The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) just released a special report that focused on how alumni of creative arts programs across different graduate cohorts felt about the educat…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:36PM[SHARE]Deep in the Heart of Tuna is the newest script in the series of short plays chronicling the wacky exploits in Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas Though well-directed by Derek Van Barham…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:32PM[SHARE]The comedy, “I Hate Hamlet,” written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Tom Colonna, is the current production presented by Dundalk Community Theatre and performed at the wonderf…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:31PM[SHARE]Call Answered: I interviewed J. Stephen Brantley & David Drake in 2014. I was so moved by that show that when I heard they were going to work together again, I knew I needed to do a new …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 11:28PM[SHARE]S-heads
Through March 12 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake, 302 S. Hicks St.
Tickets: Pay what you wish.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:21PM[SHARE]Beyoncé dropped out of her headlining set, due to pregnancy concerns.
SOURCE: USA Today at 11:20PM[SHARE]Setting the tone for the year in chamber music with delightful new discoveries alongside favourite beauties, Selby & Friends launch their 2017 season with a national tour of Youth …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 11:19PM[SHARE]Since Beyoncé dropped out of Coachella due to her pregnancy, it seems the festival might have found her replacement, Lady Gaga.
SOURCE: USA Today at 11:18PM[SHARE]Metro Denver is diverse, but you wouldn't know to look most arts organizations, their stages or their audiences. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is worried enough about the problem…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:06PM[SHARE]
Just this year, Lady Gaga’s performed at the Super Bowl and Grammys… and now she’s headed to Coachella. Gaga confirmed on her Twitter Tuesday night that she’ll be hea…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46PM[SHARE]Contemporary womanhood has its challenges, and this play explores many of them, like sexual harassment, eating disorders, Ophelia complexes and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]The Theater for a New Audience's revival of Thornton Wilder's apocalyptic comedy feels surprisingly appropriate for a world threatened by climate issues and packed with refugees.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Ken Urban's play blends many genres, including science fiction, sex farce and musical, in this Amoralists production about growing up in New Jersey.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]YOU’LL FALL IN LOVE WITH AMOUR “I wanted to write an opera-bouffe, an intimate evening with light, lyrical singing and delicate charm,” wrote composer Michel Legrand. ̶…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:14PM[SHARE]If the question of whether a woman can have it all makes your eyes glaze over, you’re probably a man. One theatergoer’s fallow field can be another’s fertile ground. In the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03PM[SHARE]Janie Dee, comic royalty on English stages, applies her comedic chops to the title role in “Linda,” a feisty feminist play by Penelope Skinner that originated at London’s R…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]
The Little Foxes takes place in Alabama in 1900, so we asked Cynthia Nixon, Laura Linney and the stars of the show to tell us why their show is the one to see...with a southern accent. Check…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Fred Johanson stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Sunset Boulevard and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Director, Bill Condon, revealed today that Disney's hotly anticipated live action remake of the 1991 animated classic, 'Beauty and the Beast', starring Emma Watson, will be making history as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13PM[SHARE]Stage and screen actor who brought laughs to the ITV sitcom BenidormThe actor Kenny Ireland, who has died of cancer aged 68, crowned a long career on stage and screen by playing the outrageo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM[SHARE]After I was threatened with sexual violence at a gig, I built a routine around it " but looking back, I betrayed the seriousness of the incident' James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo'' Ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM[SHARE] by Peter Haas From a real-life incident forty-four years ago " an evening arson attack, still unsolved, that destroyed a crowded gay bar in New Orleans' French Quart…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:10PM[SHARE]Also on tap: 'Waitress,' 'Rent' and 'Love Never Dies,' a sequel to 'Phantom.'
