By Byrne HarrisonAlthough I have become a regular at this monthly event, it has been a while since I've written about The Astoria Bookshop Storytelling Show hosted by the talented David Laws…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:55PM By Beatrice Williams-Rude The Potomac Theatre Project’s NYC season is underway at the Atlantic Theatre 2. Included is a double feature: “Judith: A Parting from the B…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:35PMPhoto: Joan MarcusLarry David may have left his hit play Fish in the Dark, but make no mistake: he's still up on that stage. And I'm not just referring to the fact that his replacement is hi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:31PM By Beatrice Williams-Rude The Potomac Theatre Project’s NYC season is underway at the Atlantic Theatre 2. Included is a double feature: “Judith: A Parting from the B…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:29PMMartin Sherman's BENT, a groundbreaking drama about the rare power of love in the most inhumane conditions, will be directed by Moises Kaufman, beginning previews tomorrow, July 15, and open…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25PMRomance was in the air at last night's opening of RUTHLESS off-Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25PMThe saying goes, all you need to become a punk rock band is three chords and the truth. Russian performance artists and feminist activists Pussy Riot couldn’t play three chords but their t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20PMPlaywright Johnna Adams (Gideon’s Knot) makes a strong case for unfettered imagination in the quirky, intense World Builders, a world premiere rom-com at the 25th anniversary of the Contem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20PMWomen in Hollywood are still getting paid less than their male counterparts, but at least they're speaking out about it. Amanda Seyfried followed in the badass steps of Patricia Arquette and…
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July 10 – August 2, 2015
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22PMWho better than a feckless linguist with commitment issues to be a live-in counselor for a nice couple from Missouri having marriage problems? That’s the situation in Michael Weller’s (M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22PMFashion is pain, beauty is suffering and thin is in in the chic black comedy Everything You Touch, playwright Sheila Callaghan’s faboo-looking treatise on body shaming, art and finding you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22PMAccording to a listing on Facebook, Liza Minnelli will appear in her first concert in more than a year this summer.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13PMAuthor, who followed St. Louis' Circus Harmony, will discuss book on Friday
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:03PMThe musical biography tells its story in songs from the dawn of rock
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Despite setting out with GroundWorks DanceTheater seeking nothing in particular, guest choreographer Eric Michael Handman found exactly what he wanted to contribute to the company's upcoming…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:41PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Four-time Emmy-award-winning actress, best-selling author and social activist Marlo Thomas will spread some lies off-Broadway this fall....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:40PMI’m a huge fan of theater. I love live shows; I think they’re perhaps the best way to watch very old or very young people talk and sing very loudly at you. I also love television. Howeve…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:36PMActress Amanda Seyfried has spoken out against wage inequality, saying that she was once paid 10% of her male co-star’s paycheck in an interview with the Sunday Times. “A few ye…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34PMMore than 20 years have passed since Ruthless! opened off-Broadway, introducing Laura Bell Bundy as Tina Denmark (and later performed by Britney Spears and Natalie Portman), and the show is …
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 08:25PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1973 (Columbia/Sony) A Little Night Music is emblematic of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s work in that it sounds very different from his other scores and yet …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 08:19PMNew York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing and BroadwayWorld has taken the time to sit down with some of the stars of this years NYMF musicals.Like any great art form, musical theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMA Broadway regular makes a live album
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03PMHangmen, telling story of Britain’s second best-known executioner, is McDonagh’s first UK play in 10 yearsMartin McDonagh, the playwright and writer/director of the films In Bruges and S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMLife, the universe and everything… in 70 minutes. You certainly can’t fault Nick Payne’s ambition, nor help but admire the dazzling inventiveness of his theoretical physics romcom with…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:03PM
As the lights in the Artspace Loft Studio dimmed, a (vaguely) familiar orchestra string is heard and a (vaguely) familiar silhouette walks across the stage, turns, and fires his (finger) gun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20PMWith DC ramping up for yet another presidential tilt, it’s a great time to sit back and laugh at the whole circus. To Err is Falstaff!! inventively blends Aaron Sorkin-esque humor and paci…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20PMAlice Waters once said, “teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of education.” It’s a frequent criticism that if you ask kids t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20PMThe Wild Party is back in New York City for a few nights of drunken debauchery! Andrew Lippa’s Jazz Age love story is raising the roof at Encores! Off-Center from July 15 through …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:00PMSee performance clips of the new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, starring Josh Young, Erin Mackey and Chuck Cooper.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:00PMWith the help of mybroadwaybody.com, you too can attain Young's "Amazing Grace."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM
From the masters of family entertainment, who brought you The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Mary Poppins, 3D Theatricals 3DT of Orange County is pleased to present the first, major, fu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMBy Doug Mayo
These great rehearsal images have just been released for Lyndsey Turner’s production of Hamlet which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. This exciting new produc…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:47PMNeighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, by Jennifer Haley is a cautionary tale about a medium surrounded by many questions that are past time to start asking. Awash in physical and emotional ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:38PMDoes Sir Cameron Mackintosh ever rest? His productions are internationally renowned and consistently staged — his revival of Les Miserables is even playing in Sydney right now. But we cou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:35PMIn 2015 the Melbourne Cabaret Festival, now in its sixth year, elected as their the chocolate-dipped strawberry as their new emblem; a humble yet iconic treat that, despite its modest size…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:13PM
