Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, had Fun Home's Joel Perez as special guest on Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56PMA straight young man in the Florida Panhandle finds an unlikely path to prosperity in this Matthew Lopez play at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMHAMILTON's Ham4Ham lottery performance has quickly become one of Broadway's most enjoyable new traditions In today's special pre-show performance, FUN HOME's Joel Perez performed a hip hop r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27PMDaveThomas Brown, recently of Heathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includesWayne DuvallO Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads,Matt McGrathCabaret, Hedwig and the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27PMA thriller about corruption in Ireland and Nigeria involving a large cast of characters isn't the sort of thing you'd expect to turn up as the 80-minute two-hander Little Thing, Big Thing.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:18PMAlan Hruska's new play takes an absurdist look at a married couple.
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The Legend of Georgia McBride is maybe not the deepest show out there, but it's great fun, nonetheless. Performed by a committed cast whose kind, well-meaning characters are impossible not t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:46PMIts title, its playful poster, its sleek chic showroom of a set, and its marketing suggest that “Laugh It Up, Stare It Down” is a shallow romantic comedy, telling the story of Joe and Cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMBroadway’s leading man, Brian Stokes Mitchell, has been thrilling audiences with his rich, powerful baritone in concert halls and on theatre stages since the early 90’s. When he’s not …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:08PMMCC Theater stages the New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's frothy tale of a straight drag performer.
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The Goodbye Girl has been tapped as the next show to receive the Neglected Musicals staged reading treatment: Tyran Parke will direct this Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/David Zippel confection …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:53PMA Florida straight man becomes a local drag star in this comedy by emerging playwright Matthew Lopez, author of 'The Whipping Man.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PMIt would be incorrect to say there’s nothing surprising about “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” an entertaining but slight and predictable comedy about drag performers, which has now op…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMDid you know that for this year there were only 340 onstage performance jobs for Professional Musical Theatre in Australia? Did you know also that in 2014, Actor’s Equity reported a member…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:20PMWas there more to Rosemary Clooney than ethnic novelty songs in an egregious Italian accent?
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:18PMIn the American theater, the Iowa-born playwright David Rabe has turned out to be the great dramatic poet of the Vietnam War era.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:18PMGolden Thread’s ReOrient festival of short plays gives a sense of the diversity of Middle Eastern cultures and voices.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:18PMWhat are you excited about seeing this dancing season? The Dance Enthusiast's contributors have some ideas. Check out our dance listings, figure out what you would like to see and #geten…
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For the first time in what seems like forever, there is going to be a legitimate late-night war on network television. It won't be fueled by animosity between hosts as evidenced by their loc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMThis is not an Edith Piaf anyone has ever seen before, or for that matter one anyone would recognize.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:38PMSong and dance at a funeral Why notMusical memorial services will be offered in avid producer team Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's latest project a funeral home-themed TV drama in development f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMGreat news for theaters across the globeTheatrical licensor Musical Theatre International MTI has secured worldwide licensing rights to Broadway's IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31PMInternationally known singer, actor, and the world's longest-starring PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Franc D'Ambrosio, is bringing his vibrant legato voice to the annual Dinner-Show fundraiser of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PM'The World Begun' plays modern tricks with 'Twelfth Night'
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:28PMThrough the magic of theater, a nuclear accident that destroys most families elevates one to mythic stature
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:28PMEver socialised with a couple and they suddenly begin to bicker? As you uncomfortably shuffle in your seat hoping for it to be over as quickly as possible, it gets increasingly heated and pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22PMIt’s not all friendly skies for the women of “Mud Blue Sky.” Marisa Wegrzyn’s comedy, making its Bay Area debut in a wistful, wryly funny Aurora Theatre Company production, reveals &…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 07:19PMActors wrongfully arrested after ride with driver using racist, homophobic language.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1955 (RCA) Cole Porter’s last Broadway show is a charming and sophisticated musical based on the Greta Garbo film Ninotcka. Only Porter could have given that heady …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:14PMLong before the devil wore Prada --20 years ago, in fact --the story of the irrepressible Diana Vreeland first commanded the stage of the Globe in a world premiere in 1995. Oscar and Tony Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMThe Stage newspaper comes out once a week and is brimming with industry news, advice, analysis and reviews from all over the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PMTalk about a clash of the titans! No, it’s not the gods of Olympus, but ...
The post Superheroes, villains abound in ‘Marvel Universe Live!’ appeared first on Chicago Enter…
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Original Broadway Cast, 1997 (Sony) Based on the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, twins who were born joined at the hip and who had minor show business careers that exploited their oddity, …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:56PMThe upcoming production of Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible has found a new home. The drama, directed by Ivo van Hove and led by Ben Whishaw and Tony winner Sophie Okonedo, will pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:51PMThe Goodman Theatre has announced the lineup for its 2015 New Stages Festival which will run Oct. 28 - Nov. 15, and feature new works by Rebecca Gilman, Jordan Harrison, Dael Orlandersmith, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:48PMOriginal London/Broadway Cast, 1976 (RCA) When Side by Side by Sondheim opened in London, it was warmly received, as half of Sondheim’s shows had not yet been seen in the West End. In New …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:36PMMove over Fun Home, there's another funeral home musical in the works. Deadline Hollywood reports that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron’s Storyline Entertainment, producer of TV's &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PMNew York City Center will kick off its 2016 Encores! Great American Musicals In Concert season with Cabin in the Sky. This production was last seen on Broadway March 8, 1941, with a cast t…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:28PMIf you have been reading my blog for any span of time, you will know that I have a particular interest in stories that show, to paraphrase Edison, Creativity is 1% inspiration and 99% perspi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:22PMInspired by the popular Comedy Central TV series "Drunk History," Shoshana Bean (the first replacement for Elphaba in the hit Broadway musical Wicked) retells the story of the Witc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:22PMThe season will feature Ana Yadav, Johnna Adams, Martin McDonagh, and Steve Yockey.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:20PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1961 (Roulette/no CD) Carol Channing spent many years between Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! touring in a successful nightclub act that was gussied up for…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:18PMWe can't get enough of these powerful ladiesHAMILTON's Schuyler Sisters -- Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones -- are on the cover of this month's issue of Trending…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that Tony nominee Elizabeth A. Davis and actor Gary Farmer will lead the cast of Goodspeed's INDIAN JOE.Based on a true story, INDIAN JOE, a new musical about …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE will return to Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre 219 West 48th Street this spring. Bill Camp as Reverend John Hale, Jim Nor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMWalking across the Orange Tree stage floor to get to your seats is quite a treat at this production, as you get to move across the very authentic cracked concrete-looking floor, lumps, bump…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:13PMWith her current role downtown in Max Posner's 'Judy', the award-winning actress is helping launch another playwright's career.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PM THAT IS THE QUESTION: THE SHAKESPEARE TRIVIA CHALLENGE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (event check-in begins at 9:30 a.m.)…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13PMShanda has served as the president-elect since January 2014, and will now take his new post.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:11PMIt didn’t take long for the “No Vacancy” sign to go back up at the Jujamcyn-owned Walter Kerr Theatre. Producer Scott Rudin announced Wednesday afternoon that a revival of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:10PMName: Andrew FarmerHometown: Between Laconia, NH and Palm Beach Gardens, FLEducation: Tisch School of The Arts, NYU (Playwrights Horizons Theater School)Favorite Credits: Oh man. Nearly impo…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 06:02PMThe Ivo van Hove revival will take over the theater from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMJoe DiPietro's new dark comedy comes to the Westside Theatre.
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The leader's longtime creative relationship with the African-American theatre company continues in a new post.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:56PM"Good News" as Lyceum appoints new AD:
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Company has announced David Greig as its artistic director designate.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:53PMThe theatre's second season is bookended by two Chicago premieres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:51PMSix Mamma Mia leading lady portraits for the six performances left.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:48PMAt Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, murder will be followed by witchcraft. Less than 24 hours after A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder announced its January closing at the Kerr, A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PMPoise, grace, class and talent define the additions to the Broadway Legacy series. As previously reported, the Broadway Legacy series is a spectacular photographic essay, created and direct…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:44PMReady for an evening of self-help (albeit the tongue-in-cheek variety)?! Tickets are now available for the stage adaptation of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Live! off-Broadway. Usi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:43PMTickets are now on sale to check out Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey, Patrick Breen and more in Dada Woof Papa Hot off-Broadway. Helmed by Scott Ellis, the new play by Peter Parnell will be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:43PMTyrone the nasty sock puppet will be socking it in soon and flying to London. Hand to God, Robert Askins’ riotous comedy about the demonic puppet and his shy teenaged alter ego Jason, will…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:39PMWhen is a monologue not quite a monologue? When it is interrupted by another voice, one that contradicts and argues with it. In Cordelia Lynn’s Lela & Co, her Royal Court debut (which …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:37PMFor years, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival has been weaving a tapestry of performing arts and artistic expression into the cultural fabric of the Atlanta metro area. The tradition continu…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:26PMWill episodes of “The Simpsons” become cultural cockroaches surviving the end of the world? Imagine those irreverent satires turning up as the revered epic literature of previous generat…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:21PMDarren Criss is getting ready to shake things up — and fuse the worlds of pop culture, TV, rock, hip-hop and, of course, Broadway — with the first Elsie Fest, a daylo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2000 (RCA) This was the first of the entries in the 2000 competition between two stage musical adaptations of Joseph Moncure March’s epic poem. Although Andrew …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:13PMAcademy Award and Tony Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, The View's Raven-Symone, and Tony Award-winner and Emmy-nominated actress Phylicia Rashad are set to present on Sunday, September 27…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMRepresenting The Fred Gabler Fund this year is Ms. Rumer Willis. Ms. Willis is about to make her Broadway debut in CHICAGOand is the reigning Dancing with the Stars champion. Taking part in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMVariety shows have nothing on this new one hour extravaganza that is hosted by the #1 host ever, Neil Patrick Harris. Best Time Ever is a show which will feature appearances by A-list star…
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Performing for this special event are singer-actors Walter Willison & Joan Copeland, who co-starred with Kahn in Richard Rodgers' Two by Two (1970); actor/choreographer/producer Lawrence Ler…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2000 (Decca) Composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa was not unknown when The Wild Party, his adaptation of Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 poem of the same title, hit …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:57PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1961 (RCA) Why did the star of Wildcat choose to make her Broadway debut in a show with requirements so far afield from her abilities? Lucille Ball had looks and char…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:46PMReady for a Rip-roaring new comedy? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's world premiere Ripcord features two women of a certain age battling out in an assisted-living…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Groban Eyes 2016 B'way Bow
We admit it, we’ve been getting our hopes up for quite some time now, but it looks lik…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMPreview: Broadway veteran (and inveterate golfer) is part of links-related comedy's cast.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:37PMBradley Cooper’s trip down the Jersey Shore appears to be over, with the Jenkintown native appearing on tthe "Late Late Show" last night to, among other things, dance his heart out.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:37PMYouTube and Awesomeness Films have announced “Dance Camp,” a music-and-dance teen drama, as the first feature-length film under their co-production deal. The movie, produced by J…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PM“Hand to God,” the gleefully dark Broadway comedy about a boy and his potentially satanic hand puppet, will close in January before opening on London’s West End in Februa…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Tony Award-nominated play "Hand to God" - featuring a satanic hand puppet - will close on Broadway in January but will be resurrected a month later - in London....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:35PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” which won the Best Musical Tony in 2014, will conclude its run on Jan. 17.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:33PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – @BBBway RT @BroadwayBox: Seven @MAMMAMIAMusical videos to get you through #OurLast…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:33PMSTX Entertainment has titled its intergalactic love story as “The Space Between Us,” starring Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson, BD Wong and Janet Montgomery. P…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMDennis Haysbert has joined the cast of “Undercover,” the limited series set to air next year on the BBC and BBC America. The six-part series penned by Peter Moffat revolves aroun…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMFive plays have been announced for the Center Theatre Group’s 49th season at the Mark Taper Forum: “The Mystery of Love & Sex,” “Father Comes Home From The Wars (…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMMotown: The Musical is a heart thumping, nostalgic performance of the music that made Berry Gordy king. The show pays homage to the world class musicians who were propelled to stardom via th…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:33PMSelected from nearly 200 FringeNYC shows as a "Best Of," The Commedia Rapunzel will play additional performances at the FringeNYC Encore Series at SoHo Playhouse. The family-fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMChristopher Innvar has joined the starry lineup for A Chekhov and Shaw Comedy Night, being presented 7 PM Sept. 21 as part of Gingold Theatrical Group’s Project Shaw at Symphony Sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMBroadway actors Victoria Mack (Venus in Fur) and Ian Kahn (Enron) have been cast in the Actors Company Theatre staging of Hard Love, the romantic drama by Israeli playwright Motti Lerner. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM“You have to ‘Coward’ it,” Valerie Leonard said to me, as she considered the fine art of acting in the very distinctive plays of Noël Coward. I had begun our conversation by asking …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:20PMEight shows a week, Something Rotten!'s Heidi Blickenstaff enlists the help of dresser Margo Lawless and assistant hair supervisor Chad Harlow for a faster-than-the–sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMDirectors David H. Bell, Carl Menninger and Ron OJ Parson will helm the three productions ...
The post Windy City Playhouse’s second season taps top directors for three plays appeared …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:20PMThis small performance space has built a cult-like following for its in-your-face aesthetic and pay-as-you-can ticketing policy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:16PMPlaybill.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 04:15PMFamed as the musical for people who don’t like musicals, I was delighted to be given the opportunity to revisit this quirky and surprising show. Not since 2007 have I been exposed to the B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:08PMToday is the birthday of Tammany Young (1886-1936). Best remembered today as one of W.C. Fields’ many stooges, the diminutive Young actually worked with most of the major comedians of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:03PMIn the world of Chicago theater, it is customary to do a few previews before opening to the public, the critics and the JEFF Committee. Doing so allows a play to get on its feet and to be a …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMGet ready for a fun-filled day on Third Avenue in Manhattan.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe Tony winner will perform a one-night-only concert this fall.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe organization helps at-risk LGBTQ youths.
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While pro tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams faced each other, the stars of Broadway's Wicked worked their magic to get a hold of the coveted U.S. Open Trophy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMToday, the producers of Hedwig and the Angry Inch announced that the record-breaking musical has raised over 600,000 for Hetrick-Martin Institute during the production's record-breaking run …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMManhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway premiere ofFool for Loveby Pulitzer Prize winnerSam Shepard, directed by Obie Award winnerDaniel Aukin, will starNina Arianda,Sam Rockwell,Tom Pelp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2003 (Decca) Don’t go to this recording for a perfectly accurate representation of what’s heard in the theater; the songs were somewhat edited for the cast album …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:52PMAugust Wilson‘s Seven Guitars will be performed at Two River Theater from September 12, 2015 to October 4, 2015. The play, part of Wilson’s famous Pittsburgh Cycle, chronicles…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:43PMWith a starring role as Cinna in the dystopian-future film series “The Hunger Games” and the 2014 record “Strut” issued on his own Roxie Records, Lenny Kravitz has been experiencing …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 03:40PMThe MCC Theater’s latest offering, The Legend of Georgia McBride, shows drag queens at work: those that dress up as a sparkly symbol of protest against discrimination; those who are just b…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:39PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1958 (MGM/Polydor) With music by Moose Charlap and lyrics by Norman Gimbel, Whoop-Up was a quick failure set in a Montana bar (“where you don’t have to wear a tie…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:37PMLos Angeles' Center Theatre Group has announced the 49th season line-up for the Mark Taper Forum. The five-play slate features emotionally-charged works, including Ayad Akhta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth and composer Andrew Lippa are teaming up again to pay tribute to two American luminaries. The two will reprise Lippa's I Am Harvey Milk on April 23 and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PMWe're already stoked to see Sam Shepard's Fool for Love on Broadway, and now we have a brand new reason to be excited: This smokin' poster featuring stars Nina Arianda and Sam Ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PMChristina Sajous, an actress who has appeared in four Broadway shows including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Idiot, is a partner in a lawsuit involving police and a New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMChristina Sajous, an actress who has appeared in four Broadway shows including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Idiot, is a partner in a lawsuit against a New York cab driver s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMStudio Cast, 1998 (Deutsche Grammophon) The recording of a previously unrecorded musical theater score is usually a cause for celebration, but A White House Cantata is a maddening misfire. T…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:20PMChildren of the ‘90s, climb on board. The Oregon Trail, modeled after the primitive computer game of the same name, is Flying V’s contribution to the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:19PMAfter nearly 14 years on Broadway, “Mamma Mia!” is closing on Saturday. To which I say: Good riddance. Don’t get me wrong, I love ABBA. I’ve written two books about...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:14PMThe Elephant Theatre Co. has ceased operations, and its members are considering their options following the recent sale of the company's long-time home, The Lillian Theatre, on Santa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMStudio Cast, 1998 (Polydor) Labeled Songs from Whistle Down the Wind, this collection of 12 numbers performed by a lineup of pop stars is easier to take than the subsequent London stage cast…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:05PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed thatRolando Sanz and Strathmore, in association with Bruce Cohen, Robb Nanus and David Bloch will present the world premiere of I Am Anne HutchinsonI Am Harvey Mi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMThe production will also debut the world premiere of its companion piece, I Am Anne Hutchinson.
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Peter Oborne (An education from the master columnist of Fleet Street, 1 September) refers to Philip Hope-Wallace as being “Guardian opera critic” and one of a Fleet Street gallery of “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:58PMThe recent Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You, featuring a score by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi, has been acquired for worldwide licensing by Music Theatre International(MTI). The m…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:58PMInitially launching in 2010 with a two-parter from Lion King cast members Ben Jeffrey and Fred Berman, Playbill.com's popular Two-Show Day photo series has taken readers backstag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMOriginal London Cast, 1958 (Columbia/Angel) Based on Charley’s Aunt, the reliable old farce by Brandon Thomas, Where’s Charley? was a big hit on Broadway in 1948 with Ray Bolger in the l…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:53PMThe acclaimed director of theatre, opera and film doesn't like to be put in a box.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will perform in the world premiere of the oratorio I Am Anne Hutchinson alongside the composer, Broadway songwriter Andrew Lippa, April 23-24, 2016, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1997 (RCA) The second of two revues that showcased the talents of outré costume designer Howard Crabtree was an evening of bright, largely gay humor. Though seve…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:37PMHell's Belles, a new musical presented by Tweiss Productions and Nicholas James Opalenik/Event Horizon Productions, will play the Elektra Theatre at the Times Square Arts Center Oct. 3&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMTickets are now available to see Kathleen Turner and Deborah Cox in the world premiere of John S. Anastasi’s Would You Still Love Me If…a love story that tackles the issue of tr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMWatch Shoshana Bean explain the plot of Wicked in the first episode of Drunk Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:24PMThe Casting Society of America, in partnership with Inclusion in the Arts, will hold a Town Hall Meeting with casting directors and actors with disabilities Sept. 21 at 7 PM. The meeting wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMToday is the birthday of the great Max Reinhardt (1873-1943). A towering giant of 20th century theatre, Reinhardt directed in Berlin and Vienna from 1902 through 1933, when the Nazis made t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:15PMby JULIANNE TVETEN
few minutes before I speak on the phone with John Money, a producer at Hollywood’s 42-seat Theatre of NOTE, he was searching online for a fog machine — something…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:14PMWalking out of I Heart Catherine Pistachio, my first thought was “What the ever-loving fuck was that?” My second thought was, “Damn, I really didn’t want that to end.” Lee Mattins…
SOURCE: Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:05PMLittle people need to be out there and proud, not afraid of being laughed at
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:04PMThe Broadway leading man and supermodel pose for a sexy, swimwear suit and share the secret behind their passionate and lasting relationship.
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 02:02PMWindy City Playhouse, Chicago's newest Equity company, has announced its 2016 season. Three Chicago premieres are slated for the coming year, marking the theater's second year of operation.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:01PMThere is one thing that unites most tribute shows: they’re made with fans in mind. Good autobiographical shows tend to have a genuine desire to portray the subject in the best possible li…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PMLest We Forget by the English National Ballet performed at Sadler Wells is a beautiful piece of art. With two intervals this classic ballet is heavily influenced by contemporary styles with…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PMCowritten by a group of teenagers, the play will be performed at 23 high schools across the country.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMAugust Wilson, Ayad Akhtar, and more set west coast productions.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe new play kicks off the company's 2015-16 season tonight.
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Here’s another Broadway theater that will be open for new business at the turn of the year: The Shubert-owned Booth, one of Broadway’s most desired intimate houses, will go dark …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director and Education at Roundabout JenniferDiBella, Director of Education justannouncedthe first-ever nationwide world premiere of a new pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMBrown University alumni Rebecca Bellingham and Katharine Powell Roman have founded a theater company, Sweet Chaos Theater Project, dedicated to producing new plays about family where every t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMYou catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is theatrical proof of how this age-old formula can work wonders. With syrupy and infectious melodies, stunning choreog…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Ripcord, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce, begins previews Tues…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMGREASE is the word for groom Jared Basham, who decided to share his wedding vows with his bride Kyndra in a rather unique fashion.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMCatching up with Deanna Dunagan in her New York hotel room, as she prepared to attend the premiere of her new film "The Visit" (opening Friday), the Lincoln Park-based actress said, "if I ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:51PMRobert Askins' show is heading to London next year
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:42PMBy Naomi Elster. Naomi Elster considers the difference and value of curated and open access fringe festivals.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:41PMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, has announced its 2016 season. The season will include five musicals in its subscriber series as well as one limited-engagement musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMBritish director Trevor Nunn (former Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and is currently director of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) has run into…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:33PMSPRING AWAKENING (Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th St., Sept. 27) The Tony-winning musical version was revolutionary on Broadway in its 2006 premiere -- genuine rock art based on a scandalous 1…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 01:27PMWith stunning performers, Spiegelworld lets audience get closer to the action than most circus shows.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:23PMAnother day, another fabulous set of visitors to Broadway's Hamilton. This time, the Ham fans include Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth, Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Darren Cris…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:16PMAfter struggling with low grosses for some time, the devil puppet is departing the Great White Way, although you still have the holiday season to check him out. Hand to God will shutter at t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:16PMA scheme offering teachers training in Shakespeare has been launched by Shakespeare’s Globe in collaboration with Clifton College in Bristol. The programme
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMPlaywright David Greig has been named new artistic director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. He will take up the post
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMThere have been a third fewer applicants per job in performing arts compared with last year, a recruitment website has found. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMBy Jake Rosenberg. In the second installment of his series, Jake Rosenberg traces elements of the Fantasy genre throughout theatre history and proposes more content for adults.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:12PMThis year's Rockers on Broadway benefit concert from the Path Fund will be 80's themed, taking place Nov. 9 at downtown venue Le Poisson Rouge. The line-up for the 22nd annual ev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company and Daniel Robert Sullivan, who played Tommy DeVito in the long-running Toronto production of Jersey Boys, have helped a team of New York City teenagers de…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMAn eager student gets more than she bargained for when she takes on an unusual assignment in the new play Class Act, by Rich Rubin,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:06PMGenerational labels can distort reality, especially in any discussion of the arts, for artists, in addition to forging the new, famously draw on history, even as they sometimes deconstruct i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMWe are pleased to announce the first‐ever nationwide world premiere of a new play! PROSPECT HIGH: BROOKLYN, written by Daniel Robert Sullivan and a team of New York City teenagers, was d…
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 01:00PMThe incoming star of Chicago took the stage unannounced at Birdland's Cast Party before her upcoming Broadway debut.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMDavid Hyde Pierce directs David Lindsay-Abaire's new comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe MCC Theater/Ensemble Studio Theater production is packing up from the Booth Theatre before transferring across the pond.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the Tony-winning musical, will end its bloodthirsty run on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on January 17, 2016. The show about Monty Navarro, a …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:59PMThe Women’s Voices Theater Festival Launch Party was more than a celebration. It was a defining moment for DC theater. The National Museum of Women in the Arts was a superb setting for the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMCarole King, Chilina Kennedy and Abby Mueller appeared on "The Today Show" Sept. 9 to discuss Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMCommonwealth Shakespeare Company will present Broadway and film actorAnthony Rappin this one-man musical theater event, based on his 2006 book Without You A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMProducerKevin McCollumhas announced that his TonyAward-nominated comedyHand to Godmust close on Broadway onJanuary 3, 2016and will immediately transfer to London's West End, with performance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMBroadway legend Ben Vereen stopped by this morning's TODAY to talk about playing a homeless man in his new film 'Time Out of Mind.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMAmerican Theatre Company has announced that the 80s camp musical "Xanadu" will close out its 2015-16 season, along with naming directors for the previously announced productions. The season …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1964 (Columbia/GL Music) Longtime theatergoers will recall that, for a brief time decades ago, Steve Lawrence was touted as the next great Broadway leading man. Exhib…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:44PMBroadway and booze- perhaps the perfect combinationInspired by the Comedy Central series Drunk History, Shoshana Bean recounts the story of the musical Wicked in Drunk Broadway, starring Wic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMBy HowlRound TV. MDC Live Arts presents Conscience Under Fire livestreaming on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday, September 11 at 8pm EDT (New Yo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:43PMCarole King stopped by this morning's TODAY along withChilina Kennedy, who plays King in the current Broadway production of BEAUTIFUL and Abby Mueller, who will take on the role for the show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMDavid Elder, Austin Miller and the cast of Trip Of Love met the press on September 9, 2015. Trip Of Love is inspired by and set to the hit songs of the 1960s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMIt's hardly a given for an emerging humorist to stand out when performing on the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival tour. Much of the crowd is there to catch Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:41PMCherry Lane's Off-Broadway staging of Alan Hruska's Laugh It Up, Stare It Down officially opens Sept. 9 following previews that began Aug. 26. Featured in the cast is Katya Campb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMHand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a boy and his foul-mouthed hand puppet, will play its final performance on Broadway Jan. 3, 2016. The Tony-nominate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMTony and Emmy winner Cicely Tyson wins this The Gin Game shoot.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:32PMProduced by Bottoms Dream
Directed by Nat Angstrom
What happens when you take two of Shakespeare’s best known tragedies and weave their plots and characters together? As a part of their �…
SOURCE: The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation at 12:31PMStudio Cast, 1990 (JAY) No stars; not recommended. The only reason to musicalize a play is to add something to it, to enrich the original material. But again and again in this show based on …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:31PMWindy City Playhouse, Chicago's newest Equity company, has announced its 2016 season. Two Chicago premieres are slated for the coming year, marking the theater's second year of operation.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:25PMTo mark the centennial of Frank Sinatra's birth this winter, the Public Chicago Hotel — joined by Our Town's own Tom Dreesen — are planning a huge celebration of "'Ol Blue Eyes" 100th bi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:24PMThe Fairy Princess would just like, first, before anything else, to wish Queen Lesli Margherita a fond farewell from Matilda and excited squeals of joy as she heads to The Broadway in DAMES …
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 12:23PMHoda Kotb is what you might call a superfan of Broadway hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical—she's seen the show eight times and counting! The Today Show host recently chatt…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMTony nominee Robert Fairchild is temporarily going back to his roots, which, fortunately, are only a few blocks up from his current Broadway show. The An American in Paris star will return t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMMost Agatha Christie fans are aware that she wrote plays in addition to novels and short stories. The Mousetrap, Witness for the Prosecution, and And Then There Were None are the most famous…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:21PMThe last time the Roundabout Theater staged this drama, in 1984, Pinter himself came to rehearsal to offer help to the cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMOn Aug. 26, actor Rosie Perez sat down with Backstage Editor-in-Chief Mark Peikert to discuss her recent advocacy work with Urban Arts Partnership, an arts education program that “hack…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:14PMStephen Sondheim's vicious, darkly funny revenge musical gets a grand staging Sept. 12-29 at War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 12:14PMCall Redialed: I was first introduced Dina Martina's in 2005 when I went to Provincetown, MA with a group of friends! Her dark humor, quick wit, and audience interaction made me a fan at the…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:14PMA group of men with mental disabilities live together in a group home in Tom Griffin's play... Read more »
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SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 12:13PMWhile Broadway is most assuredly a yearlong affair, there is a clear pattern to the season. The vast majority of new shows open in the fall (in time for the holiday rush) or mid-spring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM"Nashville" stars Connie Britton and Laura Benanti, who will return to Broadway in the forthcoming revival of She Loves Me, can be seen in a new video short entitled "Connie B…
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“Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination” Celebrate the songs of one of the most prolific and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMTogether with her younger twin sisters, Teddie and Babs, Joy Beverley formed one of the most enduring British entertainment acts of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMJack Gold graduated from University College London in 1954 with two job interviews far removed from his newly acquired degree in law
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMToday is the birthday of Colonel Harland David Sanders (1890-1980). I was going to put “Colonel” in quotes, but, no, though the title is honorary it is also actual and legitimate…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AMDAMES AT SEA will set sail at Broadway'sHelen HayesTheatre 240 West 44 Street, beginning performances Thursday, September 24, 2015, with an opening night of Thursday, October 22, 2015.With a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMHow can an Elvis impersonator become a winning drag queen in the Florida Panhandle With an empty bank account and pregnant wife, Casey's going to have to answer that question fast in this mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMThe Drama League (Executive Director Gabriel Shanks; Artistic Director Roger T. Danforth), embarking on a landmark year of celebration commemorating its 100 years of service to the American …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:49AM'For the actors that are potentially interested in pursuing an acting career, the Pudding is really the closest thing available as an undergraduate to what a professional career might be lik…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMUnicorn theatre, LondonA polar bear and a husky strike up a friendship in a show that captivates the audience with digital projections, fun costumes and warm performancesBreaking the Ice: it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMNJTV, New Jersey's public television network, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center have announced the lineup for the third season of its American Songbook at NJPAC series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMThe recent Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You, featuring a score by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi, has been acquired for worldwide licensing by Music Theatre International (MTI).
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMManhattan Theatre Club will present the world premiere of Ripcord by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMNJTV, New Jersey's public television network, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center NJPAC announced a talent-rich line-up for season three of the award-winning American Songbook at NJPAC…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMRobert Fairchild, who received a Tony nomination for his rolein Broadway's An American in Paris, will return to Lincoln Center's New York City Ballet this fall for three 'Broadway-flavored' …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMToday, Tony-winner Laura Benanti and The Representation Project released a hilarious video highlighting the different ways that actresses are treated in Hollywood. The video is written and d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMManhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway premiere of Fool for Love by Pulitzer Prize winnerSam Shepard, directed by Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin, will star Nina Arianda, Sam Rockwell,Tom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMJujamcyn’s Walter Kerr Theatre will have a new tenant for the 2015-2016 season. With producers lined up to fill any vacant house, the Kerr will bid farewell to A Gentleman’s Guid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26AMAnna Netrebko, who will star as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore at The Metropolitan Opera, will participate in a TimesTalks moderated by New York Times classical music and dance reporter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMNo one is a bigger fan of Signature Theatre than I am. For 25 years now, the company has centered its seasons around the work of one playwright, providing theater lovers the rare chance to t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:15AMA revival of Richard Bean’s Toast starring Matthew Kelly is to tour the UK. The play’s revival was originally staged at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMOn Labor Day weekend, Kennedy Center plaza level entry was pandemonium, noisy with skate boarders, who zigzagged and snaked in and out of a recessed pit and across a cordoned-off area. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMSheila Callaghan’s new play, Women Laughing Alone with Salad, is playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through October 4, 2015. Everything You Touch was produced at the Contemporar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMConventional movie wisdom says summer is for superheroes and sequels, reboots and R-rated comedies — ...
The post Fall Arts Preview 2015: 12 movies we can’t wait to see appeared firs…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:00AMActs of kindness made my day I wish to thank the staff at the Apollo Theatre for a wonderful time on Monday,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMJosh Grisetti's solo show Don't Bother, I'm Here, charting his unlikely road to Broadway and how one actor's worst nightmare provides strength for the journey, will play 54 B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Tonight on TCM, a very nicely curated menu of thoughtful, mature westerns. Warning: we always include spoilers! 8:00pm (EST): 3:10 to Yuma (1957) Elmore Leonard wrote the story this film wa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:55AMThe roster also includes August Wilson and Martin McDonagh.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:53AMEminent Shakespearean scholar and theatre director who advocated the primacy of the playwright’s musical language in modern productionsJohn Russell Brown, who has died aged 91, was a disti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMAtlantic Theater Company's first production of its 30th anniversary season, Obie Award winner Caryl Churchill's landmark play Cloud Nine, which will begin previews Sept. 16 prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMStephen Colbert ended his first telecast as host of CBS's LATE SHOW with a bang and a rousing rendition of Sly amp the Family Stone's 'Everyday People.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMMeryl Streep revealed news that columnist Maureen Dowd is currently working on an expose for The New York Times Magazine on gender discrimination.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMThe legendarily transgressive film director and screenwriter sends his congratulations in his own distinctive style.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMIs Josh Groban Broadway-bound According to a recent interview with AJC, he'd like to be. When the recording artist was asked if he'd consider doinng a Broadway show, he responded
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AM54 BELOW presents Josh Grisetti in 'Don't Bother, I'm Here' on September 23 amp 24, at 7pm. Through laughter and song, Josh candidly tells one man's harrowing true story of Broadway dreaming…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMLinstrum directs the new musical comedy from the team behind Bad Girls the Musical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:30AMThe Miss America Organization, dick clark productions and ABC announced that for the first time since she was crowned Miss America in 1984, Tony-nominated actress Vanessa Williams will r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMFilm does this all the time, but it's relatively rare in live theater.
Because intimacy is so crucial to the play, Tobin-Lehl says Studio 101, where Stark Naked Theatre performs, is an idea…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 10:11AMThe Ultimate Drag Off, the Off-Broadway interactive drag game show musical, will mark its tenth anniversary when it kicks off in a new Upper West Side location this month. Hosted by Miss…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMPlaywright Timberlake Wertenbaker has become a creative associate at Watford Palace Theatre. The Our Country’s Good writer joins other creative associates at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMEndangered south London cabaret venue the Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been granted listed status, which will make it harder for the building
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMWe are big fans of young actresses! They are our next generation of talent. When Hailey Sole was presented to Call Me Adam to interview, he jumped at this opportunity. This young starlet a…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
Josh Groban, who launches his "Stages" concert tour Sept. 12 in Atlanta, is clearing his schedule for a possible Broadway debut in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMIn Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of WSC Avant Bard’s production of Friendship Betrayed—a classic comedy by Spanish playwright María de Zayas y Sotomayor—meet Zach Rob…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AM"When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:49AM“Peter and the Starcatcher,” now playing at Drury Lane Theatre, attempts to tell the story of how Peter Pan—the boy and the myth—became ageless. Directed by William Osetek, this prod…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:45AMBy Doug Mayo
Following it’s success at the Brighton Fringe, the play 5 Guys Chillin’ will be presented at the King’s Head Theatre this October. The play by Peter Darney is …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:41AMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe audience are cast as new recruits at Aldous Huxley’s Hatchery in James Dacre and Dawn King’s stage versionGeorge Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AMBig River Tony Award nominee Daniel Jenkins has been announced as the lead for the Keen Company's Off-Broadway production of Giles Havergal’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s Trave…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMDave Thomas Brown, recently ofHeathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMToday Page Six of the The New York Post reports hat the in-development production has hit a snafu.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMLAUGH IT UP, STARE IT DOWN, a new play written by Alan Hruska The Man on Her Mind, New House under Construction, Reunion, is directed by Chris Eigeman known as a filmmaker for Turn The River…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMGeva Theatre Center welcomes Tony Award Nominee Hunter Foster in the role of King Arthur, and his wife, Rochester-born Jennifer Cody, as Arthur's sidekick Patsy in the opening production of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMDirected by George Nelson and starring Misty Copeland, the film opens in theaters and will be available on VOD October 14th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMHappy Birthday Tom Wopat Wopat first appeared on the Broadway stage as a replacement in the 1977 musical I Love My Wife, as 'Wally'. He then appeared as a replacement in the stage musicals C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMGood 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 is in the spotlight with …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMPure Imagination St. James Theatre 24 Sept – 17 Oct The songs of Leslie Bricusse “Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination” Celebrate the songs of one of the mos…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:34AMWith the news that The Drama League will honor Golden Globe and three-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters as its Centennial Honoree in November, it seemed like the perfect time to r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMHarvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which bills itself as the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, is being urged to get with the times and start allowing wom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMBIO What can you say in a play you can’t say in another medium Writing plays is a practice in rigorous truth-telling and dangerous questioning. In the “real world” there are so many in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMAdaptations of Orwell's 1984 come along fairly regularly (as witness Headlong's recent acclaimed account of it). Far rarer are stage versions of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's 1932 vision …
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:06AM
Glyn Maxwell’s maxim ‘whoever masters form masters time’ sums up the challenge for those writing for the theatre – and helps explain my unlikely monologue with five speaking characte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright directs a well-acted and ruefully comic view of marital breakdown, mayhem and murderGiven that this is Alan Ayckbourn’s 79th play, it is h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AMWelcome to #musicalBFFs, a series of exclusive video interviews between NMT Writers and some of their musical best friends! Today, Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (I Love You Because, N…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:35AMJamaal Burkmar was named as this year's winner by a panel chaired by Matthew Bourne
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:34AMThis might be a bit weird, but when I’m at college and I introduce myself, one of the first things I mention is that I’m involved in theatre. I start listing off the shows I’ve acted …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:26AMThis October,New Conservatory Theatre Center presents the return ofDouglas Carter Beane'ssophisticated wit and thrilling theatrical ambition with theregional premiereofThe Nance.After hit pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:25AMTHE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT premiered last night, Tuesday, Sept. 8. The show was broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:25AMChicago's Fall 2015 dance card is full of audacious programming, with opportunities to see great performances extending well beyond the usual concert venues of the Auditorium and Harris Thea…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AM
Made In China's new show follows its run in Edinburgh with a month at the Soho Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:41AMWith credits including Mojo at the Harold Pinter and Hotel at the National, the Welsh actor continues his flourishing theatre career in Creditors at the Young Vic
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:41AMRobert Powell steps into the regal shoes in Rupert Goold and Whitney Mosery's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:41AMTUESDAY, AUGUST 18 (cont’d) As soon as I retrieved my wandering suitcase and returned from the Hartford airport, Mrs. T and I collected our nephew Ian and his friend Max and drove down to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMWarwick Davis has hit out at a Leicester theatre's decision to sack Snow White's dwarves from its Christmas panto out of political correctness.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:27AMThe Clark Terry-Bob Brookmeyer Quintet plays Terry’s “Tete a Tete” on Jazz 625, originally telecast by the BBC on February 21, 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related vid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15AMBy Doug Mayo
Producers Strickland Productions have announced casting today for their production Crushed Shells and Mud to be presented at Southwark Playhouse this October. Casting for the pl…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:09AM“Dangers by being despised grow great; so they do by absurd provision against them.” Edmund Burke, speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 1792.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMAn hour before he took the stage, Mike Pourhadi, Chicago's newest live-lit bard, ordered an Allagash Victor Ale at the Black Rock Pub (3614 N. Damen Ave.) and hoped its high alcohol content …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM
Jeb Bush only got seven minutes on Stephen Colbert’s inaugural Late Show, and they came nearly at the and of a slightly stretched program. But that proved to be all the time needed for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45AMArts Collective’s “What Improv Group?!?!” partners with HCC’s Creative Writers and HoCoPoLitSo to fuse improv with powerful stories inspired by poets and writers Howard Community Col…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32AMThe homeless men in Time Out of Mind feel like no one can see them, and it’s testament to the great talent of the actors playing them that they manage to pull this off, even though their s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:26AM“Are women’s plays different?” NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg asked “Fun Home” writer Lisa Kron on Tuesday night.“From each other?” Kron deadpanned. “Absolutely.”…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:15AMCast members of the Jumamosi Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON don't know how they can ever let MAMMA MIA go.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03AMScott and cowriter Dick Scanlan begin to change the world, one story at a time.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMAyad Akhtar's acclaimed drama comes to the Goodman Theatre with the director who predicted its prize-winning future.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMLeona Lewis on Her Album 'I Am' and Tour Essentials
The exceptionally talented singer-songwriter Leona Lewis visits the YH Studio to give us the scoop on her latest album, 'I Am', including …
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
NextNOW Fest 2015 is a multi-day, multi-arts festival of fun and discovery that brings artists and audiences together in surprising and intriguing ways! This year, Reggie Watts—the larg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58AMThis fall, The New York Public Library and the Academy of American Poetspresent a free series of four conversations exploring how different art forms engage with poetry. These conversations …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49AMNBC welcomesCarole King and the cast of Beautiful The Carole King Musical on TODAY this morning, September 9th, between 10 -11 am. Be sure to set your DVR's
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49AMThe drag queens of Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin are descending on Broken Hill, New South Wales, for a three-day celebration of Priscilla. Here are their best frocksBroken Heel festival: ‘A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32AMApropos to my post last week about the value of college fine arts requirement classes, someone on my Twitter feed posted a link to a Huffington Post article about why you shouldn’t dis…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:27AMHaving never before been to a Broadway show, I was thinking a musical, is a musical, is a musical. How much difference could there be?
SOURCE: broadwaywiz.com at 12:16AMAn Elvis impersonator turns drag queen in the New York premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride, by Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez. The production officially opens Sept. 9 at MCC The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMatthew-Lee Erlbach's Sex of the Baby makes its Off-Broadway premiere at the Access Theater Gallery Space (380 Broadway), playing Sept. 9-27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway couple Hunter Foster and Jennifer Cody co-star in the Geva Theatre Center production of the Tony-winning Best Musical Monty Python’s Spamalot, which plays the Roch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMuch like in Sylvia, we take its star, Annaleigh Ashford, for a stroll in Central Park. She reflects on winning the Tony Award just a few months ago and finally calling New York City home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rocky Bleier story has been told at Heinz Hall once before, but never like this.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMAs the adage goes, all happy families are the same, but unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. True or not, it does suggest the complexity and interest of “The Country House,” w…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
