Last month BroadwayWorld's Matt Tamanini sat down with cast members of the new webseries THAT's EDUCATIONAL to discuss their characters and careers in the theatre. THAT'S EDUCATIONAL focuses…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53PMA comedy of one boomer’s journey to reclaim his 60s’ revolutionary spirit. The spirit of the ‘60s is alive in longtime stand-up comic, monologist Richard Stockton’s Are We There …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:47PMAn irresistible romantic-comedy about love, family, and a trust fund. Extended! “This sweet froth, smoothly directed by Chris DeCarlo, contains performances that boast a nice amount …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:26PMAfter four weeks of impressive, but not compelling, auditions, on Wednesday night, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE's 11th season dove head-first into an expedited Vegas Callback Week. Not only di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19PMRemember Deathtrap, Ira Levin's 1978 murder-mystery thriller? The one that lasted four years on Broadway and was adapted into a Sidney Lumet film starring Dyan Cannon, Michael Caine and Chri…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:03PMSylvia Milo tells the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's equally talented (and internationally ignored) older sister.
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The 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 in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53PMBROADWAY TO DIM ITS LIGHTS FRIDAY JUNE 27TH at 7:45 PMIN MEMORY OF CELEBRATED STAGE AND SCREEN ACTOR ELI WALLACH The Broadway community mourns the loss of renowned stage and screen actor El…
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:39PMALADDIN's leading lady Courtney Reed performed 'Gravity' at BROADWAY SESSIONS on May 23rd. Watch her sing the Sara Bareilles tune below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMSleaze of The Dealby Jim Murchison twitter@JimMurchisonThe Acting Company has mounted the classic play of the high pressure world of sales and salesmanship by David Mamet, Glengarry Gle…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 08:30PMNew kid on the theatre block Q44 Theatre Company have been wowing audiences in Melbourne with their latest play Orphans, starring Ashley Mckenzie, Mark Davis and Gareth Reeves. AussieTheatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:16PMRockaway, a free public arts festival sponsored by the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy JBRPC to celebrate the reopening of Fort Tilden and recognize the ongoing recovery of the Rockaw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMThe comedian gives you some tips in a video, and it's hilarious.
SOURCE: usat.ly at 08:08PMA glittering group representing theatre and technology worlds celebrated a beautiful friendship Saturday night when TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, staged i…
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JERSEY BOYS got its start at the La Jolla Playhouse. In this video feature, BroadwayWorld correspondent Audra Stafford shows how the show went from a basement, to Broadway and now, the big s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:50PMThe Incubator Arts Project is presenting its final show, an ambitious, cryptic and yet tuneful sci-fi stage production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PM"Rockaway!," a free public arts festival sponsored by the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy to celebrate the reopening of Fort Tilden and recognize the ongoing recovery of the…
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:26PMThe Public Theater pays tribute to “A Chorus Line” and its composer, Marvin Hamlisch, during its annual Shakespeare in the Park gala.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PMTony winner and television star Neil Patrick Harris' (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) "Choose Your Own Autobiography" book, where readers get to navigate NPH's life in choose-yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:21PMWhen a playwright calls his play Good People, we can assume that the characters will be…you know…good people. Can’t we? In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, opening this Friday at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:16PMLast week, Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout received the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. An ab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMThe Emmy winner will appear in the play at New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMGerard Alessandrini's satirical show includes takes on Hedwig, Idina Menzel, Cabaret, and more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMFollowing its relocation to the Gielgud Theatre, new production photos have been released of the play based on the award-winning novel by Mark Haddon
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And our thirteenth submission for the Trailer Park Award: Total Novice:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:59PMThe 6th Annual Broadway Meows Concert for the Humane Society of New York will be presented at Don't Tell Mama, one night only, Monday, July 21st at 7pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMNorth Carolina Theatre NCT, the region's premier producer of professional Broadway musicals now celebrating 30 years, has announced the casting for their upcoming original production of Disn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMAnd here is the twelfth submission for our Trailer Park Award: In Food Empire:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:44PM1. The 50th Anniversary Old Time Music Hall presented by British Players at Kensington Town Hall. “So forget what you’ve heard about those rank amateurs, these are amateurs of rank.…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:41PMThe Connections Festival is the finale of the National Theatre’s yearlong, nationwide programme of new writing for young people. Youth theatre companies from Inverness to Cornwall, and Bel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37PMNew York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration, announced that Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Kyra Sedgwick w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Check out new star of ONCE Jessie Fisher’…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:24PMAnd the eleventh submission for the Trailer Park Award: The Navigator:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:23PMWhen we first heard Max Crumm would be joining the cast of The Fantasticks we - like any decent human being - couldn’t help but contain our excitement. Max is one of the theater̵…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:21PMA generous new excerpt from 2014 Best Actor In A Musical Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris's new autobiography CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now available to peruse.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMWill Work For is a fearless, farcical wake0up call. It’s a rollercoaster ride through the dangers of today’s job market: dodging booby-trapped interviews, facing demons of employment…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:07PMThe project, a digital collection of monologues by playwrights and actors, has been turned into a feature film that premieres on Fandor July 4.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:06PMInternationally adored musical ANNIE is set to hit the silver screen in an all-new movie musical adaptation later this year, but one of the show's creators has utilized the BroadwayWorld mes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMAnna Fishbeyn stars in her solo comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe classic musical receives an updated, intimate revival at the Arcola
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00PMDamien Gray will direct the new show, which stars Euan Morton, Jeremy Kushnier, Randy Harrison, and more.
