing’s Tony Awards will be presented on Sunday evening June 8, telecast live, as usual, by CBS. Also as usual, there are some closely …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:00PMWe snuck into a rehearsal for the production currently playing at the Southwark Playhouse to get the inside scoop on the show
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:00PMEdgar Oliver debuts his new solo performance piece at the Axis Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMPerez Hilton will moderate the conversation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMThe fall revival will also star Martha Plimpton, Bob Balaban, Lindsay Duncan, and Clare Higgins.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMEdgar Oliver debuts his new solo performance piece at the Axis Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMOscar winner Melissa Leo and Tony nominee Mary Beth Hurt are also among the cast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
(1/5 Stars) Heiner Muller’s works are not known to be the easiest to comprehend, watch and – I’m sure – work on. Muller is renowned for his complex, dense and poetic works and has of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMDisney has released its first teaser trailer for the live-action “Cinderella,” and it is just that — a tease. In the trailer, fans will not get glimpse of Cinderella, a fairy godmother…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director is thrilled to present Tony Award winner, two-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Jim Dale in his solo show,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMIt’s possible! The cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella celebrated a huge milestone on May 15—the hit musical has officially reached the 500-performance mark! To ki…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMBy Tiffany Antone. How many playwrights have been told to self-produce? It seems like the go-to response anytime someone expresses frustration with the current system of “Development.” I…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:49PMThe ability to confound expectations and take a surprising angle on an evocative notion is emblematic of what Fardon does best in "Do Not Disturb."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:48PMIt’s extremely difficult not to like a show that culminates in a two-course meal that includes freshly baked bread, hearty soup and homemade rhubarb schnapps. Add to that the wonderful loc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:48PMNEW YORK (AP) -- John Lithgow is returning to the New York stage with gusto in 2014 - first with Shakespeare's "King Lear" in Central Park this summer and then in a Broadway revival of E…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:46PMSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court has ruled that a $3.75 million life insurance policy singer Frankie Valli and his ex-wife purchased while they were married is communit…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:40PMThe cast is set for the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance. Tony winner John Lithgow and nominee Martha Plimpton will join the previously speculated three-time Tony …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:39PMLionsgate has released one of the first images of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in THE HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY - Part 1.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMPatti Issues, the critically acclaimed solo show by actor, writer and Playbill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower, will play an additional show at Fire Island Pines Aug. 9 at 10 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMTwo small companies open shows this weekend: One features a young, rising playwright, and the other goes back to a familiar American voice.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:32PMPatti Issues, the critically acclaimed solo show by actor, writer and Playbill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower, will play an additional show at Fire Island Pines Aug. 9 at 10 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMGardner McKay’s 1971 play “Sea Marks” reminds us that romance, like real estate, hangs on the almighty trinity — location, location, location.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:31PMAN ANCIENT SWEETNESS ON A GOODMAN STAGE Infatuated with alteration, Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman loves transformations, metamorphoses, shape-shifting, and slow to rapid mood swings. Nothing sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25PMThe Bristol Old Vic chief talks to the co-founder of Mayfest the annual festival of experimental theatre about a city whose artists are as energetically unpredictable as their audiencesTom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22PMCasting has been announced for the 2014 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Gala 'One Acts for a Cause' set to take place on Sunday, June 22 at 730pm at the East 13th Street Theater 136 Eas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMMercury Theater gets it right - despite its adult content, Avenue Q leaves its audience with warm fuzzies. Thanks to the excellent production team, musicians and cast, this show is not to be…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:12PMIf you are looking to have a toe-tappin’, finger-snappin’ good time, then treat yourself to see Smokey Joe’s Cafe – The Songs of Leiber and Stoller at Arena Stage, …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:08PMShe’s gonna love you forever! A big mean, fire-breathing machine! Part Two of the Story of My Life: The Freak Flag Chronicles interview series takes flight with cast member Ashley Johnson,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:03PMDisney has issued a teaser and poster art for Kenneth Branagh's forthcoming live action CINDERELLA adaptation due in theaters March 13, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMThe productions run concurrently in August as part of a four-year series commemorating the Great War
