The Broadway at Birdland concert series presented Broadway stars Chita Rivera, Jessie Mueller, Christy Altomare, Anika Larsen and more in 'An Evening of Song,' benefiting the Art Attack Foun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48PMIn New York Live Arts 2017–2018 Fresh Tracks Resident Artists, "Nora Alami, Lisa Fagan, Brendan Drake, Alethea Pace, and Jessie Young have taken advantage of 50 hours of rehearsal space, a…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 11:48PMIn IMPRESSIONS: Ballet Hispánico at The Apollo Theater, "On this three-ballet bill, featuring work by Ramon Oller, Ronald K. Brown, and Michelle Manzanales, it is Manzanales who handily wal…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 11:48PMDario Fo's dark comedy still deserves its reputation as a classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36PMConsidered one of the best end of year arts parties in town, Red Stitch presents their annual fundraiser, PLAYlist – an evening of intimate theatre, live music, and adventure. Ten writ…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 11:24PMShanghai Disney Resort says that Shanghai Disneyland’s seventh themed land, Disney Toy Story Land, will open in April next year. The new land is based on the Pixar “Toy Story” films. D…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02PM
1. It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at The Colonial Players of Annapolis. “With a wildly versatile, ever-morphing ensemble of talented actors, a smorgasbord of precisely-tim…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:56PMNow in its second glorious year, Joffrey Ballet's updated The Nutcracker, set during the construction of Chicago's 1893 Worlds Fair in an immigrant family's shack and their daughter's fantas…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:36PMReviewed by Judd HollanderFor the record, the Grinch did not pat Cindy Lou Who on the butt during that long ago Christmas Eve, nor was she possibly three years old at the time the two first …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMA new ticketing system that allows people to buy tickets for others who may not be able to afford them is gaining traction in the performing arts industry. NOTAFLOF (an ungainly acronym whic…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 09:34PMThe Sheen Center, New York, NY. November 17, 2017. It can be so easy to stay in one’s comfort zone. It can also be easy to follow a trend, to stay moving with the pack. It’s much harder …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:24PMIf nothing else, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” exposes anti-Semitism among the South’s elite Jewish families; a war of German-Jews and “the other kind” from “east of the E…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:21PMOn Sunday, the same day I saw “Hansel & Gretel” at Synetic Theater in Crystal City, was a profile of dancer-choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, the 2017 Kennedy Center Honor w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:12PMStephen Wade, of local ‘Banjo Dancing’ fame, is one of the countries foremost scholars on American folk music. His depth of knowledge partnered with his musical skill makes him an engagi…
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For the love of Shakespeare! There’s no doubt that Americans love their Shakespeare. In fact, many consider him America’s best playwright—? Then again, many Americans also love their f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMBroadwayCon has announced that it has partnered with The Paley Center for Media to offer free screenings of some of musical theatre's best moments on television as part of the The Road to Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PM20th Century FOX has just launched 'Come Alive,' a behind-the-scenes experience to promote its upcoming musical film The Greatest Showman. The 360-degree experience places viewers in an acti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMThe Acting Company honored playwright John Guare and film and theater producerphilanthropist Anne L. Bernstein - two individuals whose exemplary work aligns with the artistic and educational…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMBlack British-based actors like Clarke Peters, Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke have previously starred in the National Theatre’s 1996 revival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07PMVincent Rodriguez III stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:04PM By Sandi Durell Resounding with spirit and vitality, Cross That River tells the tale of a runaway slave in the 1860s who had a dream. . . a dream of freedom. With…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:03PMApart from schools minister Nick Gibb, it’s increasingly difficult to find anyone who thinks the English Baccalaureate is a good idea in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMIt must be so frustrating, being a manufacturer of lighting consoles. Just when they think they’ve solved the problems of fading lights
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When Once on This Island debuted at Playwright Horizons in 1990, several tropical-bird feathers were added to the caps of
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:56PMBob Iger is likely to extend his tenure as Disney chairman-CEO if the company succeeds in acquiring 20th Century Fox and other big assets from the Murdoch empire. Iger’s current contra…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:54PMDavid Edgar’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol is a tale of two men: Ebenezer Scrooge and Charles Dickens. It opens on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41PMTomorrow, December 7th, Museum of the City of New York will ceremonially unveil their newly restored historic nickel bronze statues of two legendary New Yorkers, Alexander Hamilton and Dewit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:41PMThe Tony Award winning hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, The New York City Department of Education and the acclaimed sketch comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade UCB have partnered for a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35PMThéâtre du Soleil brings a huge, dizzy epic of all the world’s ills (and theatrical styles) to the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMWhere do new musicals come from? For a while, the answer regularly seemed to be pop-music catalogs and movies guaranteed to put baby boomers in a nostalgic mood. Broadway became the great cu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PMThe comedy from Fowlie and Jordan Black is inspired by Stone's La La Land character.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe 1967 ABC telecast of Carousel, starring Robert Goulet and Mary Grover, is among the free events.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe entire globe fits onto the stage of the Park Avenue Armory in Théâtre du Soleil's latest creation.
