“Bandstand,” a new musical about a group of traumatized World War II veterans who form a 40’s jazz band with a Gold Star widow as their singer, attempts to combine an original score of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54PMThe full cast of Beautiful the Musical was announced this morning by producer Michael Cassel ahead of its opening at the newly refurbished Sydney Lyric on 17 of September this year. Joining …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:45PMIt's Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup This week ANASTASIA s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMAfter 10 years of self-imposed exile, the playwright is enjoying a renaissance. However, she says that female dramatists are still being disregardedPlaywright Timberlake Wertenbaker was once…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts theatre season for 2017-2018 looks like it will be an exceptional one with the highly anticipated Broadway hit musical “Hamilton” and t…
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Broadway's best shared playful parodies, stirred emotions and delivered dance-driven delights at the 31st annual Easter Bonnet Competition. Video of was released through BCEFA's Facebook pag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMTHR's awards columnist discusses the lifetime achievement Tony, Phillipa Soo's decision to do 'Amelie' rather than 'The Great Comet,' a "student matinee" of 'The Price' and more.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:42PMMelbourne is welcoming back its beloved “Summer Musical” this year with David Campbell’s star turn, Dream Lover, at Arts Centre Melbourne. After a world premiere season at…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:38PMStrong and dramatic – the two words that continuously came to my mind as I watched Dorian’s Closet at Rep Stage last night. This production is the world premiere of the new musical based…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMSuppose your two best friends were really talented and you invited them over to sing and tell stories and a few of your other friends found out and showed up to listen and it turned out to b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PMTurning children's books into Broadway musicals has become very popular over the last few years. There is just something about seeing your favorite book from childhood coming to life on stag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PM
Early on, when that iconic red door that has marked the gateway to Elizabeth Arden’s swank Fifth Avenue salon since 1910, rolls onto the stage, it’s clear we’re in good hands. This goo…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:51PMThink back to 2001. If you went to the art-house cinema at all that fall, chances are it was to catch Jean-Pierre Jeune’s wide-eyed ingénue Amélie. With its many super-tight shots of new…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:50PMSwallow, by Scottish playwright Stef Smith, was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival in 2015. This American premiere is produced by Inis Nua Theatre Company (which specializes in works from …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMA look at the 2017 eligible plays, musicals, and revivals, on video.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 02:42PMDon't mention the F-word: Geoff Mills reviews Alistair Beaton's play about - whisper it - shale gas extraction.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:39PMBy Cecilia Cackley, Gabriela Céspedes. Puppeteer Cecilia Cackley interviews Gabriela Céspedes, a leading caja lambe - lambe puppet artist based in Argentina.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:29PMFriends until the end of time: Rosemary Waugh reviews Alice Nicholas's new play about transgender teenagers.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:27PMFor a long time I have wondered if the talented quintet of players at Houston’s evermore popular MUSIC BOX nightclub wouldn’t eventually run out of cleverly planned and executed themes f…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 02:18PMBy Jack Paterson. Jack Paterson meets with Winfried Wrede to talk about the development program Flausen he runs in Oldenburg, Germany.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:13PMFollowing a successful UK tour marking the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Dare Devil Rides To Jarama comes to Tara Theatre for a limited run.I caught up with writer and actor Nei…
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A Personal Memorial by Mark Scharf If you’re lucky, you will be blessed with the gift of someone in your life like Anthony Hinkle. When I got the call letting me know he was gone I ref…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:59PMBy Douglas Mayo
American comedian and musician Claybourn Elder brings his one-man show You and Me and Sondheim to London for one very special performance on April 30, 2017, at 7.30pm at the …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:53PMPhoto credit: Brett Beiner Photography Drury Lane Theatre opens its electrifying new production of Chicago, featuring [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:42PMBroadway In Chicago and the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour are excited to announce A SEASON OF LOVE BENEFIT [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:42PMFollowing its critically acclaimed, completely sold-out run at the Berger Park Coach House this winter, Broken [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:42PMIn Broadway by Design, BroadwayWorld is shining a spotlight on the stellar designs of this Broadway season, show by show. Today, we continue the series with David Korins, and Paloma Young, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMOn Wednesday, beloved filmmaker Jonathan Demme died at 73. While Demme won an Oscar for directing Silence of Lambs, his subsequent film, Philadelphia, is regarded as some of his most groundb…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:29PMBy Mark Ludmon
