Your god can do his worstKill me if he canI curse in his faceAnd i spit on your planI will not be subject to god or to manI am my own masterYou all can be damned.-- words sung by John Newton…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 11:41PM By Beatrice Williams-Rude A powerful play, “The International,” by Tim Ruddy, has returned to the New York stage. This three-character piece debuted in April for a l…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:33PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Wearing a red plaid shirt, black shorts, and black combat boots, the acclaimed lesbian performance artist Marga Gomez vibrantly barrels through her solo show "P…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMNominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Thursday. The field of contenders shows a welcome turn toward recognizing new talent and new sources for TV.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:28PMA new concert staging of Andrew Lippa’s 'The Wild Party' rekindles comparisons with Michael John LaChuisa’s version from the same bygone season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:17PMA first-time composer brings a tale of slavery and salvation to Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opened July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58PMWith its clean-cut heroes and villains and its earnest Christianity, the musical “Amazing Grace” is an outlier on Broadway — where the new normal is the bold, hip-hop-flavored “Hamil…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:44PMTo see President Obama break into “Amazing Grace” at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37PMThe musical, named for the 18th-century hymn often associated with African-American culture and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, unfolds as a history lesson trimmed in melodrama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMAre you Team Lippa or Team LaChiusa? For theater types, the dueling musicals of The Wild Party — one by Andrew Lippa, one by Michael John LaChiusa, both somehow given their premieres in th…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35PMJane Krakowski teamed up again with Tina Fey to play the comically tragic Upper East Side housewife Jacqueline Voorhees on Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and it paid off with another…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35PMToday's Emmy nominations had a few snubs and a few high points, too. To round it out your Emmys analysis diet, here are some lesser-heralded nominations and trivia items that may have escape…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35PMIn 18th-century England, the scion of a slave-trading family works in the business for years, then has a crisis of conscience, repudiates the evil practice and becomes a man of God and an ar…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:34PMNEW YORK - The message of "Amazing Grace" - that the most despicable, slave-owning wretch can see the light and the errors of past ways and become a force for reconciliation - is an aspirati…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:27PMThere’s an audience out there for “Amazing Grace,” flawed as it is, but they may not get to see this religious-uplift musical if the $16 million show’s marketing mach…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PMAussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to Shellshock at the Riverside Theatres on Friday 31 July. Directed by former Artistic Director and CEO of Sydney Theatre Company, Wayne Ha…
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The authors and producers seem to be very much in earnest in this anti-slavery, pro-faith tale of the mid-18th century. They provide something of a history lesson, based on the life, adventu…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PMNew play program pays off in coming productions
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:58PMTony-winning performer gets set for her Sondheim debut at the Muny
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:58PM'Anything Goes' and 'Into the Woods' open on stages here
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:58PMIn keeping with the show title, Pite isn't keen describe Betroffenheit's in explicit terms, only to say that the work draws from a real-life tragedy
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:58PMPanamania pours out political drama and technological marvels with The Watershed and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 09:58PMCan a sudden religious conversion be convincingly dramatized? Can a man who has done cruel, hateful, casually sadistic acts as a young 18th century British slave trader for almost three quar…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:30PMBefore we decide if Broadway shows need bigger reserves, we should probably define what a reserve actually is. As I described in Breakin’ Down a Broadway Budget, a reserve is a chunk …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 09:19PMTIME HEALS ALL PLOTS Shakespeare’s strange romance, which begins with gratuitous jealousy and ends with gratuitous forgiveness, is best treated as a fairy tale for grownups: A virtuous que…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:19PMNatasha Jayetileke, pictured with stage husband Tony Jayawardena, deliver the laugh-out-loud new linein the musical Bend It Like Beckham, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 09:19PMSophie War will star in a gender-swapping adaptation of Aldous Huxley's classic Brave New World for the stage that sees Mustapha Mond become Margaret, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 09:19PMBeginning August 19, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice will play in select movie houses across North America. The produc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:19PMThe Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome actress and recently named “Dancing with the Stars” winner Rumer Willis making her Broadw…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:19PMWell, the knock on the Emmys has always been it’s the same shows vying every year. Not so anymore. Today’s announcement of this year’s nominations make it very clear – we’ve en…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:19PMThe world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's "Cold Mountain" opera has been generating so much interest that another performance has been added to the schedule, as well as plans to release a reco…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:17PMBruce Willis' daughter is beating her famous dad to Broadway.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:15PMYou might think that Broadway sweetheart Sutton Foster would be out of place in a roomful of horny, hopped-up swillers and killers.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:15PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Bruce Willis' daughter is beating her famous dad to Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:15PMLiza and PAPER? We go together like Halston and sequins! The indomitable queen of show biz (recipient, lest we forget, of Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards), graced the cover of our Novemb…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 09:14PM“A Dynamic Home for Artists and New Music of All Kinds,” the home page says on the Web site for National Sawdust, a cutting-edge venue in Williamsburg that opens, after much anticipatio…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:14PMA Shakespeare production featuring women? What is this, amateur hour?!
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:13PMThe new solo show at Berkeley Rep addresses crises in race, justice and education, then challenges audience to do something about it.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:11PMMatthew McGee brings depth and charm to the role of an adventurous aunt.... Read more »
The post Theater Review: Intimate 'Mame' kicks up her heels at freeFall Theatre appeared first on…
SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 09:10PMErica Reynolds, a Sarasota native who started performing at the Players Theatre as a little girl and then studied musical theater in the Booker High... Read more »
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SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 09:10PMA new musical set to premiere at TUTS Underground
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10PMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10PMHe spent an hour as a receptionist, and all hell broke loose.
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:07PMReview of the Sunday, July 12 matinee preview performance at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City. Starring Josh Young, Erin Mackey, Tom Hewitt, Chuck Cooper, Chris Hoch, Stanley Bahorek…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:01PMSurefire stories don’t write themselves. That’s the take-away from Amazing Grace, the epically bad show that opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre. The timing certainly cou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMJosh Young, a Tony nominee for 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' stars in this new musical inspired by the life of the reformed sinner who composed the beloved hymn.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opened July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59PMSt. Louis Actors' Studio is back with its third annual LaBute New Theater Festival, named after Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute. Nine one-act plays were selected from …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:46PMGet a sneak peek of an edgy new production of BENT
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33PMA one-time police officer has written an earnest original musical about young Englishman John Newton, who came of age as Britain sat atop an empire of slavery.
SOURCE: NBC New York at 08:25PMTo see President Obama break into “Amazing Grace” at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PMTonight, HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda took it upon himself to pump up lottery participants before for the draw by performing a short little concert. Click below to check it out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMGhostlight Recordscelebrated this week's physical CD release of theSomething Rotten Original Broadway Cast Album with a special in-store performance and CD signing at Barnes amp Noble today,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMInitial casting has been reported for Martin McDonagh's Hangmen and Penelope Skinner's Linda
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:06PMBBC News: A group of actors lose an employment tribunal case after claiming they should be paid the minimum wage for appearing in a fringe theatre play. http://bbc.in/1KaIW3q
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The Montclair Shakespeare Series presents 'As You Like It' at Van Vleck House & Gardens on Thursday, July 23, at 7 p.m.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 07:33PMNEA awards $125,000 to cities to design pedestrian routes connecting public artCrocker Art Museum partnered with cities on grant … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:28PMI suppose I’m mostly known for my play Zombie Town: A Documentary Play, which has had a number of productions around the country. But I’m also really into science and science pla…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:26PMMy colleague Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is interviewed by my colleague Laura Brueckner and mentions a bunch of his colleagues who’ve all had rolling premieres lately. I bring this up only be…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:26PMNew 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 07:26PMTHE KING AND I's new king discusses his star turn
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMArt allows the artist freedom of expression. Through their medium, an artist has the unique ability to evoke emotions through their masterpieces. But sometimes, expression is too much and ar…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 07:15PMCreator and star Lin-Manual Miranda greeted the crowd at Hamilton's ticket lottery in an encouraging — as well as entertaining — fashion. Miranda explained that t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:15PM54 Below will present composerlyricist Jeff Bowen in an intimate night where anything can happen
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PMOn July 13th, over a dozen of Broadway's most distinctive voices, including Lesli Margherita, Taylor Louderman and more,celebrated larger-than-life recording artist Katy Perryat 54 Below, si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PM
It’s hard to believe, but there isn’t a lively, thorough biography of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, their shows and their era. Ethan Mordden wrote a good coffee-table book a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMPerformers from thebeloved Off-Broadway musical BARE will soon come together in honoring its late creator.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PM The June 2014 broadcast of the 68th Annual Tony Awards was honored today with three Prime Time Emmy Award nominations in the categories of: Outstanding Directing for a...
The p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:50PMIvan Hernandez, who makes his B'way debut as Billy Flynn, takes on five questions about Chicago, Yank! and Devious Maids.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:48PMA closed table reading of Rupert Holmes, Melissa Manchester and Sharon Vaughn's Sweet Potato Queens will be held Aug. 7 in anticipation of the musical's world-premiere p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PMPlaybill.com's Job Listings offer an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry. From auditions to administrative roles, Playbill.com is the online source for care…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PM‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.’ I had time to get my Fringe on Wednesday night and wanted to go see that Japanese Ame…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:25PMSutton Foster is currently wowing audiences as Queenie in City Center's Encores Off-Center concert production of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party. Her beguiling and sweet debut album WISH was r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMOn Thursday, July 16, the Theater People Podcast welcomes Broadway vet and ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK star Lea Delaria. On the episode, DeLaria shares stories from her nearly 35-year career as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMTaye Diggs is the next star to put on some makeup and pull the wig down from the shelf in Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch—but who will step into the transgender rock goddess…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMClick for photos of new star Jose Llana in The King and I, starring Tony winner Kelli O'Hara. The production is currently playing at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
'S Wonderful News for Robert Fairchild
Robert Fairchild, who garnered a Tony nod for An American in Paris, has received…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMThis week's guest is Chay Yew, the artistic director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago who previews next season at the theatre (it includes Hillary Clinton) and what he thinks of 'The Ki…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:20PM“A glib” is a noun used in theater back in the day to signify when actors would race through their lines as quickly as possible just to cover the territory a half-hour before the curtain…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:16PMAl Hirschfeld was the most famous caricaturist in the world. And yet Hirschfeld wasn't really a caricaturist, given that the term implies exaggeration and distortion. Hirschfeld preferred th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:16PMSomething Rotten celebrates its new cast recording today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMA tribute concert to one of America's greatest songwriters
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMMichael Cera's dulcet tones will provide the voice of 'Robin' in LEGO BATMAN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMCarnegie Hall today announced that Sting will bring his highly acclaimed Symphonicities to Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage for a one-night-only gala benefit concert on Monday, December 14 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMIt's technically against the rules, but we're going to talk about FIGHT CLUB -- and this time, it's official.Mashable reports Chuck Palahniuk's long-gestating idea for a FIGHT CLUB musical w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMBroadway Loves Katy Perry, celebrating the music of recording artist Katy Perry, was held July 13 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMJose Llana just stepped into the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's The King and I, directed by Bartlett Sher, at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMHold On To Your Butts
Off Off Broadway, The PIT, Recent Cutbacks
Reviewed by Sarah Moore
BOTTOM LINE: Jurassic Park packed into 60 hilarious minutes.
When I first read the title Hold On To…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 05:01PMGasteyer was recently seen in the Encores! Off Center production of A New Brain.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band brimmed with enthusiasm when he described how one show ended with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings horn players joining his own 11-piece ensemble..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:53PMPerhaps the marking of a great stage actor is that when you meet them in real life, it takes you a second or two to realize they’re the same person you saw on stage just a few nights befor…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:51PMBy Charlie NorkIndividual Giving ManagerWe are thrilled to announce that Broadway and television star Matthew Morrison will be joining us on September 21st to honor 2015 Tony Award winner Ke…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 04:45PMBy Don RebarCommunity Engagement & Digital Content ManagerDuring the upcoming run of A.R. Gurney's Love & Money (co-produced with Signature Theatre), we invite you to attend a "Post-…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 04:45PM‘Anyone who had a heart’, so the song says, can’t help but enjoy What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined. The audience at the show’s press night most certainly agree. They can’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMTo begin the show, the audience are guided through to the Clare Studio, the Young Vic’s smaller space. The space has a semi-circle of chairs facing away from each other and toward in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:45PMAbout halfway through Casey Bauer’s surreal Half Past What?, I came to the stark realization that I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on yet was still completely enthralled…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PMCelebrated stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen, currently starring as Sherlock Holmes in the newly released film "Mr. Holmes," has been making the rounds on American talk shows…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMThe Unexpected Stage Company’s Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age (playing through August 9) takes a bold new look at Shakespeare’s most beloved play, placing the title characte…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 04:30PMJose Llana took 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 star…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1994 (Angel) One of Stephen Sondheim’s most daring achievements, Passion is also one of his most divisive: Some people respond to the work’s uncompromising nature…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:23PMAspiring Broadway stars attending Kaufman Music Center’s Summer Musical Theatre Workshop got to meet and greet 2015 Tony nominee Emily Skeggs at Kaufman Music Center July 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMStudio Cast, 1994 (Elektra-Nonesuch) Pardon My English, the 1933 musical that had the shortest Broadway run of any Gershwin show, makes for a most entertaining recording. The wonderful son…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:16PMThis post is by Joel Benjamin
"Awake and Sing!" seems at first an odd choice for NAATCO, the acting company dedicated to the advancement of Asian actors, but after an initial wary uneasiness…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:16PMNew 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 04:08PMThe Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey delivers a fresh version of Ferenc Molnar’s romantic romp, which successfully seizes the potentially tragic theme of marital mistrust and twists it in…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PMAs we all know, it takes a village to create anything in the theatre. Many people work very hard in all of the departments to deliver the finished product you see onstage. This feature will …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:07PMAl Hirschfeld was the most famous caricaturist in the world. And yet Hirschfeld wasn't really a caricaturist, given that the term implies exaggeration and distortion. Hirschfeld preferred th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PMThe American Theater Wing, the administrating body of Broadway's Antoinette Perry (Tony) Awards, has announced new appointments to its Board of Trustees and Advisory Committee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMHot spillages to electrifying risks, broken glass to scary stunts, name your songs that include details of physical danger and ways to stay away from harmWhen the Mother Superior sang Climb …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:05PMThe 31st Annual Bessie Awards will take place on Monday, October 19, 2015, at 7:30pm, at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York City. The 2015 ceremony will mark the Bessie Awards’ fifth…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 04:05PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1999 (RCA) Composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown earned a Tony Award for his work on Parade, his first Broadway score. Although this dark musical about accused murdere…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:04PMYou know Kelly AuCoin, you may just not know it yet. A true character actor, he’s been leaving his mark on stage as well as in television and films for over two decades, with appearances i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:03PMThe stars took to the stage for the lunchtime concert.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe Primary Stages production opens next month.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
The 2014 Tony Awards, hosted by Hugh Jackman, were nominated in the categories of Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special; Outstanding Special Class Program; and Outstanding Technical Di…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 03:54PMIN THE NEWS
Latino Theater Company and Robey Theatre Company, both residing at Los Angeles Theatre Center, have been granted $100,000 and $60,000, respectively, from the California…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:51PMThe last time Sutton Foster appeared at Encores!, in “Violet,” the show went on to Broadway. That probably won’t be the case with Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” which started...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:50PMHosted by Mara Wilson What Are You Afraid Of and Jenny Jaffe ForeverDog Productions, Project UROK, SEND IN THE CLOWNS comes to 54 Below on Tuesdsay, July 21st.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMBelow, watch the cast of CHICAGO --starring Brandy Norwood, Donna Marie Asbury and NaTasha Yvette Williams -- in action
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMThe American Repertory Theater has revealed poster art for the World Premiere of WAITRESS on the production's official Facebook page along with the clever captionFresh out of the oven
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMBarrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, presents the American screwball comedyHis GirlFriday,JohnGuare's adapt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PM"I danced before I walked," says Tommy Tune, adding modestly that this is "hearsay" from his parents. "I'd be crawling through the living room, and music would come on the radio-and I'd get …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PMOur homes are our most treasured possessions but what happens when they consume our daily lives? Niche, produced by Jane Franklin Dance, explores relationships, home ownership, and ultimatel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:43PMIt’s 2015. At this point, we must have seen just about every iteration and incarnation of fairy tale that can possibly be cooked up by wandering minstrels and Walt Disney… right?…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:43PMRhythm of Life is a celebration of the music and success of composer Cy Coleman. The audience learn that Coleman’s first experience on the piano was when one was moved into his flat so tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:43PMRebecca Lenkiewicz’s The Invisible is an urgent play that succeeds at raising awareness without shouting its message directly to its audience. This new legal drama is about a fictional…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:43PMThis Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground begins ‘The Playmaker Series: CATF 2015.’ In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1960 (Kapp/Decca) This topical revue served as a calling card for a young composer-lyricist named Jerry Herman. It remains a pleasant diversion if you’re in the…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:42PMThe American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of the world premiere of Waitress, the new Sara Bareilles musical, will play the Cambridge, MA venue Aug. 2-Sept. 27 with an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMMargo Sappington has resigned as artistic director of the American Dance Machine For the 21st Century, the organization dedicated to ensuring that landmark musical theatre choreography and t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMNEW YORK — David Strathairn can’t get the Georgetown professor out of his system.It is a purely professional attraction, however, one that over the past year has propelled the Oscar-nomi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:38PMSometimes theatre journalists write insensitive things. We all have unconscious biases, after all---but we can do better.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:22PMClick for photos from Colin Quinn’s solo show Colin Quinn: The New York Story, directed by Jerry Seinfeld. The new production plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre through August 16, 2015.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMStalwart character actor who appeared as Mr Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange and as one of the gruesome locals in The Wicker ManIn 1957, the character actor Aubrey Morris, who has died aged 89,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:17PMOn the Town star Clyde Alves shares the five albums that rocked his world in anticipation of his new Birdland concert on July 20.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:08PMThe Naked Theater Project’s SONATA: The Naked Theatre Project, playing at Gallaudet University’s Eastman Studio Theater, is an experimental concerto on suspense and delay. (It’s fully …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:08PMLast night, the Capital Fringe Festival took its exhibitions to new heights – some 300-odd feet up. Last night, thousands of other spectators and I at Milian Park in Northeast witnessed th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:08PMJust weeks after the national tour of "Kinky Boots" played the Bushnell, here's the other gay-tolerance musical with book by Harvey Fierstein based on a European comedy. "La Cage Aux Folles,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:03PMSeason 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 03:01PMOxygen Media is exploring the good, the bad and the most OUTRAGEOUS moments on social media during the new half-hour special, 'WORST.POST.EVER With Frankie Grande,' premiering on Tuesday, Au…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMYesterday, stage and screen vet Ian McKellen did an AMA on reddit. As one would expect, it waschock-full of theatre stories and signature McKellen wit.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PM