Stuff is a play about objects and their accumulation, but it is not about hoarding, strictly speaking. It’s about why we keep things and what the things we keep can inform us about oursel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMKristin Chenoweth shows love for her ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY co-star
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMRock musical 'Girlfriend' opens at the Center Theatre GroupKirk Douglas Theatre this Sunday, July 19 at 630 p.m. Featuring a book by Todd Almond and music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet, the ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMFuture Broadway stars who attended Kaufman Music Center's Summer Musical Theater Workshop had a chance to meet and greet 2015 Tony nominee, FUN HOME starEmily Skeggs. Scroll down for photos
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PM39 Steps for a touchdown Monday Night Football is almost as exciting as Monday nights at 39 STEPS, especially when Dallas Cowboys superstar QB Tony Romo and his wife Candice, who are big the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMAlexander Hamilton, 'the ten-dollar Founding Father without a father,' comes to Broadway in the new musical HAMILTON, which just began previews last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre 226 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMBroadway will salute one of music's greatest divas
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMIf you think you know everything about Lincoln, you may be surprised to find out that there is a great deal of information out there that is not in text books. The Springfield Boys, now play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58PMFew actors went from journeyman to star as fast as Roger Rees did. In September 1981, Rees — who died last week, at 71 — came to New York with...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:55PMHe’s written all types of plays throughout his career, but Frank Blocker’s knowledge and appreciation of the South permeates his most popular work. Best known
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:43PMFrom his early stand-up career to his iconic sitcom "Seinfeld" and his latest success, the web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld has gained the lasting respect of his…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:34PMIt’ll be nice to look back a few years from now and say: “I told you so!” Mario Correa’s Commander, which opened on The Vagabond Players’ stage in Fells Point July 11th, has the vi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMRECOMMENDED The show opens beautifully, with the witches translated into chic young hipsters who, perhaps having tired of yoga, are now into necromancy. They fuss about with rune stones and …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:25PMA February 2016 start of previews has been scheduled for American Psycho, the stage musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, with music by Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening).
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM‘Shakespeare in Love’ and a Henriad cycle, as well as musicals and a world premiere, are included in the summer lineup.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:11PMDramatists Guild Fund President Andrew Lippa and Executive Director Rachel Routh announced today that Laurence O’Keefe will Co-Chair the nonprofit’s Fellows Program. Award-winning compos…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 05:02PMCandid memories of a 'lovely' Broadway original
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PM
The Cuban performance artists will join city officials in an effort to connect with undocumented immigrants through art.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:55PMNew York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing and BroadwayWorld has taken the time to sit down with some of the stars of this years NYMF musicals.Like any great art form, musical theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMThe Muny presents Buddy The Buddy Holly Story, beginning tonight, July 13, and running through July 20 at Forest Park. Written by Alan Janes, Buddy The Buddy Holly Story is directed by Marci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMHAMILTON's leading lady hits 54 Below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMSomething Rotten celebrates its new cast recording
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMThe storefront theatre features Shakespeare, Steinbeck, and Melissa Ross for an anniversary season on the theme of what it means to be human.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:46PMPanamania’s stage version of Jules Verne classic is kept afloat by a raft of impressive multimedia effects.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:43PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
First Photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet
Deep breaths everyone, we've only been waiting months, nay years, fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMDowntown theatre The Flea will stage Crystal Jackson's dark comedy The Singularity, presented by San Francisco's Virago Theatre Company. The creative team now features sound designer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMDon those ruby red slippers, and warm up your voice: NBC is holding an open casting call for the leading role of Dorothy in their upcoming live presentation of The Wiz, according to Deadli…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 04:29PMMs. Gomez spins a comic fantasia in her new solo show at Dixon Place, flitting between characters from the movies and her own brash persona.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:28PMWithout question, director-choreographer Rachel Rockwell's enchanting production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid," now at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, has enough enthralling visual magic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:24PMWe are counting down YouTube's best renditions of "Life of the Party" from The Wild Party.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:22PMI happen to be a big fan of Douglas Carter Beane and Xanadu is on my top 20 list of favorite campy movie musicals that were turned into Broadway musicals. Beane, is a very talented write…
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 04:22PMMaxwell stars in Howard Barker's Scenes From an Execution.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Rebellious characters are flouting the rules at the 2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, W.Va.Now celebrating its 25th season, the prominent annual showcase for rece…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PMAmongst all the plays, programs, and magazines, the Samuel French collection at Amherst College contains about thirty boxes worth of business records. On the surface, “business records” …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 03:58PMThe Muny presents Buddy TheBuddy HollyStory, beginning tonight, July 13, and running through July 20 at Forest Park. Written byAlan Janes, Buddy TheBuddy HollyStory is directed byMarcia Milg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1962 (RCA) This album starts with one of the most exciting overtures ever and takes off from there, thanks largely to orchestrator Ralph Burns. With Cy Coleman’s te…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:55PMNow and again, Black Ensemble Theatre indulges in what the founder Jackie Taylor dryly calls "non-traditional casting," which is to say a couple of white guys show up in the show.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:53PMPlaywrights and theatre practicioners are no stranger to Adam Szymkowicz. Adam electrifies the stage with his unique plays, and he engages with other writers online in his blo…
