“iLuminate,” which is running at Theatre 80 through September 4, is a light show in which the lights are portrayed by 11 acrobatic dancers resembling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who fel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMTold in flashback, and following the career of one of the brightest entertainers of the American musical theatre, The Production Company presents a new staging of the classic Broadway mus…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:25PMELEVATE, the downtown arts festival now in its sixth year, announced ELEVATE: Microcosm will take place from Thursday, October 13, through Friday, October 21. The announcement was made tonig…
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The play tells the story of four refugees journeying to Britain to escape war and persecution
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:22PMBritish history is peppered with truly remarkable people. Kings, queens, writers, actors, scientists, athletes and military generals pepper school history books and cultural subconscious. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:02PMStage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth, who will soon appear as 'Velma Von Tussle' in NBC's HAIRSPRAY LIVE and recently took the Broadway stage in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, is headed for a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PMA Chicago non-profit lets girls explore the works of William Shakespeare while using his classic texts to propel discussions of contemporary issues facing girls and women.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PMIn attendance was the cast of Fuerza Bruta who perfomed a selection of songs from the show. Check out highlights below
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The lure of an all-woman Japanese import of "Chicago" is hard to resist. What would such a faraway culture and ritualized gender switches make of Bob Fosse's hyper-American, deliriously unse…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 06:37PMOutdoors at Marcus Garvey Park, a Shakespeare classic plays out in a free production that’s enhanced by its urban surroundings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMIan Pai, who composed music used by the global theatrical brand, contends that he has been underpaid for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMChris Lemmon brings a story born out a “search for catharsis” about the man he called Pop to the Cinema Arts Center on July 28.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMAt the Lincoln Center Festival, Jonathan Pryce stars as Shylock in a production filled with scorn, violence and anti-Semitism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMA fanciful adaptation of this ancient Jewish legend fits well with this company’s dependence on useful, risky technology.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMThe best of free shows, open-air concerts and unique theatrical events under the stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17PMTens of thousands of seats will soon be on offer to see the show from June 2017.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PMWritten by Andrew Reid and directed by Madison Landis, Saudade; the one where I miss you, is a poignant exploration of the meaning behind the Portuguese word “saudade.” A play ab…
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Proceeds from the love anthem will benefit the LGBT Center of Central Florida.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMThe Ogunquit Playhouse presents the New England premiere of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, on stage now to August 6, making The Playhouse one of the first regional theaters in the U.S. to stag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMA trio of Broadway and cabaret favorites have each announced on social media that they will be performing at next week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMDrabinsky is trying to stage a Broadway comeback, after a 2009 fraud and forgery conviction, with a musical adaptation of the novel Madame Sousatzka
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:55PMHalf of the fun in watching Texture Contemporary Ballet’s annual summer explosion — seeing a handful of resident company artists turn into a viable mid-sized company of 17 — is watchin…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:42PM“It’s tasteless and insensitive,” says Oregon mass shooting hero-survivor Chris Mintz of the show, which uses that tragedy as a backdrop.
SOURCE: www.phillymag.com at 05:29PMLive sightings of Jonathan Pryce -- part of today's zeitgeist buzz as the High Sparrow in "Game of Thrones" -- are rare in New York, where the two-time Tony winner has not appeared on Broadw…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:28PMI’d be lying if I said I haven’t been salivating at seeing the new musical War Paint, which is based on the PBS documentary The Powder and the Glory celebrating makeup moguls and…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:28PMFans of Cirque du Soleil know to expect wonder, beauty, and thrills, and Cirque doesn’t disappoint. It’s a brilliantly executed brand that has become a global phenomenon (21 different pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMSet your DVRs! FOX’s reboot of the cult classic musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will air on October 20th, just in time for Halloween. The two-hour special stars Lav…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 05:13PMGet to know the history of Japan’s all-female Takarazuka Revue, which is currently performing the Kander and Ebb hit Chicago in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMLearn why MD Theatre Guide is your ticket to the performing arts!
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PMPatti LuPone and Christine Ebersole star in a new musical about cosmetics titans at the Goodman.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMPickup stars with Jonathan Pryce in the Shakespeare's Globe touring production of the dark drama.
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The star of the Off-Broadway hit PRIVACY is paid a post-show visit by two of his Harry Potter colleagues.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMThe performances by Ange Dargent and Théophile Baquet could not be better.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:58PMDirector Richard Romagnoli who also staged the 2007 production and he has done an excellent job of visualizing the scope of the scenes. Action on the battlefield, political conflicts in Mos…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMYes, you read that headline correctly. Motown The Musical is closing a mere 19 days after its opening. The show based on the history of Motown Records, the Detroit-based record company that …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:25PMLike the rest of America, St. Louis’ cultural institutions have been turned into PokeStops, its churches and statues into Pokemon gyms, its ponds into Pokemon fishing holes. “Pokemon Go�…
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The Mark Brokaw-helmed production will now launch the Off-Broadway theatre's 2016-17 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMUnder the magic of its yellow-and-blue striped tent, Cirque du Soleil has brought what may be its most rare and delightful show to date. Kurios reminds us that little and “oldie” can b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:55PMBy Douglas Mayo
Last night (21 July 2016) the international hit musical The Bodyguard celebrated its opening night with Beverley Knight reprising the role of superstar Rachel Marron opposite…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:50PMThe BBC’s non-musical screen adaptation is slated to air in 2018.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMNathaniel Stampley sings the classic ballad "The Impossible Dream" in this Showcase video, filmed at Tribune Tower. Stampley can currently be seen on the Marriott Theatre's stage as Migue…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:46PMGhostlight Records will celebrate the cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of She Loves Me with a special in-store performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble on…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:42PMJust on the outskirts of Northern Liberties, between 6th and 7th on Girard, is the Fine Fare grocery store. Exciting right? Of course not, well that is until you go inside.
SOURCE: spiritnews.org at 03:34PMWhat the World Needs Now is Love: The Remixes, featuring Idina Menzel, Sara Bareilles, Bernadette Peters, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more, has just been released. Hear it here first.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMLillith Fallon is an actress hailing from Durham, NC. She trained at The Stella Adler Studio Evening Conservatory. Favorite roles include; Readymaid in Archy, Victoria in Private Room Number…
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The Los Angeles theater company Deaf West has long been lauded but, with its production of Spring Awakening, it’s currently driving a national conversation. Recently, the National En…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:57PMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike goes on about a half hour too long, but the quality of the acting overcomes the longueurs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:44PMMeet the fabulous Broadway star as she performs in this summer's 'Broadway on the Vineyard' concert series.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Josh Davis, who stars in the new musical THE GOLD, playing at NYMF August 1-6.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that a private reading was just held for a musical adaptation of DAVE, starring Brian d'Arcy James, Carmen Cusack, Michael Rupert, Ann Sanders, Colby Lewis, Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PM (Photos/Video: MR Anderson) 106.7 LITE FM’s Helen Little emceed Broadway in Bryant Park, alongside co-hosts Alex Brightman and Sierra Boggess (School of Rock). Performi…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:23PMIn February of 2017, Come From Away will take center stage at a Shubert Theatre. Prior to its Broadway run, the show is slated for performances at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:19PMLincoln Center festival, New YorkThough the production is traditional, with Jonathan Pryce as Shylock leading the cast, it has truths to impart about modern hatred, violence and prejudiceSo …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PMHappy Friday! From School of Rock duo Alex Brightman and Sierra Boggess to best bros Leslie Odom Jr. and Josh Groban, check out our latest hot shots for your weekend BFF-pic or family photo …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:16PMOn location for his latest movie, 'The Shape of Water,' the writer-director also shares his thoughts on when FX's 'The Strain,' will end and why 'Hellboy 3' "is a wish that will never be ful…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:14PMIt was only a matter of time. Before I explain, I have to take you back to the early 2000s, post 9/11 to be exact, when commercial Off Broadway suddenly became a more challenging place to pr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 02:11PMJason Michaels makes you believe things that can't possibly be happening in his one-man show. ... Read more »
SOURCE: ticket.heraldtribune.com at 02:11PMMost theatregoers I know have an almost physical aversion to audience participation. That’s probably because audience members are often cast in the role of patsy—set up to look awkward, …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:11PMRamin Karimloo returns to NYC this weekend for weekend of concerts.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:09PMDEAR CAROLYN: My adult brother is in rehab for the second time in two years. My mother is understandably upset and wants to talk about it every day. She is … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:08PMSomething about tap dance feels thrillingly existential. As one intensely unplanned moment follows another, the synergy of dance and music seems beyond control, like a wind that blows strong…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:08PMThe ABBA musical takes the Muny stage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe legendary Japanese musical-theater company takes on a Broadway classic.
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"Chops," the retro new play at Theater Wit, is the kind of Chi-caw-gow show I thought gone for good. It features three 60ish white guys in a Chicago bar, one apparently the bar owner, banter…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:58PMJesus enters in a gray hoodie like a refugee Kanye West in best “Yeezus” mode. Mary does a subtle update to “Could We Start Again Please?” – a song that could almost be about conte…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 01:57PMThis Sunday, July 24, help Raven welcome Chicago Sun-Times Theater and Dance Critic Hedy Weiss! [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:56PMUnderscore Theatre Company, in association with Harborside Films, is pleased to present the Chicago premiere [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:56PMThe Bridges of Madison County actor joins the new musical Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMBay Street Theatre will debut the new Stephen Schwartz and Philip LaZebnik musical at a free outdoor concert with a stellar cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMThe library's gallery show inspires viewers to imagine how audiences reacted to the first stage appearance by a female actor and the first British performance of Othello by a black actor.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMMamma Mia, directed by Dan Knechtges, choreographed by Jessica Hartman and music directed by Michael Horsley, just opened at The Muny. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMMamma Mia,directed by Dan Knechtges, choreographed by Jessica Hartman and music directed by Michael Horsley, just opened at The Muny. Click below to watch highlights of thestarry cast in act…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMIn attendance was the cast of Les Miserables Hayden Tee, Allison Luff, John Owen-Jones who performed the songs 'Stars,' 'Bring Him Home' and 'I Dreamed a Dream.' Check out highlights below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMNext week, Feinstein's54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club amp Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Tony Danza, Jen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMFollowing the night of Maria’s big house party, she is tidying up and Andy pops round to pick up his sunglasses. They laugh and talk about what’s going on with each other at the moment, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PM“The Game’s Afoot!” shouts a police detective, in Sherlock Holmes-esque fashion. Armed with a pen, a map and an initial clue, we separate ourselves from the other 40-odd audien…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PMHuman forms are tangential to many of the artists in Hillyer Art Space’s “Flesh & Bone II.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMNew partnership with the university requires making shows accessible to the deaf.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMbanished? productions calls it quits with characteristic ceremony
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMOpening night of “Motown: The Musical” went very well until right after the curtain call. With the cast still buzzing at 10:15 p.m., producer Kevin McCollum had bad news: The show was en…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMThe all-female Japanese theater company that is putting on Kander and Ebb’s “Chicago” as part of the Lincoln Center Festival through Sunday, was founded in 1913 in Takarazuka, Japan by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMHappy Friday, and happy Kristin Chenoweth’s birthday weekend! Whether you’re celebrating by giving your green friend a makeover, shouting that you’re a vice principal or si…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMThe new play Oslo tells the unlikely story of how a Norwegian sociologist and his wife, a foreign minister in the title city, managed to broker the historic 1993 peace agreement between Isra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMTwo-time Tony winner Jonathan Pryce returns to the New York stage for the first time in a decade.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMKathleen Marshall helms the new Broadway production.
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In , she took me back so tenderly, banished? productions has created a 360 degree feast for the senses exploring loss, grief, and the fleeting nature of shared experience. Produced at the ne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMPart Monty Python, part Da Vinci Code, part Fiddler on the Roof, and part Albert Camus having an existential crisis, Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel is an engrossing one-man detective …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMThe Salon: Collective are a grassroots group of artists that offer classes, workshops and produce work. United by American practitioner Sanford Meisner’s post-Stanislavskian technique, the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PMBoston Midsummer Opera may be performing in a new location, but all their virtues have arrived at Watertown intact.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:34PMCeline Dion took the stage for NBC's Citi Concert Series on TODAY. The multi-Grammy Award winner performed such classic as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and 'Because You Loved Me.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMTickets for the new musical In Transit will go on sale exclusively for American Express Card Members beginning Monday, July 25, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMBroadway's newest heavenly father and his trusty angel indulge in a Bette Midler standard.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe new musical that counts Frozen Oscar winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez among its writers, will begin previews November 10 at Circle in the Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMMotown suddenly announces closing, Chicago gets a Hamilton cast, and War Paint opens at the Goodman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMScotland is to get its first postgraduate course in stage management as part of a tie-up between Queen Margaret University and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMIt’s the final weekend of this year’s Capital Fringe Festival and I urge you to attend some of this year’s offerings. DCMetroTheaterArts has reviewed all the shows in this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed from today.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Returns to Hamilton for Drunk History
What comes next for Drunk History? Hamilton’s Lin-Manue…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMCole Burden (The Bridges of Madison County national tour, Les Miserables national tour) will join the cast of Himself and Nora, the new musical currently running at the Minetta Lane Theater,…
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 12:03PMBased on the much-loved Nora Ephron film of the same name, the new musical is set to debut in the U.K. next spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMBCP's season continues tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMAt North Shore Music Theatre, Disney's beloved nanny doesn't quite get off the ground.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe James Joyce-inspired musical welcomes a new addition.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
By Joris Weijdom. Researcher and lecturer Joris Weijdom of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands on what the Internet of things, transmedia, and mixed reality might mean for theatr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:59AMTimothy Sheader's production has opened at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:54AM20 songs spanning the joint and solo careers of Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:42AMVote Early. Vote Often! The most important election of 2016 is coming up soon. I write of course, of the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival Audience Awards. This year’s awards are hosted by our …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMMeet the Riches. But don’t forget your body armor. An upper class couple living the late 1980s yuppie dream in suburban Minnesota, David (Dana Scott Galloway) and Carolyn (Adele Robey) Ric…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMBay Street Theater and DreamWorks Theatricals are pleased to present a premiere concert reading of the new stage adaptation of THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, book by Philip LaZebnik writer of Mulan, P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMCelebrating 45 years since Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's seminal musical first hit the stage, Jesus Christ Superstar just opened at Regent's Park's Open Air Theatre, and already the pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMTed Cruz's controversial statement at the Republican Convention may have reminded theatre fans of a special AVENUE Q song.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMBroadway Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 7222016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMPerhaps wanting to stress the unmissable evidence of bigotry continuing rampant in this 400th year after Shakespeare's death
SOURCE: www.huffpost.com at 11:31AMIt could be that Munby's extreme depiction of Shylock's relentless repudiation is the reason behind the moneylender's obdurate
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31AMAttendees from more than 25 countries convened to share common issues and address persistent divisions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:30AMMore than 1,100 theatre folks from all over the world gathered, connected, testified, and strategized at TCG’s conference Washington, D.C.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:29AMArtists who don’t work in theatre are to be supported to make ambitious new performances in Manchester. Theatremakers will also be encouraged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMTams-Witmark Music Library is honored to announce that AMOUR, the whimsical Broadway musical from composer Michel Legrand, is now available for licensing for the first time in the United Sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMMore than half of people who have booked to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are first-time theatregoers, the play’s producers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMThe Hogwarts Express could be heading to Broadway! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 's producers are apparently in negotiations for a Shubert Theatre, potentially for next season. The N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMThe Broadway.com staff is crazy for Culturalist, the website that lets you choose and create your own top 10 lists. Every week, we’re challenging you with a new Broadway-themed topic t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMWaitress' Drew Gehling invites us into his dressing room to show off his delish opening night gift from co-star Jessie Mueller and more!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMCenter Theatre Group has announced casting for its upcoming production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Mark Taper Forum. Performances are set to run from Augus…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 11:02AMElenna Stauffer Hometown: Scarsdale, NY is where I grew up.
Current Town: New York, NY is where my kids are growing up. Q: Tell me about Hysterical.A: It's the story of fi…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:00AMLaverne Cox struts her stuff in a brand-new teaser trailer for the cult-classic remake.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMKarl takes on the role played by Bill Murray in the fan-favorite film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
GREENWICH, England(Reuters) - Like most stand-up comedians, Carey Marx has stories about "dying on stage", but in his case they are almost literally true.
SOURCE: Reuters at 10:55AMBelinda plays Palace Judy Garland in Through the Mill at the Southwark Playhouse
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:55AMTony Award-winning creator and original star Lin-Manuel Miranda will narrate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMGet ready to time warp. The 1975 cult classic, based on the hit stage musical, is being revamped on Fox with a broadcast on October 20 from 8pm-10pm ET/PT. The two-hour special, which is cal…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 10:50AMRomeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's best known plays, and particularly for those of us who were teenagers in the 90s a certain film version is more than etched into our minds as well. P…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:49AMMatthew Gardiner directs the Signature Theatre production of Jelly\u2019s Last Jam. The musical charts the path of legendary jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton and features a book by George C. W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMMore than a dozen Broadway stars are rallying in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. A special concert event will be held next month at Columbia University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMAudiences will be greeted by some drastic changes at the Imperial Theatre when Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 arrives on Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMHappy Birthday Alan Menken For Disney, Menken has scored The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, each of which won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the sco…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMHARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD does not open at London's Palace Theatre until July 30, and already there is buzz about a future transfer to Broadway. The New York Post's Michael Riedel wr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMYes, you’ve “heard it through the grapevine.” Motown: The Musical is shortening its limited-engagement Broadway revival, and is now closing on Sunday, July 31, 2016 —…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:20AMOn Friday, July 22, the Theater People podcast welcomes Broadway favorites Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley. Skinner and Ripley first worked together when they were cast as Daisy and Violet Hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMThe casting is intriguing, to say the least. Jake Gyllenhaal was recently announced as the lead in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s tempestuous 1980s drama “Burn This,” slated …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:14AMSome Norbert in advance of David Yazbek's returns to 54.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:13AMThe production is currently running at the Nederlander Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
The old magic, once gone, is difficult to get back.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AMDeclan Bennett's hipster Jesus has go-for-broke soul-bearing intensity
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:51AMThere is much to love in Dial R for Robot, billed variously as “a sci-fi Hitchcock rock opera” and a “multimedia rock opera re-boot.” At its (beating, digital) heart is the eclectic …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48AMTim Minchin's new musical opens at the Old Vic in August
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:44AMFamily drama about grief gets a surreal twist while exploring human relationships with imaginative flair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:43AMWhile Broadway goes through its “Hamilton” craze, London is obsessed with Harry Potter. Advance sales for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at the Palace Theatre have hit $32 milli…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:39AM*BROADWAY BLACK EXCLUSIVE* “Get Up, Stand Up. Stand up for your right.” Bob Marley was on to something when he released “Get Up, Stand Up” in the early 1970s. A phras…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 09:33AMThe best of Broadway will be performing FREE on six consecutive Thursdays this summer with '106.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park 2016' - a lunchtime series that continued this week, July …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMThe International Rescue Committee IRC just hosted its 6th Annual GenR Summer Party. GenR, short for Generation Rescue, is a group of young and influential humanitarians who have joined forc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMThey could never leave you.Alice RipleyandEmily Skinnerare UNATTACHED and BroadwayWorld was backstage at Feinstein's54 Below for their latest show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMOn last night's TONIGHT SHOW, Jimmy challenged Celine to a game of random musical impressions, such as Sia singing 'Hush, Little Baby.' Later, Dion explains how she ended up at her longtime …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMHome-grown musicals of the 1960s seem to have vanished into some kind of theatrical black hole. The period between Lionel Bart and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTyrone Huntley had ruled himself out of ever playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. The performer believed his own physicality – short
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Find out what critics had to say about Timothy Sheader's Regent's Park Open Air production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:50AMOur pick of what's been going on in and around theatreland this week
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:50AMO2 Arena, London"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," cries an agonised Jesus on the cross. But it's the good lord, otherwise known as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMTitanic | The Book Of Mormon | Bugsy Malone | The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk | Young Chekhov: Platonov, Ivanov & The SeagullIn recent years, most shows that have docked at the Charing Cros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMThe Bolshoi Ballet | Wild Space | Vamos Cuba!This new company was created by Canadian choreographer Robert Binet. He works with a fine international cast on an immersive dance piece titled T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonWit, lyricism and satirical bite abound in this dramatic revival of the classic rock opera with a first-rate castIt might not qualify as a miracle, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMFrom Womad and The BFG to Billie Piper and Matt Smith treading the boards, it’s your cultural guide to the next 7 days Womad Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AML.A. Theatre Works has announced its 2016-17 season of live audio recorded plays to be performed at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. Each play in the series will be performed in front of a …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:46AM by Matt Smith Host-with-the most Scott Siegel (Town Hall’s Broadway by the Year) is back at it again, this time with “Broadway Originals,” the second of a three-pa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:46AMThe Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre’s (SSMT) production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance breathes fresh and hysterically contemporary life into an older operett…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19AMThis season, Drunk History transports viewers back in time to hang with the founding fathers as the multi-talented Lin-Manuel Miranda narrates the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13AMThis week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Maine, Chicago, San Diego and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include LuPoneEbersol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13AMBy Danny Coleman-Cooke
Jesus Christ Superstar Regent Park Open Air Theatre 21 July 2016 3 stars Book Now In the midst of a summer of variably air conditioned theatres, what a relief to bask …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:07AMStage adaptions of literature hold the unique power to bring our favorite stories to life by bridging two of society’s major cultural platforms: literature and theatre.
The post Top 10 Pla…
SOURCE: www.breakingcharactermagazine.com at 08:02AM
The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End’s Olivier Award winning box office hit, announces a major national tour for 2017. Opening at Theatre Royal Bath on 10 January, the production will vi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMOHP serves up an irresistible, fabulously cast production of the operetta by Johann Strauss II
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:35AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review Goodspeed Musicals’ revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Musicals don’t have to be first-rate to be fun. “Bye Bye Birdie,” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM By Eric J. Grimm With a penchant for the macabre and an electric energy coursing through the whole creative team, spit& vigor has emerged as a reliably compelling th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:25AMAdapted for the stage by Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS will open at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from 8th October 2016, followed by The Lowry in Sal…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 07:23AMToday's big news The newBEAUTY AND THE BEAST movie previews tonight on Disney Channel, andSUMMER SHORTS 2016 kicks off at 59E59 today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21AMLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has said he plans to “democratise the arts” in the capital so that the West End does not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMThe second episode of Orson Welles’ Sketchbook, a BBC series in which Welles talked about his life and work. This episode, in which Welles talked about critics, was originally telecast on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMLondon fringe venues Theatre N16 and Lost Theatre have been revealed as contenders to run a controversial new theatre in Streatham. Companies
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AM“One never gets accustomed to a miracle; one may only wonder at it. A poet is always filled with wonder.” Nadezhda Mandelstam, Mozart and Salieri (trans. Robert A. McLean, courtesy of Pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM
A FAR FROM COSMETIC MUSICAL MAKEOVER In the late James Kirkwood’s Legends!, two feuding divas–played on a 1986 national tour by theatrical goddesses Carol Channing and Mary Martin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:53AMSometimes I think we forget what a story we have right under our noses masks. The longest running Broadway musical of all time, The Phantom Of The Opera, is running right this very second j…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 06:53AMVikander plays Heather Lee, a cyber ops chief at the CIA — and unlike the well-mannered Alicia, it’s made immediately clear that Heather is not to be trifled with writes Baz Bambigboye.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:53AMBAZ BAMBIGBOYE: Creator of the classic BBC TV shows Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister - is writing a show about Johnson and rival ministers Liam Fox and David Davis cohabiting.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:53AMControversial performer and monologuist Mike Daisey takes on another controversial performer and monologuist: Donald Trump.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53AMA new booking period will be launched during the first week of August. It’s being organised now by producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callende, writes Baz Bambigboye.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:53AMDaisey’s past monologues dissect topics including the cult of Steve Jobs. He now riffs on political performer Donald Trump.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:53AMThere have been a couple of Camelots for TV comedy writers -- idyllic places to work. MTM in the ‘70s and Paramount in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I’m privileged to say I worked at both.…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 06:53AMThe intimacy of the New Jersey theater is a boon to the show, which connects more viscerally here than it did in its off-Broadway staging
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:53AMAn abandoned performing arts school in Hartlepool could open its doors once again after the local council revealed it was trying to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTim Curry appears in the latest footage from FOX's 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' remake.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:47AMComedy Central’s “Drunk History” will return for its fourth season on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 10:30 p.m., and the ten-episode season will bring a slew of guest stars. The seas…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46AMBroadway ticketbuyers expect seating charts to look a certain way: The stage is here; the audience is there. So when tickets went on sale for the $14 million Broadway production of “…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46AMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughRudyard Kipling’s famous bedtime tales are brought to life with a sink plunger, vacuum cleaner and, apparently, no actorsRudyard Kipling dreamed up the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:46AMCostumes worn by David Tennant, Judi Dench and Laurence Olivier during productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company are to be displayed as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMShakespeare’s Globe has launched its own record label to release music recorded in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The Globe has been using
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMYou can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you just might find … you’re singing backup for Mick Jagger. Hey, it happened to Matthew Ciuffitelli. Three years ago h…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:43AMThe composer known as 'The March King' actually penned a wider variety of music in his day, much of which has rarely been performed. Now, Lyric Theatre is doing its part to change that by st…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:40AMCharles Busch - a man - is perhaps not the most obvious casting choice for a Rosalind Russell-type nun. But since he wrote The Divine Sister, a comedic homage to Hollywood nuns, opening at t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:38AMA new production of The Firebird reinvents the ballet - with puppets, animation, and more
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:38AMA big theme of Hamilton is that history lives at the whim of whoever tells your story. Well, we're betting a corollary to that lesson is: History lives at the whim of how hammered the guy te…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:36AMIf you've spent any time on the corners of the rap internet over the last month, you'll have seen wall-to-wall coverage of the evolution of Desiigner's "Timmy Turner." The rap newc…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:36AMWhenever I’d hear critics describe musical theater as one of the few truly American art forms, I would think, well, at least one of those words is right. It’s a form. I suppose it is als…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:36AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- The rarefied sorority of Disney princesses has come a long way since 1937's Snow White set the tone, gradually expanding to add Asian, African-American, N…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:34AMThe La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Come From Away” has confirmed its Broadway cast — and two San Diego-based actors are part of it.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:32AMLast week’s big San Diego Pride celebrations may have given way to this week’s Comic-Con onslaught, but a trio of still-running plays continue to explore and pay tribute to the LGBT expe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:32AM“I’ll be the sixth lead in the indie film and that’s ok,” joked comedian Chris Gethard Wednesday night at the Sunshine Landmark Cinema for the New York premiere of “Don’t Think T…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30AMThe Olivier Award-winning comedy has also extended its West End run
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:28AMThe musical is currently playing at the New Wimbledon Theatre
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Listen: #MotownTheMusical Opens and Announces 7/31 Closing, @ComposerStephen Confirms #WickedMovie for 2019! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitt…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55AMUS actor Cherry Jones is a Broadway legend, but has never appeared on the British stage before. Sarah Crompton explains why she can't wait for the actress UK debut at the Edinburgh Inter…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMCast and guests celebrated the opening night at the Dominion last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMBeverley Knight returns to play the role made famous by the late Whitney Houston
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMDeclan Bennett stars in a revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMIt's time for another #StageFaves takeover! After his success at West End Live, we sent Perry O'Bree to the opening night of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for the …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:47AMThe Play That Goes Wrong has announced a major tour for 2017, visiting locations across the UK. The comedy, created by Mischief
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMCardiff is the theatre capital of Wales as well as the political one. Its busy cultural life encompasses the Wales Millennium Centre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe director Jonathan Kent exudes a relaxed, laid-back confidence, but it was not always thus. When I ask him if there’s something
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM
International superstar and martial arts stuntman Jackie Chan has produced a new blockbuster movie with director Renny Harlin, released on July 21. “Skiptrace” is a Hong Kong-Chinese-Ame…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:47AMWith shows aimed at all ages, and creatives including Akram Khan, Paines Plough, Julia Donaldson and Dr Seuss, there’s a bewildering choice at Edinburgh this year. Here’s our top 21. Don…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMShe really does conjure the hookah-smoking Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland, ensconced on a sofa in her Beverly Hills living room, drinking scotch and smoking tobacco and weed, sometimes…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:24AMA brand new Australian translation of one of theatre’s defining works, Sport For Jove Theatre presents Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Seymour Centre from 28 July 2016. Anton Che…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:23AMMost of us have a show that we hold dear and can sit through any number of times in different productions. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLast week, The New York Times reported on a dispute between Theatre for a New Audience, one of the city’s major producers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM
Name: Heath SaundersHometown: Kirkland, WAEducation: Bachelor of Music, University of Miami.Select Credits: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (ART and upcoming Broadway)Why theate…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:46AMRumour Has It charts the incredible rise of the blockbuster soul sensation of the modern age live on stage in story and song, with all the upfront British wit and heart-stopping tunes that h…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:17AMThe reboot of the 1975 cult classic starring Laverne Cox, Tim Curry and Annaleigh Ashford will air October 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07AMIt runs in the family! Get to know some of the theatrical families who have graced the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04AMAhead of the movie finale this weekend, the co-stars and real-life friends get personal with Playbill.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04AMAnd soon she'll be a Broadway Waitress.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMDamiano previews the show with a ballad from Spring Awakening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMDanza fills us in on his New York cabaret return as well as his latest business venture as co-owner of the oldest Italian cheese store in America.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMSneak Peek of "Crashletes" with Host Rob Gronkowski
YH takes you behind the scenes of Nickelodeon's sports series "Crashletes" where we catch up with the hosts, NFL star Rob Gronkowski, Bran…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMZelda Williams: Films & Face Masks & Bears, Oh My!
The extremely talented Zelda Williams pays a visit to the YH Studio where she fills us in on all the exciting (and diverse) projects she ha…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Offering audiences a unique and intimate way to reflect on and commemorate the ANZAC Centenary, Queensland Ballet’s Lest We Forget at the Playhouse, QPAC from 29 July 2016, will…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:48AMThe premiere of ELENA OF AVALOR the highly anticipated animated series that introduces a princess inspired by diverse Latin cultures, will be presented simultaneously with limited interrupti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42AMIndie feature DETOURS kicks off its limited theatrical release at the historic Stutter Creek Theatre in Sutter Creek, CA today, July 22.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42AMLong Island Musical Theatre Festival presents Sing Happy The Music of Kander and Ebb with Heidi Blickenstaff atAdelphi University Performing Arts Centre 1 South Avenue,Garden City, NY 11530 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42AMOur staff picks the best things to do this week — with a look ahead.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:13AMThe 1950’s West End hit by N.C. Hunter is directed by Austin Pendleton for the Mint Theater Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony winner is offering The Birthday Show at the Triad.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM