Leslie Uggams To Play Mama Rose in Interracial Gypsy: STORRS, CT– In April 2014, Artistic Director Vincent J. Cardinal announced that Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Leslie Uggams woul…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:45PMA great cast headed by Stan Chandler and Kevin Symons compensates for the lack of a set.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:27PMBy Peter Filichia
What a nice event at the Spiral Theatre Studio last Wednesday night. At Richard Skipper Celebrates, a chat-series helmed by the eponymous raconteur, the ever-charmin…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:22PM B'way Update: Tony Aftermath, New Season By: David ShewardJennifer Hudson at the Tonys:: What is that lady in a silver nightgown doing in our bedroom, boys?With the Tony A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:19PMAlso in Tattle: New Spielberg and a "Duck Dynasty" nephew runs for Congress.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:09PMQurrat Ann Kadwani, currently starring in her hit Off-Broadway show THEY CALL ME Q, is this week's special guest on the popular WBAI (99.5 FM) Radio program "The Artsy Fartsy Show," hosted b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02PMAll those giddy young lovers in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedies have a regrettable tendency to blur into one another. Except, of course, for Beatrice and Benedick, that quick-witted,…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMIn his maiden voyage with Shakespeare in the Park, director Jack O'Brien takes a swing at the Bard's comedy of budding love in Sicily.
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The Best of the Fest at The Butterfly Club introduces a selection of talent from the Melbourne Cabaret Festival. 4 acts performed a 10 min segment from their upcoming Cabaret, and the host, …
SOURCE: Theatre People Australia at 10:59PMBack by popular demand, The Puppet Co. presents The Wizard of Oz, adapted from Frank Oz’s beloved tale with a script and puppets by Christopher Piper, and directed by Allan Stevens. Se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PMMikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe in Robert Wilson 'The Old Woman' at BAM; Nannerl Mozart gets her due and more in this week's On Stage.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:54PMI’ve been tough on the Shakespeare tragedies recently, but the comedies are no less rich in potential problems for modern audiences. Start with the interfering gods and fairies, the lusty …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:44PMMuch Ado About Nothing with Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, under the direction of Jack O'Brien beneath the stars at the Delacorte in Central Park. What doesn't sound enchanting about that?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:26PMPerformed in the enormous space of The Substation in Newport, Swamp Juice is a shadow puppetry show assembled from the refuse and junk of our disposable society. Created by Bunk Puppets and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:18PMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Ken Bloom. We also talk about After Midnight closing – will Honeymoon in Vegas follow, Tony Awards no longer awardin…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:15PMA couple of years ago, Ayad Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for “Disgraced” — which is headed to Broadway this fall, with “How I Met Your Mother” star Josh Radnor....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMThe general manager, Peter Gelb, has proposed a 16% pay cut for union members in the face of declining ticket sales, a dwindling endowment and growing expenses.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:01PMCheck below for photos from Broadway's Best in Drag, which took place on June 9. PIPPIN's Charlotte d'Amboise and Terrance Mann hosted the event with Robert La Fosse to benefit AIDS Service…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00PMJack O’Brien’s pleasure-filled production of “Much Ado About Nothing” in Central Park pits Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater as Shakespeare’s sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMReligious beliefs and contemporary life rub up against each other in Ayad Akhtar’s new play, “The Who & The What.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe daughter of a Pakistani immigrant writes what she knows — and what she knows will hurt her father.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PMPreseasoning boosts the flavors of many dishes — and plays.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SEE If one were only to see Shakespeare as produced by The Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that all o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:44PMLena Hall is still giddy with glee after snagging a Best Supporting Actress Tony for her electrifying performance in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” The actress charmed audiences with a tea…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:31PMOn the heels of its Tony Award win for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murderwill bring its award home to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Wednesday, June 18, to allow fans to pose w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMFor their 25th anniversary, Bangarra Dance Theatre are telling the story of the relationship between the first fleet's William Dawes and a young Indigenous woman. We go behind the scenesStep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMAs a major conference of stage pros lands in San Diego, we hear from some local theater leaders about the state of the local scene.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:09PMWelcome to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 per…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMAyad Akhtar's follow-up to his Broadway-bound, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Disgraced" again deals with culture clashes involving Muslim Americans.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMLily Rabe and Hamish Linklater play the marriage-phobic Beatrice and Benedick in director Jack O'Brien's al fresco staging of one of Shakespeare's most popular romantic comedies.read more
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Viewing paintings engages a number of different regions of the brain, suggesting art appreciation is a natural biological process, according to an analysis.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:40PMBenedick and Beatrice, the constantly bickering almost-and-eventual lovers at the center of Much Ado About Nothing, are adept at using their tart tongues for an unexpected kind of foreplay.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWhen it comes to stories about major religious figures, which is truer, the fact or the fiction?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMBilly Recce was 11 years old on Oct. 15, 2009, when he, along just about everyone with access to a TV, raptly followed the perilous flight of a runaway weather balloon believed to contain
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00PMSeth Bockley's tech-savvy play probes the price of being an online superhero.
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Far beyond the simple, tired trick of placing a Shakespearean play into a more modern setting, Organic Theater has used clever innovation to change the way we look at the tragedy of Macbeth.…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:31PMThis fall, experience the latest stage spectacular from legendary lyricist Tim Rice at your local movie theater - before its 2015 Broadway debut
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMFriday, June 20th, 2014 Damn The Light Promotions, a nightlife based production and promotion company founded by Mike Greco and MaryAnne Piccolo, is back with their monthly tribte event 'Mid…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PMGoodspeed Musicals awarded Tony, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner Sheldon Harnick The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre on June 14, which featured Broadway lumi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10PMA technically brilliant satire on the American political machine, The Speechmaker drips with the larrikinish Aussie wit we would expect from Working Dog, but, despite its technical prowess,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThe Spanish version of Eve Ensler's play announces final performance.
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Josh Radnor, TR Knight, Robert Morse And More To Star At New York Stage and Film At Vassar: New York, NY – New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:56PMThe cast of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best musical Once welcomes Jessie Fisher to the role of 'Girl' beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, June 17. Joanna Christie played her final performanc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45PMWelcome to Ashley’s Lemonade Stand! This column is to help promote shows and emerging companies around Los Angeles that I find are a refreshing concoction of sweet tangy goodness. For Holl…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:39PMGet ready to "cut loose" when Pittsburgh CLO kicks off its Sunday shoes for the Broadway hit "Footloose," featuring Pittsburgher Bill Hartung, who originated the role of …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:36PMIt is early enough in the development of the movement that’s been labeled immersive theatre that what does and doesn’t qualify is still up for grabs. Even the terminology is in flux. Som…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:36PMThe creative team had described the production as the first open commercial run of a Spanish-language play Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26PMA Fantasticks Recreation By Steven Sabel It is billed as “the original fringe musical,” and when The Fantasticks debuted off-Broadway in 1960 it became an instant counter culture…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:21PMKendrick will play a princess named 'Poppy' in the animated musical, to be directed by Mike Mitchell.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 6162014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMVeteran troupe stages comedy in St. Charles.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:00PMThere is much to admire about the production of "Heartbreak House" now at Pilgrim Church, particularly the sharp, shrewd characterizations delivered by an absolutely crackerjack en…
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SEXY AND SWEET NUITS Since the creation of the Company Preljocaj in 1984, Angelin Preljocaj has become an international superstar; some refer to the French-born Albanian choreographer as the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:57PMFrank Britton has just completed playing Pontius Pilate in Forum Theatre’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Frank has been getting lots of attention these days because …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:55PMIn honor of every high school student's favorite night, Westerberg High's own Martha Dunnstock has invited THE BOOK OF MORMON's Elder Cunningham to check out 'The Book of Martha' in a very s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMSummer tourism helped tune up Broadway ticket sales last week, as Tony Awards attention prodded demand at titles including “All the Way,” “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, June 16, 2014 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Happy trails to @MONOLOGOSNYC as it closes off-Bro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMDaryl Roth and Hal Luftig, lead producers of Kinky Boots, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cynd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMREVIEW: Illusion’s “My Antonia” finds novel’s simple power.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:44PMOn the heels of its Tony® Award win for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder will bring its award home to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Wednesday, June 18, to allow fans …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:38PMThis past weekend I went to my 5 year old niece’s gymnastics class. The school she goes to is apparently one of the country’s national training centers. The way things were laid …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:31PMMuch Ado About Nothing kicks off the 2014 season of the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Hamish Linklater
and Lily Rabe play the wise-crack…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM“The Way You Look Tonight” by Peter Lefcourt LOS ANGELES (June 10, 2014) – Never underestimate the power of designer shoes on matters of the heart. Theatre Planners presents a romantic…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:28PMAhead of his Broadway adaptation "Jersey Boys" on Friday, Clint Eastwood, 84, shares his thoughts on how to stay young, his first time acting and why America is "floundering":...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:26PMLGBT activist and The Normal Heart scribe Larry Kramer attended the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Mothers and Sons June 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PMDirector/Translator, Benedict brings new life to Comedic side of Chekhov Long Beach Playhouse audiences are in for a very original and unique treat with the opening this weekend in the Stu…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:21PMThe Off-Broadway production of Los Monólogos de la Vagina, the new Spanish-language version of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, played its final performance June 15 at the…
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:19PMIn “The Taste of It”, which recently had its world premiere at the Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios, playwright John Adams tells the story of an explosive 70s era romance between a …
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:14PMThe producers of Los Monólogos de la Vagina, the Spanish language version of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, have announced that the show played its final performance last night, Sund…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:08PM“A Gentleman’s Guide for Love & Murder,” which won the Tony Award for best musical, hit a new high in ticket sales last week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PMEverybody say yeah! Kyle Taylor Parker and Steven Booth have been cast as Simon/Lola and Charlie Price, respectively, in the first national tour of Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper's To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:05PMDisney's iconic characters are living out their happy endings in Auradon, a present day idyllic kingdom.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMGod is a Scottish Drag Queen IIby MacRae CampbellThis one-God show was a delight. First the good news; God is a Scot, naturally, and a gifted raconteur who established an easy rapport with t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:03PMLos Monólogos de la Vagina, the Spanish language production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues played its final performance at the Westside Theatre on June 15. The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMDon't miss the chance to take photos with the 2014 Best Musical Tony Award.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMJesse Briton and Bear Trap's production is distinctly underwhelming
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00PMA.R. Gurney's drama is to be directed by Gregory Mosher.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
On Sunday the singers and dancers formed a circle, held hands and prayed. It was an unusual start for a performance at the Peirce Studio in the Trust Arts Education Center on the last day of…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:56PMTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s early 70s musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has been given a frantic, up-tempo makeover. The unimpressive and crazily fast-paced show …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:51PMThe role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” is supposed to be one of the prized roles for women of a certain age. “One of those parts,” Dame Peggy Ashcroft once said, “ac…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:49PMThis American Life, a musical event that was held June 7 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and featured a mini-musical by Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, will be available for download June 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMVirginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre closes out its 20132014 season with the world premiere musical Cloak and Dagger, directed by Signature Theatre's Artistic Director Eric Schaef…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PMLooping the Loupby Élaine CharleboisIn Wolves > Boys, we first meet Lawrence (Cory Thibert) who is waiting to surprise his long-time friend Isaac (Tony Adams) whom he hasn’t seen in a …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:40PMDaryl Roth and Hal Luftig, lead producers of Kinky Boots, the Tony-winning musical by four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein and Grammy and Tony winner Cyndi Lauper, have announced casting f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PMIn recent months in New York City, Lawson has been the production stage manager for the Peccadillo Theatre’s production of William Inge’s A LOSS OF ROSES. As it happens, Marianne Custer�…
SOURCE: torchbearer.utk.edu at 04:33PMBy HowlRound TV. The Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will livestream the 24th TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders, in San Diego, California June 19-21 on the HowlRound TV network. T…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:33PMStage performers and observers of theatre history know the usual heartbreaking story by heart: an actor makes a hit creating a character in a play or musical; the show becomes that rare piec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMWith just a few weather-related cancellations, the Northern Spark festival raved on through a stormy night.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:29PMThe Classical Theatre of Harlem will present Romeo n Juliet, a re-imagined adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PMWhile no particular contender swept the Tony Awards this year, a handful of shows saw box office bumps hot on the heels of celebrating significant wins on June 8. All four shows that took ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMBroadway’s Best Shows knows that you want to see the best of the best! To help you out, we’re seeking out raw sales facts so you know what to see to stay current. Weekly grosses and othe…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:20PMActress Jessie Fisher, who has stood-by for the role of "Girl" in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Once, will assume the leading role in the musical June 17 at the Ber…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 6152014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMAccording to The New York Times, sources have confirmed that producers Nelle Nugent, Barbara Broccoli, and Fred Zollo are currently developing a Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's two-charact…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMWorld renowned break-dance crew the Flying Steps juxtaposes windmills and head spins against the music of Johann Sebastian Bach at the Civic Opera House for “Flying Bach.”
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:12PMThis is the “Kilroy” list: “Each play is either unproduced or has had one professional production.” Authors include Theresa Rebeck, Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PMNews flash, in case you've been living under a rock: Tony winner, If/Then star and Frozen sensation Idina Menzel is performing a one-night-only concert at Radio City Music Hall on June 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMAsk Aunt Susan attempts to satirize the effects of the internet on interpersonal relationships. Unfortunately, most of the satire falls flat due to uninspiring characters and an overly-compl…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:01PMHeathers star Katie Ladner talks about the many layers that go into creating high school outcast Martha Dunnstock in the stage musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:00PMAs site-specific theatre becomes ever more ubiqutious, perhaps it is time to question what the label really means
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe production opens at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury in July
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe innovative company tour this war time adaptation.
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Jake Gyllenhaal will follow in his older sister Maggie's footsteps when he makes his Broadway debut later this season in the play "Constellations," which is scheduled begin preview performan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:57PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A best musical Tony Award win has powered "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" to its best week ever at the box office, but even one of the shows it beat had a recor…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:55PMHamlet Max may be co-presented at the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival by Schkapf and Sacred Fools Theater, but this is Jacob Sidney’s project all the way. He not only has adapted the materi…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:52PMAs previously reported, the Tony Awards Administration Committee determined that Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical Categories would be eliminated from the establ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMBy Justin Tyler Lewis. My maturation as a young theater practitioner has nothing to do with finding and knowing the answers. I don’t know them. Trust me. It has everything to do with facin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:37PMA revival of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, a two-character epistolary play, may be heading to Broadway, the New York Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PMTickets are now available for the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, starring Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Martha Plimpton and Lindsay Duncan. The play, dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:31PMMove over Tony Awards, because Broadway's next biggest event is just around the corner. On Thursday, June 19th from 11am to 200 pm join cast members of Broadway's favorite shows, along with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMMedical drama interrupted the final performance of 'Henry V.'
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:22PMAll data provided by The Broadway League.
View Broadway Grosses in a sortable table or view by show at the Playbill Vault.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMA revival of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, potentially starring Oscar winner Anjelica Huston, is eyeing Broadway. According to The New York Times, the production may be helmed by Gregory…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMA revival of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, potentially starring Oscar winner Angelica Huston, is eyeing Broadway. According to The New York Times, the production may be helmed by Gregory…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMThis much-anticipated yearly event at WolfTrap was a winner once again. The Stooges Brass Band, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and Big Sam’s Funky Nation showcased the breadth of music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMTonight, June 16, 2014 at 700pm, BroadwayWorld.com continues its 2014 concert series at legendary cabaret venue Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, hosting a uniquely contemporary evening celeb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMWe've received our first postcard from the production that is currently touring to every country in the world
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:00PMDays of Our Lives' Kevin Spirtas stars.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMAdam Jacobs, Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart, and more will be on hand to greet fans and autograph albums.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMErasmus Fenn's new comedy is directed by Joe Brancato.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
There’s a reason why Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater have such great chemistry onstage in “Much Ado About Nothing”: They’re a couple offstage, too. “It’s not a secret,” Rabe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:53PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies’ new comedy The Country House makes a stop at the Geffen Playhouse on its way to an October opening on Broadway in a co-production with�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:47PM1st half – Act 1 2nd half – Act 2 Offside – Upstaging Extra time – mega mix Penalties – curtain call Half time – intermission Coach – dance captain …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PMThe Boys are back in town! Tony winner John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Erich Bergen and Michael Lomenda are bringing the story of the Four Seasons to life in the film adaptation of Jersey …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMThis version of “Grease” at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn features four tracks that were composed for the film and years later grafted onto the stage show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMOn June 15, Tony-winner Lea Salonga and Glee star Darren Criss sang 'A Whole New World' from Disney's Aladdin at After the Storm, a benefit concert for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMThe songwriters of The Circle Songbook are back for another night of original musical theatre songs with The Circle Songbook: Vol. 2 June 16 at the Duplex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PMBroadway producers want to revive A.R. Gurney’s play at the Vivian Beaumont Theater; casting is not yet set.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMA program note suggests that the musical (vintage 1966) is a throwback to the idealistic Rodgers and Hammerstein shows of the 1950s. Not really, unless you’re thinking of R&H at their …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:30PMStageworks Media will present an industry reading of GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, a New High School Musical written by Eric Price and directed by Daniel Goldstein Godspell. Set in a prep sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMAn industry reading of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, a new high school musical written by Eric Price, will be presented June 20 at 11 AM at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMThe 2015 season of New York City Center’s Encores! series will open with George and Ira Gershwin’s Lady, Be Good on February 4, 2015. Next up will be Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:16PMCurrently available digitally and in-theater, the Aladdin Original Broadway Cast Recording is set for physical release by Walt Disney Records on June 17. The cast recording was produced by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:15PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Monstrous Regiment" at Lifeline Theatre ★★★★
Full disclosure: I've yet to get my literary passport stamped for Terry Pratchett's "Discworld." But af…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:10PMManhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of The Lion, the new musical written and performed by 2013 ASCAP Cole Porter Songwriting Award winner Benjamin Scheuer, and directed by Sean Daniel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMHere's a Fun Treat 1776 At 54 Below for The 4th of July: 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, celebrates the July 4th weekend with "54 Below Sings1776," a celebration of the music from Broadway…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:07PMBy HowlRound TV. You’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater in New York City for Watch Me Work which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer p…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:02PMOn Friday night, LGBT activist and The Normal Heart scribe Larry Kramer attended the Tony-nominated Mothers and Sons. After seeing the play, Mr. Kramer went backstage to say hello to friend …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMThe site-specific show opens at The Cinema Museum in south London from 23 June
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PMThe musical will conclude the theater's 2013-14 season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Jeeto Gill has spent her life working her fingers to the bone and making countless sacrifices for her two children. Widowed and now in her sixties, she is looking forward to returning to her…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:56PM54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Zanna, Don't Class Reunion, a concert presentation of the 2003 Off-Broadway cult favorite benefiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute for LGBTQ Youth.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMBravo has announced that Grammy Award-winning legend Patti LaBelle, who just joined the cast of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical After Midnight, will be a guest on Bravo's Watch What Happ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMBy Gwydion Suilebhan. My hope is that for an issue as important as this one, we’ll all extend our collaborative impulses beyond the rehearsal room. (We’re not always so good at that.) In…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:27PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival NYMF has announced that Tony Award winning director Jack O'Brien has been named the honorary chair of the 2014 Festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMThe Lion, a new solo musical written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer, is currently bringing its touching true story of love and loss to New York City Center’s Stage II. Click for pho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Amid the swirl of an early 1960s party scene in Clint Eastwood's latest, an adaptation of "Jersey Boys," the hit Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Season…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:15PMName: Taylor ShubertHometown: Calabasas, CAEducation: BFA Musical Theatre, The Boston ConservatorySelect Credits: A Chorus Line (North Shore Music Theatre), Hairspray (Merry-Go-Round) Hey, S…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:12PMWalnut Street Theatre is succeeding in business! And we mean that in more ways than one. Despite being the oldest theatre in operation in the English-speaking world, the Walnut has consisten…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 01:05PMNEW YORK — James Franco is adding another notch to his expansive resume — stage director.Rattlestick Playwrights Theater said Monday that Franco will direct Robert Boswell's world premi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 01:02PMThe stars of Broadway Bares came off the stage and out of their pants at BERLIN Fridays on June 13th to raise money for the worthy charity Equity Fights AIDS. The weekly party, known as B…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:00PMBritten's opera of conscientious objection is the headline offering at this year's Aldeburgh Festival
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMBy Lily JaniakMost theatre people know too well how new play development typically works: A playwright submits a draft to a theatre company. The company takes the draft through a series of t…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 01:00PMThis presentation of the 2003 off-Broadway cult favorite will benefit the Hetrick-Martin Institute for LGBTQ Youth.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe romantic comedy was last seen on Broadway in 1946.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe Tony winner will host the festival's annual opening-night celebration.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Tony winner Patina Miller is officially off the market
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMITHACA John Perrin Flynn and Brenda Davidson’s production of Penelope is so vivid that it’s hard for me to imagine the play in any other presentation – even though I’ve r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:55PMPaper Mill Playhouse concludes its 75th anniversary season with the beloved musical Grease. Tommy Bracco, who plays Sonny, shares a recent "kissy-face-themed" day at the famed New Jersey ve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM20-year-old Ansel Elgort is delivering one hell of a breakout performance in the new movie The Fault In Our Stars—his heartbreaking turn as Augustus Waters in the adaptation of John Gr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMIn Episode 216, award-winning musical theatre writer Joel B. New sat down with Avital Asuleen, a director, choreographer, performer, producer, and curator of The Choreography Lab www.asuleen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMMichael Shannon. Photo: Gerry GoodsteinThe KillerBy Eugène IonescoNewly Translated: Michael FeingoldFeaturing Kristine Nielsen, Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, and Robert Stanton in a company…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 12:45PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced the company's 2014-2015 programming celebrating it's 20th anniversary seaso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMJames Franco is currently starring in the Broadway production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" through late July, but the ubiquitous celebrity has already lined up his next theater proj…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMBelow, watch Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan become friends in a new clip from their upcoming comedy WHAT IF, opening in theaters Friday, August 8th
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMThese two need a duets album. Tony winner Lea Salonga shared at After the Storm, a benefit for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philppines, that she and Glee’s Darren Criss have qu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMAs previously reported, the Tony Awards Administration Committee determined that Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical Categories would be eliminated from the establ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMTom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's long running musical allegory is a simple tale of love simply told with many songs that are now standards.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:30PMPeople complain about how no one takes literature seriously these days. Tell that to the millions of people who are participating in Bloomsday celebrations worldwide today.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:29PMOscar Wilde’s provocative tale of the innocent Dorian Gray’s transformation from virtue into a life of hedonism is often retold on stage and is a wonderful play of vanity, sex and the co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:29PMREVIEW: Skylark Opera is taking risks with the repertoire for this year’s Summer Festival, and they're paying off handsomely. A witty, fast-moving “Candide” is paired with a revue of K…
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:26PMWarning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'insertThumbnailRSS' was given in /home/content/52/9380252/html/wp-includ…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:22PMOriginal American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson are being wooed by FOX to return to the judge's panel for the upcoming season, according to TV industry insiders.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMFor a truly weird and wonderful night at the theatre, Mr Burns, currently playing at the Almeida Theatre, is well worth a look. This self-proclaimed ‘post-electric’ play explores how p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:18PMName: Anne Cecelia HaneyHometown: Charlottesville, VirginiaEducation: BA, University of VirginiaFavorite Credits: Persephone (Idly Bent Theater Company), The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare On Th…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:07PMThe Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, which plays the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, will celebrate its 500th performance June 19 with a social media contest for fans. According to a press rel…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:03PMThe reviews are in and audiences agree that after the players take their final bow you’ll want to spend more time with the them in “When January Feels Like Summer”, now…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:02PMThe young Indian actress Qurrat Ann Kadwani might not be the first person you think of when you think of the Bronx. Her solo show THEY CALL ME Q invites you into her world where she grew up …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:00PMJBN sits down with Avital Asuleen, a director, choreographer, performer, and producer (www.asuleen.com). Avi is primarily interested in honoring musical theatre's past, while still finding n…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00PMThe one-woman adaptation will run at the Vaudeville Theatre in August
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“Every word,” Samuel Beckett once wrote, “is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” In Beckett’s Happy Days, Winnie (Nancy Robinette) proceeds at a rate of about si…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMPatrick Heusinger, last seen on Broadway in the critically acclaimed drama Next Fall, has landed a role in the new Bravo series "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce," according to De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMThe Events, David Greig's 2013 play about the aftermath of a deadly shooting, will make its American debut June 24 at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT, the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMThe Drama League continues the Summer 2014 Programming Schedule with the ever popular 'Up Close' Series featuring Broadway veterans Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead, co-creators of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMTony winner Patina Miller is having one fabulous year—after concluding her run in the hit Tony-winning revival of Pippin, she’s currently filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMEveryone knows a couple like these two. They’re passionate and interesting, worldly and deeply into one another. They’re the couple that causes people to remark “I just love the two …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMAs the cab pulled into the driveway, I got a glimpse of a sign propped against a telephone pole, starkly gray, black and white. On it were the typical details of any theatre production: the …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 11:37AMTickets are now on sale for The River, a new play by Jez Butterworth, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Donnelly and Cush Jumbo, and directed by Ian Rickson.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, currently starring in IFTHEN on Broadway, comes to Radio City Music Hall tonight, Monday, June 16.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMBroadwayBox compiled a helpful gift guide for choosing the right Broadway show for the man in your life.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:28AMTwo-time Emmy Award winner Tom Bergeron will host the 34th annual broadcast of PBS’ "A Capitol Fourth" July 4 live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMMove over Tony Awards, because Broadway’s next biggest event is just around the corner. On Thursday, June 19th from 11am to 2:00 pm join cast members of Broadway’s favorite shows, along…
SOURCE: stmaryskids.org at 11:23AMThe Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing officially opens tonight, Monday, June 16. The production will run through Sunday, July 6.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMStar of the original Broadway production of Carrie, Linzi Hateley met up with Playbill at speakeasy-styled cabaret spot 54 Below to talk gay pride. Hateley looked back at her career and the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMOnline ticket agencies are charging customers up to 30pc more by adding high additional fees, say campaigners
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:18AMThe hit musical Jersey Boys is working its way to movie theaters on June 20, and we couldn't be more excited to see Tony winner John Lloyd Young reprise his role as Frankie Val…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMShoshana Bean, who has been seen on Broadway in Wicked and Hairspray, will offer Los Angeles concerts June 17 and 24 — as well as a New York City show July 27. In anticipation of Bean&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMMy retracing of the steps of founding father John Adams took me this time all the way back to his beginnings, with a trip to the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, MA. Quincy was, in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMBarrington Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Julianne Boyd and managing director Tristan Wilson, presents the company's 20th anniversary season opener, Kiss Me, Ka…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMWhen we talk about theatre in the UK, we can broadly split the action into two categories: that which is happening in London, and that which is happening regionally. Referring specifically t…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AMAs we’ve done for the last several years, the morning after The Tony Awards, we put together a survey to find out what you, the passionate Broadway lover, thought about the Tony Awards…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHappy Birthday, Danny Burstein On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side 1992, Yakov in The Seagull 1992-93, in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse both in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMBusy times for the West End this week
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe first double-bill of Jermyn Street's South Africa season is a mixed bag
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMJulia Stiles also joins Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's 2014-15 season roster.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
They’re at it again… those sexy singer/dancers will strut their stuff on June 22 to raise funds and awareness for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Only a limited number of tick…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:57AMThe Merry Wives of Windsor - First Folio Theatre at Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W 31st St, Oak Brook, are offering $10 industry tickets to industry professionals for Weds. and Thurs. eveni…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 10:52AMClint Eastwood stopped by this morning's TODAY on NBC to talk about his decision to take on directing duties for the new film 'Jersey Boys.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMPride Films and Plays has a rehearsal space in a great location on Wilson and Clark. We have evening rehearsal space open for $25 per night from July 2 to 20. Also rehearsal space in the fa…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 10:50AMI arrived at Kennedy Center Friday night excited. A flag would be planted to An American Solider in a libretto by the accomplished playwright of American stage and screen, David Henry Hwang.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMThe BBC has announced plans to open up access to the world of musical entertainment within the UK, with two new partnerships designed to train new entrants and increase the technical skills…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:43AMChé Walker's Klook's Last Stand combines laughter, love and sex with a brooding sense of tragic inevitability, says Charles Spencer
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:43AMCasting has been announced for the Music Circus production of the Tony-winning musical A Chorus Line, which will kick off the 64th season at the Sacramento venue June 24-29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMJames Franco is set to make his stage directing debut for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s 20th anniversary season. The Of Mice and Men star will helm the world premiere of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMWarning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'insertThumbnailRSS' was given in /home/content/52/9380252/html/wp-includ…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:36AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Off-Broadway theatre that has presented more than 60 world premieres in the past 19 years, has announced the lineup for its 2014-15 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMThe premiere of the UK’s first stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is to tour later this year. Adapted from the 1929 novel by Pete Brooks and Andrew Quick, who are …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AM... we can thank Bailiwick Chicago for its smart, well-sung and imaginatively produced presentation of this notorious musical that deserves a place in musical theater literature.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26AMThe Playwright’s Playground is a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMJulie Reiber returns to Broadway beginning June 16 in the cast of the Tony-winning musical Newsies at the Nederlander Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMIn case you still haven’t had enough of Hugh Jackman after his Tony turn, now’s your chance to see him in his return to the Great White Way! Tickets are now on sale for Jez …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMMichael Morpurgo's I Believe in Unicorns will transfer to London's West End. The one-woman production, starring Danyah Miller, will play at the Vaudeville Theatre August 8 through Au…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:14AMLudlow Castle, Ludlow: The revamped, resurgent Ludlow Arts Festival's invitation to Stafford's Gateway Theatre to restore open-air Shakespeare to the castle is, on the evidence of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMProducers of the evocative new musical, After Midnight, which took home the award for Best Choreography at the 2014 Tony Awards, has announced the Broadway production will play its final per…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:02AMWelcome back to another installment of Theater People, the new podcast featuring interviews with the creative forces onstage and behind the scenes. Anthony Rapp is that actor who’s in eve…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending June 15, 2014: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER $851,262.00 6,984 96.25% $…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:00AMOur chief critic pays tribute to the late actor, who died on Saturday aged 70
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AMBroadway house manager and musician Joe Traina will produce a full-length feature documentary on the life and times of stage, screen and TV actor Fyvush Finkel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT, will dedicate the new rehearsal hall, currently under construction, to puppet pioneers Jim and Jane Henson.
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Today’s Highlights: * The Public Theater‘s Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Jack O’Brien, featuring Steel Burkhardt, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Austin Durant, John Glov…
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 09:55AMA star vehicle without stars, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s revival of Noel Coward’s Private Lives is more airily amusing than D.C. audiences might be inclined to expect. This comedy of …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:53AMKinlet Hall, Kidderminster: Once again Rain or Shine theatre company take an open-air playing space and fill it with marvels and unexpected delights.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMJames Franco, currently starring in Broadway's 'Of Mice and Men,' will make his theatrical directorial debut for the premiere of Robert Boswell's THE LONG SHRIFT
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMHere Lies Love stars Jose Llana, Ruthie Ann Miles and Conrad Ricamora will be the special guests at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox — hosted by Seth Rudetsky — June 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMA decade ago, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti, which depicts rape in a Sikh temple, sparked such violent protests that it was withdrawn on the grounds of public safety.
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:39AMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:37AMHackney Downs studio, LondonRenato Rocha and Keziah Serreau's show captures the fury and despair of young people trying to square the gap between their dreams and realityIs the kid asleep on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AM: "U" is the abbreviation for "up" and refers to the part of the stage furthest from the audience. Use
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:33AMNo longer a place for rising stars and has-beens, Broadway today regularly attracts A-list stars
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:33AMA BUTTERFLY WITHOUT WINGS Madama Butterfly (1904) is understandably one of the most popular operas in the world. Not only does it boast a tragic story that is incredibly moving, but the dram…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:29AM- Playwright Patrice Cassedy writing about her new play debuting at the 2014 DC Black Theatre Festival - A few days after Trayvon Martin was killed, my husband and I ate out in Burbank, Cali…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:29AM Donna Lynne Champlin, Drama Desk and OBIE Award winner, has had a long and successful career as an actor – from “Working: A Musical,R…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:28AMThe Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, which plays the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, will celebrate its 500th performance June 19 with a social media contest for fans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMAriana Grande appeared at last night's 2014 MUCHMUSIC VIDEO AWARDS to perform her hit song 'Problem.' Check out the performance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMPop-culture polymath to add to hefty workload by directing off-Broadway production of Robert Boswell's The Long ShriftNot content with having actor, writer, film director, producer, lecturer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AMLONDON — English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf has attached to score B Good Picture Company’s film about the early life of Noel Coward, in which “Glee” star Chris Colfer pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:13AMIda proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMThe City of London festival will focus on late-night humour let's hope it brings an end to comedians' silence on the banking crisisIt's so old, no one can say how and when it came into bein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AMJulia Stiles To Act And James Franco To Make His Directorial Debut With The Rattlestick Theatre Company: In a special summer season, Rattlestick will produce two plays by film directors maki…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:05AMInside the sound design of Broadway’s Holler if Ya Hear Me — As the title suggests, it’s crucial that we hear Holler If Ya Hear Me. The new Broadway musical, in previews no…
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMNEW YORK (AP) -- For the first time later this month, a few lucky people will get to hear what no one in America has - a collection of lost Cole Porter songs....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:00AMGood 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 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING with Lily Rabe …
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In the run-up to the next round of arts funding, we must look beyond notions of profit and loss, writes Fin KennedyIn 2013 I wrote a research-led report, In Battalions, about the effect of g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM Always on the cutting edge, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced it’s 20th Anniversary Season beginning this summer with special directorial debuts by JAMES FRAN…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:51AMToday at 5:30pm E.S.T. on TCM, one of the favorite movies of my childhood, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). The Wizard of Oz reigned supreme, of course, but the slot for my second favorite…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:46AMIt’s hard to believe, but air travel wasn’t always about long lines, uncomfortable seats and the opportunity to get poked and prodded by strangers. There weren’t always fees to check y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:26AMJune is one of my favorite Broadway months! Not only does June have The Tony Awards, but it is also Broadway Bares time!Some of the Tony Nominees!I love these pictures... the camarader…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:24AMLike most people in the arts, I believe that the boards of arts organizations must give their artistic leaders the freedom to...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:22AMAfter success with Bennett’s classic play Enjoy, the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Alan Bennett season continues with the musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, based on his screenplay …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AMHe's been sober four years now though.
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:00AMTony Award-winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS is coming to the big screen under the direction of Clint Eastwood and the director discusses the new Four Seasons movie musical in a new promotion…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Johnny Got His Gun (directed by David Mercatili) revolves around the story of Joe Bonham, a young twenty-something American from Colorado. He enlists in the U.S. Army to serve in World War I…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:56AMWith no-holds barred-performances from ladies unafraid to play the fool and with the resonant, seasoned, mature pipes it takes a lifetime to perfect, Menopause The Musical delivers—on laug…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMSomeone once said “revenge is sweet.” In the case of CulturalDC’s Source Festival show Revenge, not only is revenge sweet, but it is hilarious, thought-provoking, and at times a little…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:25AMGarsington Opera Pavilion, Wormsley Estate, Oxford: Continuing its founder Leonard's Ingrams's questing spirit for neglected corners of the repertoire, Garsington Opera gives the U…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMBest known for his 1991 track There's Nothing Like This, Omar Lyefook is now composing music for plays. He explains how Asher D kicked off his acting career and how he got involved in Ché W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMCall Answered: "Call Me Adam" chats with Em Grosland about starring in "The Anthem," directed, choreographed, and designed by Rachel Klein. "The Anthem" is a new rollicking sci-fi musical ab…
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All sorts went on at Bretton Woods, the landmark 1944 monetary conference designed to prevent global fiscal meltdown. These include sado-masochistic high jinks, bouts of competitive vocabula…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMPolka Theatre, London: Long before Tellytubbyland, Tove Jansson's fantasy world of Moominvalley, inhabited by similarly rotund, benevolent creatures of non-specific origin, kept generat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMSouthwark Playhouse, London: After scoring a hit with his first play Bound, Jesse Briton's second is not short on ambition. Enduring Song sees Briton's company, Bear Trap Theatre, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMLondon Wonderground, London: Shifting temporarily from its regular home at the Cafe Royal, the Spiegeltent at the London Wonderground seems like a home-from-home for the short and sharp Blac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMSHAKESPEARE: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Director Jonathan Munby talks to Heather Neill about his very well-received version of this Roman play, currently at Shakespeare's Globe, and starring Eve B…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:18AMSnape Maltings, Aldeburgh: Founded by Benjamin Britten back in 1947, the Aldeburgh Festival has no true opera house in which to stage the works of the UK's greatest opera composer, but …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMGrange Park Opera, Alresford: Summer opera festivals, such as Hampshire's Grange Park Opera, often offer more adventurous repertoire than major houses - perhaps because summer audiences…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMActor Sam Kelly, best known for his roles in the television comedies Porridge and ‘Allo, ’Allo!, has died at the age of 70. His agent, Lynda Ronan, said he had died peacefully after a &#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMJust two and a half years ago, the Daily Telegraph wondered aloud in a headline to a feature on West End ticket prices, “Are they out of control?” The feature pointed out, too, t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMPark Theatre, London: Opening a year ago with a real mixed bag across its two spaces the Park Theatre has raised its game over the past few months as a host of new plays - including The Man …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMSoho Theatre, London: John Lennon once said to deliver political messages "with a little milk and honey"; if that's a test for how the arts can effectively commentate, then it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMHamish Linklater and Lily Rabe star in the Public Theater's new 'Much Ado About Nothing.'
SOURCE: USA Today at 06:03AM
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: A double bill of one-act operas setting Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious tale The Fall of the House of Usher brings WNO's season to an end. The first …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMTheatre by the Lake, Keswick: The world premiere of Seeing the Lights by Brendan Murray demonstrates Keswick Theatre's commitment to encouraging new drama; its undoubted success will be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMShakespeare’s Globe has presented Ralph Alan Cohen with this year’s Sam Wanamaker Award, which is given to celebrate work that has increased the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMAlexander Park, Glasgow: With an unashamedly sentimental nostalgia for the good old days of childhood, and the performers acting as a barber-shop trio to hymn the majesty of a good ice cream…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMLondon Wonderground, London: "Forgive all those who call us strippers," Miss Tempest Rose drawls with a wink. After some sassy audience patter, she's beginning House of Burles…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMThere is a cadre of venerable – no, not venerable, respected – people knocking about the arts who don’t owe allegiances to anyone except their friends and who occasionally step out and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMI recently interviewed Arts Ed-trained Nathan Wright, a young actor who’s doing well and has just come out of an eighteen month stint in BBC’s Doctors. In passing he told me that he had…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM
Step into The Plaza, one of the most upscale venues and hotels in Upper Manhattan. Plaza Suite, a Tony Award-winning comedy written by Neil Simon in 1968, welcomes audiences to Room 719 as i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:29AMOrphans wasn’t exactly what I expected to find when I walked into the sprawling and maze-like first floor venue that Q44 operate out of, but it fit perfectly. My Saturday night at the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:06AMTony Award-winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS is coming to the big screen under the direction of Clint Eastwood and the cast discusses the new Four Seasons movie musical in a new promotional f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMA marvel of gleefully saucy yet wholly innocent farce that leaves you spent from laughter and humming a catchy tuneNineteen sixty-two was too late for vaudeville, and surely the Roman comedi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
This August, after the success of their 5-star production Skin Tight, Epsilon return to Park Theatre with Crystal Springs. We’re bringing you the chance to win a pair of tickets to this …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45AMTravel in the back of an ambulance in Plymouth, gamble with real money in Inverness and get planning for the Greenwich and Docklands festival, where all events are freeFor tried and tested s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMCOMFORT CANCER Steven Dierkes has written the play one thinks of writing after a friend gets a brain tumor. Like a character in Land Line, I once was a guy who talked long-distance day aft…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMHot on the heels of our review of Terry Gilliam’s brilliantly bombastic Benvenuto Cellini, we’ve got a pair of top price tickets to give away to see the show at ENO, London Coliseum. Rea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18AMThe role of the traditional theater critic has significantly evolved over the last decade. While there are some individuals who heavily rely on critical reviews prior to venturing out to sam…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:01AMTony Award-winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS is coming to the big screen under the direction of Clint Eastwood and a star of the film, Michael Lomenda, discusses the new Four Seasons movie mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00AM
Judith Wright Centre, BrisbaneThe Phluxus2 Dance Collective feeds on a primal fear of the future by creating a cyberpunk world of ecological decayIn the cavernous dark of Judith Wright Centr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50AMThe actor will shepherd a cast that includes his "Child of God" lead Scott Haze and Ally Sheedy in Robert Boswell's drama "The Long Shrift."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:46AMAngus Cerini scares me. In a good way. In a way that I know his work is likely to disturb and confront me and make me want a glass of wine and some alone time after a show. His company, Doub…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:46AMRejoice, Beckett fans! Short of an actual festival, it’s rare to have the opportunity to see two productions of the same Beckett play in a single season. SCENA Theatre’s latest p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33AMAs part of his continuing quest to exert dominance over all cultural arenas, James Franco is adding theater director to his resume. According to the New York Times, Franco will direct a vers…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:23AMAs a self-described launching pad for plays, the Source Festival offers writers and artists an opportunity to incubate promising new work, even if scripts exist in but a fledgling state. Suc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20AMQ44 Theatre's Orphans by Lyle Kessler is the story of Phillip and Treat, two grown orphaned brothers living in an abandoned North Philadelphia Row House in 1985.
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SOURCE: Theatre People Australia at 01:13AMJuilliard graduate, popular GIRLS leading man and rising film star Adam Driver opens up about his theatre training and acting roots as part of a new interview.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMToday we shine a special spotlight on the spectacular entertainment set to be presented this coming Monday, June 16, at Joe's Pub, THE LORD amp THE MASTER BROADWAYWORLD.COM SINGS THE MUSIC O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMMy Crazy Girlfriend Performs "Crazy Stupid Love" Live
Hip-pop quartet My Crazy Girlfriend pays a visit to the YH Studio to treat us to a live, stripped-down version of their second studio si…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMDavid Suchet, best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, plays another canny scrutinizer of nefarious human behavior in Roger Crane's "The Last Confession,"…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMDavid Suchet, best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, plays another canny scrutinizer of nefarious human behavior in Roger Crane's "The Last Confession,"…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMThis production of The King and I was first seen in 1991 in Adelaide. It toured Australia and found its way to New York in 1996, where it won some Tonys, and to London in 2000. It was a lavi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:08AMOn the Joys of a Broken Footby Étienne DupuisI met Miriam Khalil a few years back, when we were singing together in a production of La Bohème as Marcello and Musetta. She told me abo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMTime Out New York theatre critic David Cote chats with Playbill.com about his recent foray into writing lyrics for the opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMPieces and BITSby Estelle RosenPatrick Kearns shies away from labels, but shamelessly flirts with titles. Lately he’s been trying to get The Artist’s number. Best known for being a comed…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, June 15, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing celebrates its opening night on June 16 at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater. The free production…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMFive-time Emmy Award-winning comedian Wanda Sykes hosts the 2014 TrevorLIVE June 16 in New York at the Marriott Marquis. "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman helms the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com catches up with Rod and Ricky, the same-sex puppets from the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, who were engaged in 2011 and tied the knot July 24, 2011 — the first day …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEmily Skinner, Daniel Oreskes, Patti Perkins and young actor Tade Biesinger star in the Muny production of the Tony Award-winning musical Billy Elliot, which runs June 16-22 in St. Louis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCast members from the Off-Broadway production of Heathers: The Musical perform at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble June 16 to celebrate the release of the show's world-premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe fourth annual Night of a Thousand Judys takes place June 16 at Merkin Concert Hall. Sierra Boggess, Julia Murney, Jackie Hoffman and Rory O'Malley are among the evening'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who currently stars in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical If/Then, plays a one-night-only concert June 16 at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe June 16 benefit presentation of Ntozake Shange's Tony Award-nominated play for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf features a line-up of Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMembers of the general public may now purchase tickets to the Broadway premiere of The River, the new Jez Butterworth play starring Hugh Jackman that will arrive on Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMShowstopper Divas — The Broadway Songbook, an evening to benefit The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is presented June 16 at 7 PM at Stage 72/Triad.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA concert version of Bright Lights, Big City — the musical based on the Jay McInerney novel of the same name — is presented at 54 Below June 16 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTala Ashe, Greg Keller, Nadine Malouf and Bernard White star in the LCT3 New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar's The Who & The What, which officially opens Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLily Rabe and Hamish Linklater co-star as would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick, respectively, in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVineyard Theatre presents Portrait of an Artist, an evening with Tony Award winner Linda Lavin and her husband Steve Bakunas, June 16 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway podcast The Ensemblist heads to Birdland Jazz Club June 16 to celebrate its first anniversary with a live show. Ensemblist creators Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone have invit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe mission of the New York Philharmonic Biennial, whose inaugural edition overran several of the city’s concert halls in the last days of May and the first week of June, is a brave an…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMOne recent sunny morning on West Forty-fourth Street, upstairs from Sardi’s, a group of drama teachers gathered to sit at the feet of Stephen Sondheim. The teachers had been bravely pu…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMHappy Anniversary! June 2014 marks the one-year anniversary of the conception of Dance/NYC’s “New Yorkers for Dance” video campaign.
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