The show is worth seeing for the cutting-edge visuals alone but, while it stylishly captures much of the theme and substance of the novel, it is lacking in emotional engagemen…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:19PMThis is sweet and haunting music; and, like rose oil, it lingers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMEveryone on Broadway is talking Tonys. Nominations for this year's Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, May 2 and everyone has an opinion on which shows and talents will be remembered a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMFirst thing to point out about this show is that unless you have some solid knowledge about how the theatre industry works or have a love of musical theatre then this show probably won’t b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
FINDING NEVERLAND is touring city to city teaching imagination and aviation.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMDuring his lifetime, Sergei Rachmaninoff was more famous as a pianist than as a composer. Logically, therefore, The Philadelphia Orchestra’s current Rachmaninoff Festival is concentrating …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49PMA young woman in search of her past. A country in the midst of a revolution. Two schemers looking to escape the violence of a new Communist regime. These grand scenarios have the making for …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:48PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is using a controversial Yiddish play more than a hundred years old as the basis for her first Broadway production.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:48PMAccording to Forbes, the descendants of Abbott and Costello have appealed their copyright claim against the play HAND TO GOD all the way to the Supreme Court. The case originated when the he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMListen: Special Episode! Critics Review “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” Drama Desk Nominees Announced, and Rob Fisher Chats “Lyrics & Lyricists.” “Today on …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:24PMNEW YORK (AP) - Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks paid tribute Friday night to the late director Jonathan Demme, the man who brought them together on his film "Philadelphia," which won each of…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:03PMLaurie Metcalf has won three Emmys for her role on “Roseanne,” but a Tony win still eludes her despite three previous nominations. That could change this June thanks to a heavy hitting r…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMA stunning piece of provocative performance art, Cock and Bull grabs Tory political rhetoric by the pussy, slaps it on the arse, tells you to 'calm down dear' and then dares you to look away.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM
David Byars' documentary 'No Man's Land' provides a fly-on-the-wall account of the 2016 occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:19AMThere’s the daily ordeal of truth, imaginary facts, and shifting identities. There is wealth and privilege and assumptions based on hearsay, without understanding. Within all of this lies …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AMIn this crisp revival of Martin Crimp’s 1993 play The Treatment characters frequently struggle to be understood. In a lurid New York
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMI went through a period of being obsessed with Greece’s bailout referendum in 2015. It wasn’t because I was a politics geek but mainly to do with my crush of Vanis Varoufakis, the countr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMeridith FriedmanHometown: Honolulu, Hawaii (by way of Madison, Wisconsin) Current Town: The East Side of Manhattan Q: Tell me about your play going up at Curious Theate…
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Jerry Herman's bouncy score plus Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce . . .no wonder this old-fashioned musical is the season's hottest ticket. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:54AMThis is the largest exhibition of Botticelli paintings ever mounted in North America. Bigger may not always be better, but this is a gorgeous show.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMAccording to Goldderby, Cynthia Erivo won a Daytime Emmy yesterday, April 28th, which puts her only one award away from EGOT. The Daytime Emmy win came from a nomination of The Color Purple …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMFollowing the stunning success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical, 'Hamilton', renewed interest in the life and history of the nation's first Treasury Secretary has taken hold among its legion …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMSummed up in a single photograph: April 29th marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Here are press accounts and comments. “The tradition of looking to that period as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMAs each and every photograph from the experience proves, Barack Obama has enjoyed vacationing tremendously. So it should be easy enough to assume that Tom Hanks, beacon of affability that he…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:39AM By Sandi Durell Look at the old girl now fellas . . . an especially poignant line in the title song for the Divine Miss M who, with a wink and a nod, has the audience ea…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 10:33AMFirst of all, we no longer say “Hottentot”. The proper name for this tribe of Southern African hunter-gatherers is Khoikhoi; Dutch colonists dubbed them “Hottentot” i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMOperas are no use sitting in dog-eared scores on the shelf. Operas are made to be heard and experienced and enjoyed. Blancke Knochen Opera takes Massenet’s score for sumptuously melodious …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
Like most talented playwrights these days, Annie Baker has no doubt been asked to spend some time in a writers' room for one of the prestige TV shows. But on the basis of her new play The An…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:36AMThe cast of the National Theatre's 2017 revival of Tony Kushner's landmark workAngels in AmericaincludesStuart Angell,Mark Arnold, Arun Blair-Mangat, Susan Brown, Laura Caldow, Andrew Garfie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMAlan Bennett’s Forty Years On is a curious play. His first outing as playwright (back in 1968) is charmingly eccentric, wonderfully witty and every bit a Bennett play. In fact it comes acr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSuperbly staged, though-provoking and heartbreaking all at once, Richard Israel’s direction is fluid—giving rise to excellent continuity from one scene into the next. The world he paints…
SOURCE: buckingtrends.me at 08:00AM
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is using a controversial Yiddish play more than a hundred years old as the basis for her first Broadway production.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:57AMA new Broadway production takes audiences through the history of Sholem Asch's 1907 Yiddish play God of Vengeance, about a Jewish brothel owner whose daughter falls in love with a woman.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:57AMBILIOUS BUT BRACING: THE METROPOLIS AND THE MOVIES Simon may be from the wrong side of New York, a roughneck who ties his wife Anne to a chair and tapes her mouth for being “critical&…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:53AMMillennium Approaches is the first part of Tony Kushner's play, which is directed by Marianne Elliott at the National Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:42AMTaking a cabaret-style approach lends itself to the wonderfully disparate stories – Korean Culture camp as a child, hanging out in Seattle’s cafes, a layover in Korea, and internet datin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
Sumptuous costumes, gorgeous sets and joyful melodies that take you all the way to French Morocco, Opera Australia premieres Two Weddings, One Bride – an exciting new work by Robe…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:53AMAnton Chekhov’s classic play Three Sisters is being given a superb rendering by the Maly Drama Theatre (from St Petersburg, Russia) at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Director L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07AMThe first major survey exhibition of the work of one of Australia’s leading and most intriguing contemporary artists, Monash University Museum of Art presents Christian Thompson: Ritual In…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 02:05AMDaniel Kyri stars in the production, directed by Chuck Smith.
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Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks were the main event at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday night (April 28), taking the stage at New York’s Beacon Theater for an hour-long discussion a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54AMMr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown: They all reunited for the 25th anniversary retrospective screening of “Reservoir Dogs” at the Tribeca Film Festival April…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51AM'Gosford Park', the 2001 British mystery film and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, will be screened at Metrograph in New York on May 10, 2017.Produced by Bob …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:47AM'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me', the prequel to Lynch's cult television series Twin Peaks, will be screened at BAM, New York on May 12, 2017.Written by David Lynch and Robert Engel…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:41AMThe Guy Ritchie-directed Fantasy/Drama, 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword' will be playing at UA Court Street Theatre in New York from May 11-18, 2017.The film centers on Arthur’s jou…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:39AM'Ode to Joy: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9', will be performed at the Lincoln Center in New York from May 3 through May 9, 2017.Alan Gilbert will be conducting the symphonic celebration of br…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:36AMA wry comedy about two suburban couples who have more in common than just their identical homes and the same last name, Red Stitch Theatre presents the Australian premiere of Will Eno’s T…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:28AMThe Fairy Princess loves Canada, been there several times. She has relatives there, she skis (badly), she loves the film industry there – she enjoys the orca whales…and they have…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 12:20AMEven though he has spent much of his career writing songs about the working man, Bruce Springsteen will be the first to tell you he hasn’t done much in the way of hard work himself. As par…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:20AMCate Blanchett has landed her next stage project. She will star as Margo Channing in a stage version of All About Eve directed by Tony winner Ivo van Hove, according to the New York Times. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12AMThe show celebrates 25 years after the original Broadway production opened on April 29, 1992.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlyse Alan Louis shows us what it’s like to do a double-duty day at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLook at all the shows that opened on Broadway this season as it comes to a close.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIvo van Hove opens Obsession with Jude Law, and sets his sights on a new stage adaptation of All About Eve.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJazz at Lincoln Center hosts three evenings of concerts in honor of the legend’s birthday.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe star of Broadway’s Jitney and Book of Mormon talks about the upcoming stage adaptation—and other standout moments of this 30-year career.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArthur Laurents, Joanna Gleason, and Barry Bostwick talk martinis and musicals in this interview about the troubled Broadway musical that played 71 previews at the Marquis Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM