Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces five additional performances for the World Premiere of Bruce Graham�…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:58PMThe hilarious, interactive dinner theater experience “We Gotta Bingo,” at the new Chicago Theater Works (1113 W. Belmont), has just announced an Oktoberfest Promotion Offer for all perfo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:58PMSHOWBIZ NATION LIVE! Interview with Playwright DAVID ALEX from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.Chicago playwright DAVID ALEX discusses his thought provoking new work, “N”, which will ha…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:58PMThis October and November,FEINSTEIN'S54 BELOWpresents an exciting lineup of the brightest talent from Broadway and beyond. Located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54thStreet. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMThis October,FEINSTEIN'S54 BELOWpresents an exciting lineup of the brightest talent from Broadway and beyond. Located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54thStreet. For
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMCasting for Barbra Streisand's newGYPSY film is starting to move beyond rumors and clandestine meetings.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMPodcasts are hard, yo After a week of tinkering, we were able to improve the sound quality of the podcast enough so that it no longer sounds like I am broadcasting from 'the bathroom of a ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMDon’t touch the art. That’s the cardinal rule in museums, especially with masterpieces such as Rembrandt’s “Aristotle With a Bust of Homer” hanging on the walls. But in Jessica Dic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36PMThe Canadian puppeteer kept expectations low for “The Daisy Theater” at Baryshnikov Arts Center, a lightheartedly silly show with subtle intelligence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:27PMHolbrook will appear "in conversation" with Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd, launching the series of interviews with notable writers, actors and directors.
Holbrook is best known for h…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 07:16PMThe intimate atmosphere of the Minetta Lane Theater -- a venue that seats just under 400 -- provides a perfect place for Company XIV's 2015-2016 season. With their signature slinky and sexy …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:13PM'Seven,' a documentary play written by seven playwrights, will have a staged reading at Union Congregational Church 176 Cooper Ave., Friday Oct. 2, at 7:30 p.m.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 07:08PMThe relentless clashes of generations, as viewed through lenses of pride and common sense, are the fuel The Quare Land, the amusing but rudderless play by John McManus that just opened at th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PM
Dumy Moyi, Carriageworks, Sydney, September 30; Departures, Ken Unsworth Studio, Sydney, October 1. In the recent exhibition of dance and the moving image, 24 Frames per Second, staged beaut…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:53PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS ANCIENT TRUTH IN A GLORIOUSLY DARK DIVORCE “I can unmake you the same way I made you. I write the story, remember?” Rachel Cusk’s brilliant vis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:53PMCOLBY DAY is a playwright and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He tells stories about people, robots, and monsters dealing with feelings. His plays have been developed and produced by Pipeli…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:50PMANDREW SCOVILLE is a Brooklyn based theater director focusing on developing new work that merges science and performance. He most recently directed Molly Murphy & Neil deGrasse Tyson On …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:50PMWe’re keeping an eye on this comedy—it has potential Broadway transfer written all over it. Anita Gillette (Moonstruck, 30 Rock) and more will join the previously announced Nick …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:50PMAnyone up for Morris dancing? Based on the American War Office’s 1942 pamphlet, Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain attempts to present the audience (a group of GIs who jus…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42PMLeave Hitler to Me, Lad, written and directed by Haley Cox, tells the story of the war children who never get picked up, and don’t know who their family are as they were so young. We see t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42PM✭✭✭✩✩ Tasty appetiser:
Community and ritual lie at the heart of Nalina Chetty's clever new play Kontomble, the opener to the latest A Play, A Pie and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40PMWallace popped into the National Post studios to give reporter Rebecca Tucker a quick peek at his skills, and discuss the appeal of illusion
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:40PMThe York Theatre Company's production ofJerry Bock,Sheldon HarnickandSherman Yellen's ROTHSCHILD amp SONS is reimagined version of their 1970 Broadway musical, THE ROTHSCHILDS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMAs previously reported, The Tony Awards will have to forego another year at Radio City Music Hall. The Beacon Theater was rumoredto be thesecond-choice locationfor the awards ceremony, but T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMHaving been told by Radio City Music Hall that the 6,200-seat theatre will not likely be available for the annual Tony Awards ceremony next year, the Tonys are considering the David H. K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PMThis enigmatic dance-drama, whose set has a vaguely steampunk air, centers on a petulant tyrant and his minions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMRalph Covert will replace Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia’s “Goodnight Moon and the Runaway Bunny” this weekend at Chicago Children’s Theatre due to travel delays. Covert, co-author o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:23PMMONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO SOUR The setting is excellent . Terrible flashing screens of numbers, alerts, currencies; sometimes becoming a glass window onto a London scene made of banknot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:19PMStop press: our rampant celebrity culture might not be wholly positive! If you’ve already been apprised of that fact some time in the past century, go ahead and skip actor Daniel Dingsdale…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:04PMTheatre Under the Stars kicks off its 2015-16 TUTS Underground season with the Houston premiere of Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchell's musical Bonnie & Clyde. Kathr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PMTony nominee Reed Birney stars in Stephen Karam's family drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
He liked The Martian. He didn't like Gravity.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:55PMKristin Scott Thomas and Beverley Knight have been named among the 10 most innovative and inspiring people in theatre by London’s Hospital
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55PMHe was the voice of Prince Hans in “Frozen”; she played Cinderella. Now they’re on the way to happily ever after.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMProducer Ben Sprecher says he has found new investors for his storm-tossed musical based on the haunting Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and is continuing to move ahead toward a full Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMSignature Theatre has announced casting for its world premiere production of Night is a Room by Naomi Wallace. Included in the three-hander is Ann Dowd, who is known for films like Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMBroadway Cast, 1971 (Columbia/Sony) Pure heaven. This revisal of a nearly forgotten 1925 hit helped kick off the nostalgia craze on Broadway. Burt Shevelove did a good job of adapting Otto H…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:51PMTake a look at the big opening night celebration for the brand new Sound of Music national tour. Directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O'Brien, it officially opened Sept. 30 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PMWe talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Christian de Gré, the talented writer and co-director of Beware the Chupacabra! (our re…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:42PMBy Stephen Collins
