Mr. Brown wrote industrial musicals for American corporations, which were meant to rally employees, and used some of his earnings to support Harper Lee while she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMHe’s the most successful, influential and powerful producer in the world, according to the New York Times, and he’s in Melbourne this week in preparation for the highly anticipat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:45PMThough I know a lot about Broadway, I still have more to learn, and I recently had the chance to do that on a Broadway Up Close walking tour, which caters to all prior knowledge levels. Our …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:09PMMary Washington Drama Prof Finds New Challenge in Fringe Show Cate Brewer, a lecturer in theatre at the University of Mary Washington, is spending her summer being treated like a goddess. At…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06PMHEDY WEISS: Drury Lane presents the quirky, witty musical on a grand scale.
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Chicago Tap Theatre crowns their three-show season with this grand blowout at the Athenaeum Theatre’s vast mainstage. Unleashing smiles and applause, this show definitely makes one look fo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:55PMThe Killer Gets Lost in Translation: Ionesco needs to be done with a sense of flamboyant, over-the-top acting that is overtly sincere.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:43PM (click all photos to enlarge) Photos/Video and Interviews by Miriam Spritzer In celebration of the Pride Weekend, Sirius XM Radio had a speci…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:25PMI have attempted once or twice to read Star Trek novels.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:22PMWhen Randy Newman’s Faust receives a one-night concert presentation this week as part of City Center’s Encores! Off Center series, its NYC debut could be the end of the road or a new be…
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Old Globe Shakespeare Festival opener revolves around Thomas' chilling Iago, with a potent title turn by Underwood.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:35PMRepeatedly I have written and spoken about exhaustion in the arts. Think how easy it was for the possibly pseudonymous Longus to write the immortal pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloe in the …
SOURCE: John Simon at 04:32PMIn Part 2 of a series of interviews, Sharon J. Anderson, The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Trustee and Professional Storyteller, interviews Christina Anderson whose play T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMThe TPA is sponsored by Bitter Lemons and Combined Artform and distinguishes the company that can best depict their live stage production in a cinematic way in a one minute video trailer. Th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:00PMHottest Articles on BWWOperaWorld.com from 6222014 - 6292014.
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The Annual Bitter Lemons sponsored awards for the Hollywood Fringe Festival are as follows (with nominees): The Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theater (BLOAT) This award is for th…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:47PMHot on the heels of their last production of Romeo and Juliet at Trinity Buoy Wharf, Jackinabox Productions are getting ready for their second outing on the London stage. Read on to find out…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:40PMThe 6th Annual National High School Musical Theater Awards, also known as the Jimmy Awards, will take place June 30. Nominees Keenan Buckley and Emma Magbanua blog about their week in New Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMBolshoi Ballet Artistic Director Sergei Filin, 43, has recovered from an acute allergic reaction to his eye treatment that sent him to the hospital Friday, according to the Russian news agen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:23PMGODDAMN CHEKHOV, AGAIN I suspect nobody really likes The Seagull except theater people. It established for the modern age some of the essential playwriting untouchables: a play about act…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04PM
There’s something smugly satisfying about getting a glimpse into the lives of the rich and privileged; especially when they’re wracked with first-world troubles. And in this area, The Co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMFly by Night and Experience Life: If you are looking for a heartfelt, enchanting new musical, look no further than Playwrights Horizons’ Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick and Kim Rosenstock i…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:48PMLIFT’s Change… for a tenner! programme, a series of talks based around variations on the theme of social change, held its penultimate event on Wednesday at Wilton’s Music Hall. It …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMTHE SUPERNATURAL PROJECT PRESENTS SUPERNATURAL: THE PLAY Executive Producer CANDACE O. KELLEY Produced, written and directed by CANDACE O. KELLEY, AUDREY KELLEY and GILDA ROGERS “Black…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:44PMWhat is so powerful about Greek mythology is that its worldly themes have survived a myriad of generations. What was a re-telling of the human condition, meant to entertain and move its rece…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMI truly look forward every summer to seeing the shows at Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theatre. The MCSDT program continuously rounds up a quality production team along with a talente…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:25PMSo Hostage Song, now on at the Finborough Theatre, is described as ‘an indie rock musical’ about two American hostages held captive in an unspecific time and place. No, I didn’t really…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:24PMWHEN THE SAINTS COME DANCING IN Here’s a charming revue that sets to song and dance the words of the great poet Gertrude Stein, mistress of new language and one of the tremendous free spir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23PMBroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our June 28th SIP round-up Check out part one HERE. Yesterday's SIPs come…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMHe can see how the story ends after getting kicked out of the Broadway show
SOURCE: usat.ly at 02:02PMBroadway star and breakout music performer Ariana Grande has at long last unveiled the cover for her hotly anticipated solo album, MY EVERYTHING.
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A MAIDENLY DEATH Victory Gardens Theater’s Death and the Maiden is one of the most highly anticipated Chicago productions this year: Ariel Dorfman’s well-known play (made famous by Roman…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:40PMIn honor of All the Way's closing, Robert Petkoff took photos of the company on on instant film with a Polaroid 250 Land Camera- a fitting tribute to the historical play which takes place in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMTheatre Raleigh will present the regional premiere of Tony winner Jason Robert Brown's Parade at the Kennedy Theatre (Raleigh, NC) July 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMSOBER CANNIBALS, DRUNKEN CHRISTIANS This show made me wish I had chosen to sit through Lost Moon Radio’s Million Dollar Hair again. If this sounds like faint praise, it is; I did not e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:13PM by: Sandi Durell Finding a musical revue, with many obscure songs written by the master Porter, is certainly exciting news. It was Paris,...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:11PMThe English National Ballet took to the Pyramid stage on Sunday for an emotional and moving performance of Dust, from the first world war-themed Lest We Forget, alongside Billy Bragg. Here …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMIt's time for the newest episode of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow On June 26, Shia LaBeouf was escorted out of Rounabout Theatre's revival of Cabaret in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMA selection of Alan Bennett's celebrated made-for-television monologues are re-imagined for the West Yorkshire Playhouse stage.
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I just got back from a three-show day in NYC. I hadn't planned on blogging about any of the shows -- I wanted to just sit back and enjoy on this trip -- but as I sat watching one of...
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 12:54PMIn 2012, Joe DiPietro joined forces with director Kathleen Marshall to take a forgotten Gershwin show, revamp it, and turn it into hit Nice Work if You Can Get it. Now, according to The Bos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMHere are our Top Scene Stealers for the week ending June 28, 2014. Congrats to all our honorees! ______ Nick Cordileone and Ben Lipitz Singing “Hakuna Matata” in The Lion K…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PMAccording to the Daily News, Tony Bennett and his wife, Susan Benedetto, say that 'the only way to make lasting gains for disadvantaged New Yorkers on this critical educational front' is by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMTonight at midnight on TCM, Charlie Chaplin’s 1923 melodrama masterpiece A Woman of Paris. (He wanted us to call him “Charles” at this stage. You’ll never find a gre…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:21PMBernadette Peters, Hugh Jackman, Kristen Bell and more are on your television this week and next – check below as Playbill.com tells you when to catch Broadway names and fame on t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMYesterday evening, June 28th, the remarkable George Morrison passed away. I loved him fiercely and he scared the shit out of me. He was one of the best acting teachers I have ever had –…
SOURCE: www.kimweild.com at 12:06PMThe haughty, witty Gore Vidal, my role model, was never happier than when going against the madding American populace.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00PMCarmel Thomason enjoys Lost Boy Racer but thinks that the Tour de France will offer more thrills.
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TMZ now has a video of Shia LaBeouf trying to start a fight with yet another random person outside of a strip club in New York. In the video, LaBeouf does shadowboxer moves behind someone in…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:52AM by Michael Elihu Colby Part 14: Moving Days It was June, 1969: a time for me to say goodbye to Woodmere Academy and hello to...
The post The Algonquin Kid: Mov…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:50AMIt's a well-known fact that Liza Minnelli loves Cabaret. She starred in the Bob Fosse film adaptation of the musical in 1972, which won eight Oscars. And she was perhaps the most excited per…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AM Today is the anniversary of the release of the Paramount Raymond Griffith-Betty Compson comedy Paths to Paradise (1925) In this sparkling feature, Griffith and Compson play a pair of con…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:15AMWhat I love about Once is that it’s a great reminder that there is no formula for success on Broadway. You’d think that the key elements in creating a Best Musical Tony Award wi…
SOURCE: theproducersperspective.com at 11:00AMKarita Mattila makes a thrilling role debut as Ariadne in the Royal Opera's latest revival of Strauss' opera
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The comedian talks politics, music, mud, and the benefits of bombing at the festivalHow was your set on Friday?Fine, I think I got away with it, thankfully. I've been playing the Cabaret ten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMThe new theatre-centric web comedy THAT'S EDUCATIONAL's bound to hit home for any actor, especially those who have done educational theatre tours.'As the education of Nick continues, we get …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMTom is in love with Alice, who loves him too. But nothing is easy: they are young; they have parents and teachers. They are teenagers, obviously full of questions and pains. Fortunately, the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28AMToday is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy Men O’War (1929). In this, one of their first sound shorts, the boy are a couple of sailors on shore leave…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:27AMTheater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:23AMOn Monday, June 30th the Theater People Podcast welcomes 'Matilda' star Lesli Margherita. Topics discussed include her Olivier award winning turn as Inez in 'Zorro The Musical' in London's W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMName: Sam CorbinHometown: Toronto, CanadaEducation: New York University / Experimental Theatre Wing Select Credits: Jack the Bird (Laura, Theatre for the New City), Red Wednesday (Samar, New…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:16AMScreen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for an filmed Conversations QampA series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the un…
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After a sold-out benefit run for BC/EFA this February, Pageant – The Musical returns for a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Davenport Theatre beginning June 29 with an official openi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:57AMComposer of the musical Once Upon a Mattress who went on to write the bestseller Freaky FridayMary Rodgers, who has died aged 83, was a composer and songwriter whose 1959 musical Once Upon a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMArcola, LondonThis production may be beautifully sung and nicely choreographed, but its attempt to relocate the story to the second world war can't iron out the flaws in the musicalAll plays…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:49AMThe comedian says he's having a much better festival than he did in 1985How are you finding the festival?I got here at 9 o'clock Friday morning. I've been trying to get to see stuff and not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AMThe Other Mozart
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Reviewed by Joseph Samuel Wright
BOTTOM LINE: The Other Mozart is the most dynamic, theatrical, and moving one woman show I have ever seen. It's tr…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:33AMOne of America's greatest composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser in a sense had three careers -- as a writer of stand-alone songs during the Tin Pan Alley era, songs for Hollywood films, and scor…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:21AMBy Caridad Svich. Writing for the theater is an act of resistance. It is also an act of folly, daring, and one that asks of its makers and emancipated spectators alike to consider potentiali…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:03AMIt’s no great surprise that Soulpepper’s production of Twelve Angry Men should turn out to be a spellbinder, not to say a humdinger
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Donald Margulies' new play is a pleasant refreshment. But for greater risk and reward, a Chekhov play might be in orde
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:48AMChester Theatre opens its 25th season with T. R. Rogers' riveting play. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:47AMWell cast revival of David Hare's Play
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:42AMThe Crucible first came into my consciousness as a 13-year-old, living in the white suburbs of South Africa in the mid-Eighties. Apartheid was in its most violent throes. The government decl…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:40AMIn 2008, Eric Jaffe set out to track down and interview all of his formerly hard-partying, now middle-aged fraternity brothers to try to answer the question: What is value of a college educa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMCarrie Houk could have settled on “The Glass Menagerie”; it is, beyond question, the greatest play ever set in St. Louis.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:15AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMRestored theater will reopen in November.
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A parting look at the Ionesco return.
SOURCE: Popdose at 01:56AMAccording to inside sources, an imminent staging of the hit Broadway musical CHICAGO, featuring Broadway cast members, might just as well be the next international production import--right o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10AMProducers Scott Sanders and Wynton Marsalis brough us After Midnight, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle and featuring the big-band sounds of nine-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05AMCasa Valentina, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, closes today, June 29, 2014, after having played 79 perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMAll the Way, the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, starring Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston, directed by Bill Rauch, closes on Broadway today, June 28, 2014, afte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01AMAcclaimed actor, writer and director John Cameron Mitchell opens up about the impact of acclaimed rock musical HEDWIG amp THE ANGRY INCH as well as shares some new details on the upcoming se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMCynthia Hestand directs James McLure's one-act plays, Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon, in the Contemporary Theatre of Dallas' New York debut.
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Pat Benatar never could have seen this coming. That her signature hit from yesteryear, “Love is a Battlefield” would be utilized so forcefully and literally in Flying V Theatre’s wonde…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09AMAs part of Playbill's 30 Days of Pride, we asked members of the theatrical community to share their personal Top 10 lists of influential LGBT plays and musicals. From The Children's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMOriginally from Saskatoon, SK, Rafael Antonio Renderos attended the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, BC where he studied musical theatre. During a stint back in Saskatoon, Ra…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Saturday, June 28, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMIt’s Fourth of July week, so most of the country will be doing the three Bs: beach, barbecue, and blowing stuff up. You can do better! Our forefathers fought to declare your independen…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMWhich queen will come out on top? That’s up to you! Pageant: The Musical begins performances off-Broadway on June 29 at the Davenport Theatre, where it runs concurrently with Forbidden…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMWe have put together highlights from our 30 Days of Pride coverage, celebrating profiling the dynamic voices of the LGBT community and pioneers of the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNYC Pride Week will come to a close June 29 with the annual New York City Pride March. Following Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride initiative, we wondered what are our readers favorite LGB…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs part of Playbill's 30 Days of Pride, we asked members of the theatrical community to share their personal Top 10 lists of influential LGBT plays and musicals. From The Children's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs part of Playbill's 30 Days of Pride, Tony Award-nominated composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa takes readers on an exclusive track-by-track journey through the people, places and historic m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly recap of its coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they were missed the first time around.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column visits the 1936 film adaptation of the landmark musical Show Boat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, Empire State Pride Agenda discusses its achievements and plans for the future.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, "Orange Is the New Black" actress and activist Laverne Cox and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Rea Carey are the grand mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York premiere of Terry Teachout's one-man Louis Armstrong play Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opened Off-Broadway March 4 at the Westside Theatre, end its run June 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTV and film star Fran Drescher, who joined the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella in February, ends her extended engagement in the Broadway production June 29 at the Broadway T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM54 Below's 54 Sings series, which celebrates the scores of beloved musicals, continues June 29 at 7 and 9:30 PM with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black's one-woman song cycle, Te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant, which was seen in a limited benefit run earlier this year, returns for an Off-Broadway engagement beginning June 29 at the Dav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCasa Valentina, the Tony-nominated new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein about an upstate colony where heterosexual men dress as women, ends its run on Broadway June 29. &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's Tony Award-winning political drama All The Way, which stars Emmy and Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston, ends its limited Broadway run …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony Award-nominated musical revue After Midnight, celebrating Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club, plays its final performance June 29. Patti LaBelle is the show's fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe two-person whodunit musical Murder for Two, which opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages in November 2013, ends its extended run June 29.
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