Can you peg a whole play on a decent twist? When We Were Women’s narrative tease pays off interestingly, but takes a hell of a long time getting there. It leaves little space to explore th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:55PMLani Misalucha, known for her star-turning main showroom concerts on the Las Vegas Strip, which earned her the moniker Siren of the Strip and Best Singer Staff Pick award in Las Vegas Review…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27PMDuncan Macmillan's involving play about addiction and rehab has a brilliant performance from Denise Gough .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14PMcovers immense territory; but neither the script or the production penetrates the sparkling surface that the authors and directors have contrived
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14PMAs you know, Spring Awakening starts previews tomorrow (!) night and opens on September 27th . . . so I had an idea. What about theming this month’s podcasts? I had a meeting with…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 08:12PMSally Christie’s “The Sisters of Versailles: A Novel,” is a naughty romp in the past that certainly gets your attention.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:12PM
Where are you from? Originally Virginia Beach, VA, but my dad was a navy SEAL so i moved all over, but i think of VIRGINIA as homeBroadway credits: Doctor Zhivago, Promises Promises, Women o…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 07:39PMJudging the merits of this production is challenging, but Rainmaker does succeed with Sarah E. Ross' gorgeously designed set, Sarah Hughey’s lighting, and Joe Cerqua’s original music. Ot…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:20PMThe Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., seizes on a fractious election season to restage this 1997 work about the dark arts of campaigning.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07PMJames Marino talks with Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone, of The Ensemblist Podcast, about their upcoming show at 54 Below. Peter Filichia and Michael Portantiere join in after to review A…
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Anne Washburn’s 2012 three-act play begins sometime in “the very near future,” after an apocalypse of nuclear proportions. The group of survivors in “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play�…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:42PMCharing Cross Theatre, London*Directed by Chris CoweyAlison ArnoppDusty is a show that has attracted a huge amount of challenging press during a troubled preview run that has lasted many mon…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:10PMThis multimedia work blends fiction and reality as it speaks to the power of artists to incite action with images.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMRECOMMENDED Green Day’s “American Idiot” sounds like someone took a real work of art, hammered and sanded it into an orb of commodified meaninglessness, cooked it up under the flame of…
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Just got word via Steve Stoliar that Laugh-In “Sock it to Me” Star Judy Carne (b . Joyce Botterill, 1939) has passed on at the age of 76. A native of Northampton, England, C…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:55PMBekah Brunstetter is a terrific catch for Bethesda’s small Flying V Theatre. The Los Angeles-based writer enjoys steady work on a cable series (“Switched at Birth”) and has a premiere …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:27PMIn a tender, fragmentary story about the inarticulacy of grief, this 2003 play by Olivier and Tony award winning playwright, Simon Stephens,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22PMDean Jones, the comic actor who made his mark in a series of Disney films, but who earned a place in Broadway history for originating the role of the vacillating bachelor Bobby in Stephen So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 972015.
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The Colonial Players of Annapolis opened their 67th season with Sherlock’s Last Case to an almost sold-out showing. Directed by Beth Terranova and written by Charles Markowitz, Sherlock’…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:58PMDAMES AT SEA will set sail at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre 240 West 44 Street, beginning performances Thursday, September 24, 2015, with an opening night of Thursday, October 22, 2015. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:55PMWhen the United States government takes action to close a pro-labor musical, a little-known actress lets her voice be heard.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:55PMScreen Actors Guild Foundation Invite You and A Guestto a Career Conversations Q&A withCHITA RIVERAFriday, September 11th1 PMCheck-in at 12:15 PMThe New School –&nb…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 02:49PMI find it hard to believe that Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur -- written in 2005, but just now receiving its New York premiere, under the auspices of The New Group -- caused such ire upon …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:38PMAt the end of the tuneful, rousing, and spectacular modern musical adaptation of Homer’s three thousand year old epic poem about a ten-year journey home, everybody from the cast is on stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:31PMBehold the first production of Green Day's "American Idiot" with Chicago origins and a storefront soul. Herein, the ambitious and experimental theater company known as The Hypocrites offer u…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:22PMDiscuss the Many Ways to be a Female Musical Theatre Writer
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:20PMWriter. Organizational. Chaos Lover. Berkeley Native.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:20PMPlaywright. Lyricist. Performer. Passionate devotee of the well-told stupid joke.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMActress. Daughter. Sister. Writer. Pizza Lover.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMDirector. Pursuer of Diplomacy. Enthusiastic Hostess. Jellybean Addict.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMPlaywright who writes for TV. Kilroy. Mexican. Lover of flan.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMDirector. Teacher. Martial Artist. Spiritual Quester.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PM"I need stories by women on stage because..."
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMActressinger. Ginger. Terrible Driver. Taco Lover.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMWriter. Actress. Wenatchee-ite. Short Shakespearean.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMDirector. Athlete. Embracer of the Five Senses.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMDirector. Choreographer. Lover of New York City.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMMusician. Adocate for Social Justice. Dog Lover.
SOURCE: the-interval.com at 02:19PMThirty-three Chinese singers, dancers and musicians arrived in Pittsburgh on Sunday, in time for rehearsals for their Tuesday night performance for the Cultures of China gala at the Soldiers…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:11PMChalk it Up 2015 at Fremont Park … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:06PMThe Chicago-born writer has teamed up with director Nadia Latif to combat the tradition of ‘endlessly complicated men and very straightforward women’ with her new play, OctagonPicture th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PMWhere are you from? Goldsboro, NCBroadway credits: Aladdin, Something Rotten!How did you hear you’d booked your first Broadway show? In a bar. Casey asked me if I was interested in doing A…
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Director Michael Grandage has defended star casting in theatre, claiming it is “enormously” helpful in attracting new audiences. Grandage is directing Nicole
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55PMHigh-quality drama will form the “backbone” of the BBC’s services over the next decade, director-general Tony Hall has announced. The corporation has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55PMOne lucky reader of the Broadway Wiz will win Free Tickets to That Bachelorette show!
SOURCE: broadwaywiz.com at 01:44PMSongs from THE HIT MEN Rocked The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall
Gerri Polci, Larry Gates, Lee Shapiro, Jimmy Ryan, Russ Velazquez: "The Hit Men""The Hit Men" shook up Guild Hall …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:39PMSimplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:08PM
Happy Labor Day The first Monday in September has arrived, which of course triggers the symbolic end to Summer 2014. Theatre fans everywhere know that this means one thing- the Broadway Fall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMHello intrepid #LAThtr fans!
Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or video reviews.
Here’s the newest Exit Review for the play To Kill A Mockin…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:44PMMarianne Elliott's award-winning production will now run at the Gielgud until June
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:37PMNicole Kidman says audiences who pay for West End tickets deserve to enjoy themselves, as she makes her West End return in Photograph 51
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:25PMI heard from my pal Barry Mitchell last night that Jean Darling has passed away. Among other things, the former child star was one of the original Our Gang. Ironically, I became aware of Ms.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:19PMNicole Kidman has said that her return to the West End is a tribute to her biochemist father and other research scientists whose contributions to vital discoveries are often overlooked by hi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:16PMWhere are you from? Originally from Overland Park, KSBroadway credits: Wicked (Tour), Chaplin, Anything Goes, Pal Joey, Sunday In The Park With George, Hairspray (Bway and Natl. Tour), The S…
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With all that the Women’s Voices Theater Festival has to offer, it isn’t a question of whether to go out for an evening of live theater, but when and where. The topics of the 50 plays on…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:55AMActor says she took on role in new play about DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin in part as a tribute to her scientist fatherNicole Kidman has spoken of her intense nerves as she took to the stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMHe was told his autism meant he could never have an independent life – but the non-verbal world of dance changed everything“My favourite role is definitely Odette. I grew up obsessing wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMWhen I was invited along to a preview of Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre, the Broadway smash hit newly arrived in London’s West End, I expected to have fun. What I didn’t expe…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:51AM'Without a culture of experimentation, British musical theatre is at risk of stagnating'
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:49AMKilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire****Music and Lyrics: Laurence O’Keefe and Nell BenjaminBook: Heather HachDirector and Choreographer: Mitch SebastianJennifer HardingOmigod - as a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:26AMEvery once in a while you encounter a person that exudes such a charismatic, captivating confidence, he commands your attention at every turn – Max Major, a Washington, D.C.–based mental…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AMLabor Day seems like a logical time to look back at one of our favorite musicals of the 1950s, The Pajama Game. Written by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, the …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:09AMUPDATE Tuesday morning with more information throughout.
Carne, the gamine actress who became famous as “the sock-it-to-me-girl” on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In died Thursday a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AMMichael MustoEntertainmenttransCaitlyn JennerMichael MustoCandis Cayne is coming back home for a night! More about that in a second. First, let me remind you that Candis is the leggy, talent…
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The key to building a sustainable arts future lies in making young artists a priority today, in education and all other areas of lifeOne of the most rewarding parts of running initiatives fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMMary Martello is a master thief. Anyone who’s seen her play supporting roles in shows as diverse as Memphis, 9 to 5, and Candide knows that this five-time Barrymore winner is an expert at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMThe presenter will be joined by stars including Beverley Knight
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:39AMHappy Birthday Jerry Zaks Zaks won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me A Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMThe national touring company of Once will begin a new leg of their journey on Sept. 15 in Hershey, PA, with upcoming stops in Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and San Francisco before they head north …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMChristopher Eccleston has attacked social prejudice in theatre acting and suggested that only white, middle-class men get cast in classical roles in London.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:12AMToday marks the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone film The Rounders (1914), the only honest-to-God co-starring vehicle of Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuc…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AMToday on TCM at 6pm (EST) John Ford’s Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Warning: we always include spoilers! A tremendous movie which ought to be known as landmark and a classic, but complete…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AMWell, Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come to announce the winners of 2015′s Broadway’s Sexiest Man and Woman Alive!! You’ve been voting all month and though all contest…
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The Colonial Players of Annapolis have opened their 67th season with Sherlock’s Last Case, a darkly-funny send-up of the famous sleuth, written by Charles Marowitz and directed by Beth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49AMPrelude The Chicago Fringe Festival is about as “off Loop” as theater gets around these parts. Fringe’s anti-establishment streak goes even deeper than its DIY spaces. It goes straight…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:45AMTheatre critic Michael Billington has branded regional theatre “a shadow” of what it used to be. He also said that venues outside
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMProduction company Perfect Pitch has created a children’s book based on an as yet unstaged musical in an effort to bolster its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMHappy Labor Day The first Monday in September has arrived, which of course triggers the symbolic end to Summer 2015. Theatre fans everywhere know that this means one thing- the Broadway Fall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMBy Brian Herrera, Octavio Solis. Brian Herrera interviews playwright Octavio Solis about the process of writing and developing Mother Road .
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:26AMThe debut play by Daniel Dingsdale will open at the Park Theatre later this month
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:18AMHitch up your wagon, take one last visit to Matt’s General Store, and say hello to your teenage years once again. Flying V is serving up a healthy dose of nostalgia with their current prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18AMAgents take a lot of flak. They are easy fall guys – the obvious people to blame when you are not getting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Jonathan Watkins’ gripping production employs subtleties of gesture, posture and phrasing to create a thoroughly modern take on George Orwell’s classicGeo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMOn Thursday 3 September, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre officially launched their swashbuckling pantomime, PETER PAN. Produced by Qdos Entertainment, the world's biggest pantomime producer, thi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:34AMAll over the papers, shops and even the Archers it’s that time when many of us prepare to go back to school. For me it’s going back after a 3 year gap to lead a new MA in Creativ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:21AMMatthew Dunster's production opens at the Royal Court next week
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:13AMUntil recently I was working in the basement of an advertising agency. Oh how the mighty have fallen, as I was once a budding freelance copywriter for the company's thriving 'verbal identity…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:08AMBy Jose Casas. Playwright José Casas discusses Rising Youth Theatre’s process for incorporating hip-hop in its upcoming project for theatre for young audiences.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:01AMHow many times have you heard the warning from mentors, teachers, parents and even bloggers, “if you can see yourself doing anything else other than theatre, do that”? I know I heard it …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:00AMBY KYLE MACMILLAN | FOR THE SUN-TIMES The Chicago Symphony Orchestra stands at the pinnacle ...
The post Fall Arts Preview 2015 – Classical Music appeared first on Chicago Enterta…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMBefore the final performance on Sept. 13, THR speaks with Diggs and Stephen Trask on how the repeatedly-extended revival inexplicably aligned with diverse casting onstage and transgender top…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00AM
Fans of The Goonies may have been on a rollercoaster ride of emotions as far as a sequel is concerned, but the good news is that an immersive theatre play based on the 1985 family film is in…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:58AM“I have to say it came at a very inconvenient time”: that's Willem speaking, a 34 year old banker working in New York. He's irritated because a business meeting has been interrupted by a…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:58AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28AMA talented cast of performers sang tunes familiar and un in a jam packed musical evening.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:26AMDavid Threlfall and Rufus Hound are to star in a new adaptation of Don Quixote for the Royal Shakespeare Company as part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMSherlock star Amanda Abbington has received a death threat for supporting backstage worker Tim Roberts, who lost his job after criticising Benedict
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AM
Tooting Arts Club will revive their own production of Barbarians by Barrie Keeffe at the former Central Saint Martins School of Art building in Soho. The temporary venue is being launched in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:36AMWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 Sometimes my theater-related trips resemble paid vacations with a little work thrown in. Other times, irrespective of the quality of the shows that I see, they’re just…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30AMThe first publicity images featuring the company of Harlequinadeand All On Her Own are released today. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s never-before-seen Rattigan double bill will pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company today announces the productions in its Stratford-upon-Avon spring/summer 400th anniversary season in 2016. The highlights are: Spring/Summer productions Royal S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25AMElmore Leonard reads the first chapter of his novel Freaky Deaky at Butler University in 2010: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15AMIvo Van Hove returns to the Young Vic following A View from the Bridge to direct the UK premiere of Olivier Award-winner Simon Stephens' new play
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:04AMThe award-winning director of A View from the Bridge has returned to the Young Vic with Song from Far Away and is about to conquer New York
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:04AM“I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone’s been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice—somewhat contrived,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:00AM
Nicole Kidman is back in the West End, Judi Dench plays opposite Kenneth Branagh in A Winter’s Tale, David Morrissey hangs up his noose, and Brian Cox and Bill Paterson are waiting for God…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMThis post is by Joel Benjamin
Anna Ziegler’s "A Delicate Ship" is an intelligent, intensely absorbing play that treats its three thirty-something characters like chess pieces moving warily…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06AMWelcome guest blogger Matt Webster! Matt is a theatre teacher, a playwright (Myths at the Edge of the World) and a Drama Teacher Academy Course Instructor. (Concept Based Design for the Thea…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AMFrom George Takei to Ana Villafañe, these are the performers who are about to set New York aflame.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM
The life of Ned Kelly has rich dramatic material for a musical. The infamous bushranger divides Australia into those who admire him as someone who fought against inequality to the extent tha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:40AMWe’ve made it through summer, but the stage is always hot at 54 Below. The Broadway supper club will soon get a name change when it partners with cabaret luminary Michael Feinstein, bu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34AMAny Broadway super-fan can tell you, rush lines and lotteries are standard fare and a great way to get inexpensive tickets, but where did that trend start? Before #Ham4Ham and TodayTix, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Rose!" — over a dozen of them! We take a look back at the divas who took on the second-act, show-stopping balla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway Week, the biannual promotion offering theatregoers two tickets for the price of one, kicks off Sept. 7 and runs through Sept. 20. Participating Broadway shows include 2015 Tony winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcclaimed songwriter Scott Alan's two-week residency at London's Hippodrome Casino begins Sept. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith upcoming revivals of some classic Broadway musicals in the 2015-16 season, Playbill.com correspondent Mark Robinson reflects on productions that have reimagined shows in new and sur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMComplete casting has been announced for the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of the Tony-winning musical Billy Elliot, which will play the Massachusetts venue Sept. 29…
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