What Musical should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one &#…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:40PMCould you die? Tomorrow, starting first thing in the morning, Turner Classic Movies will be showing the films of the mature Bob Hope — for 14 straight hours! Get ready to set your DVR …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:39PMIf only H.P. Lovecraft had known while he was alive that some day he would have an entire international cult of devotees! But given his truck with the supernatural I’ll just bet he DID…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:39PMOriginal Cast, 1941 (Pearl/AEI) Marc Blitzstein’s follow-up to The Cradle Will Rock failed to coalesce and ran for only three performances — yet it earned a cast recording, with Blitzste…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:39PMListen to Annie Wilkes and you just might make it out alive. MISERY is offering you a way out, and your ticket in to see Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf on Broadway... on a few conditions. E…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMAVENUE Q just released a hilarious promo that sheds some light as to why some audience members and ATampT ad executives have had such bad ideas about theatre etiquette... The Bad Idea Bears …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that beginning Tuesday, November 3, the new hit musical, Finding Neverland, will change its performance schedule by adding a Sunday evening performance, which wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMA brand new production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's classic THE SOUND OF MUSIC launched its national tour at theCenter Theatre Group Ahmanson Theatre last night, September 30 at 8 p.m. Dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMIf we had a time machine, we'd go back to see so many Tony-winning performances. Think of Idina Menzel in her greenified glory, Patti LuPone at sixes and sevens as the Argentinian First …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMTony winner Lea Salonga, George Takei and Telly Leung discuss the untold American story behind new Broadway musical Allegiance.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMLupita Nyong’o is currently starring in Danai Gurira's Eclipsed off-Broadway and she recently stopped by The View to talk about the show, which is set amid the chaos of the Liberia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMTickets are now on sale to see John Sanders and more Broadway alums in the revival of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine. Directed by James Macdonald, the production will officially open on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMFlux Projects announced that Flux Night 2015: Dream, which was to have taken place on Saturday, October 3, has been postponed due to increasingly poor weather
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:33PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1983 (Confidential Recording Company/no CD) This is a camp-fest, to say the least: a book musical with the feel of a revue, set in the demimonde of sophisticated …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:26PMThe Know: Don't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events, Oct. 1-11!
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMWe talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Brian Reno and Gabriel Vega Weissman, the playwrights behind Loose Canon. No Williams! B…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:08PMRoslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyA roll call of big name artists come together for this Sydney Dance Company production, but are let down by a lack of thematic heft and poor stagingAlthough danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07PMIn "99 Homes," 41-year-old Michael Shannon gives his latest fiercely accomplished performance as an Orlando real estate broker whose name, Rick Carver, indicates a knife-like ability to slic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:02PMThe pair star in the three-character drama by Naomi Wallace.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe new musical comedy at the Actors' Temple Theatre explores the intelligence blunders of the Iraq War.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Ultimately, this Antigone does what it espouses, appealing to our level heads rather than inflaming our passions.
The post Scenes from the Elemental: <em>Antigone</em> at BAM app…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:57PMLin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, helps the next generation of musical theatre writers whe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1982 (Columbia/Sony) The most original musical of its decade is both a dazzling exercise in style and a heartfelt tale of a middle-aged man’s fear of maturity. Arth…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:39PMDirector Jack O'Brien's new revival of the beloved classic features outstanding singing and introduces bright young ingenue, Kerstin Anderson.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:38PMYes, a new version of THE ROTHSCHILDS is about to be produced at the York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Its title has been expanded to ROTHSCHILDS AND SONS while its length has been shortene…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:37PMHappy 80th Birthday Julie Andrews Today thecherished stage and screen veterancelebrates her 80th birthday andto celebrate her special day, BroadwayWorld has decided to to round up eight of o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMAccording to Deadline, USA Network has officially canceled its drama GRACELAND, starring Tony nominee Aaron Tveit, after three seasons.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PM54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents THE WORST PEOPLE YOU KNOW The Musical on October 4th 2015 9.30PM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Hamilton to Release "Mixtape"
What comes next for gargantuan Broadway hit Hamilton? Well, according to the tuner&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PMWait, USA Network has done what to our Broadway boyfriend?! Graceland series creator Jeff Eastin tweeted that the network has cancelled the show, which stars Broadway.com Audience Choice Awa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PMToday is the birthday of the late Richard Harris (1930-2002). I have yet to induct him into my Hall of Hams, though that event is inevitable. I thought it more pressing to discuss a particul…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:37PMWhile Disney and Hunchback fans could not be more disappointed earlier this year hearing the beloved new stage version of the musical would not head to Broadway, some good news is still in s…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:35PMFor those who didn’t live through the years the Harry Potter book series was released, it’s almost impossible to explain the phenomenon in words. After finishing one book, reader…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:35PMTake a first look at Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam new comedy-drama The Humans. The play opened Off-Broadway at Roundabout's Theatre beginning Sept. 30, helmed by Wicked …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PMChanges are in store for one of New York City’s preeminent classical theater companies. Brian Kulick will step down as the Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Classic Stage Com…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:26PMThe world-premiere play by Sarah Burgess will be directed at off-Broadway's Public Theater by Thomas Kail, hot off his success with 'Hamilton.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:26PMStudio Cast, 1998 (Varèse Sarabande) Composer Claibe Richardson, best known for his remarkable score for The Grass Harp, worked unsuccessfully on a musical version of Sweeney Todd for sever…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:24PMOnly through art do we become immortal. The Guard, commissioned by Ford’s Theatre for the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, is an original work by playwright Jessica Dickey. Jessica D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:19PMSomething Rotten! leading lady Heidi Blickenstaff and her husband Nicholas Rohlfing are organizing a Broadway Bikes fundraising event Oct. 4 in New York City to benefit Bike MS: New York 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMThe ensemble and music team of the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame gathered this week to record a studio cast album of the production. Take …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1991 (JAY) As conceived by librettist Arthur Laurents, the ambitious Nick and Nora wanted to be a gripping murder mystery, an X-ray of Hollywood hypocrisies, a femini…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:04PMWhen the Matt Stone and Trey Parker — the creators of TV "South Park" — announced they were going to write a Broadway musical, a lot of people laughed, and not in a good way. But look wh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PM
That feeling when it’s in your belly and you just want to smile. That’s the moment.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:55PMI just heard from the grapevine who shares my apartment that John Guillermin has passed away. Even if you don’t know the name, you know his work. He directed several films in the 1960s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:55PMDoyle, a miniaturist whose pared-down revival of The Color Purple begins previews on Broadway in November following its lauded debut at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, has inherited…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:51PMFlorida Studio Theatre in Sarasota will give Kenneth Jones‘ fact-inspired drama Alabama Story its second resident Equity production — and its debut in the South — in 2016. The six-…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 03:45PMCharly Evon SimpsonHometown: Born in Queens, NY. Raised in Northern New Jersey.Current Town: New York CityQ: What are you working on now?A: I am working on a play called Hottent…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 03:41PM11 ways to sharpen your performance when your director's not around
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 03:35PMIn honor of Throwback Thursday, BroadwayWorld is celebrating the past with a new series that will take you back in time with some of our favorite vintage video features. That's right- we are…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" is pure delicious fun - a superbly crafted musical that, in its sparkling inaugural national touring production, is being delivered with the greatest…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:28PMThe second round of Fall 2015 after-school classes for ages 4-12 begins October 19 and runs through November 19. For the Apprentice Level (ages 4-7), we have Let Me Entertain You, Mad Scient…
SOURCE: SHOWBIZ NoFLO at 03:28PMRead on to catch up on this past week's trends September 25- October 1.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMAMERICAN HORROR STORY Season 5 premieres October 7 at 10pm on FX. Today the network shared the opening credits for the latest installment, subtitled 'HOTEL'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMFRIDAY | "A Strange Disappearance of Bees": Forget Me Not Theatre Company presents Elena Hartwell's play about five people searching for connection amid an unexplainable disappearance of mil…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PMFood network star Alton Brown, best known for "Good Eats," will bring another live show to Chicago this summer. "Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science" will play for one-night-only on May 7.
B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PMBefore "Les Mis" there was "La Revolution Francaise." And an exclusive song from the world premiere concert produced by American Music Theatre Project and FWD Theatre Project is right here. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PMThere's a Grabowski-like sensibility that improvisers Ryan Archibald and Craig Uhlir bring to the stage, which isn't as common as you might think from such a resolutely Chicago art form. The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PMFounder of Belarussian underground theatre questions why there is 'so much fear' in UK about 'provocative' work
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:27PMA clever spoof of the serious issue of age discrimination towards women.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMHere are 10 plays and musicals you should make time for this month in Manhattan.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:17PM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" did not come easily to the 2014 Tony Award for best musical — an award without which I doubt you would be reading this review of the opening night pe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMA lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court claims that Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio effectively don't own the rights to their own life stories as told in the Tony-winning musical Jersey…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMAmerican Psycho, the musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel about a yuppie serial killer, has found a home on Broadway. The show will begin previews on March 24, 2016 at t…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:04PM"It took 30 seconds" for playwright Paula Vogel to say yes when she was asked to collaborate with director Rebecca Taichman on "Indecent," a new work about events surrounding the provocative…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:01PMAs she announces her retirement from professional ballet, Jennie Somogyi looks back on her years of dance, creating new and original roles while surviving numerous injuries.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMSarah Burgess' world-premiere play delves into the corruption of the American economy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMShakespeare's romantic comedy opens at the Workshop Theatre this month.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMDoyle, who brings The Color Purple to Broadway this fall, is currently the associate director of the off-Broadway mainstay.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMLinklater brings his new play about infidelity to Chicago audiences.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is adapted for the stage at the Huntington Theatre Company.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred.
GERARD: I was postin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PMIf we learned nothing else from SHOWGIRLS it’s that “there's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you." In this case of the off-Broadway revival of Joel Paley…
SOURCE: Next Magazine at 02:54PMWitness acts of mesmerization, a ballroom scene, and a séance in a submersive theatrical experience that will delightfully haunt you and your friends. The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar All…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:49PMSarah Ruhl’s play In The Next Room, or the Vibrator Play has a double-barreled title, and the set for the show is similarly divided in
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:46PMOff-Broadway's Classic Stage Company has announced that after 12 seasons, Brian Kulick will step down as artistic director and will be succeeded by Tony winner John Doyle, the compan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMRumer Willis just stopped by this morning's LIVE today to perform 'Me and My Baby' and chat about making her Broadway debut.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMBrian Kulick will step down as the Artistic Director of Off-Broadway's acclaimed Classic Stage Company following the current 2015-16 season. Kulick will be succeeded by the company's current…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMJulie Halston, Arnie Burton and Anita Gillette are among stars announced to join Nick Offerman — best known as the super-macho Ron Swanson in the NBC-TV sitcom “P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMThis Saturday at 11 am, The Wheaton-based educational theatre company InterAct Story Theatre launches the inaugural performance of the Wheaton Family Theatre Series, at the Wheaton Public Li…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31PMBroadway newbie Tyler Lea has stepped into the spotlight of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, taking over for Tony winner Alex Sharp. They’re big shoes to fill, but li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMAge: 28
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Current Role: A Broadway debut in the megahit musical Wicked as Fiyero, the carefree prince who is transformed by his relationship with Elphaba.
Stage an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMBroadway alums Bill Heck (Cabaret), Dagmara Dominczyk (Golden Boy) and Ann Dowd (The Seagull) have been tapped for Night is a Room off-Broadway. The previously announced world premiere from …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PM by: Sandi Durell Sheldon Harnick is on a roll this season with three productions in revival (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me), one of them being...
The post Meet the C…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:20PMDue to incoming tropical storm Joachim, En Garde Arts has postponed its new site-specific performance festival, BOSSS (Big Outdoor Site-Specific Stuff) in the Hudson River Park. Orig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMJohn Doyle, who has won many awards, will succeed Brian Kulick as artistic director of the Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PML’Enfant Rebelle Theatre opened its doors to the media today revealing a unique mission already in the making. The new disability inclusive non-profit theatre company released an official …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PMRita McCann is delighted to be a part of Selection Day. Favorite NYC credits: The Whole Damn Thing (MTF), The March of the Bonus Army (Cap21), R+J(Paradise Factory), Gingerballreading (Daven…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:15PMBy Daniel Fine. In the fifth installment of his series, Daniel Fine wraps up his discussion on how to utilize media design in the rehearsal hall.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:14PMStage and screen icon Julie Andrews celebrates her 80th birthday Oct. 1. We look back at some of her most beloved stage and screen roles. Have a great one, Dame Julie!
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMLet the Halloween season officially begin! Every day in October I’m going to do at least one post (some days several) on horror films and spook comedies, mostly ones from the classic s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:08PMIN THE NEWS
Tim Dang, soon to be the former Producing Artistic Director of East West Players, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Zelda Fichandler Award, recognizing "an outst…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:08PMInvestment firm Gate Ventures has hired producers Michael Grade and Michael Linnit as part of a drive to significantly expand its role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:08PMMaria Friedman is to direct and perform in a concert celebrating 40 years of the Olivier Awards, which will be broadcast on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:08PMPLAYS Stephen Tompkinson is to star in Pig Farm at the St James Theatre. The previously announced play by Greg Kotis will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:08PMPlaybill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, readers are invited into the world of creating Jerome Robbins' Broadway, the 1989 tribute to the le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMDanai Gurira's new play at the Public Theater follows the tragedy of the Liberian Civil War.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe new play by Tom Coash starts tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe recent coproduction of Paper Mill Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse will come to CD.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe World War II veteran became one of the country's greatest theatrical advocates.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMPaul Alexander Nolan and Lora Lee Gayer were also on hand to toast the release of the show's original Broadway cast recording.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
By Matthew Gray. In this podcast series , Matthew Gray interviews all kinds of actors to share why they act and how they act, in a world of diminished residuals, rising student loan interest…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:59PMHamilton creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced that he's planning a "mixtape" of "remixes & covers & inspired-bys" related to his …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMAutumn/winter highlights include a celebration of Arthur Miller, a classical version of nurturing platform BBC Introducing, a Stockhausen world premiere – and Alan Bennett’s Private Pass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PMThe Navarati Festival at Wesleyan University has been celebrating Indian music and dance with an annual slate of concerts, lectures, workshops and screenings for nearly four decades now. Hig…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:52PMIn honor of next week's international holiday, World Egg Day, Something Rotten will celebrate the inspiration for Nick and Nigel Bottom's musical debut with a special morning of events at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMA judge yesterday partially denied a summary judgment motion regarding a trial in which The Four Seasons members Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio must defend themselves against allegations that…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMAdelphi University Performing Arts Center AUPAC is proud to present the first Larson Legacy Concert showcasing the work of composer-lyricist Sam Willmott, a recipient of The American Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMKate Mulgrew and Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer hostedVineyard Theatre's Annual Emerging Artists Luncheon on Wednesday, September 30 fromnoon-2 p.m.at the National Arts Club in Manhattan.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMReviewed by: James Murray/Highly Recommended Related: Showbiz Chicago Interview: Kristen Beth Williams Broadway in Chicago has kicked off its 2015-16 season with a winner; the long anticipat…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:51PMPart of the plot of the new musical Something Rotten! concerns the creation of a new musical entitled Omelette, so it seems only natural that the production will celebrate next week&rsqu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49PMLet the church say “Amen.” I had just left the grimy streets of New York City, and as soon as we walked through those theatre doors I felt like I just walked into my own COGIC ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 01:32PMJames Rushbrooke's new play was the winner of this year's Papatango New Writing prize
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:32PMBBC Radio 3 will hold a special gala performance featuring past Olivier Award winners including Adrian Lester
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:32PMTo celebrate Frank Sinatra's 100th Birthday, Legacy Recordings is releasing a commemorative 4-CD collection,including 100 rare tracks and 91 live performances previously unreleased.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMNational Asian Artists Project Baayork Lee, Executive Artistic Director, will celebrate its 5th Anniversary of 'showcasing the work of Asian-American theatre artists through performance, out…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMProspect Theater Company under the leadership of Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber, will be presenting a developmental reading of the new musical Marco Polo …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMFresh off of being officially declared a genius by The MacArthur Foundation, Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter this afternoon to announce his newest project, THE HAMILTON MIXTAPE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMSingle tickets are on sale now for Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway productions of Our Mother's Brief Affair, the new play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMFormer The Office star John Krasinski will make his theatrical debut in the previously reported world premiere of Sarah Burgess’ Dry Powder. Directed by Hamilton’s Thomas Kail, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMThe stars of Broadway's now-closed musical Doctor Zhivago reunited at Sardi's on September 30 to celebrate the release of their cast album on Broadway Records. Click through the gall…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMSingle tickets are now on sale for two of Manhattan Theatre Club’s starry upcoming Broadway productions, Our Mother’s Brief Affair with Linda Lavin and The Father with Fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMIn "99 Homes," 41-year-old Michael Shannon gives his latest fiercely accomplished performance as an Orlando real estate broker whose name, Rick Carver, indicates a knife-like ability to slic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PMAlthough there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:16PMThe sixth installation of the program will include four writers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:12PMPrimetime Emmy nominee John Krasinski, who played Jim in the award-winning TV series "The Office," is set to lead the cast of the world premiere of Sarah Burgess' Dry Powde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMStage and screen icon Julie Andrews celebrates her 80th birthday Oct. 1. Andrews has starred on Broadway in The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Victor/Victoria.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMStage and screen icon Julie Andrews celebrates her 80th birthday Oct. 1. Andrews has starred on Broadway in The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Victor/Victoria.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMNutley Little Theatre will stage its first Readers' Theater event of the 2015-16 season on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2 p.m., with a reading of "Lapped," an original piece by NLT member Joe D…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:03PMThe iconic actress and singer joins Alt.Latino to discuss the life of a Latina in Hollywood, as well as what the original West Side Story lyrics said.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:01PMLast week, I went to the Belgrade International Theatre Festival in Serbia and then, a day after returning, was on a panel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMI’d heard great things about the Regent’s Park Theatre production of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The media and star ratings had led me to believe I was in for a great evening o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMIsn’t October just the best? It's got pumpkin-flavored everything, the last few weeks of booty-shorts weather and stores filling up with costumes and candy for the Bay Area’s favorite ho…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 01:00PM
Wende O'Reilly just finished a successful run at the NYC Fringe Festival playing looney former child star Broadway Baby Betty Blue in Reading Between the Lies (also directed by Schnele Wilso…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:54PMFrom the birth of the Stage Yankee to the debut of Teatro Luna, October has been a month of firsts and the occasional health scare.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:50PMFor our latest edition of Blog Hijack, the creative team of The Witches are here to tell you about their upcoming production and the inspiration for the magic of their production!Valeri…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:48PMEmmy, Tony and Grammy Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon will guest star in season two of the Golden Globe-winning SHOWTIME drama series THE AFFAIR.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMGlenn Close will be making her West End debut in the English National Opera's April production.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMActress and DANCING WITH THE STARS winner Rumer Willis made her Broadway debut as 'Roxie Hart' in Broadway's Chicago just last week. She will now play a 6-week limited engagement at the Amba…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the master writer chair at New York’s The Public Theater, launched a new season of her “Watch Me Work” series Sept. 14. …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:45PMWe’re ready for Jennifer Hudson, Danielle Brooks, and Cynthia Erivo to hit the stage in the upcoming revival of The Color Purple on November 10. But to truly appreciate the latest Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:41PMJOLLY HOCKEYSTICKS! “Put on your navy knicks, pick up your hockey sticks – and bully-up, bully-up..” Jeepers. I had completely forgotten that ritual “bul…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PMRehearsals for the world premiere of Prince of Broadway have begun! The show, a new musical celebrating the Broadway career of Tony Award-winning director-producer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMHamilton opened on Aug. 6, Leslie Odom Jr.’s birthday. His birthday wishes must be coming true as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical has met with success and praise with Odom…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 12:34PM by JK Clarke Somewhere in the middle of his opening night set at the Café Carlyle on Tuesday night, Buster Poindexter made a crack about...
The post Third…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:33PMPreviews begin Oct. 1 for the world premiere of Ripcord by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire at Manhattan Theatre Club. The Off-Broadway staging, about two women who butt he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMAlbert has just been passed over for a promotion at the IT company where he works and Jennifer’s freeloading boyfriend has just broken up with
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:30PMWritten byDanai Guriraand directed byLiesl Tommy,ECLIPSEDis running at The Public Theater through Sunday, November 29, with an official press opening on Wednesday, October 14.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMAs the East Coast readies to mark the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers are bracing themselves to face another possible devastating storm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe Public Theater announced today that John Krasiniski has been cast in the role of Seth in the world premiere play DRY POWDER by Sarah Burgess. Directed by Thomas Kail, this gripping, razo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMBroadwayWorld.com continues our exclusive content series, in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which delves into the library's unparalleled archives, an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMNBC has pulled the plug on Adam Levine's period musical limited drama series from THE 1970's
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe Huntington Theatre Company presents the world premiere production of A Confederacy of Dunces, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Kennedy Toole, dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMTo celebrate the 80th birthday of Julie Andrews, take our quiz and win tickets to a first night of the tour
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:28PMWe take a look at some of the major theatre openings around the UK
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:28PMFrom Carolyn Griffin: There may be hurricane warnings and Virginia may have declared a state of emergency but THE SHOW MUST GO ON. We promise MetroStage is above sea level (or river level) s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PMThe subjects of William Burt's latest book of bird photography, "Water Babies: The Hidden Lives Of Baby Wetland Birds," are an astonishing lot. There is no accounting for their diversity. Do…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:24PMThis week the London theatre bloggers discuss Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51, Headlong's People, Places and Things at the National, and Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina at Southwark Play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:22PM‘Wanna Sing a Show Tune’ starts Michael Feinstein, cementing a career which has stretched across thirty years of meticulous analysis and delivery of the entire catalogue of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:20PMOscar winner Shirley MacLaine took in Broadway's Hand to God at the Booth Theatre on September 30. Afterward, the talented actress headed backstage to meet Tyrone, the sat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMThe highly anticipated production of Danai Gurira's Eclipsed is getting ready to open at teh Public Theater on October 14. Click through this gallery for pics of the production.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMTheatre at the Center presents Spamalot, the Tony-winning musical based on the 1975 film "Monty Python and The Holy Grail." The show features flatulent Frenchmen, dancing divas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe 2014 Tony Award-winning musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" opened its national tour in Chicago this week. So in honor of its arrival, and with a nod to the gender-parity impe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PM"66th and Broadway," a performing arts series filmed at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center, is returning to THIRTEEN for two new episodes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM"66th and Broadway," a performing arts series filmed at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center, is returning to THIRTEEN for two new episodes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMOriginal London Cast, 1929 (Columbia/Pearl) With wonderful music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, this frippery about New Orleans, the French Revolution, and love leveling…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:09PMFirst look at Lupita Nyong’o making her New York Stage debut in the Off-Broadway premiere of Danai Gurira's Eclipsed at the Public Theater. Under the direction of Obie winner Liesl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1957 (RCA) Although rarely revived today, New Girl in Town ran for a respectable 431 performances on Broadway, and this adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christ…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:02PMThe premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PMSierra Boggess shares behind the scenes stories and reactions to six of her most beloved YouTube videos.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:00PMThe ensemble and music team of the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame gathered this week to record a studio cast album of the production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe Drama Desk winner for Memphis never thought she'd get to be in the show that awed her as a child.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
A spectacular evening of phenomenal music and Mariah Carey hits will take place at one of New York’s finest night spots 54 Below. Multi-platinum diva Mariah Carey will be the feature…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 11:55AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1968 (Warner Bros./DRG) If you want to know what killed the traditional Broadway revue, this cast album provides two answers: economics and a bankruptcy of imaginatio…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:55AMSirenos festival LITHUANIA/VILNIUS The 15th Sirenos festival in Vilnius has a strong international flavour. It started on September 24 with a showcase
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMThe second season of "Theater Close-Up," a collaboration between THIRTEEN and New York City area non-profit Off-Broadway theatres, begins Oct. 1 at 9 PM with The New Gr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMHow one of the most anticipated shows of the fall theater season came to be.
SOURCE: www.phillymag.com at 11:53AMTheatre is always in flux because our world is always in flux and theatre is just an expression of the culture—or reflection, if you want to go cliché about theatre holding up a mirror to…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:51AMThe American Premiere Studio Cast Recording ofThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, the only stage collaboration from two masters of the American musical, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, was record…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival has asked a diverse group of writers to “translate” Shakespeare’s plays into modern contemporary English.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:45AMLinda Hartzell, who started working at Seattle Children's Theatre in 1984, is retiring from her position as artistic director. Her most visible accomplishment during her years as artisti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMNAATCO, the National Asian American Theater Company, will stage the world premiere of Lloyd Suh's Charles Francis Chan, Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, an adaptation of Agatha …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe cast of Doctor Zhivago reunited at Sardi's Sept. 30 for a special performance and signing to celebrate the release of the show's cast album. The recording is available from the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMIt was announced Aug. 5 that newcomer Shanice Williams would step into Dorothy's silver slippers in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz, joining the original Broadway star Stephanie Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMCrucible, SheffieldFreddie Fox’s sophisticated Romeo is smitten with Morfydd Clark’s sweet Juliet in this seamy, urban productionThe contemporary setting of Jonathan Humphreys’ product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1956 (RCA/Arkiv) While it didn’t create as big a sensation as New Faces of 1952, this revue boasted another impressive roster of performers. Front and center is T…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:35AMBy Branden Huldeen. Producer Branden Huldeen discusses examples of new, exciting forms of musical theatre, and how much opportunity there still in for growth in the field.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:35AMAdam Levine's "The 1970s," a period musical drama series, will not be going forward at NBC, according to Deadline.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMA journalist's widow pursues an odd copyright case that's four decades in the making.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:34AMJosh Tyrangiel, the wunderkind editor hired away from Time Inc. six years ago to run Bloomberg LP’s newly acquired BusinessWeek magazine (renamed Bloomberg Businessweek), is the latest…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:34AMTheatre World Award winner Hoon Lee was crowned the new King of Siam in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The King and I Sept. 29 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMTheatre World Award winner Hoon Lee was crowned the new King of Siam in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The King and I Sept. 29 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMAnne-Marie Duff returns to the National in Marianne Elliott's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:25AM‘Murder at the Mansion: ‘Polter-Heist’ on Friday and Saturday, October 30th and 31st at 8 PM and The Kentlands Mansion Just in time for Halloween, Arts on the Green and Ken…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre Books and DVDs for October 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMThe Hamilton cast album has been out in the world for about a week and the company of the hit musical is planning to celebrate. On October 16 330 PM, Lin-Manuel Miranda will take audience qu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related CDs for October, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMToday, the show's co-creator Ryan Murphy shared a first look at Hester, now with a super shiny new neck brace to better fit her new lifestyle.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 1952 (RCA/Jasmine) Broadway once thrived on clever little revues in which clever young people satirized whatever was topical along the Great White Way and in the news…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:17AMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 1998 (RCA) Those who find much of William Finn’s work too abrasive should check out this moving and original musical about serious illness. In collaboration wit…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:10AMTony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth will perform a benefit concert for Kansas City Young Audiences Oct. 3 at 8 PM at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, MO.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMJohn Cleese and Eric Idle, whose participation in the comedy troupe Monty Python led to several films as well as the Tony-winning Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot, join force…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell on the Deaf West Broadway production of Spring Awakening .
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:01AMThe music Canadian astronaut recorded in space is being released as Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can Oct. 9.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00AM
Original Broadway Cast, 1959 (ColumbialDRG) This investigation of beatnik culture ran for only 23 performances, and you’ll know why when you hear the cast album. With a jazz quartet instea…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:59AMIn recent months, there has been quite a bit of online ink spilled on the subject of “diversity” in the theatre. Whether it’s Roundabout Theatre Company’s all white revival of Noises…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:55AMFollowing its Hollywood Fringe debut earlier this summer, Why Water Falls, a solo play about motherhood and fiction writing by Leigh Curran, is set to receive an Off-Broadway engagement …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMBy Stephen Collins
If you attend the theatre regularly, you will undoubtedly have encountered that rare, awful, but entirely exquisite, moment when an actor dries, a prop fails, a door doesn…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:49AMIn honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday, Legacy Recordings will release a box set featuring over 100 recordings of Sinatra performances (91 of which have previously been unreleased).
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMOriginal Los Angeles Cast, 1998 (Cafe Pacific) Obviously, the cast album can’t capture the raison d’être of this popular revue. Yet it does help make conceiver-director Robert Schrock�…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:46AMActress Rumer Willis, who is currently starring in the Broadway production of the Tony-winning Chicago as Roxie Hart, recently offered a number from the show on ABC's "Live w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMThis week's New York Time's In Performance video features Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche in a scene from Sophocles' ANTIGONE which opened on Sunday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMFidel the Musical has launched a competition challenging young people to re-examine Cuban history. The project is based at the University of Southampton and over 250 schools have already sig…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:34AMThe title is the playwright’s secret Rx for keeping marriages afloat.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:30AMDirector and playwright James Lapine will be honored by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) with the 2015 Mr. Abbott Award, which is named for director George Abbott and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Reece Dinsdale plays up the comedy as Hitler in Mark Rosenblatt’s highly watchable productionIn the early 1930s, the British press often made fun of Hitler,…
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SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:23AMHappy Birthday, Julie Andrews Andrews made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMThe Broadway League and The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds COBUG just welcomed Tony Award winnerBebe Neuwirthas host for the seventh annual BROADWAY SALUTES event Tuesday night, Sep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMOn Saturday, November 21, Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will present an evening of song - the best of the Great White Way and beyond - in the intimate Chase Room at New Jersey Performing A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMThe actor talks about his biographical Broadway show, Asian-American representation onstage, and cell phones in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:02AMAtlantic Theater Company's first production of its 30th anniversary season, Obie Award winner Caryl Churchill's landmark play Cloud Nine, began previews Sept. 16 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM‘Seven’ is a collection of true stories about women who’ve fought for human rights globallyA local cast will perform it twice in Sacramento this month Local nonprofits hope to raise aw…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AMSacramento Theatre Company opens season with Jane Austen adaptationDirector wants audience to remember why the story is still popularHer experience in Sacramento theater gave her headstart o…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AM‘Rain Forest Visions’ showcases collection of Melza and Ted BarrCouple collected pottery from the Puyo region, east of the AndesFascinating collection is a must-see exhibit with a beauti…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AMComedic magicians enjoy making audience laughDuo found a wider following on NBC’s ‘America’s Got Talent’They describe their act as ‘pseudo-science’ … Click to Continue &ra…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:00AM
ASP director Bridgette Kathleen O'Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMit’s useful to be reminded that Ronald Reagan, the revered All-American icon, was more simulacrum than savior.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMIsn't it grand? Rumer Willis is currently appearing in Chicago and she stopped by GMA on October 1 to chat about making her Broadway debut, as well as to perform the number "Roxie.&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:58AMSome of the greatest female roles in world drama are currently being re-defined
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:58AMThe West End transfer of Claire van Kampen's play didn't disappoint
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:58AMBy Doug Mayo
Dean Chisnall is currently playing the title role in Shrek The Musical on tour around the UK. It’s a role that has been a large part of his life for a while now. Douglas M…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:56AMMs. Binoche in a scene from Ivo van Hove’s production of the Sophocles play, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:50AMPerformances of Ghost Light, a 30-minute series of monologues by Tommy Smith, have been canceled at the Echo Theatre Company in Atwater, CA, after the playwright urged audiences to boyco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMIt would be easy to dismiss Roaring Trade as ‘Boring Trade’, a 2009 quadrille for four unpleasant people in a dealing room which was stale long before the recession cut the rug from unde…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:41AMContinuing theatreWashington's focus on The Women's Voices Theater Festival, writer Jamila Reddy chatted with playwright Sheri Wilner about the play that inspired Cake…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:40AMThere’s so much great free art in this town. Smithsonian’s out the wazoo. Free performing arts are a little tougher to find, with one of the major providers being the good people of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMThe American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University and the FWD Theatre Project presented a concert version of the 1973 musical La Révolution Française…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMGood 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 Keira Knightley makes her Broadway deb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMBelow, meet the cast from the world premiere production of ROTHSCHILD amp SONS, an intimate one-act reimagining of the Tony nominated musical THE ROTHSCHILDS, with music byJerry Bock, lyrics…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMDancers Over 40 celebrates diversity in dance with Can't Stop the Music Can't Stop the Dance Diversity All Around Us - featuring DO40 Advisory Board member Jerry Mitchell's new musical comed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMTo boost the producing of plays written by women, it really does take a village.The village in this case encompasses the city of Washington, D.C. and its surrounding suburbs. A new study r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:27AMHappy Valley screenwriter Sally Wainwright has become a patron of the Square Chapel Centre for the Arts in Halifax. The writer, whose
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:27AMStory also appears in other North Jersey Media Group Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 09:22AMThis post is by Joel Benjamin
Ann Marie DeAngelo, the longtime producer and director of the Career Transition for Dancers: 30th Anniversary Pearl Jubilee, has outdone herself this year with …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21AMBy Doug Mayo
What happens next in the iconic Puccini story? The son of Madam Butterfly has travelled to America to meet his father for the first time but he’s brought the ghost of his …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:01AM“The joy of programming this festival is that nobody knows anything about Latin American theatre,” says Daniel Goldman, founding artistic director of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
He's cooking up a new show. Alton Brown - the Food Network star and author who has a taste for both culinary chemistry and performance - has created a new show for the live stage. Titled "Al…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:59AMThe American Repertory Theater expands its 201516 Season programming with the OBERON Presents series, featuring a range of artists, companies, and programs. Up next is KANSAS CITY CHOIR BOY,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMThe Broadway adaptation of THERSE RAQUIN,starring Academy and Golden Globe nominee Keira Knightley Therese in her Broadway debut,beginspreview performances tonight, October 1, 2015, and open…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMA new concert series curated by the renowned Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, and director, Jason Robert Brown. Each unique performance will incorporate an eclectic mix of m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AM✭✭✭✭✩ Timeless power:
Half gig, half musical and all theatre, The Bodyguard bursts into town for a fortnight's residency at the Playhouse, riding shot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:39AMIt’s back to school season and The Green Room is looking out for you. All this month, the NMT Countdown series is bringing you a guide to the best-selling songs on NMT from the last ye…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:27AMOctober is the busiest theater month in New York during the fall and winter, with more shows opening than there are days in the month. Six Broadway shows are opening, heavy on star…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AMComplex female roles have been around since ancient times – from Phaedra to the monstrous Mum in That Face
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:12AMThe Wolf Hall actor's Philippe V is wrong-footlingly whimsical but buffeted with gusts of violent paranoia
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:12AMThe weather forecast indicates it’s gonna be a crisp fall weekend in Chicago. Which only ...
