The two productions are among top nominees for Broadway's Tony awards. Alicia Powell reports.
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SOURCE: USA Today at 09:58PMHoward Kagan, the Broadway producer who placed a Hail Mary bid for the Weinstein Co. on Tuesday, told Variety that he was shut out of the process because the company refused to turn over inf…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PMGovernments at all levels allocate around $6 billion a year to arts and culture in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. While this is a low figure compared to the bud…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:49PMDance is undeniably a highly handed-down tradition. The artists whose work is preserved and honored were most often innovators in their time. Limited resources – amongst individuals, f…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:42PM'Mean Girls' and 'SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical' scored the most 2018 Tony award nominations with 12 each, including for best musical. Lisa Bernhard reports.
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SOURCE: USA Today at 09:39PMDeadline has reported that stage and film starJake Gyllenhaalwill produce and star as legendary composerLeonard Bernsteinin a new biopic titled The American.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33PMA pair of very talented (and very handsome!) men are coming together to bring Leonard Bernstein’s life story to the big screen. It was announced today that Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:13PM(Reuters) - A company formed by Broadway producer Howard Kagan attempted to make a late Tuesday bid for the Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-found…
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Popular YouTubers, some as young as 12, are being paid to personally endorse the service. In some of the videos YouTubers say if you cannot be bothered to do the work, EduBirdie has a "super…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 06:42PMAs we enter into this, the most industry of all industry times, there are some Tony related questions that many believe need answering.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMYes, theater lovers, the long wait is over: the 2018 Tony Award nominations have been announced. And while we won’t know the winners until Sunday, June 10, there is cause for celebration f…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:19PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast and creative from Once On This Island on Broadway to get their first reactions at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast and creative from My Fair Lady on Broadway to get their first reactions at being …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMVariations and fugues are the overriding themes of pianist/composer Michael Brown’s captivating new album. If you’re an Andris Nelsons fan, this Deutsche Grammophon album won’t disappo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PMI vividly recall the afternoon in May 1969 when I bought The Who's "Tommy." I was 15 years old, and eagerly plucked that two-record LP out of the bin at a St. Petersburg, Fla., departm…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:04PMChilina Kennedy stops by Broadway.com to chat about Beautiful and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMAfter too much coffee and more cookie dough than we care to mention, we're still talking about the 2018 Tony Award nominations. (Trust us—we will be until June 10.) We're beyon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
First Look at Bandstand on the Big Screen
The 2017 fan-favorite musical Bandstand is big screen–bound. On June 25 and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PM By Myra Chanin Bob O’Hare grew up in New Jersey, attended a Catholic High School and College and then, thought he’d always been interested in musical theater…
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Emmy winner and stage veteran Peter Dinklage has been announced to star in a new musical adaptation of the Edmond Rostand classic Cyrano de Bergerac, set to appear at Goodspeed Musicals'…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMFrom a 19th-century play about the African-American experience to Pulitzer winners 'Angels in America' and 'I Am My Own Wife,' May was a memorable month for theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:44PMThe musical comedy will undergo development in NYC this week before beginning performances July 19 at the Belasco Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMLynn Nottage is a playwright best known for socially engaged realism (“Sweat,” “Ruined”), so it’s pretty surprising that her new play, “Mlima’s Tale…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:36PMI don’t want to sound like an old stodgy codger (even though I am an old stodgy codger) but it seems to me that this lack of narrative finality really hampers the genre. Like video games t…
SOURCE: newrepublic.com at 04:33PM"Volunteer adjuncts" — it is a term so absurdly reprehensible it sounds like the stuff of parody. Despite what graduate students may gain over the course of their studies, they owe nothing…
SOURCE: newrepublic.com at 04:33PMGettin' The Band Back Together, the upcoming new Broadway musical comedy, will have two invitation only developmental lab presentations later this week in NYC. With direction by Tony Award w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PMWith a contemporary sensibility, Mr. Patrick dramatizes the familiar situations with simplicity, lively dialogue and tasteful irreverence. There is also excessive philosophical speechifying …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:19PMIf revenge is a dish best served cold, then “Titus Andronicus” is chilled to the bone. A seriously enjoyable melodrama, Synetic Theater’s new production stages Shakespeare’s play as …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:13PMThe nominees for the 72nd annual Tony Awards were announced Tuesday. The awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in New York City will be broadcast live by CBS on June 10, with Josh Groban …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:13PM“A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it…” — André Breton (1896–1966) French writer, poet, and founder of Surrealism. Artistic Director P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMMay features new work from writers including Christopher Durang, Michael Hollinger, and R. Eric Thomas, alongside work that breaches prison walls, plus the close of an ambitious Philly exper…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:06PMOn this day in 2003, the curtain went up on the legendary Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose in Gypsy on Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMAccording to Deadline, Inclusion Media, a company founded by Tony-winning Broadway producer Howard Kagan, has just bid on the now bankrupt Weinstein Company
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Michael Schulman writes about the 2018 Tony Award nominees, including “Mean Girls,” “Three Tall Women,” “The Iceman Cometh,” “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and others.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:57PMBoth productions originated at London’s National Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMOne Cézanne painting fetched $1.5 million at a Freeman's auction Sunday of Campbell heiress Dodo Hamilton's household items. The second part of the estate sale - including a 16.56-carat dia…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:49PMSome great performances from shows like Mean Girls and Frozen weren’t included when the Tony nominees were announced Tuesday.
Alex Newell, Once on This Island
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SOURCE: BuzzFeed at 03:32PMComedians of L.A.! Don’t sleep on this month’s offerings. Get out and perform, take in, or audition.
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Inclusive, feminist theater school The Ruby L.…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:30PMFriday “columbinus”: Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli’s docu-drama takes on the social ills that lead to the shooting rampage at Columbine High School. Through May 26 at Steppenwolf Thea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMExecutors for Lee’s estate feel that Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation strays too far from the original intent of Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMIn early 2018, We Have Voice began painstakingly crafting the Code of Conduct via meetings, email and Google Hangout sessions, with members collaborating from the far-flung locations where t…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:24PMTheatrical charity Acting for Others has announced the initial judges and participants for the fourth annual West End Bake Off on Saturday 19 May.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 03:23PMA PLAY THAT POOPS ON ITSELF The animal realm (we won’t say kingdom) fairly teems with same-sex survival. In all, over 1,500 species experiment with alternative lifestyles: Sapphic seagull…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:23PMThere's a reason why Larry Shue's play (here directed by Kevin Cahoon) stays around for 40 years - the laughter from a hysterical audience out for an evening of pure fun!
SOURCE: www.mycentraljersey.com at 03:07PM Monday Night, April 30, the nominees for the first Annual Chita Rivera Awards gathered at Bond 45 in Times Square to celebrate their accomplishment. The Chita Rivera Awa…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:06PMImmediately following the Tony Award nominations, Broadway producers sprang into action. With brief pauses for celebration Tuesday, producers and the marketing teams behind their shows were …
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 03:00PMYou may know her from TV, but as of this morning, Tina Fey is a Tony nominee for writing the book of the Mean Girls musical, and therefore a theater person. This Friday, Fey will appear on D…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hit play from the "Harry Potter" franchise joined an acclaimed revival of AIDS drama "Angels in America" to dominate Broadway's Tony award nominations on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Reuters at 02:58PMThe 2018 Tony nominations were announced this morning. If you haven't checked them out yet, what are you waiting for CLICK HERE to check out a full list of this year's nominees, and HERE for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMKatharine McPhee and Leslie Odom Jr. announced the Tony Award nominees this morning from Lincoln Center. We've been following the action all day speaking to nominees to get their first react…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMCongratulations to the 2018 Broadway revival of?Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL?on their 11 Tony Award® nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical!
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 02:54PMTiffany Topol and Barry DeBois are not new to “Once.” Both of the stars of director Jim Corti’s beautiful and moving new Paramount Theatre production were understudies on the recent na…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMThe Weinstein Co. sale is not settled yet, as a second buyer submitted a late bid for the company on Tuesday. A source told Variety that the bidder is Howard Kagan, a former partner at Harbi…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PMFrom Angels in America to Carousel, we compare this year’s productions to the nominations earned by their original counterparts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMNot even a wizard can best Tina Fey — or triumph over a not-so-simple sponge. Fey’s first Broadway musical, “Mean Girls,” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” squeezed out 12 Tony Award n…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:41PMEXCLUSIVE: A new bidder has emerged for The Weinstein Company, a day after the bidding process reached a seemingly anti-climactic end: Inclusion Media, a company founded by Broadway producer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PMAt 79, still active as a playwright and director, Alan Ayckbourn here gives us his 81st work for the theatre. He’s been supplying us with material since 1959; and his new play is as fr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:35PM‘Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage and film actress Haley Bennett ("The Girl on the Train" and "Thank You for Your Service") will star in the new musical "Cyrano" at Goodspeed Musicals…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:35PM By Marilyn Lester On the three days before Duke Ellington’s April 29 birthday, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) bestowed upon its patro…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:25PMThe Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, Virginia, invites nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMIts latest online collection, “Open Heritage,” features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, from the ancient Mayan metropolis of Chichen Itza in Mexico to th…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 02:24PMHurston trained as a cultural anthropologist, and Barracoon, which languished in her archives for decades and is only now being published, is the result of months of interviews with Cudjo Le…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:24PMBy Caroline Prugh. Caroline Prugh discusses Kaimera Productions’ SPACES , a site-specific performance weaving together storytelling and dance that took place in June 2017 at the Harlem Art…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:23PMThe new adaptation of Edmond Rostand's play will feature music by members of The National.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMA YouTube celebration of Carousel Tony Award nominee Lindsay Mendez.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:14PMEarlier this morning, John Legend, who most recently appeared in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, earned his second Tony nomination for his song from SpongeBob SquarePants, 'I G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMStill haven't seen some of this season's greatest performances You can still snag tickets to Tony-nominated shows through TKTS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMBruce Springsteen and John Leguizamo will each receive special Tony awards this year. The announcement came at the end of the exasperating Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:12PMBEST MUSICAL SUSPENSE: There were just seven new musicals on Broadway this season, the fewest in at least a decade. Only one received “Critic’s Pick” from the New York Time…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:07PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast and creative of Angels in America on Broadway to get their first reactions at bei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMThe Atlanta Opera kicked off its penultimate main-stage production of the 2017–18 season Saturday night with a traditional operatic favorite, George Bizet’s Carmen, directed by Brenn…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PM“I’m excited for the possibility of being in that rare group of people who have won all four of those awards,” says John Legend about the possibility of achieving EGOT this…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMWe hope that the spring season has been a joyful one so far, filled with lots of training and performing. This month, we’ve gathered some exciting class opportunities for you to check …
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The cutest thing about this morning’s Tony nominations was Katharine McPhee’s steadily increasing inability to pronounce the words “SpongeBob SquarePants.” She had to say them a lot …
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:58PMIt’s time to face your fears and have a good laugh at them because Randy, a purple Australian puppet, is at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row to share his own fears in his one-man show, R…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:47PMThe new musicals, based on a movie and an animated TV show, earned 12 nominations each. Angels In America, The Band's Visit and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel each received 11.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:42PMCongratulations to Gold Derby founder Tom O’Neil for a tremendous score of 89.87% when predicting the 2018 Tony Awards nominations on Tuesday. Not only did he defeat a field of 12 Expe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:39PMThe company of The Band's Visit was greeted this morning with 11 Tony Award nominations, including nods for leads Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, and a nomination for the top prize of Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMThe Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing have announced that music legend Bruce Springsteen will be honored with a special Tony Award at the 2018 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMA five, six, seven, eight! The nominees' reception for the Chita Rivera Awards took place on April 30 at Times Square's Bond 45. The awards honor the best in dance during the 2017-20…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMAs Cristofer, Juan Castano is riveting in his honesty and his assurance. You could hear a pin drop during several of his monologue confessions as to why he didn’t do as well as he might ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33PMLin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Platt, Kristin Chenoweth, and more share their reactions to the big announcement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMRyan Brown is currently conducting Opera Lafayette’s ‘Visitors to Versailles’ in Washington, DC, Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Ryan Brown is the founder and artistic d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:27PMThe sun is out (sometimes), the summer is here (almost), and an exciting new season of theatre is on the horizon (definitely) - it's time for OfficialLondonTheatre.com's picks of new shows f…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:25PMThirty Broadway productions were eligible for prizes, the smallest number in more than a decade. This year’s Tony Awards will take place on June 10 at Radio City Music Hall and will be bro…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PM"Last fall, ... former Writers intern Tom Robson accused longtime Artistic Director Michael Halberstam of sexually harassing him both verbally and physically in 2003. ... A few weeks later, …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:24PMTony nominees Tina Fey, Denzel Washington and Nathan Lane celebrate their nods.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:20PMThe cast kicked of the program's "Best of Broadway" week as nominations rolled in.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMFirebrand Theatre announced its 2018-19 season on Tuesday, with a lineup that includes two musicals, one of them a Chicago premiere. Kicking things off in September will be a revival of the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:15PMA host of young Broadway talent will appear in the concert at Connecticut’s Ridgefield Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMActing honours go to Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Denzel Washington
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:12PMThough Tchaikovsky confined himself to a series of lyric scenes from Pushkin’s verse novel for his opera of Eugene Onegin, director Oliver Mears elaborates further on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PM“Titus Andronicus” may well be the original telenovela, soap opera, and forerunner to many a horror film adapted from Poe’s works. For over three centuries, Shakespearian schol…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:08PMKicking The Today's Show Best of Broadway week, actors Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk get the news live on TODAY that they have been Tony-nominated for the musical The Band's Visit, along wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast and creative of Angels in America on Broadway to get their first reactions at bei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMSpongeBob, Mean Girls and Harry Potter lead the way after a record-breaking year but are the big-budget productions hampering original alternatives?A humble sponge is feeling pretty good rig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSoho theatre, LondonKathryn Hunter is the patriarch in Hideki Noda’s strange, yet ultimately moving, family tale that draws on Japanese traditionHideki Noda is a master of the theatrical e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMBig names such as Amy Schumer, Andrew Garfield, Denzel Washington and Tina Fey got 2018 Tony nominations.
SOURCE: USA Today at 01:05PMThere are few topics more horrifying and less funny than one’s parents’ sexuality. But Qui Nguyen, one of the hottest American playwrights of the moment, has embraced the embarrassment o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMPlaybill takes stock of the people and productions excluded from this year’s awards announcement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMCongratulations to our User 845sas for an outstanding score of 89.87% when predicting the 2018 Tony Awards nominations on Tuesday. He is actually tied with four others — Gold Derby fou…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMI was thrilled to find that going back to For King and Country was just as rewarding as visiting for the first time. What was particularly interesting was how challenging it was to revisit t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMKevin Colson was a star in his native Australia before he came to London in the mid-1960s. He left behind a burgeoning
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Forget the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Tonys. Here in the nation’s capital, there is only one award worth talking about. And that’s the Helen Hayes, honoring the best of DC’s theater pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMI suspect we’ll be seeing more than one silly and misleading “frozen out” reference in coverage of this year’s Tony Awards nominations – starting with that one …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:58PMDance Umbrella, London’s flagship festival of international dance, celebrates its 40th anniversary this autumn, and has announced its full 2018 programme today.