SOURCE: oob.samuelfrench.com at 03:52PMWorld famous magicians Penn amp Teller performed a jaw-dropping illusion with a member of the WENDY WILLIAMS studio audience this week.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMTHE KING AND I dances with a new king tonight
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMTwo points to add to Tim Auld’s piece on the impressive legacy of theatre director Stephen Joseph (Doing the rounds, Review, 11 July). Both refer to his “messy childhood”. Joseph alway…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44PMSocially engaged practice could change the world. But first we need another name to describe something that is part of everyday lifeIt wasn’t long into the recent Devoted and Disgruntled (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44PMBroadway actor Hamish Linklater has been tapped to star in the comedy pilot "I Shudder," by Paul Rudnick, playwright of Off-Broadway favorite Jeffrey. According to the Hollywoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMBy Sonja Arsham Kuftinec, Stephanie Lein Walseth, Lou Bellamy. Scholars Sonja Arsham Kuftinec and Stephanie Lein Walseth interview Penumbra Theatre Artistic Director Lou Bellamy.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:37PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1959 (Capitol/Angel) Not too long after Sandy Wilson proved with The Boy Friend that audiences enjoyed spoofs of old musicals, Rick Besoyan wrote the book, music,…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:34PMName: Melissa GordonHometown: Long Island/Queens, NYEducation: Bachelor of Arts in Drama-Ithaca College, National Theatre InstituteFavorite Credits: Recently, I got to sing all of the Phoebe…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:25PMChicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride Commemorates 26 Fallen Theater Artists on September 19, 201512-Mile Lakeshore Event Benefits The Actor’s Fund WHAT: The Chicago Theater Memoria…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:20PMWho was that man walking along Monmouth Street in Red Bank at 11PM last Friday singing Supercalifragilistic… and eliciting smirks from the smokers outside Buona Sera? Well, if you must kno…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:08PMThis is a Disney show based on a Disney movie (sporting of the Mouse to give us a production where the baddies are conglomerates) so it’s history at two removes
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:07PMBy Lindsay Harris-Friel. Lindsay Harris-Friel works through the process of creating a science fiction serial audio drama and highlights a few of the challenges that come when jumping into ne…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM
Original Cast, 2003 (Midder Music, 2CDs) Skillfully programmed and directed by Mark Waldrop, this revue had a brief run Upstairs at Studio 54. Happily, it yielded a “live” cast album tha…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:59PMThe first thing to know about I Thought The Earth Remembered Me is that it isn’t a play, at least not in the traditional sense. The second thing to know is that this is the weird Fringe ex…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:51PMLibby Whittemore is Atlanta’s “queen of cabaret,” a singer who has crafted a 40-year career singing the standards, starring in stage musicals and, for a
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:44PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert seriespresented Broadway leading man Aaron Lazar in his concert,Look For Me In The Songs, on Monday, July 13 at 7pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMSeason 2 of the hit web-comedy THE RESIDUALS will air exclusively here, on BroadwayWorld throughout the summer. Check back every Tuesday for a new episode, plus tune in on Thursdays for exci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMBillboard has exclusively premiered Tony winner Duncan Sheik's Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING new music video for his song 'Photograph,'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMIn a ruling which, it is feared, will present a “huge challenge” to the acting profession, a judge has decreed that a group of actors should not be paid the minimum wage.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:40PMFilm Soundtrack, 1994 (Walt Disney Records) The mega-hit animated Disney movie The Lion King spawned this mega-selling soundtrack recording, which includes the Oscar-winning best song “Can…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:32PMSignificant Other, a new comedy from acclaimed Bad Jews playwright Joshua Harmon, plays Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway theatre through Aug. 16. Leading man Gideon Glick (S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PMGrieving is never easy. We all grieve in our own way. Family and friends are usually a safe place to turn to help through the dark time. Unless you’re a twentysomething and drugs and sex a…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:22PMCelebrated stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen, currently starring as Sherlock Holmes in "Mr. Holmes," recently appeared on "Live Kelly & Michael," and spoke …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival presented Tom Kitt and Friends, a one-night-only concert celebrating the Pultizer and Tony-winning Next to Normal which originated …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1956 (Columbia/Sony) The cast album of this hit, faithfully adapted from Al Capp’s deep-fried comic strip, has a complicated history that’s worth telling because …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:11PMAs fate would allow, while celebrating a benefit cruise aboard the decadent Hornblower Hybrid, a private yacht engaged by Fran Drescher and her organization Cancer Schmancer, I, along with 3…
SOURCE: getoutmag.com at 02:11PMTaking your child to a Broadway show for the first time can seem, well, way too full of drama. You’re caught between hope and fear. You want your child to have a wonderful, life-changing e…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:09PMMagicians Penn & Teller appeared on "The Wendy Williams Show" July 14 to promote Penn & Teller on Broadway a show that has brought the provocative New Vaudeville ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PMChristopher Smith and Arthur Giron's new musical tells the true story behind the world's most beloved song.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
David Tennant and Tamsin Greig are to feature on a new app that aims to transform the way young people experience Shakespeare.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57PMArtist and director Douglas Gordon has been ordered to pay for repairs after using an axe to attack a wall inside Manchester’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57PMJose Llana takes the throne of Siam as The King in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The King and I sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1997 (Sony) The Life opened just as Times Square was being cleaned up and turned into a tourist-friendly theme park. It captured the Best Musical prize from the Drama…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:53PM By Myra Chanin Moses Man, a musical drama, is an act of homage from Deborah Haber to her parents, Kalman and Lily Haber. The production depicts their...