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Puccini's melodies are beyond rapturous, with several haunting themes and variations exquisitely laced throughout the opera's three acts.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:56PMKate Hamill’s retelling also explores the seriousness with which people treat love – romantic and otherwise. Hence, this “Pride and Prejudice” is, in Hamill’s words, “a screwball…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:48PMThe evening benefited the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the JED Foundation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMNicol is set to star as the unlikable orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the 40th-anniversary West End production of Annie when the musical makes its way to Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre in …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:45PMTutti Frutti Productions begins its adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story of a baby bird hatched into the wrong nest using puppetry, then
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43PMCasting is complete for “Hinter,” a world premiere thriller by Calamity West, Steep Theatre announced Wednesday. The production will feature Aurora Adachi-Winter, Lauren Sivak, Sasha Smi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PMSandy Cohen and Asha Jain reflect on relationships with their own grown-up kids at My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:30PMThe 29th annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was held at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PMWhen entering a theater playing a musical you’ve enjoyed numerous times, it’s comforting to open the playbill to find the names of proven talents that reassure that you and the material …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMAt one point in “Gobsmacked!,” the godawful small affair that has landed for the week at the Broadway Playhouse, you hear the unmistakable opening strains of David Bowie’s “Life on M…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:10PMTwo of New York public radio’s best-known and most senior on-air stars, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz, were suspended today in the wake of assertions by staff members and guests…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:09PMHow palpable is the combat in Nowhere to Hide!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PMHave you already downloaded the new "IMDB for theatre app", Stagedoor? Or maybe you're already addicted to it and have become a shareholder via the company's current, wildly popular crowdfun…
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“Jewish Christmas trees don’t have stars!” Or at least they don’t according to Boo Levy, one of the matriarchs of the affluent southern Jewish Freitag-Levy household where the family…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PMWE GET EVERYTHING BUT THE HEART Certainly one of the most gorgeous lavish sets ever seen at the Wallis, with gorgeous sumptuous costumes, and gorgeous talented athletic actors. With all of t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:53PMLucy Kirkwood's electric London transfer The Children is shocking audiences at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Take a look at production shots from the play, which officially opens on De…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMBroadway vet Steven Pasquale has made many a theater audience swoon with his golden singing voice. Now, he's making them lean forward in their seats for a different reason: a juicy leadi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMBefore I interviewed Storm Large, I was a bit wary. She seemed like…a lot. A big, brash personality who might hug you to death if she liked you or punch you in the face if you pissed h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMMarilyn Manson, Simon Rattle, Mother Courage. They may seem strange bedfellows but they are all at the heart of London’s best performing arts this week.We are almost ready for Pantos too, …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 04:38PMLin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton: An American Musical” is one of the hottest titles to have hit Broadway in recent history. On Tuesday, the writer and star of the award-winning musical a…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:23PM “A Christmas Carol” remains one of the most popular works ever written by Charles Dickens and the most popular ever penned in any language. It was written to be performed as “A …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PMPlay about Jewish elites in 1930s Atlanta depicts social and cultural tensions.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PMKaminski leaves her post as associate artistic director of Seattle Rep to succeed Ted Pappas in Steel City.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:07PM
Submissions are currently being accepted for the honor, presented by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Ruthie Ann Miles, George Salazar & More Sign On for ASTEP Holiday Benefit
Tony winner Ruthie Ann Miles and stage alum G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMChicago actor "totally blown away" at being handpicked to play a government agent for director Guillermo del Toro.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:38PMDisney has offered Rob Marshall the job of directing its live-action version of “The Little Mermaid.” The studio tapped Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken last year to write the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMHe had a long career staging experimental plays Off-Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMAmong the wide array of options available for improving page load speeds and server performance, image compression is one of the most important. The best part is regardless your skillset, th…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:35PMBroadway Records today announced that Kelly Hall-Tompkins The Fiddler Expanding Tradition will be released digitally and in stores on Friday, January 26, 2017. The album is currently availab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMA new play at the Young Vic portrays life in a bleak migrant camp and how theater and music united some members of that homeless, fractured community.