Danza returns to Northeast
Tony Danza is coming back to Northeast High School. He taught there during the 2009-2010 school year, basis for the A&E show Teach: Tony Danza. Every year since,…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:59PM By: Paulanne SimmonsWhen a writer focuses on the macabre as much as Edgar Allan Poe did, it's inevitable that readers will try to discover what caused such a fixation. In …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:58PMHere are some scary ski figures: A single-day, walk-up-window adult ticket now costs $159 at Vail. Hunter Mountain charges up to $76 for the privilege of jostling with aggro New...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:53PMLast Thursday I attended an art show opening at the shop of a wood furniture maker. The owner of the shop invited some college kids in to festoon his walls with their work which leans heavil…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:51PMAfter a nationwide search, full casting for the highly anticipated production, DUCK COMMANDER MUSICAL, is now available. Based on the best-selling book The Duck Commander Family by Willie an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Love and sex are both pretty big topics, and while Bathsheba Doran's new play, "The Mystery of Love & Sex," illuminates both with gentle humor, it's also about how s…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:36PMPictured: Members of Megill & Company perform “Sleep Cycles Dream State” at Cal Arts Academy/Severance. Photo credit: Victor DesRoches. Funny thing about the first weekend o…
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Writer/actor/comedian Allison Page, co-creative director of the sketch comedy troupe Killing My Lobster, writes and stars in a play ab…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:16PMKenneth Novice has departed the Geffen Playhouse after serving as its managing director for more than five years, the company has announced.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:11PMBoys Vs. Girls, created by Drew Overcash and produced by Broadway veterans Michael Balderrama, Richard H. Blake, and Sean Frank Sullivan of Last Call Theatricals, LLC has announced initial c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMThe Oscar nominee stars opposite Tony Shalhoub in a gratifying and complex family drama by British playwright Bathsheba Doran.
SOURCE: NBC New York at 08:07PMThe Mystery of Love & Sex, the new play by Bathsheba Doran that just opened at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is nothing if not inclusive.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMThe 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to Tena Stivicic for her play 3 Winters. Today, March 2, New York's Playwrights Horizons hosted a celebration of the winner and finalist…
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, March 2, 2015 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Rebecca Naomi Jones joins HEDWIG as the next Yit…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:53PMThe biggest question many theater goers will have leaving Beauty Queen of Leenane is “What is Complan?” Allow me to save you much speculating and googling, according to the Complan compa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:53PMIt’s wedding bells for Honeymoon in Vegas star Brynn O’Malley—no, she’s not getting hitched in real life just yet, but she’ll Say Yes to the Dress on the hit TL…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMIt’s happened to every seasoned theatergoer: The usher shows you to your seat, hands you a Playbill, and you open it to find one of those little inserts announcing, “At this performance,…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:44PMSomething extraordinary is happening on Scotland's stages these days, and it has resulted in the creation of two productions that serve as intriguing meditations on the futility (and inevita…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:42PMDallas Theater Center announced today Megan Hilty and Seth Rudetsky will headline Centerstage 2015 on Saturday, May 9. Chaired by Yvette Ostolaza, with Underwriting Chair Kersten Rettig and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMby: Brian Scott Lipton Something familiar? Something peculiar? Well, the new Broadway musical “Something Rotten!,” which begins pr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:41PMDream casting is a thing now. We all have to accept it. Whether it’s anything from the upcoming production of Frozen, to a reading of Mean Girls, or the hypothetical musical version …
SOURCE: annoyingactorfriend.com at 05:38PMKnown for his eccentric and often visually glorious productions, American director Peter Sellars has created his own version of Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen, transforming what was an u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34PMLynne Rosenberg-Best known for her work on Vimeo's "High Maintenance", Lynne Marie Rosenberg was born and raised outside of Boston, and attended Vassar College for her BA in Theater, with a …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:32PMIs it physical theatre? Is it Dance? Is it circus? Whatever it is, it is extraordinary, weird, wonderful and mesmerising, and quite beautiful. And it’s perfect as an opening gambit for a F…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30PMSteven Dietz's play "Yankee Tavern" is a cleverly self-protected piece of writing, a deconstruction of 9/11 conspiracy theories that also airs a good number of them, ranging from the spike i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PMAdrienne Barbeau will join the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical Pippin. Barbeau will play the role of “Berthe” in the national tour of Pippin in select cities! She begins …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:25PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMNEVERMORE - The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, a unique theatrical experience combining haunting music, poetic storytelling, and stunning stagecraft to tell the fasc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMThe Broadway box office took a significant slide last week following the long Presidents Day weekend — but new, star-driven plays like Helen Mirren topliner “The Audience” a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMPreview the showstopping opening number of the new Radio City spectacular
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMRosie’s parents can’t pay the bills. While most children now use their imagination to focus in on the iPad, Rosie hasn’t got one. She’s got ice-lolly sticks, and at night they trans…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PMCountry-pop beltress Rachel Potter releases Not So Black And White, March 3rd, 2015, showing off the 'polished pep of her theater training and the twang of her Florida roots. Rolling Stone …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMGolden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times, presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company with preview performanc…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:09PMIn this play at the Irish Arts Center, Mr. Murfi’s cobbler has to deliver goods to a customer, and the audience gets to hear his internal monologue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04PMTorben Betts’s Muswell Hill does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a depiction of middle-class, middle-aged lives in a middle England faux-suburb – attracting a similarly midd…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02PMZACH Theatre announces the full cast for the upcoming Texas Premiere of 2014 Tony Award - winning play All The Way by Robert Schenkkan, based on Lyndon Baines Johnson's first year as Preside…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMThirty years since it first graced our television screens, Australian favourite Mother and Son comes to life on stage, in the Playhouse Theatre at QPAC. Veteran actress Noeline Brown (The …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 322015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMThe Killing actress is known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMJenn Thompson directs the play's first New York revival in 25 years.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe historic venue accounted for ten percent of all London play-going in 2014
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Taylor Mac’s absurd comedic drama “Hir” pushes out against binary gender roles.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:58PMStar of TV’s “A Different World” talks about her life, career and Harlem Renaissance-themed show, “Raisin’ Cain.”
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:57PMThe company headed by Joe Chvala presents an eclectic program at Cowles Center.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:56PMLES MIZ shows off its artistic side with some sensational new promotional posters
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMAn American In Paris comes to Broadway’s Palace Theatre this spring. Previews begin March 13! Inspired by the Academy-Award winning film, An American in Paris brings this classic tale …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:49PMPlaywright Lolita Chakrabarti shares the striking story of Ira Aldridge, an actor whose persistence and talent continues to resonate in European theatre today.
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SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 04:46PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today and over the weekend.
Idina Menzel's Real-Life Olaf
Broadway and Frozen superstar Idina Menzel is inviting you to take…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMFollowing the London riots of 2011, the media began to be aware of the term ‘domestic extremist’, which had been coined by the Metropolitan Police, ostensibly to describe people it was w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:43PMHow do you adapt an underwater epic for the stage? Very carefully, say adaptors Ann Sonneville and Clint Sheffer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:43PMOn March 16th at 7 pm, Amy Spanger brings her solo show to Birdland.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMKINKY BOOTS is coming to the West End
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMA showing of the 1992 Disney film "Newsies," attended by original cast members from the film as well as stars of the Broadway musical's national tour, will be held April 1 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PMIt must have been a great week for Netflix and HBO. Broadway ticket sales dropped $4.6 million from the previous frame for the week ending Sunday. Big shows saw falloffs in the hundreds of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PMKristin Chenoweth shares a look backstage at ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMBroadway’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 04:32PMPlaybill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMHere comes the bride…and she’s got a camera! Sierra Boggess, star of the upcoming Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You, is Broadway.com’s latest video blogger. That’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMA white canvas stage, ripe for splatter-painting, greets the audience of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Lyric Hammersmith. This is the second show in Secret Theatre company’s 48-hour per…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMBeing that Boston Court is one of the companies that has been frequently “outed” by many of the people who have waded into this debate – myself included – especially …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:23PMThe skies might not be totally clear yet, but the stars are certainly visible on Broadway. Constellations, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and recent Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson in their Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:14PMTony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson developed six plays the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Seven Guitars, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Pia…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMThe Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage's cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PM by: Paulanne Simmons That the world is filled with wealth and pleasure, but they may not be equally distributed is just one of the lessons...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:04PMThe West End production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opend Feb. 24 and features Katie Brayben as Carole King, Alan Morrissey as Gerry Goffin, Lorna Want as Cynthia Weil and Ian McIn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PMThe wind comes sweepin’ down the plain in that famous song about Oklahoma, but the breeze will chill your blood in the emotionally fractured Kansas of the new musical “Kid Victory.” Th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:00PMBeloved Tony and Oliver winning actress Lea Salonga will soon be returning to New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMToday, BroadwayWorld is proud debut a previously unreleased track from THE SOUND OF MUSIC 50th Anniversary Soundtrack. The track is titled 'Goodbye MariaHow Can Love Survive Waltz', which ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMThe man behind The Producers will play for one night only at the Prince of Wales Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMHints that Dame Maggie will no longer appear on stage signal the end of an illustrious chapter, writes her biographer
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe Tony-winning artist joins the theater's Creating Broadway Series.
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SWEET While Bermingham virtually inhabits the role – fearlessly so – throughout, Quilter’s script is the brilliantly penned blueprint of ICT’s staging. From it, director John Henry D…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:59PMThe Russian Chamber Art Society (RCAS) has become the go-to organization for those in the know in the DC area when it comes to rarely heard—and rewardingly performed—works from the Russi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PM"Dirty Dancing," "The Pianist of Willesden Lane," "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays," "Becky Shaw" and "The Mighty Scarabs" ope…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:53PMThe first two shows of the Spring season will open later this week- FISH IN THE DARK and THE AUDIENCE. Get your tickets today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMAfter penning a dark, intense family drama, the Mississippi-born playwright started watching old silent comedies. The result: a frothy, flowery farce.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:49PMMarch 2, 2015 marks the 111th birthday of the Seussational Dr. Seuss! There’s never been a better time to bring a Dr. Seuss Musical or Concert Version of his work to your stage. Ch…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:46PMI couldn’t wait for Season 3 of “House of Cards” to start streaming on Netflix. Neither could my Beehive colleague Traci Arbios. We aren’t binge watchers — not …
SOURCE: fresnobeehive.com at 03:41PMEuan Morton, a Tony nominee for his performance in Taboo, will perform the songs made famous by Richard and Karen Carpenter in June at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PMAaron Harburg, great-grandson of The Wizard of Oz lyricist E.Y. Yip Harburg has begun production on The Sound of Oz. The feature-length documentary honors both his great-grandfather and Oz c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThe Roundabout Underground world-premiere production of Little Children Dream of God, a new play by Jeff Augustin, officially opened Feb. 17 at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMWhether working downtown at Target Margin, uptown on Broadway or out of state on an opera, Zinn wrestles with space and beautifies the awkward.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:34PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Playwright Jennifer Haley describes her work as delving “into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationship…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of "The Sound of Music," Playbill.com looks back at its reunion with Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond and Kym Karath, original cast members …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMA show brimful of beautiful tunes for the children of the Sixties .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:23PMGet a dazzling new preview of Broadway-bound AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMNo sooner has "Parks and Recreation" wrapped up its seven-season run then we get news the sitcom's star, Nick Offerman will soon be turning his acting skills back to live theater — where t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:16PMJust when you thought it was safe to get into the mini-van, 'Frozen Fever' will hit you.
SOURCE: USA Today at 03:12PMJosh Gad has issued an apology to parents in advance of the highly anticipated new FROZEN short titled 'Frozen Fever'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMThe Rockettes take a break to talk working with Mia Michaels in a brand new video interview
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMThe beloved film adaptation of The Sound of Music celebrates its 50th anniversary today! We take a look back at some favorite scenes from the classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMIn honor of THE SOUND OF MUSIC's 50th anniversary, Mashable has brought the beloved musical movie back in 8-bit - check it out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 312015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMA number of months ago an Internet thing made the rounds asking participants to name ten writers whom you love or who influenced you. And virtual tongues wagged in the aftermath, as they alw…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:02PMImage: John Wildgoose Shakespeare’s Globe have released their financial report for last year. The theatre saw its highest box office takings for five years in 2014, as well as attracting …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:02PMThe Atlanta Opera’s Rigoletto, which opened Saturday, succeeds more often than not, carried by fine performances by soprano Nadine Sierra as Gilda and Todd Thomas
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:01PMWe take a look at some of the theatre highlights of the month
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:00PMThe production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play will now close on March 29.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMThe Jennifer Haley drama adds an extra week of performances to its New York debut.
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by: Maryann Lopinto Barbara Cook performed on Friday night at Lincoln Center’s AMERICAN SONGBOOK Series at the Appel Room at Lincoln Center…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:59PMPlays outside the theatre walls are the focus of our two main features; plays outside other theatrical traditions are the subjects of others.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:55PMJoin Celia Keenan-Bolger The Glass Menagerie, Peter and the Starcatcher, Liz Callaway The Look of Love, Baby, Caissie Levy LES MISERABLES, Ghost, and more as they welcome Gavin Creel back to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMJennifer Nettles welcomed another Grammy winner to Cook County Jail on February 28, 2015—Kelly Clarkson! The singer-songwriter and American Idol winner stopped by to visit her pal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMThe WorkShop Theater Company will present an evening of six short plays titled A La Carte: a Feast of New Plays. In each of the plays, of various genres, food motifs are used to exa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMMCC Theater has announced that it will extend performances of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, currently playing Off-Broadway. The New York premiere of the dark, award-winning thrill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMTweet While musicals have license for unbridled imagination to reach the most extravagant of conceits (and we thank them for that), sometimes they can have the most profound effects when the…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 02:43PMName: Antony RaymondHometown: New York, NYFavorite Credits: Elsinore CountyWhy theater?: I sort of just fell into it.Tell us about Pretty Babies: It's a play about toxic relationships and ou…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:43PMAn icy Sunday evening turned into a lush and warm, and enjoyable evening inside The Kennedy Center with the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. Many of DC’s dignitaries attended, including T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMA political satire by George Brant and a drama by Andrew Case about police brutality highlight a season that also includes Williams, Shakespeare and McDonagh.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:37PMBelow, check out clips from the production, including the show's signature anthem, 'Seasons of Love.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PM by: Susan Hasho Pretty Babies (written and directed by Antony Raymond) is just clever enough to be disturbing. Underneath the drug, sex and no-rock-and-roll talk …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:34PMAudiences build for final weekend of a varied collection of one-person shows.... Read more »
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SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 02:31PMThe legacy of the 1981 film version of “On Golden Pond,” with iconic, Oscar-winning performances by Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, weighs heavily on the heads of the actors who take …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:30PMJacob Langfelder presents THE SKIVVIES... Splashdance The undie-rock comedy-pop duo of Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley The Skivvies, will kick off their 42West monthly residency this spring w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMThe British actor will hit the New York theatre scene in September, starring in a 1971 Harold Pinter playClive Owen will make his Broadway debut in Old Times by Harold Pinter.Roundabout Thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMA ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. March 13. … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:12PMThe first production to be seen in London for forty years in a strictly limited season, Gypsy opens at the Savoy Theatre on 15 April 2015 with previews from 28 March 2015 and is produced in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMphoto courtesy of Keola SimpsonThe sequel. The second season. It’s always hard to beat the original. Or at least compare. Not only do you have to honor your original but you have to win th…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:09PMThe production at the Savoy starring Imelda Staunton is the show's first West End outing in 40 years
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PMFull casting has been announced for the WhatsOnStage Award-winning production, which is returning to our shores in April
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PMWho is Larry David? Charlie will never know.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMOn the Town star Elizabeth Stanley will serve as Spanger's special guest.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe postponement comes on the heels of a week of missed performances by Peter Gallagher, who was recovering from a severe sinus infection.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe cast and creative team will present numbers from Jason Robert Brown's latest Broadway musical.
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Live Nation and Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced today that Julianne Hough and Derek Hough will be bringing MOVE LIVE ON TOUR 2015 to Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, July 9, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMRent is the first full-scale Broadway musical production to be mounted in Havana, Cuba, in over 50 years. Watch highlights from the production, featuring an all-Cuban cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMA new production of Rent is the first full-scale Broadway musical production to be mounted in Havana, Cuba, in over 50 years. The production, featuring and all-Cuban cast, opened Dec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMOn St David’s Day, Sunday 1 March 2015, Welsh actor Michael Sheen gave the performance of his life. Not at the National Theatre or any of the world stages (and screens) that he has gra…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:42PMThe Actors’ Equity Association is engaged in an increasingly heated debate with critics of its minimum-wage proposal. The union has used its Twitter handle to promote its 99-seat …
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:41PMImelda Staunton, the "Harry Potter" actress and U.K. stage veteran who has earned acclaim for her portrayal of Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, is set to return to the London stage as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMWhich Tony winning star is leaving her Broadway show? What children’s cartoon is coming to the Great White Way? And what is Disney’s latest stage musical? Find out all this and more in S…
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 01:38PMThe New York premiere of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether has extended its off-Broadway run. The MCC production, which was originally set to play through March 15, will now run through Marc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMThe Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher-led Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century has postponed its opening night to March 15; the musical had been set to open on March 12. The thre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of On the Twentieth Century will now open on Sunday, March 15, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMMCC THEATER has announced that the New York premiere of Jennifer Haley's The Nether directed by Anne Kaufman has now extended through Sunday, March 22, 2015 due to popular and critical accla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMThe Tony-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will launch a national tour, Playbill.com has learned.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMFurther casting has been announced for the much anticipated West End transfer Gypsy, opening at the Savoy Theatre in April (with previews beginning at the end of this month). …
SOURCE: 1612 at 01:20PMThe new American play Hand to God has now begun rehearsals and will open on Broadway on April 7, 2015 at the Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, marking the Broadway debut of playwrightRober…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PMThe Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century has postponed its opening night by three days after the show's leading man, Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher, missed a week of performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMFinding Neverland, the glorious new musical under the visionary direction of Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus, will soon arrive on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46th Street. B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMRob asked if we’d be interested in perhaps cross-posting this article from his The Wicked Stage site. We said yes. This is definitely a man conflicted and his energy and focus on the s…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 01:16PMChristopher and his pet rat Toby went on a journey for a good cause on March 1, 2015, when the cast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time added an extra performance to benefit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMFresh off his Tony Award for The Bridges of Madison County, superstar composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown is back with a new, Sin City-set musical, Honeymoon in Vegas-which just opened on B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMAfter taking on Homer with 'An Iliad,' Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare tackle the Bible for Chicago's Court Theater---and find that the Scriptures can give as good as they get.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:12PMGIGI, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, will begin previews on Thursday, March 19, with opening night on Wednesday, April 8. Below, B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10PMIn this edition of The Playwright’s Playground, I interview playwright Lisa D’Amour, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and interdisciplinary artist who comes from a long line of female storytell…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:08PMWhen a life is cut short, their legacy lives on. In the case of Isabelle Eberhardt, her writings left a trail of stories and tales about a daring women seeking adventure and freedom. In Eliz…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:08PMBelow, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for the week of March 2-8, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMHedwig and the Angry Inch is pleased to announce that Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot, Passing Strange), will join the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, in the role of Yitzhak, be…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:03PMSo You Think You Can Dance winner Ricky Ubeda officially joined the cast of On the Town on February 27, 2015. Click for photos from his Broadway debut at the Lyric Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PMWant more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! The Audience Calling all Anglophiles. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will return to Broadway this spring as Elizabeth II in Pet…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:00PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company production of this Harold Pinter classic will be directed by La Cage Aux Folles Tony winner Douglas Hodge.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe famed British actress has announced her departure from the hit PBS series.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMName: Tori ErnstHometown: Harrisburg, PAEducation: BFA from Marymount Manhattan CollegeSelect Credits: World premiere of Chuck Mee's The Four Seasons, Lula in Dutchman by Leroi Jones.Why the…
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Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, the stars of ALADDIN on Broadway sharewhat they've learned from playing Broadway's most romantic couple in this all-new video titled 'You Can't Wish for Love.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMAs she prepares to play poet Stevie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker talks to Lyn Gardner about acting through grief, finding her voice – and why she has never performed in the theatre that bears her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMAs she prepares to play poet Stevie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker talks to Lyn Gardner about acting through grief, finding her voice – and why she has never performed in the theatre that bears her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMMUSICAL THEATRE WEST KNOWS HOW TO SUCCEED Reams can and have been written about the glories of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:52PMCheck out these hilarious videos from inside the rehearsal room of Broadway’s Something Rotten. Something Rotten opens on Broadway March 23 at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:52PMBoasting star power, killer performances, and a deeply moving and important script by Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles is Broadway’s latest arrival – and is not to be missed! The …