The post Moses M…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:49PMAs BroadwayWorld reported earlier today, Cameron Mackintosh has confirmed that Boublil and Schonberg's beloved musical MISS SAIGON will wrap its West End Run at the Prince Edward Theatre on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMRuss Tutterow was a playwright's "greatest advocate and friend," Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls said Monday night, welcoming about 300 members of Chicago's theater community …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:42PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1961 (RCA/no CD) Apologies to songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, but here’s the show with arguably the worst title song in the history of Broadway — and th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:32PM“Feminist punk can drive you crazy, but it’s worth it. Do not resist it.” Thus spake Masha Alyokhina, a member of P***y Riot, at the Glastonbury festival in England; last week these …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:30PMThe success of Tony-winning London hit “One Man, Two Guvnors” has made Richard Bean a bankable playwright: His factory-set 1999 debut “Toast” popped up on the London fringe last year…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage internationally - Venezuela, Portgual, Peru, Egypt, Cuba, Colombia, China, New Zealand, Brazil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in multiple regions around the U.S.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMAMAZING GRACE features music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron, directed by Gabriel Barre Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party and choreographed by To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMMoving on after a traumatic event may not be easy. For some, the pain lives with you forever. For others, a simple distraction can help it go away. And even when times are tough and the pain…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:26PMName: Dylan FrederickHometown: Minneapolis, MNEducation: University of Evansville and Yale School of DramaSelect Credits: I've been making plays since I was a little guy. The first play I ac…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:26PMJoan Raffe, Jhett Tolentino, and Douglas Denoff announced today that two time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro's 'delightfully deceitful' comedy, Clever Little Lies, will play off-Broadway's W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMSinger and current star of Broadway's CHICAGO Brandy Norwood thought she would treat a crowd of unsuspecting subway riders to a cover of 'Home' from THE WIZ.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMMarlo Thomas will once again star in Joe DiPietro's comedy Clever Little Lies. Directed by David Saint, the production will play a limited engagement September 18 through January 3. Open…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMAfter a bloody good run in London, a canceled off-Broadway engagement and months of rumors, we now have confirmation the American Psycho musical adaptation will land on the Great White Way t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMNew York Concert Cast, 1987 (Sony, 2CDs, paired with Of Thee I Sing) This performance doesn’t vary much in character from the dully dutiful reading of the Gershwins’ Of Thee I Sing that …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:14PMTurner Prize winner David Gordon has been asked to pay for repairs to the new Home venue
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:10PM“Please Louise! Jack Get Back! Whoa, Milo!” Let’s hear it for the historic “Laguna Playhouse” in Laguna Beach California, where they’ve kicked off their 2015-2016 season with the…
SOURCE: buckingtrends.me at 01:07PMProducing a new musical under the best of circumstances is a daunting task. Producing a new musical in the Capital Fringe festival adds extra pressure because of the limited tech time and lo…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PMMrs Bennett is a black woman in a bonnet. Two of her daughters are black, two more are white. The fifth, Elizabeth,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMO'Keefe is the songwriter behind Legally Blonde and Heathers: The Musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThis is TheaterMania's first review roundup of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe new musical runs at the South Street Seaport.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe new play comes to the Big Apple after a run at George Street Playhouse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMcross-posted to Samuel French's Blog
Bella Poynton
Hometown: Buffalo, NY Current Town: Buffalo, NY. Q: Tell me about your OOB play. A: I have always loved sc…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:00PMWalking into the Mead Theatre Lab for We Happy Few’s performance of The Winter’s Tale feels a little like stepping into a dream. The black box theatre is lined with gauzy white c…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PM
It might be seen as a miracle, but the cozy Spotlighters Theatre has been transformed into a spacious Baltimore concert hall where screaming fans of the 5-member Christian boy band Altar Boy…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:56PMAlia Attallah-A Minnesota native, Alia received her B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Actor Training Program. In the years that followed she acted in various professional proje…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:52PMProducers Joan Raffe, Jhett Tolentino, and Douglas Denoff announced today that That Girl will continue as the lead in the new off-Broadway comedy by Tony winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis). The s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMLike most actors who have been in this industry for 25 years, Keith Hamilton Cobb, who opens this Friday in his play American Moor, has his share of audition horror stories. But one partic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMFollowing earlier speculation, producers have confirmed that Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award winner Marlo Thomas will return to Joe DiPietro's Clever Little Lies for its Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMThe Muny's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods will star Grammy Award winner Heather Headley as The Witch. As we wait to see what the starry …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMFEATURED PLAYWRIGHT: GWENDOLYN RICE Lucky Numbers will be presented at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Wednesday August 5th at 6:30pm. Click Here for tickets. Gwendolyn is a professional w…
SOURCE: oob.samuelfrench.com at 12:30PMHow alt-puppetry has become an integral part of the scope of contemporary art in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:26PMSoho theatre, LondonPat Kinevane’s Tino emerges from his blanket and struts like a Hollywood great in a graceful performance touching on issues of mental health and prejudiceBefore he shot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMMusic Theatre International Chairman and CEO Freddie Gershon and his wife Myrna just hosted eight outstanding educators from schools and performing arts centers around the country for four d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMIt has been rumoured that Julie Taymor is developing a Fight Club rock opera, so naturally we have cast it already
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:19PMMozart, Wagner and Britten headline next year's season on the Sussex Downs
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:19PMThe sold out production opens at the Barbican next month
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:19PMInspired by the sometimes contentious relationship between Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, composer Derrick Wang's new comedic opera Scalia/Ginsburg had it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMStep inside the star-studded opening night of Ruthless! The Musical on July 13, 2015 at off-Broadway’s St. Luke’s Theatre. Click for photos from the post-show festivities at the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMAbracadabra! Tickets are now on sale for The Illusionists—Live on Broadway. The production will play a limited engagement November 19 through January 3, 2016 at the Neil Simon Theatre.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMRUTHLESS THE MUSICAL just opened Off-Broadway last night, July 13th at St. Luke's Theatre. Book and lyrics for RUTHLESS are by Joel Paley with music by Marvin Laird. When THE BAD SEED meets …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMRUTHLESS THE MUSICAL just opened Off-Broadway last night, July 13th atSt. Luke's Theatre. Book and lyrics for RUTHLESS are byJoel Paleywith music byMarvin Laird. When THE BAD SEED meets GYPS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMFor the August 17 show at 7pm at The Triad Stage 72-- 158 West 72ndStreet, New York's funniest showCelebrity Autobiographywill feature in its cast several stars of stage amp screen, includin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMAccording to the show'sofficial website,the new musical AMERICAN PSYCHOwill bow on Broadway in February 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMLin-Manuel Miranda's new musicalHamilton began previews at theRichard Rodgers Theatre last night prior to an official opening night on August 6th.As was announced last week, 10 front row sea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMThe American Variety Stage Collection through the Library of Congress is a major anthology celebrating the American theatre scene. The multimedia anthology celebrates the evolution of the th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMRehearsal photos have been releasedforLyndsey Turner's production ofWilliam Shakespeare'sHamletwith Benedict Cumberbatchin the title role - check them out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMDaniel Radcliffe appeared at San Diego Comic Con and spoke to ET about J.K. Rowling's latest HARRY POTTER project FANTASTIC BEASTS, a prequel to the best-selling saga.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMOn Monday, July 20, at 7:00 p.m., The Playwrights Forum will present a public reading of Robert Michael Oliver‘s new play, The Loathing. Iona Senior Services will host the reading. The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMBrandy Norwood, who currently stars as Roxie Hart in the Broadway revival of Chicago, continues her campaign to play Dorothy in NBC's live broadcast of The Wiz. Watch her belt out "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMCall Answered: "Call Me Adam" chats with "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 7 favorite Ginger Minj about her return to NYC's Laurie Beechman Theatre with her show "Crossdresser for Christ - The Mus…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:08PMJosh Young, Chuck Cooper and Erin Mackey star in Amazing Grace, the true story of Englishman John Newton, a former slave trader, who wrote the hymn beloved by people across the globe. Christ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMActress Amanda Seyfried has learned to fight for a better salary on film sets after once discovering she was only receiving 10 per cent of what her male co-star was earning.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:08PMNEW YORK (AP) -- It takes some work to find something that Chuck Cooper hasn't done on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:08PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Jason Isbell wakes up next to his most trusted songwriting critic every day....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:08PMWhen you occupy as specialized a niche in the area's classical scene as Chicago Folks Operetta, you just naturally try harder.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:01PMDuncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa pen the new tuner based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMShakespeare's drama also stars Ciarán Hinds and Tony winner Jim Norton.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
With Scalia/Ginsburg, Derrick Wang’s delightful mash of an opera, the composer shamelessly steals from almost every major composer and switches styles with alacrity, even setting some …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMThe highly anticipated first entrance of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to deliver what has become her signature off-the-bench talk, “Law in Opera,” begins off-stage left where a slight, fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMFrom obscure classics to populist musicals and thrillers, Hartford Stage artistic director Darko Tresnjak is in the midst of a killer career.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:55AMToday is the birthday of ill-fated actress Martha Mansfield (Martha Ehrlich, 1899-1923) Thanks to BronxDawn of Woodlawn Cemetery for making me acquainted with her story during my recent fiel…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:51AMThere were only a handful of seats to spare, but more than 700 theatregoers (704, to be exact) showed up on 46th Street July 13 to play the ticket lottery for Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Mirand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMSouthampton’s Nuffield Theatre has unveiled its autumn/winter season, which includes a new production of The Glass Menagerie directed by Sam Hodges. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMPlaywrights Nick Payne, Rona Munro and Gordon Dahlquist are in the running for this year’s £10,000 James Tait Black prize for drama.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMMatt Harrington, who stars as the debonair Mr. Wormwood in Broadway's Matilda the Musical, takes us backstage at the Shubert Theatre. See his unbelievable transformation and meet some o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMDramatists Guild Fund President Andrew Lippa and Executive Director Rachel Routh announced today that Laurence O'Keefe will Co-Chair the nonprofit's Fellows Program.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMPhil Black, a legendary New York jazz and tap dance teacher, died June 5 at the Actors Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, NJ. He had been fighting Parkinson’s disease for more than 20 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMI am no stranger to boy bands. In middle school, the New Kids on the Block were all the rage. In college, N*SYNC captured our hearts. Today, fans fill stadiums to see the British lads of One…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMBroadwayWorld subscribers SAVE25 on summer's romantic musical running through July 26, James A. Michener's SAYONARA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMBelow, Lin-Manuel Miranda himself greeted the crowds of eager lottery participants who filled 46th Street, all hoping for a chance to see the show's Broadway bow
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMNew York Musical Theatre Festival is in full swing and BroadwayWorld has taken the time to sit down with some of the stars of this years NYMF musicals.Like any great art form, musical theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 772015 - 7142015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMThe current U.K touring production of Calamity Jane, directed by Nikolai Foster (artistic director of Curve in Leicester) and starring Jodie Prenger in the title role, has been filmed in a 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM"She's Funny That Way," Peter Bogdanovich's upcoming screwball comedy about a married Broadway director who falls in love with a former prostitute while working on a new sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMRemember that band that formed in 1964 and sold 100 million records world wide? The Who? Well, now you have the chance to catch a glimpse of the musical based off of their fourth album from …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04AMChicago star Brandy Norwood takes to the subway to live her Wiz fantasy.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:00AMThe classic musical will return to New York City, direct from London.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Original London Cast, 1985 (First Night/Relativity, 2CDs) Claude-Michel Schönberg (“musique”) and Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (“textes”) originally created Les Misérables a…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:59AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1989 (RCA) This show did not work onstage, but some of the songs and performances on the cast album are fun. Peter Allen, though woefully miscast as a tough-guy gan…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:56AMBy Doug Mayo
WIN TICKETS TO SEE MIDLER ON SUNDAY 19TH JULY AT THE O2 Bette Midler has announced an extra show at London’s O2 Arena this Sunday and British Theatre has two tickets that …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:53AMLeicester’s Curve is to release a “boundary-busting” 360° recording of Nikolai Foster’s Calamity Jane, which will allow viewers to choose the angle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMSan Francisco Cast, 2001 (42nd Street Moon) With political satire a mainstay of 1930s musicals (the Gershwins’ Of Thee I Sing, Rodgers and Hart’s I’d Rather Be Right, Irving Berlin’s…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:43AMBy HowlRound TV. The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania presents a talk with actors Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon of On Golden Pond with producing director Alexander Fraser livest…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:43AMRuthless! The Musical, originally staged in New York 22 years ago, returns Off-Broadway, officially opening July 13 following previews that began June 25 at St. Luke’s Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThe Irish are legendary storytellers, and Conor McPherson’s play, one of his earliest, is a rollicking but thought-provoking tale of adventurous misadventure, told as a rotating round (and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AMOff-Broadway Cast, 1959 (Strand/AEI) The “Princess Theater” musicals of Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, and P. G. Wodehouse form an important chapter in musical theater history that is badly un…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:33AMCurve in Leicester is presenting a hi-tech theatre recording of Calamity Jane, starring Jodie Prenger – watch it with us from 22 July When the tour of Calamity Jane blew into Curve in Leic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AM“The movement was precise and beautiful,” Trey Lyford says as he recalls the first time he saw Jo Strømgren’s choreography. Lyford is an actor based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the c…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:13AMWe knew that Miss Saigon, would close at London's Prince Edward Theatre to make way for Aladdin, and now we know when. Directed by Laurence Connor, the revival of Boublil and Schönb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMI get an unusual amount of Fishermen at the desk. Usually, on matinée days; usually, older folks.They’ve just come over from TKTS with their extreme side, rear-orchestra, partial-vie…
SOURCE: broadwayadjacent.com at 10:10AMWearing Black
Off Off Broadway, Theatre 3, NYMF
Reviewed by Angel Lam
BOTTOM LINE: A driving contemporary rock score unfolds a dark tale of death, grief, anger and rediscovered relationship…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:00AM
The MIFF offered two new films starring Richard Gere in atypical roles for the prolific actor.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMAmy Winehouse's death was certainly a tragedy, but not one that moves us to pity and terror in its retelling as a morality tale spun from home movies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMCastaways Repertory Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet will leave you believing in the premise of love at first sight, if ever you’ve doubted it. With standout pe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54AMEXCLUSIVE: Chiké Okonkwo (Banshee, BBC's Paradox) has been cast in Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation. He joins an ensemble that includes Jackie Earle Haley, Armie Hammer, Colman …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:51AMHappy Birthday Arthur Laurents Laurents' first play, Home of the Brave, opened on Broadway in 1945, followed by many others. He wrote his first musical, West Side Story, in 1957, followed by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMSouthwark Playhouse revives this polemical play about a fictional student rebellion in the context of the rise of fascism .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:45AMFrom start to finish, this is well-oiled, well played comedy, and at 90-minutes running time (no intermission), it's over sooner than one might wish