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PM
Fleabag is filthy. A potty-mouthed provocation of a play that deftly unpacks the complexities of contemporary feminism. But for all its mind-in-the-gutter hilarity, it is ultimately guilty o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:59PMEdward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Delicate Balance will return to Broadway this fall with a cast boasting Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Lindsay Duncan, Bob Balaban, Clare Higgin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM92Y announces a discussion with the stars and creative team of Mothers and Sons, the acclaimed new play recently nominated for two Tony Awards - Best Play and Best Actress in a Leading Role.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMAge: 24
Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
Current Role: A stunning Broadway debut as the Nazi-sympathizing, accordian-playing prostitute Fraulein Kost, who rents a room in the same boarding …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMThe television network Univision bought out the Al Hirschfeld Theatre for its upfront presentations May 8-13. As a result the cast of Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots found themselves with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMBroadway's LaChanze, a Tony Award-winner, performer whose husband Calvin Joseph Gooding perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks, performed a stunning a cappella version of Amazing Grace
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- For Edie Falco, the stigma surrounding older actresses is nothing more than Hollywood folklore. In fact, the 50-year-old says life has never been sweeter....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:48PMA Red Orchid Theatre, a longtime fixture of Chicago's Off Loop community, announced Thursday that it has established a new partnership with the New York-based Bisno Productions, aimed at tra…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:40PMI think I had Twitter open for all of ten seconds today when this story popped up: Chipotle cups will now feature stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, and other authors. I didn…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 01:34PMBy HowlRound TV. Little Black Dress INK, Los Angeles is excited to bring its 2014 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Project to the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRoundTV network at howlrou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:34PM... nice songs and nice singing from the Carole King musical Beautiful and Beautiful Dreamer from Broadway-experienced Donna Vivino.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:32PMWho’s the newest brave contender to step into the Broadway ring with the Italian Stallion? It’s Tony-winning Hairspray fave Marissa Jaret Winokur! After seeing Andy Karl and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:25PMLaChanze, a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer whose husband Calvin Joseph Gooding was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, sang an a cappella version of “Amazing Grace” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PMLaChanze, who lost her husband Calvin Gooding in the tragic events of September 11, 2001, took part in the May 15 dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The Tony-winning ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PMDirector Michael Mayer was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," along with the show's star. Neil Patrick Harris. Mayer also told us what he's been reading, w…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:21PMGood 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 UNDER MY SKIN opens off-Broadway, JUST…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMJames Earl Jones said 'I'm standing up for children who are trying to find their voice' and supporting SAY The Stuttering Association for the Young in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMStephen Sorokoff My View: The Sound is Awesome 15 Miles From Lincoln Center" The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center is probably one of the best venues in the world to see a performance.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:06PMJason Robert Brown, the Tony-nominated composer of The Bridges of Madison County, was honored with a portrait on the legendary Sardi’s wall on May 14, 2014. Click to see the new work o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMKate Baldwin previews her show, Sing Pretty, Don't Fall Down at 54 Below. Click to see her sing 'Look at You, Look at Me' from the new solo concert!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMHow did you first explore designing Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill? Lonny and I actually did a version of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill about 6 years ago at the Long W…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:00PMBelow you can check out photos of Ramin Karimloo, nominated for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Les Miserables, in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In the Spotlight' by acclaimed photograph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMThe production, which premiered in 2012, will play a limited London run following its UK tour
