Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' newest play GLORIA opened this week. Let's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56PMOn Tuesday, June 16, 2015, Randie Levine-Miller presented and hosted Showstopper Divas --'The Broadway Songbook' at Stage 72Triad 158 West 72nd Street to benefit The Actors Fund.Critically a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56PMThe play, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is set in the magazine industry and explores its tense culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31PMLady Gaga performed John Lennon's Imagine at the European Games opening ceremony in Azerbaijan on Friday, June 12. Watch her stripped-down but grand performance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09PMIt’s not just “Game of Thrones” that boasts jaw-dropping shockers — the new play “Gloria” has such a fantastic moment, it’s killing me that I can’t spill the beans. All...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMIf Sartre were writing today, he might set one of his plays in the Manhattan offices of a national magazine with cultural pretensions, a living hell depicted in all its chic horror by playwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThe latest effort from the Obie Award-winning author of such acclaimed works as 'Appropriate' and 'An Octoroon' depicts the traumatic repercussions of a life-changing event on the employees …
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Everyday I get a flurry of emails from the agents of performing artists letting me know when the performers are available cross the course of the next year or two. Often I notice that arti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:56PM‘Gloria’ review: Angst & opportunity fill an office workday Joe Dziemianowicz Whose life story is it, anyway? That’s the burning question of “Gloria,” a tight, twisty and impeccabl…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:31PMCreator of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien, will be joining the Australian production in Melbourne for selected performances at the Comedy Theatre! Co-producers Howard Panter …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:22PMIs it the deadening office atmosphere, or is it their own ambition, that have warped most of the cubicle workers who have artistic aspirations in “Gloria,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ shoc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PMDuring my break from writing, I did see every musical and musical revival that opened, but did not review them for the blog. (I saw and reviewed all of the fall musical openings, save …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:07PMMs. Moore’s departure leaves Ballet Theater looking for a successor as it winds up its 75th-anniversary season.
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The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, where there are no rules, becomes a classroom in Hannah Gadsby’s show, Art Lite. Armed with a lectern, a PowerPoint presentation and a nifty laser pointer, G…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:37PM54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Blake Pfeil in The BBC, 1970 on Saturday, July 25. On October 9, 1970, the BBC airedJoni Mitchell in Concert, an intimate and acoustic portrait tha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMSutton Foster is back in New York
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMBelvoir, Sydney, June 10 MOTHER Courage is one of the little people, born somewhere undesirable at the wrong time. A war she didn’t have anything to do with starting grinds on, stops for a…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 07:25PMAs part of the Soho Theatre’s Soho Solo Season 2015, Christopher Fairbank delivers an emotionally charged monologue that, similar to Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic Raging Bull, follows t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08PMThe still young Duelling Productions return to Camden with their hard-hitting and affecting production of Jane Bodie’s A Single Act, proving that this company of performers has talent to k…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08PMDoes your family history define you as a person, even though you’re not aware of the events that your predecessors lived through? Rosie (Jasmine Blackborow) is drawn to a city that her gra…
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This third cycle of plays includes a tale about two Japanese courtesans and another about the trajectory of a father-daughter relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMTamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMName: Laiona MichelleHometown: Springfield Ma.Education: MFA- Brandeis University, BA- Alabama State University Select Credits: Theater: First National Tour- The Book of Mormon. …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 06:46PMFew companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company's desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:46PMFrom the sacred ring shout to tap, reinvented through funk and hip-hop; from the fiery Cuban Rumba to concert modern dance; from the South African
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 06:41PMNewly minted Tony winner Bunny Christie on the inspiration and particular challenges of creating the sets and costumes for A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:40PMAfter rolling in the aisles at Broadway’s Something Rotten!, Billy Crystal met the cast of the hit musical at the St. James Theatre on June 17, 2015. Click for photos!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:40PMOscar winner Robert De Niro spent the day in the Big Apple with a crew of sailors! Click for photos from his visit to Broadway’s On the Town at the Lyric Theatre on June 17, 2015.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:40PMBrought to you by BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN Wednesday, June 17, 2015 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – @BBBway RT @broadwaycom: PHOTOS! Get a front-row seat to the openin…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:33PMPeople say that theatre has a magical quality to it and that when an actor appears onstage, he is transformed in such a way that you no longer think of the actor and only think of the charac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMTHE PRINCE OF BROADWAY is onstage at last