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMIn addition to the usual perennial holiday fare, December shows repurpose classic tales for all ages.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:08PMThe highly anticipated paperback edition of the complete memoirs of playwright Neil Simon will be released this Tuesday, December 12 by Simon amp Schuster, featuring an introduction by Natha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMWNYC radio hosts, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz have been placed on leave effective immediately following the launch of an investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMUma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMOn 20 November 2017, Stagedoor, the app dedicated to helping audiences discover great theatre, launched a £200,000 fundraising campaign open to the general public via Seedrs.com - and raise…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PM
Inua Ellams’ hit play bounces between barbers around the world, taking audiences into a male world of rituals and politics, while women share their own hair stories in My Fro and Me The po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThe actor who plays Patrick Star takes us through the opening night—from backstage antics to the red carpet and after party.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMThis darkly comic play by 'Peter Pan's' J M Barrie has deliberate echoes of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:33PMThe new play by the Tony-nominated playwright opened at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company December 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMMozart’s final opera, “The Magic Flute,” is not only one of the most frequently revived and crowd-pleasing of his works, but also possibly the most difficult to summarize. Prince Tamin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMIdina Menzel took to Twitter today in a show of support for the growing MeToo movement. The Tony winner responded to a statement made by Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, which sugges…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:19PMDo you have a burning question for Broadway bombshell Megan Hilty Next Thursday, December 14, 130pm EST BroadwayWorld's Steve Schonberg is getting up close and personal with Hilty, who wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMDarius de Haas, George Salazar, and two-time Tony Award nominee Brandon Uranowitz will co-star.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMBy Mercedes Vizcaino, Contributing Writer, December 6, 2017 The holiday season is upon us, and this year Madison Square Garden will be dazzling audiences with a new stage adaptation of Elf t…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 02:10PMBroadwayCon has reached a three-year agreement with the Actors’ Equity Association that sets standard contracts for Equity members, while adding provisions for shorter appearances. The new…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 02:06PMAs the show opens in previews in the West End, get a first look at the London version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:04PMThe show stars Marcus Brigstocke and Laura Pitt-Pulford
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:04PMI spoke and emailed with more than 100 people who have suffered harassment without redress in theatre workplaces. What does that say about the field?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:03PMWhen New Yiddish Rep artistic director David Mandelbaum decided to produce Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT and Eugène Ionesco's RHINOCEROS, he had to commission special Yiddish versions.…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:03PMCheck out scenes from the musical at the Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMAdam Kaplan recently stepped into the production, replacing Bobby Conte Thornton as Calogero. He takes over from the original Calogero.
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By Jil Picariello, Theater Editor, December 6, 2017 Rajiv Joseph’s last play at the Atlantic Theater, Guards at the Taj, featured so much blood that the two women in front of me walked…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 01:58PM“Turandot,” Puccini’s unfinished valedictory to the stage, is an elaborate operatic fairy tale. But for fairy tales to really work, there must be magic and mystery the audience can bel…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PMPhotos provided by cast members What’s better than playing an animal on stage? Getting to go home to one after the show! Sarah Marie Jenkins (Jennyanydots), Zachary Daniel Jones (Mungojerr…
SOURCE: www.petsofbroadway.org at 01:44PMDenyce Graves is an absolute force of nature. This is apparent any time she takes the stage, whether it is in a role or as an instructor. She has a strength of presence that radiates when sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMThe “original TV holiday movie parody-jukebox musical” will premiere in NYC December 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMWith Mean Girls heading to the Great White Way in March 2018, nine-time Emmy winner Tina Fey will officially make her Broadway debut as the show's scribe. It's only natural that the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMOscar nominee and six-time Tony nominee Rob Marshall has been offered to direct Disney's upcoming live-action take on The Little Mermaid, according to Deadline. Marsh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMhttp://broadwayshowbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DaRec_20171206123850-3.mp3
SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 01:28PMThe first production images have been released of Hamilton in the West End's Victoria Palace Theatre - and boy, does it look good in The Room Where It Happens.