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Broadway's LaChanze, a Tony Award-winner whose husband Calvin Joseph Gooding perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks, performed a stunning a cappella version of 'Amazing Grace' during thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMTwo weeks after the Pennsylvania Ballet said its artistic director would step down, the executive director is also leaving.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMNPH revealed that he would instead love to serve as host of a weekly variety show for the CBS network.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMThe young starlet Jessica Griffin has been entertaining family and friends since her first role as Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz”. Currently starring in “Intermission”…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:48PMAbout Face Theatre commemorates Pride Month with THE PRIDE PERFORMANCE SERIES, a spectacular line-up of readings, performances and special events throughout June celebrating the LGBTQIA expe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMJason Robert Brown, the Tony Award-winning Parade songwriter, took his final trip to Madison County May 14, conducting his 2014 Tony-nominated score of The Bridges of Madison County for a fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM Mackintosh is storming Broadway! He was best known in the 1980′s for invading Broadway with hits such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Cats! However, Cameron Mackintos…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:43PMTony Award-winning actress LaChanze, who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, performed a moving version of "Amazing Grace" during the May 15 dedication …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMAbout Face Theatre, a company devoted to advancing the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, will kick off its Pride Performance Series with a reading of Buyer and Cellar playwrig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMAbout Face Theatre, a company devoted to advancing the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, will kick off its Pride Performance Series with a reading of Buyer and Cellar playwrig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMSome of New York's top dance companies will be offering programs for children at the New Victory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:26PMBroadway’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 12:25PMOver 400 guests including current and past New York City high school students, and the performing arts professional mentors who have participated in TDF's Open Doors, the theatre arts mentor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMDing-dong. Who’s there? Why, it’s Jim Parsons! The star of HBO’s The Normal Heart stopped by the Golden Theatre to pay a visit to Mothers and Sons stars Tyne Daly, Bob…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:11PMLeading lights from indie comedy and music's cutting edge, including W. Kamau Bell, Nikki Glaser, Jillette Johnson, Eliot Glazer, Mates of State, WakeyWakey and more will headline UNCIVIL UN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMInspiratons: Standby Jackie Burns Performs Act II in If/Then
Last night, Nikka and I were lucky enough to see an unforgettable performance of If/Then. During the first act, star Idina Menz…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 12:08PMThe Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, has announced the nominees for the 4th Annual Of…
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 12:06PMBy the time Bloody Poetry, Howard Brenton’s 1984 play of the romantic poets, begins in the current Taffety Punk production, Percy Byshhe Shelley is already en route to Switzerland with h…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:05PMArclight Films is now launching sales of the film, starring Jason Alexander, the late Dennis Farina, Dominic Marsh, Nikki M. James, Don Amendolia, Pamela Shaw and Kate Shindle at the Cannes …
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:00PMThe Godfather consiglieri took in a recent performance of John Steinbeck's drama at the Longacre Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMBroadway and film stars will celebrate the 1870s with Gilbert & Sullivan, Tolstoy, Twain, and more at this year's gala.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMLove hurts in Rajiv Joseph’s "Gruesome Playground Injuries" at Rogue Machine, George Bernard Shaw's "The Philanderer" plays the field at Long Beach Playhouse, and Shakespeare's "The Tempes…
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Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland closed on May 15, 2011, following 33 performances. We remember the show by looking back at the two-show day documented by cast members Jose Llana and Heather Par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMTalk show queen Oprah Winfrey stayed up late to check out the hottest jazz show in town—After Midnight, Broadway’s toe-tapping, Tony-nominated Duke Ellington revue. Click for pho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMSt. Luke's Theatre: 308 W 46th St., Midtown West New York
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:53AMVariety reports that Arclight Films is currently in Cannes, launching sales for the film adaptation of the Ahrens and Flaherty musical Lucky Stiff, which features Tony winners Jason Alexande…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMIn 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 11:49AMBroadway legend Liza Minnelli spent the day with Carole King on May 14! Well, not the real Carole King, but Tony nominee Jessie Mueller, who embodies the singer-songwriter in the acclaimed n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:47AMDenzel Washington, currently starring in the acclaimed Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, will serve as Host of the Shubert FoundationMTI Broadway Junior Student Share celebration w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMIn the modest black box theater where Taffety Punk Theatre Company is in residence in Capitol Hill, there is currently the kind of brash, invigorating literature lesson any teacher would cov…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:39AMBelow, check out photos of Tyne Daly, Zach Braff and Nick Cordero on the show
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMTheater Breaking Through Barriers TBTB, the critically acclaimed theater company dedicated to advancing artists with disabilities and changing the image of people with disabilities from depe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMHundreds of NYC Public School Students to Make Their Broadway Debut NEW YORK – Denzel Washington, currently starring in the acclaimed Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, will serve…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:32AMFor the first time since the 1971 bow of Jesus Christ Superstar, a new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical may premiere on Broadway prior to London. The Telegraph reports that the award-winning comp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMTony-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown was honored May 14 with a portrait that now adorn the walls of the famed eatery.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMIt seems deeply appropriate that a superb book of essays by W.G. Sebald about his favorite writers should be his swan song.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:25AMLet the kitty claws come out. There’s a new crew of fashionistas ready to read the red carpet. Tony Award-nominee Tony Marion (Big Fish, Evita, Ghost) will host a new web-series with …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:23AMLiverpool’s Royal Court Theatre artistic director Ken Alexander is to leave the venue at the end of next month after 18 months in post and will not be replaced. He will step down from his&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:20AMJoin Anita Gillette and Richard Skipper as they sit down to discuss Anita's career and life at The Spiral Theatre on June 11.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMAriana Grande surprised her fans by sharing a studio version of an old scrapped song 'Boyfriend Material' on Twitter.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMRita Harvey will bring her solo concert 'I Know These Things' to 54 Below on May 28, 2014 at 930 p.m.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s next musical could become his first in more than 40 years to open on Broadway ahead of the West End, with the composer claiming child licensing rules in the US are mo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMAmber Petty, who stars in 50 Shades! The Musical, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMOne of Tuesday more fascinating panels at the Broadway League Conference was one entitled, Equip Your Army; Why Content is King, and featured a troop of social media experts from YouTube, G…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMI’ll keep the formal introduction brief… Hello. My name is Jamie. You can read more about me here. This post is the first in a series which I’m writing for the Green Room blog over the…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AMSardi's just hosted the caricature unveiling for Jason Robert Brown, who was just nominated for two Tony Awards for The Bridges of Madison County. Brown was joined by family, friends, collea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThe Bridges of Madison County songwriter has his face immortalized for the walls of the famed theater-district restaurant.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMFrank Loesser's classic musical closes out the theater's 205th season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe grants will fund a wide variety of projects.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:00AMOur chief critic responds to yesterday's blog by Henry Filloux-Bennett and pays tribute to a late critical friend (and foe)
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Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal's engaging mixed programme spans work by Liam Scarlett, George Balanchine and Christopher Wheeldon, with music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Michael Nyma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:59AMIt takes time to build a theatre company, and not just in a logistical sense; you also have to find your voice and working method. So it should not be taken as anything but a good sign of co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMJust last night, the Tony Award-nominated smash hit Broadway musical After Midnight, welcomed Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis to the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars for one night only. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMA starry collection of Tony Award winners will perform at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center throughout its 2014-15 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMWhat would you do if a tree house in your neighborhood could transport you anywhere you wanted to go? Two siblings, Jack and Annie, return to visit the Magic Tree House filled with a magnifi…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:52AMComplete casting and creative team have been announced for the Guthrie Theater's upcoming production of the classic musical My Fair Lady, which will begin previews June 28 prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMAfter 13 nonconsecutive weeks, the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning movie "Frozen" — Disney's 3-D animated film that features the voices of Tony Award winner Idina Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMAfter 13 nonconsecutive weeks, the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning movie "Frozen" — Disney's 3-D animated film that features the voices of Tony Award winner Idina Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMAn exceptionally fine revival of "Of Mice and Men" and an endearing "Violet." Reviews appear in other North Jersey Media Group Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 10:44AMPlays don’t come much more baleful than “Titus Andronicus” or chronicle moral decay better than “A Small Family Business.’'
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMTheater and gory horror movies have long been strange bedfellows. Here is a sampling of films set in the cutthroat world of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:40AMThe New York Theatre Workshop's spring gala, A Tale of Two Dodgers: A Musical Celebration, honored Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff and president of The Dodgers Michael David…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThe Fab Four will “Come Together” once more! Let It Be, the musical tribute to the Beatles, will return to the West End. The show will begin performances on July 9 at the Garrick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:39AMSerenade, Sweet Violets and Danse à Grande Vitesse make for an absorbing evening at the Royal Ballet, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:35AMDescribed by friend, and co-creator of THE RESIDUALS, Michael Paul Smith as the 'Unofficial Mayor of Midtown,' James Tabeek has appeared on Broadway in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, TABOO, and MARY …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMToday is the day! 100 years ago, Julius, Milton, Adolph and Leonard Marx were playing poker in Galesburg, Illinois with a vaudeville monologist named Art Fisher, who, riffing on a popular co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:34AMThe theatre trip I’m on right now is as exhilarating as it is exhausting, and I have nowhere near enough time to write about what I’m seeing. I’ll probably do a short-form …
SOURCE: www.dispositio.net at 10:31AMElaine Paige’s BBC Radio 2 musical theatre programme now has an average 2.3 million listeners each week, with the broadcaster claiming the figure is a record for the show. Elaine Paige on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMAward-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, known for his range of talents that includes acting, singing and hosting awards shows, may host a variety show on CBS, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM"Glee" actor Chris Colfer is attached to star in a biopic about Tony Award-winning playwright and composer Noël Coward, according to ScreenDaily.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMOn last night's show, host Ryan Seacrest revealed a parital list of who will be stopping by next week's finale.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMBroadway Bares Solo Strips, which features choreographed, solo stripteases by Broadway Bares' sexiest male dancers taking it off for one performance only, was held over the weekend at BPM Ni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMMostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AM Fresh off her last off-Broadway turned Broadway run, The Lyons, Linda Lavin joins up once again with playwright Nicky Silver once again at the Vineyard Theatre for Too Much Sun, a full…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:10AMThe supermodel excels while making her stage acting debut in Simon Armitage's stylish play, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:07AMIt’s been 35 years since Tom Conti won a Tony Award for his career-defining performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway?, followed five years later by his Oscar-nominated star turn in Reube…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AM"A celebrity has a negative or an inverted sense of hearing; he can hear his name not being mentioned at...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AMPrivate staged readings of Petrified — billed as "a new musical about the times we live in…" — will be presented May 19-20 at Cap21 Studios.
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When new writing company Nabokov re-launched in November last year, it held an entire event at the Soho Theatre, complete with live performances and the world’s first piece of “WikiTheat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:59AM Today’s Highlights: * In The Heights, by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Quiara Alegria Hudes, directed by Luke Sheppard, featuring David Bedella, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Nathan Am…
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 09:55AMFrank Anthony Polito’s new play, being given its world premiere at Compass Rose Theater, owes a debt of gratitude to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, both being quiet plays about ordinary day…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMRambert is to perform a site-specific version of Merce Cunningham’s signature works, the Events, at its new South Bank building this summer. This marks the first time the touring dance com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AMMark Nelson, David Gregory and Leslie Hendrix will star in the Hartford Stage production of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which will begin performances May 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMIf/Then star Idina Menzel will be entering your living room on May 16! No, she’s not performing a solo concert on your couch (but hey we can dream)—she’s appearing on CBS&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMBAFTAs – the dos and don’ts This Sunday, the BAFTAs take place at the Royal Opera House. So ahead of one of the acting industry’s biggest nights, here’s a polite dos and don’ts lis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AMRobin