“We did it!” was heard behind the curtain following Ballet Hispánico’s world premiere of Edwaard Liang’s El Viaje (The Journey). And yes, they sure did in a creatively diverse …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:46PMAlabama Story, the fact-inspired six-actor drama about an Indiana librarian who made international headlines when she stood up for the freedom to read in the segregated Deep South, will make…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:44PMMelbourne Youth Orchestra returns to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday 7 April with Death and Transfiguration – a moving program of works meditating on love, death and resurrection, …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:37PMWest End hit The Lehman Trilogy is currently making its North American debut at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31PMNico Parker, aged 14, threw her mother (the actress Thandie Newton) a look and said: ‘I’m doing my interview now.’ The subtext was simple: ‘You stay in the corridor while I go into t…
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 10:10PM★★★★ An unusually well-spoken, even well-declaimed treatment, choreographed by Erika Chong Shuch
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMLocal production of Broadway smash has found a worthy star in Robert Markus, to go with powerful story and songs.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00PM
'Today, we give to the dirt of the earth, our beloved brother and friend, Brother Righttocomplain,' Father Freeman announces to the audience at commencement of Jordan E. Cooper's aggressivel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMA theater production promotion showing actors wearing dark brown makeup has given France’s esteemed Sorbonne University its own version of the blackface scandals that chastened politicians…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:40PMMCC Theater's new Off-Broadway space welcomes the premiere of "Alice by Heart" from the songwriting duo that brought us "Spring Awakening."
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:18PMCustom Made Theatre presents Bess Wohl's dark comedy "American Hero" in S.F. through April 16.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 07:12PMI wasn’t exactly sleeping through the 1960s and 70s, but I seem to have missed most of the pop tunes and great combos that found their place at the time. I blush to admit that I did not kn…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:11PMThe new Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate removes much of the objectionable material — and a lot of the fun
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:08PMAdaptation of Max Porter's contemporary classic gets the big-stage treatment
Wow, what a collection of talent: this show stars Peaky Blinder Cillian Murphy, and Enda Walsh's adaptation, Grie…
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After four incredibly successful years at the helm, Artistic Director Sam Strong will leave Queensland Theatre in November, after achieving artistic and ticketing records and transforming th…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:52PMThis AprilThe Sheen Center for Thought amp Culture presents aline-up ofevents featuring artists and thought leadersincluding choreographer Warren CarlyleKiss Me Kate,Hello Dolly, andPaul Gem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:38PMThe non-profit, dedicated to advancing the art form of choreography, celebrated its annual gala at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre March 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37PMIt's been almost twenty years since the last rival of Kiss, Me Kate opened on Broadway, and yet, theatregoers can get a quick glimpse of the last incarnation on the Studio 54 stage today. Ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMA high school in New Jersey has taken the internet by storm with their stage production of Alien. Now, the film's original director, Ridley Scott, has reached out and to offer to assist in f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMAfter photos and video from North Bergen High School’s production of Alien: The Play went viral, Scott offers to help fund an encore run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:04PMGolden ages are frequently proclaimed, but a glance at the selection of television options suggests something new is happening. Even for those of us who spend most of our recreational hours …
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This new video of "Get Me to the Church on Time" puts you onstage with the cast of My Fair Lady!
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SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:59PMThere’s tumult behind the scenes this week at “Be More Chill,” the social-media phenomenon that’s become a Broadway musical. Concerned that their show isn’t gaining traction in the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:49PMThe Tony award winner, currently starring in The Prom on Broadway, joins the famed wall of caricatures.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PMElla Gatlin is a junior at James Hubert Blake High School and is a member of the Young Artists of America program. She recently portrayed Cosette in their Spring musical, “Les Miserables.�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:42PMAccording to Deadline, Tony nominee Taylor Louderman is set to star as the female lead on the forthcoming CBS pilot titled EMPEROR OF MALIBU. She joins the previously announcedKen Jeong and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMRyan McCartan stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about playing Fiyero in Wicked and more with Ryan Lee Gilbert.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:39PMContinuing our HPFS Splash blog series, we’ll be taking the tops off the metaphorical fire hydrants* and spilling out the information you want to know from our High Pressure Fire Service (…
SOURCE: fringearts.com at 05:33PM“Trigger warnings are, at best, trivially helpful,” writes a research team led by psychologist Mevagh Sanson of the University of Waikato. The paper finds they “have no effect, or migh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30PMThe 87-year-old will become the third person to win a Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:18PMThis afternoon, Broadway's Beetlejuice, Alex Brightman, shared an inside no, really look at the vocal technique behind the iconicgrowl that will help bringhisgarish ghoul to life eight times…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMJitney's Brandon J. Dirden stars as Brutus in the Shana Cooper-helmed production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMKen Barnett also stars in the film by Matthew Puccini.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PMFrom classic sitcom sets to historic studios.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:03PMAn important reason for the survival of the Western is that it has proved to be unusually adaptable to changing times and sensibilities. Younger filmmakers continue to find fresh ways to mak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PM
If Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s "Fleabag" sounds familiar, it may be because of the cult television show now in its second season adapted from this one-woman play. Having premiered at the Edinbu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Taylor Louderman Cast in CBS Comedy Pilot The Emperor of Malibu
Taylor Louderman, leading lady of Broadway's Mean Girls, is bo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PMThe Broadway alum will play a California lawyer at odds with her fiancé’s Chinese family in the new comedy The Emperor of Malibu.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMSara Bareilles and Katharine McPhee sing "She Used To Be Mine" from the musical Waitress.
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SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:34PMTheater's latest celebration of immersive and site-based performance will unfold at Point Loma-area arts district in October
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:30PMWe’ve moved far beyond the DYI days of tech-integrated engagement with audiences. As the technology becomes higher level and more complex, it moves further way from the art. – The Art Ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:26PMThe National Theatre production opened March 27 at New York City's Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMJohn Lithgow is a man obsessed with the future. Blythe Danner is a woman trapped in the past. Together they have a chance to embrace the present. Watch the trailer for THE TOMORROW MAN below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMDenzel WashingtonandFrances McDormandare set to star ina film adaptation ofMacbethdirected by Joel Coen, according to Deadline.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMTo Kill a Mockingbird's Gideon Glick reveals secrets of the wardrobe department and sits down with Kimberly Grigsby, the show's musical director.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PM(l to r) Jonny Wexler, Eric Chambliss, Corey Greenan and Jonathan Cable Photo: Joan Marcus [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:11PMThe family-friendly season includes three world premiere commissions, productions from the Netherlands, and immersive concerts for kids.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:08PMBy Douglas Mayo
The National Theatre has announced that plays by Simon Woods, Athol Fugard, Andrew Bovell, Brian Friel, Andy Stanton, Ben Weatherill and David Hare will be presented from May…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:07PMGet ready to meet the new Marian the Librarian.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:04PMVernon returns with his Existential Life Crisis Lullaby residency April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM"Of all the projects I’ve ever done, this is the one that least needs an explanation of why we are doing it," director Anne Bogart said in a press release.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:03PMIf the goal is for them to understand us people in order to perform tasks for us they must be programmed to have their own emotional life and the insight that the ability to abstract is a hu…
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A number of regions around the country saw upticks in work weeks per Union member.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMTramway, Glasgow Stef Smith’s excellent adaptation has Noras experience economic and emotional pressures through history
There are three door frames and three cavernous pathways to an unce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:47PMAfter nearly a year of uncertainty, City Lights Theater Company has found a familiar home in downtown San Jose to produce its next season.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:30PMSF theater presenter SHN announces 2019-20 season: "The Band's Visit," String's "The Last Ship," "Mean Girls," "Spongebob Musical," more.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:30PMThere's nothing like a big Broadway dance number, and seeing one from multiple angles only increases the magic Below, watch MyFair Lady star Danny Burstein as he performs his big Act 2 numbe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMWhile many people over a certain age may see social media influencers as the demon spawn of P.T. Barnum and David Ogilvy, it has emerged as a significant advertising tool. According to a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:27PMAndréa Burns has been brightening several recent Broadway and off/Broadway seasons by supplying supporting performances of great variety and equal quality. They range from Daniela in “In …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:25PMStage Right Theatrics is a company promoting conservative-themed plays and the artists who create them. In a new feature from Vice News, the company - based in Columbus, OH, is profiled. Che…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMNick Adams, star of the National Tour of Falsettos, was put on the spot when he was asked to sing his theatre resume on ABC7. Adams is currently playing the role of Whizzer in the National T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMPerformances of the opera, about a transgender woman coming to terms with her gender identity, will run May 30– June 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMThe Tony-winning actor talks about finally getting to play Eliza Doolittle. Plus discussions of 'White Noise,' 'Nantucket Sleigh Ride,' and 'JQA.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:17PMIn honor of MLB's opening day, we take a look back at our favorite musical numbers featuring the American pastime.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMSam Mendes’s production at Park Avenue Armory illuminates the riveting saga of a famous banking family.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMLiza Jessie Peterson, playwright and star of The Peculiar Patriot: “I came to Columbus Circle [in Manhattan] at midnight and found a whole fleet of buses. All these women, children and eve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMLouisville event is prime destination for theater fans.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:00PM
Logan Strosahl, Sure (Sunnyside)Piping at the high end of the flute’s range, guttural near the tenor sax’s low end, sliding, slurring and sometimes punching notes on alto saxophone, Stro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMDenzel Washington and Frances McDormand are bringing Shakespeare back to cinemas. The Tony and Oscar winners are in talks to co-star as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, respectively, in a new major…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:53PMThe castle that served as the home of Dr. Frank-N-Furter when the movie was made in 1975 is actually called Oakley Court and has since been converted into a luxury hotel. While the hotel has…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMThe two artists will be produced multiple times over a single season at the Off-Broadway theatre; Samuel D. Hunter, Lauren Yee, and collective the Mad Ones will join the Residency 5 program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:46PMThe Tony winners star in the new love story, set to hit cinemas in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMOn Tuesday, Showbiz Chicago’s favorite guest Karen Mason received The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:39PMThe Goodman Theatre announces thenew 20192020 Season of 'Theater That Moves'-three world premiere productions including a new musical, four Chicago premieres and a major revival of a beloved…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMA new adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy is in the works from Scott Rudin and director Joel Coen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMTony Yazbeck, Lara Pulver, Eddie Cooper, and more star in the John Doyle-directed revival at Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMProtesters force university in Paris to cancel play for which actors were due to wear masks
A row over alleged racism and attacks on freedom of expression has erupted in France after student…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMRita Moreno is going from EGOT to “PEGOT.” The 87-year-old actress, singer and dancer is adding a Peabody Award to her long list of accolades. She’s this year’s recipient of the stor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMThe show has as much to do with the Romanovs as Caesar salad has to do with Julius Caesar. That's precisely what you'd expect in family-friendly fare.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:26PMLike all architecture, abandoned and ruined spaces are animated by what people want from them. They can be massive economic boons or cynical attempts to cloak a neighborhood’s rapid socioe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:26PMAdeline Ooi on changing tastes in the region and why she remains optimistic despite China’s economic slowdown
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:18PMFive years ago, Tony Award winner Idina Menzel made her long-awaited return to Broadway, teaming up with her Rent director Michael Grief for Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's original musical IfTh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMThe artist and her collaborator Hsin-Chien Huang have created an overwhelming sensory and artistic experience in Hong Kong
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:12PMQueen Lili’uokalani steered her people through the difficult period of annexation and prevented a war — and she was also a highly trained musician who wrote some 200 songs (the most famo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMThe New York City Center production of the Rodgers and Hart musical ran March 20–24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMHeidi Schreck's timely new play What the Constitution Means to Me, in which she also stars, officially opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 31. Check out photos from the show, and the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMThis three-hour-plus portrait of the creation and destruction of the house of Lehman, directed by Sam Mendes, is an endlessly absorbing epic tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMComedian Rob Carter chatted to Emma Clarendon about his creation Christopher Bliss’ new play I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors have selectedRita Morenoas the recipient of the Peabody Career Achievement Award, presented by Mercedes-Benz. The honor is reserved for individuals whose w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMToo Heavy for Your Pocket, running April 24-June 29, is a captivating drama about the [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:54PM★★★★★ This compelling chronicle of the rise and fall of the American finance family is not to be missed
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:51PM★★★★★ Sam Mendes's stunning production of Stefano Massini's rise-and-fall epic arrives in New York
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:50PMIt’s been 10 years since the National Theatre’s ground-breaking scheme, NT Live, first beamed a live performance to cinema screens around the country.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 01:47PMWHAT THE BUTLER CAME TO KNOW… From its premiere at the Royal & Derngate and on the first leg of its tour, here is the stage version of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-winning novel. I…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:45PMThe world premieres include works by Lucas Hnath and Korde Arrington Tuttle, and a new 'Outsiders' musical by Adam Rapp and the band Jamestown Revival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:44PMTo Kill A Mockingbird,Aaron Sorkin's new play, directed byBartlett Sher, and based on Harper Lee's classic novel, will launch its coast-to-coast National Tour in August 2020 at the John F. K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMA lot has been made of the parallels between the original 1938 production of "I Married an Angel" for which George Balanchine choreographed the dances for his soon-to-be wife, the glamorous …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PMEnsemble member Kerstin Anderson wears a go-pro for an inside look at the Broadway revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMThe Steadfast Tin Soldier-Photo Credit: Liz Lauren Lookingglass Theatre Company announces its complete 2019–2020 season lineup, [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:36PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced its 2019–2020 theater season, with more than 15 productions from New York, London, and across the globe, plus original Ke…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMWhen I first saw the family-oriented musical "Anastasia" on Broadway in 2017, I thought to myself that the show would have to suffer its share of mockery. Replete with a tortured villain cha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:30PMOff Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club has completed casting for Donald Margulies’ plan Long Lost for production this summer, Hereditary‘s Alex Wolff joining a roster that also includes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PMThe Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's bestselling 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's iconic 1983 motion picture, is now a new stage musical featuring an original score by the rock duo Jamestown R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PMOne of the aims of the ensemble is to show young disabled people that they can pursue a career in music. As percussion player Philip Howells said: “Don’t lost sight of who you want to be…
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:24PMProducer Scott Rudin announced today that the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, currently dazzling and inspiring Broadway audiences, will launch …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:19PMIn his latest musical parody, Randy Rainbow channels Stephen Sondheim's FOLLIES in a collusion parody featuring the song 'The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues.' Check out the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced its 20192020 theater season, with more than 15 productions from New York, London, and across the globe, plus original Kenne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMThe evening at the Mark Taper Forum will celebrate over a half-century of musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMThe 2019–2020 season also includes a new Lucas Hnath play and Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMYou need not have read Darwin or watched any of the Planet of the Apes movies to suspect that chimpanzees come closest to humans in the animal kingdom. Scientists have discovered over the pa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMIgnore the title. This is a show in which so much happens that it’s hard to know where to start. Is it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMReview: Wolfie, Theatre 5033.0Overall ScoreWith its long-lost twins, its wolf-mother, its tree-chorus and its woodpecker-arbiter, you would be forgiven for thinking Wolfie is a regular fairy…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:05PMEver since Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer persuaded James Comey to write what became A Higher Loyalty, edited the manuscript, and worked a skillful media campaign around it, their agency, Jav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PMA musical version of The Outsiders, based on both S.E. Hinton’s groundbreaking 1967 YA novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film version that introduced a generation of young actors who…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMIn Joyce DiDonato’s album Songplay we have the epitome of what we Brits call a ‘Marmite’ experience with elements to love and/or loathe whether or not you buy the concept in the first …
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Geffen Playhouse is now accepting applications for the 2019/2020 cycle of The Writers’ Room playwrights group. Now entering its second year, the next group o…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMTony Award-winner Lucas Hnath's "Dana H," will receive its world premiere this fall in the Owen Theatre.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:00PMTwo prominent Chicago theaters have announced their 2019-20 seasons. Lookingglass Theatre will stage a timely new play about the former Chicago mayor Jane Byrne, while the Goodman Theatre's …
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Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center has announced a strong lineup of productions set to appear as part of its 2019-2020 Broadway Center Stage season. The trio of musicals will each play weeken…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMPRETTY HURTS SO GOOD The title of Tori Sampson’s If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka is a sly retort to Beyoncé’s 2013 song “Pretty Hurts,” both of which lament the negative imp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PMOnce Upon a One More Time, a new Broadway-bound musical comedy set to the smash hit music of Grammy Award-winning superstar Britney Spears, will have its world premiere this fall at Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMThe wonderful worlds of Disney are now officially smoke-free. Smoking — and vaping — are both banned starting May 1, the company unceremoniously announced Thursday in a blog post. The …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:49PMAMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan has a keen eye for shrewd business deals. So was he seeing straight in 2004 when he bought the Village Cinema in Greenport, N.Y.? “I would not call it a lucra…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMAaron Sorkin's acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, currently playing Broadway's Shubert Theatre, will launch a coast-to-coast national tour in August 2020. The travel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:45PMAaron Sorkin’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” will embark on a national tour starting in August 2020. The first stop on the tour, which will traveling for more than two years, will be the Joh…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 12:34PMI’m about to go on tour with a solo show about a white British man in his 40s called Chris who is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMBroadway In Chicago is pleased to announce the internationally-acclaimed hit theater show The Simon & Garfunkel [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:32PMApple News+ threatens to open a massive hole in news site paywalls, allowing their best premium articles to escape. Publishers hope they’ll get exposure to new audiences. But any potential…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PMResearchers at the University of Exeter have warned that an increasing tendency to advertise jobs online could be driving down wages and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMThe Mercury Theatre in Colchester has submitted plans for an 840-seat temporary venue to run while its main building undergoes a £9
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMPlaywrights Anna Deavere Smith, Lauren Yee, Sarah Ruhl, and Samuel D. Hunter, along with the collective The Mad Ones, join the residency programs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMThe lead actor in the forthcoming stage adaptation of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has appealed for the return of the show’s titular instrument,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMChicago Shakespeare Theaterannounces today the Queens of the critically acclaimed new musicalSIX,written byTobyMarlowandLucyMoss, which makes its North American premiere in TheYard at Chicag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMThe Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage lineup also includes Footloose and Bye Bye Birdie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMRita Moreno will be honored with the Career Achievement Award, presented by Mercedes Benz, at this year’s Peabody Awards, Variety has learned. This honor puts Moreno in the extremely rare …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM“It wasn’t exactly that Heathers contained no [John] Hughesian influence. The types and tropes were all there — mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PMA mega-talented group of stars have been cast in the highly anticipated North American premiere production of Six. The acclaimed West End musical, currently nominated for five Olivier Awards…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMThe upcoming lineup also includes a new Simon Woods play starring Lindsay Duncan and the return of the Ciarán Hinds-led Translations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMLooking to buy last minute tickets to a Broadway show Don't know what to see Trying to find a theater
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMAnd, as with all their previous productions, Mischief Theatre’s The Comedy About A Bank Robbery proves exactly why their triumph is so deserved.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBehind the scenes of the original musical comedy Loveville High.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM"The Simon & Garfunkel Story" is coming to Chicago in the fall, a touring jukebox musical about the singer-songwriter duo that hails from London’s West End. It will be at the Broadway …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMAaron Sorkin’s adaptation will run in Washington for six weeks, starting in August 2020.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:00PM
The New York premiere stars Andréa Burns as stage and screen star Judy Holliday.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent,” Lorenzo the bus driver tells his son, Calogero, in A Bronx Tale. There’s no wasted talent in the rock-solid touring production of the musi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMHear Adrienne Warren wail on Tina Turner's hit "(Simply) the Best".
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:46AMThe new musical, about the wives of King Henry VIII, heads to the States after making a splash in the U.K.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMYou know the hits, and now you can learn the story of the life and times of the two men who created the iconic songs throughout the 1960s and '70s.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:32AMA person who thinks of Daniel Barenboim solely as an artist might be tempted to explain or excuse his behavior: as a result of the “Latin-American blood in my body” (his, rather offensiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMThe form-breaking playwright/composer puts his work, and his audiences, through ‘A Strange Loop.’
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:30AMThe new musical, written by and starring Aya Aziz, will run through April 14 at NYTW's Fourth Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMLyricist-librettist Tom Jones, who will also star, has reworked the musical to focus on five couples.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMCasting is here for Long Lost, a new play by Pulitzer winner Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still) making its world premiere with Manhattan Theatre Club this spring. Tony winner Daniel Sulli…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMJordan E. Cooper's new play, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, opened Off-Broadway March 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMThe Manhattan Theatre Club production of Pulitzer winner Donald Margulies’ new play begins May 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMA chat with Ethan Hawke about Sam Shepard, a look at Superhero and an insightful sit-down with Hamilton's Carvens Lissaint.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMTINA - THE Tina TURNER MUSICAL Original London Cast Recording will be released by Ghostlight Records for digital download and streaming tomorrow, March 29. The show is currently a hit at the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMKelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles are starring in medical thriller “The God Committee.” Austin Stark is directing from his own script. Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya are c…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:04AMIn 1963, de Mille sent a sealed envelope to her union, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, with a handwritten note saying not to open it because it had the “eminently stealable…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThe Broadway transfer ofBeetlejuicebegins previews tonight, March 28th. Get to know the cast below as they begin Broadway performances
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AM‘The Case of the Pink Wellington Boots with the Red Hearts’. Not the kind of title you’d expect to spring from Agatha Christie’s pen – instead, an evening of murder mystery hijinks…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWhen I first started the blog, one of the most common questions I got asked was, “What does a Broadway Producer Do?” That’s why I wrote this post way back when (which is one of the…
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Big the musical based on the hit film of the same name is coming to the Dominion Theatre London in September for a limited 9 week season. Jay McGuiness is to star in the role…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:58AMJerry Mitchell, the Tony-winning director-choreographer of Kinky Boots and Pretty Woman, has signed on to helm the world premiere of Becoming Nancy, a stage musical adaptation of Terry Rona…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMThe Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Branch this week announced its nominees for the 28th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards. The nominating committee is one year behind in its honoring process, on…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wpcomstaging.com at 10:50AM[title of show] celebrates the hard work of theatre
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 10:48AMTrevor Nunn directs the London staging, which began performances March 21 at the Playhouse Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMNot Medea is a stirring character portrait, a detailed examination of the ruthless demands society makes -- and has always made -- on women.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMYoung Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown, Daniel Fish’s v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AMPlaybill spoke to the country superstar in 2001 when she made her Broadway debut as a replacement Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMThe lineup will feature a new sketch show with music by Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32AMBenedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, and Richard Madden have joined Sam Mendes’ World War I drama “1917.” DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AMThe world premiere of AIN'T NO MO', written by Jordan E. Cooper and directed by Stevie Walker-Webb. AIN'T NO MO' opened just lastnight, Wednesday, March 27, at The Public Theater.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMTom Stuart’s affecting and funny new play, written in response to playing Christopher Marlowe’s doomed king, a role he’s concurrently performing in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMThe new play, now playing at The Public, is a satirical odyssey depicting a great exodus of Black Americans from the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Scroll down for the latest news. Want our morning repor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMForthcoming touring show Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is appealing for the return of its most vital prop after it was left on a commuter train by the lead actor.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:14AMOne of Royal Opera director Oliver Mears’ initiatives is to bring back to Covent Garden the numerous works Handel premiered there. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMThe original London cast recording of Tina — The Tina Turner Musical drops March 29 ahead of the show's fall Broadway bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMGrande shared how her new, more spontaneous approach to releasing music actually helped her mental health.
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:12AMThe ASCAP Screen Music Awards has announced several honorees to be feted at a May 15 ceremony in Beverly Hills, with “Captain Marvel” composer Pinar Toprak, “Incredibles 2” scorer Mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:09AMAzudi Onyejekwe and Doreen Taylor star in the musical tribute to Oscar Hammerstein II.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMLiesl Olson investigates the strange and stirring history of La Guiablesse, an almost entirely lost 18-minute dance work based on French Caribbean folklore, with a white choreographer/star (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMThe downtown SoFA gallery has a trio of intriguing exhibitions featuring kinetic sculptor Alan Rath, fiber artist Stephanie Metz and Sofie Ramos, who has created the site-specific Installati…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:00AMThis Royal Ballet season beautifully revives Kenneth MacMillan’s dramatic monument in a smooth and moving way, with a number of company debuts making Romeo & Juliet feel fresh even aft…
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Highlights of the next new season at London’s National Theatre, running from May to October 2019, include several new productions and new broadcasts and outdoor activity announced to celeb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:50AMThe Olivier Awards 2019 with Mastercard ceremony looms large, so we've rounded up some real moments to remember from recent ceremonies.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:39AMIt would have been easy to begin this letter by writing "Chicago is a theater town," but also stupid because everybody knows that, even people who don't live here: Steppenwolf, Second City, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 09:36AM“[She] did not publish her first collection, Too Bright to See (1981), until she was almost 40. But once she did, she drew quick attention in poetry circles. … {and she] taught poetry at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM‘Sublime... mesmerising... captivating.’ What else have critics been saying about Maud Dromgoole's new play Mary's Babies, inspired by the shocking true story of fertility pioneer Mary B…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AM By Brian Scott Lipton Forty years ago, Tony Danza worked his way into America’s hearts as hunk with surprisingly strong comic chops on the hit sitcom “Taxi.” Well, four decade…
SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:27AMArtists Striving to End Poverty ASTEP and friends are coming together to celebrate the 2019 ASTEP Color Ball on Monday, April 29 at 54 Below. The 2019 Color Ball is a night to honor the Arti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMIt’s been nine years since my last interview with Tony Nominee Xanthe Elbrick. It’s great to now catch up with her as Xanthe gears up to star in Parity Production’s latest show Charlie…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:21AMJennifer Ashley Tepper is not even 35, but already the theatre historian and producer. Jen is currently making her debut as an above-the-title Broadway producer on the new musical Be More Ch…
SOURCE: The Interval at 09:20AMChristine Goerke (Brünnhilde) and Greer Grimsley (Wotan) talk about working on, with, and around director Robert Lepage’s big, complicated contraption — and how it’s been changed in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AMFirst Fan Encounter: Patrick Stewart
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:16AMFirst Fan Encounter: Kenneth Branagh
SOURCE: USA Today at 09:15AMFrance is grappling with its own version of a blackface scandal, after activists blocked a theater performance at the Sorbonne university in Paris involving actors with black masks
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:09AMUniversity of Michigan researchers found that “reading print books together generated more verbalizations about the story from parents and from toddlers, more back and forth ‘dialogic’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AMWhile initially slow to start, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s musical Calendar Girls beautifully draws the audience into the story and the lives of the calendar girls.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMBy Alice Stevenson. Alice Stevenson shares some of the most successful initiatives of the Broadway Green Alliance, an organization that leads the charge when it comes to advocating for more …
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“Like their peers all over the US, students at California Institute of the Arts … face increasingly high tuition bills each year, and they’re reaching a breaking point. Students have b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM“In its sprawling nearly mile-long loop of galleries, the museum tells the story of how this tiny nation of nomadic Bedouins and pearl divers became, with the discovery of natural gas, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AMFrom live theater to music to museum exhibits, there's plenty to check out in the week ahead.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:30AMListen: “My Fair Lady” Gets a New Alfie, “Lizzie” Musical Coming to New York, and Go (Pro) Inside “Get Me to the Church on Time”! [display_podcast] “Today on Broadway” is a d…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:17AM“Performing arts exports to Europe … are worth £360 million to the UK, but that and numerous jobs are under threat from a disorderly departure from the EU. Mark Shenton talks to senior …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AMDC Metro Theater Arts (DCMTA) and CultureCapital are pleased to announce that DCMTA is the latest publication in the DC region to implement a CultureCapital arts feed. In displaying the Cult…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM“One of [its] first acts will be to introduce a scheme for theatregoers to buy extra tickets for those who cannot afford them. … The theatre will also offer 10,000 €10 tickets a year t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMMaybe in a far-off dimension of time and space, at the crossroads of imagination and reality, our descendants will discover a stage adaption of The Twilight Zone which will fill them with th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMLiza Jessie Peterson wrote her one-woman play, a damning critique of mass incarceration, based on her experiences visiting prisons.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00AMAsk Jean Isaacs about Live Arts Fest 2019, and she will proudly rattle off a litany of things that make it special. “No two evenings are the same … because each evening presents a unique…
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Paines Plough has appointed Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner as its new joint artistic directors. They replace James Grieve and George Perrin,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMWESTFIELD- The Westfield Theatre Group is getting ready to perform their rendition of the musical, ‘Tuck Everlasting’ at the Westfield Women’s Club in a run that will last from March 2…
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 07:49AMSoho theatre, LondonKemsley packs in high-calibre jokes in a tour through the gendered politics of promiscuity
In Nanette, Hannah Gadsby refused to pretend her personal pain was funny – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMLive theatre, Newcastle Social cohesion and toxic masculinity are big topics confronted with verve by new writers through Live’s showcase Elevator festival
The topic of social housing seem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMFan Bingbing’s place atop China’s movie pantheon is hard to describe to Westerners; she’s sort of a combination Jennifer Lawrence-Nicole Kidman-Julia Roberts-Sandra Bullock. (In the We…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AMA showcase platform for under-represented writers has been established in London, and will launch with a series of live readings next month.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMNine Night director Roy Alexander Weise will return to the National Theatre to helm ‘Master Harold’… and the Boys by Athol Fugard,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMFilial piety may be the paramount Confucian value, and flouting it is still rare in Chinese real life, let alone on state-controlled television. This is likely why All Is Well, broadcast onl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AMDragon Lady 's power lies partly in its existential authenticity, the power of the personal.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:24AMJoe McElderry, Danielle Hope, Jamie Muscato and Marisha Wallace will perform a series of solo concerts, Sunday Favourites At The Other Palace, this summer.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:23AMThe sun is shining on the London production of Mamma Mia! and the show’s audiences too! Not only has booking been extended to 7 March 2020, but the ABBA-inspired musical will be celebratin…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 07:15AMA new series of solo concerts featuring musical theatre stars including Danielle Hope and Joe McElderry has been announced at the Other
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMIn our March episode, Tim Bano talks to magician Ben Hart about making heads spin in The Exorcist and how he summoned
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I discuss a new book about one of the world’s most important film-music composers. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Which classical…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM“The fate of all people who imitate others to achieve authenticity is to live a lie.” Theodore Dalrymple, “Exposing Shallowness” (The New Criterion,June 2000)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMCynthia Erivo may as well call the Kennedy Center home. Having previously performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the intimacy between Erivo and the musicians is strong. For her upco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMToday we celebrate the entire cast of What the Constitution Means to Me who are making their Broadway debut on Sunday.Congratulations to everyone making their dreams come true! Here's to g…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:00AMShe ignores that some people don't have the luxury of civility.
About midway through Julie Ganey's one-woman show, the author-star describes trying to make her T…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMLa Guiablesse was imagined by and starring a white woman who choreographed the piece for her city’s most talented black dancers.
On a steamy summer evening in…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMIt’s been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
Links Hall was originally Link's Hall, named f…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMKerry Reid’s top picks for spring theater
Three new shows this season celebrate defiance and derring-do, from the poetic grit of Saul Bellow to the feminist s…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM“If you’re doing something associated with puppetry in Chicago, you have to think about Blair.”
If anybody knows puppets—like really knows puppets—it'…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMDutch Masters and The Undeniable Sound of Right Now ask how much has really changed in politics and music.
Jackalope and Raven Theatres are firing up the waybac…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMidnight Circus and Aloft Circus Arts have created their own intimate version of the big top in the city’s lofts and churches.
"We used to have a rhino on Rin…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM“Am I the only Latinx sharing stories right now? Where are the rest of us?”
After the rush of winning the 2013 Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition faded…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMIt's a moving depiction of crippling homelessness and how solutions feel completely out of reach.
The world premiere of this Northlight Theatre-
commissioned wor…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA simple, elegant Shakespeare adaptation
Though advertised as an adaption of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale by Evan Jackson (who also directs), this pro…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMUnder its new director, the Avondale theater's experiments will continue.
It all began in 2015, when Olivia Lilley made a deal with the devil.…
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Azudi Onyejekwe stars alongside creator Doreen Taylor in the new musical celebrating the life and legacy of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, which starts previews March 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAlex Timbers directs the stage adaptation of the Tim Burton film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe flower show, the National Coin & Money Show and lots of music on deck for one of the first spring weekends.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMProfessionals in the world of dance will guide students, parents and teachers
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago with Ohad Naharin and Crystal Pite, "Between Naharin’s famous dynamic range and Pite’s striking narrative rhythm, the company had quite a fe…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWhy the Martha Graham Dance Company is debuting new works by women during its two-week Joyce run---Since so many Martha Graham works feature heroines confronting crises or indulging their pa…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMBeetlejuice, the new musical based on the hit 1988 film, begins preview performances at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on March 28. Alex Timbers directs the production, scheduled to offici…
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