The post First Hamilton images…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:27PMEven with all its distraction and pitfalls, for those who have never visited this island before, it will be a marvelous vacation. There would be no reason to revive a musical unless it is se…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:22PMThe film will incorporate new songs by Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and composer Alan Menken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMActors' Equity Association announced today that it reached a new three-year agreement with the organizers of BroadwayCon, a three-day expo where fans can meet and interact with Broadway star…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PM“Tonya Harding my star, this world is a cold one, but it takes one to know one.” That is how Sufjan Stevens opens his new song, “Tonya Harding,” which is a tribute to the woman he ca…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:07PMBizet's problem child opera presents obstacles but the rewards of Lyric's production are bountiful.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMCHICAGO director Rob Marshall is Disney's top choice to helm it's upcoming live-action THE LITTLE MERMAID film.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMRajiv Joseph's play runs through December 24 under the direction of Giovanna Sardelli.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will once again recognize an exemplary teacher with the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, to be presented at the 2018 Tony Awards on…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 12:54PMThe Ghost of Christmas Present emerges from a gift-wrapped box, her skirt wreathed in festive lights. “I’ve had tinselitis”, she tells us
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMZachary Quinto will serve as the ambassador for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, a collaboration of the Tony Awards and the actor-producer’s alma mater, Carnegie Mellon Universit…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:50PMUma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PMThe hit musical is set to open at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre December 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMDuring Thanksgiving, I was having a conversation with a very liberal family member. He was adamant that he supported and believed women. Then he immediately went on to tell me that women are…
SOURCE: bittergertrude.com at 12:48PMThe first images of the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton have been released ahead of its opening. Starring Jamael
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMHAMILTON re-opens the newly rebuilt and restored Victoria Palace Theatre with previews beginning tonight 6 December 2017 with the official opening night taking place on 21 December 2017. HA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMHa-ha, Happy New Year! You’ve heard the jokes: “A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” “A New Year’s resolution is a fragile bit of crockery…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:45PMSeven years on, Syria’s civil war is still raging. Its death toll is nudging half a million, and ten times as many people have been displaced. For those that remain, conflict is the new no…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40PMThe playwrights will mentor Kate Cortesi and Sam Chanse as part of the Obie-winning initiative.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMThis week's Showcase features Ball-Zee, a three-time winner of the UK Beatbox Championship and the current star of the beatboxing and a capella touring show "Gobsmacked." In the video, Ball…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:37PMThe Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz musical will make its New York regional debut at the White Plains Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMScenic designer Tim Mackabee gives us a tour of the set that evokes the U.S. Open’s famed Arthur Ashe Stadium.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMSubmissions are now open for the Tony Awards' and Carnegie-Mellon University's 2018 Theatre Education Award! Carnegie-Mellon alum Zachary Quinto, who will soon return to Broadway in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMIt's been 21 years of hotcha, whoopee and all that jazz on Broadway! The Tony-winning revival of Chicago celebrated its 21st birthday on December 5 at New York's PHD Terrace. Current…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMHappy St. Nicholas Day! Last weekend, I watched a marvelous production of St. Nicholas in Bethesda’s Quotidian Theatre. Quotidian is a fine small theater with special expertise in play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWhen Sebastian F Schwarz was announced as the successor to David Pickard as Glyndebourne‘s general director in November 2015, all looked set
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMThe production, directed by Claus Guth, opens December 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMNew York audiences have fond memories of Clifford Odets’ AWAKE AND SING! thanks to some exquisite revivals over the years. The latest interpretation of the play comes thanks to New Yiddish…
SOURCE: www.hollywoodsoapbox.com at 12:08PMThe Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University CMU will once again recognize an exemplary teacher with the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, to be presented at the 2018 Tony Awards on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMMultiple GRAMMY Award winner Jason Mraz has announced plans for a 17-city live tour. The dates dubbed An Evening With Jason Mraz, Solo Acoustic begin Thursday, March 8th at Raleigh, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMWith his razor-sharp ad-libs and genuinely amusing persona, James Percy is the star of this generally pleasing pantomime. He steals the show.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMAs he prepares to open in Manchester Royal Exchange’s revival of Guys and Dolls set in Harlem, Ray Fearon talks to Bridget
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMProgramming veteran Michelle Lee has joined Apple’s venture into scripted television content. Lee has been named a creative executive at Apple Worldwide Video, the unit tasked with lea…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFey's Mean Girls begins performances at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre March 12.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe honor will be presented at the 2018 Tony Awards.
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The Bennett tribute will also feature appearances by Tony winners Brian Stokes Mitchell and Savion Glover.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMYou enter by climbing over a child’s bed through a hole in the wall, to find yourself playing cricket in Edwardian England.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMHome for the Holidays star Josh Kaufman gets us in the holiday spirit with this acoustic Christmas cover.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:50AMAs she opens in the RSC's production of Antony and Cleopatra in London, Josette Simon explains how she came to acting and why Cleopatra is undefinable
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:48AMThe new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic will embark on a tour in February
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:48AMCheck out photos of Chloë Sevigny and more from the New Group’s opening-night celebrations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMAnother fascinating rediscovery from Troupe Theatre. J.M. Barrie is best known, of course, for Peter Pan (and there are no shortage of revivals and spin-offs of that around Theatreland at th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:39AMThe West End generates more parking fines than any other area in the UK, according to new research that reveals parking black
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMHigh school-aged songwriters across the U.S. can submit an original song that could appear in a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMThe beloved holiday ballet “The Nutcracker” is in full swing this month at Benedum Center.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:30AM By Sandi Durell In the Washington, D.C. scene there seems to be no end to surprises. Our day-to-day lives are replete with the can-you-top-this kind of politics t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:15AMSee new photos with Christiani Pitts and Adam Kaplan, who succeeded original stars Ariana DeBose and Bobby Conte Thornton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMNational Editor Ryan Lee Gilbert and SiriusXM On Broadway's Julie James discuss the latest news about all of your favorite touring productions.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMMore than two years into its Tony-winning Broadway run, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is still one of the hottest shows in town. The musical has made waves throughout the world, sparking…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMThe upcoming lineup also includes the 28th annual production of A Christmas Carol.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMTelevision journalists on Wednesday gave Robin Wright (“House of Cards”) a big hug in the form of a nomination at the Critics’ Choice TV Awards. Wright was nominated as Bes…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:08AMGabriel Byrne said that at the time, no one understood why, but he later learned Spacey had made advances on a younger actor.
SOURCE: USA Today at 11:05AMArts Council England’s national council will be gender-balanced for the first time, following a number of appointments. These include Catherine Mallyon, who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMReaders respond to a story about the history of Suzuki and SITI Company, and an article about conservative theatremakers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:03AMHugh Jackman reveals that he was offered the opportunity to take on the role of iconic secret agent James Bond. 'I just felt at the time that the scripts had become so unbelievable and crazy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMWest End theatre operator Nimax has begun testing how noisy the food it sells to audiences is, in a bid to quell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMTchaikovsky’s Nutcracker is a truly spectacular score. There are three ballet versions this season in London alone. ENB have brought their production to the Mayflower, before heading home …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMRacist provocateur evicted from theatre FRANCE/PARIS The French courts have backed the owners of Paris’ Theatre de la Main d’Or in evicting leaseholder
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMThe work is expected to premiere in 2019.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Digital Theatre has announced the launch of a new subscription package that will allow users access to all of its content for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMWe've all heard the old expression 'fights like cats and dogs.' Well a service dog who was present at a recent performance of Broadway's CATS may have taken the phrase to a whole new level a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMThe New York premiere features Danny Burstein, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Tina Benko.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMBy Precious Yamaguchi. Precious Yamaguchi takes part in Take Them Into the Dirt , a participatory production at OSF about legacy, storytelling, memory, and identity.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:43AMArtists Striving to End Poverty's Ninth Annual New York City Christmas A Concert to Benefit ASTEP, taking place on Monday, December 11 at 700 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public in New York City. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMTake a look at all new production photos from A Bronx Tale, now starring Adam Kaplan A BRONX TALE currently stars Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero Waitress, Bullets Over Broadway as Sonny, Ri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMAARP The Magazine announced today that Helen Mirren will receive the 2017 Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award. The AARP Movies for Grownups multimedia franchise was established in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMDoreen Taylor and Davis Gaines will share songs and stories about the legendary lyricist December 8–17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMPBS today announced its WinterSpring 2018 schedule lineup, which includes the much-anticipated second season of MASTERPIECE's hit series Victoria Sundays, January 14-February 25,starring J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMNew York Stage and Film’s winter gala, honoring Fey and Don Katz, was held on December 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMAll the way to London? Damn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMMichael Harris remembers fondly the first time he watched the 1971 film of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing that “big happy guy going nuts.” That, of course, was Topol as Tevye, the poor …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMAs Broadway's hit rap musical 'Hamilton', about the first US Secretary of the Treasury, opens in the West End at Victoria Palace Theatre, we look back at the long tradition of…
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:04AMThe two young stars of “Bat Out of Hell – The Musical” are celebrating. Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington have just picked up an award for Jim Steinman’s show in London. The rock…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:03AMFurze and Moore were recently joined by Executive Creative Director Bashan Aquart and SVP of Creative Strategy and Experiential Design Amanda Blackman for a chat with BroadwayWorld about the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMThe world’s largest Shakespeare Festival ends this week after 292 performance nights in theatres all over the country. I refer, of course, to Shakespeare Schools Foundation which, every ye…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM
Disney animators riffed on Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale The Snow Queen in their big-budget 3D computer-animated 2013 film Frozen, one of the highest-grossing kids’ movies…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:59AMThe company, which previously announced its closure, will remain open after a $100,000 donation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AMSinger-songwriter Josh Groban will headline the 19th annual A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH JOSH GROBAN, to be broadcast Tuesday, Dec. 19 800-900 PM, ETPT on the CBS Television Network. Also, K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMAtlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director presents the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Lortel and Obie Award winner Rajiv Josep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMWe popped into the Menier for a look at the final preparations ahead of the show's opening
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:42AMThe latest press night parties, new shows in rehearsal, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures. This week’s highlights include opening nights
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMIs it my imagination of have there been some excisions in this venerable Nutcracker? I missed the naughty boys wielding wooden swords
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:21AMAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMMenier Chocolate Factory, London As the 19th-century impresario PT Barnum, Marcus Brigstocke brings derring-do to a toe-tapping show with street magic and edgy stuntsThere’s no big top at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMBattersea Arts Centre, London The winningly weird comic tasks his audience with solving an animal massacre mystery in an evening that spins a good story from endless fun nonsenseThere’s be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMIt’s a scabbard for Tabard this week, as an unusual piece of theatre memorabilia is due to go up for auction next
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBy HowlRound TV. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents the launch of Karen Malpede's new book, Plays in Time , livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV net…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMReading Gaol is probably best known these days for its theatrical heritage, having been the residence of playwright Oscar Wilde after his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBy HowlRound TV. ArtsBoston presents Paving the Way: A Conversation with Leaders of Color in the Arts livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlrou…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMIn the wake of recent sexual harassment allegations, we need to examine the role of agents. Kevin Spacey investigation: Claim emerges that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMarisha Wallace's Soul Holiday is a delightfully warm and happy collection, destined to put smiles on faces this Christmas.
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On Monday, December 11 at 7:30PM, The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture presents two-time Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Assassins, The Who’s Tommy) and�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:54AMThe plot begins in familiar territory. Out of the moonlight, a bright-faced boy in green flies through a bedroom window to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AM by Lisa Reitman-Dobi The lights dimmed, the music rose and Richard Holbrook took the stage. I scribbled the following: “Starry eyed as boy xmas, child’s sense of wonder, lo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:38AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMMonobox, the not-for-profit workshop and play resource which gives those at the start of their careers a path into theatre, has recently directed a request for help to the theatre community.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AMPowerful storytelling and John Foyle's distinctive staging make "The Color Purple" in Hartford thrilling.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 08:13AMD'Oh! The Simpsons is all that's survived in Anne Washburn's bold "post-electric" play.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:12AMToad Hall is up for auction in Mike Kenny’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Like Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMHighly experienced festival director Ruth Mackenzie is jointly taking the helm of Paris’ Theatre du Chatelet. She tells Eleanor Turney how the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMThe Old Vic’s gloriously exuberant production is a wonderful combination of classic Dickens with a touch of Brucie’s Generation Game thrown in. Presiding over it all is the belligerent E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMChoreographer Pearlann Porter and partner John Lambert were up until 5 a.m. for a nightlong brainstorming session, leaving her with a “jazz cold.”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:00AMThis weekend, there will be two scandalous Victorian shows at The Frick Pittsburgh: the “Undressed” exhibition organized by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, and “Wilde at the F…
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Sarah Punshon, directing her first show for the Dukes since becoming its artistic director, starts on fine form with this high-energy and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMTell us your favorite Chanukah-related memory, and win two tickets to see The MeshugaNutcracker in a movie theatre near you THE MESHUGANUTCRACKER is a full-length musical comedy that featu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33AMAfter an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival, Seiriol Davies' musical comedy about the 5th Marquis of Anglesey comes to London
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:33AMajiv Joseph's epic history paly is a thematic take on how a fiction writer's technique of making up stories tends to be used as a weapon to rewrite the truth. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:25AMChristmas stalwarts like the Rockettes’ Radio City show, participatory events including a festive caroling walk, and even a dose of Taylor Mac’s wild cabaret.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMAmong the myriad of seasonal family shows that are, if we’re honest, aimed at adults, comes this little gem that is genuinely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMThe Old Vic has announced the latest 12 artists to join its talent development programme, including the scheme’s first puppet-maker. Now in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMCate Blanchett has hinted at a return to the UK stage following a hiatus of five years. The Oscar-winning actor told The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMI started off as an all-singing, all-dancing stage school kid. At drama school, my interests developed in a somewhat different direction: towards
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMBrimming with sumptuous melodies, baronial choreography, and a heartwarming story of faith, forgiveness, and renewal, this elegant new production is the perfect panacea to squelch any rumbli…
SOURCE: buckingtrends.me at 07:00AMThe Woman In White, a play about a vulnerable woman, preyed upon by a powerful man, couldn't be more timely with strong performances from its cast.
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Counting Sheep
Off Broadway, 3LD
Reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: The exhilaration, chaos, and ultimate defeat of Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution is brilliantly evoked in this c…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 06:36AMBAM Rose Cinemas will soon be playing the 2017 fantasy drama "The Shape of Water", from December 7, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the movie follows the story of a mute custodian…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:31AMBally Gill and Karen Fishwick have been cast as Romeo and Juliet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s forthcoming production of the Shakespeare
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM1. A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic (and elsewhere) November 20-January 20 The rattling of Jacob Marley’s chains threatens to drown out the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMErica Whyman's production plays the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in April
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:24AMMarcus Brigstocke stars in the titular role in Gordon Greenberg's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:24AMThe one-night-only NYC premiere of Stan Zimmerman's Right Before I Go. took place on Monday, December 4, 2017 at Town Hall 123 W 43rd Street. Directed by Michael Wilson, Right Before I Go. f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMPhineas Taylor Barnum lived a large life. The salesman, showman, promoter, impresario and would-be politician – who probably didn’t say “there’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMHarold Pinter Theatre is currently hosting the stage production of "Oslo". Written by American playwright J.T. Rogers, "Oslo" tells the true story of two maverick Norwegian diplomats Te…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:20AMSeymour Centre, Sydney is staging a pantomime entitled “The Bodybag,” with Trevor Ashley in the lead as Rachel Marinade.“The Bodybag,” written by Ashley and Phil Scott, follows the s…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:10AMThe production is lushly beautiful; the pacing, impeccable; the music between scenes, splendid; the acting, a delight in every detail. And the warm, piquant humor in this Jewish family drama…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:07AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAs politics and news continue to stir the conversation around inequality, Toronto's female-fronted Nightwood Theatre has been burning brighter than ever. But for a 38-year-old company u…
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Listen: Casting Agencies Respond to Broadway’s League’s Lawsuit, Gypsy of the Year’s Record Total, and Sam Shepard’s Final Work Released “Today on Broadway” …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:55AMWith Goats playing at the Royal Court, part of me optimistically hoped to see 101 real dogs in the Birmingham Rep’s adaptation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMPoised between traditional panto and jukebox musical, this energetic interpretation of Beauty and the Beast is carried along on a blast of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMOur editorial assistant Alex Wood let it slip that he'd never seen a panto. So naturally we sent him along to the Lyric Hammersmith for some fun with Jack and his beanstalk, oh yes we did
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:24AMGood morning BroadwayWorld Today's top news School of Rock celebrates two years on Broadway, original stars perform at The Nightmare Before Christmas screening, off-Broadway openings, and mo…
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Hannah Greenstreet sits in on rehearsals for Forward Arena's queer, time-hopping epic.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:48AMPLEASE HELLO! Remarkably, one of the most difficult things about Pacific Overtures is that Harold Prince directed the original production utilizing the ancient Japanese theater-form, Kabuki,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:17AMFOLLOW THE BOUNCING BEAT Now in a very brief visit to Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse, Gobsmacked! is a good title for a show that slaps sounds out of seven performers’ fertile heads. It …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMAs his group, Pink Martini, continues to tour behind its latest album, “Jes dis oui!,” frontman/pianist Thomas Lauderdale sounds downright astonished that he still gets to follow his mus…
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As part of ‘Designing the Movies Series’, Revue Cinema, Toronto will present murder mystery “The Thin Man” by W.S. Van Dyke.This film is a murder mystery based on Dashiell Hammett’…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:55AMA fabulously immodest evening of high energy music, laughter, and frivolity, Claire Healy returns with a live three piece band in Impure Thoughts at the Melba Spiegeltent for three shows on…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:28AMWho is Martin Crewes? I’m a British-born, Perth grown, Bondi dwelling jack-of-a-couple of trades in the performing arts industry. As yet a master of none, but I’m still learning! What wo…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:10AMPumpkin King Danny Elfman is coming to Barclays Center in Brooklyn tonight and tomorrow, December 6 and 7, to perform his legendary role of Jack Skellington in a very special screening, with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMTheatre exists in its physicality: the actors might be playing roles, but at some level we are also watching them personally, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhen was the last time you listened to a trans person talk about their life? Not in a radio or television debate,
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The bright lights of Broadway will shine on the Sydney Opera House next July as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra presents the hit Broadway musical Funny Girl in Concert for three performances …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:43AMAbout three years ago, I heard about the PorchRokr Festival in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood. I had since learned that there was a whole series of Porchfests that have sprung …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:36AMThru Sat, December 9 @ The Kennedy Center, presented by The Kennedy Center -- Ingmar Bergman’s wife and muse, celebrated director Liv Ullmann, expands Bergman's 1996 film into a stage …
SOURCE: culturecapital.com at 12:33AM“The Nutcracker” will be presented at Royal Albert Hall, London. It is a Christmas ballet performance by Birmingham Royal Ballet presented along with Royal Albert Hall.This is Birmingham…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:25AMLady Gaga will perform at The Forum, Los Angeles. The Golden Globe and Grammy Winner is on a world tour promoting “Joanne” her fifth studio album. The album is a cross-genre; count…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:25AMThe Flea Theater will soon be hosting the stage production by The Pool, titled "Washed Up On The Potomac," on December 15, 2017. Directed by José Zayas, the play is set in a proofreadi…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:17AMBarbican Theatre is currently hosting the stage production of Royal Shakespeare Company's "Julius Ceaser." Directed by Angus Jackson, the epic political tragedy follows the story of Cae…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:16AM“My Beautiful Inner Sun” will be screened at FSK Cinema, Berlin. It’s a romantic comedy directed by Claire Denis. The 2015 film had won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.The story i…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:16AM“The Tin Drum” will be on stage at Shoreditch Town Hall, London. The play is based on the novel of the same name written by Gunter Grass.The play is about Oskar, who decides to remain a …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:15AMThe French musical comedy, “The Demoiselles De Rochefort” is currently being screened at Allocine, Paris. The title translates to “The Young Girls of Rochefort.” The runtime of …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:15AM“Manifesto” is currently being screened at FSK Cinema, Berlin. It is a film directed by Julian Rosefeldt. To be precise, “Manifesto” is an Australian-German multi-screen film install…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:15AMMaking the leap from School of American Ballet Classroom to New York City Ballet stage, these accomplished young performers are vital to the success of the holiday favorite.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMTo open the season, Radvanovsky takes on Bellini’s Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacrifice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTwo longtime dancers discuss the company's evolving repertoireAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater just kicked off its annual holiday run at City Center, a five-week gift to modern dance lover…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMPlaywright Claire van Kampen brings to life the strange-but-true story of a celebrated castrato and the King of Spain.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYou might know about Broadway’s most recently opened shows, but a true super fan knows what’s coming next.
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