When the auction began onstage at the Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” had just completed its 11,474th performa…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 08:35PM‘Tis the witching hour. The crowd file in at midnight for a heavy metal band pumping with the rage of the Greeks. In Aeschylus’s Oresteia, the matriarch of the House of Atreus, Clytemnes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33PMWhat your computer can learn about you from your web searches and your reliance on Google Translate (despite your “fluency” in German), down to the porn you watch, makes for a startling …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33PMTHE UNAUTHORIZED O.C. MUSICAL is slated for a one-night-only show this Sunday, August 30, at The Montalban. Click below to listen to the cast covering the theme song 'California' by Phantom …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28PMLear deBessonet conceived and directed the community-based Public Works musical adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey at The Public Theater. Inspired by the historical pageantry movement of t…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:16PMNicole Scherzinger, a singer who is a staple of British TV including a regular gig on “The X Factor UK,” has signed on to NBC’s “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PMThe bracing fusion of hip hop and the musical form shows that America’s history—and its future—belong to men and women of color as profoundly as to anyone else.
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“The problem with birds is, they can fly.” Harriet is a falconer and descends from a long line of falconers, ornithologists, twitchers and pheasant pluckers going back to Henry VIII’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52PMCaptain Morgan 2: Sea of Souls is an explosion of pure imagination. A sequel of bewildering giddiness, it follows Captain Morgan 1: The Sands of Time, which made its debut last year and is c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52PMExtempore Theatre has taken the ‘Weird Tales Magazine’ as their inspiration for this particular production. Popular in the 1920s times the magazine was renowned for publishing weird and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52PMRoyal Shakespeare Company launches hip-hop app to attract youngsters
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:31PMMusician Kate McIntosh was born in New Zealand and lives in Brussels. Her new work, All Ears, runs at Arts House in North Melbourne from 3 to 6 September. Her live music is described as an �…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:27PMFrom Laurence Olivier to David Tennant
SOURCE: time.com at 07:26PMHAMILTON's Ham4Ham lottery performance has quickly become one of Broadway's most enjoyable new traditions. In today's special pre-show performance, Shockwave from Freestyle Love Supreme show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMEW just unveiled a cute yet playfully contentious Skype date between Darren Criss and Aaron Tveit to promote their upcoming Elsie Fest in New York City. Click below to watch the pair argue o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMF. Michael Haynie NBC's Peter Pan LIVE, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Wicked joins Charlotte Jaconelli and friends for her New York Debut at 54 Below onSaturday, September 5th at 700pm, 'An Evening …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMBrooklyn playwright Anna Ziegler’s star is on the rise, especially now that Nicole Kidman’s about to make her stage comeback in one of Ziegler’s pieces, “Photograph 51,” in London.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:16PM
Wanna make a bet? The Fringe Festival’s deliciously ridiculous musical about the selection of a new Pope, Popesical, like the actual Pope’s upcoming visit, will attract big crowds. But i…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:44PMI just caught two new musicals about red-headed female scientists and their partners. One is in town for a brief stay in its world premiere in the Fringe Festival. One was never seen before …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:44PMIt’s rare to find a kids’ show that’s this good. Here are 2 that are new, written by Jamey Hood.
She scores with both, tho’ it’s her first time. And, in fact, non-distractingly, s…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:43PMFollowing the adorable addition of 'Little NPH' to Neil Patrick Harris's upcoming NBC variety show BEST TIME EVER,the host just took to Twitter to announce the latest member of the team CATS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMTwo men tussle, verbally and philosophically, for the affections of a woman in Anna Ziegler’s memory play about the fragile dynamics of relationships.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMThe German writer Marius von Mayenburg’s play about troubled adolescent siblings is at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMMs. Engel, best known for Georgette on the 1970s sitcom, returns to the stage in the play “John,” which features her in her first leading role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMIntimate struggles — autism, depression, cancer — were significant themes among the theater offerings at this festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMRehearsals are underway for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ razor-edged new comedy “Appropriate,” opening October 4 and continuing through November 1, 2015, at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Ta…
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 06:25PMShould you trade in your gym membership and therapy sessions for regular visits to a piano bar
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMThe vintage photo appears on sheet music covers for selections from GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS OF 1928.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMEsteemed conductor, Steven Reineke, and the New York Pops Symphony played a private concert for the campers of French Woods Festival for the Performing Arts. Scroll down for photos, featurin…
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Playwright Reginald Rose's 1954 stint in the jury room at New York's Foley Square courthouse brought a much greater reward.
Rose's stage adaptation also won acclaim through the years, no mo…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:59PMLong-running political theater company, which does not do silent mime, to perform police-harassment-themed show "Freedomland," Aug. 28 in Nevada City, Aug. 29 in Sacramento and Aug. 30 in Da…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:41PMThe farm-based Massachusetts company draws upon the life of lead actor Carlos Uriona for 'Once a Blue Moon.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:34PMMembers of the “Pro99” movement of Actors’ Equity Association have issued an open letter to AEA’s newly elected president, Kate Shindle, in response to her victory and to her inaugur…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:33PMA member of the “Wicked” ensemble who fell from a rope during a performance is asking a court to order the show to preserve evidence of what happened to her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMThe 'NEWSBOYS OF NEW YORK' reunited earlier this week on August 24 at 54 Below. Click below to watch them rock the heck out of 'Once and For All'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2001 (RCA) This minor but appealing Off-Broadway effort was adapted by playwright David Auburn from a semi-autobiographical, one-person show that had been written…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:12PMThe Ogunquit Playhouse is the first regional theatre in the country to produce the Tony Award-winning musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, onstage now through September 19, 2015. BroadwayWorld ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Birdland Jazz Club recently announced the opening of The Birdland Theater. The new convertible 100-seat venue will occupy the lower level of Birdland Ja…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMRebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch appear to be thisclose again. British press reports on Friday said that Brooks has agreed to return to her former post as head of News Corp’s newsp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:03PMStudio Cast, 2001 (PS Classics) Hats off to PS Classics for issuing the premiere recording of this interesting curio, a 1931 Vincent Youmans flop — and hats back on for their having made s…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:01PMRECOMMENDED From Homer J. Hickam’s memoir, to a Universal Studios film, comes a musical retelling of an ageless, American story of the right, and the ability, to rise above one’s circums…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PMActor describes how he brought the same resonance to a seemingly simple New York cab driver as he did to the infinitely complicated Gandhi.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:00PM
By Lara Bye, Antonio Lyons. Antonio Lyons talks with Lara Bye about her work as an artist and teacher in South Africa.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:58PMOriginal Cast, 2004 (Original Cast Records) In musicalizing the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered a boy in 1924 Chicago, composer-lyricist-librettist Stephen Dolgin…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:45PMIf you want to see Kevin Bacon in "Rear Window" at Hartford Stage, you better act fast.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PMWhy have we brought you here? There are two new cast members joining Broadway’s longest running musical! Craig Bennett and Rachel Zatcoff have been tapped for The Phantom of the Opera …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1952 (Capitol/Angel) The singing on this recording of a misfire by Abe Burrows and Ralph Blane is so gorgeous that you’ll forgive Blane’s score for being less tha…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:32PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1954 (MGM/Decca) This is the Carmen Capalbo production that helped put Off-Broadway on the map. One of the most important musical theater works of the 20th centur…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:21PMOn August 27, TV Icon Barbara Eden took in a performance of Ruthless!. The luminous star met the cast after the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1985 (Polygram/JAY) This three-character musical about the rise and ultimate dissolution of a gifted trio of young comedians has one big problem in that it’s ne…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:11PMWinners have been announced for the 2015 Total Theatre Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which includes a dance category for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:08PMThe Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince, will soon welcome new cast members. Rachel Zatcoff will make her Broadway debut as the C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMPulitzer Prize winnerLynn Nottage's SWEAT, currently making its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, could beheaded off-Broadway next year.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMBroadwayWorld is excited to exclusively bring you our newest, and first webseries that takes place in an actual theatre- Empty Space. Empty Space is a love-letter to live theater, a nine-epi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMAstaged reading of SHARPIES - A New Comedy by Eugene Pack, was held as part of Guild Hall's Staged Reading Series in East Hampton on Thursday, August 20th.It starred Matthew Broderick, Blyth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMOriginal Cast, 2000 (DRG) It would be a wonderful thing if more full-length musicals could be as melodic and charming as 3hree, the triumvirate of one-act works that director Harold Prince p…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:00PMBroadway veteran Craig Bennett will step into the role of Monsieur Firmin.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
If you've ever tried to sell the possessions of a loved one, you've doubtless encountered the popular game of reducing the seller's expectations. One approaches a dealer with an item - a lov…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:50PMFirst things first. It is time to declare actor Mike Nussbaum the Eight Wonder of the World. Watch the 91-year-old actor as he moves through TimeLine Theatre's gripping revival of "The Price…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:41PMTV Icon Barbara Eden took in a performance of Ruthless! on August 27. The luminous star met the cast after the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2001 (Swing Music) In theory, it was an inspired idea to have Harry Connick, Jr. write the score for this Susan Stroman-David Thompson adaptation of Thérèse Raquin,…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:09PMProducers Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group announced Aug. 28 that Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera will welcome two new principal actors beginning next week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMShould you trade in your gym membership and therapy sessions for regular visits to a piano bar
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMThe new ARTHUR episode features special guest star Idina Menzel Broadway's WICKED, IFTHEN as a caring therapist named Dr. Paula.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMJeffrey Rivera is a bundle of nerves, excitement and pride as he waits by the red carpet for the opening night of Whorl Inside a Loop at Second Stage Theatre. On parole from Woodbourne Corre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMFull casting has been announced for the Molly Smith-directed production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Film Soundtrack, 1967 (Decca/MCA) There’s no explanation for this bizarre camp exercise, which was designed to spoof the 1920s. Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore play flappers seeking the…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:49PMLynn Nottage, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined, debuted her newest work, Sweat, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Amid critical acclaim, the NY Post reported that the play may have it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMAs part of Playbill.com's Back to School week (#BwayBacktoSchool), we give you the opportunity to prove once and for all that musical theatre majors can, indeed, do math. (Have you ever …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMMovie stars were causing all sorts of fuss in the theatre world this week, in all sorts of ways, some of them quite unexpected.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe latest debate in the Guardian and BAC’s A Nation’s Theatre strand looked at the fringe’s place in the theatre ecology – here’s what we discussedEdinburgh is the biggest open ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMTHE REPORT, a haunting new drama, will conclude its FringeNYC engagement tomorrow (Friday, August 28). The play opened at the New York International Fringe Festival on August 15th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMDIXIE DOODLES IN DISTRESS Beth Henley, author of 1979’s Pulitzer-winning Crimes of the Heart, has practically patented the Southern stereotype. Drawling in a stilted patois, Henley’s des…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:16PMProducers of 'Wicked' failed to help a performer defy gravity when her safety harness broke, causing serious injuries, court papers read.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:16PM“Scream Queens” reunites star Lea Michele with the triumvirate that created “Glee” — Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. And while they all still miss Cory Monteith…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:16PMEven if you had a good job with good pay, you’ll never own Pink Floyd’s “Algie.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:16PMSave the date for a night of music and lyrics! On Monday, September 28 at 6pm, composer/lyricists Robert Lindsey-Nassif will be featured in Broadway’s Future Songbook Series. The serie…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:15PMNew Britain Museum of American Art on Friday named a director to succeed Douglas Hyland. Min Jung Kim, who will join the museum on Nov. 2, is currently deputy director for external relations…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMCalling them 'brave' is offensive, she says.
SOURCE: USA Today at 02:13PMMissing this awesome human #wcw #juliannemoore @freeheldmovie A photo posted by @ellenpage on Aug 26, 2015 at 1:59pm PDT
In a new interview with Time, actress and LGBTQ activist Ellen P…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 02:13PMLike many European composers before him who have made the pilgrimage across the Atlantic to offer their talents on the altar of Hollywood, Max Richter has learned to become proficient in the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PMDenzel Washington will direct Viola Davis in a movie version of August Wilson’s “Fences,” the Tony Award-winning actress told The New York Times.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:11PMIf you’re looking for a play that’s dark, perverse, and immensely fascinating you’ve found it.
The post Dark, Perverse, and Immensely Fascinating: The World of The Nether appeared firs…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:02PMKaren Foster has been named new executive director of the Lichfield Garrick. She replaces Chris Moore, who stood down in July after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01PMThe world premiere of a new work by Alan Ayckbourn is to be staged at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Called
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01PMTony winner Idina Menzel, who will play several stops during the forthcoming tour of If/Then, will be heard on the PBS children's series "Arthur."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Best known for her Emmy-winning portrayal of Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren on the hit Netflix series 'Orange Is the New Black,' actress Uzo Aduba Broadway's GODSPELL stopped by this morning's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMCarmine's on the Upper West Side 2450 Broadway, NYC, 212-362-2200, carminesnyc.com celebrated its 25th anniversary on Monday evening in grand fashion. Broadway actors from 'Jersey Boys' -- J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMHappiness is... 54 Below Sings You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown OnSeptember 2-3, 54 Below will present the Grammy-nominated music by Clark Gesner, with additional music from Andrew Lippa, in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMThe Second City, a Chicago comedy institution has been forced to cancel performances this weekend due to a fire in the area. According to the Chicago Tribune, Wednesday's fire started in Ado…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMSometimes it seems like our whole entire culture is one huge celebration of thin white women. Ogling them, collecting them, advertising products to help other women become more like them, …
SOURCE: bittergertrude.com at 01:56PMThe title will draw you in. The pre show will captivate you. And the script will shock you. Welcome to Mitchel Buckley's God is a Woman. In a world where nothing is quite what it seems, God …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:53PMAward-winning actress Denise Gough stars in Jeremy Herrin's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:45PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has canceled the planned Aug. 28 preview of Amélie, a new musical based on the Academy Award-nominated quirky French film of the same title, due to a tec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1942 (Decca) Shortly after the start of World War II, Irving Berlin created a new version of his World War I revue Yip! Yip! Yaphank. The resulting show, This Is the …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:39PMThe invitation came with a catch.An Azerbaijani producer who was putting together a collection of short films asked filmmaker and writer Maria Ibrahimova if she’d be interested in contribu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:38PMPrimary Stages in association with Amy Danis, Mark Johannes and Dan Shaheen has announced complete casting for Topher Payne's Perfect Arrangement, which will be presented Sept. 29-No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMAaron Tveit (Next to Normal, Catch Me If You Can) joined Twitter and Instagram Aug. 27. Check out his first posts below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMAaron Tveit (Next to Normal, Catch Me If You Can) joined Twitter and Instagram Aug. 27. Check out his first posts below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PM“If a single company gets scared and it is willing to pull work that it has invested time and money and love into… that is a very dangerous precedent.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:13PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2004 (DRG) A sort of musical fairy tale for adults, The Thing About Men is based on Doris Dorrie’s German film Männer. It shows us what happens when a philande…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:06PMOn Tuesday, May 12, Chef Eli Kulp of Fork Restaurant (306 Market St.) suffered a severe spinal injury during the derailment of Amtrak Train 188 — leaving him paralyzed.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:06PMSince we’re down to only a couple summer Fridays left, I thought I’d take a break from all my market talk of this week and have some fffffun. Here’s a video that spoofta…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 01:06PMCLEVELAND, Ohio - Eight area elementary schools will be sprinkled with a little of Tinker Bell's pixie dust over the next two years, thanks to a $100,000 grant awarded to Playhouse Square fr…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:06PMWhen you have a talented group of friends, you're bound to want to collaborate with them. And that is the root of Summer Blue's creation. Conceived by director Akil “Apollo” Davis and fe…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:04PMWant to go on an adventure like you've never experienced before? Then jump in Jaron and Slater's submarine, buckle your seat belts and get ready for a bumpy ride. Created and performed by Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:04PMIt’s Friday, which could only mean one thing: We’re ready to crawl into bed and obsessively refresh Aaron Tveit’s shiny new Twitter profile for the next 48 hours. OK, two t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMGet locked up with Sherie Rene Scott and the talented stars of Whorl Inside a Loop. The prison-set new work opened at off-Broadway's Second Stage on August 28. Check out these hot pics o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Sutton Foster Set for Mad Dogs
Sutton Foster has booked yet another small screen gig! TV Line reports that the Younger head…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMA journalist, keen to rebuild his professional reputation, arrives at a Rwandan prison five years after the 1994 genocide to interview two Hutu Nuns who are about to stand trial for war crim…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:03PMPlaybill.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 01:00PMIt’s a tricky question. And the last time I asked it there were passionate responses representing all shades of opinion. Do you
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThe Playwrights Realm presents the New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Underbelly, EdinburghMiddle Child’s piece about twentysomething slacker lifestyles works up a sweaty energy and has a tender soulIs it a gig? Is it a storytelling piece? Is it a play? Midd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMIn Part 1 of a series of interviews with the Director and cast of Peace Mountain Theatre Company‘s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, meet Director Laurie T. Freed. Joe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMTim Firth's Calendar Girls will open Georgia Ensemble Theatre's 2015-16 season Sept. 10. This will be the first time the popular British play is performed in the United States.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMAbout every ten years, a Broadway musical is christened by the theater pundit class and audiences as a landmark in the development of the art form and becomes more than just a smash hit, it …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:52PMGREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - To pass a day at a cloudy British seaside resort in the waning days of summer is to embrace melancholy. The resorts themselves - conceived as great Victorian towns …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:46PMFinborough Theatre, London*****Written and directed by Matthew WilkinsonThusitha Jayasundera and Cal MacAninch"...If a country can't protect the rights of its people, what can a man do? A ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:39PMThe Second City comedy theater of Chicago encouraged alumni to post pictures and memories Friday in the wake of a Wednesday fire in the neighboring Adobo Grill restaurant that destroyed the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:38PMSecond City announced Aug. 28 that it will be cancelling performances through Aug. 30 due to damage from a fire that broke out on the performance venue's block in Old Town, Chicago, and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMSecond City announced Aug. 28 that it will be cancelling performances through Aug. 30 due to damage from a fire that broke out on the performance venue's block in Old Town, Chicago, and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMIf your back-to-school attitude could be captured in a Broadway opening number, which would it be Find out in this week's quiz
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMThe box office of the Cort Theatre 138 W. 48th Street went to dogs on Friday, August 28, 2015, when it openedfor business for A.R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia. In celebration of Sylvia coming to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMBroadway vet Sutton Foster will appear in a guest starring role on Amazon's upcoming dark comedy series MAD DOGS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMAs previously reported, the World Premiere of PRINCE OF BROADWAY, a new musical celebrating the extraordinary six decade Broadway career of producer-director Harold Prince, will play from Oc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMMolly Smith directs her 30th production as Artistic Director of Arena Stage with a gritty and relevant take on the Tony Award-winning musical Oliver, blending the chaotic worlds of 19th-cent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMAt a recent dinner with like-minded Broadway enthusiasts, one told of a director whose vision hadn’t worked for what could have otherwise been a really good musical. Soon after, anothe…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:33PMIt pains me to write this review of Dogfight at the Keegan Theatre. I’ve been a Keegan patron for years and was happy to experience its newly renovated space for the first time (it debuted…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMA quick-shout for two exhibitions I caught over the weekend at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both seemingly calculated to appeal to this correspondent. Having just finished reading Mark Tw…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:26PM"Mad Men" star and Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm is reportedly in talks to star in the film adaptation of Marjorie Prime, the Pulitzer Prize finalist by Jordan Harrison, according t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMWant a front row seat and inside scoop from some of your favorite Broadway stars? The Drama League has announced their Fall 2015 Schedule of events and workshops at the Drama League�…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:22PMWhorl Inside a Loop, a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, officially opened at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre Aug. 27, following previews that began Aug. 4. The pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMLionel Bart’s Oliver! is to be staged in Arabic for the first time, featuring a cast of 36 Syrian refugees. Updated so
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMFrom Barbra's basement to the state department! Former Buyer and Cellar headliner Christopher J. Hanke and more will appear in the previously announced New York premiere of Topher Payne&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMPrimary Stage's upcoming New York premiere has announced full casting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
The Chicago storefront theatre loses its home at the Angel Island Theater after nearly three decades.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:58AMDirector and Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney is turning a performance by indie rockers Other Lives into a theater work for this fall’s Next Wave Festival, a signatu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMSt James’s, London An anthology highlighting Jewish songwriters’ contributions to the American musical, from the 1930s to the present, is at its most delightful in the first halfThe titl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe angular New Zealander has the audience in raptures with his wonky physical comedy – and a brilliantly inventive finaleThere’s nothing new under the sun,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA young graduate addresses the myths around learning disabilities with humour and panacheSo you think you know everything about high functioning autism? Of cour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMStand Comedy Club, EdinburghEdgy material about liberal concerns – Bill Cosby, Ebola – lacks the confidence required for such a bloodless deliveryIf fans of The Daily Show are seeing any…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMPolitical comedy used be an orthodox, tub-thumping affair. Today, it’s a far subtler art, with Nish Kumar, Sheeps, Stewart Lee and Ahir Shah all reinventing the form You can tell plenty ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM By: Sandi Durell It’s still hot, hot, hot but not for long. Very soon the cabarets and...
The pos…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:44AMAdapted from the 1999 film with Jake Gyllenhaal, October Sky is a new musical about boys, rockets and big dreams. Following previews that began Aug. 19, the world premiere officially opened …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMLindsay Mendez joined Seth Rudetsky in studio for the latest go 'round of the "Obsessed!" series. Mendez recreates her backup harmonies from Grease and then goes toe-to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMTKTS has been a New York City institution for decades, bringing theatre-goers a last-minute way to get tickets for some of Broadway's hottest shows at a discount. TDF operates three TKTS Dis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 8282015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMRyan Murphy reveals that that pattern may change in 2016 when twice as much terror could be in store for viewers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMThe 2015/2016 theater season has already begun, with the much lauded Broadway premiere of Hamilton (and the less-lauded debut of Amazing Grace) and the first new shows of the Off-Broadway se…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:32AMMultiple Tony winner Jason Robert Brown, composer of Honeymoon in Vegas, Parade, 13, The Bridges of Madison County and The Last Five Years, is composing music for Prince of Broadway, the ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMWhorl Inside a Loop, a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, officially opened at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre Aug. 27, following previews that began Aug. 4. The pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMIn Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s production of Charles Morey’s Laughing Stock, meet Director Shawn G. Byers. Joel: Tell our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMCorey Mitchell has never written a Broadway show, never acted on Broadway, never designed a set or invented staging there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMAudiences will be taken on an 'intimate journey through the maze-like basement of Shoreditch Town Hall'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:04AMWhorl Inside a Loop follows a well-known actress as she begins teaching a group of inmates how to tell their stories.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Young people creating their first piece of theatre can now apply for a grant specifically aimed at helping artists start out. A number of ‘No Strings Allowed’ grants worth between £500…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AM If you’ve ever read Crime and Punishment now’s your chance to get sweets pelted at you by none other than Dostoyevs…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMTo improvise a show requires the cast to think on its feet, work together easily and anticipate each other accurately. To improvise a comedy sketch show requires the cast to produce funny sc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AM Drinking a crate of beer would loosen the tongue on most people but not the two women performers in Spitfire Theatre’s production, part of the Fringe’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMThere are three separate companies performing Into the Woods at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. A Sondheim classic, it is in no way an easy ride, but then which of Sondheim’s creations is?…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMMagicians have a hard time impressing the crowd nowadays. Everyone expects more risky, more daring and altogether more show-stopping tricks. Modern fantasy books and CGI-animated films show …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMThe Broadway.com staff is crazy for Culturalist, the website that lets you choose and create your own top 10 lists. Every week, we’re challenging you with a new Broadway-themed topic t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMKey Change, a piece devised by women from a prison in the U.K., has been awarded the The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award after playing at this year's festival to critical acclaim. C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMBaltimore native Mike E. Winfield has told jokes on Letterman, Arsenio, Comedy Central, BET and Fuse, plus he had a memorable scene as an outspoken warehouse worker on "The Office."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AMIf you’re a high school playwright, there are two things you likely have in common with every playwright your age: a love of theatre, and a serious dependence on search engines. With few s…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:50AMBy Seth Lepore. Seth Lepore lays out the pros and cons of fiscal sponsorship versus becoming a non-profit for small arts groups or individuals.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:49AMA dark and occasionally funny thriller opens the twenty-seventh season at Profiles Theatre. At first glance, Beth Henley’s “The Jacksonian,” a surreal Southern Gothic tale, seems like …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:45AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Hugh Jackman will be polishing his dancing shoes for an all-new stage show set to tour throughout his native Australia later this year, and in a recent …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMJust last month,Jake Gyllenhaal,Taran Killam,Eddie Cooper, and more took the stage with original Little Shop of Horrors star Ellen Greene to performin the Encores Off-Center concert producti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMProducer Cameron Mackintosh, who controls the licensing rights to Lionel Bart's classic musical OLIVER, is giving his support to the first-ever Arab-language presentation of the show, based …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMBenedict Cumberbatch's parents — both of them also actors, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton — were first to praise their son after the opening of Hamlet at the Barbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMSave the date – and buy your ticket – because Broadway is heading back to school. The International Thespian Society is holding its first annual New York Alumni Council event on …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:21AMBy SK Kerastas. SK Kerastas describes an experience grappling with the concept of “radical hospitality” during Anna Deveare Smith’s Notes from the Field, Doing Time in Education: The C…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:14AMBy Doug Mayo
Manchester is a vibrant theatre city which plays host to a number of national touring productions as well as housing some of the great producing theatres. So What’s On In …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:13AMCasting Director: “Thanks, Vinnie, but you’re a little young…” Me: “Too young?” {Editor’s note: Code for not good enough.} Well, thank you.” C…
SOURCE: broadwayadjacent.com at 10:10AMLondon and Broadway's original Eponine, Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, will release her sixth studio recording, featuring songs that evoke the singing actress' love of Paris, this fal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM Robin Westle has more than proved her mettle in spearheading Helpusadopt.org, a national non-profit 501(c)(3) financial assistance grant program providing qualified couples and…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:08AMveers from melodramatic excess into the blackest comedy
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:02AMMackintosh, who controls the licensing rights to the groundbreaking Lionel Bart musical, has lent his support to the first-ever Arab-language presentation of the show, based on Charles Dicke…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AMTHROWN BY A LOOP I’m not partial to dramas set in prisons; these tend to be ugly, depressing, violent and hopeless, or worse—sentimental, and I find myself reluctant to be transported t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:01AMAn uninvited guest sparks drama in Anna Ziegler's Off-Broadway play 'A Delicate Ship.'
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:01AMNine years before “Hamilton,” the 2006 musical “Spring Awakening” gave the American stage a fresh sound. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s adaptation of the 1891 Frank Wedekind drama…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:01AMIt's captivating and packs a punch. And it’s cartoonish and loses its grip.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:01AMVictoria Shaw has written for some of music’s biggest artists including Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera, Olivia Newton-John, Boyzone, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Reba McEntire, Trish…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
Catrina McHugh's “Key Change,” directed by Laura Lindow, was commissioned by a development company in England that specializes in work with prisoners.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:59AMNBC has released the first trailer for The Wiz Live!, which will air Dec. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMCameron Mackintosh said some of the cast 'have had an even harder start to life than Oliver himself'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:48AMThe comedian is reprising her solo show later this year
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:48AMWe begin at 1,000,000 BC, with a set of scattered household furniture and timer starting at 1,000,000 projected onto the back wall. This begins to drop through the years at pace advancing to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMCashing in on the excitement and glamour of the flappers and moderns of 1920s New York, Thoroughly Modern Millie is an entertaining romp through the prohibition-shadowed streets of NY. The s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMChristopher Marlowe’s sweeping epic is given a modern twist at the Tristan Bates Theatre. We are instantly bombarded with banging techno, synchronised marching in suits, chanting their…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMSuccessfully improvising a show requires the cast to think on its feet, work together easily and anticipate each others’ lines. Improvising a musical requires the cast to do all of thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMAntoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince lends more than enough colourful characters for Ezra LeBanks’s jovial adaptation, produced by Californian physical theatre company Curbside.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMThe Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:46AMFrom a John Waters season at the BFI to a game-changing new sitcom and the best Notting Hill carnival parties, here are the cultural highlights of the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMEighty new musicals will have their West End premiere this Autumn, each created on the spot by the incredible, multi award-winning musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMThe highly subscribed suburban Marriott Theater outside Chicago has been making strides over the last decade in developing original musicals, but it gets a jet-propelled thrust into the pote…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AMFor many women these days, it's not "He's just not that into you" that's the problem. It's that "There aren't enough of him."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:27AMWonderbound contemporary dance company has always been good about sharing the spotlight with other creative types, working with local musicians to create events that are somewhere between d…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:27AMIn Part 6 of a series of interviews with The Playwright, Director, and cast of Calendar Girls at McLean Community Players, meet Anne Megan Hilleary. Joel: Tell our readers where they may h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26AMLionel Bart's classic musical Oliver! is to receive its first-ever Arabic language adaptation, featuring a cast of 36 Syrian refugees and under-privileged Jordanian children when…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it This weekend's big news THE CHRISTIANS and HAMLET IN BE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMSecond 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 09:24AMThat Was Then, a new soul musical written by Arnold S. Wolfe, will play the Hudson Guild Theater Aug. 31 at 6:15 PM, Sept. 4 at 9 PM and Sept. 6 at 3:30 PM. The show is featured as part of N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMPOLKADOTS The Cool Kids Musical, a new musical celebrating the diversity among children, will have a private industry reading today, August 28th, in New York City. Creator Douglas Lyons Five…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:23AMThePlaywrights Realmpresents the New York Premiere ofA Delicate ShipbyAnna Ziegler, directed byMargot Bordelon. The production runs now through September 12, 2015, officially opening lastnig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AME. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright and librettist. Her new play Now Comes the Night opens at 1st Stage September 18. Lewis’s work has been produced around the world and is pu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21AMThe Internet is an amazing thing. When memories fail, it can sometimes help us recover the facts with a clarity that startles. For example, I now know that July 21, 1979 was the first time I…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AMAugust 25, 1873 was the natal day of actress Blanche Bates, best known for her long years with David Belasco’s stock company where she created the female leads in the original producti…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AM
Lambasted by pundits but loved by the public, On the Buses was one of the most successful television sitcoms of the 1970s,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMMark Haddon’s 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has always been acclaimed as a spellbinding, moving and honest portrayal of those suffering with Asperger’s Syn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:54AMThis double bill, which is part of the Arcola’s Grimeborn festival, is an interesting exploration of faith, the supernatural and revelation. Both pieces are heavy with biblical referen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:54AMTerry Johnson's production received a warm reception in Bath
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:54AM✭✭✭✩✩ Tunefully diverse:
Tuneful, varied and unfussily melodic, A Bohemians’ Rhapsody is a thoroughly satisfactory evening out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AMWednesday in 2d graf is Sept. 2 Playwrights including Beth Henley, David Grimm, Marcus Gardley and John Guare talk about adapting Williams’s stories for the Acting Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AMPlayhouse, EdinburghA virtuosic, seductive double bill by Wayne McGregor and Christian Spuck – set to music by Max Richter and recitals of Shakespeare’s sonnetsA beautiful courtliness ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMNational Youth Dance Company | Dance at the FringeAnyone expecting the cute or the amateur will get a pleasant shock from Apex Rising, a new festival showcasing the range of NYDC’s dancers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMThis week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Boston, Chicago, Ireland and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include WAITRESS at A.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21AMLast night, Celine Dion brought 'The Power of Love' to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace to resume her critically-acclaimed Las Vegas residency show, Celine.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21AM Review by Michael Bracken “Which is worse? A black kid whose mom gets arrested, so he gets in with the wrong crowd, and is really...
The post Whorl Insid…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:20AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: August’s L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:09AM Review by Sonia Roberts Set at a prestigious university in New York City, Lisa Lewis’s Schooled takes us into the world of competitive undergraduate screenwrite…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:05AM
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Mosaic Theater and Constellation Theatre Company. Women’s Voices Theater Fe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AMA West End backstage worker of 34 years standing has claimed he has been forced to leave his job with the Really
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMNottingham Playhouse has announced Caroline Shutter as its new chair. Shutter, who has been a trustee of the Playhouse since 2014, was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMYou Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews is a pithy, smart, hugely enjoyable satirical number from the Monty Python musical Spamalot. This show is none of those things, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:51AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I file the second of three reports on my recent visit to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where I saw Mary Zimmerman’s revival of Guys and Dolls. I also re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIf you go to a ballet that tells a story, chances are that you will see a fairy tale, a pastoral idyll, or one of an apparently endless stream of different Alice in Wonderlands. Dance does o…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:43AMJavier Perianes is a musician of sweeping, Romantic sensibilities, eager to take a stand, and the result is a triumphant recording
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:40AMBy Doug Mayo
Take two drag queens, a transvestite, a big bus and enough sequins and glitter to sink the titanic, put them together with a talented cast and a plethora of modern pop and disco…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:38AMThe Film Arcade announced today that they have set a November 13th for the critically acclaimed film, JAMES WHITE, the directorial debut from Borderline Films writerdirector Josh Mond.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I talk about a new government program designed to support works of serious scholarship that are aimed at a popular audience—and show…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMAs the Edinburgh festival staggers to the finishing line, comedians contemplate their musty, cramped but comfortable stage homes for the past monthDear City Cafe,When my mum heard I was goin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMFestival theatre, EdinburghTheatre company 1927’s enchanting staging of the opera as a silent film – with Papageno as Buster Keaton and Pamina as Louise Brooks – will be hard to topThi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMA 1926 film of Wassily Kandinsky making an abstract drawing: For more information about the film, go here. (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space ea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM“Philistinism implies not only a collection of stock ideas but also the use of set phrases, clichés, banalities expressed in faded words. A true philistine has nothing but these trivial i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
This summer, I went back to my roots in a way. I went back to the summer camp I had attended in 2011, while I was preparing for college auditions. US Performing Arts runs a camp at UCLA and …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 06:56AMA "Wicked” balloon will be part of the show Sept. 18-19 in Forest Park
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:55AMOur staff picks the best things to do this week, with a look at what's ahead in the weeks to come.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:55AMWe owe the phrase “you won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews” to Spamalot – so it only officially entered the theatrical lexicon circa 2005 when the Monty Python mus…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:50AMDuncan James impresses in this imaginative and 'flamboyantly over the top show' by Simon Phillip's
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:48AMGuests including Dame Kelly Holmes and Angela Rippon joined the cast for opening night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:48AMNick Westrate, Miriam Silverman, and Matt Dellapina in A Delicate Ship
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Anna Ziegler offers up a dark and fractured Christmas memory in A Delicate Ship, which the Pla…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:36AMbloominauschwitz is an intriguing one man play based on Joyce’s Ulysses. The story follows the tale’s pivotal character Leopold Bloom. We see him travel through time exploring his roots …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMIn Arc, a square construction made of steel scaffolding is suspended above the stage. Three performers are lying asleep on it. They awake, scared and dazed at their surroundings like abando…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMWhen a play is based upon something dull – some obscure historical event or niche political case – one inevitably cuts it some slack. A musical based on EU fishing regulation is unli…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:31AMOne of my favorite American plays of the last several years is Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined,” a harrowing look at prostitutes navigating the deadly politics of an African country torn apart.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM
Following their hit Golem, 1927 return to Edinburgh with a "non-stop visual treat to accompany Mozart's strange fairytale"
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMDavid Greig's adaptation of Alasdair Gray's Life in Four Books is a 'must-see triumph'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMJohn Caird's production of James Phillips' dark play transfers to the West End from the St James Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMSophie Evans and Lloyd Daniels star in this loose history of Jewish composers and lyricists in musical theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMThe Jefferson Community Players will perform “Guess Who's Coming To Lunch,” a one act comedy by Fred Carmichael, on Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13. Curtain is at 2 p.m.…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 05:26AMThe Montclair Operetta Club, one of the country's oldest continuously-operating community theaters, beginning its 91st season, announces open auditions for its upcoming production of "V…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 05:26AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
If this performance did not clear all of the hurdles set by Shakespeare and the play’s daunting production history, it cannot be faulted on ambition and daring. The com…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:22AMHeroes @ The Hive, EdinburghThere are goofy set pieces aplenty in this exuberantly silly show in which Jones’s alter ego, The Herbert, gets a ‘proper job’From Mr Bean to Mr Tumble, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AMThere is no such thing as “bad” language. Words – all words – are meant to be used. That is why they have evolved. But there is definitely such a thing as weak, repetitive, lazy …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:07AMBy Danny Coleman-Cooke
This revue is great fun and well-produced, combining superb music and performances with an insightful journey through the history of Jewish musical theatre. The show h…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:01AM
Second City CEO Andrew Alexander: “It has gutted our two levels of offices. But we’ll fix it. … The theaters are fine. The most important thing is that no one is hurt. Than…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:58AMThe co-authors based their drama on their experiences teaching a prison workshop.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49AM‘You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews.’ This quote from the Monty Python musical Spamalot has inspired a new show, dedicated to celebrating the contribution of Je…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:48AM“The playwright behind Homegrown, the controversial play exploring radicalisation and jihadi brides that was shut down less than a fortnight before its opening, … has been approa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:43AMDRAMA AS REDEMPTION From the first moments Nadia Fall’s production sets brutal, bullying humanity against a hot, strange, majestic Australian dawn. A lone aborigine watches, sile…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:15AMMany times via the media we only see the broad scope on a topic. We see it from a global perspective. Rarely do we see the local perspective. With the landscape of LGBTQ equality drastically…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:05AM
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera announced that they are co-presenting a free outdoor screening of Jerome Robbins amp Robert Wise's Academy Award-winning film We…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMNBC has announced that it will rebroadcast the memorable episode of THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, featuring Barbra Streisand as the show's sole guest.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMSummertime, and the traveling isn’t always easy: plane delays, security lines, a crying baby in the seat next to you. But plays and musicals call from across the country, and so, I must go…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:42AMPlaywrights Horizons kicks off performances of the the New York premiere of Lucas Hnath's The Christians, which received praised at last year's Humana Festival where it featured a fu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater kicks off its 2015-16 season Aug. 28 with the world premiere of Michael Laurence's Hamlet in Bed, billed as a "twisty and darkly comic s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs part of Playbill.com's Back to School week (#BwayBacktoSchool),PlaybillEDU sat down with William Westbrooks, Director of the Vocal Performance program within the Department of Music a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office of the Cort Theatre, which will soon be the home of the A.R. Gurney comedy Sylvia, opens for business Aug. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"All the world's a stage…" or maybe it's a catwalk. Playbill.com took to the streets of midtown Manhattan Aug. 26 to interview some fashionable kids, who are kee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChad Kimball, star of Memphis, tells how The Boston Conservatory changed his life.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAfter touring the world performing the signature song of Les Misérables' hero Jean Valjean, Alfie Boe returns to Broadway to star in the re-envisioned revival of the tragi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPolkadots: The Cool Kids Musical, a new musical celebrating the diversity among children, has a private industry reading Aug. 28 in New York City.
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