The post Dance Umbrella 201…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:56PMAt the first preview of Chess at London’s Coliseum last week, leading man Tim Howar was forced to leave at the interval
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMThe other day when I posted my tribute to The Wizard of Oz, I realized that there was one another major MGM film on which I’d written about nearly every cast member and other related a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:48PMThe ceremony, honoring the best in dance on screen and stage, will take place May 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMThis year's TONY AWARDS nominations have were announced this morning by Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom Jr. BroadwayWorld caught up with the pair after the ceremony to chat about the first …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast of Carousel on Broadway to get their first reactions at being up for Tony Awards …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center honored multi-discipline creative artist Lin-Manuel Miranda with the 18th Monte Cristo Award, last night at a private dinner at the Edison Ballroom in New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast of The Band's Visit on Broadway to get their first reactions at being up for Tony…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMAlli Mauzey talks joining Hello, Dolly!, her wild Wicked dreams, & her comedy influences.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:36PMOur chief critics offer reaction to the nominations, which were hard on jukebox musicals and “Frozen” but good to “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMWhere this year's Tony nominees for all categories pursued their college studies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThe musicals “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Mean Girls” each garnered 12 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, leading a pack dominated by Hollywood franchises such as “Harry Potter” and…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:35PMTanztheater, or “dance theater,” is a post-World War I expressionist art form originating in Germany and Austria which blends dance and theatrical techniques. Ellyzabeth Adler studied ta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMThe 2018 Tony Award nominations this morning spread the honors around, with Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants leading the field with 12 nominations apiece.
Tied with 11 nominations each w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PMJohn Leguizamo received a double dose of good news today! In addition to receiving a 2017 Tony nomination for his solo play Latin History for Morons, the playwright, actor and comedian …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMMart Crowley's The Boys in the Band had its Broadway premiere on April 30 at the Booth Theatre, and Broadway.com was in on the action to snap exclusive photos of the all-star cast. Matt …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMNational Editor Ryan Lee Gilbert and SiriusXM On Broadway's Julie James discuss the latest news about all of your favorite—and upcoming—touring productions.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMA story, Simon Mcburney explains, as the lights of the theatre come up and the lights of the Barbican Centre
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:24PMHere is a complete list of the nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, to be presented Sunday, May 10, 2018, and airing on CBS2 at 8 p.m. ET.
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 12:23PMFrozen's cast got left out in the cold, while Amy Schumer nabbed a nom for Best Actress.
SOURCE: Forbes at 12:21PMPrisoner of Conscience, composed by Jennifer Jolley for female vocal quartet the Quince Ensemble, draws its texts from the Russian punk rockers' lyrics and from the transcribed proceedings o…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:06PMRock star Tim Howar, playing Freddy in a new revival of the ABBA/Tim Rice musical Chess, had to leave the theatre at the intermission of the first preview performance because his wife had go…
SOURCE: www.standard.co.uk at 12:06PM"It is the determination of this audit that the taxpayer operates as a personal endeavour (a hobby), not a business," Canadian Revenue Agency said in its Jan. 26, 2018, reassessment letter t…
SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 12:06PMAaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the Great American Novel To Kill a Mockingbird appears headed to court before it can head to Broadway. A New York judge has set a June 4 trial date for the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:05PMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast and creative from SpongeBob Squarepants on Broadway to get their first reactions …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMStrictly Ballroom has all the sparkle and dazzling choreography you’d wish to see and the cast is superb. For me, there were fundamental flaws but that did not deter me from immensely enjo…
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The concert celebrating the Oscar and Tony-winning composer was held at Carnegie Hall April 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMBroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning We caught up with the nominated cast and creative from Mean Girls on Broadway to get their first reactions at being up…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related CDs for May, 2018.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMBy Douglas Mayo
The full list of nominations for the Tony Awards 2018 were announced this morning with SpongeBob SquarePants the musical, and Mean Girls leading a pack which saw several nomi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:40AMBy Jil Picariello, Theater Editor, May 1, 2018 Warning: This is not a play for the depressed, the downhearted, the despairing, or the dejected. Even though the current incarnation of Eugene …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 11:39AMTwo Playbill editors look into this year’s list of nominees—from 59 first-timers to six leading ladies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMNominations for the Tony Awards 2018 were announced live from the New York Public Library on May 1. Here is a breakdown
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMIt’s May 1, which means Tony nominations are live! We love this time of year leading up to Broadway’s biggest night: the fancy red-carpet events, glam photo ops, the prediction d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM"Let me be your star," said the 2018 Tony nominees! Smash alums Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee woke up early on May 1 to get spiffed up, head to the Lincoln Ce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMRe-live Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's epic Broadway opening!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMWe chat with Mean Girls' Taylor Louderman, SpongeBob SquarePants' Ethan Slater, Once On This Island's Hailey Kilgore and Carousel's Lindsay Mendez live, moments after To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM“Something to Dance About,” a new piece staged by Warren Carlyle, includes extracts from nine musicals choreographed by Robbins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMNearly a century since his heyday, music hall legend Fred Barnes takes to the stage again at one of the capital's best-known variety addresses, Wilton's Music Hall, in Olivier Award winner C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:14AMManchester’s Royal Exchange has teamed up with the Yard in London and ARC Stockton for the Hodgkiss Award 2018. The award, last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:10AM"On my way up to the Paris Opéra studios I was so nervous! Literally shaking. But within about eight minutes, I was reminded, 'Oh, yeah: This is the same old thing. It's just dancers in a s…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 11:06AMMezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel was set to sing the female lead, Penelope, in Monteverdi's Return of Ulysses for Toronto's baroque opera company, Opera Atelier, when she suffered third-degree b…
SOURCE: www.ludwig-van.com at 11:06AMThe complete list of this year's nominees. Who do you think will win?
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:06AMThe New York Pops' 35th Birthday Gala, Part of His World The Songs of Alan Menken was held on Monday, April 30, 2018 at 700 p.m. in Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, present…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMThis year's TONY AWARDS nominations have just been announced by Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom Jr. The 2018 TONY AWARDS will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMBelow, check out how each show fared individually in BWW's list of nominations by show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending April 30, 2018.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThis House performs the miraculous feat of making a play about events which occurred over 40 years ago feel totally contemporary and relevant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe 2018 Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning, and in what has long since become an annual occurrence, shows that originated in San Diego were among the picks for the Broadway…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AM
Bruce Springsteen’s sold-out run on Broadway was ineligible for the Tony Awards by design. Given the scarcity of tickets, producers (and the Boss) didn’t want to take seats from …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AMAngels in America and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are in the running for prizes at New York’s theatre ceremonyThey won acclaim in London for their stage performances as a grownup Har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMHalf of Out of Joint’s board has resigned en masse following the departure of former artistic director Max Stafford-Clark, in protest at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMThe Band’s Visit, Angels in America, and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel snagged 11 nominations.
The post 2018 Tony Nominations: <em>Mean Girls</em> and <em>Sponge…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:44AMIt’s May the 1st. I saw this morning that the “President” wishes us all a happy “Loyalty Day”. Had you ever heard of that holiday? I never had. When I think of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:36AMTop Girls' conflicts and political themes seem more relevant than ever in this excellent production.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMThe Villains’ Supper Club supplies an engaging and funny twist on the superhero mythos, a fun and fresh look at the tribulations of working mothers. The Villains’ Supper Club by Lil…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMOn Monday, May 14, 2018, Third Street Music School Settlement Third Street, the nation's longest running community school, will honor Grammy Award-winning Singer and Songwriter Rosanne Cash,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMDavid Lang’s score is hypnotic, and Emmanuel Music's quartet of singers gave wonderful renditions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMBy popular demand, Fathom Events, BY Experience and National Theatre Live announce the addition of two celebrated titles to the 2018 event cinema line-up. This includes director Marianne Ell…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AM‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical’ lead Tony Awards nominations with 12 nods each.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:33AMLondon plays were at the centre of the celebrations at this year's Tony Awards nominations announcement, with the Broadway transfer of the National Theatre's Angels In America attaining a re…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:26AMRuthie Henshall and Wendi Peters will judge this year’s West End Bake Off. The charity event will take place on Saturday May 19,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMThe Tony Awards will honor Bruce Springsteen in June for his production of “Springsteen on Broadway.” In the live-streamed ceremony early Tuesday morning announcing this year&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24AMIn the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning, Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" got 12 nominations, tieing "SpongeBob SqaurePants: The Musical" for most nominations. Other Philly-area tie-i…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:22AMTalking with all things Beatles with the stars of the tribute concert Rain.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:15AMSo, you got up early and tuned in to hear Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee announce the nominees for the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. But, wait! No, you didn't mis-hear Kat McPhee: Some …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMBy Megan Wrappe, Contributing Writer, May 1, 2018 When I was in high school, my friends found a Youtube channel called “Team StarKid” which had recently created a musical, A Very Potter …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 10:11AM‘Comedians” is a cunning sociopolitical drama from 1975 by British playwright Trevor Griffiths. The drama is set in a class for aspiring comedians, and the second act shows the students …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:10AM‘Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical” is an allegory about segregation and dealing with prejudice. The story, which is also about friendship and being accepted by one’s peers, concerns an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AMThe unique selling feature of a $200-a-ticket Broadway musical which sets it apart from our homemade West End ones is often a vast stage filled with 40 hoofers and a dozen ginormous sets. Wh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Portuguese artist Xavier de Sousa’s latest work Post explores borders and nationalism in the UK after Brexit. He tells Giverny Masso
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Two new musicals – “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” — reaped a leading dozen Tony Awards nominations apiece. The tuner that is tipped to win Best …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:57AMMean Girls is an adaptation of Tina Fey’s much-beloved 2004 high school comedy movie and SpongeBob SquarePants is the goofy undersea adaptation from the cartoon.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:55AM"Opposition politicians accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of leasing out' monuments under the 'Adopt a Heritage' plan that will see 95 historic sites taken over by private en…
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SOURCE: www.france24.com at 09:54AM"His breakthrough was [the 1955 film] The Dam Busters, about the 1943 British raid against the Ruhr dams in Germany's industrial heartland. ... He was [subsequently] recruited to showman Mik…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54AMCostume designer Ann Roth, at 86 now a nine-time nominee and one-time Tony winner, came away with three nominations when names were called Tuesday for the 72nd annual Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:50AMConnecticut Ballet calls its spring concert “Russian Classics!” but also notes that two of these three classics have not been danced in Connecticut before. Old and famous, then, but perh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:50AMThe 72nd Annual Tony Award Nominations were announced this morningfrom the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. We're asking our readers... do you agree with th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMDorfman, LondonNatasha Gordon’s impressive debut about living between two cultures gains extra resonance in the light of the Windrush scandalThere’s a key moment in Natasha Gordon’s hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical" lead the Tony Award nominations with dozen nods each.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:41AMShe’s won an Emmy and has been up for a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Now Amy Schumer will vie for a bit of Broadway gold: a Tony Award. The actress earned a Tony nomination Tuesday for her B…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AMThe national tour of the Broadway hit “Motown the Musical” played The Bushnell in the spring of 2016, then returned to Broadway shortly afterward, where it added another few weeks to its…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:40AMIn a music-theatre context, there are a number of questions that must be answered before any song can be completed. Often when lyricists and composers collaborate on songs for a new show, th…
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 09:39AM Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 72nd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® were announced today by Tony and Grammy Awar…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:38AMThe Broadway actors announced the nominees for the 72nd annual Tony Awards May 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMIt doesn’t take a Hogwarts wizard to know that Tony noms can conjure magic at the box office.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:36AMListen: The 2018 Tony Nominations have Been Announced! And, “Ink” is Coming to Broadway, La MaMa’s Getting a Tony, and Rudin’s Gotta Film “Mockingbird”! &…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:35AMThis year's TONY AWARDS nominations have just been announced by Katharine McPheeand Leslie Odom Jr.and here they are, celebrating the best of the 2017-18theatre season and what a season it's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMLauren Ambrose talks about the responsibility she feels playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, why she's become a bit of a hypochondriac and her childhood audition on Star Search on Late N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMWe've caught Tony fever here at BroadwayWorld, and it's spreading Follow usthroughout the day, as we'll bring you Tony nominee reactions, exclusive reports, surprises, behind the scenes cove…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMThe Tony Awrds just announced that Bruce Springsteen and John Leguizamo, who both appeared on Broadway this season will receive Special Tony Awards.Click here for a full list of nominees
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMThe 2018 Tony Award Nominations were announced this morning, and while a select, talented few will spend the day celebrating their achievements, there are many who fell just short of a nod.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMThe 72nd annual Tony Awards will include wizards, sponges, angels, and mean girls, all competing for theater’s top accolades.
Announced May 1 by Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee no…
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:30AMBest play The Children by Lucy Kirkwood Farinelli and The King by Claire van Kampen Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AM"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25AM"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:25AMChicagoans Jessie Mueller, Laurie Metcalf and David Cromer are among this year's list of nominees.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:24AMThis year’s special awards go to a veteran performer/playwright, and a music superstar who is currently performing at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 09:24AMFrom Denise Gough and Denzel Washington to Jessie Mueller and Gavin Lee, see what this year's nominees had to say about their good news.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM'SpongeBob SquarePants' and 'Mean Girls' led the sled with twelve nominations apiece.
SOURCE: Forbes at 09:22AMBroadway HD has the concert you don't want to miss!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 09:21AMThe Grammy Award-winning rock legend and the Emmy-winning solo artist and playwright told two unique stories about the American experience on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMIt’s the best day ever for big musical adaptations, as SpongeBob and Mean Girls led the Tony nominations this morning, with 12 nominations apiece, with The Band’s Visit close behind with…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:19AMAt its heart, “God of War” is the story of a journey, an odyssey undertaken by father and son in the face of incredible odds. It’s a game with an incredible story, and one that…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18AMMay 1, 2018 - The 72nd Annual Tony Award Nominations
May 1, 2018 – Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 72nd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:16AMHideki Noda’s One Green Bottle is a satirical play for the ‘selfie’ generation or, as the writer and director clearly sees it,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMThe Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing have announced that music legend Bruce Springsteen will be honored with a special Tony Award at the 2018 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:06AMThe day has arrived! Nominations have been announced for the 2018 Tony Awards. Smash alums Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee made the announcement live from the New York Library for the P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:06AMBruce Springsteen moved just one letter away from EGOT status Tuesday as the Tony Awards announced that the singer-songwriter will receive a special award for “Springsteen on Broadway.” …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AM“SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Mean Girls” both topped the Tony nominations list with 12 nominations each. Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom, Jr. announced the Tony no…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 09:02AMThe 2018 Tony Award nominees are in and 'Springsteen on Broadway' is included.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:01AMAlex Beckett will be best remembered as the inept PR executive Barney in two biting BBC satires on institutional incompetence, Twenty Twelve,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBy HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks livestreams Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMBold and vibrant, Circus Abyssinia offers plenty of thrills in its mesmerising show at the Underbelly Festival.
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Chase Johnsey, a 14-year-member of the drag ballet troupe (and winner of best male dancer honors at last year's UK National Dance Awards), quit the company in January, saying publicly that h…
SOURCE: www.gramilano.com at 08:54AM"National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu said in a statement that she will resign June 4, after four years at the head of the federal arts agency. The Trump administration has twic…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:54AM"The group melded rhythm and blues, gospel, doo-wop, rock, blues, soul, jazz, funk and New Orleans's own parade and Mardi Gras rhythms, in songs that mingled a party spirit with social consc…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54AM"Over a career that spanned seven decades Shay pointed his lens at Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, John. F. Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway - to name a few - for Life, Time…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:54AMMatthew Loden, currently one of the two temporary co-presidents of the Philadelphia Orchestra (and before that, VP for institutional advancement), takes over in Toronto in July. He succeeds …
SOURCE: www.ludwig-van.com at 08:54AMThe Tony Award nominations favored the familiar, with Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants leading the field with 12 nods apiece, while the American debut of Harry Potter and the Cursed Chi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:52AMFlip through the Playbills of all of this year’s nominated plays and revivals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AMFor 11 performances only this month, Olivier Award-winning cabaret artist Christopher Green returns to Wilton's Music Hall this week with a strictly limited season of Music Hall Monster, his…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AMFlip through the Playbills of all of this year’s nominated musicals and revivals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM Mean Girls’ and `SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical’ lead nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, with 12 nods each, followed by Angels in America, The Band…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMStar of stage and screen, Carol Burnett, stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss her upcoming Netflix series A Little Helpwith Carol Burnett, along with her favorite TV shows she loves to bi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMDrama created after Tackroom Theatre teamed up with Barnardo’s to conduct the largest piece of research ever done into the subjectThere’s no holding back in the rehearsal room, with talk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThe 2018 Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 10 at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and will air live on CBS. Nominees were announced today by Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (“…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:35AMJust For Kix is more than just a dancewear company. The popular brand also hosts a successful – and very popular – competition. And the name says it all. Just For Kix’s Together We Dan…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:30AM"Hamilton" star Leslie Odom Jr. and "Waitress" and "Scorpion" star Katharine McPhee announced the nominations Tuesday morning.
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 08:30AM"The Band's Visit," a wry and critically acclaimed musical based on an obscure Israeli movie about an Egyptian police band lost in a small Israeli town, has emerged the dominant new Broadway…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30AMFrom Page To Stage is back and it's bigger than ever! Returning for its sixth year, Aria Entertainment’s new musical theatre festival will find a new home at the Southwark Playhouse this S…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 08:30AMNominations for the 2018 Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (“Hamilton”) …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:29AMOver the past couple of months, we've enjoyed celebrating the very best of British theatre with the spectacular Olivier Awards 2018 with Mastercard ceremony - and now the focus switches over…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:29AM by Magda Katz The IV Cherry Orchard Festival of the Arts returns to New York City and with it Russia’s State Theatre of Nations production of Chekhov’s Ivanov, star…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:25AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 1 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMGood morning BroadwayWorld Today's top stories The Tony Award nominations are announced, and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMNominations for the 2018 Chita Rivera Awards were announced on April 27, and the nominees met the press last night BroadwayWorld was in attendance and you can check out photos from the eveni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMEverything's coming up TonysIn just minutes, Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom, Jr. will announce the 72ndAnnual Tony Awards nominations, live from the New York Public Library for the Perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMSo exactly how many Tony nominations will Harry Potter and the Cursed Child receive? How deep will the nominations go into the large featured casts of Angels in America or The Band’s V…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:22AMDavid Walliams' Gangsta Granny is to return to in London this Summer, playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre for a limited two week run.
The post David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny raps ba…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 08:11AMAs Broadway producers prepare to tally up their shows’ Tony Awards nominations, it appears that not all nominations are created equal.
SOURCE: Forbes at 08:07AMGetting into a drama school is notoriously difficult, with prospective students often feeling unprepared for auditions. Susan Elkin explains how foundation courses
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMEnding on a quietly reflective note that looks ahead to an uncertain future, Citizen is a thought-provoking piece of theatre that doesn’t hold back with regard to the ongoing political iss…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
"The aim of the new rules, first proposed in 2016 in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal, is to increase transparency around financial transactions and require banks and vendors to verify …
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 07:48AMOn Friday, The Stage published two news stories reporting on different events, but I believe they are connected. One reported Madani Younis,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMThe results from last week:FAVORITE CURRENT LONG-RUNNING BROADWAY SHOW:1. Come From Away (59.09%)2. Wicked (36.36%)3. Waitress (4.55%)Today's the day! The 2017-2018 Tony Awards nominations a…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:36AMA new course dissects problematic tropes surrounding rape in books, TV and film with students creating their own stage productions in oppositionWhen professors Barbara Cassidy and Shonna Tri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThe award-winning director of The Mountaintop has helmed Nine Night at the National. He tells Tim Bano how a chance trip to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMAs Broadway producers prepare to tally up their shows’ Tony Award nominations, it appears that not all nominations are created equal.
SOURCE: Forbes at 07:30AMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR FINDS KINSHIP IN A FAMILY SORROW Well, this is timely. In the shadow of Windrush, a play immerses us in the colourful traditions of Caribbe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AMNew work by Vivienne Franzmann and Atiha Sen Gupta will feature in a series of plays exploring power by female playwrights from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMRamps On the Moon’s Our Country’s Good delivers a production that seamlessly integrates actors with and without disabilities to produce excellent all-round performances.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMEerie wails of coyotes, mixing with the ceaseless drone of crickets, might conjure up something of the old, rugged American West. But heard from inside a suburban Southern California home, t…
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Pitched as a play about motherhood, Spiked is more than meets the eye. The play, produced by Pepperbox Production, sees
The post Review: Spiked, Pleasance Theatre appeared first on A Younger…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMIn Caribbean culture when a loved one passes, there follows a period of nine nights of official mourning. During this time, friends
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMRomola Garai gives a storming performance in deliberately tricksy Ella Hickson playForget write what you know: writing what you feel would seem to be the impetus driving Ella Hickson's often…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:42AMBright, young stars from across the country will have a chance to shine as one of the children from Oakmoor School in the new tour of the feelgood musical.