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 12:51PMNick Offerman of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” will star as Ignatius Reilly in a stage adaptation of “A Confederacy of Dunces.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:51PMThe Cradle Song, Gregorio Martinez Sierra's tale of a child left at a conventand the extraordinary impact that has on the lives of the nuns, will be presented as a staged reading by The Acti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMNew Helvetia Theatre Co. says it won’t be producing any more shows after being “priced out” by the new owners of its building on R Street. The building was purchased recent…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 12:49PMClive Owen (The Knick) will make his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge (La Cage Aux Folles). Previews for the Roun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:47PMA perennial pleasure of Pittsburgh theater is its leading college programs and occasionally their shows overlap, as they did last weekend, providing a chance at a three-straight-night parlay…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:47PMWell at least they’re paying attention. Here’s the latest I just received in response to the LADCC’s recent statement against the proposals from the AEA machine and its her…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 12:45PMFollowing today's news that Rebecca Naomi Jones will succeed Lena Hall in Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, BroadwayWorld has confirmed that the Tony-winning production will officially h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PMPart of the Roundabout Theatre Company's 50th anniversary season, the production will be directed by Tony-winning actor Douglas Hodge.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:41PMLarry David, currently on Broadway in his debut play Fish in the Dark, was profiled on the March 1 broadcast of CBS' "60 Minutes."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMThe stars of Broadway’s Aladdin, Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, share what they have learned about love from playing the most romantic couple on Broadway! Check out their game of "…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:40PMAdrienne Barbeau, the Tony Award-nominated original Rizzo of Broadway's Grease, will swing into the national tour of Pippin beginning March 31 in Ft. Lauderdale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMHedwig and the Angry Inch is pleased to announce that Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot, Passing Strange), will join the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, in the role of Yitzhak, be…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:35PM“In the years since leaving Canal Place, Southern Rep has almost settled in a new permanent location three times — in the Central Business District, Bywater and Mid-City. But eac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PMFamilies both fictive and real, and our alternately shared and shirked responsibility to our fellow humans, related or not, are among the themes highlighted this week onstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:27PMTony nominee Peter Gallagher will return to performances of On The Twentieth Century beginning tomorrow March 3, 2015. Gallagher has been off sick since February 21 with a severe sinus infec…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:26PMOpen your calendar and let's start planning your March in New York City, because it's all about these 10 shows.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:23PMThe producers of the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical PIPPIN have announced that Tony Nominated, ADRIENNE BARBEAU will play the role of Berthe in the national tour of PIPPIN in select…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMMake Some Noise, a concert welcoming Gavin Creel back to the U.S. and Broadway — that was to be held in late January, but was postponed due to Winter Storm Juno — has bee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMJoshua Roman has acted in musicals before, but never at Edgemont High School. That changes this week, when the 17-year-old senior leads the cast of the quirky and irreverent “Urinetown…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:20PMThe actor recalled his appearance on last year's 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' where, in honor of the 30th anniversary of his iconic 1984 movie 'Footloose,' he came up with the id…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMHead’s up, New Yorkers! Tonight at 5:30pm and 9:30pm the Brooklyn Academy of Music will be showing the EXTREMELY enjoyable Barbara Stanwyck western Forty Guns (1957) Written, direct…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:16PMCan you believe that the hills have been alive with The Sound of Music for 50 years? It's been five decades since the beloved film version of the musical, starring Julie Andrews as an Au…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director)is thrilled to announce the Broadway season opener for Roundabout Theatre Company’s 50th anniversary season: Golden Globe winner …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:16PMThe revival, to be directed by Douglas Hodge, will begin performances in September, the Roundabout Theater Company announced.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:14PMAt its best, Kid Victory is a secular high mass, both sacred and profane, with insight as sweet as its music, and music as sweet as honey from the Garden of Eden. And then, there are other t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMThe first Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival for NYC Public Schools will be held March 9 at Broadway's Imperial Theatre. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMMy name is… Jennie Eisenhower. I also answer to Julie, Jeanie and Ike, but NOT Jennifer—it’s Jennie on my birth certificate.
SOURCE: www.phillymag.com at 12:10PMThis morning, the man behind both 'Seinfeld' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', Larry David, sat down with TODY's Matt Lauer to discuss his new Broadway play, 'Fish in the Dark'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMEighty-four years ago, on March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States. Hoover's signature on the congressional decree mad…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:07PMEighty-four years ago, on March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States. Hoover's signature on the congressional decree mad…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:07PMNick Offerman is set to lead the world premiere A Confederacy of Dunces. The Parks & Recreation star will begin performances in Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation on November 11 at the H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMMatt Lauer interviewed Larry David on the "Today Show" about his job as a bra salesman, writing for SNL, and his Broadway debut as both star and author of his new comedy ‘Fish …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:06PM By: Iris Wiener Liv Rooth, Carson ElronLives of the Saints is Primary Stages' seventh production of David Ives' work, but with this piece alone the question on any…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:05PMClive Owen will make his Broadway debut in the Harold Pinter drama “Old Times” in September.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:02PMThe Ensemblist podcast’s Nikka Graff Lanzarone and Mo Brady visit Justin Bowen and the ensemblists of Broadway’s On The 20th Century revival.
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 12:02PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced the Broadway season opener for Roundabout Theatre Company's 50th anniversary season Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Clive Owen will mak…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMRebecca Naomi Jones, currently starring in Big Love at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre, will join the Broadway cast of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, playing the role of Yitzhak, starti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld is excited to bring you a new video series, which will help you get to know cast members before previews begin. Check back daily to hear from the cast before performances start…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMClive Owen will make his Broadway debut in the fall, toplining a Roundabout Theater Company revival of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times.” Douglas Hodge, the British actor who won…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMI am thrilled to share the news of another exciting production for our 50th Anniversary Season. It is my pleasure to announce that Clive Owen will be making his Broadway debut in Harold Pin…
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 12:00PMRoundabout Theatre Company will kick off its 50th season with Harold Pinter's Old Times, which will feature the Broadway debut of Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Clive Owen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning novel will make its stage debut at the Huntington Theatre Company.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMJones takes over for Lena Hall, who departs the company on April 4.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMOscar nominee Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut in Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Directed by Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge, the Roundabout production will begin previews on Septem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMJanet Krupin is a vocalist and writer for the EDM duo Trillium, whose Aurora EP is now available on iTunes. She’s been on Broadway in Bring It On (Kylar), If/Then (Swing), and Hands on A H…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00PMNathan Alan Davis
Hometown: Rockford, IL
Current Town: New York, NY
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm continuing to refine my play Dontrell, Who Kissed the …
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut in "Old Times" by Harold Pinter....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:58AMIt’s Rebecca Naomi Jones’ turn to invest in a packer! The Broadway alum will begin performances as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on April 14. As previously announced, Lena…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMBroadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch has announced that Rebecca Naomi Jones American Idiot, Passing Strange, will join the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, in the role of Yitzhak, be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMThe 'Parks and Recreation' star will play the beleauguered hero of John Kennedy Toole's cult novel in a stage adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:53AMTHE BEST MUSICAL 2014 TONY AWARD WINNER, A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE amp MURDER, SAVE UP TO 35
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMThe Pennsylvania theatre includes dramas by Laura Schellhardt and Zak Berkman, a new Musketeers musical, a Jane Austen adaptation and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:48AMKelly Clarkson, the winner of the first season of the long-running Fox singing competition "American Idol," recently discussed her Broadway dreams with Entertainment Weekly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMNYU Tisch School of the Arts will host its annual gala honoring Michael C. Hall, Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, with a special tribute to Mel Silverman, on Monday, May 4, at the Jazz …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMMr. Kaufmann canceled his first scheduled performance as Don José on Wednesday because he was suffering from the flu, the Metropolitan Opera announced.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:44AMThe national tour of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes sailed into Warner Theatre this past week for a two night run. The original production won three 2011 Tony Awards including Best Revival of…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:42AMOn March 2nd 1965, RCA released the soundtrack to 20th Century Fox's THE SOUND OF MUSIC, which made its debut on the Billboard album chart just eighteen days later, eventually reaching the N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMOn a cool April evening in 1996, a professional production of the musical Lady In the Dark lit up a darkened theater and thrilled audiences for the first time since the show’s 1941 run. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMIf there was a word to describe Paul, the character Troy Trippiccio played in Harrison High School’s production of “A Chorus Line” last year, he said it’d be “s…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:38AMTectonic Theater Project will present dance and music excerpts from Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Musical, a new development piece, for invited guests March 6 in NYC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Not many theater directors have the range to do a play with a foul-mouthed hand puppet and then one with a whiff of film noir. Moritz Von Stuelpnagel can do both - in th…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:32AMAnimal Parts will present Revenge of the Popinjay at Dixon Place in downtown New York. Created by Anthony Johnston, the experimental theatrical piece explores LGBT themes and blends original…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMTonight, March 2, the Roundabout Theatre Company presents its annual 2015 spring gala, entitled "There Is Nothing Like a Dame," in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. The even…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:30AMKate Baldwin and Conor Ryan Photo: Carol RoseggA Sweet Musical About Love and Letting GoBy Lauren YargerThe more I thought about it, the more I liked the sweet little musical John and Jen, g…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 11:30AMWatch on the Rhine takes place during a seldom explored or even talked about era in American history. After the Great Depression and The New Deal, but before the bombing of Pearl Harbor ther…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMIn Episode 308, award-winning musical theatre writer Joel B. New sat down with Janet Krupin, currently featured as a Swing in IFTHEN. Other Broadway credits include BRING IT ON Kylar and HAN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMAriana Grande, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor and Fifth Harmony are among the top nominees for the 2015 Radio Disney Music Awards RDMA. It was announced today during 'Disney Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMThe new Broadway production of Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, resumes rehearsals today, Monday, March 2, in New York City.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:25AMElvis Will Be in the Building! Scott Siegel Presents Salute to Rock ‘n Roll Legend on March 7. Composer/Hit Maker Larry Gatlin to Guest
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:24AMMel Brooks will take to the London stage for his first ever U.K. solo show. The EGOT-winning comedy legend will present Mel Brooks Live in London at the Prince of Wales Theatre on March 22. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMThe New Jersey musical-theater company plans premieres of 'A Bronx Tale' and 'Bandstand' and revivals of 'Pump Boys' and 'West Side Story.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:21AMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:19AMYankee Tavern - American Blues Theater at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. is offering a limited number of $15 Industry tickets for Thursday night performances through Mar…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:14AMWhat do you do if your inbox is clogged up with anti-Muslim hate mail? Turn it into a cabaret show. Daryl Lindsey reports from Berlin on a strangely joyful evening of horrendous abuse�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:11AMSarasota Ballet's Juan Gil is promoted to junior principal following performance as "Apollo"...... Read more »
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SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 11:11AMJonathan Slinger is to take over as Willy Wonka in the London production of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, beginning performances May 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMThe Sound of Music premiered in movie theaters 50 years ago today, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, an anniversary marked far more prominently than the opening of this Rodgers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AMZing go the strings of our hearts! The only Judy Garland show in the world authorized by the Garland Estate is set for a U.K. tour, led by her daughter, Lorna Luft. Helmed by Christopher Man…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMWell what an exciting week it has been in theatre land! We’ve had new openings, exciting seasons have been released and some great casting announcements, also a special award for …
SOURCE: 1610 at 11:05AMRECOMMENDED The power, reedy elegance and remarkable precision of LINES Ballet returns to the Harris in two weeknight programs. On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based company participates in …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:03AMAs the curtain opens on God of Carnage, Veronica Novak (Karen Shotts) is walking on eggshells, trying to have an adult conversation with the parents of the child who hit her son with a stick…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMMaggie Smith has admitted that she is unlikely to return to the stage because the process of performing everyday is too exhausting.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMYou probably think you know what theater owners do. It’s in their moniker – they just own theaters, right? So all they do is sit atop their perch and decide what shows to let o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMNew York law has allowed buskers to play since 1970, but when armed critics decide what’s not art, performers can forgo applause for handcuffs Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMA Chicago troupe explores a new way to build short-play festivals around a theme: taking inspiration from seminal rock albums.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:00AM'Critics should represent the spectrum of theatre being made as fully as possible'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe longtime Sierra College film and theater instructor also was a presence in the Music Circus box office. … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 11:00AM
The 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, is given March 2 in New York City. The winner is awarded a cash prize of $25,000. The nominees follow: Lisa D’…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:59AMArts Question Time (BBC Four) made a hash of this opportunity to discuss the future of the arts, says Rupert Christiansen
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:57AMMy data might be depressing for anyone who wants a lot of novelty in the concert hall. But I found that some orchestras are taking more risks than the pessimists say.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMNeil Patrick Harris, Laverne Cox, Anna Kendrick, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pratt, Shonda Rhimes, Taylor Swift and Mark Ruffalo among this year's nominees for the 7th Annual SHORTY AWARDS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMTravis Ramirez has played it serious, as the haunted church organist Simon Stimson in “Our Town.” He played it madcap backstage in “Fiddler on the Roof,” playing all …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:46AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending March 1st, 2015.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMHamilton, the hot new musical by Tony Award-winning In the Heights star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, received a visit from famed musician and parodist "Weird Al" Yankovi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMFollowing its triumphant opening earlier this week, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical at the Aldwych Theatre has become the hottest musical theatre ticket in town. Due to public deman…
SOURCE: 1609 at 10:42AMToday, Page speaks exclusively to BWW about this new musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMHuntington Theatre Company, the 2013 recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award and Boston magazine's Best Theatre of 2013 and 2014, announced today the world premiere production of A Con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMNot just any conservatory or university school of music can mount a concert featuring Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. It may not have familiar tunes, but Mahler’s Fifth is a landmark com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMThe new Broadway production of Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, resumes rehearsals today, Monday, March 2, in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMA baby abandoned at a convent transforms the lives of a group of nuns in The Cradle Song, Gregorio Martinez Sierra’s 1927 drama getting a reading March 9 by The Acting Com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMWho is Larry David? That’s just what 60 Minutes correspondant Charlie Rose attempted to uncover in a recent profile with the Fish in the Dark star and creator. Before the deep psychoan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:22AMFrom All My Sons to The Crucible and beyond, the great playwright captured America’s financial, as well as existential, desperationArthur Miller called The American Clock, which premiered …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMTown Hall, New YorkOver a decade after winning best comic at Edinburgh, Martin has pared down his presentation and allowed consistently funny and clever jokes to shine Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMYorktown High School’s Gabby Landicino said the sky is the limit this year, as she tackles one of musical theaters plummest parts: Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly!” “You …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:14AMBefore the lights fall and the audience settles, on stage, Mike (Adi Stein) endures a slapstick shampooing and hair cut by madcap stylist Tony (Michael Litchfield), the flamboyantly gay owne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMCulturebot contributor Stormy Budwig chats with Sam Kim about the premier of "Sister to a Fiend" at Gibney Dance March 4-7.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:06AMA charming show played with beguiling perfection by Joe Delafield. Review will appear in the Suburbanite and other North Jersey Media Newspapers on Thursday, March 3.
SOURCE: cervellionstage.blogspot.com at 10:05AMNeil Patrick Harris is the world's biggest Thomas amp Friends fan, and he's not about to let some little kids take that away from him.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMComedy writer and performer behind The Producers and Blazing Saddles to bring ‘introspective retrospective’ to West EndMel Brooks, the writer behind some of Hollywood’s most raucous an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMLast year's Fringe First Award-winner has transferred to the Young Vic
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM
Rupert Goold has revealed he feels uneasy about theatres relying on corporate and philanthropic funding, as it may influence the work they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AMChance the Rapper and Alec Baldwin were in Chicago over the weekend for the Young Chicago Authors event, the unlikely duo did the most unlikely thing when they teamed up for a freestyle.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMToday’s Highlights: * Lincoln Center Theater‘s The Mystery of Sex, by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Sam Gold, featuring Diane Lane, Tony Shalhoub, Mamoudou Athie and Gayle Rankin, opens …
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 09:56AMKid Victory, the world-premiere musical from famed composer John Kander and playwright Greg Pierce, officially opened Feb. 28 following previews that began Feb. 17 at the Signature Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMDame Maggie Smith, who stars as Dowager Countess of Grantham on the hit PBS series "Downton Abbey," will depart the program after its sixth season, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMEddie Redmayne will lend his voice to an upcoming animated film based on the popular Thomas the Tank Engine U.K. children's TV series,
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AMIT SHOULDA BEEN YOU, a new musical comedy directed by David Hyde Pierce in his Broadway directorial debut, will open at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. With an original boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AMOn Twitter Watch, Lin Manuel Miranda wrote Coronation.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMIt’s difficult to come into the middle of something, but, to take a stab at a George Bernard Shaw-like observation, aren’t we all living all our lives having come into the middle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AMEducation Dramaturg Ted Sod interviews lyricist Amanda Green about On the Twentieth Century. Ted Sod: Where were you born and educated and when did you decide to write for the musical theat…
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 09:30AMThe composing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Rocky) and librettist Terrence McNally are preparing a streamlined “concert version” of their 2002 musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMThe new Broadway revival of On The Town welcomed 'SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE' winner and 'America's Favorite Dancer' Ricky Ubeda to the cast last night, February 27, 2015 for a limited engag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMJust like most of the musical theatre community, I spent all of last weekend obsessing over the release of the Last Five Years film. I have been in love with that music for years and had bee…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 09:10AMTaylor Kinney and his fiancee Lady Gaga joined a group of brave swimmers on Sunday to take the Polar Plunge in Chicago.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:08AMMy favorite memory of my 30-year arts management career was attending a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:01AMChiara Atik’s Five Times in One Night is the latest atypical offering from EST/Youngblood — Playwright Chiara Atik does not like watching sex. On stage at least. “I always …
SOURCE: TDF at 09:00AMWhen the movie of The Sound of Music premiered 50 years ago, on Mar. 2, 1965, the world learned the story of would-be nun Maria, whose superiors, at their wits’ end over her flightines…
SOURCE: time.com at 09:00AM
Today in 1995, Smokey Joe's Cafe opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre where it ran for 2036 performances. Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop stand…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:59AMGradually, Clark Terry developed on the trumpet the rounded, full tone that became so distinctive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMToday, CNN takes a look at where the film's cast members are now, including the actors who portrayed Liesl, Friedrich, Greta and the rest of the von Trapp clan.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:53AMMel Brooks is to present his first-ever solo U.K. show, Mel Brooks Live in London, at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre for one-night only March 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AMPatrick Marber's "truth, lies and relationships" hit of the 1990s gets a revival at the Donmar
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35AMOne of Ferenc Molnar's lesser known plays given a second life by New York's favorite theatrical antique treasure hunter, the Mint Theater .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:33AMBeth Henley's revisionist story of female friendship in the West takes American mythology as a ripe target for deconstruction.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:32AMAlan Ayckbourn is to premiere his 79th play, Hero's Welcome, as part of the 60th anniversary season at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre that he used to run, and which ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AMEd Miliband has promised that arts policy will be “at the heart of the government” if Labour gains power in this year’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AM by: Carol Rocamora In a time of tight budgets and small-cast, one-set shows, Charles Mee’s extravagant imagination is a breath of fresh theatrical…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:21AMTim Hartman was born to play a monster, but not just any monster — THE Monster — Frankenstein’s Monster, specifically the one resuscitated by Mel Brooks in the musical comedy…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:19AMThis stage adaptation is distressing for all the wrong reasons, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:18AMOn the next episode of HBO's LOOKING titled 'Looking for Glory,' Dom makes progress on his chicken take-out window, Patrick and Kevin go to GaymerX and Agustin confronts the risks of sex wit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:14AMVariety reports that Maggie Smith, who portrays fan favorite Dowager Countess of Grantham in the historical drama, revealed that next season will be her last.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:10AMChristopher Shinn’s “Four” first premiered in 2001 and over a decade later it seems very much a product of its times. First of all there’s the setting: Hartford, 1996, the Fourth of …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:05AMFiled under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Beauty Bar, Behind the Velvet Curtain, Bettina May, burlesque
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:01AMThe stars of Disney's CINDERELLA stopped traffic at the World Premiere of Kenneth Branagh's breathtaking live-action feature at the legendary El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Blvd
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01AMGood 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 THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX opens off-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMAlso: The Miller Theatre honors Augusta Read Thomas in the Composer Portraits series
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMCall Redialed: "Call Me Adam" catches up with comedian and burlesque star Selene Luna! This time around we discuss her new comedy show "Jumbo Shrimp" which will be at The Laurie Beechman The…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 08:00AM
by: JK Clarke There’s an interesting thing happening in the theater world. Immersive theater, in different variations, is emerging a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:54AMMore so than the play’s sudden violence or its firecracker bursts of profanity, it’s The Gin Game’s references to nursing homes as God’s waiting rooms that stick with you in Evening …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:53AMThe Off-West End play has very much been the thing for me in the past few weeks of theatregoing. Here are five (four of them brand-new plays) worth squeezing into your theatregoing calendar …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:51AM by: JK Clarke No one anticipates an onslaught of madness. When it comes, it’s swift and sudden, taking everyone (even its originator) by surprise, often.…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:29AMJoining Imelda Staunton, who stars as the indomitable Momma Rose in the West End transfer of Jonathan Kent's production of Gypsy, are Lara Pulver and Gemma Sutton who reprise the roles of Lo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25AMOn last night's 60 MINUTES, David spoke to correspondent Charlie Rose about his childhood, his career and his new Broadway show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:23AMThe artists who have made the Sound of Music songs their own
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:22AMFormer Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Philips is creative director on a new Judy Garland show.
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:19AMThe Parks and Recreation actor and woodworking enthusiast is to take on one of US fiction’s most well-loved comic creationsNick Offerman, the actor who gained fame as ultra-masculine moust…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMPeter Davison will join the company of Gypsy in the role of Herbie when Chichester Festival Theatre's production transfers to the West End; he will star opposite Imelda Staunton…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 2 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Inspired by real life events of the 1860's and concerned with telling the relatively unknown stories of women pioneers, "Abundance" is highly engrossing, steepe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28AMRoundabout Theatre Company, under the artistic direction of Todd Haimes, presents its annual 2015 spring gala, entitled There Is Nothing Like a Dame, March 2 in the Grand Ballroom of the Wal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMCast members from the Sting musical The Last Ship, which ended its Broadway run Jan. 24, reunite March 2 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AM1900 Composer Kurt Weill is born today in Dessau, Germany. He will compose the score for Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, and Mahagonny. Among his many works, Lady in the Dark will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMAudra McDonald, who recently won her sixth Tony Award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, hosts the Martin E. Segal Awards, which are presented March 2 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMThe fourth wall will be shattered for audiences at La Mirada Theatre when they attend a high school prom gone horrifically wrong in the immersive production of the cult musical Carrie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMJudy Kuhn, who returns to Broadway this spring in the new musical Fun Home, will record an album dedicated to the music of Richard Rodgers, his daughter Mary Rodgers and her son Adam Guettel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMAcademy Award nominee Diane Lane and Tony nominee Tony Shalhoub return to the New York Stage in Bathsheba Doran's The Mystery of Love & Sex, which officially opens Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMThe 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, is given March 2 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMToday we are talking to one of the breakout stars of Season 3 of FOX's recent reality competition series THE X FACTOR and a stalwart Broadway regular in her own right, the passionate and ver…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05AMThere is so much good will and enthusiasm these days among theatregoers who have seen Lin-Manuel Miranda’s complicated, valuable musical “Hamilton” (directed by Thomas Kail, at the Pub…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM"While ostensibly related to this season’s theme of 'Shape and Design,' Arnell’s film spotlights those aspects of Graham’s work most appealing to a mass audience --…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"It takes trust to engage in a dialogue amongst what Blondell Cummings calls 'overlapping communities.' And, it takes time for that discussion to move past the repetitive and reactio…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMOn the surface, Attack Theatre’s latest mainstage show might have claimed the name “Between” because it was performed in between performances of the Pittsburgh Opera’s “Sumeid…
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