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMReview of And a Nightingale Sang at Westport Country Playhouse C.P. Taylor’s memory play And a Nightingale Sang, running through June 27 at Westport Country Playhouse, gives us Helen Stott…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 06:11PMThe Regal Cinemas location has seen an 88 percent increase in attendance and a threefold increase in ticket revenue since installing 4DX technology last year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PMManu Kamasi grew up performing African drums and doing performance karate in New York. His parents encouraged him to enter a storytelling contest as a child, and he developed an appreciation…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 06:10PMA longtime company member at WSC Avant Bard, Cam Magee plays the title role in The Madwoman of Chaillot through June 28. She has appeared in and/or dramaturged eighteen of the…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 06:10PMHannah used to be a teacher but, since moving to the UK, she now works as a barmaid at the pub. Young Jordan walks into the bar; he has just lost his job and six months ago he lost his mothe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10PMThe Disney ABC Television Group has reversed course on cutting jobs for up to 35 application developers, two weeks after informing the employees that they were being laid off. The developers…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PM“The Water Diviner” (R, 111 minutes, Warner): Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe, in his directorial debut, tackles a tricky story of post-World War I reconciliation with a canvas large e…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:02PMNOW HERE’S THE ONE TO SEE. DON’T MIND THE LANGUAGE… If you worry about language, the clue’s in the title. More f’s and assholes than you can shake a reproving finger …
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ON YOUR FEET, the new musical based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international superstarGloria Estefanand her husband, legendary producer-musician-entrepreneurEmilio Estefa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMFROZEN's leading lady hits Amsterdam
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMThe proposed plans to renovate Oscar Hammerstein II's property into a museum and theatre were denied by the Doylestown Township zoning board, Philly.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMBefore vampires and dystopias, teen movies weren't defined by life-and-death stakes. Matters were more prosaic, such as: If you give a guy a boombox to hold over his head, will this pseudo-g…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:43PMFRIDAY | "The Who & The What": In the newest play by Ayad Akhtar ("Disgraced"), a woman who was raised in a conservative Muslim family writes a controversial book about women and Islam. Thro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:43PM"I'm starting to look a lot like Uncle Vanya," said Christopher Durang. And indeed, he does resemble the Chekhovian antihero. He has the beard and the grumbly demeanor. Heck, he even lives i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:43PMANNECY, France – Matthew McConaughey will voice Buster, a showman entrepreneur koala running a legit theater in Illumination Entertainment’s upcoming music-driven event comedy, Illuminat…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42PMVineyard Arts Project, a nonprofit performing arts residency center on Martha's Vineyard, has announced its artist lineup for the 2015 season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PM2015 Tony Awards host and ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY star welcomes a fellow Tony host and winner
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMOn this week’s episode of The Broadway.com Show, we’ve got casting updates galore, Adam Lambert destroying our dreams and much more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Ramin Karimloo's In Demand
Ramin Karimloo is keeping us guessing. According to the New York Post, the Tony nominee was …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMClick for photos from the opening night of The Public Theater’s The Tempest at Shakespeare in the Park’s Delacorte Theater on June 16, 2015.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMHaydn Gwynne, who earned an Olivier Award for her performance in the original London production of Billy Elliot, and later repeated her work on Broadway, will star as Desiree Armfeldt in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PMWith the American Association of Community Theatre’s (AACT) annual national conference coming up next week, we thought we would take a moment to shine a light on the AACT and what it can…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 05:27PMThe 39 Steps, the Olivier Award-winning show that has been playing at the West End's Criterion Theatre since 2006, will shutter Sept. 5. During its run, it will have played the 5th h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMBob Kelly and Sam Chanse, Ben Wexler and Mark Sonnenblick, and Shaina Taub and Jen Silverman will develop new musicals in New Haven this summer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PMSometimes your life takes turns you could have never imagined. Moving on, facing your choices, and finding a new direction is a struggle familiar to us all. In these three new Samuel French …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 05:13PMBlanche DuBois famously arrives on stage along with her trunk, a potent indicator of the character’s unfixed, desperate situation. Appropriately enough, in a capable production
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:12PMAt a recent media event, stars Jennifer Hudson, Cynthia Erivo and Danielle Brooks were joined by director John Doyle to chat about the upcoming Broadway revival of The Color Purple, the powe…
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A harshly poetic, unflinching examination of drone warfare told through the eyes of one female fighter pilot. Be sure not to miss it.
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SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 04:50PMThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the seven recipients of the Impact Awards, who will each receive $80,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:47PMThe face of public housing is changing in the U.S. In one of the biggest experiments, Chicago's Housing Authority has torn down most of its high-rise public housing units. For decades, they …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:37PM ShowBiz Nation LiVE! Interview with Film Director LUKE KOREM from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Film director LUKE KOREM discusses his documentary feature LORD MONTEGU, England’s most…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:37PMBe transported to the far-away of the mind. What better place to explore provocative magical realism as a performing art than at this year’s Fringe Festival. Letting one’s mind drift int…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PMCamp Ovation will soon be back in session! A sequel of the theater-themed cult film Camp is officially in the works. Todd Graff, who wrote and directed the 2003 movie about a summer oasis fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PM- a staging that is seriously in search of excitement or any presence of wizardry.
SOURCE: at 04:05PMCasting has been announced for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's Powerhouse Season. The 31st season, which will feature various readings, workshops and main stage productions,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMWicked alum Derek Klena will join them as part of the Vassar Powerhouse season.
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Ten beautiful thirty-somethings thrash out their romantic ups and downs. By Joel Benjamin Women Are Crazy Because Men Are A**holes is actually mis-titled. All the cha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:55PMEXCLUSIVE: Dan Halsted's company Manage-ment has hired former CAA theater agent Corinne Hayoun to run its New York based headquarters. Hayoun spent eight years at CAA repping stage talent, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:49PM By Eric J. Grimm Winsome Brown’s one-woman show, This is Mary Brown, is a candid view of the performer’s mother, bravely presented in the intimate bl…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:46PMI was asked to speak about how I raise money for shows a couple of weeks ago, and I was reminded about a simple tip that I’ve been using for years. See, during the Q&A portion of …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 03:45PMRenée Fleming (Hanna) and Nathan Gunn (Danilo) perform an excerpt of their Act II duet “Hello, Here’s a Soldier Bold” from Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Costumes are by…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:45PMBroadway star Kelli O’Hara makes her Met Opera debut as the Baron’s coquettish wife Valencienne in Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow. O’Hara and the women’…
SOURCE: PBS at 03:45PMA final resting place will never have the same creative force as an artistic home.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:45PMLocal opera fans have been waiting quite a while now to learn whether there will be another Lyric Opera Baltimore season -- the company's one and only production for 2014-2015 was back in No…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:45PMSan Diego’s biggest biennial theater festival returns this October!
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2015 Without Walls (WoW) Festival, running Oct. 9–11, will join together local, nat…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:45PM"The Tempest" and Central Park were made for each other, so it must have taken a Herculean effort on the part of director Michael Greif to drain Shakespeare's most mysterious play of all its…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:45PMNew York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 31st Powerhouse Season, have announced the first round of casting for their summer collaboration, which runs June 26 -…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMWhile we eagerly wait for the show to premiere at Hartford Stage, brush up on the songs from the movie below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMThe 10th annual Capital Fringe festival is ramping up, and City Paper's Fringeworthy blog (formerly Fringe & Purge) is looking for fresh blood. Want to see the shows for free, sound off …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:44PMFormer Disney CEO Michael Eisner and 'Mythbusters' co-host Adam Savage were among the audience Sunday for Broadway San Jose's presentation of 'The Illusionists' at the Center for the Perform…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:43PMTony Award-nominated composer-lyricist – and now actor – Andrew Lippa is having a banner year. In addition to performing in his oratorio I Am Harvey Milk last fal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMBroadway musicals have immortalized loving, complicated and difficult dads.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:42PMFAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (Reuters) - The 14th-century Cypriot tower that is the fictional setting of Shakespeare's play "Othello" reopens next month after undergoing renovation following decades of…
SOURCE: Reuters at 03:42PMYou've heard music on "Smash," now check out Joe Iconis' hilarious TYA musical!
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SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 03:41PMSam Waterston stars in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'The Tempest.'
SOURCE: USA Today at 03:40PMThe weather, that diva, is often a co-star at the Delacorte Theater, but rarely so aptly as at a recent preview performance of The Tempest, when the air seemed pregnant and thunderstorms wer…
SOURCE: Vulture at 03:37PMWhile the play itself is problematic, Gablestage has done a good job of showing us a slice of life that was furtive at best and illegal at worst.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:35PM Pop star Brandy Norwood (Broadway star of Chicago) recently mentored children from MSG’s Garden of Dreams Foundation (who wil…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:20PMBroadway has been a blessing for Brandy Norwood. “This experience has truly reawakened the fearless Brandy that I once was as a child,” says Norwood. The former Moesha star and p…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:10PMClick for photos from the opening night of Atlantic Theater Company’s Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prarie Du Chien at Jake’s Saloon on June 16, 2015. See the production thro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMAccording to the web site Trackingboard.com, a third installment of the popular 2001 film PRINCESS DIARIES will be produced by Disney Studios.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMA CHORUS LINE and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC has been announced as two of the musicasl for the Stratford Festival next season according to the Star. Both Broadway musicals first appeared on Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMAtlantic Theater Company's revival of Ghost Stories The Shawl and Prairie du Chien presents two haunting short plays by Atlantic co-founder and Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet. Ghost Stori…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMRachel Chavkin directs the new musical inspired by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Our newest Exit Review is a guest report from critic Kurt Gardner. Kurt is reviewing Charivari in Voyeurville, which is now playing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015.
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SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:56PMPopular Marian Hossa was spied lunching with the cup at Tavern on Rush.