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:35AMA Jamaican nine nights wake is the basis for this affecting, funny study of a family dealing with grief
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:33AMAward-winning director Josh Seymour returns to the Finborough Theatre with the UK debut of Brooklyn-based playwright Jordan Seavey. The European premiere of Homos, or Everyone in America, op…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AMJoe White’s play Mayfly is telling us please, hang on. So much can happen in a day. And the most surprising acts of kindness and generosity can come from the most unsuspecting of sources.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMIt's been FAR too long but CHESS is finally back in the West End and it officially opens this week!! We knew we wanted to celebrate with #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek but there are so many amazin…
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Thirty Broadway productions are eligible for prizes, the smallest number in more than a decade, in a season dominated by “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMMay is a good month to venture away from Times Square blockbusters. “Our Lady of 121st Street” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” are Off Broadway highlights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMBirmingham Stage Company has announced the return of its hit adaptation of David Walliams’ bestselling book, Gangsta Granny, to the West End.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:39AM"I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for about five years now. I thought, this is a well-written play with good characters and a good story, but it’s also the opportunity to be able …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 18th Annual Monte Cristo Award Honoring Lin-Manuel Miranda
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AMHow did you start off in theatre? A two-year diploma in stage management at Central School of Speech and Drama, then into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMy first professional theatre job was as assistant director to Lisa Spirling on Lou Ramsden’s play Hundreds and Thousands at Soho Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Gary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMLeslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee will reveal the nominees May 1 at 8:30 AM
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00AMSondheim classic INTO THE WOODS gets a 21st-century twist in an in-the-round production directed by and starring Tim McArthur, which runs at London's Cockpit Theatre 23 May to 24 June 2018, …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:00AMLeslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee will reveal the nominees May 1 at 8:30 AM
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00AMThe 72nd annual ceremony will take place June 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00AMIn summary, stage adaptations of films should be justified by bringing something new to a well-known story, and Strictly Ballroom misses the mark on this point.
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The Tony nominees have been announced, and many of our favorite shows will be squaring off against each other for the coveted top prizes in Best Play, Best Musical, and Best Revival, not to …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:46AMThe Tony Awards is adding even more competition to the night — fantasy football-style Tony predictions. Audience Rewards has teamed up with the Tony Awards to launch an interactive game, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 04:45AMThis morning, Tony-winner Leslie Odom, Jr. and Waitress star Katharine McPhee announced the 2018 Tony Award nominees. Mean Girls and Spongebob Squarepants Broadway lead with the most nomin…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:39AMReturning for its sixth year, Aria Entertainment’s new musical theatre festival From Page To Stage will take place in September at Southwark Playhouse and submissions are now open.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMNEW YORK — Whichever show garners the most Tony Award nominations on Tuesday will very likely sound familiar. That’s because most of the leading candidates on Broadway stages these d…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30AM The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner of "Ruined" and "Sweat" reveals the secret origins of her new play "Mlima's Tale" -- including its surprising link to Oscar-winning director Kathryn Big…
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Actor Maureen Beattie has become only the second female president in Equity’s history. She told The Stage her goal is to ensure
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:54AMParis will get to catch up with some of the best films from Nigeria. There will be be 14 films screened during the 4 day festival which will include 6 feature films that will compete with on…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:45AMThis is a retrospective of a man's work who transcended conventional cinematic norms. Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most aggressive observers of human nature the world of cinema has…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:43AMIf the first two parts of the film left you with more to guess, then the wait is over. "Senses 3 & 4," the sequel to the first two parts takes off from where it all had ended. For beginn…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:35AMShould this piece of work be called a documentary or a film is yet not decided. The popularity of Belgium's cult TV show Striptease inspired the makers to translate the story on to celluloid…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:29AMWho is Archie Roach? Archie Roach. What would you do differently to what you do now? Say ‘no’ more often. Who inspires you and why? People I meet travelling, my family, my manager and th…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:26AMThis is one unique course cycle with Words and Arts. Right from the Italian primitives to El Greco, this cycle devoted to the Renaissance offers one a chance to go through Europe where …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:22AMFollowing a sell-out visit in 2013, STOMP returns to Australia with its unstoppable energy and ‘pure stage magic’. The show will tour to Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Adelaide and Sydney fr…
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More Victorians will be able to enjoy our museums and galleries with plans to redevelop and protect some of our biggest cultural attractions – helping to create jobs, boost the economy and…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:57AMAward-winning singer-songwriter Shaina Taub will independently release her second full-length studio solo album, Die Happy on Today, May 1, 2018. Taub will be previewing songs from the new a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42AM1 May 1958 The most surprising thing about the production which opened in London last night is that all the dialogue is so unmistakably Shavian, including some of the funniest linesIf My Fai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04AMWelcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Monsters, strong roles for women, and fun death scenes – what more do you need? Ready to bring an easy-to-stage classical adaptation of Mary Sh…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AMCheers to the classics! In the brilliant full-length adaptation, The Canterbury Tales by Lindsay Price, Chaucer’s classic collection of tales come to life. A group of travelers set out…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AMEpisode 206: Monologue Competitions: How to compete confidently How can you encourage your students to compete with confidence? Learn from the source! Student Kelsey Gilmore was chosen as cr…
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