Original Broadway Cast Members, 1940 (Decca) Piggybacked onto the Decca CD issue of the Call Me Madam studio album starring Ethel Merman are four selections from Panama Hattie in their first…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:58PMAll credit to the Mad Marchioness for being the one to unearth this a couple of years ago. It being Barbara Stanwyck’s birthday, I thought it would be a good time to share it. In 1980,…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:56PMToday is the birthday of Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990). Over her 60 year career, Stanwyck played in every conceivable kind of picture, including some very funny comedies (The Lady Eve, Ball o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:56PMSutton Foster, Stephen Pasquale and Brandon Victor Dixon star in a concert-style production of Andrew Lippa's 2000 musical The Wild Party at the New York City Center through July 18 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMName: Sam BolenHometown: Duluth, MNEducation: Yale UniversitySelect Credits: Irma La Douce, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, It's...Superman! (Encores!); Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Old Hat Theatre Co.)…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:31PMChoreographer Arlene Phillips has called on producers to cast and create more shows in the north, to harness the talent and creativity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:31PMEducation secretary Nicky Morgan has defended her claims that arts subjects limit career choices. She said she was not criticising the arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:31PMThe BBC has hit back at a government review of its services, claiming it could lead to a “much diminished” offering by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:31PMTina BenkoBroadway's Irena's Vow, Top Girls, The Real ThingjoinsPun BandhuWit, The Judge,Jesse J. PerezRecent Tragic Events, American Splendor,DeLanna StudiAugust Osage County, Edge of Ameri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMJose Llana just stepped into the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's The King and I, directed by Bartlett Sher, at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMTony nomineeHoward McGillin, just coming off of GIGI on Broadway, will join Tony winnerBetty Buckleyand Drama Desk winnerRachel Yorkin Bay Street Theater's summer production of GREY GARDENS,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMThis past season, Broadway fans watched the 69th Annual Tony Awards with baited breath as history was made. For the first time the prize of for Book and Score of a Musical was given to a tea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMThis morning, Broadway's Tituss Burgess THE LITTLE MERMAID received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Tituss Andromedon on Netflix's Unbr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMA brand-new featurette goes behind the scenes ofRUTHLESS The Musical, encapsulating the fun and frantic journey of this new production, and you can check it out belowRUTHLESS opened Off-Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMMusicals go way beyond just people standing on a stage and singing. There are eight varieties, and it takes a keen ear to know the difference. Think you can crack the code? Take this quiz to…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:27PMMusicals are written to inspire and amaze audiences with intricate and classic songs belted out by top performers. But listen closely and you’ll hear that there are many different styl…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:26PMShakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III are enjoying renewed popularity on the continent. Michael Coveney examines two companies’ contrasting approaches to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:24PMAfter receiving a visit from First Lady Michelle Obama during its Off-Broadway run, it appears that the red-hot Broadway ticket Hamilton will welcome President Barack Obama to the mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMThings are heating up on 46th Street, as theatregoers flock to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to play lottery for Hamilton, the most anticipated show in recent Broadway history. Watch as Lin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMJessica Swale's revival will star Carolyn Backhouse and Jackie Clune
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:18PMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre is partnering with Connecticut's venerable Westport Country Playhouse to co-produce the world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s Love and Mo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMStudio Cast, 1950 (Columbia/Sony) Joey, a small-time entertainer bent on opening his own nightclub, drops his girlfriend, Linda, to bed Vera, a rich dowager who’s bonkers for him and who b…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:16PMPlaybill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, we pay a visit to the a Wild Party — the one written by Michael John LaChiusa that played Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMThe Skivvies and Tony winner Laura Benanti have joined the good fight against cell phone usage in the theatre with a new song, aptly titled 'Look Up.' Written by Benanti, the number …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PM“My Name Is Asher Lev,” a play based on the novel of the same name by Chaim Potok, continues through Aug. 2 at Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, N.Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMThe museum will showcase the work of Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton, who brought an intense, highly choreographed whirlwind of unison dancing and brutal slapstick to the East Village.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMThe So You Think You Can Dance choreographer talks her move to musical theatre with Encores! The Wild Party and why her style is so tough.
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 02:06PMDespite making her debut at The Player’s Club in 1993 and four years spent in prison for murdering a competing actress – “I wrapped the jump rope around her fat neck and pushed her ov…
SOURCE: Woman Around Town at 02:02PMBroadway supernova Idina Menzel has obviously been digging through her family’s attic in Long Island, because she just tweeted an amazing blast-from-the-past photo from her wedding sin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMThis is quite the extension. Annie Baker’s The Flick will now play off-Broadway through January 10, 2016. The return engagement of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama had previously …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMClick for photos from Grammy winner Kelly Clarkson's visit to Finding Neverland on July 15, 2015 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMBy HowlRound TV. The Latino/a Theatre Commons presents the 2015 Carnaval of New Latina/o Theatre —a showcase of new work by Latina/o playwrights and theatremakers in the United States—li…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PMMove over, Barrymores! TheaterMania's hanging with the Coopers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMAndrew Lippa's 2000 off-Broadway hit returns for an Encores! Off-Center concert.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMAnnie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play will run through 2016.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opened July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMThe Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute CHCI congratulates Rita Moreno on her much deserved selection to receive a 2015 Kennedy Center Honor acknowledging her incomparable contributions …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMDirected by Leigh Silverman and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh, THE WILD PARTY opened last night, July 15, at New York City Center. FUN HOME Tony winner Jeanine Tesori is the Artistic Director…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMRobert FairchildandLeanne Cope,stars of The Tony Award-winning new Broadway musicalAN AMERICAN IN PARIS, will perform the song Liza on LIVE with Kelly and MichaelFriday, July 17 at 900am ETo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMOn Friday night at the Off-Broadway comedy Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man, Anneliese van der Pol became very ill about 30 minutes before showtime. After calling every actress who…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMAnnie Baker's 2014 Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award-winning drama, THE FLICK, which has been playing to packed houses since opening in May at the Barrow Street Theatre, has extended its run thr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMIt may be a little dated. It may also be such an integral part of modern pop culture that it’s hard to remember when it
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:51PMNew production images forMEMPHIS THE MUSICALhave been released, now featuring multi-platinum selling recording artist and songwriterMatt Cardleas radio DJ 'Huey Calhoun' and Queen of British…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMThe singer turned to Twitter to share a photo of herself from her pre-WICKED wedding singer days on Long Island, along with the caption 'Back to where it all began
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1954 (Columbia/Sony) For a primer on the state of musical comedy in the mid-1950s, look no further than here. The Pajama Game was based on notably “unmusical” sou…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:46PMIN THE NEWS
Deaf West Theatre’s staging of 2007 Tony-winner Spring Awakening—which made its debut in fall 2014 at Downtown LA’s Rosenthal Theatre—will be enjoying an 18-we…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:37PMBy Catherine Trieschmann. In this installment, Catherine Trieschmann shares what happened when her daughter became addicted to " Frozen" Radio, and a musical re-education became imperative.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:35PMIn a piece that is technically a one-man show, Ron Jones speaks for, and as, numerous African Americans. Lyndon Johnson’s Civil Rights Act ignited a social and economic transformation for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:34PMEncores! presents a concert revival of Andrew Lippa’s version of a lurid 1920s poem about a gathering full of sex, drugs and violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PMAfter working as a stage manager at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and on out-of-town productions of musicals heading for the West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29PMThe Public Theater has announced casting for its musical adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet, with music, lyrics and book by Todd Almond (Iowa, S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMSometimes you've just got to have a little faith, not to mention determination, luck and even a certain amount of grace to create a musical that makes it to Broadway.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:27PMThe musical runs from July 17 through the 26th at Westminster Arts Center in Bloomfield.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:26PM"Smash" and Newsies star Jeremy Jordan has canceled his July 27-28 concerts at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, MA, due to scheduling conflicts with the new CBS seri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMOn Saturday at the Cleveland Public Library, the 2015 Regional Tony – presented to Cleveland Play House managing director Kevin Moore and artistic director Laura Kepley at the 69th Annual …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:20PMBy Cassidy Dawn Graves. Cassidy Dawn Graves on the Playwrights Horizons production of The Qualms by Bruce Norris.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:19PMStarting August 18, Rumer Willis will be making her Broadway debut at the Ambassador Theater, playing the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago. The recent winner of ABC’s Dancing With The S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:06PMNew Yorkers used to be straight shooters, but now we're boring, polite and afraid, comedian Colin Quinn argues in a new book and one-man show.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:05PMLight a cigarette at a bus stop and the bus will come. Book a holiday and your agent will phone with a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMTony nominee Robert Fairchild has been nominated for a 2015 Bessie Award, the New York Dance and Performance Awards, for his leading role in the Broadway musical An American in Paris. Fairch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe Public Works production will put music to Homer's epic poem.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The Public Theater will kick off the 2015-16 season in September with a free Public Works musical adaptation of Homer's THE ODYSSEY, conceived and directed by Public Works Director Lear deBe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMFollow the cast of Disney's ALADDIN as they take a trip to The White House to performs at the 2015 Kids' State Dinner.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMCasting is set for Signature Theatre'sworld premiere of A.R. Gurney's new play Love amp Money, directed by Mark Lamos.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMBeing single, middle-aged and HIV in New York City isn't always easy, but Merce couldn't be happier Hailed as 'Seinfield with HIV' by Poz Magazine, the new webseries MERCE follows the advent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMBy Stephen Collins
This is a curious production of Othello. You get the bones of the story, clearly, but the flesh, the marrow, the heart - all of which depends upon the rich characters of t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:52PMAge: “Older than my character.”
Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN
Current Role: A gut-busting Broadway debut as Timothy, a sullen high schooler who bullies the shy and puppet-possessed …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMMaureen Anderman will lead the cast of the previously reported world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s Love & Money. Directed by Mark Lamos, the comedy will run off-Broadway August 15 thro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMWillis will be the name on everybody's lips on Broadway this fall! Rumer Willis will make her Great White Way debut in Chicago as Roxie Hart. She is scheduled to begin performances on Au…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMThe nominations for the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 16. Broadway fans had reasons to celebrate as the 2014 Tony Awards telecast, Peter Pan Live! and Live from Li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMClick for photos from the starry post-show celebration of Encores! Off-Center’s The Wild Party on July 15, 2015 at New York City Center. See the new revival through July 18.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMWhen you have just directed a play that features a murderess attempting to have sex with a man she has just decapitated, what do you do for an encore? . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:47PMClassically trained singer Chris Mann, the third runner-up in the second season of the NBC singing competition "The Voice," now plays the title role in the current national tou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMClassically trained singer Chris Mann, the third runner-up in the second season of the NBC singing competition "The Voice," now plays the title role in the current national tou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMGood parodies of show business are rare, but one of the best is Joel Paley and Marvin Laird’s 1992 Off-Broadway cult classic RUTHLESS! The Musical, now playing in an open run at St. Luke�…
SOURCE: www.stagezine.com at 12:42PMRegis Philbin, Bernadette Peters, Joan Ryan, Sierra Boggess, Mario Cantone, Jackie Hoffman, Dame Gillian Lynne, K.T. Sullivan and Jim Brochu all attended the opening night of RUTHLESS! at St…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:38PMNominations for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in television, have been announced. The annual awards ceremony will be broadcast live on Fox-TV Sept. 20 from the Micr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMFEATURED PLAYWRIGHT: ERIN MALLON The Salty Part of the Animal will be presented at the Samuel French OOB Festival on Tuesday August 4th at 8:00pm. Click Here for tickets. Erin is an active p…
SOURCE: oob.samuelfrench.com at 12:30PMKyle Riabko's production opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:30PMSocial media savvy rescue pup Tinkerbelle the Dog tinkerbellethedog is making her rounds this week in the Broadway Community and hoping to inspire everyone to AdoptDontShop Tinkerbelle stopp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe new play THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY will honor civil rights hero Edie Windsor as thefirst recipient of the Absolute Brightness Award after the evening performance tonight,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMClassical Greek theatre will take overClassic Stage Company when it begins its20152016 season with the inaugural GREEK FESTIVAL
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThis morning, Cat Deeley and Uzo Aduba announced the nominations for the 67th Emmy Awards from the Pacific Design Center.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMAnother Willis is headed to Broadway this season
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMJeremy Jordan has unfortunately had to cancel his upcoming concerts --July 27 amp 28 -- at the Crown amp Anchor's Paramount Cabaret. Hiscommitments to the new CBS television series SUPERGIRL…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThis morning, Cat Deeley and Uzo Aduba announced the nominations for the 67th Emmy Awards from the Pacific Design Center.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe music division of Library of Congress has done several 'A Conversation With...' pieces on famous musicians, lyricists and contributors to not only the music scene but also the musical th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe Turner Prize-winning artist hacked the wall of a theater where his play has opened to largely negative reviews. Douglas Gordon directs Charlotte Rampling in “Neck of the Woods,R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:11PMWhen, in the mid-1980s, under the artistic directorship of Leon Rubin, I was an assistant director at the Bristol Old Vic, Roger Rees was appointed associate director. We became firm friends…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMWilliamson Park, LancasterDickens’ urban fable works well in a semi-rural setting, and there’s real menace in Fagin’s gang, despite the wind whipping away some dialogueCharles Dickens …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMThe actress and 'Dancing with the Stars' champ will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart, just before her father's play begins previews this fall.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:07PMRumer Willis, the oldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the current revival of Chicago. The "Dancing With the Stars" winner …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMRumer Willis, the oldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the current revival of Chicago. The "Dancing With the Stars" winner …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMRECOMMENDED I’m writing this twenty-four hours after the final blackout and “Grand Concourse” is still making me unsettled. Set in a Bronx soup kitchen run out of the basement of a Cat…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:05PMSpend a day at the Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century, which ends its run this weekend! Mamie Parris, who plays Agnes in the musical, takes us through her day, from waking to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMI recently saw the fantastic meta-theatrical event known as Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self-Loathing Presents: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? at the Capital Fringe …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMThe daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore will make her Broadway debut.
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The new musical Amazing Grace officially opens tonight on Broadway. Based on a true story, Amazing Grace follows Englishman John Newton as he evolves from the rebellious son of a wealthy sla…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:58AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1951 (RCA) A show with a magnificent score but an inferior book, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon tells of an 1853 California gold rush, the l…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:57AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE will play in select movie houses across North America, beginning August 19.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMThe performance of Wrestling with the WIP begins in the lobby of Brookland’s Dance Place: four women in quilted skirts in a blend of pantomime, precise movement, and frustrated shouts …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMThe story of Yo, Vikings! was introduced to me when I was in middle school. I have vivid memories of sitting in the backseat of my parent’s car and driving past the Schachner’s house in …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:41AMBy Stephen Collins
Henry Goodman is assured and magnetic as the titular Volpone. He gives a larger than life performance which suits - entirely - Johnson's larger than life character. In the…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:36AMOh, we do like a good #ThrowbackThursday moment and this is a classic. Back in 2007, before In the Heights had even hit Broadway, creator Lin-Manuel Miranda recreated the “Bet On It&rd…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMOh, look – suddenly it’s July, and I’ve just wrapped my first semester teaching college students (Pace University Musical Theater BFA kids WOOT!). Turns out, that platitude that’s al…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:32AMDillie Keane will perform solo following Adèle Anderson's cancer diagnosis
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:25AMThe production will be filmed at the Vaudeville Theatre and broadcast across the UK and Ireland
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:25AMThe season includes the first UK production of Eugene O'Neill's 'lost' play Exorcism
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:25AMEubie the Elf is on a musical mission to bring Christmas cheer to a town on Santa’s naughty list. A new musical comedy by Grammy Award-winning and TONY Award-nominated composer and lyr…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:25AMBy Loy Webb “I choose to reflect the times and situations in which I find myself. That to me is my duty. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?” A poignant question raised b…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:13AMTwo new posters for ALLELUIA THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL have just been released, and you can check them out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMThis morning, Cat Deeley and Uzo Aduba will announce the nominations for the 67th Emmy Awards from the Pacific Design Center. Click below to watch the anouncement live, beginning at 1120 amET
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMThe wacky world of MRS. SMITH has returned. Click below to hear her story about auditioning for The Public Theater production of George Brant's solo play GROUNDED. Unfortunately she, herself…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMNew 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 11:08AMLed by Tony winner Sutton Foster, Encores Off-Center's presentation of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party also features Steven Pasquale who made his New York stage debut and understudied the role…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMJACQUELINE LAWTON: What was the most game-changing production you’ve seen or created, and why? KELVIN DINKINS, JR.: HAMILTON: I am pretty sure this may be part of a lot of responses b…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:08AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1976 (RCA) Only Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim could find musical possibilities in the opening up of Japan to the West in 1853. Only Sondheim could make such a br…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:05AMBy Don RebarCommunity Engagement & Digital Content ManagerFounding members of the WCP New Works Circle recently visited the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT to take a close…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 11:04AMby Alexandra Scordato Marketing InternEach summer the staff of Westport Country Playhouse welcomes a group of aspiring theater professionals to join them in numerous areas of production…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 11:04AM"We were having a wild, wild party," sings the tormented chorine Queenie early on in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, which is playing at City Center through Saturday as part of the Encores! O…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:03AMDostoyevsky's satirical fable about a man eaten by a crocodile gets a witty, infectiously enjoyable update, says Jane Shilling
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:02AMFestival flood donation GEORGIA/TBILISI The Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre has announced that “all money generated from ticket sales” this year will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMAndrew Lippa's musical returns to New York City via Encores! Off-Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Meet ON YOUR FEET's newest Estefans, Ana Villafañe and Josh Segarra.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:58AMJeremy Gerard has covered the evolving fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AMBroadway Legacy was created by Christian Dante White with the aim of establishing an online historical catalogue of art and information that celebrates African American theatre. In this behi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMI grew up near Niagara Falls. Every month in the good weather, a couple of people will step over the guard rail, slip into the river and surrender to its astonishing power, to gravity and to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMWithout words, Shakespearean sonnets come to life in choreographer Alice Howes’ riveting new show Dancing Ophelia. This modern dance marvel offers an updated interpretation of several clas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMAs the saying goes….The key to success is Ruthlessness. This story has many twists and turns and nobody is quite who they appear to be. This takes toddlers in tiaras to a whole new level, …
SOURCE: www.thisbroadsway.com at 10:52AMOriginal London Cast, 1946 (Decca/Encore Box Office) Noël Coward’s overstuffed postwar operetta plunked a visiting diva among some missionaries on the island of Samolo. The show failed to…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:50AMDouglas Gordon’s axe-attack on the Home arts centre seems extreme. But from death threats to abusive postcards, critics have paid a heavy price for dismissing thespiansHow do people react …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMYoung Vic, London TV news brings Syria to our homes, yet distances us. This heartfelt installation-cum-video closes the gap to humanise the warWhat do you know about what is happening in Syr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMBelow, Alves gives us a taste Monday's concert bysharingfive of his musical inspirations from YouTube. Check them out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMTen playwrights have won the New York Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwright Awards, honoring established and emerging writers for the theater. The winners are currently producing work on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMPresident Barack Obama will take a tripback in time to meet one of our nation's most famous Founding Fathers
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMOnce upon a time, when I was a wee theatre grad student, there was a truly obnoxious bunch of undergrads who called themselves the Naked Theater. They were poseurs all, with little in the …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:39AMNew York City gets even hotter July 15-18. The Encores! Off-Center staging of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, which stars Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Queenie, bega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMA familiar face to area theatre-lovers, Frank Britton is appearing with Pinky Swear Productions in Stephen Spotswood’s The Last Burlesque through August 16. A company member at WSC Ava…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 10:26AMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast Members, 1994 (Varèse Sarabande) “Promising” is the obvious word for Lucky Stiff, the first produced musical by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ah…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:25AMPulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist and critic Vijay Seshadri is the featured artist Wednesday, July 22, for the 23rd annual Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the nationally acclaimed series …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:20AMMichael John LaChiusa's Off-Broadway hit SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE is to receive its London Premiere in a 4-week run at the Jermyn Street Theatre from Tuesday 8 September to Saturday 3 October 20…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 10:13AMStudio Cast, 2000 (DRG) For this musical, which was seen at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1997, librettist Sherman Yellen wrapped a yarn of romance among expat American journalists in 1927 Pa…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:10AMI 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 10:10AMHappy Birthday Tony Kushner Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into a miniseries for wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMCelebrities are liningup to participate on NBC's hit series HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT, hosted by Jane Lynch.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMBroadway's new musicalAmazing Grace officially opens tonight, July 16, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street.The show stars Tony Award nomineeJosh Young,Erin Mackey, Tony Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMSir Ian McKellen shares some of his favorite pop lyrics, including Taylor Swift's hit Bad Blood and a dramatic rendition of Bruno Mars 'Uptown Funk'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMSiblings of dictators, little white liars, people who Instagram food — these are just a few of the topics explored in the whimsical cabaret, Interviews with… Making its world premier…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03AMI got the idea for The Paper Game during a series of epic battles with my then health insurance company over who had to pay a $69.50 lab bill. (The answer? They did. But they thought they …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMWe are entering a time where many of this nation’s ills are being brought to the forefront of social consciousness. It seems that every week, we the people are seeing more places where…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:00AMExhibit is full of bright colors, strong figurative imageryTwo-dimensional works, especially paintings, are vibrant, variedWinning photograph captures surreal Presidio night scene … C…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AM
Peter Blume was a modernist, which in his case meant all kinds of things. Blume did surrealism, magical realism, precisionism. But at the new Peter Blume exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:58AMJohn Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar is a romantic comedy, so you can guess the dénouement, but all the fun is in getting there.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMNew York Concert Cast, 1996 (DRG) This is a biting and funny satire of Louisiana’s byzantine politics in general, and of Huey Long in particular. Although Louisiana Purchase opened on Broa…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:55AMBy HowlRound TV. Urban Bush Women and Junebug Productions with support from the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans ' Performance Support Program presents "Urban Bush Women and Voices from …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:55AMCaridad Svich on social injustice at the EST Marathon of One-Act Plays
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:53AMIn Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of The Metropolitan Youth Theatre’s Rent, meet Ben Cherington. Introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47AMA couple of weeks ago, Richard Jay-Alexander reported exclusively for BroadwayWorld.com on Michael McElroy, the Broadway Inspirational Voices and the launch of Parlor Night, which will soon …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMOn last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo, a caller asked Kathie Lee Gifford if there was truth to the rumor that she threatened to quit The Today Show because she wasn't happy with T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMGood 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 AMAZING GRACE sails to Broadway, SOMET…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMLed by Tony winnerSutton Foster, Encores Off-Center's presentation ofAndrew Lippa'sThe Wild Partyalso featuresSteven Pasqualewho made his New York stage debut and understudied the role of Bu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMThe 25th epic edition of Broadway Bares celebrated the golden age of Broadway with an evening of ripped dancers, cheeky choreographers and sumptuous showgirls on Sunday, June 21, 2015, for B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMMany people don’t know the story of the classic hymn or the composer of “Amazing Grace,” but the new musical of the same name seeks to change that. The musical explores th…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:43AMIf you’re looking for a brassy, over-the-top, laugh-filled, show biz-spoofing musical that echoes the outrageousness of Charles Busch and the late Charles Ludlam at their campiest, look no…
SOURCE: slleiter.blogspot.com at 09:40AM By: David ShewardThough we've encountered their plot templates many times before, two Off-Broadway shows-Shows …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:38AMPavilion theatre, ManchesterComedy collective the Invisible Dot dine out on this Dostoevsky-inspired tale of an actor consumed by a crocodileFyodor Dostoevsky is possibly the last figure you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMTonight on TCM: a selection of films from John Wayne’s mature period. Late phase Duke is an interesting phenomenon. He stuck out like a dodo in the Hollywood of the liberal 1970s. He w…
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A rousing new musical has docked at South Street Seaport this summer. Featuring a book by Seth Moore and music by The Lobbyists (actor-musi…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:08AMBroadway's new musicalAmazing Graceofficially opens tonight, July 16, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AM
Just off her success for McLean High School with Big Fish, which rose to local and national prominence, Director Amy E. Poe is leading a cast of young adults in American Idiot. The rock musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56AMDirector Judd Apatow has done a great job translating Amy Schumer's humor and salty/sweet persona to the screen in Trainwreck.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMTHE MUSIC MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN When Moonlight Stage Productions announced their production of The Music Man, which opens this week at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista, I actually got …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50AMSALUTING SONDHEIM IN SOLANA BEACH Stephen Sondheim is so beyond merely good and light years away from conventional that some may view his musicals as pure art and overlook the slathers of so…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50AMWhether shaking up Shakespeare or nodding to Elizabethan conventions, this summer four of the region's theater companies and festivals illustrate that there's more to the Bard than anything …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:50AMFor much of her Broadway and film career, Idina Menzel - who, amazingly, is on her first major solo tour - has been a star, but a star at a certain remove.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:50AMIt will be called 'Genie.'
SOURCE: USA Today at 08:50AMThe classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays and dances last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations, con…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:50AMCall Answered: In one of my most heart-wrenching interviews yet, "Call Me Adam" chats with Mrs. Smith about her missing cat Carlyle, who went missing about two years ago when he ran out of h…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 08:50AMIan McKellen stopped by last night's TONIGHT SHOW to talk to Jimmy about playing Sherlock Holmes as a retiree in his film MR. HOLMES. Check out the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMThe third official trailer for PANhas been released Directed by Joe Wright and starring Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Rooney Mara, Garrett Hedlund, Cara Delevingne and Levi Miller.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMKatharine McPhee stopped by THE TALK to reveal where her character's Paige relationship with Walter is headed on the second season of Scorpion on CBS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMA sumptuous production with dazzling choreography, fine performances, and the warmth and wisdom of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 08:37AMThe 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 08:37AMThe 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 08:34AMCheeky Monkey Sideshow Presents: CMSS X 3D, OK? is an affectionate collection of extreme performances and biological oddities that makes you cringe and cheer. It is utterly unlike any other …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMThis is the most tentative assessment I’ve ever given a show, Fringe or otherwise. This is because the featured player in this production is…well, it’s you. And I have no i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMThousands of people have signed a petition protesting against the proposed closure of an arts centre in Reading. South Street Arts Centre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMA north London fringe venue is moving to one of the capital’s most theatre-deprived boroughs. Theatre N16 opened in Stoke Newington in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonFar from being another jukebox musical, this show gives a slew of Bacharach-David hits an exuberant makeover that invites fresh appreciationIt was touching to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThe ‘nervous adrenaline’ of working with Matthew Bourne isn’t challenge enough for the poster-boy principal of the American Ballet Theatre. The Brazilian dancer drives his own transfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMRory Mullarkey's adaptation will star Katy Stephens as Clytemnestra
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:06AMRED HOT Taylor Swift rolls into Soldier Field on Saturday with her 1989 World Tour in ...
The post The Mix — Taylor Swift (and 7 more) cool things to do around Chicago this weekend appear…
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32AMThis is vintage Alan Ayckbourn and forty years on reveals more of the depths hinted at when this wine was young. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Scarborough theatre in which his tal…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AMFight Club is to not only get a sequel in the form of a Fight Club 2 comic, but a musical/"rock opera" on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AMThe show will run from Dec. 9 to Dec. 27.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 07:23AMMovies including Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and Terminator 2 will be re-imagined on a tight budget at the Edinburgh festival this summerWhen popular movies are adapted for the stage, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMAn innovative project by and for sex workers in Malawi is helping bring about much-needed changeMercy was just 16 when her mother was taken ill and she found herself with five young siblings…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMBreaking bones, gliding, pausing ... are some of the contortionistic dance moves that make up flexing. But it’s more than just a dance style, it’s a culture. A Brooklyn group is at the M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AM“Time, time—that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.” Hector Berlioz, letter to Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein (Aug. 12, 1856)
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By Bill Hirschman Like Hamlet, Madama Butterfly and the Terminator franchise, the indestructible entertainment phenomenon that is WaistWatchers: The Musical has returned to South Florida in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:58AMStephen Merchant is the latest high profile comic to tread the boards
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:58AMBacharach could make anyone's teardrops fall, but his material is drained of pathos in this project, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:35AM By Brian Scott Lipton The roars of applause that greeted the opening chords of Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” which concludes this year’s …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:34AMBy Doug Mayo
BAFTA nominated writer and director Paul Andrew Williams makes his theatrical debut with his play Ticking which will open at the Trafalgar Studios for a five week run on October…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:19AMIn April, The Stage launched a nationwide competition to find the UK’s best undiscovered theatre critics, with an open call-out to any
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMThe Equity versus McAlinden case has never really been about money – or not about the money involved in this specific case.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMHow does Sandra Bernhard handle people with cellphones, the current scourge of comedians minor and great? "People don't do that at my show," she said dismissively. "My people are very attent…
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by Joe Regan Jr. Daryl Glenn’s latest show, Daryl Sings Steve: Sings by Sondheim was originally presented at Feinstein’s at the Regency, and then was part...
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SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:52AMOnce in a while you have to raise a little crane! When I walked to 6th and Massachusetts Avenue from the Gallery Place Metro I saw a packed little park – Milian Park – filled w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40AMFirst, it took the sitcoms. Now the Netflix pay model is seeping into theater culture. Finally. Third Rail Repertory is the first Portland company pitching a monthly membership subscription …
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:27AMWhen Jess (Jennifer Mudge) announces to her husband Fred (Kelly AuCoin), “I just want everyone to play nice” referring to her two sisters who are coming to her beach home for her…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:14AMA delightful summer evening, perhaps a picnic on the grass, an open-air stage and Shakespeare under the stars (at least, for the second act); that’s what’s in store for you at Th…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:14AMFrom July 17 to 26, the Westminster Arts Center in Bloomfield will host a brand new production of “Cabaret.”
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:14AMALPINE €“ Isabel Merians is no stranger to the world of entertainment €” after all she is the host of her own radio broadcast and an author.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:14AMJarvis Landry Catches Up With Odell Beckham Jr & More at the ESPYsYH sends Miami Dolphins WR Jarvis Landry out to the ESPY Awards to talk to some of the hottest athletes in the game, includi…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMThe new musical, which tells the story behind one of the world's most famous hymns, officially begins tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMMike Tyson Talks "Mike Tyson Mysteries" & His Age-Defying SecretsYH sits down with the one and only "Iron Man" Mike Tyson at Comic-Con to get the scoop on his '80s-inspired Adult Swim series…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM"Teen Wolf" Cast Talk Bad 1st Dates & Dedicate Songs to Each OtherNo visit to Comic-Con would be complete without a chill sesh with our favorite lycanthropes from MTV's "Teen Wolf"! YH sits …
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Something Rotten celebrates its new cast recording today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AM'Joey Contreras In Concert' is set for tonight, July 16, 2015 at 8 PM at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AMThree decades of an intimate letter-writing friendship between two of America's most celebrated poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, are brought to life by JoBeth Williams and Julian S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AMCelebrating its 6th year bringing live theatre to cinema audiences around the world, NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE is pleased to announce an international broadcast of Academy Award nominee Chiwetel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AMVictory Gardens Theaterrecently announced the cast of its 2015 IGNITION Festival of New Plays, including GREY'S ANATOMY star Sandra Oh and Broadway legend Andre De Shields.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AMEmmy Award winner Uzo Aduba Orange is the New Black and Broadway's John Stamos will announce the nominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards today, July 16th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58AMAmazing Grace opens officially at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre on July 16. The show, which tells the origin story of a certain familiar tune, stars Josh Young as John Newton, Erin Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34AMToday we celebrate the birthday of one of Broadway's most iconic songwriters of all time, Jerry Herman.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27AMAn interview with the creative team of My Favorite Character Was the Talking Vase.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:13AMBefore they were stars, they were dog walkers, cocktail waitress and even telemarketers. Playbill.com asks the stars of the New York stage about the jobs they took to get by before they made…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opens July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, we pay a visit to the a Wild Party — the one written by Michael John LaChiusa that played Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSongwriter Joey Contreras' New York Musical Theatre Festival concert will be held July 16 at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center. Alex Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhile New York plays host to its first revival of Andrew Lippa's musical The Wild Party, Playbill.com looks back to the spring of 2000, when Lippa's musical opened at Manhattan Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhere the principals of the Broadway musical Amazing Grace pursued their college studies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1924 Broadway premiere of George Dibdin-Pitt's Sweeney Todd, one of numerous adaptations of the penny-dreadful tale of murder and cannibalism that would later be adapted as a mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMClyde Alves, who plays Ozzie, one of the three toe-tapping sailors in Broadway's On the Town, shares 10 of his favorite songs to dance to as part of this week's Playbill Playlist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNew York radio station 106.7 Lite FM continues into its second week of the free lunchtime theatre summer series Broadway in Bryant Park, bringing selections from Broadway and Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe luck of the Irish doesn’t appear to be with Trassie Conlee. Her father is on his deathbed, and she, alone, must stand strong to protect her brother and her land from her cousins, the m…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