Carus, Josh Walden and Adam Fitzgerald will present a free reading of Wrapped in Pink May 26 at 6 PM at Pearl Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMLyric Theatre of Oklahoma has announced principal casting and creative teams for its 2014 season of summer shows. Among the casts will be such Broadway favorites as Steve Blanchard, George D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMAndrew Lloyd Webber says it’s a “strong possibility” that he’ll premiere his latest tuner, the previously reported stage adaptation of School of Rock, on the Great Wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:43AMStage legends and members of public to perform all 154 sonnets in single evening which one would you read aloud?Barely has the quill dried on Michael Billington's series, Shakespeare's play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMIn an interview with the Telegraph, Andrew Lloyd Webber says there's a 'strong possibility' that his next musical, School of Rock, will premiere on Broadway instead of the West End due to mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMWhether it was intended or not, Searching for Sugar Man did more than delve into the past of Sixto Rodriguez; it created his future.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17AMBeth Malone, who was recently seen in the award-winning Public Theater musical Fun Home, has landed the title role in the "refreshed" version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:03AMWhy everyone puts on a persona in Too Much Sun — It’s not just because the lead character is an actress that Medea and Violet Venable are lurking in the background of Nicky Silve…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMOpening acts at Verizon often wind up as superstars a few years later. Just ask Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Taylor Swift.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:00AM
Emmy Award-winning actress Tyne Daly stopped by CBS's THE TALK yesterday and discussed her recent Tony Award nomination for her role in the Broadway play, 'Mothers and Sons.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56AMBrighton DomeA nightmarish collection of disparate, depraved scenes is played for shocks and with child actors, it feels gratuitousThere is a lot of chatter in Talk to the Demon, by Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMSan Diego Musical Theatre presents Irving Berlin's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, which opened last Saturday, May 10, at the North Park Theatre. Performances continue weekends through May 25. BroadwayW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMToday is the anniversary of the release date of the 1921 Buster Keaton comedy The Goat. This is one of Keaton’s typical “bad luck” comedies; the title refers not to a li…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:38AMThe display of alcohol fueled bitchiness among women is nothing new, but the vicious appetites of the three women featured in Leslye Headland's play firmly places the dark in dark comed…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:33AMAll that WASP self-reliance and fortitude, and I, the Jew, am thinking, “Isn’t anyone getting hungry? Doesn’t anyone want to use the potty?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMthis is a mug-in-hand fit for theatergoers who savor watching a Shakespeare play while drinking a draft or two.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:26AMTheatre 503, LondonBoyzone's Keith Duffy stars in this revival of Billy Roche's 1988 play, the powerful story of a life without prospects or tendernessBoyzone band member Keith Duffy may be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMCompass Rose Theater presents the World Premiere of Another Day on Willow Street by Frank Anthony Polito and Directed by Lucinda Merry-Browne. Comprised of simultaneous settings in various c…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:20AMToday is the anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy The Floorwalker (1916). The Floorwalker was the first of Chaplin’s Mutual comedies and he upped his game c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:13AM Tony Winning composer Jason Robert Brown received a coveted Sardi’s caricature on Wednesday, May 14th at Sardi’s surrounded by “The Brid…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:08AMSoho theatre, LondonBrigstocke's confessional standup gives this show its edge: he should lose the standard comedy shtick that surrounds itThis show, says Marcus Brigstocke, is about "s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThis Scottish Ballet revival successfully updates Shakespeare's tale to 20th-century Italy, says Rachel Ward
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:00AMKenneth Branagh, who stars in and jointly directs a stage production of “Macbeth,” discusses its genesis on the eve of its New York opening at the Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMReview of the Saturday, May 10 evening performance at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City. Presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club. Starring Reed Birney, John Cullum,…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:00AMWe talk to BLAM! creator, as the company prepare to wow Blackpool this Summer with a high energy show that has already left the likes of Ricky Gervais feeling "blown away."
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
Musical fails to weave its many clever little disparate moments into a cohesive whole.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:53AMSan Diego Musical Theatre presents Irving Berlin's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, which opened Saturday, May 10, at the North Park Theatre. Performances continue weekends through May 25. BroadwayWorld …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:49AMBeatles show Let It Be is to return to the West End for an 11-week run. The show originally ran in the West End in September 2012 at the Prince of Wales, before moving to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMToday is the birthday of Stanley Lupino (1893-1942). One of the famous Lupino family of acrobats, today we remember him chiefly as the father of Ida Lupino, and the cousin of Lupino Lane and…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:41AMIf you like country music, bluegrass, lowdown rock and lots of gospel, you’ll find yourself moved by Jeanine Tesori’s score which was first heard off Broadway in 1997 in a well r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMThis Royal Ballet triple bill offers two athletic, plotless works sandwiched with a messy narrative. There’s lyricism and attack in George Balanchine’s Serenade and Christopher Wheeldon�…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:34AMToday is the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915). This was among the first silent films I ever saw. It came on a videotape I got…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AMRECOMMENDED Celebrating their sixtieth anniversary, the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Chicago with a dazzling mix of three repertory pieces. “Black Tuesday” is a theatric…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM
By Joel Benjamin The third installment of Scott Siegel’s enormously entertaining tour of the last hundred years of Broadway m…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:59AMJuliet Stevenson, David Harewood and Oliver Ford Davies are among a group of actors who will perform Shakespeare’s entire collection of 154 sonnets at the Southbank Centre this summer. Al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMNeil Patrick Harris leads the pack in one of the year’s most crowded Tony races
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:25AMThe rest, as they say, is history, concludes Zeus, speaking three thousand years after the end of the Trojan Wars. Actually, the rest is mythology says his goddess wife Hera in The Last Days…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:21AMPerformers left owed money for a touring musical about Glenn Miller have begun legal proceedings against the show’s producer. Union Equity said it was supporting six members who appeared i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMEveryman Theatre, Liverpool: The plush new Everyman may have flung open its doors with Shakespeare, but historically its essence was always to be found in bold new writing - and the inaugura…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMDirector Richard Eyre has criticised the length of preview periods on West End shows, claiming they are becoming “completely ridiculous”. The director, whose production of The Pajama Gam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMBecause Shepardson remains a key figure Cleveland, we are publishing a story in five parts about his life and suicide beginning online on Monday, May 19. As we lead into that series, we are …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMDerby Theatre has appointed Natalie Ibu as its creative producer for a new scheme that will support emerging artists in the East Midlands. In this newly created role, which she begins next m…
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Royal Opera House, London: The strength of the Royal Ballet is often said to be the diversity of its repertory and the range of its dancers - this is on clear view in this mixed bill, which …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMBrighton Dome Concert Hall: Director Wim Vandekeybus' UK premiere for his company Ultima Vez is ostensibly about demons, in the wider, dual sense of that word: the malign spirits of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMTristan Bates Theatre, London: Arguably the smallest graduate showcase of the season, the tiny Exeter school has a reputation for both individualism and hands-on training, with students perf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMJack Ellis, William Gaunt and Adrian Schiller will join Richard Armitage in the cast of The Crucible, which will run at the Old Vic this summer. Ellis, who is best known for his role in̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMComposer James MacMillan is to conduct his opera Ines de Castro for the first time in January, in a new production premiered by Scottish Opera in its 2014/15 season. Directed by Olivia Fuchs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMIf the last artistic boss of the Royal Shakespeare Company Michael Boyd was a bit of a Roundhead, then his successor Greg Doran is more of a cavalier -- by which I mean he adds meaningful de…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:04AM
Perth Theatre Company, State Theatre Centre, PerthA play about a sexual relationship between a man and an ape explores the limits of language and the meaning of loveIn the opening song of Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39AMTurtle Bay Music School's 10th Annual Perform-A-Thon will be held Friday, May 16th through Sunday, May 18th. The community music marathon opens tonight, May 15th with a Kickoff Concert and R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe cast of Broadway's 'A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder' will perform on NBC's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON tonight, May 15th. Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and actor Craig Rob…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTony Award-nominee Kerry Butler and Matt Walton will star in UNDER MY SKIN at The Little Shubert Theatre in New York. The new comedy, written by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser - the crea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMGod’s Pocket is a terrible neighborhood filled with terrible people. This fictional corner of Philadelphia is packed with criminals and degenerates unworthy of the “blue collar” label …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:05AMToday we continue the 2014 edition of our annual BroadwayWorld feature series spotlighting the very best Tony Awards-related moments of all time with a special spotlight on a particularly gu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMAcclaimed for her work in the recent Broadway musical Big Fish, the groundbreaking off-Broadway musical Giant and her breakout performance in the 2009 Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow, K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMCourtney Kerr's Tips for Successful Fashion Blogging
YH gets a crash course in all things fabulous when fashion blogger Courtney Kerr visits the Studio to fill us in on how she first got int…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMBroadway actor Ben Vereen showed up unannounced at American Theater Company's revisionist production of "Hair" and told the cast they had rescued the show. Mikhail Baryshnikov hit town, doin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMWe spoke to several people at the Drama Desk nominees reception to try to find out about the Awards' most unique category.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEW: "The White Snake" at the Goodman Theatre ★★½
They may be characters in an ancient Chinese fable — with written roots slithering as far back as the Ming Dy…
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Gary Lang NT Dance Company, Darwin Entertainment Centre, DarwinDancers draw upon Yolngu and western influences in this moving highlight from the Garrmalang Indigenous arts festivalMokuy is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMOne 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…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:42AMKamen Chanev and Galina ShesternevaA Day in the LifeThe Charlebois Post goes backstage to preview L’Opera de Montreal’s international All-Star production of Puccini’s classic Tur…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMFrom Fiddler on the Roof to Funny Girl, Anyone Can Whistle and Hello, Dolly!, Playbill.com looks back at the landmark productions that debuted on Broadway 50 years ago this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMFrom Fiddler on the Roof to Funny Girl, Anyone Can Whistle and Hello, Dolly!, Playbill.com looks back at the landmark productions that debuted on Broadway 50 years ago this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMOkay...stand back...we're going to let our inner Gay fly: This is fab...u...lous! We like it because it captures the diva-nity that is actor Cynthia Dale, it also captures the utter craftsma…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThis fun little tidbit showed up yesterday in a London blog and I adored it and couldn’t help but share it with you all! My good friend Andy Conaghan (last seen on Australian stages i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AMActor Neil Patrick Harris talks about moving from television's "How I Met Your Mother" to Broadway's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMNeil Patrick Harris, star of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” and director Michael Mayer, talk about the Broadway production of the raucous musical, which has received eight Tony nominations…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTony winner, two-time Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Jim Dale’s solo show Just Jim Dale begins previews off-Broadway on May 15. Directed by Tony winner Richard Maltby, Jr, the limited…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, recently seen on Broadway in Big Fish, brings her latest solo evening of song, Sing Pretty, Don't Fall Down, to 54 Below beginning May 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe inaugural Public Studio series, featuring world premieres by playwrights A. Zell Williams and Mary Kathryn Nagle, begins May 15 at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new comedy Under My Skin — written by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser, the creative forces behind "The Nanny" and "Who’s The Boss?" — officially …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Jim Dale returns to the New York stage in his one-man show Just Jim Dale, beginning May 15 at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFrom Fiddler on the Roof to Funny Girl, Anyone Can Whistle and Hello, Dolly!, Playbill.com looks back at the landmark productions that debuted on Broadway 50 years ago this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDanielle Hope, who won BBC1's "Over The Rainbow" contest and starred as Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz, stars opposite West End actor Jon Robyns in the J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSex, love and healthcare: three things we all need but don’t always get. Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser’s Under My Skin opens at the Little Shubert Theatre on May 15. The ste…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM100 years of music with just four hands! Boogie Stomp!, starring jazz and blues pianists Bob Baldori and Arthur Migliazza opens off-Broadway at The Chain Theatre on May 15. The show will pla…
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