The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, presents the World Premiere of the new musical OCTOBER SKY,running through October 11. The show opened on August 26, and BroadwayWorld …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34PMThe Department of Badassery and CloserVR are poised to make entertainment and tech history. On September 10, The DBA, a San Francisco-based production house, and CloserVR, an award-winning V…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34PM<b>Montclair salons influence Off-Broadway play</b>Cilque Brown's play, "Under the Same Moon," which runs Off-Broadway at the Medicine Show Theater, 549 West. 52nd St.,…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 11:15PM"All students deserve access to high-quality arts education," said Mario Rossero, the center's senior vice president of education.
Currently, only 29 percent of the district's elementary an…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 11:11PMPalm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming Dramalogue - Talking Theatre! series of talks about theater will feature conversations with three major names: veteran musical director Paul Gemignani, who …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:08PMDick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott pen a smart and challenging new play about mass incarceration in America and the limits of mere awareness.
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On Christmas Eve, Sarah and her new boyfriend Sam are enjoying each other’s company, engaging in a philosophical debate about the nature of suffering, when there is a knock on the door; Sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PMChoreographed by Jo Lloyd, Confusion for Three highlights the varying degrees of confusion, misinterpretation and delusions that arise from the act of communication. The North Melbourne Town…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:44PMThis play by Sherie Rene Scott, one of its stars, and Dick Scanlan, is drawn on their experience working with prisoners on monologues about their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38PMNBC's THE WIZ LIVE just released a brand-new promo for the highly anticipated holidayproduction, featuring David Alan Grier talking about his daughter's reaction to him playing 'The Lion' - …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38PMSecond Stage Theatre presents the world premiere production of WHORL INSIDE A LOOP, a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, co-directed by Michael Mayer and Mr. Scanlan.WHORL INSID…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38PMMAD MEN's Jon Hamm could go holographic for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Jordan Harrison's 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama,MARJORIE PRIME.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38PMAstonRep Theatre Company is pleased to kick-off its 2015-16 season with the Chicago premiere of Nicky Silver’s darkly humorous family drama THE LYONS, directed by Company Member Derek…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:38PMAs fine and funny as “Whorl Inside a Loop” often is, the best thing about it is its cast — there hasn’t been such a dynamite ensemble of African-American actors...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:10PMMeet David Alan Grier, The Wiz Live!'s Cowardly Lion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIf you fished Whorl Inside a Loop out of a slush pile and read only its précis, you’d probably cringe: A Broadway actress, described as the whitest person at her own Whitey …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMIt's Christmas Eve — except it's not — in Anna Ziegler's new three-character drama about the haunting nature of relationships.
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Broadway's CONSTELLATIONS star Ruth Wilson, along with AVATAR's Sam Worthington and KINGSMAN THE SECRET SERVICE's Sofia Boutella, have signed on for the upcoming sci-fi film THE TITAN, set t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37PMRubicon Theatre Company justannounced stage and screen veterans Linda Purl, Brett Rickaby and Peter Van Norden will star in thecompany's mainstage production of the Tony-Award winning play C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24PMFROM THE MINES TO THE MOON A feel-good story of literal uplift, the new musical October Sky, like the 1999 film, is an anagram of Rocket Boys, the true-life confessional of Homer H. Hickam, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:16PMWhorl Inside A Loop, a new play opening in New York, looks at six inmates in a medium security prison and the actress who agrees to teach them how to tell their stories — as she steals tho…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:16PMWhen Rep Stage decided to devote the entire 2015-2016 season to works by contemporary female playwrights, the company's co-producing artistic director, Suzanne Beal, sought to make a stateme…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:16PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - British actor Clive Owen swaps Hollywood for the stage in "Old Times", making his Broadway debut in a revival of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's 1971 play.
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:16PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Child movie star Shirley Temple's costumes, scripts and a dress she wore to the Oscars are up for grabs at an auction on Thursday, preserved by the actress turned U.S…
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:16PMFirst produced off-Broadway in 1990, Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins," book by John Weidman, didn't receive a Broadway production for well over a decade. And although that Broadway run resulte…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:16PMOne unintended consequence of the communications age is the increased difficulty of putting together a believable plot.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:16PMThe Segerstrom Center for the Arts has launched a $68-million campaign to reach a broader, more diverse public, centered on reconfiguring its outdoor plaza to make it busier and more attract…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:16PMIt's all a big, crazy mix-up. That could be the bad news. The good news is that "Relatively Speaking," the Alan Ayckbourn play from 1965, is not the door-slamming sort of farce you've seen t…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:16PMHi! I'm Jessica Muise, Artistic Director of Intimations Dance -- a contemporary dance company that creates and performs new interdisciplinary dance work, provides performance platforms for …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:16PMThe Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif., says it has raised nearly two-thirds of a new $68 million campaign to transform its plaza.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:16PMIvy Smith, the winner of the subway's monthly Miss Turnstyle contest in "On the Town," is a smart and modest -- if not exactly conclusive -- role for a star ballerina in her two-week, high-p…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:16PMSherie Rene Scott is beautiful, blond and busty, an inspired comic actress with an air of practiced innocence that makes her not only irresistible but also believable — a dangerous thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:08PMMacklemore cemented his return to radio ubiquity this morning with his latest single, "Downtown," featuring hip-hop veterans Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee, and Melle Mel, along with …
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:02PMKevin Bacon appearance in play sends ticket sales soaring.
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:01PM
A British songwriters’ agency is taking legal action against music streaming site SoundCloud, claiming that the service was not paying royalties and securing licenses from its artists.…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:57PMWell, here’s an oddity. You Won’t Succeed... is too fragmented for musical theatre, too bombastic for cabaret, and about as profound as a first-draft Wikipedia page. Channelling the self…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:52PMActors Silverman and Dellapina, who plays guitar and sings nicely along the way, perform well together, and Westrate has some effective stretches. If on arrival he were to play Nate as less…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:31PMThe last cub mini-episode of this month and we sat with down with Graeae theatre company’s Amit Sharma and performer Arthur Hughes to talk about Jack Thorne’s new play The Solid Life…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:16PMSherie Rene Scott’s new play at Second Stage Theater, about an actress teaching a class of murderers at a men’s prison, recalls in at least one unfortunate way her Second Stage show of h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMAntic Disposition is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V. The critically-acclaimed company, which is known for its site-specific and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09PMUntil yesterday the biggest mistake an audience member could make at a comedy show, as far as I was aware, was to sit in the front row. But oh no, no – the biggest mistake an audience mem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09PMFilming appears to have wrapped Disney's live-action movie musical Beauty and the Beast, which is scheduled for release March 17, 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:04PMBroadway actress Sherie Rene Scott stars in her play co-written with Dick Scanlan, based on her experience working with prison inmates on a theatrical project.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PM
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) welcomes Megan Hilty and Seth Rudetsky as Mark Cortale’s Broadway @ series comes to the Citi Shubert for the first time ever on Friday, Sept. 18. Hilty…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:51PM✭✭✭✭✭ Riotous assembly:
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour is a massive beast of a thing, beautifully crafted in its ragged humanity and utterly irresisti…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50PMIdentity is as inescapable as fingerprints in Whorl Inside a Loop, which just opened at Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PMCarrie The Musical, based on Stephen King’s novel, is not the uplifting, upbeat musical, that WAAPA is famous for. It’s a commentary on bullying, surviving high school and trying to over…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:18PM✭✭✭✩✩ Shipshape:
There is a straightforward likeability to Cat Like Tread’s H.M.S. Pinafore that helps it to overcome some less confident moments.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:13PM
Sat upstairs at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, tucked into a corner, I am leaning as far forward in my seat as I can to catch the detailed footwork happening on stage. Six tap dancers are…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:58PMSecond City CEO Andrew Alexander was in Los Angeles on Wednesday when he heard the news that a fire had started on the performance venue's block in Old Town.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:50PMSecond City CEO Andrew Alexander was in Los Angeles on Wednesday when he heard the news that a fire had started on the performance venue's block in Old Town.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:50PMOn August 27th from 2PM to 4PM at the A.R.T. studios in New York City, Robert Peterpaul Productions produced a one day 'Acting Master Class with Taylor Trensch.' The event was a part of RPP'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMAmong the parade of power players flocking to see “Hamilton” on Broadway are men who have held the job Alexander Hamilton pioneered, secretary of the Treasury.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PMDaniel Craig, who last starred on Broadway opposite his wife Rachel Weisz in Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL, is done with the Great White Way.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PM✭✭✭✩✩ Stirring:
Captivate Theatre’s Spring Awakening is a committed and occasionally thrilling production that does not quite have the conviction …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05PMThis is TheaterMania's fifth roundup of reviews from the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe Broadway production will also offer $19.33 preview performance tickets.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe show explores the sounds of the boogie-woogie music genre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
The comedian wrote and stars in Fish in the Dark, a play about rivalries and dysfunction when a family patriarch dies. Originally broadcast March 5, 2015.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36PMMagicians from the Broadway-bound prestidigitation extravaganza, The Illusionists, plan to materialize on the Sept. 2 episode of "America's Got Talent" to add a touch of il…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PMOscar winner Marlee Matlin is set to make her Broadway debut in Spring Awakening in a few short weeks, but the decision to come to the Great White Way was not one she took lightly.
“M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Aaron Tveit Gets Social
At last...! Your Broadway boyfriend Aaron Tveit is now on Instagram and Twitter! Tveiter Tots aroun…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMWe're shaken and stirred with this news—Daniel Craig will not be coming back to the Great White Way. "I’ve done Broadway and I was happy with that, but I don’t wan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMHeidi heads to the country to meet up with some old pals.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMPop singer Katy Perry took in a performance of Broadway's Finding Neverland and then headed backstage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to greet stars Matthew Morrison, Laura Michelle Kelly a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMThe Australian Ballet traverses from the twentieth to twenty-first century in this scintillating freestyle triple bill that anchors a company premiere and a world premiere with a treasured c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25PMMore and more these days, theatre and film quickly jumps on so called ‘relevant’ ideas and events immediately after they emerge. So, for example, if a group of Aliens arrived in Manchest…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:25PMSome lucky dancer is going to get a chance to make their debut on a Broadway stage the easy way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PMPlaybill includes The Winter's Tale, Broadway hit The River, Killer Joe and play about 2008 financial crisis.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:16PMTheHuntington Theatre Companywill open its 2015-2016 season with the Tony Award-winning musical A Little Night Music,Stephen Sondheim's most romantic and popular work, led by Tony and Olivie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMVanessa Williams, superstar in film, television, stage, and in recordings, will make her Provincetown debut this Labor Day Weekend, on Sunday, September 6 at 630 PM. Her one-night-only perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMThe box office for the first Broadway production of DAMES AT SEA will open Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10am at the Helen Hayes Theatre 240 W. 44th Street, NYC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMStage and screen actress Lauren Luna Velez, who played a murderer in the hit TV series "Dexter" with Michael C. Hall, will be featured in the Off-Broadway premiere of Adam Seid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMMurdo MacLeod snaps some of the eye-catching theatre and dance shows at the world’s biggest arts festival Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMStage and screen actress Lauren Luna Velez, who played a murderer in the hit TV series "Dexter" with Michael C. Hall, will be featured in the Off-Broadway premiere of Adam Seid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMPlaywright Jeremy Gable's "The 15th Line" gathered a lot of attention when it premiered (on Twitter) in 2010, and now Erin Mee is bringing the play back online.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:12PMIN THE NEWS
This year’s LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards will be held Monday, Nov 9 at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre in Downtown LA. Entertainment trade magazine Var…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:10PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1978 (Casablanca) Neil Simon based his book for They’re Playing Our Song on the real-life relationship of the show’s composer and lyricist, Marvin Hamlisch and Ca…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:05PMThe one-night event will be part of a series of performances by Swenson at 54 Below.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe award-winning choreographer will be honored at a benefit celebrating the opening of Real Women Have Curves.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMWilliams will bring her musical stylings to Massachusetts.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Original Broadway Cast, 1949 (Decca) Although it is now forgotten, this mild satire on Texas politics ran out the season, and a near-hit song or two came out of its score by composer Robert …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:59PMThe news this week that Rich Cotovsky, one of the great unvarnished characters of the Chicago theater, will be hanging it up at Angel Island after 30 years of the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:53PMDon't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events!
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMSat upstairs at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, tucked into a corner, I am leaning as far forward in my seat as I can to catch the detailed footwork happening on stage. Six tap dancers are…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:46PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1960 (Capitol/Angel) It all starts with a marvelous opéra bouffe-style overture that sets the tone perfectly for this tale of the Tenderloin, New York’s most notor…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:40PMBetty Buckley, who is currently drawing raves for her performance in the Bay Street Theater production of Grey Gardens, will go it solo in September in Provincetown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMIt takes one to know one! On August 26, Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomed a special guest backstage: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. If that seems a little less exciting than J.Lo,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:31PMThe Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library have announced that the 16th annual Carl Sandburg Literary Award will be presented to legendary composer and lyricist St…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:22PMNew Broadway Acquisitions and Releases for Fall 2015! TRW is proud to announce the acquisition of three new Broadway musicals: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET,SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, and PRISCILLA QUEE…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:22PMThe Joffrey Ballet opens its 2015-2016 60th Anniversary season with a special mixed repertory program entitled Millennials, showcasing new works by the country’s next generation of choreog…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:22PMEverybody’s favorite holiday bitch is back and she’s meaner then ever in the return of CHRISTMAS DEAREST, Hell in a Handbag Productions’ Joan Crawford-infused parody of A Chris…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:22PMOn the heels of its Broadway smash success, Disgraced by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, novelist, screenwriter and actor Ayad Akhtar returns to the city of its birth in a new production …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:22PMStudio Cast, 1998 (New World, 2CDs) This was one of the Gershwins’ middling, mid-1920s musicals, chock-a-block with mistaken identities, society marriages, and principal comics delivering …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:15PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1984 (Polygram) Onstage, it was an entertaining, beautifully put together, old-fashioned show, but the cast album of The Tap Dance Kid reveals an uninteresting score.…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:04PMBeginning on October 4, 2015, Theater Talk, the weekly program devoted to the world of the stage, will have an additional weekly airing on THIRTEENWNET, Sundays at 1130 AM, right before NYC …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMAnthony Rapp, original star of the hit rock musical Rent, weighs in on the classic New York musical playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Center Theatre Group, in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, will present the West Coast premiere of Young Jean Lee‘s newest work, the acclaimed play R…
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 03:44PMNature called and Moheb Soliman answered. The poet, performance artist, and Joyce Foundation Fellow is tracing the entire Great Lakes coastline by land, from June through October, for his wo…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:43PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1983 (Painted Smiles) One of the most colorful personalities in show business history, Tallulah Bankhead was so imitable that any impressionist worth his or her s…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:41PMThe forthcoming Broadway musical Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed released its first logo image Aug. 26 and the attention quickly focused …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMFour years ago next month, Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, was premiered in Orlando, Florida. Since then it’s been produced in Lenox, Los Angeles, New Haven, Philadelphia, and off B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:34PMThis week's guest is Mark Valdez, executive director of Network of Ensemble Theaters, who discusses the evolution of the ensemble model. Plus, the editors discuss the controversy over Manhat…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:19PM"October Sky," the world premiere musical that rocketed straight into the hearts of Wednesday's opening night audience at the Marriott Theatre, tells a story that is familiar in many ways. L…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:18PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1983 (DRG) This show managed only a brief run — not because there was anything wrong with the writing or the production, but perhaps because the general public …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:15PMAge: 27
Hometown: New York City
Current Role: Playing convicted felon Jeffrey, who is more vulnerable and shy than his fellow inmates, as well as a lisping female minister, a five-year-old…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMToday, co-producer Jack Morrissey confirmed the newsthat the highly anticipated film has officiallywrapped production in London
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMThe Pasadena Playhouse Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director announced today that legendary director, choreographer and producer Kenny Ortega will be the 2015 Diversity Award Artistic Honoree, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMRecently, the creators of BroadwayWorld's web series partner THE RESIDUALS were guests on TotalTheater.com's podcast, 'Dave's Gone By.' THE RESIDUALS husband and wife team of Michael Paul Sm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMAaron Tveit has successfully made the transition from stage to screen - and now, he's taking on Twitter.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMThere’s no question that Hamilton is the most talked-about show on Broadway, and the hottest ticket in town. Just like the real Alexander Hamilton, composer and creator Lin-Manuel Mira…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:05PMDav Pilkey makes first trip to St. Louis to promote new children's book
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:04PMThe Missouri History Museum presents the exhibition to celebrate the Arch's 50th anniversary
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:04PMPleasance Grand, EdinburghAshes hero hits the audience for six in a show full of laughter, cricketing anecdotes and indiscretionsThere is a picture of cricketer Andrew Flintoff flashed on a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM
Hand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a boy and his foul-mouthed hand puppet, continues to delight (and maybe shock) audiences at the Booth Theatre. Sarah S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMPersonal memorabilia was destroyed in a fire that ripped through the offices of Second City on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2000 (Original Cast) [user=5] This is a gilt-edged tribute to lyricist John Latouche, who wrote in a number of genres and had only occasional good fortune in any …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:43PMAt one point in "October Sky," the new Marriott Theatre musical based on the biographical 1999 movie about the aerospace engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr., the principal of Big Creek High School…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:32PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1959 (RCA) Eugene O’Neill’s uncharacteristic comedy Ah, Wilderness! seemed a natural candidate for stage musical treatment — even though the MGM musical Summer …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:32PMCraig Zadan and Neil Meron are two of the most renowned producers working in the industry today. They are best known for their work on the past three Academy Awards ceremonies,The Sound of M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMThe Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night August 25 to present Honorary Awards to Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands, and the Jean Hersholt Human…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMEarlier this month, BroadwayWorld.com sat down with the very busy dynamic duo of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to discuss... well, everything.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMAs a performer who has successfully brought the likes of George Gershwin and Ludwig van Beethoven to life on stage, Hershey Felder has now turned
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:24PMThat throat-clearing you hear is the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, an unprecedented wave of world premiere plays by women that has already begun to take over Washington’s stages. It�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:21PMWendy Williams would never let her mother attend her first comedy tour and says that you probably shouldn't bring yours either. The television and radio talk show host, unshackled from FCC r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMThe Hollywood Reporter has shared new poster art for Justin Kurzel's upcoming adaptation of MACBETH, featuring Michael Fassbender andMarion Cotillard as the conniving, power-hungry medievalc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMCelebrated magic group, The Illusionists, return to 'America's Got Talent' with a fresh and thrilling performance during the live results show on Wednesday, Sept. 2 8-9 p.m. ET from Radio Ci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMOriginal London Cast, 2003 (First Night) Who would have imagined Boy George as a theater composer? Yet with this show, partly about George’s rise to fame in the London club scene of the ea…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:08PMAlex Wyse is currently preparing to return to Broadway in Deaf West's production of Spring Awakening. As a throwback, we look at the time he took us backstage at the revised version of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PMIt was such a scandal during a 1920's premiere that the entire cast was arrested.
SOURCE: www.phillymag.com at 02:03PMThe Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Debbie Reyn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMRehearsals are now underway for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s Plays at the Garrick season. The Winter’s Tale will play in repertory alongside the Rattigan double-bill of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:02PMQuick takes on some of this week’s new releases.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:00PM
Iconic rocker Melissa Etheridge has been tearing up the country showcasing her new album and old favorites on her This is M.E. tour. For this leg of the tour, she ventures out solo – j…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMJohn Longenbaugh
Hometown: Sitka, Alaska Current Town: Seattle Q: Tell me about your show coming up at the Schmee. A: "Oh My Azaleas!" is the theatrical premiere of probably th…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:52PMMost Broadway shows have an irregular performance schedule during the week of Thanksgiving (Nov. 23-29). Playbill.com has compiled the schedules of all of the Broadway shows performing d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMIf it’s Monday night in DC, many theaters are dark, but that doesn’t mean there’s not some great entertainment available for theater lovers. Over the past three-and-a-half years, La-Ti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:40PMThe New Ohio theatre's Off-Broadway fall season programming will feature the world premiere of New York Animals by two-time Tony winner Steven Sater, featuring music by six-t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMBroadway Black is here to provide you a look inside the highly anticipated world premiere of Whorl Inside a Loop. The production, which stars Sherie Rene Scott, is now in performances at …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:27PMAt one point in "October Sky," the new Marriott Theatre musical based on the biographical 1999 movie about the aerospace engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr., the principal of Big Creek High School…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:24PMGecko and Touretteshero are among theatre companies chosen to perform in a two-hour live broadcast on BBC4. Live from Television Centre, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMA religious group is to stage a protest at an upcoming production at Mac in Birmingham, claiming the play vilifies their guru.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMHere's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMStokes is stoked.
Tony-winning Broadway leading man Brian Stokes Mitchell will be back in the New York limelight in a big way this season, planning his first club gig at the tony Café C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMThough the weather in New York is in no way any indication yet, fall is fast approaching on the Great White Way. The next few months are packed with new productions ready to light up Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMRead on to catch up on this past week's trendsAugust 21-27
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMJeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:02PMThe Dramatists Guild Fund and Program Chairs Michael Korie, Laurence O'Keefe, and Diana Son are proud to announce the 2015-2016 Class of Dramatists Guild Fellows. Five playwrights and eight …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMLet's be honest as we reflect on the impending series finale of Hannibal, we could easily write a novel praising the show from both a critical and a Fannibal point of view. For example, we c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMGrammy winner and Broadway veteran Ricky Martin has penned an op-ed piece for Univision in which he shares his thoughts on the very public feud between Republican presidential candidateDonal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMToday in 1977, Chicago closed at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 936 performances. Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago, with music i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMTROIKA Entertainment, LLC recently announced that the national tour of the quintessential backstage musical comedy classic 42nd STREET will launch on September 22, 2015 at the Capitol Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMThough most of us think of Gyllenhaal as the kid from the 1999 film OCTOBER SKY who grew up to receive an Oscar nomination for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and has of late sported a rockin' beard, man…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMElise Reynard is thrilled to be a part of Love is Like Mud!! She is a performer and teaching artist, teaching theatre, dance and other creative stuff to approximately 700 NYC students …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 01:02PMSirius/XM host Seth Rudetsky will join Hilty for the September performance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe one-night-only concert will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Pleasance, EdinburghThe unlucky draw of life is given an unflinching but positive examination in Olivia Hirst’s affecting showTime is ticking for 26-year-old Olivia Hirst. She has the BRCA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMParody of 1990s TV sitcom contains pointless plot lines, offensive portrayals of young women and moments of bad comedy.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:46PMA mesmerizing new show. Review appears in North Jersey Newspapers and on northjersey.com
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 12:41PMAs I mentioned yesterday in my Broadway Market Correction blog, the Dow dropped 2k points in a week. We’ve grabbed a few points back, but as China continues to stumble, it’s obvi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 12:41PMShakespeare & Company Presents Stephan Wolfert’s Cry Havoc Shakespeare & Company presents Cry Havoc, Stephan Wolfert’s one-person play that unites veterans with civilians and Sha…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 12:41PM'Disney's The Lion King' musical returns to San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts Sept. 9-Oct. 4.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:41PMBurning Man, that annual back-country spirit-fest and Bacchanalia that has given new meaning to the term 'high desert,' could be heading for the bright lights of Broadway if Oakland native a…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:41PMA look at David Habben’s dark artwork for a production of the Shakespeare tragedy at the Utah Children’s Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMNadia Fall's production 'does justice to a landmark play'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:33PMThe Mark Twain House & Museum will offer four writing classes beginning Wednesday, Sept. 2, and running each Wednesday through Oct. 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. Each course costs $265 to attend.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:32PMThe Dramatists Guild Fund and Program Chairs Michael Korie, Laurence O’Keefe, and Diana Son are proud to announce the 2015-2016 Class of Dramatists Guild Fellows. Five playwrights and eigh…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:31PMLast season The Keegan Theatre mounted a Vietnam War–era musical called Hair. In a column I described that production as “radiant and thrilling,” “an exuberant love fest as timeless…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:28PMPerhaps if Rent hadn't eclipsed everything that arrived in New York stage in 1996, maybe Bed and Sofa would have received the attention it deserved, in the eyes of Skye Whitcomb who is direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:28PMIf you remember 1980s comedies like Sixteen Candles and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you’re probably familiar with some of the problems faced by the three
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:25PMMisty Copeland is currently making a triumphant Broadway debut in On the Town, and she recently made this behind the scenes video of her preparation for the role of Ivy Smith in the musical.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMThis has made us "Think!" Aretha Franklin wants her life story on Broadway. "I would like to see it be a dramatic musical," the Queen of Soul told Billboard. "I love…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMThe Queen of Soul wants to be the Queen on Broadway. Recently in an interview with Billboard, Aretha Franklin had a few things to say about her life story being told and how. Allegedly the…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:13PMStokes is stoked.
Tony-winning Broadway leading man Brian Stokes Mitchell will be back in the New York limelight in a big way this season, planning his first club gig at the tony Café C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe Play Submissions Helper blog has announced a call-to-action for all playwrights with the news that there are currently 54 playwriting contests with September or fall deadlines.&a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMDerived in 2002 from the 1967 Julie Andrews movie, Thoroughly Modern Millie is thoroughly old fashioned. It’s sexist: all the women are actresses or typists; racist: landlady Mrs Meers…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMGeorgia Ensemble Theatre GET, North Fulton's only professional theatre company, is launching the Company's exciting 2015-2016 season with the highly anticipated play, Calendar Girls by Tim F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMNylon Fusion and Live Source will also present new plays.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
This item from Alex Roe: Production proposals are currently being accepted for Metropolitan Playhouse’s 10th Living Literature Festival The TranscendentalFest New works for co-producti…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 11:58AMOn September 2nd and 3rd, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown The Musical, is coming to 54 BELOW. But this isn't your usual production of the show. This concert version of the musical will have …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMBefore she picked up her many accolades for starring role in THE HELP and her appearance in ABC's hit drama series HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER,Viola Davis appeared in Broadway's 2010 revival…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMTony and Emmy Award winner Lillias White will bring her delicious, showstopping, once-in-a-generation song stylings to this year's Bucks County Cabaret buckscountycabaret, a one-night-only c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMThe woman who popularized The Black Bottom for white audiences is featured in the new production's artwork.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMAbout twenty percent of the Samuel French Collection at Amherst College is comprised of “musical masters” – full scores bound in leather, individual parts for all the instruments, …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:48AMChicago's long-lived Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. will close its doors following the conclusion of the 2015-16 season. Artistic director Richard Cotovsky told the Chicago Sun Tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMWhen seven of the larger theatres in the Washington area came together to create the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, they were experimenting on a grand scale. Could the local the…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org 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 11:34AMTony Award winner Broderick stars with Alice Eve in "Dirty Weekend," written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMTony Award winner Matthew Broderick stars with Alice Eve in the film "Dirty Weekend," written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMThe August Wilson Center for African American Culture is getting an infusion of funding and board members in the new owners’ bid to bring the Downtown building back to life.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:33AMBy Mncedisi Baldwin Shabangu. Mncedisi Baldwin Shabangu writes about his career as an acclaimed actor and director in South Africa, and the decisions that led him to currently work exclusive…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:32AMLicense Disney’s The Little Mermaid Today!* In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. Based on o…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:31AMBased on the 1999 film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the new musical October Sky gets a world premiere at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL. Nate Lewellyn stars as Homer Hickam, a young m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMBy Trevor Boffone, Magdalena Gómez. Trevor Boffone interviews playwright Magdalena Gómez about her work at Carnaval and beyond.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AMThe Smithsonian invited DC Theatre Scene to present the next season to their audience, and as part of that presentation, DCTS Senior Writer Tim Treanor talked about shows he particularly ant…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMImagine a bunch of theater geeks trying to do a sketch comedy show. The sketches would be filled with theater reference after theater reference. That’s essentially what you get with Loose …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:27AMOnce upon a time there was a single mom and her son. The mom had bad luck in the world of dating and the son didn't care for many of the suitors. One day, a mysterious crack forms in the cei…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:27AMBookwriter Robert Horn, along with Nashville song pros and director Gary Griffin, aims for the heart as well as the humor of the TV variety chestnut.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:22AMPLAYS Lucian Msamati has been cast in the Tricycle Theatre‘s forthcoming premiere A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes. Sharon D Clarke and Adjoa
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMWashington D.C.'s prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is teaming with the City of Houston and Houston Independent School District to expand arts education for students.
The f…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 11:15AMRoundabout Theatre Company's fall revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times will begin previews Sept. 17 prior to an official opening Oct. 6 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMMisty Copeland, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, joined the cast of On the Town Aug. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMPearl, the American-Chinese dance and theatre show inspired by the life of Pearl S. Buck, begins performances at Lincoln Center tonight. Running through Aug. 30, Pearl features a 150-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM"West Side Story," the classic film musical directed by Howard Wise and Jerome Robbins, will be screened at Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza Aug. 28. The film will be co&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMIf you’re lucky enough to attend a grade school that has a solid arts program, one of the great joys of participating in high school theateris that virtually no one is age-appropriate.…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:01AMA "fabulous footwear" competition was held to toast the occasion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe Project Shaw event will also feature George S. Irving, Christine Pedi, more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe concert tribute comes in advance of the pop artist's Broadway debut.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
By David Bruin. David Bruin on Daniel Fish’s production of Oklahoma! at Bard’s Fisher Center.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:58AMLily Polkadot – who has just moved into the Squares Only town of Rockaway – is the first Polkadot in an all-Square school and must cope with constant bullying and restricted drinking fou…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:54AMBy Doug Mayo
Following its success at the St James Theatre, McQueen opens tonight at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season until 7 November 2015. McQueen is a …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:50AMMariah MacCarthy’s ‘Magic Trick,’ playing at the Studio Theatre of Theatre Row from August 27th-September 12th, is a play in which a disabled person leaves her boyfriend and becomes a …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AMJames Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin) made a guest appearance at the Ham4Ham lottery Aug. 26. Iglehart sang "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime, a song which he frequently uses for auditio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMNew York will get to experience a different side of the composer of the Broadway-bound musical Waitress 7 PM Nov. 2 when the "Broadway Sings" concert series hosts members of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMNew York will get a sneak peek at Sara Bareilles' Broadway-bound musical Waitress 7 PM Nov. 2 when the "Broadway Sings" concert series hosts members of the Boston tryout ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMRECOMMENDED There’s a scene in Myla Goldberg’s “Bee Season” where a character explores a storage locker. Instead of finding the typical packrat arrangement, he discovers a museum of …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:45AMThe Winter's Tale's odd structure and hybrid genre is a challenge to modern directors and audiences alike.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMA multi-alarm fire ripped through the offices of Chicago's reknown Second City theater company in Old Tow
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMJust yesterday, Tony Award-winner Billy Porter joined hundreds of hopefuls outside of the Hirschfeld Theatre in their most fabulous red footwear to celebrate the show's 1000th performance. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMDue to overwhelming popular demand, Ambassador Theatre Group is delighted to announce an additional eight performances of Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show at the Playhouse Theatre, London…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMCopeland launched her own YouTube channel called 'Misty on YouTube'and gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look as she prepares for her Broadway debut.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMProducer Julius Green, according to The Stage, discovered five full-length and five one-act plays by Agatha Christie while researching his new book, "Curtain Up: Agatha Christie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThe Tony Award winning & How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis will return to the role that garnered her her 2nd Tony Award. Davis will star in a film adapation of August Wilson&#…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:33AMChristopher Domig is a compelling actor. A brave actor. Fully committed. Doing challenging work that challenges his audience.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 10:32AMMisty Copeland, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, joined the cast of On the Town Aug. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMBarnstorming performances by Hai-Ting Chinn in two modern one-act operas
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:27AMThe Poetry Foundation’s fall event season embraces poetry in an array of offerings that range from a salon concert, featuring music by Aaron Copland and Charles Ives, to readings by Joyce …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:21AMGoodman Theatre kicks off the 2015/2016 Season in its Owen Theatre with Feathers and Teeth, Charise Castro Smith’s bone-chilling dark comedy that brings dysfunctional family drama to scar…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:21AMCast members from the long run of the Broadway musical Newsies held a pair of reunion concerts Aug. 24 at 54 Below nightclub in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMGingold Theatrical Group’s Project Shaw, which is under the leadership of artistic director David Staller, will continue Sept. 21 at 7 PM with A Chekhov and Shaw Comedy Night at Sy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Mr. Urban does an excellent job of dramatizing and explaining a complex historical situation in this fictional treatment of a real case. In 1994, Rwandan Presi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:14AMThe Edge of the Universe Players 2 Announces its Fall 2015 Production Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton Plays November 21 through December 13, 2015 It’s the Swinging Sixties in London�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12AMEducation dramaturg Ted Sod speaks to Mamie Gummer about her role as Jess in Ugly Lies the Bone. Ted Sod: Tell us about yourself: Where were you born and educated? When and why did you decid…
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 10:10AMThe AJC Decatur Book Festival enfolds all sorts of reading matter in its grand embrace. On the table, so to speak, during Labor Day weekend
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:06AMThe news that Kevin Bacon will star in a stage version of Rear Window propelled Hartford Stage to enjoy its highest single-day box-office take in the company's five-decade hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM“Three Days of Rain” by Richard Greenberg continues at Big Idea Theatre. The drama, directed by Shaleen Schmutzer-Smith, explores a family’s past of mystery and betrayal. 8 p.m. Thursd…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AM
Viola Davis, who won one of her two Tonys for her performance in Fences, has revealed that she will appear in a screen adaptation of the show. “They are making Fences, August Wilson&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMGood 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 Off-Broadway celebrates two show openi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AMTony Award-winning actress Viola Davis revealed that she will star in a film adaptation of the Broadway drama FENCES, to be directed by Denzel Washington.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AMCheck out Love's new music video for the track 'Forbidden Nights', featuring cameos by Steve van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Shaffer, David Letterman, Joan Jett, Bill Murray and Elvis Cos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AM"Maggie Smith: A Biography," penned by Michael Coveney, will be released by Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Orion Books Sept. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMThe Tony nominee and American in Paris star takes Broadway Style Guide on a tour of his closet and models some of his go-to looks!
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 09:36AMForest Fringe, EdinburghThis clever show steps lightly over the cracks in how we present ourselves to the world both individually and as a coupleIs there anyone in a long-term relationship w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AM✭✭✭✩✩ Skilful sci-fi:
Well thought out and clever, this adaptation of Moby-Dick set in space by Seattle-based duo Charles has an individual visual style…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:31AMAfter an overwhelming demand, the two-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian Kathy Griffin has extended the engagement of her “Like A Boss” Tour at the Center Theatre Group / Mark T…
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 09:26AMViola Davis, who won a Tony Award for her performance as Rose in the 2010 revival of August Wilson's Fences, will star in a feature film version of the award-winning drama that is se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMMadison Middleton is a sophomore at School for Tomorrow. She’s participated with Highwood Theatre since 2011, most recently appearing in August: Osage County as Ivy. Other notable High…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AM50% Off Special Discount for DCMetroTheaterArts Readers For The Hero of Everything The Hero of EVERYTHING opens September 12th at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre -8641 Colesville Road…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19AMWelcome to 1930s depression-era America. The strains of jazz, swing and stride spill from every bar and fill the airwaves of Chicago.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMThis 1921 obtuse, dense, bizarre, depressing, esoteric and epic 434 line poem by T. S. Eliot has been dramatized and directed by the brothers Domig: concept/installation by Daniel and perfor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:03AMOn the other side of the Atlantic every August, you’ll find another fringe taking place – the New York International Fringe Festival,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
A multi-alarm fire has destroyed some of the offices of Chicago's legendary Second City improv group, but apparently has spared the theatre's performing spaces, according to vari…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AMAnyone who may have just discovered Billy Bob Thornton through his superb, Golden Globe-winning performance in 2014 as the mysterious, demonic hitman Lorne Malvo on FX's dark-humored mini-se…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:53AM✭✭✭✭✩ Swear it’s good:
Pinched! Theatre’s story of a teenage indie band’s dissolution seeks to combine comedy, theatre and indie roc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AMThe new musical Hamilton has taken New York by storm
SOURCE: time.com at 08:51AMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1966 (Kapp/no CD) For a tantalizing glimpse of the talent and creativity spawned Off-Broadway in happier times, seek out this 1966 hit, a Restoration-style comedy…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 08:50AMJust prior to taking the court for the 2016 U.S. Open, kicking of this Sunday, Aug. 31, tennis star Serena Williams decided to channel her nervous energy into a spectacular karaoke performan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:43AMSecond Stage Theatre presents the world premiere production of Whorl Inside a Loop, a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, co-directed by Michael Mayer and Mr. Scanlan, the creati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:43AMSince Tuesday's official announcement, the Hartford Stage reports that it had its highest sales day in the 52-year-history of the theater.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:43AMHe is a Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winner and now master showman and worldwide performing sensation Hugh Jackman is returning home to Australia in November and December for a five-cit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:43AM"An Annie Baker pause is about the people themselves, beating themselves up, figuring out what to say next.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMJohn Adams' Absolute Jest is a sheer blast of fun, wildly inventive and, at its best, a vertiginous collage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMThe divas of Dreamgirls sashayed through Broadway in 1981 leaving an indelible impression with a string of megahits and outstanding acting; snatching six Tony Awards, including Outstanding B…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 08:32AMOrigin’s 1st Irish Festival, starting this week, includes this dark play and Fishamble’s “Little Thing, Big Thing.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AM“Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical,” with its focus of dreams of the future, has many parallels to “Billy Elliot: The Musical.” Then, also in London, there is the Hitler-era “Grand…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AMAssembly George Square studios, EdinburghThe comedian’s heartfelt story about the shark-infested waters of her teenage life sits uneasily with the truth, but this makes for a gripping expe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMOlivier, LondonThe National production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s historical play shows convicts and captors alike escaping their colonial chains in shared expressionSince it is only two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMI can't think of many plays that would more overtly vindicate the National Theatre's Travelex scheme. 500 tickets at £15 are available for each performance of Nadia Fall's vibrant Olivier r…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:28AMEntertainment Weekly new cover story shares an exclusive first look at the ecclectic group of characters to be featured in the latest edition of the FX anthology series AMERICAN HORROR STORY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMPictures from John Caird's West End production have been released ahead of opening night this evening
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:22AMTo kick off our new feature, WhatsOnStage Awards producer and actors' agent Stuart Piper chooses Leslie Bricusse's Scrooge: The Musical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:22AMTap dance sensation Savion Glover is bringing his show to the historic Howard Theatre for three nights this week: Thursday, August 27, Friday, August 28, and Saturday, August 29, at 8pm. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:22AMEmerging directors will get to work on one of the BBC’s four long-running drama series as part of a new talent scheme.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMThe Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci has called for wide-ranging support of the BBC, claiming the Corporation “needs its champion supporters”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AM1. ROCKIN’ WRIGLEY The Foo Fighters headline Wrigley Field on Aug. 29. Cheap Trick, Naked ...
The post The Mix — The Foo Fighters (and 7 more cool things to do in and around Chicago t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AM
Over the course of the first three parts of this series, new musical theatre writers have offered advice on everything from finding directors to getting your songs sung and into voices as so…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:41AMThe magic show will return to the capital next year, said producer Jamie Hendry
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:37AMWhen Los Angeles-based director Lars Jan unmasked the public intellectual Paul Abacus as a fictional creation, were any of us surprised (the name is a bit on the nose)? This project lit up t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMAll teenage boys are inherently a bit weird. When Oliver Tate (Jonas Moore) is faced with trying to rescue his parents’ failing marriage or trying to keep his own relationship alive with J…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMFrench whimsy, British royals and Liberian rebels vie for attention with adaptations of Misery and a Confederacy of Dunces and a Lloyd Webber musicalThe Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades nor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMWith their funding under threat, acts which refuse to be sidelined find a platform in Edinburgh’s Integrated Fringe - but how can they survive the cuts?“It only took the NT 50 years to n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMThe twenties don’t so much roar as whimper in SDWC’s new revival of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Landor. Matthew Iliffe’s production strips back not only the set and cast, but also …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:31AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 27 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AMBrought to you by BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – @BBBway RT @broadwaycom: VIDEO! The stars of @SPRINGBway on getti…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 07:18AMIn the new psychological thriller ‘Queen of Earth,’ the actress moves far from her sensible Peggy Olson persona to a place of paranoia and deep mental instability.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 07:18AMLONDON (AP) -- A grand piano that featured on many of ABBA's biggest hits is going up for auction in London....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:18AM“A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the ro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
By Doug Mayo
Based on Rattigan’s experiences as a tail gunner during World War II, Flare Path paints an evocative portrait of life in wartime Britain for the life-and-death existence of th…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:59AMA musical can only be as good as its underlying book – and in Mrs Henderson Presents, the show’s fable couldn’t be more strong or poetic. Based upon the 2005 movie, the true story tell…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57AMThe Scottish play at Edinburgh Fringe Festival – not the most original of ideas. But in this case Youth Music Theatre UK have transformed the production – the set is modelled on a more m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMThe Temptation of St Anthony is a beautiful, emotionally-charged exposition on spiritual possession. Its multicultural cast explore the topic from multiple perspectives, layering music, phys…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMBallet is such a versatile form of dance, capable of being fused with so many different styles. In this case, Balletronic fuses it with colourful Cuban and Latin influences to create a vibr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMFrank Olivier is certainly multitalented. He’s also crazy. So when the performers for Frank and Paul’s cabaret show fail to turn up one evening, Frank insists on performing every act him…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMAvant garde musicals are all the rage. The last 10 years have seen Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon reach astronomical levels of fame on Broadway, in the West End and around the world. Jesus …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AM“I’m gonna sing you a sad song, Susie”. The sombre lines of Kenny Rogers’s break-up anthem float over our arrival at Fringe warrior Penny Arcade’s (Susana Ventura) new show for Soh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMThe brainchild of Belgian musicians Jonas Vermeulen and Boris Vanseveren, backed by powerhouse producer Richard Jordan, this coming-of-age performance is played in an electric fusing of musi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMBy Stephen Collins
The dancing is really the one area here where there is a consistent, utterly stylish, utterly camp, utterly "too much" approach. The cast are all accomplished dancers and …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:29AMTerry Johnson's production is 'charming, a little bit naughty and full of heart' but has some areas which could be tightened
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:20AMDoes London need any more theatres? This is a pertinent question in light of the announcement by Nicks Hytner and Starr that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM
By Tim Hochstrasser
Not everything in Grimeborn can work and while the commitment of all concerned deserves recognition, this adaptation cannot be considered wholly successful. As a better t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:58AMThe director of the cancelled National Youth Theatre production Homegrown has claimed the decision sets a “dangerous precedent” that will encourage theatremakers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMMagic show Impossible has recouped its £950,000 production costs in just over a month since opening in the West End. Producer Jamie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMBy Stephen Collins
Nadia Fall has misunderstood the play and, by seeking to make her mark on it, has come dangerously close to obliterating its impact. Bad casting and bad direction, however…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:31AMKillers bandleader Brandon Flowers believes that an innate sense of curiosity is a songwriter’s strongest attribute. “It’s something I’ve honed in on as I’ve gotten older – I nee…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 05:30AMOur esteemed critic publishes his new biography of Maggie Smith this week
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:12AMMax Stafford-Clark's production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's play has 'never seemed less schematic, or more enjoyable'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:12AMr.You never meet the fictitious 14-year-old whose name is in the title of the mesmerizing one person play “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey” playing a limited engagement…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 05:08AMFrankie Spear of Bloomfield, as The Shrew, Katherina, threatens her sister Bianca, played by Lisa Stoeffel of Montclair, during a St. James Players rehearsal of Shakespeare's comedy, “…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 05:08AM
Stage fighting? Lots of people can do that. Accents? Standard. Foreign languages? No longer uncommon. Here are seven actors talking about the really unusual gifts they have.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54AMWith a zombie apocalypse on their hands, a married couple battles the elements and each other. Written by Dave Lankford, Night of the Living is a psychological thriller of marital proportion…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:52AMIn the 1970s and 80s, there was one female impersonator that stood out from them all. Her name was Divine. She was brash and crude. She made her fame by pairing with the king of shock value.…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:52AMIn Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s production of Charles Morey’s Laughing Stock, meet Will MacLeod. Joel: Where have local…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:11AMVisitors can sample foods, shop for crafts, watch sporting challenges, and enjoy dance and musical performances
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:04AMEdinburgh enters the home stretch with a final five-day flourish that includes Bank Holiday Monday – and features one more international festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM
BRAVO, GIOVANNI closed just in time for her to be available to replace the leading lady of the biggest smash in town.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52AMYou can never overestimate the importance of those engaged in the making, designing and assembling of scenery, sets and props – without
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30AMOn the eve of its 20th anniversary in 2016, AIDA Cruises looks set to consolidate its well-deserved reputation as a first-choice seagoing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30AMDie nimlike Marga van Rooy, of soos ons haar in die volksmond ken, Worsie se Ma, Ella, in Vetkoekpaleis is terug op die verhoog in Lefra Produksies se hoogs suksesvolle klug, MY BOETIE SE BO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMJonathan Larson's ground-breaking musical will celebrate the landmark birthday in Staten Island.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMThe Tony Award-winning play begins performances tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMHey Violet Talks Touring, Acoustic Hangouts, & Prank Wars with 5SOS
YH is backstage at the legendary Troubadour in L.A. to catch up with pop-punk group taking over the world, Hey Violet! Nia…
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Deborah Zoe Laufer's play is based on a true event that brought the issue of science vs. faith into the headlines.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40AMRobert Peterpaul Productions announced that it will present an 'Acting Master Class with Taylor Trensch' today, August 27th, from 2PM to 4PM in New York City. The event will aim to assist as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40AMPearl, a new American-Chinese dance-theatre spectacular, inspired by the life of Pearl S. Buck, the first woman to win both the Nobel and the Pulitzer Prizes, will have its world premiere at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40AMThis play, set five years after the Rwanda genocide, examines the slipperiness of truth, the difficulty of ever determining what happened and why.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34AMYou know how you are supposed to check the batteries in your smoke detectors every time we go on or off daylight savings time? It may be worth having a similar rule for checking your intelle…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:21AMDon't you wish your school play could have a real Playbill? Oh, wait–it can!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori and Tonya Pinkins discuss the creation and inspiration for the acclaimed m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1878 Birthday of Sam S. Shubert (1878-1905), co-founder of the theatre-owning and producing titan, the Shubert Organization. Broadway's Shubert Theatre is named for him.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhorl Inside a Loop, a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, officially opens at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre Aug. 27, following previews that began Aug. 4. The prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Playwrights Realm's New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's A Delicate Ship officially opens Aug. 27 following previews that began Aug. 18 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 W. 42nd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTheatre lovers don't have to be children or teenagers to continue their education in performing arts. As part of Playbill.com's ongoing coverage of education in our Back to School we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhat's the secret to making it on Broadway? These educators have the answers. Year after year, the students they work with go on to find careers on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSure, Adam Schreck had a swell time participating in short-form improvs for Christopher Nagel’s Bethel Park High School drama classes. But make a living at it? He didn’t even see himself…
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