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(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Survive| Thrive} blog salon.) The relationship between theatres and communities in the 21st century is both …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:59PMForbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! will play its final performance on July 20 at the Davenport Theatre. The comedy revue from Gerard Alessandrini began off-Broadway on March 17 and opene…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMSeattle Times theater critic Misha Berson points out that in the 2013-14 Seattle theater season, patrons (and critics) enjoyed a season brimming with thought-provoking works by women — a…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:52PMAnd the tenth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Rock and Roll’s Greatest Lovers:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:52PMThe Old Globe today announced the full cast and creative team for the second production of the 2014 Summer Season, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMIt’s been another hectic theatergoing weekend. Despite the maddening fluctuations of Chicago not-yet summer weather (alternating hot weather and thunderstorms), audiences continue to flock…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 04:41PMThe latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway, which is entitled Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!, will end its run July 20 at the Davenport Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMNJTV, New Jersey's public television network, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center NJPAC announced the artists who will perform in the second season of American Songbook at NJPAC, to be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMBy Gabriel Jason Dean, Lindsay Amer. The aim of this article is not to point fingers. Though we were both angry at being censored, the director of the Purple Crayon Players production, Linds…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Annapurna" at Profiles Theatre Alley Stage ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Annapurna" at Profiles Theatre Alley Stage ★★½ ... Darrell W. Cox, the star of man…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:34PMGolden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Kyra Sedgwick will star in the premiere of Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley's The Danish Widow, which will run in July as part of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.) SHIFTING SANDS As participatory artists, we’re often …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:28PMAnd the ninth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Friends Like These:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:27PMWhat Would Tina and Amy Do? is a new play about best friends, Annie and Tinley, and the challenges they face as they try to figure out the real world. To help them overcome the many difficul…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMThe Broadway community mourns the loss of renowned stage and screen actor Eli Wallach, who passed away on Tuesday at age 98. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMAnd the eighth submission for our Trailer Park Award: Denim on Denim II: Roadhouse of Cards:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:14PMProducers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman, and Ken Davenport have announced a new start date for the star-studded Broadway production of 4-time Tony® Award winner Terrence McNally‘s uproariou…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:12PMAnd the seventh entry for the Trailer Park Award: Fancy: Secrets from my BootyDoir:
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Kyra Sedgwick is going back to school....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:03PMTheatre Momentum’s production springs from a compelling inspiration in theory, and there's good chemistry among the troupe as they riff off each other with a well-honed naturalism. However…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:03PMREVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW OF RAGNAR AGNARSSON FURNITURE PAINTER is one of those very special albums that are destined for music history. It’s that good, that special, and the album is even b…
SOURCE: rust-magazine.com at 04:02PMIt may be slightly dated, but Ruth Lovett finds there's still value in the messages of Close the Coalhouse Door.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMFiasco Theater brings its reimagined production to the West Coast.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMWallach died on June 24 at the age of 98.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMA two-time Tony winner for best choreography (in 2005 he won for La Cage aux Folles and in 2013 he won for Kinky Boots), choreographer and director Jerry Mitchell started his career as a Bro…
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When last we spoke with Zest Collective, they were gearing up to release a new movement-based web drama, “Launch”. The young company is continuing to break boundaries and re-cr…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:59PMBy HowlRound. This week's conversation topic is "Theatermakers, playwrights: What's the best way to get feedback?" and will be moderated by Angela Eden @angelaeden116—who like all of our m…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:58PMThe Puppets are Scariest Up Closeby Robyn Lester@RobinRobynRobPuppets! Puppets, puppets, puppets! If that hasn’t sold you, I guess I should talk about the show. Who Killed Gertrude Crump i…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:55PMThe marquees of Broadway theatres will be dimmed for one minute June 27 at 7:45 PM in memory of stage and screen actor Eli Wallach, who passed away June 24 at age 98.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM1. First show you saw:
Crazy for You on Broadway
2. First involvement in a theatrical production:
I played "Annie" at Camp Lokanda in upstate New York when I was 10 years old…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 03:50PMEvents that pair painting lessons with social drinking are popping up in the metro area. The art might not be fine, but at least there's wine.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:46PMCOME ON AND SHOOT A PRESIDENT Assassins ushers together the horde of maniacs who have made attempts on the lives of US Presidents, seeking to examine their varying degrees of sanity, as well…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.) I met Doruntina Basha, a writer from Kosovo, at the Wom…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:29PMI haven’t written a lot of straight up features on individual shows at this year’s Fringe – really only this one and this one – the reason being that I’m just w…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:25PMJohn Lithgow on how he’s learned to modulate his energy in rehearsing “King Lear,” after sitcom experience “conducted at a pace far over the speed limit.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25PMAlex Jennings won a 2003 Olivier Award for playing Henry Higgins in the Trevor Nunn-directed revival of My Fair Lady, and the protean actor is now back at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMThis item from Bruce A! Kraemer Ego Actus is looking for play submissions for The New York City Icon Plays: Love in an Irish Pub, which we will present at Quinn’s Bar and Grill, 356 West 4…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 03:24PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Friday night in memory of Eli Wallach, the movie and theater star who earned a best featured actor Tony Award in 1951....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:23PMDARK SUBJECT MATTER LEAVES US IN THE DARK Inspired by Theater of the Absurd, Cuban expatriate María Irene Fornés (b. 1930) cut her teeth during the Off-Off-Broadway avant-garde movement. S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:21PMKOM HIT! is an immersive dance/theater work at the American Swedish Institute, sort of inspired by Strindberg.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:21PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Theatre | Technology} blog salon, curated by Jacqueline E. Lawton.) JACQUELINE LAWTON: First, please tell …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:20PMThe Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, presented the 4th annual Off Broadway Alliance A…
SOURCE: www.timessquaregossip.com at 03:13PMA fascinating and vivid collection of photos of the original production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's reverse chronology musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG are now available to view cour…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMTheater Without Limits brings to the stage an all-time family favorite, The Sound of Music, music by Richard Rogers, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:09PMAcademy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley has been cast as the voice of Bagheera in Disney's upcoming The Jungle Book.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMYou are being watched. If you’re not under surveillance because of your political views, then you are being tracked because of your economic activities. Or what you do on the web. Or what …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMEli Wallach, who died on Tuesday at the age of 98, was an actor whose working-class demeanor often led to typecasting and character parts on the big screen. Onstage, where he began his caree…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PMKirmser Ponturo Group LLC Fran Kirmser amp Tony Ponturo announce they have acquired the exclusive global, theatrical and movie rights, to the life story of World Heavyweight Champion Joe Lou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMThe set of three plays, featuring an entirely female cast, explores the journey of women over the last century
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:00PMPaper Mill Playhouse doesn’t just produce works bound for Broadway (see: “Honeymoon in Vegas”) and revive classic musicals—the Millburn, N.J., theater also provides 1…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:00PMKirmser Ponturo Group acquires exclusive rights to the story.
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:57PMTony Award-winning Best Musical ONCE has unveiled an attractive new marquee and logo to go along with a new 'ONCE 2.0' themed promotion.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMThe fat lady is singing the blues.
A vandal snuck into the Metropolitan Opera and defaced several artworks inside the famed music hall, authorities said Wednesday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:56PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
WTF's Living on Love, Starring Justin Long, Announces Full Cast and Creative
The full cast and creative team is now s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:50PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Conflict | Confluence} blog salon, curated by Jacqueline E. Lawton.) JACQUELINE LAWTON: First, please tell…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:47PMThe mission of the Mint Theatre, operating out of a tiny black box theatre on West 43rd Street in an office building, is to unearth, to present and preserve forgotten plays of merit. In note…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:45PMThis quiz originally ran in March 2013. With We Came Together opening this weekend, we are rerunning it. We accepted that Paul Rudd was 40 in This Is 40, because it was right there in t…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:45PMBenjamin Scheuer, star of the solo musical “The Lion,” discusses his show, his father and the healing power of a nice suit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:34PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.) The nearly 4 years that I have been working towards cul…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:33PMHis support for Arts in the Woods is a beautiful display of openly gay celebrities using their fame to help bring attention to important causes. Check out Groff's video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMAs the week reaches its midway point, we took to Instagram to see what the theatre community has been up to over the last few days.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Theatre | Technology} blog salon, curated by Jacqueline E. Lawton.) JACQUELINE LAWTON: First, please tell …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:29PMWill Work For is a fearless, farcical, huge wake-up call! It’s a rollercoaster ride through the dangers of today’s job market: dodging through booby-trapped interviews, facing demons of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PM'Sex And The City' star Sarah Jessica Parker is ready to make her return to television in the police crime thriller BUSTED.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, which made its world premiere at the Old Globe in 1986, will be presented in a re-imagined production at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMPoor old Ophelia had too little opportunity to lean in. Confined by old-line social codes, constantly lectured and harangued by men, she could only exercise her inventiveness and gumption (�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:25PMEveryone loves a little classic noir story. But when you put a new twist on a classic genre, you know you’re in for a fun night. In the highly immersive Clown Bar by Adam Szymkowicz featur…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:23PMPeople Like Us, the two-person musical by Todd Almond and Gus Kaikkonen, will be presented July 7 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Watch out, "Rocky" - the producing team behind some recent sport-related Broadway shows have just gotten the rights to tell the story of boxing great Joe Louis....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:04PMTown Hall's Broadway by the Year Series just took on THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1990-2014 featuring such performers as Aladdin star Adam Jacobs, Tony Award-nominee Chad Kimball Memphis, Jenn G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMSince the 2007 recession, more than 95 percent of students in the United States are attending schools that have had arts program budgets slashed. The nationwide dip makes honoring the progra…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:00PMConversations With My Molester: A Journey of Faith examines sexual abuse in a spiritual autobiography.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMBroadway Preludes will present the unearthed Porter treasure The Ambassador Revue for one night at Town Hall.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMLady Bunny performs at St. Louis PrideFest on Saturday.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:00PMMary Bridget Davies, who earned a Tony nomination for her performance as rock legend Janis Joplin in A Night With Janis Joplin, will be featured performing rock songs in Summer at the Pasade…
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Carlos Garland, Season 10 finalist on Fox TV's "So You Think You Can Dance," joined the cast of iLUMINATE on June 23rd at New World Stages.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMFran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, who produced the Broadway sports dramas Lombardi, Magic/Bird and Bronx Bombers, have acquired stage and film rights to the life story of African American heavy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Theatre | Technology} blog salon, curated by Jacqueline E. Lawton.) JACQUELINE LAWTON: First, please tell …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:55PMThe unusually eventful post-season at the Metropolitan Opera continued on Wednesday morning when some administrative offices inside the opera house were vandalized with spray paint, the poli…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMThe Pre-Broadway World Premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy Award winner Sting, and book by Tony winner John Logan and Pulitzer Prize-winner Bri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMThis just in Sasha Allen, who won the hearts of millions for being one of the Top 5 on Season 4 of NBC's 'The Voice,' will play the role of 'Leading Player' for the U.S. national tour of PIP…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:41PM(This post is a part of the Diversity & Inclusion blog salon led by Online Curator Jacqueline E. Lawton. Check out further Diversity & Inclusion interviews on Jacqueline’s blog…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:34PMArs Nova, the New York City–based theater development program, is currently accepting applications for their emerging writers collective, Play Group. Play members meet twice a month to…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:31PMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:17PMThe project will be produced by Broadway's Alan Cumming, 'inspired by the life of colorful New York City restauranteur and AIDS activist Florent Morellet.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17PMThe producers of the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical Pippin have announced casting for the U.S. national tour which launches in Denver at the Buell Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMAlready seen every show on Broadway...twice? Then it’s time for a road trip! Broadway.com is always on the hunt for buzzed-about regional productions that could be heading to the Great…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMNews of a London primary school being forced to cancel its annual musical production after parents discovered one of the characters was based on Jimmy Savile will surely raise questions abou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMAfter seeing the film Les Miserables, Showtime producers thought it would be funny for House of Lies stars Don Cheadle and Josh Lawson to sing lines Les-Mis style from the hit show and asked…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMGangway! The Last Ship, featuring an original score by Grammy winner Sting, celebrates its pre-Broadway opening night in Chicago on June 25. The tuner will play the Windy City through July 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMICE CREAM...by Robyn Lester@RobinRobynRobI’m not sure what to say about Paco P. Put to Sleep. It was certainly interesting. But I’m still not sure if I liked it. I think I did. I laughed…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:05PMDelighted that our shows Mary Poppins, Violet, Fiddler on the Roof, Catch Me If You Can, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Last Five Years are represented at EdTA’s Intern…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:03PM(Photo by Michal Daniel. Pictured: Kristoffer Diaz delivering his “To The Mountaintop” remarks at the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders in San Diego.) A couple of y…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:00PMHeadz features 11 monologues performed over 4 nights and writer Keith Saha tells us more.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMThe musical play, Some Girl I Used To Know, opens at the London venue on 22 August following a UK tour
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMA 'big data' survey carried out by Nesta is the first to examine the effect of live cinema broadcasts
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMThis new theater experience tells the tales of war through dance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe annual revue showcases young, aspiring performers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe popular podcast host and comedienne hates L.A. but loves the '70s in her new show at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMJoe DiPietro's new comedy also stars Justin Long and Anna Chlumsky.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
In the immediate wake of a recent ruling that cleared former NewsCorp exec Rebekah Brooks of all hacking charges during her tenure at News of the World, the National Theater in London has an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:57PM★★★ Drama. PG-13. 93 minutesAwkward adolescence is a subject of some fascination for Argentine director Lucía Puenzo, whose "XXY" and "The Fish Child" both explored…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:55PMWilliamstown Theatre Festival Producer Stephen M. Kaus has announced the full cast and creative team of its world premiere Main Stage production, Joe DiPietro's Living on Love. The productio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMLONDON (AP) -- After months of courtroom drama comes phone hacking, the play....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:44PMMusical Theatre Guild has announced the five musicals that will comprise its 2014-15 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThe pop singer shared a photo on Twitter of her celebration with none other than Mickey himself
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMTwo different audiences were captivated by actor Francis Matthews. Children knew him as the voice of Captain Scarlet in the Gerry Anderson puppet series for Associated Television, while adul…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMIconic Drag diva Lady Bunny visited a recent performance of Broadway's Kinky Boots. She went backstage afterward and posed for photos with the show's Angels.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMBroadwayWorld.com couldn't be more excited today to extend our extra-special congratulations this morning to longtime TV host, Richard Ridge who married his partner of 37 years, Preston Ridg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMCurtain lifts on play delayed for News of the World trial verdicts, with Billie Piper as tabloid editor (not based on Rebekah Brooks)Phone hacking, MPs' expenses and the dangerously close re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMThe new production of Scott Organ's play PHOENIX, starring Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominee Julia Stiles andJames Wirt, will have scenic design by Caite Hevner Kemp, costume design by Ami…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMExcerpts from a new musical about Fannie Lou Hamer, a Civil Rights activist, will be presented at Carnegie Hall this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMI want to write about The Anxiety Festival but am anxious I’m doing it too late. It’s been on for the whole of June and is now in the last week – what’s the point…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMThe Met should have been better prepared for the outcry over a perennial source of controversy in the opera world.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:31PMWhat’s not to adore about this super-friendly, hedonistic, 24-hour street party, what summer resident John Waters celebrates as “a gay fishing village,” and what I might label, oxymoro…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:30PMInspired by today's conversation about movie musicals, here are some of our favorite numbers, going all the way back to Busby Berkeley. Sammy Davis Jr. as a hippie cult leader in Sweet Chari…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:27PM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.) My plays deal with La Frontera, the border between Mexi…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:27PMAvignon, Brussels, Montreal, Edinburgh—imagine hopping from one city to another, sampling the largest performing arts festivals in each. For those of us confined to the United States, oppo…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:26PMThe complete creative team has been announced for the upcoming production of Phoenix, Scott Organ's dark comedy about a one-night stand that will star Julia Stiles and James Wirt.&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMWarning: 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 12:22PMWhat could have been a life on hold for writer/performer Joseph Assadourian became the discovery of skill that has transformed his life — and that of anyone who sees his one person sho…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:20PMThe Music Theatre Wichita continues its 2014 season June 25 with the classic musical West Side Story, which runs through June 29 in Wichita, KS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMSasha Allen, a finalist on the fourth season of NBC's "The Voice" and star of the cult film "Camp," will be the Leading Player in the U.S. national tour of the Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMAnnaleigh Ashford, who earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Kinky Boots, celebrates her birthday June 25. She will return to Broadway later this season in the revival o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, After Midnight, the seven-time 2014 Tony Award-nominee, and winner of the Tony Award for Best Choreography Warren Carlyle, will play its final performan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMThe Town Hall 2014 Summer Season Broadway Preludes presents Broadway Rising Stars, the annual revue giving recent graduates from the nation's leading performing arts schools a chance to show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMProducers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman, and Ken Davenport have announced a new start date for the star-studded Broadway production of 4-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally's uproarious comedy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMCall Answered: "Call Me Adam" chats with Ryan McCartan, 2011 Jimmy Award winner for Best Actor about winning the coveted award, hosting the 2014 Jimmy Awards, starring in the Disney Channel'…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:00PMThe star of The Hobbit is taking on The Crucible at the Old Vic. 'It's a big mountain to climb,' he tells Chris Harvey
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:00PMTown Hall's Broadway by the Year Series just took on THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1990-2014 featuring such performers as Aladdin star Adam Jacobs, Tony Award-nominee Chad Kimball Memphis, Jenn G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMIndie musical Hostage Song is enjoyable if a little predictable
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMThe autumn/winter season has been announced at the Kingston venue
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMColumnist Liz Smith gets to the bottom of the rumors that Meryl Streep will play the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. She spoke with director Mike Nichols, who is in charge of the upcomi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMThe new musical revue will be workshopped later this week.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMTerrence McNally's It's Only a Play will now begin performances a week sooner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMLooks like they're on the right track! Sasha Allen and Kyle Selig have been cast as The Leading Player and Pippin, respectively, in the first national tour of Diane Paulus' Tony-winn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMJonathan Larson's autobiographical musical runs for only five performances.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe Method actor studied with film legends including Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Marilyn Monroe.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMJames Wirt will also appear in the Scott Organ drama, directed by Jennifer DeLia.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
On Twitter Watch, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote ' The first person at my dressing room door after the show. I had no idea. There are no words. '
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMJessie Fisher, who stars as Girl in the Tony-winning musical Once, takes on seven questions about love and music.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:50AMThe creative team is now set for the off-Broadway production of Scott Organ’s Phoenix, starring the previously announced Julia Stiles and James Wirt. The production, helmed by Jennifer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMTEEN PICKS: The Lemon Lounge Episode 3 The Lemon Lounge connects you with live art to enjoy Host Cindy Marie Jenkins, Storyteller & Outreach Nerd dedicated to connecting audiences with t…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 11:41AMThe immigrant story in Pittsburgh is an old one. A theater company from the Czech Republic is here in town to explore and present a new perspective on the immigrant/refugee experience here i…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:34AMThe Broadway Revival of You Can't Take It With You Just Got Damaged Kinky and Wicked: It was previously announced that Tony Award and Outer Critics' Circle winner James Earl Jones (Gore Vid…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:31AMThe cast of ROCKY, including Tony Nominee Andy Karl, Terence Archie and Margo Seibert just welcomed a special guest to the Winter Garden Theatre. Medal of Honor recipient Cpl Kyle Carpenter …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMBoston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, which will be presented July 4 at 8 PM at the Hatch Shell on Boston’s Charles River Esplanade, will be webcast for the first time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMHBO will soon premiere the new drama series THE LEFTOVERS, which begins its ten-episode season on Sunday, June 29 at 1000 p.m. ETPT. BroadwayWorld was there for the series' New York City pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMAdrian Noble's superb adaptation leaves Charles Spencer feeling bruised yet elated
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:17AM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon curated by Caridad Svich.) Let’s be honest: there’s a lot of talk about connec…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:15AMTony winner Bernadette Peters, orchestrator and musician Harold Wheeler, and choreographer and director Patricia Birch headed to Harlem’s hottest nightclub on June 24, 2014: After Midn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AMLin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Karen Olivo will star in the New York City Center Encores Off-Center production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick... BOOM, running for five performances…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMThe pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMMTV announced today that will reprise its TOTAL REQUEST LIVE countdown show for on day only with mega pop singer Ariana Grande
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMMarriage is a booze-fuelled Strindbergian blood sport in Edward Albee's 1962 classic and Tim Piggott-Smith and Clare Higgins land viciously funny linguistic blows on each other with a shocki…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:04AM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon.) There’s been a fair amount of discussion in the national news media of late abo…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:04AMSo You Think You Can Dance finalist Carlos Garland is the latest to light up New World Stages in the off-Broadway hit iLuminate. The dancer began performances on June 23. The new 2014 editio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMThe reason we held the first annual Ghostlight Awards was to shine the spotlight on the people in the wings, in the pits and working front of house at the forty Broadway theaters in town. …
SOURCE: theproducersperspective.com at 11:00AMLerner and Loewe's musical has been revised for the stage by Heidi Thomas.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMVeteran strategist Lisa Taback is now a free agent following a rift that started last season when TWC execs learned she was working on Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks" campaign outside of the par…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:00AMThis article is choc full of delicious facts, and maybe a few palatable puns
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AM
HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME, written by Todd Kreidler and directed by Kenny Leon, blazes to life in a non-biographical story about friendship, family, revenge, change and hope. Inner city lives str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMThe announcement that ArtsGreensboro, the service organization serving that North Carolina community, will be funding arts coverage in the Greensboro News & Record, is being portrayed as…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 10:58AMDisney's Vanessa Hudgends Will Be Broadway's New Gigi: I had heard the rumor a week ago, but now it's official "High School Musical" and "Spring Breakers" Star Vanessa Hudgends is headed for…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:57AMThe National Theatre has responded instantly to the verdicts reached in the phone-hacking trial with a “fast and furious” satire about the press, politicians and police that opens on Mon…
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:56AMBAC, LondonThis show based on Agota Kristof's story strips away any sentimentality to present the diary of twins surviving warForced Entertainment have seldom strayed away from performance a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMProlific stage and screen actor Eli Wallach died on Tuesday, June 24. The Tony and Honorary Academy Award winner was 98. His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his daughter, Kather…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMProducers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman and Ken Davenport have announced a new start date for the star-studded Broadway production of Tony Award winner Terrence McNally's comedy It's Only …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMTown Hall's Broadway by the Year Series just took on THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1990-2014 featuring such performers as Aladdin star Adam Jacobs, Tony Award-nominee Chad Kimball Memphis, Jenn G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMJohn Barrowman has announced on his official web site that he will be touring the UK with his You Raise Me Up Tour in May and June 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMWe’re inking this date into our calendars! Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, F. Murray Abraham, Megan Mullally and Rupert Grint will begin performances in It’s O…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:44AMJonathan Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!, the opening show of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series of landmark Off-Broadway musicals, plays the New York City venue June 25-28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMWe’re posting Q&As with our live show guests as they roll in, and we’re pretty excited that Nick Cearley of The Skivvies is the first! Can’t wait for you all to hear wh…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 10:42AMAlex Newell, who plays Unique on Fox's GLEE, was a part of line up of performers featured in Broadway Celebrates Pride Week at 54 Below. Newell was joined and accompanied by Composer Scott A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMMichael Urie is the kind of charmed storyteller who can get away with laughing at his own jokes. As an underemployed L.A. actor with a decidedly unusual day job, he'll drop some gem-sharp ab…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:34AMExcerpts from Carmen, a new Afro-Cuban musical in development, will be presented as part of The Guggenheim’s "Works & Process" June 28 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMHBO will soon premiere the new drama series THE LEFTOVERS, which begins its ten-episode season on Sunday, June 29 at 1000 p.m. ETPT. BroadwayWorld was there for the series' New York City pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMSmall theatre companies in London must not be ignored in the next round of Arts Council England funding, despite the need to address regional imbalances, the Independent Theatre Council has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMThe hit musical Kinky Boots, which played a Chicago out-of-town premiere in fall 2012 prior to its Tony Award-winning 2013 Broadway debut, will return to the Windy City when the national tou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Arbuckle, Keaton and St. John comedy The Rough House (1917). Arbuckle plays a gentleman named “Rough”, who operates a rooming house …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:23AMBest House Manager Michael Composto - The Book of Mormon - Eugene O’Neill Theatre “First, I would like to congratulate all the other nominees. I want to thank all the people who …
SOURCE: theproducersperspective.com at 10:22AM To celebrate their brand new gallery in Yountville, Chloe Fine Arts — San Francisco’s prestigious art gallery on Ghirandelli Square — is hosting a series of events, including st…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:22AMThe Goodman Theatre's new production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, helmed by Chicago director-choreographer Rachel Rockwell, will begin performances June 27, pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMIs this real life?! tick, tick...BOOM! star Lin-Manuel Miranda had a special guest drop by to see him after the dress rehearsal of the new revival: Stage and screen favorite Raul Esparza, st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:21AMThe Goodman Theatre has announced complete casting for the two cornerstone mainstage productions of its 2014-15 season: The World of Extreme Happiness by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (a world-premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMDid you ever wonder what happened after all your Disney favorites had their dreams come true Musician Jon Cozart's AFTER EVER AFTER PART 2 has arrived with Elsa, Mulan, Tiana, and Cinderella
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AM“Full of sound and fury, signifying [a crazy night of theater]”. That’s the quick summary of Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s world premiere of Enter Ophelia, distracted, Kimberly Gilb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMInside Broadway presented the Broadway Beacon Awards June 23, honoring Andy Karl, Anika Noni Rose and the Tony winning production of All The Way, at The Essex House at 5:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMWriter-performer Charles Busch will bring his solo show to 54 Below next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMLin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Karen Olivo will star in the New York City Center Encores Off-Center production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick... BOOM, running for five performances…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMBroadway alum Denise Van Outen’s new one-woman musical play, Some Girl I Used to Know, which she co-wrote with Terry Ronald, will play London’s Arts Theatre this summer. Directed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMArtists need cash in order to record, tour, and create. They also need support as they hunt for better ways to connect with their fans. That’s where services like PledgeMusic come in.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:07AMClick for production photos of tick, tick...BOOM! at Encores!, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo and Leslie Odom Jr. See the new revival at New York City Center from June 25 through 2…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:06AMThe Public Theater will present "Shakespeare in America," a free, one-night-only performance and discussion at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park June 30 at 8 PM. Actresses Jess…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMNT's artistic chief Nicholas Hytner said the original intention had been for the play to open a week ago but the National was advised not to begin performances while the court case continued.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 10:04AMToday is the anniversary of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy The Waiters’ Ball (1916). This Keystone comedy is kind of a dry run for Arbuckle’s later movie The C…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03AMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:01AMJane Lynch made her cabaret debut last week at speakeasy-styled nightspot 54 Below. Before sound check, Lynch and her special guest star Cheyenne Jackson
chatted with Playbill to celebrate …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMThe new satire by Richard Bean will open, after no previews, next Monday
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM
The Taste of It
Off Off Broadway, Theater 54
Reviewed by Shoshana Roberts
BOTTOM LINE: Two opinionated artists get their sexy on in 1970s Boston.
Lights up and feast your eyes on the sex…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:58AMPrincipal casting has been announced for the North Carolina Theatre's upcoming production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which will play July 29-Aug. 3 at Raleigh Memorial Auditor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMThe details have finally been revealed of Richard Bean’s previously reported new play at Britain's National Theatre. For legal reasons the production was unable to announce until t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:55AMThoroughly Modern Millie, the 2002 Broadway musical based on the 1967 film of the same name, is to receive its U.K. fringe premiere in a new production that will begin performances Oct. 1, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMWarning: 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 09:49AMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:48AMDenise van Outen is to reprise the one-woman musical play Some Girl I Used to Know that she co-wrote (with Terry Ronald) and toured in the U.K. earlier this year for a run at London's Ar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMUntil now, the powerful economic reality spotlighted by The Arts Factor has generally been ignored or dismissed as anecdotal.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMThe fourth and final reading in the 2014 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays, Matte O’Brien‘s "The Wonderful Mr. & Mrs. O’Leary," will be heard 7 PM June 25-26 at the TACT Studio in Manha…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:36AMFour Tree Plays Ray Burley Productions Schkapf When you hear the term “avant-garde,” the tendency is to think of someone alone on a bare stage considering a pineapple. Happily, Four Tre…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:34AMChallenging for the actors, and sometimes even challenging for the audience, the RS Theatrics production of Frank McGuinness' 1992 hostage drama gives us three outstanding performers to appr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34AM Arlo Hill Celebrates the Legacy of Composer Frank Loesser By: Ellis Nassour
Arlo Hill, who's been featured in several roles in Broadway's longest-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:34AMNightmaricomio A guy named Kevin (musician Kevin Van Cott) pounds away at a drum kit while a writhing ball of cast members moan and gyrate manically like a nest of vipers. And that’s prett…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:30AMEli Wallach, who had one of the most far-ranging and long-lived acting careers of his era and was one of the last exemplars of a post-WWII generation of American actors who brought the earne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMThe National Theatre has made a late addition to its summer program, announcing the premiere of Richard Bean's Great Britain just six days ahead of its June 30 opening. It will begin per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMStage and screen star John Barrowman has announced his latest U.K. concert tour, which will launch May 16, 2015, at the Southend Cliffs Pavilion.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMSome Girl I Used To Know starring Denise Van Outen is to transfer to the Arts Theatre in central London this summer. The one-woman show, which is co-written by the performer and Terry Ronald…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMGoodspeed 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 09:15AMI recently attended an evening of philosophy and music, led by Professor Bill Brewer of King’s College London, which explored the relationship between music and the mind. The relationship …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 09:11AMWhimsy is not usually my thing. But, what can I say, I was charmed by Fly By Night, the quirky new musical that is playing at Playwrights Horizons through Sunday.The show was originally crea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AMIt was back in 2009 when the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences teamed with Shakespeare Theatre Company to present a staged reading of Inherit the Wind, as a way to showca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMRussell Grant is to star in the UK fringe premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie this October. He will appear in the musical at Theatro Technis in north London from October 1 to 29. Its press&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMGood 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 Encores Off-Center's TICK, TICK... BOO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
Jay H. Harris, a wealthy businessman who produced a few shows on Broadway, including the recent Wonderland and Stick Fly, but had his greatest impact on Florida theatre, died June 20 in Boca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AMFiled under: Contemporary Variety, Illusionists, PLUGS, Vaudeville etc. Tagged: magic, mind reading, Mystique Boutique, Red Room
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AMWell, we're now nearly two weeks post-Tony Awards, and the annual purge of shows is fully under way. Summer, like the dead of winter, can be a slow time on Broadway, and producers pull…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:48AMIf you've ever understudied, you know that nothing can make your heart skip a beat like receiving a call from stage management two hours before your call time. And if you are, indeed, recei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AM (click photo to enlarge) It’s an all-star cast shaping up for George S. Kaufman’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “You Can’t Take it With You!”…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:45AMFilm, television and stage actor Eli Wallach, whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s, died on Tuesday, June 24th at the age 98. His death was confirmed by hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44AMGoodspeed 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 08:40AMSee/Saw Theatre Co presents What Would Tina and Amy Do? by Larissa Kruesi and Mikaela Saccoccio – a new play about friendship, love, and getting stuff done. Friendships are an importan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AM"The Town Hall 2014 Summer Season: Broadway Preludes" will kick off June 27 at 8 PM with the American premiere of Cole Porter's The Ambassador Revue featuring Anita Gillette, T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AMThe Pre-Broadway World Premiere of THE LAST SHIP, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy Award winner Sting, and book by Tony winner John Logan and Pulitzer Prize-winnerBria…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:25AMTheatre Royal, BathClare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith trade blows with relish, but Adrian Noble's revival brings little fresh insight to Albee's classicWhen Peter Hall ran the Bath summer se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMLONDON — Welsh actor Luke Evans (“The Hobbit”) and Elisabeth Moss have joined the cast of Ben Wheatley’s “High-Rise,” which is being produced by Jeremy Thomas’ Recorded Pic…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 25 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMTheatre 20 production of Stephen Sondheim musical has top notch cast, including Louise Pitre and Dan Chameroy.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AMMamma Mia! is spending Summer in Blackpool and Robin Duke thanks Abba for the music.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AM
So many of the great musicals of the 1940s, 50s and 60s have remained in the standard repertoire, being revived again and again and recorded over and over that you could be forgiven for thin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:59AMBy now you’ve gotten the word that Eli Wallach (1915-2014) has passed away. He was 98. This would make him about 17 when the Palace presented its last two-a-day. I am often given to sa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMNational Theatre play Great Britain will satirise tabloid newspapers - but director insists Billie Piper's ambitious news editor is not based on Rebekah Brooks
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:39AMThe north and south breed different senses of humour. Johnny Vegas looks at faults in himself while Jimmy Carr deflects outwards. My new gag gets laughs in Hull and nowt in WindsorPicture th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMatthew Xia has been appointed associate artistic director at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, following the departure of co-artistic director Greg Hersov this summer. Xia, who directe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMEli Wallach's acting career spanned six decades. The Brooklyn native played everything from a Mexican bandit to a French general to a Mafia don on screen, but he really loved the theater. He…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:18AMWhat do Drama Teachers Do In the Summer? Part One. The biggest misconception is that all teachers head to the pool and relax for two months during the summer. What to hear what really goes o…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 07:00AMThe National Theatre's award winning smash hit returns to the Lowry, following a previous sell out run.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:00AM
Just the other day I was writing here about the opening of public booking for the forthcoming Donmar Warehouse production of City of Angels. The show doesn’t open till December, over f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMToday is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Laurel and Hardy comedy County Hospital (1932), directed by James Parrott. I think of this movie as the archetypical “guy …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:49AMColiseum Theatre, Oldham: After Lee Hall's additional new opening scene, set in the present day when the door has practically slammed shut on mining coal in Britain, Alan Plater's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMThe News of the World phone hacking trial may have ended yesterday, but the drama continues at the National Theatre where, less than 24 hours after the end of the eight-month trial at the Ol…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:45AM Today is the birthday of actor/singer/performer Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998). Hayes started out performing in the vaudeville act of his mother Grace Hayes (including the Palace in an …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:34AMAs the promos say, “Good magicians don’t need sleeves. Great magicians don’t need pants”. Launching a full frontal attack on the magic community, and the public at large, are…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:33AMDo you know your Pinter from your Ibsen? Your Frayn from your Kane? See if you can recognise these opening lines of 10 classic playsQuiz: Can you identify these character actors? Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:17AMNew Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: When this lively home-grown production of the Jules Verne classic first appeared in the round at the New Vic in April last year, it screamed "extended run…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMBlackpool Opera House: It is a boost for Blackpool to be the exclusive UK location for the Mamma Mia! international tour, playing a 12-week season at the Opera House during the crucial holid…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM
Let's say Greek tragedies exist in a multiverse where the same stories play out simultaneously in thousands of ways. And let's say we're given free rein to argue over those stories, debate t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:59AMAfter a seamless transition from small-screen dramas to big-screen comedies (seriously, what can't this woman do?) Rose Byrne is setting her sights on Broadway. The Damages and Bridesmaids s…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:49AMTHE WONDERFUL MR. amp MRS. O'LEARY, written by Matte O'Brien and directed by David Alpert, will be presented as part of TACT's newTACTics series tonight, June 25 and Thursday, June 26 at 7 p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Muny presents the second show of its 96th season, TARZAN, directed by John Tartaglia, choreographed by Chris Bailey, with musical direction by Rick Bertone.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Brooklyn College Department of Theater will present its inaugural New Works Brooklyn festival today, June 25-29. The series will feature staged readings of one-act plays written by Kia C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNancy Rhodes, artistic director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, announced today that Klea Blackburst, actress, singer and comedienne best known for her award-winning tribute to Ethel Merman,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMOff-Broadway's Murder for Two will offically close today, June 29 at New World Stages. The show was previously scheduled to conclude its killer year-long run in New York on July 6, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLeading 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 01:30AMLin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Karen Olivo star in the New York City Center Encores Off-Center production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick... BOOM, running for five performances, tod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTony Award nominee and RENT star Adam Pascal will lead Straight From New York's upcoming masterclass in Dallas, Texas today, June 25, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMFor those of you lucky enough to be in New York, actor and singer Keith David will be performing again this week. Tonight, June 25th, Keith will be guest appearing at the Cotton Club in New …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMInternational singing sensation and reality competition superstar Susan Boyle stops by morning chat show LIVE WITH KELLY amp MICHAEL today, June 25, for a special performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTony- and Emmy-winning actor Eli Wallach, a major proponent of “the Method” style of acting best known for his starring role in Elia Kazan’s film “Baby Doll” and for his role as vi…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 01:01AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel is featured prominently in a new attention-grabbing Manhattan advertisement for new Broadway musical IFTHEN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMWhitney Cummings on her Stand-Up Special & Dating
The talented and hilarious Whitney Cummings stops by the YH Studio for a predictably entertaining chat about (among other things) her one-ho…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMJoey Fatone Indulges His Inner Foodie for "Rewrapped"
The one and only Joey Fatone pays a visit to the YH Studio where we chat with him about his lucrative post-*NSYNC career as a TV host, m…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Mr. Wallach was one of his generation’s most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12AMTony-winning composer-lyricist and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda, starring in tick, tick... BOOM! at Encores! Off Center, opens up about his very personal history with the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMLet’s hear it for the boy in Pittsburgh CLO’s “Footloose.” Manuel Stark shimmies and shakes within a degree of Kevin Bacon as Ren McCormack, a rebel with a cause: to reint…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMBroadway's latest jukebox musical — a show built around pre-existing songs — is a new twist on this now-familiar theatrical form. Holler If Ya Hear Me is inspired by music of the late ra…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMCome on and take it! Tickets are now available for Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story, which begins performances on June 25. The bio-musical, directed and choreographed by Denis Jo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMTony-winning composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, starring in tick, tick... Boom! at Encores! Off Center, opens up about his very personal history with the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPiece of My Heart, a new musical based on the life and songs of legendary songwriter Bert Berns, begins Off-Broadway previews June 25 at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBefore he was a Tony Award-winning director-choreographer, Jerry Mitchell was a Broadway chorus kid who turned his art into activism during the height of Broadway's AIDS crisis with the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJonathan Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!, the opening show of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series of landmark Off-Broadway musicals, plays the New York City venue June 25-28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Muny, the famed outdoor theatrical venue located in St. Louis, MO, presents the second show of its 96th season, Tarzan, beginning June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Ogunquit Playhouse's production of the Tony-winning Billy Elliot the Musical plays the Maine venue June 25-July 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 17-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHistorian Richard Barrios looks at movie musicals and how they’ve become a major part of our lives. In Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter. Barrios goes behind the scenes, Barrios …
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