The post Stars around town: Gloria Estefan, Marian Hossa, Grant Hill appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - Chicag…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:48PM by: JK Clarke It must have been extraordinary, in the early 1600s, to imagine the prospect of the New World: a place that had only...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:45PMOn Saturday 5 September 2015, The 39 Steps will close after nine years at the West End’s Criterion Theatre. Based on John Buchan’s 1914 spy thriller The Thirty Nine Steps and adapted for…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:39PMJake Shimabukuro and The City Lights Orchestra - Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway, is offering $12.50 industry tickets in honor of its 125th Anniversary for the June 24 performance…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:33PMJeff Calhoun, who directed the Broadway revival of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, is again joining forces with the prolific composer for the new musical Mata Hari, according to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMAn industry reading of Ted Malawer's new play, The Anatomy of Love, is presented in Manhattan on June 17th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMOscar-Nominated David Strathairn will star in My Report to the World The Story of Jan Karski. Presented as a staged workshop, the play recounts the astonishing and largely unknown story of P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMCheck out highlights from the new musical below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMTKTS has been a New York City institution for decades, bringing theatre-goers a last-minute way to get tickets for some of Broadway's hottest shows at a discount. TDF operates three TKTS Dis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMThe Broadway Dreams Foundation BDF will reimagine the big- hearted pop musical, Zanna, Don't for a whole new generation of theatergoers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMOn Sunday, June 21, 930 pm amp Midnight, Broadway Bares is back and sexier than ever. The event will take place at theHammerstein Ballroom located in the Manhattan Center 311 West 34th Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMName: Jon MeyerHometown: Crescent Springs, KYTell us about The Roaring Girl: The Roaring Girl is a fun, lighthearted show that plays with the complexities of love in a variety of story lines…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:25PMGeorg Buchner wrote a little play called Woyzeck. Well, he started to and then he died. In 1837, Woyzeck was presumably mostly finished leaving those artists who were fascinated by the piece…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:25PMThe new-ness of new plays must be factored into their evaluations. Often over-long and repetitious and occasionally derivative of other, established works, new plays profit from “tryout”…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 02:25PMThe 39 Steps will close in September after nine years in the West End. The production, which is currently running at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:20PMThe comedy has been in the West End for 9 years
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:14PMThe following is an article from Wisconsin’s WITI Fox 6, about two brand new high school productions of Hello, My Baby and Disney’s The Little Mermaid making their way to the Int…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:08PMNow here’s an out-of-town tryout: Hal Prince’s long-gestating retrospective musical Prince Of Broadway will begin performances on October 23 at Theatre Orb. That’s not the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:07PMThe forthcoming UK tour of Terence Rattigan’s FLARE PATH, directed by Justin Audibert, has today announced the full cast, headed by the previously announced Leon Ockenden as Peter Kyle, Ol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:05PMCervantes bones found and Pittsburgh CLO revives man of La Mancha
SOURCE: Examiner.com at 02:04PMIn a new interview in today's New York Times, Penn and Teller chat about returning to New York for their six-week run of PENN AND TELLER ON BROADWAY
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMThe Flat Rock Playhouse 2015 season will continue with the Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which will run from tonight, June 17th through Ju…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMTV Land's critically acclaimed 'Younger' from TV icon Darren Star was a runaway hit with audiences in its freshman season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMBroadwayWorld is excited to bring you a newepisode of ourexclusive, new webseries- SCHOOL'D with Matthew Rodin. SCHOOL'D was created with the intention of providing first hand accounts of st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMAt the TCG National Conference this week, James Houghton, Lear deBessonet and Rhodessa Jones will be recognized for their theatrical achievements.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:02PMA Chorus Line will be directed and choreographed by Donna Feore, while it’s looking likely that Gary Griffin will return to direct Night Music.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:02PMLena Hall and Lindsay Mendez were also among the Broadway veterans on hand.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMA handsome middle-aged man discovers he has daddy issues with his son.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMAmong the Broadway veterans in the Music Circus production of “Big River” is Phillip Boykin (shown here from his 2013 Music Circus performance), who embodies Mark Twain’s memorable cha…
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The ensemble of An American in Paris was dancing on air on June 16, when they took home the 2015 ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus, presented by the Actors’ Equity Association…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMAfter a nine year run (and 38 pairs of handcuffs) in London, Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps will shutter at the Criterion Theatre on September 5. At time of closing, the show will have…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMThe West End has a, well, beautiful new star in Katie Brayben, the English actress who won an Olivier Award in April for her performance as Carole King in the London production of Beaut…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMThe dearth of stage parts for older actors has long been lamented. Now one 87-year-old is doing something to address the problem.
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:58PMPLAYS Trevor Nunn is to direct The Wars of the Roses, an adaptation of four Shakespeare plays not seen together for 50
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PMLloyd Daniels and Sophie Evans are to star in a show celebrating 80 years of Jewish contribution to musical theatre. You Won’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PMYoung Vic artistic director David Lan has criticised the government’s “narrow” approach to arts in education. Lan stressed the importance not only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PMTechnical workers on West End show The Lion King will receive a 12% total increase to their pay over the next two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PMWomen of Letters showcases eight women at each event, all featuring of some contemporary talent or relevance. Writers, entertainers, musicians and artists alike are invited to participate
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:54PMGideon Glick, star of the new off-Broadway dramedy Significant Other, talks social media stalking, his relatable character Jordan and his go-go boy beginnings.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:53PMTony and Oliver Award nominee Gavin Lee, Erika Henningsen, Rachel Izen, Brennyn Lark, Chris McCarrell and Wallace Smith took over principal roles in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway rev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMThe son of Geffen founder Gilbert Cates will follow in his father's footsteps and lead the Los Angeles theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:49PMWhat does it mean to be an Asian American writer? Playwright Michael Golamco talks about his roots in writing - and being Asian American - and the ongoing struggle to determine what it all m…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 01:34PMFilm director LUKE KOREM discusses his documentary feature LORD MONTEGU, England’s most infamous aristocrat who arrested for “homosexual” offenses and became the focus of a l…
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 01:25PMShowBiz Nation LiVE! Interview with Film Director LUKE KOREM from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Film director LUKE KOREM discusses his documentary feature LORD MONTEGU, England’s most infamo…
SOURCE: SHOWBIZ NoFLO at 01:14PMAll in all, OFFICE POLITICS is a gem of American theatre. This play is exactly what America needs: a magnifying glass held up to its wounds.
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:08PMRECOMMENDED While many adolescents take their parents’ values as a challenge, rarely do they grasp what’s at stake for them. A child’s success can completely reverse years of fatalisti…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:06PMThere is a song written by Alan Chapman that’s entitled “Everybody Wants to be Sondheim” and I guess that’s true in many ways. Composers have tried to copy Stephen Sondheim’s uniqu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:03PMBy Doug Mayo
It was announced today that The 39 Steps will close on 5 September 2015 after a nine year run at the Criterion Theatre. The production which has been seen by over 3 million peop…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:02PMTony Award winner John Rando will direct the gala event.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Megan Hilty will star in New York City Center's annual Gala Annie Get Your Gun In Concert, a one-night-only performance of the classic Irving Berlin musical,on October 27, 2015. Directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMPeter Gallagher stopped by The Today Show on June 17 to chat about returning to Broadway in On the Twentieth Century. The Tony nominee reminisced about his time in the original company of Gr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMSmash favorite and Broadway alum Megan Hilty will headline a one-night-only performance of Annie Get Your Gun at New York City Center. The gala celebration directed by John Rando, will take …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PM"Smash" star Megan Hilty will play sharpshooter Annie Oakley in New York City Center's one-night-only concert performance of the Irving Berlin classic Annie Get Your Gu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMLincoln Center Theater's LCT3 production of Preludes, the new musical by Dave Malloy officially opened June 15, following previews that began May 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMIt has been said that ‘You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews’. Broadway wouldn’t be what it
is today without the Jewish composers and writers whose melodies we…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:35PMWhat do the puppets of LA theatre have to say in their defense?
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:31PMDelacorte theater in Central Park, New YorkThe beautiful outdoor setting of Michael Greif’s production can’t obscure its shortcomings as this Shakespeare in the Park play fails to ignite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMThe following is an excerpt from MTI Chairman and CEO Freddie Gershon in response to an article published June 12th, 2015 on The Huffington Post: On Friday, June 12th, I posted a piece in t…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:30PMAn industry reading of the new musical Hollywood Romance — featuring a score by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, whose Ever After is currently playing a limited engagement at the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMAMERICAN HORROR STORY cresator Ryan Murphy took to Twitter today to reveal that Finn Wittrock, who appeared in the 'Freak Show' installment of FX anthology series, has signed on to the upcom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMRehearsals are currently underway for Broadway's new musical Amazing Grace, which will play Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street with performances beginning Thursday, June 25 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe Broadway Dreams Foundation BDF presented its first-ever NYC Summer Performing Arts Intensive this June 8 - 14, 2015 at RWS amp Associates in Long Island City, NY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMWhat makes Twelve-Cent Archie such a congenial read is that Bart Beaty is a free thinker about comic books, going wherever, and with whatever improvised opinion, through his 100 brisk, chatt…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMThe company of An American in Paris was named winner of the ninth annual "ACCA" Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The award was be presented at 4 PM June 16 during E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMTV's Larry David (he created "Seinfeld" along with Jerry Seinfeld and created and starred in "Curb Your Enthusiasm") made his Broadway playwriting debut with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMTony nominee Malcolm Gets (Macbeth, The Story of My Life) has been cast in HBO's "Confirmation," headlined by "Scandal" star Kerry Washington, according to Deadline. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce a final extension for the critically acclaimed world premiere of Heisenberg due to overwhelming demand from audiences. Heisenberg is the new pla…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:09PMYou Won't Succeed on Broadway if You Don't Have Any Jews stars Sarah Earnshaw, Lloyd Daniels and Sophie Evans
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:09PMThe York Theatre Company presented a one-night only benefit concert celebrating up and coming musical theatre writers, with NEO 11 on Monday evening, June 15, 2015 at The York Theatre Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMA week after the Tony Awards, several shows have reaped the benefits of winning the top prizes and one that was not even nominated got a bump at the box office just from presenting a strong …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:04PMMark Brokaw directs Tony Award winner Simon Stephens' new off-Broadway play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMFive-time Tony winner Susan Stroman to codirect and choreograph the Japan production.
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You know someone has found true happiness when they’re willing to commute in heavy traffic with nary a complaint. Jamie Eacker, who lives in Baltimore, does just that to reach Virginia…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 11:51AMOn Your Feet, the new musical based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international superstarGloria Estefanand her husband, legendary producer-musician-entrepreneurEmilio Estefa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMBroadwayWorld has just learned that music executiveEdna Anderson-Owens, portrayed by Saycon Sengbloh in the Broadway musical MOTOWN, has passed away. She was 76 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMUmeda Arts Theater just announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere ofPrince of Broadway, a new musical celebrating the extraordinary six decade Broadway career of producer-d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMManhattan Theatre Club hasannounced a final extension for the critically acclaimed world premiere of Heisenberg due to overwhelming demand from audiences.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMOn Your Feet, the new musical based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international superstarGloria Estefanand her husband, legendary producer-musician-entrepreneurEmilio Estefa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMAshley Tisdale stopped by TODAY to chat with Kathie Lee and Hoda about her new TBS comedy series called Clipped, and reveals that she actually cuts some of the extras' hair
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMNext stop Broadway? Jeanna de Waal, Drew Gehling, Dakin Matthews, Keala Settle and Joe Tippett will join the previously reported Tony winner Jessie Mueller in Waitress at American Repertory …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMThe national tour of Matilda has brought its naughty hijinks to Los Angeles, and Tony-nominated composer and lyricist Tim Minchin stopped by Conan recently to perform a bit of the show himse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMAmanda Seyfried may light up the big screen in films like Mean Girls, Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables, but as she’s told us in the past, that doesn’t make being on stage any easier…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMHeisenberg, the new show from Simon Stephens, the Tony-winning playwright of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, has extended again off-Broadway. The world premiere, starring …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMThe Off-Broadway revival of David Mamet's haunting short plays, Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prairie du Chien, officially opened June 16 following previews that beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMOn Thursday, June 18, chanteuse Yanna Avis, whose essence has been described by Stephen Holden of the New York Times as being distilled “in a word heard less and less nowadays: chic,” wi…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 11:32AMThirty years after their New York debut in a then-grimy theater district, Penn and Teller are opening a Broadway run that blends old tricks and new.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMWhen it comes to structure and plotting, standup and crime fiction employ the same tricks, explains bestselling author and ex-comic Mark BillinghamThis July, at the Theakstons Old Peculier H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWelcome to the worlds of Es Devlin, who has dreamed up domed catwalks for Louis Vuitton and arena spectaculars for U2, and won an Olivier award for bringing The Nether’s digital landscape …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMy friend Jack Edwards, who has died aged 77 after suffering from Lewy body dementia, was an actor, dancer, tailor and costumier specialising in historical costume, and a stage director and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMInitial cities and dates have been announced for the holiday tour of Elf The Musical, the Broadway show based on the film of the same name.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMEven though it’s not even officially summer yet, it’s time to start planning ahead for the holiday season in NYC. And one holiday event not to miss is the annual Radio City Chris…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:28AMThe theatre-loving Internet exploded last night with the news that a sequel to 2003's CAMP was en route via Todd Graff.
Set at real-life, upstate New York theatre camp Stage Door Manor,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMDue to ticket demand, Off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club has announced a final week extension of its world premiere by Simon Stephens, Heisenberg, starring Tony and Emmy winner Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMBitter Lemons, a theatre website based in Los Angeles, has announced a new business model in which productions pay writers to review their productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMSingles in Agriculture
Off Off Broadway, The Brick, F*ckfest
Reviewed by Ken Kaissar
BOTTOM LINE: A beautifully written new play about sexual frustration and loneliness.
Singles in Agricul…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:19AMWe are all actors, but none more so than our public representatives. It is one thing to invite the wind to blow and crack its cheeks, but quite another to introduce legislation which would a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. at Harvard University, under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus, announces the principal casting for the world premiere of Waitress. Based…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMNicole Scherzinger and Joe Jonas performed "It Sucks to Be Me" from the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q on last night's episode of NBC's "I Can Do That."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMLooking for a great play to see over this week? Look no further than the June Havoc Theatre. Don’t miss Patrice Bell in the last five performances of OFFICE POLITICS.
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:14AMThe Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest officially opened June 16 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The classic tale of young love and old enemies sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMRECOMMENDED Irish playwright Conor McPherson is a master of dread. From “The Weir” to “The Seafarer” to “The Shining City” McPherson’s plays have an impeccable knack for slowly…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:04AMAccording to the web site Trackingboard.com, a third installment of the popular 2001 film PRINCESS DIARIES will be produced by Disney Studios.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMAs BroadwayWorld revealed yesterday, director Todd Graff unexpectedly unveiled a website for a sequel to his 2003 cult indie movie musical CAMP.In the wake of Graff's announcement, BroadwayW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMNew Poll - Pick a subtitle for CAMP 2
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMPlaywright Rory Sheriff penned the stage play, 'Be A Lion', a delightful spinoff to the Broadway musical and film, 'The Wiz', an adaptation of the television classic, 'The Wizard of Oz'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMUmeda Arts Theater is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Prince of Broadway, a new musical celebrating the extraordinary six decade Broadway career of p…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:01AMBased on the beloved 2003 New Line Cinema hit starring Will Ferrell, ELF features songs by Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin The Wedding Singer, with a book by Tony Award w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMWhy won’t theatre leaders speak up? On the front page of May 7 (‘Theatre leaders attack “cowardly” arts council’) it was reported that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMRosie Perez, Jayne Houdyshell, and more are featured in the comedy's new video montage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMTony winner Diane Paulus directs the A.R.T. production.
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“Inside Out,” the latest Pixar punch to the heart, navigates the labyrinth of a young girl’s mind in an antic, candy-colored romp through childhood memory to arrive, finally, gloriousl…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:57AMA new film adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express," Agatha Christie's popular detective novel, may be directed by Kenneth Branagh, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMUmeda Arts Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Prince of Broadway, a new musical celebrating the Tony-winning Broadway career of producer-d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMUmeda Arts Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Prince of Broadway, a new musical celebrating the Tony-winning Broadway career of producer-d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMHe's happily played underdogs and second bananas, but in a new musical from Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, the 'Pitch Perfect' star at last has a role with range---and not just vocally speaking.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:41AMOver time, American weddings have changed dramatically, and not just with regards to fashion. The New York Times recently printed an opinion piece on the costs involved for the happy couple …
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 10:40AMPrincipal casting has been announced for The American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of the world premiere of Waitress, the new Sara Bareilles musical that will play the Massach…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMPrincipal casting has been announced for The American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of the world premiere of Waitress, which will play the Massachusetts venue Aug. 2-Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMRaptorous Box Office for Jurassic World As Dinos Take Half Billion Bite Of Audiences' Wallets
By: Ellis NassourAnother weekend and another blockbuster! But Juras…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:26AMOn Your Feet!, the new musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan, officially opens June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMAmerican Theatre Wing's program for new arrivals teaches things they didn't learn in school.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:24AMActor and writer who scripted the hit TV series Tenko, a drama about the lives of women imprisoned in a Japanese internment campThe actor-turned-writer Jill Hyem, who has died of cancer aged…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMBy Doug Mayo
Monty Python joked in Spamalot that “You won’t succeed on Broadway, If you don’t have any Jews“. Now, a new review shows the valued contributions of Jewi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:14AMJonathan Groff collapsing face-first into a plate of spaghetti. Ana Gasteyer playing an overbearing mother. Don Fogler proving his wits as a ruthless kid-show hots. And then there’s Aa…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:01AMThe free Public Theater production takes place at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
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Here’s a new feature for Broadway Spotted called #MCM and #WCW! Every week we will post Broadway’s biggest crushes! Comment below who your crushes are and who knows, it might make it int…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:59AM“What happens when you remove the typical social contract of the theatre seat? We invited the audience to walk in our oppressive world and they wanted to change it. The audience’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:57AMCrystal explains how he attended his 50th high school reunion and brought Jimmy some yearbook pictures.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMAMAZING GRACE is a new original musical based on the awe-inspiring truestory behind the world's most beloved song. A captivating tale ofromance, rebellion and redemption, this radiant produc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMHappy Birthday, John Gallagher, Jr. Gallagher originated the role of Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening on Broadway after performing the role Off-Broadway and in workshops at Lincoln Center.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMAlec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin welcomed baby Number 2, a baby boy named Rafael Thomas Baldwin. The baby joins older sister Carmen Gabriela.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMThe Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest officially opened lastnight, June 16, and runs through Sunday, July 5, 2015.In The Tempest, Shakespeare's classic …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMJonathan GroffJenni Barber,Quentin Earl Darrington,Bradley Dean,Dan Fogler,Ana Gasteyer,Josh Lamon,Aaron Lazar,Alyse Alan LouisandRema Webbwill soon starin the Encores Off-Center production …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMThe Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest officially opened last night, June 16, and runs through Sunday, July 5, 2015. In The Tempest, Shakespeare's classi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMLATE LATE SHOW host James Corden spent the day at LA Pride over the weekend on a quest to become the Grand Marshall of next year's parade. Find out if he was successful below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMMinchin appeared on Conan O'Brien's show on Monday
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:55AMBased on the much-loved novel by the great Roald Dahl, Matilda is a spectacular musical that embraces the power of creativity, as a young British schoolgirl escapes her troubled existence wh…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:47AM MUSIC AND ART FOR CITY GREENS continues Season 8 of Concerts to benefit Tudor City Greens. This free, outdoor concert series resumes on Wednesday, June 24th at 6:30...
The post…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:37AMPrior to its world premiere at Hartford Stage next spring, the stage adaptation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's animated feature "Anastasia" was presented June 12 in a st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM by: Magda Katz On Tuesday night producer and host Randie Levine-Miller present…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:25AMPS Classics' studio cast recording of the new Vernon Duke musical Misia was released June 16. To celebrate the album's release, Playbill.com is premiering "My Gifts," the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMA new album from Donna McKechnie, the Tony-winning triple threat who recently stoodby for Chita Rivera in the Tony-nominated musical The Visit, is now available on iTunes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMLast summer, I found a production of Les Miserables that was playing in Texas. Usually, this would not strike me as particularly intriguing, but this production was different. It was Les Mis…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 09:08AMCSC has been performing summer shows “In the Ruins” of Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park since 2003. This is the CSC’s third production of the Shakespeare comedy and it is full …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:04AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThis Faustian tale mixing dance, roller-skating and rock music has bags of charmPhilippe Decouflé is a showman, creating his works out of a freewheeling jumble…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMPark theatre, LondonNick Darke’s 1986 play about a couple who have lost their sparkle offers a few laughs, but its sexual politics look hackneyedNick Darke, who died 10 years ago, wrote fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM
Office Politics is the kind of show that I rarely see. Its playwright, director and actors are all new to me. Its entire run, including previews, is just two weeks (it closes this weekend). …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:58AMGood 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 ON YOUR FEET opensin Chicago, Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMThe actress stopped by last night's LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS and revealed that she suffers from terrible stage fright.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMOkay, today is Louise Fazenda’s birthday; yesterday was Tom Howard’s. I recently visited Joe Cook’s house and an exhibition about his life and career, and TCM played Rai…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:58AM‘The Tempest’ review: Soggy doings in the Park Joe Dziemianowicz Sam Waterston leads a less than water-tight Public Theater production of "The Tempest."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:55AMVanessa Hudgens and the cast of Broadway's GIGI took to the street to serenade the cast of JERSEY BOYS, their neighboring show at 52nd Street'sAugust Wilson Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMThe Flat Rock Playhouse 2015 season will continue with the Tony and Pulitzer prize-winningHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which will run from tonight, June 17th,through Jul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMBroadway In Chicago, The Nederlander Organization and Estefan Enterprises, Inc present On Your Feet, a new musical based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international supersta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMTony Award winner Cyndi Lauper reveals that her original score for Broadway's KINKY BOOTS was inspired by her son and husband, David Thornton.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMThis play about capital punishment is more topical than some might care to admit, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:43AMAaron Sidwell and Ashleigh Gray are among those on the album
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:39AMC. P. Taylor's World War II story highlighted by fine acting at Westport Country Playhouse
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AMWhile not considered one the Bard’s richest works or given the most revelatory treatment, The Comedy of Errors makes for ideal picnic blanket theatre in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company&…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03AMOn last night's I CAN DO THAT on NBC, Nicole Scherzinger West End's CATS and Joe Jonas took over the roles of 'Kate Monster' and 'Nicky' with Darren Bluestone playing 'Rod' in the AVENUE Q n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03AMM.I.T.'s Sean Collier Memorial does not make a full-bodied artistic statement -- it does not elicit a strongly felt aesthetic or visceral reaction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:03AMAlistair McGowan's uncanny portrayal of the DJ and TV kids champion cum paedophile and necrophiliac truly chills with six decades of abuse and those that knew what he was doing but did nothi…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:01AMThis streamlined production is an introduction to Shakespeare's lighter side. It's resourceful, entertaining and, most of all, accessible to all ages and any budget.
SOURCE: at 08:01AMa staging that is seriously in search of excitement or any presence of wizardry
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Royal Court, Londondebbie tucker green’s play sits at the sharp end of the capital punishment question, but the drama would be heightened by a greater sense of moral doubt Related: Mariann…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMSteven Berkoff has attacked the development of a “no-go zone” for white actors, in which they are unable to play traditionally black
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMJustin Audibert's production opens in Eastbourne in August
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:32AMThe I'm Alan Partridge star talks dressing as a Spanish waiter, Mark Rylance in Jerusalem and his time in Jeeves and Wooster
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:32AMJascha Heifetz plays the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto on a 1949 episode of The Bell Telephone Hour, accompanied by Donald Voorhees and a studio orchestra: (This is the l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AM“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, discarded preface for Animal Farm (written in 1945, published in 1972)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMTwo decades worth of hits, innumerable studio albums, scandals, image revamps, an unwavering rock and roll lifestyle and delusions of grandeur. This could describe several well-known rock ba…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AM
No contemporary playwright has taken a scalpel to the so-called morality and hypocrisy of modern-day America with the same efficiency – never mind, glee – as Bruce Norris.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 12:40AMIn many ways, Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” has always struck me as sort of a fractured fairy-tale, with its magician/protagonist Prospero, at its center, shape-shifting spirits, gruesom…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 12:40AMLast night, acclaimed director Todd Graff unexpectedly announced plans to film a follow-up to 2003 cult favorite theatre-themed movie musical CAMP titled CAMP 2 FREAKS IN NATURE set to featu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25AMOn Your Feet!, the new musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan, officially opens June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStephen Adly Guirgis' 2011 Tony-nominated Broadway play The Motherf**ker with the Hat officially opens at London's National Theatre June 17, following previews that began June 10…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAdam Kaplan, who was seen on Broadway in Newsies, stars in Flat Rock Playhouse's production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which begins performances June 17 on the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Vineyard Theatre stages the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria, which officially opens Off-Broadway June 17. Featured in the cast is In the Heights and Fortress…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1943 George Marion, Jr. and Thomas "Fats" Waller's Early to Bed — the first musical comedy of the 1943-1944 season — opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Descr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwice a year the British monarch offers recognition to the great and good of British society in a series of Honors that are presented, from Knighthoods to OBE's: In January, they are cal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs part of Playbill's 30 Days of Pride, Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots star Billy Porter reflects on the influence of actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein.
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 audi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Public's production of Shakespeare's last romance plays on themes of master and servant.
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