The premise of the show (directed by Oliver Butler) is that the 2019 Schreck has decided to recreate one of the many presentations she participated in at American Legion halls around the cou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMThis show could save you months of ploughing through the books. On the other hand, it could inspire you to dig out those Harry Potter books and actually read them. However, in the event that…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:26PMIn conversation, the 30-year-old displays not a hint of that exhaustion. In fact, he’s as ebullient as the sci-fi musical that brings him here, in which he plays Jeremy Heere, a teenage lo…
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Sondheim Musical Riffs on Single vs. Married Life by Cynthia K. Lopez “Will Bobby marry?”—a successful 70s New Yorker asks himself, as he celebrates his 35th birthday. Married friends…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:38PMAfter the award winning A Visit With Nan In A Caravan, Melbourne’s most mischievous Grannies are back, turning their whip sharp wit and hilarious brand of satire on Melbourne’s Inner Cit…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:33PMIt’s been a challenging few years for New York City Ballet, the nation’s preeminent ballet company. What with the misconduct and resignation of its ballet master in chief, subsequent mis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PMThis week we caught up with Rob Johnson, who is just about to go into the last week of Spamalot at The Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney. Rob is currently playing Prince Herbert (in Spamalot) an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:12PMCapsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings 15th Annual New Play Reading Fes…
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Gabriel Jason Dean’s ‘Heartland,’ at InterAct Theatre Company, gets awkwardly stuck between kitchen-sink drama and didactic political play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:51PMBroadway Dreams and The Rodgers amp Hammerstein Organization just celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning musical triumph, South Pacific with a gala conc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMThe 54Below concert dedicated to Rent composer Larson's lesser-known music is officially a cast album; as it's released, revisit a particularly great episode with guests George Salazar, Krys…
SOURCE: play.acast.com at 06:15PMAndrew Rannells and Kelli Barrett will join Tony Award nominee Jarrod Spector as special guest stars in for the one-night-only premiere of Spector's newest solo show conartist at Sony Hall 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMCounterpublic is an ambitious public art triennial that will envelope the neighborhood starting April 13.
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Glenda Jackson and the cast of King Lear celebrate opening the gender-blind production.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMJoseph Giovannini: “What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of an institution whose history has been chaotic, whose architecture has been less than perfect, but that was at th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PMTony winner and Grammy nominee Lena Hall and platinum-selling artist Ingrid Michaelson will now join The New York Pops, led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, for its 36th Birth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMThe honorees at Variety’s sixth annual Power of Women New York luncheon presented by Lifetime shared deeply personal stories that were variations on a powerful theme: Women overcoming obst…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PMStaging is imperfect but structure and capable cast help make new show at Tarragon Theatre worthwhile.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:48PMThe Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, appeared this week at Variety's Power of Women event, where she was honored for her work with the New York Restoration Society.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMPride Week 2019 just got a lot more divalicious. Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper and Ciara are among those who have been tapped for the June 26 opening ceremony of World Pride NYC/Stonewall 50…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:36PMEmily Bergl stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about The Ferryman and more with Caitlin Moynihan.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMA month of programs devoted to Emily St. John Mandel's "Station Eleven" kicks off this weekend
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:35PMFrom Tin Pan Alley to Lincoln Center, here are the non-theater-district sites every Broadway fan needs to see.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:18PMThe living legend tackles one of theater’s toughest roles.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:15PMBy Douglas Mayo
Bill Kenwright presents The Exorcist UK Tour. The spine-tingling live production based on the best-selling novel by William Peter Blatty starts its tour on 2 September 2019.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:15PMThe company toasts its latest venture as the newest residents at the historic Greenwich House in the West Village.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:14PMNo one does a cover song quite like Kelly Clarkson.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:11PMThe Factory Theater has announced its 2019-2020 season, the 27th for the fun-loving Chicago theater company, which also welcomes Timothy C. Amos as managing director and Anthony Tournis as c…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:10PMRecent turnover in some of America’s most important theatres has helped diversify leadership. And there’s work to diversify boards and staff. But there’s a long way to go to expand the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02PMTony nominee Jenn Colella hosted the evening of gender-reversed twists on classic and modern favorites at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
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After 47 years, the Aretha Franklin concert documentary “Amazing Grace” finally arrives in theaters Friday. Alan Elliott has told the story of how he rescued the unreleased footage from …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PM“If you’re an animal, we built the jungle.” Pipeline, by Dominique Morisseau,...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 04:48PMFind your next job with this selection of upcoming calls for Broadway and shows around the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMAt the just-wrapped CinemaCon, celebrities talked about their upcoming movies but much much more
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:38PMBrexit’s greatest impact on music looks likely to be on the live sector, both on British musicians going abroad, and on foreign artists and fans travelling to the UK. – The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMNot seen in New York since 1965, John Webster’s Jacobean revenge play, "The White Devil," has been given a juicy, vigorous modern dress production by Red Bull Theater which specializes in …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PMBy Douglas Mayo
On Your Feet UK Tour tickets are now on sale. The smash hit Broadway musical about Emilio and Gloria Estefan will play a limited UK tour following its season at the London …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:30PMAdès, Mozart and Strauss play well together
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:30PMSpoiler: The new bio-musical series isn't just great TV, it also makes a case for more inclusive storytelling.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:26PMWith its brassy songs, high-energy hoofing, outrageous plot and unabashed love of all things show, no classic musical screams “Broadway musical comedy” like Kiss Me, Kate. A fun tonic f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:23PMThis is how universities could break the tuition cost curve—by making the price of online degrees proportional to what colleges actually spend to operate the courses. So far, colleges have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01PMThe two-time Tony winner will perform as part of the May 18 event at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
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Was the pairing of Iain Bell and Mark Campbell--respectively, composer and librettist of New York City Opera's (NYCO) world premiere STONEWALL--"love at first sight"? I asked them.
We wer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMJudging by the number of small opera companies in New York alone--see the 2019 New York Opera Fest that starts performances next month--there's no shortage of up and coming opera singers try…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMWhile the cast for the season's revival of Mozart's LA CLEMENZA DI TITO looked good on paper, it didn't even hint at how good the singing was going to be at the Met this week. From toptenor …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PM by Sandi Durell From a brilliantly devised title – “I Wish I Were 90 Again!” – to a well-constructed show, this remarkable chanteuse never ceases to amaze, thrill and bring her…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:49PMVeteran actor Joe Foust tactfully navigates the emotional landscape of this powerful one-man show about an extraordinary boy and the town that knew him.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:33PMDance classes and performances of all kinds will be held across the city Monday through April 14 as part of Pittsburgh Dance Week 2019.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:29PMThe works for sale aren’t unimportant. They’re by Montreal native and Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson. They will be included in Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s upcoming auctions, be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25PMThe bio musical of iconic pop star Cher is currently lighting up Broadway. The Cher Show, housed at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre, features a book Rick Elice, direction by Jason Moore, and…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 03:23PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Wesley Taylor & Alex Wyse's Indoor Boys Triumphs at Indie Series Awards
Hats off to Wesley Taylor, Alex Wyse and the compan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMWilliam Kentridge’s stagings of The Nose and Lulu were, and next season’s Wozzeck will be, packed tight with video imagery. (Yet they’re surprisingly easy for the stage technicians.) T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PMArthur Miller's classic drama about a long-hidden family secret returns to Broadway.
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Are you great at auditioning A theatre educator Have you survived Unified National Theatre Auditions for schools andor professional theatre companies Know the best audition songs and which t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMWorks by McIntyre, Stiefel and Genshaft end Washington Ballet’s season on a high note.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMNicole Fosse learned things about her parents, the choreographer and director Bob Fosse and the dancer Gwen Verdon, by watching the making of the TV series “Fosse Verdon,” which begins o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PMTootsie star Julie Halstonalong with Torch Song sensation Michael Urie will announce the Outer Critics Circle nominations for the 2018-19 season on Tuesday, April 23rdin the Oak Room at New …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMIn TNFA's production the ensemble's choreography is a major plus
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:49PMIn a feature for Bustle, Sara Bareilles shared the personal stories behind some of her most personal songs. Bareilles wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway's WAITRESS which features the an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMHarper Lee, author; Aaron Sorkin, playwright; Scott Rudin, producer; Bartlett Sher, director Cast includes: Jeff Daniels (Atticus Finch), Tanya Richardson Jackson (Calpurnia), Celia Keenan-B…
SOURCE: theaterwithatwist.com at 02:40PMDirector Wardell Julius Clark has assembled a cast who delivers first-rate performances emblematic of the smart, uncompromising production.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:39PMSt. Olaf College in Minnesota has one. You can buy violin strings, rosin and reeds. One enthusiastic Reddit user said: “I was there a few weeks ago for a horn audition and actually bought…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMActresssingerBroadway star Laura Dreyfuss, aka Loladre, is releasing her new song today, a cover of Foo Fighters 'My Hero.' the track was produced by Michel Heyaca and James Shelley Lucky Do…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonIn his funny and perceptive two-hander, Godber and his wife play a quarrelsome couple on a tandem trip to Europe
Although it dominates our lives, Brexit has so far m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMFulfillment Theatre Company (FTC) presents An Evening with The Bard celebrating the poetic works of Dr. Maya Angelou. This show will be performed at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre on We…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMWe definitely want it this way Nicole Medoro from the national tour of Cruel Intentions is taking over the BroadwayWorld Instagram Story tomorrow, April 6th Make sure to tune in to get a loo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PM★ Soprano Doreen Taylor conceives and writes a below-par showcase for herself and Azudi Onyejekwe
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:06PMThe Fairy Princess wants you to know there is good stuff going on around the USA, and she is going to make this a ‘feel good’ post – because every now and then we need that. First off …
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 02:03PM“The image of a mother made to eat her children was hard to shake, and a couple of decades after its 1594 premiere, artists had already begun to appropriate — O.K., fine, cannibalize —…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PMSource Material, the company Samantha Shay founded in Iceland and New York after attending CalArts in Los Angeles, is a revolving extended family of interdisciplinary music, visual and theat…
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Nominations in 27 categories, recognizing achievements on Broadway and Off-Broadway, will be revealed April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMSituation Interactive’s Damian Bazadona and EQUALibrium’s Rachelle Pereira host a new podcast about Broadway workplace dilemmas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMFans love it, but Broadway's buzziest show is looking to expand its appeal as the Tony Awards approach.
SOURCE: Forbes at 01:40PMAfter two years with Dean serving in an interim capacity, the company's board has voted to make his title concrete.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:30PMDespite the fact that there are no comedy festivals or national competitions in Colorado this month, the state will still host a good chunk of the country's best-known touring comics.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:29PMDozens of events take over the 17-year-old Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts each year. But only a few deserve the Newman Center Presents tag.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:29PMOn Friday, April 122pm, join us at the Robin Williams Center 247 W 54th Stfor a QampA with the cast and creators of Broadway Musical The Prom Matthew Sklar -Music, Chad Beguelin -Lyrics amp …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMVerdon, who died in 2000, spoke to Terry Gross in 1993 about her work with and marriage to choreographer Bob Fosse. The new FX series Fosse/Verdon revisits the complexities of their partners…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:27PMCunningham, who died in 2009, would have been 100 on April 16. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1985 about his unconventional approach to dance, in which music and dance are performed independently.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:27PMThere’s Slow Food. There’s Slow (Longform) Journalism. Now there’s Slow Art. To get people in the mood for slow art, Christie’s, the V&A and the Natural History Museum have been …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:25PMJenny Brizard soars in title role as four theatre companies pool their efforts for a demanding play that should be produced more often.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:20PMOne of Shakespeare's greatest dramas officially returned to Broadway last night. Led by two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Tony Award winner Glenda Jackson, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PMTerry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote “has to be one of the unluckiest passion projects in history: In a three-decade stretch, Gilliam, now 78, endured several financing stops a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PMChristof Loy directs this production of Verdi’s opera La Forza Del Destino, running at the Royal Opera House until 22 April 2019. Is it the 'biggest event of the operatic season'? Love Lon…
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It's time to bow down! Sam Gold's gender-blind production of King Lear officially opened at the Cort Theatre on April 4. Starring Glenda Jackson in the titular role, the new staging of the S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMBy . The VORTEX proudly presents the world premiere of Last: An Extinction Comedy, an extraordinary new devised play blending improv, comedy, and environmental activism livestreaming on t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:54PMNew play’s tale of an anxious boy’s mystical adventure is endearing even if it’s not revolutionary.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:50PM“I don’t dance!” Corbin Bleu sang in “High School Musical 2,” even as he hoofed it up. A dozen years later, Bleu’s still dancing — this time in Broadway’s “Kiss Me, Kate,�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:48PMA non-profit had been doing so, in part because the state’s library is under-resourced. But the state says it doesn’t have the ability to check all the books that come in. Now Books to P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMOn this day 2012, the first Broadway revival ofAndrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical, Evita opened at the Marquis Theater.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMComplete casting is set for Continuity, a new dark comedy by acclaimed playwright Bess Wohl (Small Mouth Sounds), making its world premiere with Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Cente…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:29PMThe Rachel Chavkin-helmed project from MTC finds its cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMThis week’s production news round-up includes casting for Gloria Estefan musical On Your Feet! and news that Katharine McPhee is to leave
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PM5th Avenue Theatre presents Marie A New Musical. Tony Award-winning authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty Ragtime, Once On This Island, five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreogra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMBy Douglas Mayo
Following two highly acclaimed runs at Curve Leicester in 2015 and the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2017, Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 the musica…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:19PMLondon's Donmar Warehouse has announced that a slew of special guest stars who will take on the role of Daddy Brubeck in the company's upcoming revival of Sweet Charity. The previously annou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMThe 20th anniversary of the mass school shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, will be on closing night for columbinus at 1st Stage. The play was written…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PMThe D.C. theater and arts community is about to go where it’s never been before as the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics is introducing the first-ever D.C.-wide biennial Cross…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMSasha Weiss: “When I once made the mistake of calling his drag a ‘persona,’ or a character he plays, he promptly corrected me: ‘I’m just exposing what I look like on the inside.’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMGraduates of Ostkreuz photography school spent a week in the UK with the aim of capturing the Brexit atmosphere
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:03PMIván Fischer brings out the vast wealth of details in the composer’s music, resulting in a recording unlike any other
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:01PMAfter the collapse of the romantic relationship of two of the band members comes a double album exploring the wreckage
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:01PMConnie Han strides onto the stage at Vibrato Grill in sky-high stiletto boots and skin-tight black leather. She props her cell phone at the deep end
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMEstelle Savasta’s story of motherhood, unconditional love and the refugees’ perilous journey in Going Through is elevated and mythologised, brought dreamily to life in a highly visual an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMichael Moore’s latest docu-polemic features Donald Trump; the teen webslinger meets his counterparts from other dimensions
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00PMStars Santino Fontana and Lilli Cooper emphasize the woman’s perspective in the hilarious musical adaptation of Tootsie.
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The Jonathan Larson Project album is available for digital download and streaming today, Friday, April 5. The album features the music of the late Jonathan Larson, the generation-defining wr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMIts theater is definitely of the no-frills variety, a black box constructed in the space of two public storage units in an industrial park in Ventura, but there is no denying the talent that…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:59AMPeople are gushing about Heidi Schreck’s play as if it’s another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it’s not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical. Indeed, “What the Constitution Me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMOn Wednesday, April 3rd Secretary Hillary Clinton attended the evening performance of The Cher Show. Lin-Manuel Miranda attended the show the following evening on Thursday, April 4th. Both w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMCelebrity impressionist, comic and character actor Frank Gorshin (1933-2005) has somewhere around 250 film and tv credits, and scores of live theatre and nightclub credits to his name. It wo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:56AMOpera Atelier’s move does production no favours.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:55AMThe famed chamber ensemble will bring music to a TriBeCa loft as part of the Hamlen-Palm Series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMLate last year, Eden Espinosa, the beloved Broadway star currently appearing as Trina in the national tour of Falsettos, lent her talent to Broadway Dreams' celebratory performance of Rodge…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMBroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Below, check out his latest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMKick off your weekend with 20 Broadway bops curated by Katie Ladner.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:41AMThe world is full of wonderful things Analisa Leaming, currently Irene Molloyon the first national tour of Hello, Dolly has released Season Three of A Balancing Act.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMBy Douglas Mayo
Sharon D Clarke, Debbie Kurup, Clive Rowe and Gemma Sutton are to star in Susie McKenna's production of Blues In The Night at the Kiln Theatre this July.
This post Kiln Theat…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:37AMIn Palm Beach Dramaworks’ triumphant production of August Wilson’s Fences, this Troy Maxson rages. Whether this physical kinetic Troy is delivering a defiant challenge to death, railing …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:37AMBlue was once little-known in the Western palette. Homer’s sea was “wine dark”; blue would not be used as water’s color until the seventeenth century. It has evolved from its origina…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMWork on artificial intelligence suggests that our brains engage in constant battles between what we think we know versus what we actually experience. It’s a kind of constant skepticism tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:31AMMultiple actors will play special engagements as Daddy Brubeck, the enigmatic leader of the Rhythm of Life Church in the London revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMOh my god, I have literally nothing to say about Les Miz. Well, maybe not nothing... not literally It's not gonna be hard to throw these out, I'll tell you that much. I have so many freaking…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMGhostlight Records has announced that The Jonathan Larson Project is available for digital download and streaming today, Friday, April 5. The [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:14AMLaurel Ollstein play, which is getting its West Coast premiere at Balboa Park theater, is based on real-life stories of female trainees in the '60s-era 'Mercury 13' program.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:11AMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 442019 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMThe celebrated Broadway bio-musical The Cher Show is gearing up to release its original cast album. Warner Bros. Records has announced an April 12 digital release date for the new tome, set …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMTheatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, is pleased to announce the launch [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:04AMIt’s Been a Minute isn’t a comedy show like Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. Says co-founder and host Sam Sanders, “We kind of trick our listeners into thinking it’s like a little fun ta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AMThis role was famously played by the inimitable Alison Steadman in the original, and whilst these are gold heels which are impossible to fill, Jodie Prenger is excellent as Beverly.
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Performances will begin in July under the direction of Susie McKenna.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMJoe Foust, a distinguished and versatile Chicago actor, is alone on the stage in “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,” an 80-minute monologue that begins with a detective from a s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMReview: Shit-faced Showtime: Oliver with a Twist, Leicester Square Theatre4.0Overall ScoreFrom the brains that brought you the Shit-faced Shakespeare shows, ever popular at Brighton and Edin…
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:44AMIn addition to the annual Best Play Award, the NYDCC may also elect to bestow awards for Best Foreign Play and Best Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMThe new arts center, located in Manhattan's Hudson Yards, will welcome a mix of performing and visual arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMIn 1969, Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook started the company in a converted garage. “Together, they wanted to prove to the world something that still needed proving back then: that blacks …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMThe new documentary charting a year in the life of the Irish-born painter delves beneath the lofty prices and turgid art speak
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:35AMThe ITV drama series keeps you guessing as Kate Beckinsale travels to Kinshasa in search of her supposedly dead husband
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:33AMFor a play of such status, Caryl Churchill’s 1982 classic Top Girls doesn’t get produced nearly as much as one might expect.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMKatharine McPhee is to leave the West End cast of Waitress on June 15. She has been with the production since it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMJanie Dee, Joanna Riding and Hadley Fraser will star in a concert performance of Carousel at London’s Cadogan Hall next month. Riding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AMThe winners of the 2019 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards will be announced Monday, May 6, 2019 at approximately 530pm. The selections will be made at the organization's 84th annual voti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMAll you have to do is glance at the photo up top to see why Burn This is one of the hottest tickets of the season. The revival of Lanford Wilson’s erotically charged 1987 play stars real-l…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:30AMBy Douglas Mayo
Ahead of the 64th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, the casts of seven West End shows will wage battle at the Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 28 April in West End Eurovis…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:30AMThe prolific Off-Broadway company, responsible for award-winning hits such as Rent, Once, and Hadestown, was founded in 1979.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMThe Falsettos and An American in Paris star puts his spin on golden age Broadway classics.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMBy Douglas Mayo
The Donmar Warehouse today announces initial casting for the role Daddy Brubeck in Josie Rourke’s production of Sweet Charity with multiple guest actors will play the role …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:28AMSam Gold helms an all-new production of Shakespeare's tragedy, starring two-time Oscar winner and 2018 Tony winner Glenda Jackson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMYilong Liu is a Chinese-born playwright who writes plays in English. Michael Leibenluft is an Obie-winning, American-born director who directs in Chinese. Together, they’ve been working on…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:18AMThe West End production opened in March at the Adelphi Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMIn recalling the great comedies penned by William Shakespeare, classics like TWELFTH NIGHT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and the one about all the errors have been making audiences bust out in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMArmy brat Charlotte Merriam (1906-1972) was only 13 years old when she was cast in the Universal picture A Flip of the Coin (1919). This led to her appearing in a series of comedies with Edd…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:15AMThe original cast album to the Broadway hit The Cher Show will be released digitally on Friday, April 12th on Warner Bros. Records with the physical CD album release on Friday, May 10th and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMMultiple guest actors will play the role of Daddy Brubeck in Josie Rourke’s production of Sweet Charity at the Donmar Warehouse including Shaq Taylor, Adrian Lester, Le Gateau Chocolat, Be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:05AMTheoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli thinks that “counterintuitive phenomena — for example, of time moving slower for faster travelers — will, slowly, become intuitive. ‘It has happen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AMMy first time getting Shit-faced…Shit-faced Showtime’s Oliver with a Twist is raucous if unfocused affair at the Leicester Square Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFrom surviving Ovarian Cancer to living out her childhood dream in the box office smash hit Captain Marvel, Sharon Blynn’s story is one I had to find out more about!
She is the founder of …
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This season's new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, starring two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Tony Award winner Glenda Jackson and di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMBy Douglas Mayo
Casting has been announced for the UK premiere of On Your Feet - The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan which is to play a limited season at the London Coliseum from 14 June …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:51AMFollowing sell-out runs at the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Heroes, a coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s, comes to the Drayton Arms Theatre this month. The play, written by Bebe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:47AMThe Olivier Awards ceremony is taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 7 April. Here are the top ten reasons why you should tune in.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:43AMBlame evolution. “Impatience made sure we didn’t die from spending too long on a single unrewarding activity. It gave us the impulse to act. But that good thing is gone. The fast pace of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AMDemocracyworks winner on the power of student voices
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:30AMIf you can’t get out to see Southern California’s super bloom before tourists trample it flat, don’t despair: L.A. theater has its own spring fever, with productions celebrating love, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMBy: Iris Wiener
April 5, 2019: Though he had been performing and tap dancing since he was 5 years old, it was working on a high school production of Me and My Girl that changed the path…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:26AMMarion Aye (1903-1951) had a fairly good run of about six years in silent film, mostly comedies, culminating with a fairly abrupt parting of the ways, and eventually tragedy. The daughter of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AMHamlet, Complete Works, Measure for Measure, Dracula, and more A season of powerful drama, spine-tingling horror, and riotous comedy are scheduled for Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s 2019…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:23AMTHE OLDEST HAVE BORNE MOST… Jack is an ageing, terminally ill, scruffy, alcoholic remnant of an actor, with a grubby cardigan and Falstaff gut. He is muttering lines from King Lear in h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AMThe new recording will be available from Warner Bros. Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMIn fact, a set of scholars now believe, the Greeks based their music on scales and instruments like the lyre that had been developed more than 1,000 years earlier in Babylonia, from which co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMOn conducting with his whole body: “My model in this is really Leonard Bernstein because he also [conveyed] how every bone of the body should express music while on the podium. Why just li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMBroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AMA conversation with playwright Aleshea Harris about her play, which seeks to give a theatrical shape to rage and absurdity.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 5 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMFormer Capt. Beverley Bass recalls the kindness of strangers after 9/11, when thousands of people were stranded in a small Canadian town.
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“Being able to touch, explore the shape, feel the weight and even smell the replica of an artefact has the potential to transform cultural heritage experiences. In reality, these connectio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AMIt’s been confirmed that Katharine McPhee will be putting her apron down and bidding farewell to the West End production of Sara Bareilles’ musical Waitress on 15 June 2019. Cue speculat…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 08:40AMBefore World War II, the Attucks Theater was the center of Norfolk’s thriving historically black business district. Like many such buildings, it fell on hard times in the late 20th century…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMThe British Museum shows how printmaking gave the artist a chance to experiment and reach his first mass audience
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:31AM“When Michou” — né Michel Catty — “first set foot in Montmartre in the 1950s, it was a cheap bohemian area, home to artists, writers and performers, as well as beggars and an ethn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AMWe’ve spilled a good bit of ink, virtual and otherwise, on the topic of silent screen comedian Larry Semon over the years. Much like his better remembered rivals Charlie Chaplin and Buster…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:10AM“The Women’s Prize for Fiction has said it is working on a policy around gender fluid, transgender and transgender non-binary writers after featuring non-binary author Akwaeke Emezi on i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AMIt's witty, smart, handsomely shot and stuffed with juicy cameos.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AMAs Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall’s award-winning musical gets a new revival, Nick Smurthwaite charts its journey in the 35 years since
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMThe London Fringe has been diligent in ploughing back catalogue after back catalogue for ‘forgotten’ musicals, and Maggie May has not been seen in London for 55 years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMNew FX show explores the relationship between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00AMThe weather doesn’t seem to have got the memo that Spring is here but that won’t stop the Easter fun that we have in store for you and your family. Theatre will certainly have “day out…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:00AM
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Marc Camoletti's uproarious comedy Boeing Boeing is back for a limited tour in a new production by Guy Unsworth. Boeing Boeing Tour tickets now on sale.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:59AMBy Douglas Mayo
Katharine McPhee is to play her final performance as Jenna in Waitress the musical London on 15 June 2019.
This post Katharine McPhee to play final performance in Waitress o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:59AMNot just any book, mind you. “Traditionally, a well-known Dutch author writes a special novel – the book week gift or Boekenweekgeschenk – which is given out for free to people who buy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMReview: A Super Happy Story (About Being Super Sad), The Vaults Theatre3.0starsStill on a high from its successful stint at the Vaults Festival, A Super Happy Story (About Being Super Sad) r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42AMWhen US senator Mitch McConnell admonished fellow senator Elizabeth Warren in 2017, who refused to be silenced, with the phrase “Nevertheless, she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMFor more than 50 years, Linford Hudson shone the spotlight on the biggest stars at the Palladium. Now he is being honoured
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM“The building’s most prominent feature will be a helical roof that connects to the ground via a spectacular open-air spiral staircase. Snøhetta has designed this to resemble an unfoldin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMAs director David Gilmore prepares to stage St John Ervine's Jane Clegg at Finborough Theatre, he tells us about its "handling of a red-hot issue" and why it's perfect for the acclaimed Lond…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMBy Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews Little Miss Sunshine the musical, which is now playing at the Arcola Theatre ahead of a UK tour.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:25AMFive arts organisations, including the Belfast-based theatre companies Bruiser and Terra Nova Productions, are under threat after losing their annual funding in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMSadler’s Wells, LondonIbsen gets an urgent retelling, Kahlo dances with a monkey and Bausch’s masterwork is back in Tamara Rojo’s stellar triple bill
In 2016, English National Ballet d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMAs Jenna herself says, it’s amazing what baking can do, but it seems like no amount of pies and sweet treats are going to prevent Katharine McPhee from leaving the cast of Waitress.Kathari…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:20AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Happy Friday Top off your week with a dose of the latest Broadway news
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:13AMBeverley Knight, Clive Rowe and Adrian Lester are among the multiple guest actors announced to play the role of Daddy Brubeck in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review a new Broadway production of King Lear. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Not so long ago, Glenda Jackson’s “King Lear” would have come as a su…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfer of Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Rarely has a new play by a modestly w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMGlen Campbell and the Smothers Brothers sing “Thank You Very Much” on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. This episode was originally telecast by CBS in February of 1968: (This is the la…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“His liking for Chinese art was an affair of the mind; in a world of increasing noise and hugeness, he turned in private to gentle, precise, and miniature things.” James Hilton, Lost Ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMNow in its third year at the Criterion Theatre, Mischief Theatre’s third show is still as lively and funny as ever.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHe doesn’t offer solutions, but he’s an empathetic witness to the damage done by violence.
"I'm not afraid of dying. What I'm afraid of is losing my mother, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAfter two highly successful runs at both the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2015 and the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2017, the acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Sue Townsend's The Secre…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 07:00AM
Smart caption glasses developed and trialled at the National Theatre for hearing-impaired audiences are being rolled out across the UK, with Leeds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMReview: Top Girls, Lyttleton, National Theatre 3.0stars In the programme, playwright Caryl Churchill writes “When I wrote Top Girls I imagined 16 women in a play, though I knew I’d be un…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:47AMA new cross-party group dedicated to improving diversity in the creative industries has been established, and will be chaired by former culture
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMWho doesn’t love polar bears? They’re amazing animals, pin-ups of the arctic amid the existential threat of melting icecaps. In this latest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMIt would be hard to find a Chicago theater or art school that doesn't have some link to Winifred O'Reilly and the family she raised to love the arts.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:15AMIt's been a hell of a West End opening for COME FROM AWAY! The Broadway transfer flew into London after a run in Ireland and now it's nominated an astonishing NINE TIMES!!! In case you neede…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:00AM
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb should probably be consigned to anonymous ignominy. Two young men from wealthy families in the 1920s, they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMWho is Constantly Screaming? Constantly Screaming is made up of two mates with a lot of hates – Frankie McNair and Maddy Weeks. Frankie McNair blurs the lines between stand-up, physical co…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:46AMIt’s the night of the epiphany and dominatrix Josie is beginning to lose heart with her life, but at the age of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMGiven the currently fraught political climate, it feels like quite a feat to talk about Brexit without descending into inarticulate fury or
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMThere's no watery fog in these rehearsal images from Queen of the Mist, just reams of sheet music, plenty of cases, the odd juggling ball and a host of performers, which all makes us very in…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:43AMIn 1969, as the conflict escalated in Vietnam, John Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono staged their bed-in for peace. This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMThey’ve assured their son that they love him more than anything else and that they’ll always put him first; that it’ll be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMThe programme, consisting of Broken Wings and The Rite of Spring, follows the success of 2016's She Said
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:21AMReview: Noughts and Crosses, York Theatre Royal 2.0Overall Score Representation of BAME actors is a hot topic in theatre right now. New plays such as Admissions are questioning the use of qu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17AM
Garrick Theatre, London is showing “Rip It Up – The 60s,” on view through June 2, 2019.According to the website of the Garrick Theatre, “Rip It Up – The 60s” is home in the West …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:45AMDavid Korins is bringing some of Chatsworth House, the stately home from the movie “Pride and Prejudice,” to New York — for a show at Sotheby’s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AMReview of the Saturday, March 30, 2019 matinee at the Cort Theatre in New York City. Starring Glenda Jackson, Ruth Wilson, Jane Houdyshell, Elizabeth Marvel, Aisling O'Sullivan, Pedro Pascal…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01AMAli Stroker stars as Ado Annie in a bold new take on Oklahoma!---The morning after Ali Stroker performed "I Cain't Say No" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she woke up to thousands…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMThe new musical is inspired by the real-life ballerina who inspired Edgar Degas' iconic sculpture.
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