The post The Mix — Ariana Grande (and six other cool things to do this weekend in Chicago…
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By Doug Mayo
Following an acclaimed season at the Hampstead Downstairs last year, James Fritz’s Olivier nominated debut play Four Minutes Twelve Seconds will transfer to the Trafalgar …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:59AMThis was a glamorous night (yes, I know that’s by Ivor Novello): Joan Collins, Petula Clark, Richard Fleeshman, Michael Feinstein, Gloria Hunniford, Nanette Newman, Hayley Mills and Una St…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:41AMApropos of this really embarrassing piece, my kind of person… • …prefers hot dogs to hamburgers. • …prefers trains to planes—in theory. • …likes Johnny Mercer best: • …li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 1 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AMA new fund has been launched that will give arts organisations in Wales up to £75,000 to experiment with digital technologies. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMMax Stafford-Clark has criticised a school’s decision to cancel a planned performance of a Rebecca Lenkiewicz play as “spectacularly perverse”. Jane Wenham:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMA long-running dispute between Shakespeare’s Globe and its tour guides has been resolved, after the employees accepted a 3% pay increase. Tour
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMHere’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMBy Stephen Collins
Bricusse's output is so prodigious and so tuneful that only the tone deaf would not find lots of numbers here satisfying and delicious. Many will find something to enjoy …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:07AMCompany sticks to playwright Thornton Wilder's original request of no props.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 07:01AM“He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.” George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
The Scottish comedian brings his High Horse tour to the capital in January 2016, following stints in Scotland and CanadaUnbowed by prostate cancer and Parkinson’s, Billy Connolly is to bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThe Antaeus Theatre Company has announced its 2016-17 season: 1) Cloud Nine: Caryl Churchill’s Obie Award-winning, comic farce of gender and sexual politics will be directed by Casey Sta…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:49AMStephanie Blythe is popping up all over San Francisco lately. She made a surprise appearance at the San Francisco Symphony gala opening last week. She’s also spent the last month »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:10AMHardly Strictly Bluegrass 15 When: 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Where: Hellman Hollow, Lindley and Marx meadows, off John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden »
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SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:01AMPercussionist-lyricist Louie Perez still remembers that fateful night in the early 1980s, when his then-more-Mexican-folkloric band Los Lobos was thrown, last minute, onto an Olympic Auditor…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AMScottish singer-songwriter Greg Holden was seeking transformational wisdom two years ago when he trekked high into the Indian Himalayas to meet the Dalai Lama in his temporary hometown. Yet …
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:00AM
Sometimes a movie becomes something transcendent and turns into an experience. “The Walk” is one of those amazing films you just have to see to believe. It also joins the ranks of the ti…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:51AMAt 85, legendary choreographer Paul Taylor has no interest in retirement
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:51AMThird Degree Glass Factory's Jim McKelvey offers item for virtual display
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:51AMMeet Post-Dispatch artist Dan Martin at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5 at Kirkwood High School.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:51AMTwo-character play opens the West End season
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:51AMProducers Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman and The Transfer Group have announced that CARRIE THE MUSICAL will return to Los Angeles at the historic Los Angeles Theatre, the first theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMWe talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Danny K. Bernstein, the talented composer and lyricist of Far From Canterbury (our revie…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:21AMBecky Shaw
Off Off Broadway, The Producers Club, The Community NYC
Reviewed by Rachel Abrams
BOTTOM LINE: This taut, riveting, and well-acted drama brings two psychologically fragile people…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 01:07AMThe second season of Theater Close-Upon THIRTEEN will continue to bring a diverse cross-section of those provocative plays to primetime and online audiences, premiering today, October 1.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMLong 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMTonight, October 1st, BROADWAY SESSIONScelebrates the men and women from Broadway's wardrobe and hair departments. Talented performers who make the magic backstage will step into the spotlig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMLynn Cohen, best known for playing 'Magda' in the HBO series and movie SEX AND THE CITY and 'Mags' in THE HUNGER GAMES, returns to the New York stage to headline a starry industry reading of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMOlivia Holt Braves Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights
Halloween Season is officially open, and so is Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights! YH sends "I Didn't Do It" …
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For its fourth production of the season, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is not doing a play by Shakespeare, but a play about Shakespeare. The play is Bill Cain's brilliant, complex, multi…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 12:55AMA. R. Gurney’s 1995 quirky comedy “Sylvia” about a couple, Kate and Greg, who adopt a female dog (played by a human) and how this pooch affects their lives is being revived…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 12:55AMThis holiday season, Bloomfield’s Carteret Elementary School will stage “Yes, Virginia The Musical,” an original production based on a true story of 8-year-old Virginia O&r…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 12:55AMA 1988 Millburn High School graduate, playwright Eric Alter’s mobster comedy will premier at Montclair’s Grove Street Theater Oct. 9.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 12:55AMDavid Gregory gave an insightful and even at times humorous talk on his new book How’s Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey about his journey to faith. After leaving his job as the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48AMKeira Knightley is set to begin performances in Thérèse Raquin on October 1. The Oscar nominee is making her Broadway debut in the production, which will also star Tony winners…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22AMPlaywright Helen Pafumi and the JCCNV/Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia have partnered to develop a staged reading of the world premiere play Redder Blood. The play was written…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:20AMMoises Kaufman's first play, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, will receive a star-studded benefit reading Oct. 5 to support the Tectonic Theater Project and the Inte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Los Angeles immersive production of Carrie The Musical returns Oct. 1, following its recently concluded, acclaimed run at the La Mirada Theatre. The cult thriller musical, based…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Thérèse Raquin, featuring a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson, based upon the novel by Émile Zola, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown's residency at SubCulture continues Oct. 1 with a concert that features Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple), Tony Yazbeck (On The Town) and Gram…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christian Borle, who is currently starring as Shakespeare in the Broadway musical Something Rotten!, celebrates his birthday on Oct. 1. Playbill.com looks back…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAn industry reading of a re-conceptualization of Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary, the one-woman play that ran 27 previews and 16 regular performances on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKansas City Choir Boy, the musical collaboration between Todd Almond (Iowa) and rock icon Courtney Love, which premiered at New York City's HERE earlier this year, begins a limited fall …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Hubris Theatre Company presents the stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess' haunting novel "A Clockwork Orange," penned by the author himself, beginning Oct. 1. Set in a dysto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSurupa Sen is not exaggerating when she says she lives, eats and sleeps Odissi, one of the world’s oldest dance traditions from India.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMHomophobia at a prestigious all-black prep school is at the heart of it. In contrast, there are spirituals, lovingly sung a cappella as respite from the taut, competitive life of a dema…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMCity Theatre's annual Young Playwrights Festival will showcase six one-act plays, chosen from more than 350 contest submissions by middle school and high school writers from Western Penn…
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