To round out its 65th season, Music Circus presents HAIR, the groundbreaking musical that defined a generation and introduced rock 'n' roll to Broadway. Set against a backdrop of the Vietnam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38PMBig Sexy Circus City, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 14th August 2015 Wings In My Heart is an extraordinary work of circus innovation developed by the husband and wife team Rigolo: Lena Roth and…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:34PMAlmost 60 years ago, Broadway audiences were shocked by West Side Story, an audacious piece of musical theater that dared to take on the subject of race relations. With Jerome Robbins’ fie…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:27PMThe Playwrights Realm's New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's A Delicate Ship began previews Aug. 18 prior to an official opening Aug. 27 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 W. 42nd St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22PMFrom a raft of drab, superficial, vaguely entertaining major commercial musicals emerges a sharp, intelligent winner. Matilda the Musical has opened in Sydney, and the Greases and Rocky Horr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:18PM
Catch this year's 2015 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards nominations announcement online
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMOne Tower Bridge development will be the flagship home for London Theatre Company, group set up Hytner and Nick Starr when they left NationalA new 900-seat theatre is to open close to Tower …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26PMFormer Doctor Who actor slams ‘bland culture’ of white, middle-class males filling classical rolesActor Christopher Eccleston, known for his portrayal of Doctor Who, has criticised the l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26PMPaul grew up in a very religious small town in Australia: minister father, religious public school, awkward conversations about things that teenage boys do – the whole deal, basically. Ag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PMJ is a physics teacher with a weak heart and a whole load of childhood dreams. She’s been ground down by her job and is looking for a change from her pedestrian, everyday life. So what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PMIn June 1985, a large group of New Age travellers were stopped by the police on their way to set up the annual Stonehenge Free Festival. The resulting violence was reportedly more or less a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PMJoey, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Ross and Rachel all put their keys down on the table of their New York apartment. It’s 2004 and The Last One. The audience is on their feet, the actors are …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23PM
The ensconced veteran reluctant to give up the spotlight. The impatient successor nipping at his heels. This scenario has launched plots from "Paradise Lost" to "The Late Shift."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:41PMBeloved tenor Andrea Bocelli and vaunted soprano Renee Fleming will perform in a benefit concert titled "Remembering Pavarotti" on Sept. 25 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:41PMFrom a sweet-toothed Canadian hit-maker to a satanic Swedish band and a precocious Oregonian teenager, pop comes in many flavors this week. Carly Rae Jepsen “Making the Most of the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:33PMLos Angeles is in for a treat next monthTony and Grammy-winner Audra McDonald comes to the Hollywood Bowl to sing classics from Broadway and the American Songbook with the Los Angeles Philha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25PM✭✭✩✩✩ Closed in:
M and E Theatre’s No Exit? is a strangely diffuse production, with plenty of energy but not much cohesion.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:01PMWelcome back to Stage Door Shrink, a regular column aimed at helping performers chortle their way to a #win. This week, our session is focused on the big A – AGENTS. Apart from having …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:01PM
He's the dazzling stage vet whose great looks and even greater pipes served him well leading the Broadway blockbusters Les Miserables, The Lion King and now Aladdin. She's the charmi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:58PMOn this week’s episode, we’ve got a fresh crop of casting updates, news about Waitress and Kinky Boots, a potty-mouthed tweet from a Tony winner and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:58PMThe Australian Premiere Season of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of MATILDA THE MUSICAL made its debut at Sydney Lyric Theatre on July 28 and continues through October 25, 2015. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMThe March on Washington for Gun Control will present a Benefit reading of a Newtown documentary theater piece 26 Pebbles by Eric Ulloa on August 24 at 800 p.m. at Arena Stage at the Mead Cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMThe impresario and performer Hershey Felder is doubling down on his commitment to the Royal George Theatre. He is, of late, the only one who seems to have been able to make the place work. F…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:48PM✭✭✭✩✩ Promising start:
New company Third Degree Theatre’s musical presentation of the life of Robert Burns has a lot going for it. It may not be t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:43PMA big break for the legendary Broadway star was this charming spoof of Ruby KeelerBusby Berkeley movie musicals.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMCPH's historic 100th Season will open on an operatic note, with the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's A COMEDY OF TENORS. BroadwayWorld has just confirmed thefull cast -- featuring several Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMThe team behind the Hunger Games film series is also attached to the project.
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✭✭✭✩✩ Lacks sparkle
Some fine young performers feature in New Celts and Nook N’ Cranny’s production of Gregory Burke’s black comedy Ho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:56PMMichael Feinstein and the Pasadena POPS close their popular outdoor summer concert series at the Los Angeles County Arboretum on September 12 with the quintessential Feinstein experience -- …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMOn this week’s episode, we’ve got a fresh crop of casting updates, news about WAITRESS and KINKY BOOTS, a potty-mouthed tweet from a Tony winner and more.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:44PMIf your tolerance for corrosive behavior is high and you’ve been craving a musical version of Netflix’s “House of Cards,” “The Fix” may see you through. The show at Signature The…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMSan Diego's Backyard Renaissance Theatre opens with a quirky British drama about middle age
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:32PMWhen I was a pre-law guy at Johns Hopkins University back in 19-mumble-mumble, I spent more time in the computer lab than I did in class. I wasn’t working on inventing Google or Facebo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 05:32PMCOMEDY TONIGHT More like side-splitting by side-splitting by Sondheim, Impro Theatre–the masters of long-form improvisations in the style of famous authors and genres–are gearing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:32PMThe Stargate Theatre Company, a project of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Education Department will perform an original piece, Deeper Than Skin, this Saturday, August 22nd at 3:00PM and 7:00PM a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:32PMSam Houston State University’s theater department produces working actors, even before the students receive their degrees.
Located 70 miles north of Houston, in Huntsville, Texas, the …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:32PMIf anyone loves the theater...it’s theater folks! Over the years creatives have written some incredible musicals and melodies about what it’s like to be in this business. Here ar…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:32PMHow hot is Baldwin Wallace University grad Kyle Jean-Baptiste? Judging by this clip, he's as molten as the Earth's core about now. Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of "Hamilton,&quo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:32PMExcellent cast sings and dances the great old musical with consummate skill
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:29PMHe had to travel almost 6,000 miles and adjust to a completely different culture while spending long hours on the practice floor, but a local teenager now can fulfill his dream of performing…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:29PMRenee Fleming, a four-time Grammy Award-winning soprano sometimes known as the "People's Diva," will perform for the first time in Sarasota next January with the... Read more »
The post…
SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 05:28PM"Hitman: Agent 47" star Hannah Ware spends Christmas at Kelsey Grammer's house.
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:26PMPhoto Credits by Mia Hawk Crossing Jerusalem marks a well crafted piece of Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guest Reviewed by Francesca Mepham @…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:18PM“While there are 17 other theatres of comparable size (800-1,099 seats) in greater London, with 15 of those in inner London, the new building would be the first large-scale theatre in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15PMTrisha SugarekHometown: Seattle, Washington Current Town: Savannah, Georgia Q: What are you working on now? A: A ten minute play, for the classroom, about transgendered teens. I…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 05:12PMFor the second time today and for the third time this week I find myself in a show about cancer. Earlier I learnt about BRCA1 on the back of a cello with a sharpie, today we have the ‘chem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMMs Hyde is a life coach, motivational speaker extraordinar, friends to the stars, a ‘cult personality’. Supposedly, she changes people’s lives. But she’s gone missing and Max,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMOkay, I’ll admit it. I haven’t seen the film Jurassic Park. Yes, I have lived under a rock for the past 50 years. But by no means does this stop me enjoying Superbolt Theatre Company’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMThe Hogwallops are not simply a circus troupe. Rather, an eccentric family of misfits who are all very good at throwing each other around the stage, and so this domesticity is given a circ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMAn estranged father, an aunt trying to hold it together and a lost girl looking for her friend. In deepest Australia, she hitches exactly the kind of dodgy lift with a trucker we are all veh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PM“Who ever heard of a girl called Johnnie?” Who indeed, but here is little Johnnie Wylo and she’s made a deal with The Wind, in exchange for her heart, no less, to save her small southe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMCirque du Soleil, the Canadian circus entertainment company, will bring its magic and acrobatics to the Lyric Theatre with Paramour, the troupe’s first show specifically created for Broadw…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:08PM
Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Nicole Kidman Preps for Latest Theater Role
Nicole Kidman will soon return to the stage in Anna Ziegler's new play Phot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMSex, race, social class, political activism, the changing roles of women and the issue of abortion. This might sound like a bucket list of contemporary themes. But in "Dirty Dancing - The Cl…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:53PMThe Broadway Show League just wrapped up its 2015 season, bringing some of Broadway's biggest stars to the softball field. This year, the MATILDA team won the championship Check out a photo …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PM54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Alexis Field in 'Tindering Across America' on Friday, September 18th at 1130pm. What happens when an actress on tour Tinders her way state-by-state…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMThe 2015 New York International Fringe Festival welcomes nearly 200 productions to New York City in 16 venues over 17 days. REVIEWS The American Play The Crack in the Ceiling Dead Lunch, or …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:49PMThose who bemoan the tendency of theater producers to play it safe by staging familiar movie products probably have "Dirty Dancing" tucked away in their prosecutorial evidence files. This sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:46PMCommon skills like speaking with accents, juggling and handling stage combat are standard. But others are special and considered valuable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PMA throbbing, infectious production of Euripides’ “The Bakkhai” stars Ben Whishaw as Dionysos; and Rory Kinnear plays Joseph K, Kafka’s bewildered and shame-stained hero, in “The Tr…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PMTime to hit the gym! The Tony-nominated matinee idol works up a sweat to show Broadway Style Guide how Les Misérables transformed his attitude toward fitness, his acting technique, and …
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 04:37PMOn Aug. 17, Covenant House held their third annual Sleep Out: Broadway Edition to raise money and awareness — their mission is to aid and shelter homeless youth. Some 60 Broadway p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMIt's easy to find yourself living inside a theatrical bubble, outside of which little else exists. A London critical colleague of mine Natasha Tripney filed a column for TheStage from th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMNightlife powerhouse Tori Scott will return to Joe's Pub with her latest show Thirsty!, an evening of poor life choices and stories of her late-night misadventures, featuring songs f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMTheater for the New City will stage Bike Shop, The Musical next month, helmed by Gretchen Cryer, who starred in and wrote the book and lyrics for the long-running I'm Gettin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMOriginal London Cast, 1961 (Decca/Hallmark) This may not be a great musical, but it has a great score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. These are inventive, compelling songs. The lyrics…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:19PMIt's easy to fall in love with the Finding Neverland cast recording.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:17PM“Public office is a minefield” so you better just “Grit your teeth, sell the lies” though “maybe I’m just too blunt to survive” are lyrics that provide some of the central posi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PMThe Broadway Show League, a softball league for people who work on and Off-Broadway, held its championships at Central Park's Heckscher Ballfields Aug. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PMThe most valuable thing I have learned in the last few months while beginning my journey as a theatre director, is how important it is to get new experience. Having trained and worked as an …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01PMOne thing the Great British Bake Off has proved is that as a nation, we have a deep, if surprising love for watching a group of people competing against each other through the medium of cak…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01PMThe Matilda The Musical national tour kicked off the 201516 season at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre last night, where it plays through September 6, 2015. While the show doesn't officially ope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMHugh Jackman may next be taking on a Greek classic.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMHamilton's authorstar shows once again how the Founding Fathers were like today's hip-hop artists.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMThe pair will star in the orchestra's annual Cabaret Evening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
TheRoyal Shakespeare Company, Louise Withers,Michael CoppelampMichael Wattpresents the Australian Premiere Season ofMatilda the Musical, which commencedperformances on July 28 in Sydney.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMThe Off-Off Broadway company will produce 'Futurity,' a Civil War sci-fi musical, and a U.S. premiere by Alice Birch.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:49PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1997 (RCA) The idea of a John Kander and Fred Ebb musical set during a 1930s dance marathon sounds like a natural; this milieu would seem to be an ideal backdrop for …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:41PM“If I can’t be the wife of the president, you bet your ass I’ll be the mother.” These words, sung by Violet Chandler (Christine Sherrill), set the roller coaster of a ride th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMMusic theatre lovers rejoice! The sea of revivals has parted to deliver a bona fide world hit, and the Australian production is a dream come true. Wickedly subversive, endlessly inventive an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:34PMSummer is always an exciting time in New York City, especially for the theatre fans out there. The new season of shows is in full swing, the awards have been given out and people from all ov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PMBy Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.. Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. writes about the discoveries made by Civic Ensemble in Ithaca, NY.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:32PMWho's Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started The Iraq War, the new musical by Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo, will begin performances Off-Broadway Sept. 26. The musical comedy follows mem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMTony Award winner Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in an upcoming Hollywood film version of Homer's "The Odyssey," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PMA dance troupe is performing the story of a Vermont farm from spring to fall, told through reinterpretations of classical choreography.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:24PMSelections From 1945 and 1962 Film Soundtracks (Varèse Sarabande) The Rodgers and Hammerstein score for the 1945 film version of State Fair is unlike any of the team’s other efforts in th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:17PMIt's not too late to catch up on Season 2 of everyone's favoriteweb-comedy-THE RESIDUALS, which airs exclusively here on BroadwayWorld. CLICK HERE to binge-watch all ten episodesThis season …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PM“Leadership turnover is coming to America’s regional theaters. When Theater Communications Group — a service organization for the country’s nonprofit theaters — recently survey…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:05PMIn honor of Throwback Thursday, BroadwayWorld is celebrating the past with a new series that will take you back in time with some of our favorite vintage video features. That's right- we are…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMBy Jake Rosenberg. Jake Rosenberg on Shotgun Players Cabaret presentation of Monique Jenkinson’s Faux Real in Berkeley, California.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:02PMDon't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events!
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMMichael C. Hall, David Hyde Pierce, Tony Kushner, and more are also set for the one-night reading of Moisés Kaufman's play about the trials of Oscar Wilde.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMSoho Rep. has announced its upcoming season.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
IN THE NEWS
REDCAT at Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA has revealed a program of contemporary performing arts events for 2015-16 that includes a generous sampling of Internationa…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:57PMThe London Theater Company, a new venture, say it will open in the spring of 2017 in theater on the south bank of the Thames.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMCasting has been announced for the Cleveland Play House's world premiere of Ken Ludwig's A Comedy of Tenors, which features several characters from his Tony-winning Lend Me a Ten…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMI had a friend who collected weird productions of Hamlet. They included Hamlet on a plank (suspended eight feet above the action); Hamlet on roller skates; and, my favourite, a production th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMThree actors with ties to Belleville have starring roles in the musical, "Hairspray," at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:34PMAfter being blocked by the Kremlin, Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde will receive a one-night-only benefit reading with a cast that puts the sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMMichael Countryman, one of this year’s few Fringe leads with significant Broadway credits, serves as narrator and anchor of this compelling look back at England’s largest single civilian…
SOURCE: Time Out at 02:29PMThe words and wisdom of Oscar Wilde stand on their own. It’s hard to better what he created. Onward! Tickets $18.00
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 02:25PMUpdated: Comedian Aziz Ansari will perform a surprise trio of shows Thursday night at the Chicago Zanies. Tickets have sold out.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:16PMAmy Schumer will appear 7 p.m. Thursday night at Constellation, the Roscoe Village music venue at 3111 N. Western Ave. - the second surprise announcement of a stand-up act in 24 hours. Schum…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:16PMPhilip Ridley’s Mercury Fur officially opened Off-Broadway Aug. 19, following previews that began Aug. 5. The Linney Courtyard at the Signature Theatre is completely t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMHawaii Opera rides high USA/HONOLULU The Hawaii Opera Theatre is bucking the US’s national trend of declining opera sales as it reports
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:10PMThe final of this year’s Genee International Ballet Competition is to be live streamed online. The renowned competition was first held in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:10PMA new scheme has been launched that will provide free Edinburgh Fringe tickets to more than 1,400 children living in care in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:10PMYoungsters from across the tristate area will be able to see the new musical at little or no cost.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
I love West Side Story so much. I’ve never been in the show, but I’d love to play Anita one day. I’m such a hopeless romantic. And I just love “One Hand, One Heart” because…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:56PMCast members Keala Settle and Drew Gehlig joke about what they may do if they see red lights in the audience.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMZach Fraser's bone and wood creations are easy to watch, but the human actors and text seem like afterthoughts.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:53PMSome dismiss artists as dreamers. But, as with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, they see what works in rehearsal and change what doesn’t. Politicians take noteThank goodness, not for the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMHundred of companies join new scheme:
Hundreds of companies with shows on at the fringe have joined a new scheme to help give complementary tickets to looked-after children in Edinburgh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:39PMThe Tectonic Theater Project is proud to announce a star-studded one-night-only special benefit reading of Moises Kaufman's GROSS INDECENCY THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE, the award-winning…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMCast members from the long run of the Broadway musical Newsies will hold a pair of reunion concerts Aug. 24 at 54 Below nightclub in New York. In anticipation of what promises to be an unfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMCast members from the long run of the Broadway musical Newsies will hold a pair of reunion concerts Aug. 24 at 54 Below nightclub in New York. In anticipation of what promises to be an unfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMAccording to Deborah Zoe Laufer, being a playwright is about staring into the sun. And by that I mean asking life’s biggest questions and not just expecting, but knowing that you won&#…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:37PMUpdated: Amy Schumer will appear 7 p.m. Thursday night in a sold-out show at Constellation, the Roscoe Village music venue at 3111 N. Western Ave. - the second surprise announcement of a sta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:34PMFew people in the world have a voice so iconic that they are recognizable after only one note. What was inescapable last night in that bandstand in Virginia is that Frankie Valli is without …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMWhat Moscow rejects, Manhattan embraces: Moisés Kaufman’s celebrated 1997 docuplay Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde, recently canceled by the Kremlin during pre-produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:27PMFringe festivals are notorious for their quirkiness. From venues to shows, going into a show, you should know the experience will not be like any other. I preface this review by stating that…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:24PMName: Adam OverettHometown: Denver, COEducation: Yale, B.A. in Music and LiteratureFavorite Credits: Covering and performing Fabrizio in The Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center and on nati…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:24PMBob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMAs in so many things, it is tempting to contrast the experience of actors here to their counterparts in New York. Philadelphia stands out in two major ways.
SOURCE: www.phillyvoice.com at 01:11PMBroadway musical licensor TRW (Theatrical Rights Worldwide) announces the release of the new SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER the Musical. Written for the North American stage by Sean Cercone and David …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10PMThe Tectonic Theater Project will present a benefit reading of Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, the award-winning play about Oscar Wilde …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PMFor the week ending July 19, almost at summer’s halfway point, there were 29 shows on Broadway, meaning 11 theatres were dark.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThe play's writer and star, James Lecesne, will present the accolade to Cumming following an upcoming performance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe Oscar-winning husband-and-wife songwriters of Frozen create a musical about complicated love.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Producers Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman and The Transfer Group have announced casting for Carrie the Musical, which will play the historic Los Angeles Theatre, the first theatrical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel has announced the Cafe Carlyle's fall 2015 season, which features the venue debuts of the Broadway veteran Brian Stokes Mitchell, whokicks off the season, and j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMIn June 2015, Theater Director Gabriele Jakobi (Gabi) suffered a serious stroke while preparing to direct Chekov’s The Three Sisters for Scena Theatre in Washington, DC. As a r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMPerhaps it is the heat. Perhaps it is the fact that there are over 185 shows participating in the 19th New York Fringe Festival to choose from that accounted for such a small turnout at Th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:51PMThe show celebrates the songs of Leslie Bricusse
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:44PMEvery month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. Af…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:44PMImage: Thread Theatre An Edinburgh Fringe play about the sex trade has received support from a major human trafficking charity. Stop the Traffik have supported Thread Theatre’s The Dolphin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:44PMProducers Lorenzo Thione and Andrew Treagus has announced a partnership with INSPIRE CHANGE, an innovative arts program that works alongside commercial theater productions to provide student…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMIn honor of the show's return to New York this year, BroadwayWorld caught up with Carter, who recently wrapped a run in the West End musical I CAN'T SING opposite Cynthia Erivo, to find out …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMBroadway musical licensor TRW Theatrical Rights Worldwide announces the release of the new SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER the Musical. Written for the North American stage by Sean Cercone and David Ab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMThe producers of the critically-acclaimed new play THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY announced today that Tony winner and human rights activist Alan Cumming will be the recipient of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMNight Wolves biker gang have become part of a new patriotic drive in Russia and have been given land in annexed Crimea to put on their enormous showBreathtaking motorbike stunts, laser effec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMComedians rarely repeat material by their peers. But plenty of comics are referencing each other at this year’s fringe – for good and illComedy has no equivalent to the cover version; co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMEdinburgh shows can be calling cards for emerging artists, but making connections should not be at the expense of year-round development “Edinburgh’s a casino, but some do hit the jackpo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMThe New York International Fringe Festival officially opened Aug. 14 and includes 200 shows and 1,100 performances. With comedies, dramas, musicals, improv, children's programming, solo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMFinal casting has been announced for the World Première of Pure Imagination, which celebrates the songs of Leslie Bricusse, one of the most prolific and well loved film and musical thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:28PMEarlier this week, we shared an article on the legacy of Tennessee Williams. Now, let’s turn our attention to the actors. Many performers’ careers have been influenced by Wil…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:25PMName: Oliver TragerHometown: New York CityEducation: Bennington College; B.A. LiteratureFavorite Credits: Dig Infinity! which won the 2014 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity award as Outst…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:21PMName: Kyra Robinov and Tibor ZonaiHometown: KR: NYC
TZ: Kecskemet, HungaryEducation: KR: BA Tisch Film & TV; MFA Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing ProgramTR: I’m an au…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:21PMWe claim that we "won't go there" to get ahead but most of us haven't actually been in that position. In a world where knowing and doing the right people is more important than talent comes …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:21PMAge: 25
Hometown: Macon, GA
Current Role: A side-splitting Broadway debut as closeted Mormon leader Elder McKinley in the Tony-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon.
Stage & Screen C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMGet an inside look at the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's Love & Money at the Pershing Square Signature Center with these production shots. Opening night is set for August 24.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMThe club’s new season, which starts on Sept. 15, will include performances by Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kurt Elling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMSally Field, Michael C. Hall, David Hyde Pierce and others will stage a reading of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” in October.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMThey have little in common but their country of origin, but the former director of the National and the founder of Theatre Workshop are British leaders to be reckoned with.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:20PMThe best of Broadway gives back to help youngsters in need.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe new work is presented for one-day only at New York City Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1977 (RCA) Few cast recordings are as good as this one, made up of songs written by Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire for about 10 years’ worth of unsuccessfu…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:56AMIn an evening benefiting the Actors Fund, Tony-winning producer Jamie deRoy will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her variety show, Jamie deRoy & Friends (as well as her birthda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMThe Stargate Theatre Company, a project of Manhattan Theatre Club's Education Department will perform an original piece, Deeper Than Skin, this Saturday, August 22nd at 300PM and 700PM at MT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMStars of the Broadway bound musical will offer an insider look.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMWhat really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years' Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream in BILL, which arrives in theatres September 18. Directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMTony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, most recently on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, will make his Café Carlyle debut this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMFive years ago, playwright Adam Szymkowicz began a blog with a simple, yet intriguing, idea: to interview playwrights. Aptly titled, I Interview Playwrights, the blog has now grown to incl…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:39AMMy friend Alan Wakeman, who has died aged 79, was a leading light in the Gay Liberation Front during the 1970s, a well-known character in Soho, London, and a writer who was responsible for p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMy friend and colleague Sally Goldsworthy, who has died aged 52 from leiomyosarcoma, a form of cancer, was a pioneer and advocate for creating art with and for children. Professionally, it i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMEthel Merman With Studio Artists, 1939 (Liberty/AEI) The first musical with a score by composer Arthur Schwartz and lyricist Dorothy Fields, Stars in Your Eyes reunited Ethel Merman and Jimm…
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Sexually adventurous Kareena delves into monogamy with her boyfriend Teddy, while her inhibited best friend, Sam, starts dating Kyle, a pornographer. After a mak…
SOURCE: The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation at 11:27AMThe smash-hit musical KINKY BOOTS opens at London's Adelphi Theatre tomorrow 21 August, 2015 with an all-star British cast.
The unforgettable Broadway sensation…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:27AMToday (Thursday 20 August 2015) plans are announced for a new 900-seat theatre at Tower Bridge. Situated at the heart of Berkeley Homes’ landmark One Tower Bridge development, the venue wi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:25AMAs road trips go, it’s a short one. The journey from Oban, a port on the west coast of Scotland, to the capital city of Edinburgh will take you less than three hours. But for the adole…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AMThe Broadway Show League, a softball league for people who work on and Off-Broadway, is holding its championships in Central Park's Heckscher Ball Fields Aug. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMA site at London's Tower Bridge that’s been earmarked for a cultural venue of national importance for more than 20 years has finally found an occupant. The History Boys and One Man, Tw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AMEver since Hamilton maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda teased that a “scrappy” In the Heights film is in the works, w've had movie musicals on the brain. We turned to the t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMIn this week's episode, Heidi chats with her Something Rotten! stage husband, Brian d'Arcy James.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMHowie Michael Smith and Christian Anderson, who played Princeton/Rod and Nicky/Trekkie Monster, respectively, in Avenue Q, made a third appearance on "America's Got Talent" Aug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark wed Thomas Reidy in an Aug. 1 ceremony in Durham, N.C. Clark shares some intimate photos from their scenic ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMStudio Cast, 1998 (Original Cast Records) Starmites earned six Tony Award nominations in 1989, at the end of one of the leanest Broadway musical seasons in history. All about a shy teenager …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:07AMFiled under: Contemporary Variety, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: benefit, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, gala, Hovey Burgess
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AMSignature Theatre presents the world premiere of the new drama.
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Tony Award-winning conductor/director Ted Sperling is holding auditions for MasterVoices, an organization that specializes in performing works from the classical/opera, operetta and musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMOriginal London Cast, 1984 (Really Useful Records, 2CDs) Starlight Express is the most enjoyable show — or, to look at it from another perspective, the least objectionable — that And…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:44AMToday, Phillipa Soo speaks exclusively with BWW and fills us in on the exciting events which have transpired over the past several months.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMAsia's leading content and media company CJ EampM says that Kinky Boots, a Broadway musical produced by the company, has received the most prestigious award at this year's The Musical Award,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMA few bars of King George III's catchy Brit pop tune from the HAMILTON recording session.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMTHE REPORT ***½: In 1943, the deadliest civilian disaster of WWII happens in a London tube station. This drama explores the event, the investigation and the repercussions. While most Fringe…
SOURCE: hyreviews.com at 10:43AMAlix Korey, the acclaimed singing actress who boasts a piercing Broadway belt, will play Yente in the forthcoming revival of the classic American musical Fiddler on the Roof, which will begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMLooking for some sizzling summer savings? Look no further
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:40AMRead on to catch up on this past week's trendsAugust 14-20.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMBeloved stand-up and Broadway clown impersonates the Republican frontrunner.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMTheNew Grouppresents the Off-Broadway premiere ofPhilip Ridley'sMercury Fur, which launchedthe company's 2015-16 season last night, August 19, 2015 previews began August 5. MERCURY FUR byPhi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMPLAY IT AGAIN THE MOVIE MUSIC OF WOODY ALLEN Starring Ute Lemper, Catherine Russell, and Tom Wopat. Exclusive pre-sale for BroadwayWorld subscribers this Thursday from 10AM - 10PM
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMCast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are recording the show's cast album this wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMSpring Awakening cast members Krysta Rodriguez and Andy Mientus joined original Awakening star and Hamilton's King George, Jonathan Groff, at Hamilton's Ham4Ham lottery show to perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMBroadway Savings: 22 Shows Participate in 2-for-1 Tickets Sale, September 7-20
By: Ellis NassourTickets are on sale now for NYC & Company's fou…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:32AMGet tickets to SOMETHING ROTTEN!: http://www.broadway.com/shows/something-rotten/
In this week's episode, Heidi Blickenstaff chats with her SOMETHING ROTTEN! stage husband, Brian d'Arcy Jam…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:32AMWatch Video | Listen to the AudioIn our NewsHour Shares series, we show you things that caught our eye recently on the web. What about you? Leave your suggestions in the comments below, or t…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:30AMCheck out this epic #TBT.
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:29AMMOSCOW (AP) -- Lev Durov, one of Russia's most prolific and best loved actors, has died. He was 83....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:29AMIf Thornton Wilder were still kicking up his heels on our hot little third rock from the sun, I'm thinking he'd appreciate the purity of the Blank Canvas Theatre production of "Our Town…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:29AMIf you see one movie about governmentally modified assassins this weekend, don’t make it “Hitman: Agent 47.” “American Ultra” is the far superior take on the unknowing super spy, b…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:29AMA soup spoon turns lethal in the unlikely hands of sweet and spacy stoner Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) in the violently paranoid action comedy “American Ultra.” Mike’s a lot like the ……
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:26AMThree artists presenting work at this year’s fringe share their thoughts on access, representation and what’s next for the festivalIs the fringe a good place for the disability arts? Dis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Australian comedian’s experiences of anxiety, depression and irritable bowel syndrome are turned to fine comic use in this confident, fast-paced show“I …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMComic-book dancers slug it out, convent choirgirls go on the rampage and a dragon is let loose in Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod’s stunning photographs from the festival Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMChuck Cooper and Josh Young, stars of the new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, are special guests at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox — hosted by Seth Rudetsky — Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMIt's not only Broadway's Something Rotten! that is having a bit of fun with William Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMBroadway has been buzzing about Elsie Fest, ever since Darren Criss announced plans to throw his one-of-a-kind outdoor showtune party alongside Aaron Tveit, Lea Salonga, Laura Osnes, Leslie …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:15AMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2001 (Triangle Road) About a third of the way through The Spitfire Grill, wherein a troubled young woman wanders into a sad Wisconsin hamlet and instills new hope…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:12AMEarlier this week, it was announced that international plans for Hedwig and the Angry Inch include the West End and Australia. Playbill.com's weekly poll, launched Aug. 19, reflected thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMIn preparation for the unveiling of its big new wing this fall, the New Britain Museum of American Art has reinstalled all of its second-floor galleries. There are now dedicated spaces for s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AMNew York Theatre Workshop has announced a new CheapTix program, which will make all single tickets to the first two performances of every NYTW production available to the general public at …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:03AM‘When We Were Colored’ portrays middle-class black life in SacramentoThe late author Eva Rutland chronicled her worries as a motherPlay tells one story of the black experience in America…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AM
Most people hitchhike to simply get from A to B. In fact, most people don’t really hitchhike much at all in 2015. Why put your life in the hands of total strangers when you can get a Megab…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:52AMNext week, the British Council Edinburgh Showcase comes to the festival fringe, where for one week in August, UK theatre and dance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMGood 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 WAITRESS brings pie and the soundsof S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AM'This is a collaborative act, playing along and fooling around'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:38AMNicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, and his former executive director Nick Starr, are staying on the South Bank, but going a bit further down river: the home o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMStage and screen star Taye Diggs, who was part of the original company of Broadway's Rent, is currently starring in the Main Stem debut of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMChanges in the ticket lottery system have been announced for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival that will play its final performance at the Belas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMBWW UK editor-in-chief Carrie Dunn spoke to Maury Yeston the day after he'd seen theproduction of Grand Hotel - to which he contributed both music and lyrics - at the Southwark Playhouse...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMThe world premiere, Broadway-bound musical Waitress, based on the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, with a book by Jessie Nelson, music amp lyrics by Sara Bareilles, direction by Di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMDave Thomas Brown, recently ofHeathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMThe Gen Y Productions' Florida premiere of the hit film adaptation HEATHERS THE MUSICAL enters its final weekend at The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, FL. Crowds and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMLaugh your BODY PART_____ off at a very special performance of Villain DeBlanks, the fill-in-the-blanks whodunnit, at 900 pm on Thursday, September 3, at The Triad, to benefit Broadway Barks.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMVoodoo Rooms, EdinburghHodgson draws on youthful memories, the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong and northern characters for plentiful laughs and bittersweet sentimentJust do it, cyclist Lanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTraverse theatre, EdinburghUnlimited Theatre go beyond the ken of the living with this enjoyable, poignant cabaret piece about death in the distant and all-too-near futureThere are only two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMLyric theatre, Sydney Australia finally gets the Tony and Olivier award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic by Dennis Kelly and local hero Tim Minchin on his homepatch• Roald Dahl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFestival theatre, EdinburghFlamenco choreographer Israel Galván’s angry, charismatic work pays tribute to the Gypsy victims of the NazisAmong the incalculable horrors of the Holocaust, on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York head the cast of the Bay Street Theater's production of the award-winning musical Grey Gardens, which official…
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By Doug Mayo
Danielle Tarento has today announced casting for Pure Imagination, a review celebrating the songs of Leslie Bricusse, one of the most extraordinary musical theatre and film song…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:51AMLeadership turnover is coming to America’s regional theaters, as the Guthrie and others see new faces in decision-making positions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:50AMThree Reasons to Go See One of Shakespeare's Least Liked PlaysThere are four days left to see Cymbeline, the second offering of The Public's annual Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delaco…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:50AMMusical Dusty has announced that Alison Arnopp will takeover as the show’s lead after her predecessor left the production. Ellie Ann Lowe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMI recently returned from a trip to New York City where, among other things, I was lucky enough to see An American In Paris. I absolutely loved the show, and among other positive things, the …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:38AMThe former National Theatre heads want to create a home for their London Theatre Company
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:27AMLucian Msamati has been cast as the lead in the Tricycle Theatre’s upcoming premiere A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes. Sharon D Clarke
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMTrying to balance entertainment and facts has been the downfall of many an artist. But Bryony Kimmings’ latest work shows it can be done with panacheHow do you make theatre which effective…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMOne of the funniest plays to reach the Broadway stage will be returning this December, and it is going to be a star-studded production. The hit comedy Noises Off will begin Broadway previews…
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 08:02AMTHE BOYS ARE BACK Those power-popsters One Direction (sans Zayn Malik) bring their world tour ...
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Lee Hall and Vicky Featherstone team up on a blistering adaptation of Alan Warner's The Sopranos
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:24AMFormer National Theatre bosses Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr have revealed plans for their new venture, which includes the creation of central
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21AMHere’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMUnderbelly (off-site), EdinburghThe audience’s experience of intimacy is at the core of this vivid and sophisticated dramatisation of the lives of sex workers“What I offer is extreme int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AMTraverse theatre, Edinburgh Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall’s adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos follows a troupe of convent choirgirls on a rampage across the city, to exhilarating e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMIt was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina. On the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in US history, four residents from very dif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMThe National Theatre has been named London’s favourite theatre after topping a public poll of venues in the capital. A surprise second
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AM“Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.” Marcel Prou…
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Seated in the front row, we were spattered with little, wet strands of Silly String, courtesy of a randy hand puppet. Later, we were showered with sparks: Think the workshop scene in "Magic …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:50AMRupert Goold's production opens in September
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:20AMThere are many plays that are known for their sparkling dialogue, others for their rapid fire words that require actors who can deliver them in machine gun manner. Now we have the prolific�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17AMWe celebrate producers in this issue of The Stage – the people in theatre who get things done and without whom, frankly,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMSeated in the front row, we were spattered with little, wet strands of Silly String, courtesy of a randy hand puppet. Later, we were showered with sparks: Think the workshop scene in "Magic …
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It's Pinafore Captain, but not as we know it
Guest post from Vinca Russell:
This fringe, in amongst a host of new musicals and interpretations of hot Broadway shows, there are just two wri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:12AMNot everyone should be a playwright. Especially an entire audience. It's no secret that Woyzeck, the Georg Buchner classic, was never completed due to his untimely death. Because of the inco…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:01AMComedy is all about the perfect dynamic. The right jokes. The right people. The right situation. People say comedy is hard. But in this case, these guys made it look easy. The Curious Case o…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:01AMName: Kevin CironeHometown: Veazie, Maine, currently residing in Woburn MA.Education: B.S. In Computer Science, University of Maine OronoFavorite Credits: Creative License is the first full-…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:01AMLeAnn Rimes signed her first label deal at 11, and by 13 had won two Grammys for her country breakthrough hit “Blue,” which earned her comparisons to Patsy Cline. But »
The post New…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AM“West Side Story” is a classic — so much so that five productions are now playing or will open around the Bay Area before summer’s end. Happily, the version at »
The post Br…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMI write about drama schools. And training. And plays. But it isn’t often I see a play which actually discusses schools and
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Arts Collective’s “What Improv Group?!?!” partners with HCC’s Creative Writers and HoCoPoLitSo to fuse improv with powerful stories inspired by poets and writers Howard Community Col…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57AMThe appalling reviews for our show about tax havens led me to wonder if I’d ever work again. But then the conversation shifted – and at the Edinburgh fringe, Islands will seem less out o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMIn her absorbing new play, John (directed by frequent collaborator Sam Gold), Annie Baker shows that there are many ways to be haunted and many ways to be in touch with the univers…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:28AMLocal author and English professor, James Broderick of Glen Ridge, directs The St. James Players rehearsal Monday for their 2015 production of the 90-minute edit of Shakespeare's “The …
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:26AMThree actors with ties to Belleville have starring roles in the musical, “Hairspray,” at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:26AMRegistration opens Aug. 24 for Gas Lamp Academy of Performing Arts’ fall classes in Glen Ridge.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:26AMWhat greets us when we first enter the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre to see George Bernard Shaw's “Misalliance” is the lovely sun-dappled Victorian conservatory designed by Bria…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:26AMNew musical ‘Hamilton,’ about the life of Alexander Hamilton, is playing at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 02:26AMI don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve already seen Hamlet, the Benedict Cumberbatch ‘event’ that has dominated the theatrical
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Scottish comedian says he 'searched deep' to create taboo-busting material and is not amused by comics who follow suitScottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz has lambasted comedians who toy with ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52AMThe Fairy Princess was having a good week – she moderated a very successful live reading for the Asian American Film Lab‘s Unfinished Works series, featuring a script by Jennifer…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 12:45AMThis upcoming Saturday and Sunday, Jacqui Brown’s powerful play A Conversation with the Man Who Killed My Son will have only two performances at Dynamic Wellness – 402 H St…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39AMA staged reading of SHARPIES, a new comedy by Eugene Pack, is set for Guild Hall's Staged Reading Series in East Hampton tonight, August 20th at 8 p.m.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36AMMadison Square Garden Entertainment welcomes legendary musician and Garden franchise Billy Joel in his20th show as part of his record-breaking residency at The World's Most Famous Arena toni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36AMOpening tonight,August 20th, BONNEYKING PRODUCTIONS presents ORPHANS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36AMThe Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons (ARF) hosted 15th Annual benefit at their 22 acre adoption center in Wainscott, NY
Over 400 animal lovers in the Hamptons attended the Bow Wow Meow Ba…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:20AMSara Bareilles' new musical Waitress officially opens Aug. 20 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. While still in previews at A.R.T., the musical announced that it will mo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMLong-time collaborators Annie Baker and Sam Gold are an impressive duo: She is a Pulitzer-winning playwright, he, a Tony-winning director. The two have worked together for more t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMPreviews begin Aug. 20 for the New York premiere of Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride, about an Elvis impersonator turned drag queen. Dave Thomas Brow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMPlaybill.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 12:19AM1884 Actress Julia Sanderson, one of musical theatre's leading ladies during the first decades of the 20th century, is born today as Julia Sackett. Shows in which she starred included Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMHere’s the big reveal about “Fear the Walking Dead”: Those weird lurching figures are zombies! Don’t bother screaming about spoilers — we know this juicy little nugget even bef…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:01AMDecades removed from a Juno Award-winning career, Michael Bell is giving music another try, this time as a crooner.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMFront Porch Theatricals didn’t go easy on itself when it decided to add a second musical to its usual summertime splash.
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