This afternoon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stopped by the Broadway Theatre to celebrate the new King of Broadway, King Kong After a special appearance at the curtain call, Mayor de B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45PMThese 10 sexy chorus gals will make your heart sing and dance in this season's Broadway musicals
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:41PMThese 10 sexy chorus guys will make your heart sing and dance in this season's Broadway musicals
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:41PM‘Rent’ is still a show completely of its era, and there are no surprises onstage more than 20 years later—still, it’s oddly prescient. Alaina Johns considers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:26PMFollowing the announcement that Samuel French will close itsbookstore on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, CA, it has been reported that the location has been the target of a serious actof vand…
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Four years ago, I wrote about how the government of India, in an attempt to end public defecation by 2019, was building over 1 million toilet facilities in households around the country. How…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:58PMMusical parodies of pop culture movie faves have been so done. But that doesn't mean they still can't slay, especially when they gather four of the drag world's most talented and treacherous…
SOURCE: www.laweekly.com at 08:50PMColumbia Pro Cantare will be performing “20th Century European Composers” on Sunday, March 17, 2019, at 4 pm at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3604 Chatham Road, Ellicott City, M…
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The National Alliance for Audition Support, launched by the League of American Orchestras, the Sphinx Organization, and the New World Symphony, “offers a range of supports to help musician…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:57PM“Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Chrysanthe Tan, a real-life, autistic violinist, composer, and recording artist, and in my near-decade of working in many music spheres, I’ve noticed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:47PM“Intergenerational orchestras boast a unique dynamic: an eight-year old might share a music stand with an octogenarian. These avocational ensembles also foster improved self-confidence, me…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:45PM“Every identity comes with inherent biases, assumptions, and privileges to varying degrees. A helpful exercise is to take an identity and think of the immediate mental image that comes to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:40PM“NYC Health + Hospitals leadership will be expanding its use of the arts in clinical and staff care thanks to a $1.5 million grant. The grant, from philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch via the M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:38PMInspired from a conversation with The Movement Theatre Company after their historic #25kin25days campaign for Aleshea Harris’ What To Send Up When It Goes Down, Advancing Arts Forward team…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PMAdaptation of Harriet Lane's psychological and satirical bestseller never quite takes off
Okay, so this is the play that will be remembered for the character names that have unusual spellin…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:31PMThe boys are back! Jersey Boys opened in Melbourne this past weekend, and it’s already the talk of the town. The critically acclaimed musical is on the final leg of its Aussie tour, having…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMFrom songs without words to the first piano quintet
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:30PMIn the wake of HBO’s blockbuster Michael Jackson documentary “Leaving Neverland,” in which two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, accuse the late singer abusing them sexually when t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28PMWe need stories like The Wages to expose the hypocrisy and incoherence of the institutions that we are supposed to believe are pillars of justice.
The post Book Review: “The Wages” —…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:25PMMax von Essen and Nick Adams stop by Broadway.com HQ to chat about the Falsettos national tour and more with Ryan Lee Gilbert.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMThe recent phenomenon of so-called cancel culture — the notion of withholding moral, financial and other support for prominent figures deemed problematic — has grown to become the defau…
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Giveaway alert: submit your email to win a free one-year, one-site license for the plugin in this review. Who doesn't love simple? But when it comes to some content management tasks inside W…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:52PMA Gary Griffin-directed musical (Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”), a new “Doll’s House,” Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly” and a work by Chicago’s Manual Cinema are among the si…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:40PM By Steve Nardoni So what if one could be in an audience and get to hear songs by Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others, all with a saloon singer, a comedienne, a sultry va…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:37PMWatch vocal powerhouse Nicole Vanessa Ortiz sing Whitney, Adele, The Greatest Showman and some Broadway faves.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:32PMOne of this Broadway season’s clearest successes, the play, directed by Ivo van Hove and also starring Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany, routinely posts weekly box office of $1 million or …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:29PMOn Monday, April 8 theannual Broadway Beacon Awards Gala will honor Tony Award-winning Broadway icon Chita Rivera and NBC NewsThe Today Show's Al Roker.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PMFor the first time in two decades, the company will present a production composed by Stephen Sondheim.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:28PM(Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/27; via Pam Green.) At the relatively late age of 43 — though basically a toddler compared to much of a recent audience…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:25PMShakespeare@’s inaugural season will begin previews March 29 at the Theater at Grace Church Van Vorst.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM"Not to be dramatic, but on my deathbed, I wouldn’t say, 'I wish I had hung in there for a few more pilot seasons in LA.'"
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:17PMStage veteran Ato Blankson-Wood will go head to head with Daniel Craig in the highly anticipated one-night benefit performance of Caryl Churchill's award-winning drama A Number at New York …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:17PMBased on the true-life story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks, rose to fame to become The Four Seasons – one of the most successful bands in pop music h…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:13PMThe Slave Play actor will return to NYTW for the one-night-only benefit March 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMBuddy Guy is eighty-two and a master of the blues. What weighs on him is the idea that he may be the last. Several years ago, after the funeral of B. B. King, he was overcome not only with…
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Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 3/6/19. Goodspeed announces its season directors and choreographers. "Rent" comes to The Bushnell, and arts news for WMass and No.CT.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 04:58PMThe Beacon Awards will also honor scenic designer Beowulf Boritt and Today Show host Al Roker.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMNew York Theatre Workshop announced today that Ato Blankson-Wood Slave Play will complete the cast of NYTW's special one-night-only reading of A Number
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Chita Rivera to Be Honored with Broadway Beacon Lifetime Achievement Award
NYC arts education nonprofit Inside Broadway has ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMThe concert evening will highlight Stephen Sondheim’s skill as a lyrical craftsman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMOn this day in 2014, the current star of Network, Bryan Cranston opened on Broadway in his Tony-winning role of Lyndon B. Johnson in the hit drama All The Way.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PMRunning Wednesday through Sunday at the historic site, the musical from the new Toronto-based Eclipse Theatre Company (ETC) is meant to be an immersive experience set in a venue that once ho…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:36PMWhile we tend to condemn clichés harshly, the scholar of rhetoric Ruth Amossy at Tel Aviv University has shown that they’re in fact crucial to the way we bond with and read other human be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMLearn more about the infamous international sensation Blue Man Group.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:28PMPerformances begin April 17 in the Courtyard Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThis idea is particularly prevalent when it comes to those works of art described as “narrative”: stories, novels, TV shows, movies, comics. We assume that works that depict characters i…
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Waller-Bridge brings her acclaimed solo play to SoHo Playhouse for its U.S. premiere.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMTaylor will star as Prospero in the Mobile Unit touring production this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMA drama set in a college classroom during a campus shooting, “Good Friday,” at the Flea Theater, is meant to unsettle and provoke.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46PMThe play, which began performances March 5 at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, originally premiered in Australia in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PMChicago Shakespeare Theater announces today that Maurice Jones has stepped into the title role of the Theater's upcoming production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, staged by Artistic Direct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMAfter a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s important and engaging “Choir Boy” closes on Sunday March 10, 2019…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:42PMFive-year-olds will alternate as title character's daughter.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:40PMOpening night in any form of theater is a big deal, but this Saturday’s opening of Eugene Onegin at Washington National Opera carries extra meaning at several levels. It’s the first appe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38PMAs it begins previews in Toronto, composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, director Michael Greif and others talk about understanding the human story behind the production, writes Carly Maga.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:36PMOn today's episode of 'Live with Kelly and Ryan,' Barbara Eden stops by to talkabout going on tour with the play 'Love Letters'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMThe Pitmen Painters, at Theatrical Outfit through March 24, asks lots of questions: What is art? Does its meaning lie with the creator or viewer? Should it be political? Is there a differenc…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:32PMWhen the new $9 million John H. Harland Boys & Girls Club opened on Atlanta’s Westside this week, it became a community hub for the visual, performing and culinary arts with the capaci…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:32PMThe Internet Archive began digitising books in 2005, because “not everyone has access to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to prov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMJudith Ivey will direct Tor Hyams and Lisa St. Lou’s new play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM'The Cake' is easy on the eyes and charming to the ears, but it doesn't provide much nutrition to take home.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:18PMThe cast for the Kennedy Center's production of The Who's Tommy has been announced Casey Cott, star of the hit CW series Riverdale, will play the title role in the Broadway Center Stage prod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMThe Dear Evan Hansen and Ain't Too Proud stars teamed up for the new pop release.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMJustin Davidson: “There’s a certain slyly subversive quality to the displays of manuscripts, ceiling frescoes, foods, scientific instruments, silverware, home furnishings, and scenes of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMAt this year’s Oscars, Glenn Close (“The Wife”) ended up losing Best Actress to Olivia Colman (“The Favourite“) in what was the biggest shocker in the Best Actress category since 2…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMAn A-list group of stars will go on an amazing journey this spring in a new staging of The Who's Tommy at the Kennedy Center. Josh Rhodes will direct and choreograph and Lynne Shankel will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PM
The semi-staged concert presentation plays the Washington, D.C., venue April 24–29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMI began pondering issues related to community engagement almost 30 years ago. What has become clear to me is that the economic pressures faced by institutions presenting Eurocentric art form…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PMDear SFMOMA and Sotheby’s: Have you no shame?It’s bad enough for a museum to decide it no longer wants a work that it had specifically requested from its owner. It’s much worse when th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PMRoyal Court, LondonClean Break’s satirical look at the stereotypes around life in jail ends up undone by its own artifice
Inside Bitch is a drama about drama and its misrepresentations. Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49PMMess, horror and queer celebration: here are Exeunt's UK-wide picks for March in theatre and performance.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:44PMNew York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck stars in the new musical, directed and choreographed by Tony winner Susan Stroman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMThe country music drama — which ran for six seasons on ABC, CMT and Hulu, will be produced by the company behind "Mean Girls," "The Book of Mormon," "Kinky Boots" and "Dear Evan Hansen."…
SOURCE: USA Today at 02:36PMIdiosyncratic vocalist and song stylist, Nellie McKay, is equally comfortable on a Broadway stage (Old Hats, The Threepenny Opera), in concert, in films, or on the small screen, where her mu…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:34PMWhen it comes to stealing from museums, Stéphane Breitwieser is virtually peerless. He is one of the most prolific and successful art thieves who have ever lived. Done right, his technique�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMOver the past several years, Laura Dreyfuss has surprised theater fans with her smooth, stirring vocals as Madison McCarthy on Glee and Zoe Murphy in the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hanse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PM“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.” –Becky Sharp William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) is considered a great writer. Vanity Fair, despite its flaws, is h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMFor 30 years, I have been a fan of Taylor Dayne, the three-time Grammy nominated artist whose hits include “Tell It To My Heart,” “Prove Your Love,” “Don’t Rush Me,” “I’ll …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 02:25PMPeterson will also direct the production, beginning April 25 at the California venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMOverall, this musical has quite a few nice moments but they are just not quite super enough to insure its success.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:13PM“It’s where free speech, community interests, censorship, harassment, spam, and overt criminality all butt up against each other. It has to account for a wide variety of always-evolving …
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The 5th Avenue Theatre has announced full casting for its production of Marie, Dancing Still - A New Musical, the gorgeous new work from Tony Award-winning authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Fl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMThe celebrated composer was born March 6, 1948.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMThe National Theatre production of NETWORKannouncedtoday that the new play has recouped in 15 weeks on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMThe ‘novel without a hero’ takes a shine to its durable antiheroine.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:47PMNetwork, the Broadway production starring Bryan Cranston as the imploding newsman Howard Beale, has recouped its reported $7 million investment just 15 weeks into its limited engagement.
One…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:46PMA musical version of the Shakespeare play, created in the wake of one school shooting, will get a staging in a community still mourning their own loss.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:44PMCriticizing a play for being too wordy might seem counter-intuitive. Character dialogue, after all, is words. But unlike narrative stories or essays, plays need to balance telling with showi…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 01:36PMJeremy O. Harris’ new play Daddy, starring Alan Cumming, has a star-studded opening night at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre on March 5. Daddy is directed by Danya Taymor and also features…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:34PM“[This study reveals] how racism spans across the entire Seuss collection, while debunking myths about how books like Horton Hears a Who! and The Sneetches can be used to promote toler…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:27PMProducers of the acclaimed play Network, a new stage adaptation of Paddy Chayevsky's iconic film, have announced full recoupment of its Broadway investment. The production, which was recentl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PM“Network” has recouped after running for 15 weeks on Broadway, the producers announced Wednesday. The play, starring Bryan Cranston and directed by Ivo van Hove, was capitalized for up t…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 01:18PMThe stage adaptation of the 1976 movie opened at the Belasco Theatre in December last year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMThe mother of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will premiere her new autobiographical solo show in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM By Tania Fisher The stylish Café Carlyle fills quickly with happy patrons whose eager anticipation only becomes heightened as they wait patiently for the arrival of their beloved e…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:03PMWith its gripping plot, a tart and social critique and a great central role, you can see why Nicholas Hytner brought this popular novel to the stage
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:02PMWQXR editor-in-chief Jacqui Cheng interviews Chi-chi Nwanoku, one of London’s leading double bassists and founder of the Chineke! Orchestra, and Chineke! bassoonist Linton Stephens. – WQ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PMIn this inaugural edition of an ongoing series, StageLight celebrates one of the incredible performers who has made their Broadway debut within the last year by getting to know a little abou…
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 01:00PMNewcomers to Jersey Boys are sure to enjoy the memorable music and terrific stage talent. Those who have seen the show (possible more than once) may be harder to coax back, but the performan…
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Nassim Soleimanpour is an Iranian playwright whose new play NASSIM is currently being presented by Barrow Street Theatricals at New York City Center Stage II. NASSIM has previously played to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMCynthia Erivo, Patti LuPone, and Glenn Close are among the actors featured on the new series by the creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMCARRYING BAGGAGE Although it is written with an almost childlike simplicity, Mfoniso Udofia’s Her Portmanteau tells a wrenching tale of the profound effect that separation creates when a w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:46PMChick Flick the Musical a new musical comedy with book, music and lyrics by Suzy Conn Suffra-Jets The Mercer Girls, is set to open tomorrow, March 7, at The Westside Theatre 407 W. 43rd Stre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMBuilding work has started on a £195 million development in London, which includes what is billed as the first new theatre to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMI recently had the opportunity to attend a press event with the cast of BEETLEJUICE The Musical. I love going to these events. It's the best time to be at the beginning of a show's journey o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMAfter 30 years in the business, what one of the most powerful women in the theatre has learned along the way.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:38PMGet a first look below at Atlantic Theater Company's production ofThe MotherbyFlorian Zeller, translated byChristopher Hampton,anddirected byTrip Cullman
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMFrench playwright Florian Zeller, who penned The Father, returns to the U.S. with a play about a woman grasping for stability.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMA growing number of artists claim that their works in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) have gone “missing” and may have ended up on the market without thei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PMGermany loves TINA - THE Tina Turner MUSICAL the only original production by Stage Entertainment authorized by Tina Turner celebrated the German premiere in the Hamburg State 'Operettenhaus'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PM10 Broadway scene-stealers to get excited for this spring!
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:11PMThe 24th annual festival will feature new plays by Zhu Yi, Sarah Einspanier, and Daniel Glenn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place,” writes the Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, “full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.” The ti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMGermany loves TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL the only original production by Stage Entertainment authorized by Tina Turner celebrated the German premiere in the Hamburg State Operettenhaus o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMIsaac Iskra, a person with high-functioning autism, writes about his difficult adjustment to his college’s dance department (he had a panic attack the first day), his subsequent breakthrou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMThe Usual Girls director and associate of Tony winner Bartlett Sher describes what makes her tick, why she and Sher hit it off, and two upcoming premiere works.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMNational Ballet soloist Chelsy Meiss becomes the first woman to dance the role in the Christopher Wheeldon ballet Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PM
PM’s mother says he hasn’t reigned her in: ‘His father couldn’t. Why should he try?’
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:51AMDisney's 'Mary Poppins Returns,' the irresistible, timeless sequel based upon the Mary Poppins Stories by PL Travers, has had audiences dancing in their seats and critics singing its praises…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMPatti LuPone has claimed that the hierarchy within musical theatre productions can make them “very tough” environments to work in. LuPone, who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMRehearsals are underway for MTC's INK, which will begin previews Tuesday, April 2 prior to a Wednesday, April 24 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. Two-tim…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMA placeholder image that went viral last month had bunheads worldwide worried. But it’s merely a placeholder for engineers. – Pointe
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AM“I just kept waiting for him to talk about it,” the guy next to me said after comedian Aziz Ansari’s show Tuesday night at the Chicago Theatre — the first of a three-night, four-show…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:20AMThe annual showcase of new works from around the globe will kick off in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMIn the age of truthiness, poet Frederick Seidel's is a welcome voice.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AM“Shot in a single-take, the [five-minute] dance routine is more than just choreographed steps. It shows off the dancers’ individual styles which include voguing, an improvisational dance…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSherman theatre, CardiffJo Clifford’s inventive and playful production gives the characters new conflicts, complexities and genders
Notwithstanding its running gags at the expense of acade…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMThe latest chapter in the remarkable saga of the Broadway Peterborough emerged this week with the news that Selladoor Worldwide is to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMVariety has announced the honorees for the sixth annual Power of Women luncheon, which celebrates some of Hollywood’s most philanthropic women. The event, presented by Lifetime, will take …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMAmerican Blues Theater has announced its 2019-20 season, including "Five Presidents" by "West Wing" writer Rick Cleveland, a Nambi E. Kelley world premiere and the Green Day musical "America…
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The Max Webster–helmed staging of the Franz Lehár operetta opened March 1 at the London Coliseum.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMThe New Group and Vineyard Theatrejust celebrated opening night ofJeremy O. Harris' 'Daddy,' with Alan Cumming, Tommy Dorfman, Fran Jaye, Kahyun Kim, Hari Nef, Ronald Peet and Charlayne Wood…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMBertie Carvel, Jonny Lee Miller and the cast of Broadway's Ink prepare for their Great White Way bow.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMA dynamic ensemble admirably helmed by JESSICA STONE. Anchoring the enjoyable production are REBECCA BROCKMAN ("Becky") & MARIBEL MARTINEZ ("Amelia") as it's satirical heart.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMDirector and producer Michael Grandage has called on theatres to offer affordable tickets in all areas of an auditorium. He said he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMBroadway’s next generation of leading men join the legend for her April 6 concert in Overland Park, Kansas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMBeleaguered Edinburgh Festival Fringe operator C Venues has been kicked out of its George Street venue after two years. The move comes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMOn first impressions, this lesser-known Arthur Miller play from 1993 bears all the hallmarks of the dramatist’s greatest works. Centring on two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMOff-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre has announced Jeanne Sakata as the final cast member set to lead Mara Nelson-Greenberg's New York premiere play Do You Feel Anger? Margot Bordelon will direct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:39AMIn 1955, she founded what would become the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in an old barn in Carlisle, about half an hour west of Harrisburg. “CPYB is [now] known as one of the most pres…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM“If you ask my mum, she’ll say I’ve been clowning for 46 years,” says Andrew Davis, better known as Andy the Clown.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AMThe event will feature musical performances by Suzzy Roche, Lucy Wainwright Roche, and Loudon Wainwright III.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMThe songwriter takes readers through the live recording of the 2018 concert about the history of gay rights in 20th-century America.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThe conflict between seeing multiple sides of an issue and the insistence that there is only one correct side is the power that fuels Bekah Brunstetter sweet and provocative multi-layered co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMCharlayne Woodard, Ronald Peet, and Alan Cumming star in the world premiere at the Signature Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMRandy Rainbowis back with another political parody that has us in stitches. This time, he parodies South Pacific while singing about Trump's 'love affair' with Kim Jong Un. Watch below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AM“Edinburgh Fringe theatremakers earned an average of just £392.15 for their work at the 2018 festival, covering a period of as much as 40 days, with fair-pay campaigners branding the figu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMThere is plenty to like in Tobacco Factory Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a brisk, crisp and fully accessible take on the play that should provide perfect introductions to a Shakes…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMDirected by Jessica Fisch, this regional premiere evinces just how starved the theater world is for fat-positive representation.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
Performances begin April 10 at the California venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMDancing through life
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:57AMIsraeli screen and TV star Sasson Gabay on picking up his proverbial baton and returning to the beloved role that he played over a decade ago in the film version of The Band's Visit. He now …
SOURCE: Forbes at 09:51AMPeter Shannon, who was artistic director of the orchestra for all of its ten years, announced last fall that he’d be leaving his post at the end of this season. But the Philharmonic board …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMBe up close and personal with the indomitable Broadway icon Chita Rivera as she recreates signature moments from her legendary career in CHITA amp FRIENDS, coming to the Carlsen Center, John…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMMarch is designated Women’s History Month and there is no better example of a theater woman on the march this March than Dominique Morisseau, who is 1. curating “50 in 50: Letters to Ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMJust last night, the cast and creative team ofKinky Bootshad something to say 'yeah' aboutSmithsonian Institution representatives, Abbe Raven and Anthea M. Hartig stopped by to formally indu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMUnder Ellen McDougall’s leadership, the Gate has solidified itself as an invaluable space that continually programmes daring and ambitious work. Anthony Simpson-Pike’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AM“Mr. Flummerfelt played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music. He prepared choruses for hundreds of concerts by the New York Philharmonic and a host of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AMYou may not agree with Debra Jo Rupp's refusal to bake a cake for a same sex wedding, but you'll enjoy the 90 minutes you spent with her at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:13AM“The long-in-gestation building, which has been designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and the British theater design company known as Charcoalblue, is ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AMTheresa May made the news this week when she jovially responded to a Twitter question asking whether she had ever seen the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIn a 1969 editorial, our editor Eric Johns wondered why there weren’t more young actors making their mark in the West End.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMOne of the most respected theatre accountants of his generation, Robert Thomas received an Olivier award shortly before his death at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJerry Dixon, who brings decades of showbiz experience, says: "People feel beat-up by what’s going on in our country and are glad for the escapism of musicals."
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMLyn Gardner’s article on the death of the high street struck a chord with us. A huge town centre redevelopment, conceived 20 years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBy Kiki Rivera. Kiki Rivera talks about the importance of telling stories from underrepresented communities in Hawai‘i’s theatrical landscape.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMThe Girl on the Train is contemporary, both in its subject and staging. There is a strong balance between a suspenseful whodunit that drives the play and a psychological element about memory…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM
Rags first appeared on Broadway in 1986 but closed after only four performances. The writers have since had other musical successes (notably
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AM“The announcement on Tuesday of architecture’s highest award was seen by many as a long overdue honor for this 87-year-old architect, urban designer and theorist … Mr. Isozaki’s more…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AMToday is not only the birthday of Ed McMahon (1923-2009) but we are also drawing close to the tenth anniversary of his death. I’ve been thinking recently that it would be interesting to do…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:46AMAt least they agree on something. “Female researchers, authors and firefighters in France could soon be known as chercheuses, autrices and sapeuses-pompières after the conservative Acadé…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM“The elite club of 40 ‘immortals,’ as the members are known, that serves as the official guardian of the French language does not admit just anybody.” Indeed, these days they don’t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AMLast fall, the culture ministry of Italy’s new populist government took exception to the Louvre’s plan to assemble an unprecedented number of da Vinci’s paintings for a major quincente…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AMPotential dance students have many study options to choose from, each of which provide different styles of training and career prospects. Anna
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMPsychologists explain how parents might unwittingly let their child end up with a predator.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLet’s start by saying that Rock of Ages is not a musical masterpiece by any means, but it is a super self-aware, high intensity, fun and crazily well performed show, that’ll definitely h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMargaret Trudeau — the mother of one Prime Minister of Canada and the former wife of another — will perform over Mother’s Day weekend. But not in Canada. In Chicago. In the UP Comedy C…
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A bizarre and disturbing new play by author of "Slave Play"
SOURCE: Theater Time at 07:47AM“John Palfrey, an educator, author and scholar with a focus on digital technology … [who is] currently Head of School at the old-line Massachusetts prep school Phillips Academy Andover, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AMActor Adrian Scarborough has said that London-based actors should commit to more work away from the capital to help support regional theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMCome From Away, a Broadway transfer about the Newfoundlanders who welcomed grounded airlines on 9/11, and director Marianne Elliott’s revival of the Sondheim musical Company with the commi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:28AMCall the dramaturg! Liam Scarlett’s Frankenstein is in dire need of a pacemaker and emergency surgery to slice away at its considerable
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMI flew from Houston to New York last March, having just directed the Alley Theater’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf to mutually satisfying effect. Once I got back home, I went for a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMI first knew (or noticed) character actor Victor Kilian (1891-1979) from his hilarious role as Grandpa Larkin, the Fernwood Flasher, on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976-77). He’d had over …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:02AMNat “King” Cole sings and plays “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” by Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, and Billy Rose. This performance, which has been colorized, was part of An Evening with Nat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMFor British audiences of a certain age, André Previn will be remembered as “Mr Preview”, the hapless conductor who tried, and failed,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM“Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.” Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMHave a question about acting, training, auditions, headshots, headshits, training? Tweet me and i’ll answer in @thestage. #dear — westendproducer (@westendproducer) February
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMShe is comedy gold in everything she does. And she's spread laughter on stages across the country on national tour, off-Broadway and on. She's played a spelling bee hostess, a fairy tale wit…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:00AMWhat's your favourite Gershwin song? Actor and Frank Sinatra mega-fan Adam Scott Pringle is in no doubt... and he's pretty chuffed that he gets to croon it to co-star Charlotte Christensen i…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 07:00AMIvo van Hove's production and stage adaptation of the film All About Eve is trademark van Hove and that is a good and bad thing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMJocelyn Bioh’s School Girls deals with serious issues like shadism but also ‘the loudness, the humour, the fun of African women,’ the actors tell Karen Fricker.
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Director Indhu Rubasingham has criticised the dominance of white men working as theatre critics, claiming it is a “power base that is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMSecondary ticketing site Viagogo is facing further legal action from the Competition and Markets Authority, which claims it has failed to comply
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMJo Clifford takes on one of Shakespeare’s more troublesome plays in this re-imagining of The Taming of the Shrew, co-produced by Sherman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMThroughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London's home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMManhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter and directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, opened last night, March 5 at the MTC…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25AMBridge theatre, LondonJoanne Froggatt plays a lowly journalist who ascends into elite literary circles in Nicholas Hytner’s smooth production
Journalists enjoy seeing themselves depicted o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22AMOn Monday night, sixteen Broadway stars were featured in Broadway Sings Adele, the latest concert in the Broadway Sings series. The tribute concerts take the music of well-known music icons …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMReview: Tesseract, Barbican3.0Overall ScoreA pair of 3D glasses are thrust into my hand: look for the orange box. I nod, the thick, red rims finding their way to the bridge of my nose. The b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10AMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series recently welcomed Tony winner Katrina Lenk and her friend and former cast member from The Band's Visit, George Abud in a one-night only concert called…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the Royal Opera House’s production of Così Fan Tutte.
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Review: The Dissociation of Shirley Mason, Bristol Old Vic5.0Overall ScoreThe Dissociation of Shirley Mason is a colourful and climactic experience, highlighting the complexities of mental h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56AMWhen first starting out as a writer, a mentor predicted that, since diversity was all the rage, I would ‘make it’ before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMBelgrade theatre, Coventry Amy Ng’s family drama has the seeds of a great story, but is undone by melodrama and parody
The definition of a good future differs significantly for three gener…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMReview: The New Romantic, VAULT Festival 5.0Overall Score Humans love creating boundaries and placing labels. We are innately afraid to step away from the norm. Yet, modern society is at the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40AMMiss the midterms? Can’t wait for the 2020 election cycle to really get underway? Here’s something to hold you over until then. D.C.-based musical comedy troupe The Capitol Steps is … …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:40AMA thrust stage dominates “Doll’s House, Part 2” and dramatically moves it from Henrik Ibsen’s 19th century Norway to 21st century America: emotionally where we all live. The actors i…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:40AMIt starts with a good-natured fencing battle. It ends with a slightly less good-natured fencing battle, with bodies strewn across the stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Happy Wednesday The week is halfway over and we've got a slew of Broadway stories for you to catch up on
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20AMOff her shift in Waitress on Broadway, and critically acclaimed for her performances in The Last Five Years and Falsettos, Betsy Wolfe has established herself as one of musical theatre's mos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04AMMTC's INK will begin previews Tuesday, April 2 prior to a Wednesday, April 24 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02AMNicholas Hytner finally directs a play by a woman but Lucinda Coxon’s adaptation of novel Alys, Always is a disappointment for me at the Bridge Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFrom Glyndebourne to Fascinating Aida to Barbra Streisand, actor, singer and comedienne Liza Pulman has brought her extraordinary voice to a wide range of material. Now she's bringing her la…
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As part of Dance Informa’s series, Spotlight on the Teacher, we feature contemporary teacher and Artistic Director of NYC-based company Sexy Beast, Max Stone. Stone has been teaching for o…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:34AMOn Saturday, February 23, the Steps Beyond Foundation hosted an Artists Talk entitled “The Creative Process Unraveled: Creating a New Musical”. The packed evening (Steps Beyond’s most …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:31AMOver the past decade, including three seasons at the National Theatre and extensive international touring, 1927 Productions' dystopian The Animals and Children took to the Streets has racked…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMReview: Disturbing the Dust, Etcetera Theatre1.0starsEtcetera Theatre’s Disturbing the Dust has a plot that vaguely resembles Toy Story while hinting at an ongoing war outside, but what is…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMWhen her husband was arrested on child pornography charges, Maddie Corman watched her world fall apart. Then she made a play about it.
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