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:09PM[SHARE]A middle-aged female advertising executive finds her professional and personal life crumbling in Penelope Skinner's comedy-drama, 'Linda.' read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM[SHARE]
Andrew Scott takes on Shakespeare's ill-fated Dane in Robert Icke's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:54PM[SHARE]On a special #BlockOnBlockTalk episode, I spoke with Tom Block, founder of the International Human Rights Art Festival coming this weekend to Dixon Place!The International Human Rights Art F…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 07:48PM[SHARE]Broadway Actor and Streamy Award Winner Todrick Hall announced his hit musical Straight Outta Oz will be touring in North America, Europe, and Australia. The 30 city tour will kick off March…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ
1852, the great British tragedian Junius Brutus Booth was touring Northern California with a small troupe that included his sons, 21-year-old Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:24PM[SHARE]Invisibility? I can't see it. Not that I'm contesting it's an issue for women "of a certain age" - in this case, over 50 - but that Janie Dee is a woman who demands, even needs, to be seen w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PM[SHARE]The drama and music arms of Birmingham City University are to come together in a merger that will see them become Birmingham
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM[SHARE]
It's a bumpy carnival ride, that strange time between adolescence and young adulthood.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:53PM[SHARE]The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has announced the $80,000 Mordant Family VR Commission for new works by Australian artists and filmmakers. Building on ACMI's existing co…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 06:43PM[SHARE]The distributor A24 hopes the Academy Awards will provide a box-office bump for a gay-themed film that has not drawn mainstream moviegoers so far.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:41PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: The author, who is also the director, hasn't found a style that would carry us with him
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Robert Cushman: There are five actors in Five Faces for Evelyn Frost " two male, three female " and they hardly ever make contact
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]The Philadelphia Orchestra set of concerts during the last weekend of February was one of the most imaginatively conceived in recent memory. The program consisted of selections from Brahms's…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27PM[SHARE]Stage and screen faves Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney are set to star in Broadway's The Little Foxes beginning on March 29. The two will alternate in the roles of Regina Hubbard Giddens …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
There’s Just No Telling How Far She’ll Go!
Fresh off of slaying her performance at the Oscars, Moana star A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]The characters in Sh*theads don't mind being called shitheads. True, that may not be a word you'd use in polite company… but these people aren't polite company. They're the employees of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:04PM[SHARE]SWEET AS A NUT, SHARP AS A TACK Helpless, really: I was putty in its hands. And I caught it a few days late, so no risk that the ecstatic giggles in the stalls or the standing ovation…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tina Fey and "Saturday Night Live" executive producer Lorne Michaels are revving up for what they're calling a "developmental lab" of their "Mean Girls" musical. The script, which Fey adapte…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:01PM[SHARE]Jeremy Pope, Taylor Frey & Nathan Lee Graham in "The View Upstairs" (photo: Kurt Sneddon) Lynne Redgrave Theater at Culture Project February 15, 2017 thru May 21, 2017 Opened February 28…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 06:00PM[SHARE]
This week the Broadwaysted Crew is so excited to sit down and pour out some laughs with Broadway's Lilli Cooper We're mixing mezcal with club soda and lime while Lilli spills about her exper…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PM[SHARE]You can't say that playwrightdirector Will Eno doesn't go out big with his new piece, WAKEY, WAKEY. Just before curtain calls, an extra-bright video montage, set to The Olivia Tremor Contro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PM[SHARE] Julie Halston (The Babylon Line) hosted a benefit night for PFF (Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation) entitled Broadway Belts at the Edison Ballroom on Monday evening February …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:53PM[SHARE]The twin sisters of "Peerless" " beautiful, Asian, poised, superlative, intense " have only one thing on the mind: college. Not just any college, but an institution of such prestige and aspi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:51PM[SHARE]"The Select" by Elevator Repair Service dramatizes the great novel "The Sun Also Rises."
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:48PM[SHARE]Amid a theater boom, bars in Hell's Kitchen and elsewhere are hosting colorful events with singalongs, drop-ins and drag queens doing musical numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]A former newspaper plant in Ithaca, N.Y., is now a 24-hour practice space whose founder considers stunts not only an art form but also "a life tool."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]"Dead Darlings," a monthly gathering in Greenwich Village brings together writers and artists to share what ended up on the cutting-room floor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]This March, Feinstein's54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club amp Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. Scroll down for details
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PM[SHARE]Jacqueline E. Lawton's new political thriller Intelligence makes its world premiere at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Under the direction of Daniella Topol Round House'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PM[SHARE]A new musical is an ever evolving organism. Every song and bit of dialogue gets molded until perfect. The title of the piece itself is no exception.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PM[SHARE]Yair Ben-Dor is an Israel-American actor. After moving to New York in 2011, Yair enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Film & Theatre Institute and completed a two-year conservatory. Focusing no…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:24PM[SHARE]The production will also mark the Off-Broadway acting debut of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Steve Earle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM[SHARE]By Ed MalinChristina Augello takes us on an adventure in Denial Is A Wonderful Thing, which she co-wrote with John Caldon. Ryan Marchand directs.In this quite personal, multi-continent…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:12PM[SHARE]By Ed MalinPuss N Puss Productions has brought to this year's Frigid Festival the most scarily intriguing play title I can remember: How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby For Parts. Co-stars…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:12PM[SHARE]Bidders paid $100,000 to dine with the starry cast on the set of Arthur Miller's 1968 drama "The Price."
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:07PM[SHARE]Previews begin Wednesday, March 1 at 8 pm for Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg's legendary musical Miss Saigon, at The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway)…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:06PM[SHARE]
Linda, the new play byPenelope SkinnerThe Ruins of Civilization at MTC, The Village Bike, directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic DirectorLynne MeadowThe Assembled Parties, Wit, opens tonig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic DirectorCEO presentedits annual 2017 Spring Gala 'Act II Setting the Stage for Roundabout's Future' last night, February 27, in the Grand Bal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic DirectorCEO presentedits annual 2017 Spring Gala 'Act II Setting the Stage for Roundabout's Future' last night, February 27, in the Grand Bal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PM[SHARE]By Ed MalinUntitled Theatre Collective has brought An Evening Conference On Feminism & Equality At Large At The Fantabulosa Esoteric Cabaret Dada to Frigid NY. It is 100 years and …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:12PM[SHARE]We're happy to meet him! Nicholas Rodriguez will take over the role of Captain Georg von Trapp in the national tour of Rodgers + Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. Rodriguez will begi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Hairspray Live! director Kenny Leon and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are set to join forces with Epic Records CEO L.A. Reid on a new Fox musical series called Cotton Club. Set i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Paul Alexander Nolan will sink his teeth into a starring role (and perhaps a cheeseburger in paradise?) in the Broadway-aimed Jimmy Buffett musical Escape to Margaritaville. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]In 1985, a comic strip by farseeing cartoonist Alison Bechdel ("Fun Home") featured two women " one white, one African-American " discussing moviegoing. One of the characters says she only g…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:11PM[SHARE]The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theatre for the year 2016 (Dec. …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:09PM[SHARE]The tour of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II family favorite is directed by Tony winner Jack O’Brien.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM[SHARE]Jay Z is joining the big-screen adaptation of the Tony winning Broadway musical “In the Heights” as a producer. Harvey Weinstein made that announcement on Sunday at his pre-Oscar…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]
The off-broadway adaptation of Dead Poet’s Society, set to open for previews in October of this year, has just had one of its leads announced. Jason Sudeikis will star in the role orig…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 03:46PM[SHARE]Legislation was passed in the Georgia House of Representatives yesterday that would exempt the Woodruff Arts Center from state and local sales tax on up to $750,000 spent on constructi…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:45PM[SHARE]The music series will highlight the 1920s Harlem hotspot, which was also the subject of the Broadway revue After Midnight.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]The Late Late Show with James Corden host put his own twist on the song “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from the movie musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]The Jimmy Buffett musical will also feature Alison Luff and Lisa Howard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]This year's Broadway Backwards just got even more star-studded! The Great Comet star Josh Groban, Tony winner Cynthia Erivo, Tony winner Cady Huffman, Broadway.com Audience Cho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]The countdown to Feud season two has begun. Prior to the highly anticipated premiere of the FX series, Deadline reported that Tony-nominated playwright Jon Robin Baitz will work with cr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]Fear, sex and self-loathing in Manhattan are all the rage in "The Scene," Theresa Rebeck's study in collapsed coastal morality that's sad, funny and, as the playwright-novelist-television wr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:09PM[SHARE]With its mentor project, the Cherry Lane Theatre pairs emerging playwrights with established mentors to celebrate new work from new artists. Kicking off this year's series, Ren Dara Santiago…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:08PM[SHARE]The lavish new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, announces Nicholas Rodriguezas Captain Georg von Trapp, beginning March 21 in Hershey,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PM[SHARE]The theatre will reopen nearly a year after a fire derailed the Paris premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM[SHARE]BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive series DANCE CAPTAIN DANCE ATTACK Join your Broadway buddy,Ben CameronWicked, Aida, Footloose, Broadway Sessions, as he goes into the studi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PM[SHARE]“The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many“—11 organizations are defending the program’s “uncertain future.“
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]
No presidential-election year is safe from Trolls. DreamWorks announced today that Trolls 2, a sequel to the 2016 animated (sorta) musical Trolls about trolls, will arrive in theaters on Apr…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:51PM[SHARE]On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 730pm, Works amp Process at the Guggenheim presents a discussion with Canadian writing duo Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Tony-nominated choreographer Kelly Devine…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PM[SHARE]The Geffen Playhouse production, co-starring Alfred Molina, will be available live via BroadwayHD.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]Fox is developing an event series about the Cotton Club, the hottest club in Harlem in the roaring '20s, Variety has learned. Titled “Cotton Club,” the sexy, soapy music serie…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM[SHARE]Lena Hall will host the event, which will also honor Ann M. Sarnoff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM[SHARE]Douglas Williams's world premiere 'Shitheads,' produced by Azuka, not only reveals a bike shop's wheels and gears, but also how work families function.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:18PM[SHARE]See who’s joining Norbert Leo Butz, Zosia Mamet, and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney in the world premiere Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM[SHARE]After taking the Internet by storm, adorable 4-year-old Claire Crosby celebratesher love for Disney and MOANAby joining her dad Dave and the voice of 'Moana' herself, Auli'i Cravalhoauliicra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PM[SHARE]The infamously bungled announcement of Best Picture Sunday night cemented the ceremony in Oscars history, but it also robbed the producers of Moonlight from fully embracing their historic wi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:13PM[SHARE]The Chicago Neo-Futurists, along with The New York Neo-Futurists and The San Francisco Neo-Futurists, announced Tuesday their late-night show's new name: "The Infinite Wrench." After a mo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]The season will include two world premieres and the return of a circus-inspired show.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:11PM[SHARE]Julie White will host the March 13 event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PM[SHARE]La Jolla Playhouseannounced today the principal leads for Escape to Margaritaville, the new musical featuring the songs of legendary singer-songwriter-author Jimmy Buffett. Paul Alexander No…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PM[SHARE]Linda, the new play by Penelope Skinner The Ruins of Civilization at MTC, The Village Bike,directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow The Assembled Parties, Wit, opens to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PM[SHARE]WP Theater formerly Women's Project Theater, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and Managing Director Michael Sag, hasannounced WP Theater's 32nd Annual Gala, h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award winnerCynthia ErivoThe Color Purple, four-time Grammy Award nomineeJosh GrobanNatasha, Pierre amp The Great Comet of 1812, Tony Award winnerCady HuffmanThe Producers, and Tony nom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PM[SHARE]
The sitewide bugs are due to a widespread issue with Amazon Web Services.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: With a search underway to fill one of the highest-profile jobs in theater criticism, influential playwrights are pressing for diversity. They’re among more…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Theatre companies are empowering youth through devised work on social issues that matter to them.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:43PM[SHARE]John Pollono's 'Lost Girls' takes a while to find it s way home, but Theatre Exile's area premiere eventually reveals its good qualities. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:38PM[SHARE]My husband, James Walker, who has died aged 76, was a dedicated actor whose 40 years of working in the professional theatre took him all over the world.His career highlights included a seaso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Won't someone please think of the men? Why one AYT critic took issue with the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish's plea for women to steer clear of Shakespeare's male roles. Like Dominic Cavendis…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PM[SHARE]Here's a YouTube guide to the hottest shows at Feinstein's/54 Below in March.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:21PM[SHARE]With the nation's budget deadline looming, the National Endowment for the Arts is still at risk. Lincoln Center has just released the following statement in support of the NEA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PM[SHARE]Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced its complete 2017-2018 season lineup.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PM[SHARE]In the March issue of Vanity Fair, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST star Emma Watson explains that her portrayal of Disney's iconic princess will be more of a feminist than originally portrayed in the 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PM[SHARE]Two-time Emmy nominee Josh Charles (The Good Wife) and more will join the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker's The Antipodes as part of Signature Theatre's 2016…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Four-time Tony winner Frank Langella was honored with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre at Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2017 Spring Gala. The starry guest list included…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]By Douglas Mayo
A statement released today has announced that a ban on eating during performances of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf will be enforced during the run of the show at Londo…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:03PM[SHARE]Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]The cast of La Jolla Playhouse's Jimmy Buffett musical "Escape to Margaritaville" will be topped by an actor who's a familiar face to Playhouse audiences. The Playhouse is announcing today t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PM[SHARE]
Composer Soo Hyun Huh's original music is a fine and eclectic assortment of modern melodies. The English lyrics are written by Bryan Michaels. The combined results are stilted and pedestria…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PM[SHARE]The 2017–18 season will also include works by Stephen Sondheim, Peter Shaffer, and William Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]The Broadway-aimed musical is currently in previews in Toronto.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE]Octagon, BoltonDavid Thacker revives David Rudkin's rarely performed 1970s play about an infertile Ulsterman and his English wifeDavid Rudkin is a major figure in postwar British theatre who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE] by Carol Rocamora What's this? A stand-up comedy routine? It can't be …the actor is sitting in a wheel chair. Is he infirm? It's uncertain…he rises for a moment and …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:34PM[SHARE]Hull New Theatre is to reopen following a £16 million refurbishment with the Royal Ballet's first visit to the city in 30
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PM[SHARE]Will Eno’s newest play, a meditation on life and mortality, receives its world premiere at the Off-Broadway theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]The Tony-nominated playwright will collaborate with the anthology series’ creator, Ryan Murphy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]The founders of the Harrisburg theatre will pass the torch on to a new generation of leaders.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:18PM[SHARE]This endearing but unsentimental film explores the myriad connections that many Istanbul residents have to their feline neighbors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PM[SHARE]A new Scottish musical based on a 1935 film has attracted a £99,769 grant in Creative Scotland’s latest round of Open Funding, in which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PM[SHARE]Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member David Schwimmer will direct a new play by Kevin Douglas as part of the storied Chicago theater company's 30th season. Titled "Plantation!," the play will…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:09PM[SHARE]FX announced today that is has already placed a 10-episode order for the second installment of the FEUD franchise, FEUD Charles and Diana, which is scheduled to debut in 2018.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PM[SHARE]The British Empire feels like an octopus, its tentacles stretching out across the globe and touching all continents, everything feeding back into the main body at the centre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Antipodes at Signature Theatre finds its complete cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]
Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, more than a dozen Off-Broadway, and plenty Off-Off Broadway as well, with a mix of exciting new work — by John Leguizamo, Lynn Nottage, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Four-time Tony winner Frank Langella was awarded The Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre at the 2017 spring gala.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]The Broadway-bound, world premiere engagement of SOUSATZKA, with book by Craig Lucas, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., based on the original novel 'Madame Sousatzka' …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AM[SHARE]Just announced, theBroadway hit Waitresswill welcomebeloved Broadway leading man and Tony Award nominee Will Swenson on March 31 inthe role of Earl, the ne'er-do-well husband of the show's l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AM[SHARE]MURIEL'S WEDDING The Musical makes its world premiere in Sydney November 7, 2017 - January 20, 2018 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre. Tickets go on sale March 13.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tony Award nomineesCarolee Carmello Parade, Scandalous, Mary Testa Xanadu, 42nd Street, On the Town, Robert Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde, Spider Man Turn Off the Dark, with Beth Malone Fun Home …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AM[SHARE]Theater, television and film icon, Shirley Jones, will be inducted into the Bucks County Playhouse Hall of Fame during the Playhouse's third Oscar Hammerstein Festival, April 22-23, 2017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AM[SHARE]Les Folies Bergère, Paris, is staging Shy'm live in concert from June 22 through June 24, 2017.Tamara Marthe (born 28 November 1985), better known as Shy'm, is a French singer. She released…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]His empire state of mind is taking him all the way up to Washington Heights! Hamilton fan and hip-hop legend Jay Z will be a producer on the In the Heights film, Page Six reports. The news w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]In the latest episode of Pucker Up, War Paint's Steffanie Leigh shows us around the Nederlander Theatre and gets amazing beauty advice from Douglas Sills and John Dossett.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Will Swenson is set to join the cast of Waitress on March 31. He joins the sweet-as-pie musical as the evil (spoiler!) Earl, Jenna's husband. Earl is currently played by Wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]What happens when you get ten musical theatre performers in a room together and throw hashtags at them?! Have a look at who attended and what they got up to at our first #FavesWorkshop (incl…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 11:47AM[SHARE]What our world needs now is light, hope, and pure bliss, and Broadway's Trent Armand Kendall has answered the call with his new musical, LOUIS-AND-ELLA! The musical reunites jazz legends …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Les Folies Bergère, Paris, is staging Vincent Delerm's concert on June 6, 2017.Vincent Delerm is a singer-songwriter, musical arranger, playwright and occasional French photograph…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Carolee Carmello Parade, Scandalous, Mary Testa Xanadu, 42nd Street, On the Town, Robert Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde, Spider Man Turn Off the Dark, with Beth Malone Fun Home…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM[SHARE]By Douglas Mayo
Our partners Ticketmaster are having a Flash Sale today only (Pancake Tuesday) in which we are pleased to offer you great savings on productions across the UK including:- Cir…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Much is made of her numerous Oscar nominations, and this reaches a wonderfully presented climax. She finally wins the award for Best Actress on her eighth nomination for the 1985 screen adap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40AM[SHARE]Les Folies Bergère, Paris, is staging "Vida! Argentino," that celebrates on stage the cultural diversity of Argentina, from April 3 through April 5, 2017.Nicole Nau and Luis Pereyra are tou…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]The hilarious Danette Holden takes us through all the characters she plays and the costumes she wears in the off-Broadway musical Cagney
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:33AM[SHARE]Romance battles with drama on area stages in March. Drama wins with more productions, but the plays about love are big-cast classics.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:32AM[SHARE]Les Folies Bergère, Paris, is staging "Les Choristes," a French musical drama, through May 21, 2017.The beautiful story of a children's choir and their music teacher, resurfaced in an unusu…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]It would be easy to dismiss the show as a work in progress given that the acts are all laden down with scripts that are clearly highlighted and used as a crutch throughout the show. But then…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]The Tony-nominated actor will join the company the same day as composer Sara Bareilles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]The Omaticaya, Tawkami and Anurai clans live! The Sky People breathe! Pandorian animals frolic! Na'vi is spoken! In Hartford! When James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" appeared in t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AM[SHARE]Hi, “The only thing I care about in the first production is that the stage is covered with cotton balls.” – Morgan McGuire, Playwright – Tanner and the cotton. The ev…
SOURCE: blog.indietheaternow.com at 11:24AM[SHARE]We're back for the second week of the 19-day FRIGID NY Festival, which is in the midst of an artistic occupation of the Kraine Theater and UNDER St. Marks, to discuss two more of its 30 …
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, is staging "Rock'n Chair," a choreographic game by Arthur Perole, from March 9 through March 16, 2017.What if the dance was a great board game, with …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:16AM[SHARE]Come June, you can leave your Hart, as well as your Seinfeld and your Silverman, in San Francisco when Viacom principal Comedy Central joins forces with Superfly, presenter of the Bonnaroo a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AM[SHARE]The season will include new works by Max Posner, Robert O'Hara, Lindsey Ferrentino, Clare Barron, and Jordan Harrison.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:01AM[SHARE]Latest trio of monologues from Philip Ridley are performed in the dark: both chilling and humorous.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 26, 2017.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]
We look back at some of the Tony-winning actors' greatest roles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]The playwright talks to Lucy Kerbel in the latest of the Tonic Celebrates series
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:54AM[SHARE]The play, by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, opens the refurbished Bush Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:54AM[SHARE]Participer aux festivités! Newcomer McGee Maddox has been cast as Jerry Mulligan in the national tour of An American in Paris. Maddox will join the touring production on April 18, whi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]The Oscar nominee and stage alum will star in and executive produce Melrose.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]As the first North American Tour ofALADDINreadies for the start of rehearsals today, host Patrick Hinds talks with the cast and crew to see how they are preparing. Interviews include Adam Ja…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM[SHARE]Today, BWW speaks with Geno Carr about making his Broadway debut in a musical which proves that even when horrible things happen, the human spirit will always prevail.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM[SHARE]Previews begin Wednesday, March 1 at 8 pm for Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schonberg's legendary musical MISS SAIGON, at The Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sarah Ruhl’s latest work joins a lineup that includes world premieres by Robert O’Hara, Lindsey Ferrentino, and Jordan Harrison.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]"Based on current trends, the problem is likely to become much graver over the next decade. It is imperative that lawmakers, policymakers, college administrators, law enforcement and others …
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 10:36AM[SHARE]The series, about a high school drama department, will be produced by Hamilton’s Jeffrey Seller.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]The revival of the Tony Award-winning musical begins previews March 1 at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AM[SHARE]The playwright, channeling her mother's teenage years, effectively creates the Muscolino family, people struggling to find meaning and peace.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23AM[SHARE] by Michael Bracken No one does rapid fire dialogue like David Mamet, as his latest offering, The Penitent, attests. Currently receiving its world premiere at Atla…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:10AM[SHARE]Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford co-star in the limited run of the Sondheim-Lapine musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Betty Shamieh
Hometown: San Francisco. Q: Tell me about The Strangest. A: As a child of Arab immigrants who became an American playwright, I was always fascinated by the idea of …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:08AM[SHARE]Garen Scribner will play his final performance April 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Immersive production is based on A Winter’s Tale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]By Aislinn Rose. In the final installment of this series"a collaboration with SpiderWebShow"Aislinn Rose describes her experience and revelations at the Women's March in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:05AM[SHARE]The cast and creative team have been announced for Royal & Derngate's major touring revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman starring Tim Pigott-Smith.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]
The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AM[SHARE]The Penitent, the new play by David Mamet at the Atlantic Theater Company, is a stylish and sharp-looking stab at issues that rarely arise in New York theatre today.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:53AM[SHARE]I'd love to tell you what Wakey, Wakey, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is about, but it ain't easy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:53AM[SHARE]The Pulitzer Prize finalist’s play will be directed by Jamie Lloyd.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]From his travels in India, Matt Trueman explore why online performance is so good at keeping our attention in a world of digital noise
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:48AM[SHARE]The actor has made his directorial debut with this new commission from ENO
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:48AM[SHARE]By Anđela Vidović. Anđela Vidović critiques the relevance of a Croatian adaptation of Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:45AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of the great Zero Mostel (1915-1977). It would be par for the course that such an eccentric actor and performer as Mostel would also have a highly idiosyncratic career …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AM[SHARE]The world premiereSignature Theatreproduction ofWakey, Wakey, written and directed byLucille Lorteland Obie Award-winnerWill Eno, opened just last night,February 27, at theAlice GriffinJewel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]Atlantic Theater Companypresents the world premiere playThe Penitent, by Atlantic's Pulitzer Prize-winning co-founderDavid Mamet, directed by artistic directorNeil Pepe.The Penitent features…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]Fresh off her moving performance at Sunday night's Oscars, MOANA star Auli'i Cravalho has landed a supporting role in the previously announced NBC pilot DRAMA HIGH
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]Just last night, Broadway stars gathered at the Edison Ballroom forBROADWAY BELTS FOR PFF-an evening of music and comedy benefitting the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Hosted by the one-and-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]On Sunday, when the Academy Awards celebratedthe creators and actors that made their mark on the film world this year, Audible ran a series of commercials celebrating the iconic performers w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]The Keen Company presents the world-premiere solo play about the effects of gun violence in America.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonJohn MacMillan performs unsettling, bleakly humorous monologues for audiences who are herded through this venue's claustrophobic depthsJohn MacMillan has crawled …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Launching re-vamped venue 'The Other Palace', (formerly The St James Theatre) is an electric staging of Michael John LaChuisa and George C.Wolfe's 'The Wild Party.' Based on the 1928 poem by…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AM[SHARE]The Girls, a musical comedy based on the original story of the 1998 Calendar Girls has arrived, and with it droves of raucous middle aged women. Achieving not only a standing ovation during …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AM[SHARE]By Julian Eaves
If you like simple – very simple – soap-operas about nice middle-class people, who drink lots of prosecco and talk at inordinate length and to no great purpose ab…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]Now that the winning band for Gary Barlow's new musical has been announced as well as the tour dates it is time to speculate exactly which songs might be included.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]My first job was a six-month contract for the Bristol Old Vic theatre company as acting assistant stage manager, which meant playing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]1. Find the story When I began work on the script for Wisdom of a Fool [the story of Norman Wisdom] it became
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM[SHARE]Disney is hoping to find new reason for Sofia the First and K.C. Cooper to smile: The company anticipates healthy demand for advertising as the TV industry ushers in the earliest part of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]As #StageFaves legends go, Peter Straker is right up there. Now he returns to one of the show's that helped launch his career: The Who's TOMMY. The rock opera is revived care of Ramps On the…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 09:00AM[SHARE]
An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AM[SHARE]Controversial and brilliant Swiss director Milo Rau is coming to the UK for the first time in 15 years, here he talks about his new work with child actors about a Belgian serial killer and p…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:42AM[SHARE]Gary Barlow has announced details of upcoming jukebox musical The Band. Speaking after the live final of BBC1's Let It Shine, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AM[SHARE]After a sold-out, standing-room-only Toronto engagement from November 2016, through January 2017, COME FROM AWAY will return to Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre in a new Canadian production…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AM[SHARE]On last night's LATE LATE SHOW, following the Best Picture mixup that mistakenly awarded 'La La Land' Best Picture over 'Moonlight,' James recreatedEmma Stone's audition scene from La La Lan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AM[SHARE]Producers have already announced a Toronto return engagement for the new musical that opens on Broadway March 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27AM[SHARE]Following a sold-out run at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre, the NT will begin a UK tour of its acclaimed production of Hedda Gabler on 2 October 2017. Casting for the tour - which …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]The show is an exploration of connection between the two women in an abstract world. I don't know who they are, or why they're here (I imagine some unspoken Godot), but I recognise the inter…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]
With the 20th anniversary production of Rent currently touring the UK, the show's director Bruce Guthrie reflects on his time developing the revival of Jonathan Larson's musical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:32AM[SHARE]Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32AM[SHARE]Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, is hosting "The Young Girl and Death" by the Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal from March 9 through March 17, 2017.Established in 1957, the Grand…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:07AM[SHARE]The performer and theatre-maker stars in George Brant's Grounded, which portrays war as soul-crushing shift workFor the past few months, Lucy Ellinson has been living inside the mind of an A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris is staging "Flexible Silence," a musical performance by Saburo Teshigawara through March 3, 2017.In this show created for Chaillot, Saburo Teshigawara…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Rock musicals are always going to be in your face, loud, thrashing affairs " if done properly they should have a live band (this one is kept together and at fortissimo constantly by musical …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]
By Douglas Mayo
We thought it might be a good idea to take a look at Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s new musical The Band, taking a look at what is actually happening rather than rumour. N…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]Audience members have been banned from eating during performances of West End play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, "out of consideration for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE] Controversial plans to redevelop Fairfield Halls in south London have been approved despite objections from former staff and hundreds of residents.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM[SHARE]Teatro alla Scala, Milan is hosting the performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's famous opera "Il Ratto dal Serraglio Serraglio" for children, which will continue through May 21, 2017."Il Ra…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:38AM[SHARE]A brand new series of monologues by Philip Ridley which mostly take place in complete darkness
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:36AM[SHARE]Patrick Marber's adaptation currently stars Ruth Wilson and Rafe Spall
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:36AM[SHARE]The circle of life is an irresistible metaphor. Combine that with the circus ring " with the idea of life as a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]The National Theatre production of Hedda Gabler is to tour the UK later this year. Patrick Marber’s new version of the play,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM[SHARE]Beloved Verdi classic Il Trovatore makes an all too rare Melbourne appearance in this ambitious production by CitiOpera. In presenting the fully staged opera, CitiOpera uses its limited reso…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Mirvish Productions' 2017-18 season also includes stage versions of North by Northwest and Muriel's Wedding, musicals The King and I and An American in Paris.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM[SHARE]With a U.S. tour and a production set to open on London's West End, Toronto theatregoers are hoping for a local production of the award-winning musical
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM[SHARE]The company will feature shows from the United States, England and Australia, while the Off-Mirvish season will be all local
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Seen any great theater? Welcome to my very second column. Once again: Write me if you see anything great on a stage around here. I like passing along reader recommendations.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:31AM[SHARE]How do you come to terms with unspeakable tragedy? For Jonathan Young, who lost three young family members in a fire, one answer is through movement How does the mind respond to a traumatic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM[SHARE]28 February 1959: Dances vary, but there is a real thread of similarity which runs through folk dances the world over"Just think of it. For the past nine years that I have been on the select…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre'sworld premiere production ofMrs. Miller Does Her Thing,written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods,based on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Linda, a new play by Penelope Skinner The Ruins of Civilization at MTC, The Village Bike directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04AM[SHARE]On April 26, 2013, PBS' Live From Lincoln Center presentedthe New York Philharmonic's production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's iconic American musical, CAROUSEL, featuring a star-studded cast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04AM[SHARE]Welcome to Toot Toot Tuesday, where we feature Theatrefolk’s productions by schools and student performers from all over the world. Today we are tooting the horn for Mark Ogle and B…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AM[SHARE]Floyd Mayweather Family Affair
YH is on hand at boxing champ Floyd Mayweather's epic 40th birthday bash to celebrate along with his family! "Money" himself reflects on all he's been through …
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM[SHARE]Porchlight Music Theatre announced its 2017-18 season Tuesday, the first in its new home at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Opening the mainstage season is "Billy Elliot," the boxing-to-b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]