Lincoln Center Theater, New YorkIt stars Patti LuPone in a gold lamé gown, but this story of a young gay man discovering life in the theatre lacks nuance and heartPatti LuPone is now in her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56PMThe seventh annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards Jimmy Awardswere held tonight, June 29, 2015, at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. This one-of-a-kind-event was hosted by two-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49PMHundreds of people filled Beverly Canon Gardens on Thursday evening, June 25 to honor actress June Lockhart on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Gary Greene, Esq. and His Big Band of Barris…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49PMMarla Louissaint representing New York City-based The Gershwin Awards and Anthony Skillman, representing the Los Angeles-based M.A.C.Y. Awards were chosen as Best Actress and Best Ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18PMDarren Criss and Megan Hilty join a starry cast for a HAIR gem
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04PMHow a community theater in Reading, Pennsylvania makes a Tony-nominated playwright.
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The traveling San Francisco Shakespeare Festival production plays in Livermore, Cupertino, Redwood City and San Francisco
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:57PMBroadway Records announced today the official digital download release of The Visit available tomorrow,June 30th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, June 29, 2015 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway CURIOUS INCIDENT star Alex Sharp talks Tony Awar…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:45PMAnother play about the coming of age of an artistically inclined boy? Bor-ring. Douglas Carter Beane tries to minimize the ho-hum factor in “Shows for Days,” his own entry into…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44PMMarnie Quick of Pittsburgh Barack Obama Academy made it to the top three finalists in a return trip to the National High School Musical Theatre Awards Monday night at Broadway’s Minskoff T…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:35PMMichael Cerveris steps in for Sutton Foster to host the National High School Musical Theatre Awards.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:29PM'A Midsummer Night's Dream' got a new twist on the tale with a bilingual puppet show.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:29PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Community theater gets a lot of knocks for being amateurish, but Douglas Carter Beane may have elevated it to sympathetic comedic heights with his new play "Shows For Da…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:29PMBrooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMDouglas Carter Beane’s new play, at Lincoln Center, draws on his memories of working at a community playhouse as a teenager.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMTime after time, ROMY AND MICHELE are back
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04PMYou say typecasting, I say playing to an actor’s strengths. And the new comedy “Shows for Days” plays to Patti LuPone’s strengths to the power of a gazillion. The role...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PM
Shows for Days is closer, in style and genre, to Joseph Stein's 1963 adaptation of Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing. But that play--which launched the acting career of Alan Arkin and the direct…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56PMBackstage theater-memory plays tend to have an inbuilt charm, especially tales of the moment when adolescents first realize they were meant to be actors/playwrights/directors/sometimes even …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:54PMFor a female standup, drunken abuse and misogyny are all in a night's work. So why does Jo Brand subject herself to it? And what's with all the fat jokes?This article has been removed as our…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46PMShows For Days is a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jerry Zaks. with a six-member cast including Patti LuPone and Michael Urie, based on the Beane’s fond memories of his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46PMIn “Happy Days,” Samuel Beckett’s bleak but compassionate 1961 play being given a witty, compelling production at The Flea, Brooke Adams as Winnie is buried in a mound of dirt, sometim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMControversial production of Guillaume Tell heckled while the music plays
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:10PMWould that we could all face life with the sunny optimism of Winnie in “Happy Days.” Buried up to her chest in a mound of earth under a blazing sun...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PMMichael Urie stands in for playwright Douglas Carter Beane in this remembrance of his community theater roots, with Patti LuPone as the company’s indomitable diva.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Lincoln Center TheaterpresentsPatti LuPone,Dale Soules,Michael Urie,Jordan Dean,Lance Coadie Williams, and Zoe Winters inShows For Days, a new play byDouglas Carter Beane, directed byJerry Z…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57PMMaddie Peat exudes excitement and energy. The 20-year-old dancer is clearly thrilled to play one of the leading roles, Penny Johnson, in Dirty Dancing. Fresh from last year’s So You Think …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:49PMVariety writes that Jack Carter -- WW II vet, comedian, actor, Broadway star, cabaret performer, variety show host, director and more -- died due to respiratory failure on June 28, 2015 at h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27PMIt's back: The Hypocrites is now performing its revised remount of "All Our Tragic" - director Sean Graney's awe-inspiring 12-hour adaptation of all 32 of the surviving ancient Greek tragedi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:21PMI do a lot of talking about how marketing is the business of everyone in the organization, not just the department bearing that name. Everybody needs to be invested in the organization and i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:18PMThe scheming. The backbiting. The feuds. The trysts. Making theatre has never been for the faint of heart or the delicate of constitution, but — oh, sorry, did you think I was referring to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMDrawing participants from around the world, Tap City has been a place to share new ideas and collaborate on new productions in celebration of a vibrant and diverse global tap community. “T…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM
Is Anton Chekhov rolling over in his grave in the Moscow cemetery where he was buried in 1904, at the far too young age of 44? Or, having caught wind of Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Soni…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:59PMA comic’s comic as familiar to television audiences across the decades as he was to Vegas rollers and Broadway denizens, Jack Carter died at home in Beverly Hills on June 28 of respira…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:49PM10 days until Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan rock out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMThe SPELLING BEE cast is back together at last
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMKristin Chenoweth shows love for the FDNY
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMI bet you think you know exactly who Ben Brantley is, don’t you? You’ve read him for years, and in your mind, you’ve come up with some character to go along with his all-i…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 07:18PMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending June 28th, 2015.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 07:18PM“Deathtrap” Set to Thrill Stockbridge The Berkshire Theatre Group presents Ira Levin’s Tony Award-nominated Deathtrap (July 1-25) at its Stockbridge campus. A record holder for Broadwa…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:17PMManhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of Of Good Stock, the new play by Melissa Ross, directed by MTC’s award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, opens tomorrow night, Tuesday, …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 07:17PMThe Whitefire Theatre in fabulous Sherman Oaks (the heart of the San Fernando Valley theater and auto repair district) is staging a night of three TV pilots that never made it to air. One i…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 07:17PMCall Answered: Live from 54 Below, "Call Me Adam" chats with Michael McCormick and Lucia Spina about starring in "54 Sings 1776" which is returning to 54 Below this July 4 & 5 at 7pm and…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 07:17PMRajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj, which recently extended at the Atlantic Theater Company, is an unexpected mix of brutality, comedy and suspense. He is perhaps best known for his play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:16PMYou'll totally need an RSVP for this.
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:12PMThen what is it about??
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:12PMThis production shows us that Happy Days is most decidedly a play for our time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PM
Cabaret, as a beating-heart underground art form, has its roots in politics, provocation, and rebellion – intimacy and authenticity without formality. It wasn’t until the end of the 2015…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:50PMThe original creator talks BEACHES
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PM“The play does have all the hallmarks of a legitimate Shakespeare and Fletcher collaboration.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30PMTwo theatre stars tribute classic pride duet
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMThe Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park is possibly the perfect setting for Shakespeare’s most colourful and bewitching play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Amongst the fragrant folds of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02PMThe Southwark Playhouse is a venue I always look forward to visiting, simply due to its consistency in the talent that is produced there. The spaces inside, both The Little and The Large, ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02PMThe Trial, written by Franz Kafka and adapted in this production at the Young Vic by Nick Gill, is a surreal and fascinating play. The Young Vic is transformed by this production. The audie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02PMThe comedy is inspired by John Buchan's novel and Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe new play will take the place of My Big Gay Italian Wedding at St. Luke's Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMCultural identity sparks feud in Joshua Harmon's dark comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
The Streamys, the pre-eminent awards for online video, are in the nomination phase and the new web series IT TAKEIS TWO from sci-fi legend and gay-rights icon George Takei and his husband Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Billy Magnussen: From Kato to Cocaine
Tony nominee Billy Magnussen has been tapped to star in the FX pilot for Snowfall, a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMAll hail the queen: “The Audience,” the Broadway show that recently won Helen Mirren a Tony for her return to the role of the Queen of England, packed a walloping box office punc…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMAdventure Theatre, MTC begins its summer with everyone’s favorite cool but grumpy cat, Garfield, with Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude. This enthusiastic musical has the stamp of appro…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:29PMCan you believe it's been almost 28 years since the original production of Into the Woods opened on Broadway Seems like only yesterday my mother was dragging a 6-year-old me, literally kicki…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMDisney's Aladdin, the Tony Award-winning new musical comedy based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, is now in its second smash year on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre 214 Wes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMAccording to the New York Times, Henry Holt will publish Todd S. Purdum's 'Rodgers and Hammerstein' in 2018- the 75th anniversary of the composing team's first musical, Oklahoma. The biograp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 6292015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMBroadwayWorld has intelligence from MI-6 headquarters that Placeholder Productions has secured the rights to JAMES BOND THE MUSICAL.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld's The Broadway Ticket Buying Guide. Below, you will find weekly updates on full priced tickets, discounts, availability for the hottest productions, and locations fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMPlaybill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMHere’s a question for you Angelenos: What has a 2000 person workforce, puts on more shows than any other theatre festival in the country, runs for over three weeks in June in dozens of…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:12PMThe 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival ended last night after crowning this year’s award winners at the annual Award Ceremony and Closing Night Party. Over 650 people attended the event. �…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:12PMIn its final week on Broadway, the play, which starred Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, racked up $1,425,523.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PMAudra McDonald recently performed a concert with the New York Pops at world famous Carnegie Hall. The audience was in for a special treat that night as she reached into her songbook and brou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMAudra McDonald recently performed a concert at Carnegie Hall with music director and pianist Andy Einhorn, bassist Mark Vanderpoel, and drummer Gene Lewin. The audience was in for a special …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMThe composer succeeds Gretchen Cryer in the role.
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Assembly Rooms, EdinburghYou often kill the thing you love, and in the toilets of a Hollywood nightclub where the hotel heiress is due to arrive at any minute the smell of Paris envy mingles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:58PMLooked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:58PMAs producers ramp up efforts to grow the international audience (the latest effort is aimed at Brazilians who prefer Bergdorf’s, Bendel’s and Bloomingdale’s to Broadway), s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:54PMSomething Rotten! leading lady Heidi Blickenstaff and her husband Nicholas Rohlfing are organizing a Broadway Bikes fundraising event Oct. 4 in New York City, to benefit Bike MS: New York 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMHow did Andrew Russell bring this venerable resident theatre back from the brink of debt and dysfunction? Slowly, carefully---and locally.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:44PMTony winner Helen Mirren took her final bow in The Audience on June 28 at the Schoenfeld Theatre, and theatergoers showered her with oodles of riches. Well, $1,425,523, to be exact. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PMOlivier and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone stars as a headstrong community theatre diva in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's semi-autobiographical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PMMale Exposure — B Side, photographer Roberto Araujo's examination of the "Sexy Side of Broadway," is on display June 30-July 7 at G Lounge & Gallery in Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMPlays by the Portland native, including 'The Call,' 'Blue Door,' and 'Bright Half Life,' are on the slate.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:19PMEverybody say, YEAH The Canadian premiere of the Tony Award-winning KINKY BOOTS officially opened on June 28 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, after playing previews since June 16.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMJeremy Jordan addresses his FINDING NEVERLAND exit
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that The Dramatists Guild Fund, the charitable arm of The Dramatists Guild of America,has elected Tony nominee Andrew Lippa as its new president, succeeding Gretc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMSex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man, the hit comedy written by Matt Murphy, based on the best-selling book by Dan Anderson and Maggie Berman, will soon welcomecomedian and YouTube sta…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMRonald Keaton, who adapted and stars in this one-man show, gives a compelling portrayal of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill in this warm, witty, engaging and entertaining show.
SOURCE: drtomstevens.blogspot.com at 04:09PMFrom Frank N Furter to king of Spamalot, via voiceovers - and some turkeysIt was 1968, and a young Tim Curry was in the gods at London's Palace Theatre looking down at Judi Dench as Sally Bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMDear theater-goer, as “The Titus Andronicus Project” at The Public House Theatre demonstrates, never pay good money to see any theatrical production with the word “project” in its ti…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMPresent Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's musical in your own hometown...Eventually.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Welcome 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!
Rea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMRodgers & Hammerstein, a new biography by the veteran journalist and acclaimed author Todd S. Purdum, about the extraordinary eighteen-year partnership of musical theater legends Richard Rod…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 03:56PMBy Kate Kremer. In this installation, Kate Kremer continues her exploration of durational theatre and what it has to do with realism.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:56PMTony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally and producer Tom Kirdahy tied the knot (again) in celebration of the United States Supreme Court's historic ruling, making same-sex…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMThe Canadian premiere of the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots officially opened June 28 following previews that began June 16 at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMBehind the scenes of WAITRESS THE MUSICAL
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMA standout from Something Rotten is trying out a new musical
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMManhattan Theatre Club presets the New York premiere of Of Good Stock, the new play byMelissa RossThinner Than Water, Too Much Too Soon, directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic DirectorLynn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMA special on-location THEATER TALK features a warm and revealing interview with legendary acting coach and off-Broadway producer Wynn Handman, former Artistic Director and Co-Founder of The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 6282015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMWelcome 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 03:34PMAudra McDonald, who won a record-breaking sixth Tony Award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, gave a solo concert April 29 at Carnegie Hall, which has made a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMThe Dramatists Guild Fund, the charitable arm of the playwrights' union The Dramatists Guild of America, has announced that composer Andrew Lippa (Big Fish, I Am Harvey Milk, The Addams …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMThe 7th Annual National High School Musical Theater Awards, also known as the Jimmy Awards, are held June 29. Nominees Audrey McKee and Alec Michael Ryan blog about their week in New York Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM"Gotta Dance," the Broadway-bound new musical about a senior-citizen dance team, has lined up a cast that includes Stefanie Powers, Georgia Engel, Lillias White and Andre DeShields.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:26PMCheck out the newest specs on the Finding Neverland original Broadway cast recording
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMStaged readings for the 2015National Playwrights Conferencebegin this week at theEugene O'Neill Theater Center. Under leadership from Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg in her 11th season, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMHector Berlioz felt a strong connection to Virgil’s epic poem Aeneid and so when he began to compose his opera The Trojans / Les Troyens, based on Books 2 & 4 of the poem, it was a lab…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:03PMPlaying a stage-struck Führer in the great Mel Brooks number “Springtime for Hitler,” Jason Graae beams like a rocket headed straight for showbiz heaven. The eyes twinkle and the smile …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMThe classic musical features Iconis and members of his musical-theater performance "family."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMJennifer Mudge and Heather Lind star as Silverstone's siblings.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley opened this weekend at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, and is directed by Patrick Pase and produced by Julie Rogers. Maureen Rogers is the Executive Pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child will debut in London's West End next year
SOURCE: time.com at 02:47PMBroadwayWorld has learned that Samuel French, the world's premier theatrical publishing and licensing company, has landed theperformance rights of the ground-breaking hit musical Fun Home, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMBernadette Peters is back with a host of furry, cuddly friends for Broadway Barks. The 17th annual pet adoption event, founded by Peters and Mary Tyler Moore, will take place on July 11 in S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:22PMThe initial casting for Gotta Dance, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the critically acclaimed 2008 documentary about professional basketball's first ever aged 60-and-older dance team…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMThe Broadway runs of WOLF HALL PARTS 1 amp 2's will officially come to an end this weekend.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMTickets for SYLVIA, a modern romantic comedy about a midlife crisis, empty nesters, commitment, therapists, and a dog who is life-changing are now on saleat www.telecharge.com or by calling …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMTony nominee Billy Magnussen will star in John Singleton's upcoming FX drama SNOWFALL.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMSamuel French, the world’s premier theatrical publishing and licensing company, has announced its representation for performance rights of the ground-breaking hit musical Fun Home, winner …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:14PMTickets are now available to see the first Broadway production of the musical comedy Dames at Sea. Inspired by the movie musicals of the 1930s, Dames at Sea is the story of Ruby, a tap dance…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:03PMCasting has been announced for the eight new plays being developed this summer at the annual National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThe annual pet adopt-a-thon takes place in Shubert Alley.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMHere's what to look out for in the program's 31st season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Actor, writer and co-founder of 7:84, the touring company that left an indelible mark on British theatreElizabeth MacLennan, who has died of leukaemia aged 77, was an actor, writer and one o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMI was a student at the London School of Economics from 1949 until 1952, at the time that Ron Moody took part in a student revue. One of his sketches was a double-act impersonation of Groucho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMShe writes plays for 100 actors with impossible stage directions. She even pens plays that self-destruct. Playwright Moira Buffini on the debt she owes to the great Caryl Churchill Related: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMManhattan Theater Club, New YorkThe jokes about pickles might be contemporary, but everything else is wearyingly familiar in Melissa Ross’s play about three sisters gathering for a weekend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMStephen Daldry, Max Stafford-Clark, Lyndsey Turner and more on the challenges and triumphs that come with staging Churchill’s workCaryl Churchill: the playwright’s finest hours Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMThe theatremaker behind An Oak Tree, Adler and Gibb and I, Malvolio says he's tired of being labelled a radical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:46PM"I need stories by women on stage because..."
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 01:37PM“If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.” Or so the song says. If you were to apply that wisdom to “Matawan,” the latest from The Ruckus, you might throw in germs, po…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:35PMJill Hyem was an actress and writer who co-created the popular radio serial Waggoner’s Walk and later became a prominent television writer,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMThirty years after their New York premiere and 40 years after they first started as a team,Penn amp TellerOn Broadway will be a rare opportunity for New Yorkers and tourists to see the popul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMBROADWAY BARKSannounces their 17thannual star-studded dog and cat adoption event to benefit New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies. Founded byBernadette PetersandMary Tyler Moor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMFranz Kafka’s novella “The Trial” gets the Richard Jones treatment at the Young Vic — that is to say, the director whizzes it into a far-out psychedelic loop-de-loop tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMOn Your Feet!, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan, pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMTony winner Lillias White, Tony nominee André De Shields, Emmy nominee Stefanie Powers and more will star in the Broadway-bound musical Gotta Dance. Performances will begin at Chicago…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMThe Big Gay Italian saga continues. After a wedding and a funeral, Anthony J. Wilkinson’s My Big Gay Italian Mid Life Crisis will play off-Broadway this fall. Performances will begin a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMDawson’s Creek favorite James Van Der Beek took a break from filming CSI: Cyber to catch the raucous Broadway comedy Hand to God at the Booth Theatre on June 28, 2015. Click for photos…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMReal-life couple Mario Cantone and Jerry Dixon and Tony nominee Malcolm Gets will star in the previously announced world premiere of Mark Gerrard’s Steve. Tony and Emmy winner Cynthia …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMAntaeus Theatre Company has mounted a gut-wrenching and time-traveling revival of Picnic.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 01:13PMSir Derek Jacobi and Sir Ian McKellen, both openly gay English actors currently co-starring in the PBS series 'Vicious,' served as this year's Grand Marshals for NYC'sannual Gay Pride March.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMRoundabout Theatre Company's ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'sTony Award winning Director and choreographer Warren Carlylecelebrated Friday's historic Supreme Court rulling on marriage equality
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMAriana Grande performed a mashup of Whitney Houston's 'I'm Every Woman' and Madonna's 'Vogue' at NYC Gay Pride's Dance on the Pier. Check out the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMHistory was made June 26 when the Supreme Court of the United States declared same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. Dustin Lance Black, a pioneer in the fight for equality, reflects …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe 2015 New York Musical Theatre is upon us and to get you ready, Theater in the Now is giving you a little glimpse into the 22 full production of this year’s festival! NYMF runs from Jul…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:00PMThe show will also feature a host of Broadway luminaries including Tony winner Lillias White.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMJoaquina Kalukango and Talene Monahon join the upcoming production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The 17th annual Broadway Barks fundraiser — the star-studded dog and cat adoption event to benefit New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies founded by Bernadette Pet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMFlea Theater, New YorkMarried for 23 years, Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams pour themselves into Beckett’s drama about a couple trapped in an implacable, sun-baked presentTony Shalhoub and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMBrooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkHis WTF podcast made him world-famous, but the comic’s self-loathing persona remains intact in a smart and heartfelt show“So, fuck, right?” is how Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMThe Cherry Sisters’ “variety act included original music, bass drum thumping, poetry, mouth harp playing, inspirational recitations, essay reading, fake hypnosis and other artist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:45PMRUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL entertained the crowd on Fran Drescher's New York Harbor cruise to kick off Gay Pride Week last Sunday, June 21st. A benefit for Cancer Schmancer, the floating party wa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PM“Gotta Dance,” the Broadway-bound new musical about a senior-citizen dance team, has lined up a cast that includes Stefanie Powers, Georgia Engel, Lillias White and Andre DeShiel…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMIt's that time of year again Later tonightdozens of kids from across the country will gather to compete for the ultimate prize- Best Performance by an Actor and Actress atthe National High S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMBelow, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for the week of June 29- July 5, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMBroadway, celebrities, police, politicians and a host of colorful revelers took to the streets this weekend to celebrate NYC Pride 2015, just two days after the Supreme Court's historic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM“The vast majority of plays are distinctly average. They are fairly well written, fairly well acted and fairly well staged. But they do not reflect how people actually speak because di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PMIt was a Frasier reunion backstage at Finding Neverland on June 28! Tony winner David Hyde Pierce visited his pal Kelsey Grammer at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre—click for photos of the st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMCalling all Glee fans: Mr. Schue and Blaine are hanging out in NYC! Matthew Morrison and Darren Criss are both currently on Broadway in Finding Neverland and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, respe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMBroadway alum Joaquina Kalukango has joined the cast of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party at New York City Center. She takes over for the previously announced Ciara Renee as Kate. Addition…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PM
Press photograph of Frank Sinatra, ca. 1946
The Sinatra: An American Icon exhibition has many wonderful media stations for visitors—songs, excerpts from television specia…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:14PMTHE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS NHSMTAJIMMY AWARDS just announced that two-time Tony Award-winner, celebrated actor MICHAEL CERVERIS will host the seventh annual awards cerem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMTerry Teachout, drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, playwright, librettist, and biographer, will add another title to his impressive list of accomplishments when he makes his directori…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe new musical GOTTA DANCE will take its first steps with an all-star cast.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMBelow, watch this 'Bring Him Home' super-cut, featuring performances from two acclaimed Jean Valjeans, Alfie Boe and Ramin Karimloo.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMCiara Renee and Kimiko Glenn have officially withdrawn from Encores Off-Center's upcoming production of Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY due to scheduling conflicts, BroadwayWorld has confirmed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMBarrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, will present Neil Simon's award-winning comedyLost in Yonkersfrom July…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe Muny presents Hairspray, winner of the 2003 Tony Award for Best Musical, featuring music by Marc Shaiman ampScott Wittmanwith a book by Mark O'Donnell amp Thomas Meehan. The Muny's produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe New Group produces Mark Gerrard's new drama at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
His name made Charles Dickens howl and Thomas Carlyle dismissed him as a ‘swollen gambler’ but George Hudson has almost been written out of history. A new steam-powered show keeps track …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMComposer Sara Bareilles recently appeared on "A Prairie Home Companion" to talk about her upcoming musical Waitress, which will make its debut at the The American Repertory Theater…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMThe Entertainment Artistes’ Benevolent Fund has changed its name to the Royal Variety Charity. The charity, which helps support people who have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMJoaquina Kalukango and Talene Monahon have replaced Ciara Renée and Kimiko Glenn, respectively, in the Encores! Off-Center staging of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMThe prize is open to young people under 25
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:45AM"Hate is very strong, but love is stronger," she told the audience, connecting the ruling to her own marriage.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:40AMThis afternoon on Turner Classic Movies, the Gildersleeve comedies. Radio comedian Harold “Hal” Peary (1908-1985) created his popular radio character Throckmorton Gildersleeve on…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:39AMToday marks the anniversary of the release date of the Wheeler and Woolsey comedy Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934), directed by Jay Sandrich. This is rated one of the team’s best comedies, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:39AMAt any given museum, the artists at the museum aren't just the ones whose work is on the walls. Many artists work behind the scenes, in the museum office as preparators, education directors,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:38AMProducers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke have announced initial casting and creative team for Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMCan you believe that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is back again in a few weeks? Neither can we. For the last four years we’ve run the Edinburgh Young Critics Scheme where we bring a g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:32AMA production of Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ben Forster that was due to play in Athens has been cancelled due to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AM"Gotta Dance," the new Broadway-bound musical with a Chicago tryout this winter, has announced its cast.
The post New musical ‘Gotta Dance’ announces cast appeared first on Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:26AMIn anticipation of his concert at the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival, award-winning musical theatre writer Joel B. New sat down with Jen Bender, NYMF's Director of Programming and Ar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMDito Montiel's 'Boulevard' - the last film starring Robin Williams - will enjoy its European premiere on July 12, opening the 13th Annual Ischia Global Film amp Music Fest.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMBend It Like Beckham at the Phoenix Theatre is a vibrant new show based on the 2001 film of the same name and is bought to the stage by the same creative team of director Gurinder Chadha and…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:21AMI’m often weary of seeing a show more than once - I feel like nothing can ever be as good the second time as the excitement and suspense is often gone because you know exactly what will ha…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:21AMBased on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play by Jack Thorne, will receive its world premiere in London’s West…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:21AM Click on me! Are you a 90’s girl? Does AS IF mean anything to you? If so, you can see the fantastic movie star in a great play at MTC. REALLY! “AS IF” and she is ver…
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 11:16AMAs soon as I hear a mention of the word “summer”, I immediately think about how much more theatre I can pack in to my weeks of freedom. Sometimes though, it can be pretty overwhelming wh…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:15AMAlso: Ensemble LPR and Simone Dinnerstein perform a free concert at the Naumburg Bandshell
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:15AMNEW YORK (AP) -- A biography of Rodgers and Hammerstein, written with the cooperation of the late Broadway team's publishing arm, will be come out in 2018....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:15AMMultiplatinum-selling and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Elton John (he’s also won an Oscar and a Tony) is founder of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AMJesse Tyler Ferguson stars in ABC’s “Modern Family.” In September 2012, he and Justin Mikita started Tie the Knot, and the two married in 2013. “Modern Family” is a game-change…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AMWhat's the hottest ticket in London this summer? Elementary. It is, of course, Benedict Cumberbatch in "Hamlet," opening at The Barbican on Aug. 25. This landmark theatrical event is in such…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:11AMTwo-time Tony winner Michael Cerveris has replaced the previously reported two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as host of The National High School Musical Theatre Awards/Jimmy Awards,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMTerry Teachout, the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal who has championed regional theater as a major force on the national level, will make his directorial debut next spring helming P…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AMBroadway newcomer Laiona Michelle talks Amazing Grace and the story behind her fabulous hairstyle.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:03AMThirty years after their New York premiere, Penn & Teller On Broadway will be a rare opportunity for New Yorkers and tourists alike to see the popular duo during their six week limited e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMFollowing the June 26 landmark decision by the Supreme Court that gives gay and lesbian citizens the right to marry in all 50 states, two Broadway stars gave passionate curtain-call spee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMNewsies' Ben Fankhauser and On The Town's Phillip Boykin star in the Music Circus production of Big River, based on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMNewsies' Ben Fankhauser and On The Town's Phillip Boykin star in the Music Circus production of Big River, based on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMTony Award nominee Emily Skinner, who will perform Broadway, Her Way on June 30 at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, celebrates her birthday June 29. Playbill.com takes a look at her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMThe Helen Hayes Award winner for The Book of Mormon will appear at 54 Below.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMCorey Cott, Kara Lindsay, and more will participate in the concert event at 54 Below.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
The 'Billy Elliot' composer, who founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation, reflects on the Supreme Court decision last week to legalize same sex marriage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMAtlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group, Ten Bridges Media Corp., and Robert Stigwood Organisation, the producers behind the new Asian Tour of the West End and Broadway hit musical SATURDAY …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMOn August 24th, cast members from the Broadway hit Newsies will reunite on the stage of 54 Below, exactly 1 year after closing. Audience members can expect to hear a variety of styles of mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMSignificant Other
Off Broadway, Laura Pels Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company
Reviewed by Shani R. Friedman
BOTTOM LINE: A tight ensemble and funny writing don’t quite make up for underd…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:56AMTony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Judy Kaye, as well as Matt Doyle, Morgan James and Randy Harrison, will join the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies for their Aug. 1 show at J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMAll aboard! Schooners, seafaring, and whale hunting are recurring themes this week onstage from coast to coast.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:49AMCast members from the long run of the Broadway musical Newsies will hold a pair of reunion concerts Aug. 24 at 54 Below nightclub in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM"I dreamed I was 52 and unmarried," says Sonia, one of the trio of siblings in Christopher Durang's very droll new comedy featuring the middle-aged children of a pair of academics, literary …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:41AMPrimary Stages announced that Tina Benko (Irena's Vow, Top Girls, The Real Thing) has joined the cast of Deborah Zoe Laufer's Informed Consent, which will play a limited engagement…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMThe production was due to form part of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival next month
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:34AM39 Steps opened to rave reviews on April 13, 2015 at the Union Square Theatre 100 East 17th Street,featuringoriginal Broadway cast memberArnie Burtonreprising his role of Clown 2,Billy Carte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMThirty years after their New York premiere and 40 years after they first started as a team,Penn amp TellerOn Broadway will be a rare opportunity for New Yorkers and tourists to see the popul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMConnecticut Repertory Theatre CRT presents Peter Pan, a musical based on the play by SirJ.M. Barrieas its second production of the 2015 Nutmeg Summer Series. Check out this fun video of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMThe Stephen Sondheim Society has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an evening celebrating the acclaimed composer's 85th birthday at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre in Lond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThe award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, marked its second anniversary with a gala performance and party for cas…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:12AMRECOMMENDED One might think that Sean Graney’s title for his play/adaptation/mashup/opus “All Our Tragic” is a bit of playful hyperbole. But nope. It’s all in there. From Prometheus …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:05AM
In a turnabout from its previous musical that offered the relatively sober Carousel, Olney Theatre Center, in the midst of its 77th season, is currently mounting the gregarious, laugh-a-minu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:48AMKatie Dean on Wildcat! at JACK, June 11-14.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:45AMHappy Birthday Emily Skinner Emily Skinner was nominated for a Best Actress TONY Award for the Original Broadway Production of Side Show. Other Broadway credits include the original casts of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMWhether reinventing a show or faithfully restoring it, revivals are integral to the theatregoing experience
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:25AMPlaywright James Rushbrooke has won this year’s Papatango New Writing Prize. The award is presented to a production that has not previously
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMAylesbury College has become the latest further education institution to announce the closure of its performing arts courses. The performing arts and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMThe Music Man is Charm City Players’ summer production that is sure to dazzle and delight all ages. With Book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Wilson, The Music Man is based on a story writ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AMNew Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeInspired by the 2009 discovery of the Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure, this festival puts the ancient kingdom of Mercia back on the map Relat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:21AMIf one were to have asked Ryan Link what he envisioned for his life while in his early 20s, he would have never answered anything to do with Broadway or the theater, but here he is at an age…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMPlaywright Stephen Spotswood give you a peek backstage at a fading burlesque house. ———————— “Yeah, I think all of this can be represented i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMFault Line Theatre's Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Perlman's "At the Table" at HERE Arts Center conjures culturally eclectic conversation among a group of characters in their thirti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:11AMThere's a party happening every day at The Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto - and that party is the Canadian production of Kinky Boots which opened Sunday night. The mostly Canadian cast, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMGood 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 Patti LuPone returns to the stage in S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMBroadwayWorld's Alan Henry was at the opening night red carpet of KINKY BOOTS in Toronto Check out our red carpet interviews with Cyndi Lauper, Daryl Roth, Jerry Mitchell, and moreEverybody …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMAt the end of my play, It’s What We Do, Ilan, an Israeli Defense Forces soldier, says: “I’m standing guard at a post, aiming my weapon at everyone. You know what image comes to mind …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01AMI have big news. The simplest and best way to break it is to reprint the following press release from Florida’s Palm Beach Dramaworks, which went out this morning. It speaks for itself, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM“It’s a bit like replacing a football manager at the top of his game,” says Nigel Hugill, chairman of the Royal Shakespeare
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Variety reports that The O.C., Fox's teen drama that bred a cult fan base in the mid-2000s, is receiving the musical treatment (no, not the Turkish version, though that was fun). The plot is…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:45AMLincoln Center Theater presents Patti LuPone, Dale Soules, Michael Urie, Jordan Dean, Lance Coadie Williams, and Zoe Winters in Shows For Days, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, directed b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMGreetings from St. Louis, MO, home of the incredible theatrical and cultural institution, the MUNY, and my in-laws, the Donnells
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMStaging is a key element to setting up the place and plot for the story. I remember vividly the wonderful and mesmerizing experience I had watching the West End production of The Curious In…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:36AMTina Fey, Tituss Burgess, Kristin Chenoweth, Rachel Crow, Antwone Fisher, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Janice Huff, Jane Krakowski, Alec Mapa, Andrea McArdle, Patina Miller, Rosie O'Donnell, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMThe National High School Musical Theatre Awards NHSMTAJimmy Awardswelcomes stage and screen star Sutton Fosteras host of the seventh annual awards ceremony tonight, June 29th, at 730PM at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMTonight, June 29th at 9pm, to celebrate this living legend, HBO will air its documentary Larry Kramer In Love amp Anger starring the polarizing and provocative playwright and gay rights amp …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMThe Spitfire Grill, a musical based on the 1986 film of the same name that was seen Off-Broadway in a production by Playwrights' Horizons at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street in 2001, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AMThe West End premiere of the Tony-winning show stars Matt Henry and Killian Donnelly
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:19AMWhen I asked Alexandra Petri if she had any plays in the works that I might want to direct in the Capital Fringe Festival, one of the stories she mentioned was especially intriguing. This st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AMMichael MustoMoviesMichael MustoJohnny Hazzard has gone legit! At 37, the porn actor from films like When Bears Attack and London Spunked acquits himself very well in Tiger Orange, a dramati…
SOURCE: Out at 08:04AMThe roots of the comedy western genre are surprisingly early. Casual movie fans are apt to think the genesis might lay with Laurel and Hardy’s Way Out West (1937) or, God forbid, M…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AM
Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30AMAn excerpt from Peter Brook’s 1969 film of King Lear, starring Paul Scofield as Lear, Jack MacGowran as the Fool, and Irene Worth as Goneril: (This is the latest in a series of arts-relate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMGreenwich and Docklands festival, LondonFull of pyrotechnics, Periplum’s large-scale production reworks Fahrenheit 451 for the modern worldWe may be a long way from burning books, but we a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM“Glamour is a trap if you go just for that. It does not develop the ability. At first when one starts acting one is really searching for an identity. Work is really the sole means of an ed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
Of all the art forms, theatre has been most attentive to the story of HIV/AIDS. Leading the way in America there was Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985) and Tony Kushner’s Angels in A…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:51AMSohoSolo Season at Soho Theatre Until Saturday 25 July 215 Following last year’s critically acclaimed SohoSolo season, Soho Theatre has invited some of the best solo shows they could fin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:26AMThe birthday of one of the most famous names in theatre is being marked by a gala this year in London. The 85th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, the playwright behind such hits as Sweeny Todd a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:26AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
As with so many theatres of a certain age, the bar at the Theatre Royal is proudly lined with photos of bygone productions from the golden age of repertory theatre; and t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:26AMWith an unfocused and poorly written book, a disappointing score and an altogether bewildering story line, Bring It On did not have much to sell it to begin with. Unfortunately, this new pro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:21AMClive Anderson hosts a "hilarious show of skill, songs and silliness"
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:03AMEamon Flack's production examines the escalation of riots following the death of a man in police custody
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:03AM
There have been some super cool things that have happened for Asian Americans in the past few weeks – let’s start off with the biggest – TFP is very, very, very happy she h…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 12:41AMMy birthday this year took on extra significance, as the Supreme Court of the United States selected that day to rule that all people had an equal and unalienable right to marry whomever the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36AMToday, BroadwayWorld kicks off a brand new interview series titled HOW I GOT THE JOB shining a special solo spotlight on a performer in which they share candid recollections and revisit the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, June 28, 2015 - Sunday, June 28, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMTony Award nominee Emily Skinner, who will perform Broadway, Her Way on June 30 at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, celebrates her birthday June 29. Playbill.com takes a look at her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLittle Shop of Horrors began its life Off-Off Broadway as an Equity showcase at the WPA Theatre before becoming a smash hit Off-Broadway at the Orpheum in the East Village. Come flip…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 52 high-school students who make up the finalists of the National High School Musical Theatre Awards/Jimmy Awards are performing at a ceremony at the Minskoff Theatre in New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Larry Kramer In Love & Anger," a new documentary film about the gay rights and health activist who authored the Tony-winning Broadway play The Normal Heart, debuts Jun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1954 A star is born as Carol Haney's understudy in The Pajama Game goes on in place of the ailing actress and is discovered by theatre critic George Freedly. Writes Freedly in his review…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFun Home Tony Award nominee Beth Malone opens up about portraying Broadway's first openly butch lesbian protagonist, how the role affected her personal life and how the showbiz machine t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs part of our ongoing profiles of theatre couples, Playbill.com sits down with the dancing duo Robert Fairchild, starring in An American in Paris, and his wife, Tiler Peck, who recently sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