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:45AMan uproarious musical that also sings, snaps, and snarls all at the same time.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:45AMa fast-paced marathon with an Irish accent . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:45AM“I feel like I have enough work now that, if I died, my ‘in memorium’ reel would be impressive,” joked Judd Apatow as he took to the stage of the Film Society of Lincoln Center Monda…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM"Kiss Me, Kate," the 1948 backstage musical comedy with the matchless Cole Porter score, seems made for blissed-out summer nights - a classic to be savored with gelato and Prosecco for those…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMThe following is an excerpt from my 2013 book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, published by Bear Manor Media, available from Amazon.com etc …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AMOn July 8, 2015, Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, film maker, film producer, theatre/film critic and arts writer, died at the age of 47. It is a tragic loss for her family, her abundant friends and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:34AMIn the explosive "American Idiot" at the Beck Center for the Arts, director Scott Spence harnesses the vitality of his young cast and keeps the show moving like a Greyhound with a …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:30AMGood 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 Neil Patrick Harris guest judges on AM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMUdderbelly, LondonThis adaptation of a popular picture book has songs, puppets and acrobatic bats – but somehow fails to hold youngsters’ attentionSo many page-to-stage adaptations for c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThe underground artist landed his song on a McDonald’s advert, flipping the celebrity game on its head by earning fortune before fame. Has pop thrown itself in a burger bap and started to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMAK Bennett-Hunter reports on the recent Theatres Trust conference on Valuing Theatres, where the focus was firmly on the importance of theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBy Doug Mayo
BritishTheatre.com is pleased to bring you this first look and listen to Victoria Serra singing Girl In the Mirror from Grand Hotel. Grand Hotel will play a six week season at t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:00AM
54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Charles Busch in That Girl That Boy tonight, July 14, and July16, 17, 23, 2015 at 700 pm. The inimitable Charles Busch returns with an all new sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMTV Landhas greenlit I Shudder, a dark comedy pilot starring Hamish Linklater The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Newsroom and written by Paul Rudnick
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMThe venue describes the technology as 'boundary-busting'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:51AMHighlights include a new production of The Glass Menagerie
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:51AMThe exhibition will take place at the Old Truman Brewery in October
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:51AMMatthew Murray takes a look at 210 Amlent Avenue at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35AMMiss Saigon is to end its new run in the West End after nearly two years. Cameron Mackintosh has confirmed the musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMA major independent report has revealed that arts and culture contribute £7.7 billion to the economy, an increase of 36% in three
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMCostumes from stage shows such as Wicked and films including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will feature in a new exhibition marking 175
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMA director ordered to pay the minimum wage to actors involved in a profit-share production has had the decision overturned, in what
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMTonight (tomorrow morning, actually) at 12:45 a.m. (EST) on Turner Classic Movies: William Wellman’s Westward, the Women (1951). This fairly amazing movie depicts the journey of a …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:32AMToday is the birthday of Toby Wing (Martha Virginia Wing, 1915-2001). The child of an assistant director at Paramount, she and her sister Pat began getting roles in silent films in 1924. The…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:32AMThe God of Heaven, by whatever name, is the Creator of the Universe, the Unmoved Mover, the Uncaused Cause, the Inventor of time and the Proclaimer of the laws of physics. We do not know for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:28AMIf you’re a sleep-walker and have woken up in the middle of the night and gone on a date with a crush as your alter-ego, then Ambien Date Night by Jessica Erin Bylander will be sure to bri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:28AMGo see The Eulogy. Right now. What are you doing? Why are you still reading? For every minute you spend not seeing The Eulogy, you’re missing out on easily the funniest thing you’ll see …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:28AMJermyn Street, LondonA couple’s rustic idyll is shattered when a stranger arrives to drag their secrets into the light – with a bluntness that stretches psychological credulityLured by t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AM
By Bill Hirschman The primary thing usually missing from a Cirque du Soliel show is a discernable plot. Lookingglass Alice, slipping into the Arsht Center’s spectacle-driven summer extrava…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54AMLet’s Play Play
Written by Ben Ferber
Directed by Todd Brian Backus
PowerOut, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY
July 7-18, 2015
According to at least one survey, YouTube stars …
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 07:53AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMCameron Mackintosh announced today that Boublil and Schonberg's legendary musical'MISS SAIGON'will make its final London flight at the Prince Edward Theatre onSaturday 27 February 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMIf you’re a singer, dancer, or actor aiming for the stage, auditions will be a regular part of your experience. Before you get the role of your dreams, you’ll need to prove you’ve got …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:37AMEarly on in “Ruthless!” Joel Paley and Marvin Laird’s deliciously campy musical, now getting a superior revival at St. Luke’s...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 07:33AMAfter a slow spell over the July Fourth holiday, Broadway ticket sales bounced back—if not uniformly—in the week that ended Sunday, according to data provided by the Broadway League.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 07:33AMThe Green Room is so excited to introduce you to the newest bloggers who are joining us this summer! For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through the latest installments of Me…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:29AMNathan Lane has been cast as famed attorney F. Lee Bailey in FX’s upcoming OJ miniseries “American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson,” deadline.com reports. Bailey, now 82, was...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:29AMCan you revisit the magic, and perhaps repair the frustrations, of a childhood at once idyllic and a persistent source of contemporary stress? The folks at Bucks County Playhouse must have t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:28AMIT HAS LONG been accepted that the only two absolutes in life are death and taxes. But here's a third: It's impossible for a Penn & Teller performance to be anything less than mesmerizing, m…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:28AMThe Green Room is so excited to introduce you to the newest bloggers who are joining us this summer! For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through the latest installments of Me…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:27AMOn this week's podcast, leading London theatre bloggers discuss views on three plays: The Trial, starring Rory Kinnear at the Young Vic, debbie tucker green's hang at the Royal Court, and Lu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMThe Green Room is so excited to introduce you to the newest bloggers who are joining us this summer! For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through the latest installments of Me…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:23AMAs artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens and Leicester’s Haymarket theatres, Michael Meacham played a significant role in raising the profile and standing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMIn the fifth part of a special series focusing on theatrical podcasts, James Marino talks with Robert Gonyo, the producer of Go See a Show! podcast. ————R…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:20AMFrom 2005: I sometimes wonder whether the rural Missouri town where I grew up is losing its individuality. I turned on the car radio yesterday morning and found myself listening to “Sympat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Words don’t matter, it’s what they mean that counts,” says (though I may be slightly paraphrasing) a worldly, French-speaking prostitute in a legal brothel in North Dakota. That isn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AMWhat if you could have a heart-to-heart with yourself thirty earlier younger? Thirty years older? What if you could finally ask the younger you just what the hell you were thinking on the ve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AMThe comedian on how Monty Python baffled America, why he can’t function without worrying – and his struggle to say something no one else will say Your new show looks at three decades’ …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMAt Comic Con, Jeremy Jordan talks about joining the cast of 'Supergirl' on CBS as Winslow Schott.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01AM“Taste ripens at the expense of happiness.” Jules Renard, journal entry (January 1908)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
Cameron Mackintosh announced today that Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical MISS SAIGON will make its final London flight at the Prince Edward Theatre on Saturday 27 February 2016.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:56AMThe West End return of Miss Saigon, currently running at the Prince Edward Theatre where it opened May 2014, is to shutter Feb. 27, 2016 after a run of less than two years. The original prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55AMA mostly successful presentation, in two productions, of four of Shakespeare’s history plays.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 06:47AMAbbey Wright's production opened at Wyndham's Theatre last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:43AMThe award-winning production will close on 27 February
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:43AMDesigner Christopher Hone talks us through the process of building a 9ft mound of excrement
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:43AM by Joe Regan Jr. Richard Malavet—whose last cabaret, a great Billy Eckstine-themed show some years ago—has returned to the cabaret scene with Very Good Years: The In…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:40AMComics were out in force and applauding warmly at last night’s opening of The Mentalists, in which fellow stand-up and The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant made his West End acting debut…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:01AM
Wolf Trap Opera presents John Corigliano and William M. Hoffman’s The Ghosts of Versailles, a grand opera buffa in two acts. Directed by Louisa Muller, this production is as silly as i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42AMStage and screen star Neil Patrick Harris Broadway's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH joins 'America's Got Talent' as guest judge for the first week of Judge Cuts, tonight, July 14 on NBC 8-10 p.m.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17AMTheatre Under The Stars TUTS presents Smokey Joe's Cafe, playing tonight, July 14, through July19 for TUTS' 48th consecutive year of offering FREE musical theatre at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17AMWe have a great community of amazing playwrights here at Theatrefolk that contribute to our collection of middle and high school plays. We hope you’ll enjoy this peek behind the curtain…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AMRob Lowe Returns to the '80s for Comedy Central's "Moonbeam City"YH chills out at Comic-Con with a man who is a legend in ANY era, Mr. Rob Lowe, to get the scoop on his 1980s-inspired new an…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMMark Hamill and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' at Comic ConJoin YH for an exclusive look at San Diego Comic-Con! We catch up with major 'Star Wars' fans and even chat with Mark Hamill, who p…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Embodying Poe is the second offering of Robert Michael Oliver’s 2-part 2015 Capital Fringe ‘Poetry in Performance’ called Poe Whitman (Read Julia Capizzi’s review …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39AMAbena Joan Brown, one of the early pioneers of African-American theater in Chicago and the president and chief executive officer of the eta Creative Arts Foundation for 40 years, died on Sun…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:39AMShall we dance? Jose Llana will begin performances as the King of Siam in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I on July 14. Llana steps in for Tony nominee Ken Watanabe and will r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14AMAndrew Lippa's jazz-age musical The Wild Party, which is receiving a revised mounting as part of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series, began with a casual walk through Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1918 Birthday of playwright Arthur Laurents, who will write numerous plays including The Time of the Cuckoo and Invitation to a March, but who is best known as librettist for musical classic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM54 Below presents an all-new show by writer and performer Charles Busch titled That Girl/That Boy, an eclectic program of songs both old and new. Busch is the writer of The Tale of the A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSteven Pasquale, who stars as Burrs in the City Center Encores! staging of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party July 15-18, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBest in Show — a spotlight on Broadway personalities and their animal companions — continues with Andy Karl — Tony-nominated for his performance in the revi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM