News items about PPTOPA hiring professionals, the South Florida Theatre League opens its annual summer festival, Michael Amico wins the Vic Award, Amparo extends again
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMG. Austin Allen’s set is a larger-than-life closet draped in purple cloth and which also includes a kitchen. To this room comes the older man in his mid-60’s who has discovered that as h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMNATALIE DERYN JOHNSON is an improvisational movement artist, poet, photographer based in New York City. In 2018 she was chosen to partake in the Once Upon Water Residency in Toronto and was…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:24PMStephen Aubrey is a Brooklyn-based writer and dramaturg and a co-Artistic Director of The Assembly. With The Assembly, he has written or co-written THAT POOR DREAM, HOME/SICK, THE DARK HEAR…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:24PM By: David Sheward
June 4, 2019: Breaking the metaphorical walls between disconnected people is the common theme of three new NYC productions. On Broadway, Terrence McNally’s Frankie…
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★★ The eminent Donald Margulies delivers a tedious effort at Manhattan Theatre Club
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59PMThis formulaic offering from the author of “Dinner With Friends” chronicles the havoc wrought when a black sheep returns to the family fold.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMCelebrating the 20th anniversary of their 1999 masterpiece, The Soft Bulletin, technicolour rock legends, The Flaming Lips, are heading to Australia this October, playing the album in full a…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 09:50PMThe Chesapeake Shakespeare Company began in 2002 with a small group of artists committed to changing how people think about Shakespeare, by producing shows that allowed audiences to connect…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMListen: Lena Hall to Join “Bat Out of Hell,” Great Features from Amanda Duarte and Elaine May, More Tonys Predictions! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:32PMHerndon is weathering the musical storm of “Singin’ in the Rain,” playing at the NextStop Theatre. It is touted as one of the best film musicals of all time and this production lives…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:31PMKate Hamill takes liberties in adapting this classic work, to mixed results.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:24PMWith construction ongoing but substantially completed, The Kennedy Center recently threw open the doors on May 29, 2019 to its new addition, The REACH. It was a glorious day to take in the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PM★★★ Kate Hamill's modern take on a Victorian classic is not as radical as it seems
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM“I can’t abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role.” – Jo to Meg in “Little Women” Kate Hamill’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” plays at Primary St…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PM★★ The classic American novel updated according to current gender-shifting attitudes
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PMPart David Lynch thriller, part Friday Night drive in flick, THE CABIN! is a show like no other. Written by kids for adults, the brand new show premieres as part of the 2019 Darebin Arts S…
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On Sunday, Broadway's best will be celebrated during the Tony Awards. This year, one group of honorees will get a unique and special honor.
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 08:53PMCheck out photos from The Public Theater's annual gala at the Delacorte in Central Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:48PMThe 74-year-old conductor, who withdrew from one weekend of concerts last month due to illness, said in a statement, “‘On the advice of my doctors, I need to undergo this procedure at th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PMThis is an ambitious, involved show that uses the 2010 plane crash in Smolensk that killed 96 people, including Poland’s president as a linchpin. Starting in 1920 with the chance meeting o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:03PMYOU’RE GETTING TO BE A RABBIT WITH ME Whatever happened to all the imaginary friends we had as kids? Did they all end up in some limbo where they started making friends with each other, or…
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Paper Mill Playhouse delivers a stunning revival of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," directed by Mark S. Hoebee.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:12PMYoung women in Catholic schoolgirl garb take to the cursed play, diving deep into the shifting alliances and bloody frenzy.
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 07:11PMBroadway's Justin Peck, Sara Mearns, Tiler Peck, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lawrence Leritz, Megan Mullally and Chita Rivera.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMDecade-hopping story about sexual identity also celebrates the art of theatre
In one lifetime, the many loves that once dare not speak their names have become part of everyday chatter. But i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06PMAs August approaches and preparations for the Edinburgh Fringe swing into gear, another chancer emerges trying to squeeze a few pounds out
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 06:57PMAre you ready to Do the Deux? It's time to chat with everyone's favorite drunk aunt, Vanna Deux!
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 06:33PMThe playwright thinks he’s offering us shocks. They register more like mild nudges.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:30PMHarron AtkinsHometown: Detroit, MICurrent Town: Brooklyn, NYQ: Tell me about your play in the EST Marathon.A: Dominick is secretly in love with his best friend. But is the feeling mutual…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 06:24PMCompanies like Trust Science have put algorithms on the market that can help compile trustworthiness profiles of individuals and organizations. But does AI really possess such a “social”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMA survey by National Research Group says weekly Fortnite players now spend 21% of their free time with the game, and spend 3% less time on social media, which now accounts for 16% of pl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMRates of pay haven’t increased, as the cost of living continues to climb and, anecdotally, some arts workers are being asked by funders to justify their salaries, in a way that wouldn’t …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM“This phenomenon is known as overtourism, and like breakfast margaritas on an all-inclusive cruise, it is suddenly everywhere. A confluence of macroeconomic factors and changing business t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMBroadway orchestrator Harold Wheeler chats about his Special Tony for Lifetime Achievement and his work on Ain't Too Proud with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMWe chat with the winners from Be More Chill, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pretty Woman and more at the 2019 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards!
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Based on real events, the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s new play tells the story of a Chicago drag queen who throws her fabulous hat into the ring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMby Mo Brady
I’m one of those theatergoers that runs away screaming at the idea of “audience participation.” I avo…
SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 05:32PM As Ward Cleaver said to Fred Rutherford, “June is busting out all over!” We have much hopping of a theatrical nature this month, and we thrill to report it below. Coming up: Com…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:24PMBy David Saltz. David Z. Saltz—director, installation artist, and teacher of digital performance—talks about the early days of digital media in theatre and the six main roles it plays in…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:21PMThe Tony-nominated composer of the new musical comedy will be celebrated at a July ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMSara Bareilles, Megan Hilty, Jessie Mueller, and Jason Robert Brown joined Nettles for the May 31 concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMThe Boys in the Band made its world premiere off-Broadway in 1968 at Theatre Four, and 50 years later playwright Mart Crowley got to see his story told on Broadway featuring nine out and p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMHadestown book and songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and co-creator and director Rachel Chavkin discuss the inspiration behind the Tony-nominated musical.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMWhen the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway’s biggest prize. Throughout the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMAs Persephone, the life of the underground party in Hadestown, Amber Gray is a dazzling highlight of the romantic hit musical, which has become the toast of Broadway and the recipient of a w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMWhen Joan Jett Blakk told us to lick Bush in '92
Neon shades of violet—not rainbows—radiate from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau's world-premiere docu-…
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Casual theater lovers might think that there’s nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong! June calendar of theater openings: Stonewall 50 on Stages! Fairvi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:51PMListen to the first release of the Hadestown cast album here! The Broadway cast of Hadestown is led by Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada, and Patrick Page…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:38PM“We are being deliberately vague about the term ‘literary’ here: there are traditional fiction and lit-crit magazines listed, but we’ve also included a sci-fi publication and a psych…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMNow that Apple is moving beyond iTunes, it’s worth remembering how revolutionary iTunes was. Before the iTunes Music Store, your best bet to find music online was through a file-sharing si…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMThe Director of Advancement is responsible for providing strategic focus and tactical direction that support the NPGs mission. DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENTNATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMReporting to and working closely with the President, the newly created and evolving position of General Manager (GM) will collaborate with the Leadership Team to promote Shea’s success and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMArticulate is seeking a full-time Managing Director to lead this now 5-year old organization from startup to sustainable by creating and implementing strategies to expand its reach and measu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMCity officials are especially sensitive to the possibility of losing the Sarasota Orchestra after the recent relocation of two other cultural institutions outside of the city. Sarasota Heral…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM“Billops is best known for documentary works like Finding Christa (1991), a 55-minute film that recounts why she gave up her four-year-old daughter and how they reconnected more than two d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMIn March this year, the Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, offered 156 lots of around 430 objects that had belonged to Barnes and his wife Laura. The lots included f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMInside the Tony-nominated revival of the drama from the author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMAfter creating scenery for more than 350 theatrical productions, Joseph Blakely Forbes, founder of Scenic Art Studios, has developed an artistic attachment to the hand-painted backdrops and …
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 04:04PMOn the heels of a recent sold-out concert engagement, two-time Tony-winning Broadway legend Chita Rivera has announced a return run this fall to the midtown cabaret venue Feinstein's/54 Bel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMThese new Wicked photos have us dancing through life! Hannah Corneau took over the role of Elphaba beginning on May 14, and acclaimed Wicked touring star Ginna Claire Mason took her rightful…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Schwartz & More to Discuss Working: A Musical at Free Event
A talent-packed slate of creatives …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMIn her final Broadway.com vlog, Tootsie's Sarah Stiles partners up with co-star Andy Grotelueschen for a dream ballet like no other.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMTovah Felshuh chews the scenery in Wade Dooley's theatrical comedy "The Prompter" at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:03PMThis year’s Tony nominees tell a tale of two (New York) cities: the huge, commercial productions commonly mounted these days on Broadway marquees (like Tootsie and Beetlejuice), and the in…
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The EPIC Players production, featuring artists with Autism Spectrum Disorder, begins performances at the Sheen Center June 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMThe free event will include performances and discussions regarding the musical, which will be mounted at New York City Center June 26–29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMTony Award-winning choreographer Warren Carlyle reveals five musical numbers that helped shaped and inspire him.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:16PM(via Scott Klein/Logan Metzler at Keith Sherman & Associates) WINNERS ANNOUNCED Awards were presented Sunday, Ju…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:15PMPointed Conversations invites members of the community to further engage with Pointless Theatre Company’s artistic work through discussion on the themes and ideas of their current producti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PMWe know which performers have been cast in the new UK and Ireland tour of Disney’s landmark musical The Lion King which will roar into Bristol in September 2019 before moving on to Edinbur…
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Florencia Lozano, Peter Rini, and more also star in Feraud's new work, about a woman's fight for her life in the face of an eating disorder.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMThe Fairy Princess has been watching the fervor over #AlwaysBeMyMaybe – written by Ali Wong, Randall Park, and Michael Golamco, which is now appearing on #Netflix. It’s fun. It’s funny…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 02:43PMFor its second show of the season, Cohesion Theatre Company has partnered with the recently-formed Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective to devise and produce the world premiere of Tornki…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PMTake a look back at some of the most iconic 'Tony Awards' moments ahead of this Sunday's 73rd annual affair!
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 02:31PMWalk into “Ms. Blakk for President,” the new Steppenwolf Theatre show from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau about the remarkable political odyssey of Terence Smith, one of the found…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMChristopher Maltman, Nadine Sierra, and Michael Fabiano star in the production at the Berlin State Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMPlaybill hosts its annual Tony Awards roundtable with the bookwriters of Ain’t Too Proud, Hadestown, The Prom, Beetlejuice, and Tootsie.
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:04PMThe first sound that results in the primary auditory cortex is a standard pitch. Other regions of the auditory cortex add more complex elements like timbre and specific sound quality. To add…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“Culture programs are budgeted at $235 million this year, down from nearly $295 million last year, including cutting ‘arts sector support’ from $18.5 million to $6.5 million. Additiona…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMWritten By Julio Martinez
Hollywood Fringe Fest VIP opening night party passes are now available. Ticket includes early admission at 5pm, fast pass into the party, drink ticket, pho…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:03PMTheatre Rhinoceros presents "Action Hero," a new queer play by John Fisher about a movie star with secrets.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PMMy first acting job is the job I’m still doing. I’ve played Shak in BBC1’s Doctors since September 2015. Roughly a month
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMHow did you start off in dance? A sequence of coincidences: I was walking the path to my office thinking of an
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The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel takes the St. Louis stage in August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMYoung Jean Lee’s play with songs is a rock-and-roll reflection on mortality.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PMThis week we spotlight John Behlmann, who gives a hilarious featured star turn in Broadway's hit musical adaptation of Tootsie.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:37PMIn this guest column for Deadline, actor Sam Waterston, who co-starred with Jeff Daniels in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series The Newsroom (2012-2014), offers his thoughts on seeing his old friend…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:34PMHow the Tony-nominated star of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' stays in the moment, even a complicated one.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:28PMThe event highlighted the composer’s daring, his inventiveness — and his indifference to what an audience might digest
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:23PMThis year, the Playbill Pride piano is located in Christopher Park, just outside the legendary Stonewall Inn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMAs a vision of gay bonding, The View UpStairs exudes a wonderful in-your-face spirit.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMBarry Hines’s After the Strike, about the violence at Orgreave, lay untouched for 35 years
A lost play about the miners’ strike by the acclaimed author behind Kes is to be performed in p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Dicky
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThe 2019 Tony Awards are almost upon us. Before you watch the CBS ceremony hosted by James Corden on June 9, make sure to check out these 11 conversations with Tony nominees. Follow the link…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMThe former The Voice contestant Lucy O’Byrne tells us about starring in the new musical stage adaptation of Little Miss Sunshine.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMNew Yorkers started hearing the buzz about Oklahoma! last year, as yet another production from the acclaimed St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn, began making its presence known. The Se…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMOn Monday, Trap Door Theatre received a special citation at the Non-Equity Jeff Awards, recognizing the company’s “endeavors in opening a magical door to an evocative and surreal world o…
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From Tootsie to Hadestown, here are a few suggested cocktails to liven up your viewing party June 9!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM“What if humans are the primates whose capacity to dance (shared by some birds and mammals) was the signature strategy enabling the evolution of a distinctively large and interconnected br…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM“The plan is to have monthly rotating chief editors, who will help curate the content — slated to comprise around 15 pieces a month — with the help of ongoing editors Michelle Tse (one…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe Tony Award winner will perform her solo show at the midtown venue again this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThe annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids fundraiser returned to the Pines June 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThis just might be the news of the day! Power-voiced Tony winner Lena Hall has been cast as Sloane in the upcoming New York City Center run of the Meat Loaf musical Bat Out of Hell. The prev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMThe absurdist play, directed by Frank Galati, runs at the American Conservatory Theater through June 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMThe writer-composer-lyricist shares her theatre upbringing, the musical theatre song she’ll never get sick of, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMThe summer season includes Shrek, Oklahoma!, The Drowsy Chaperone, Guys and Dolls, The Wiz, and In the Heights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMThis photo of Harold Green and his handwritten answer to the question "What is it like to be a writer?" is an extension of my ongoing portrait project "Do you see me?" While you could label …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMThe Broadway theater season, which ends in late April, culminates with the American Theatre Wing’s Antoinette Perry Awards – the Tonys. For the 2018-19 season 42 nominators considered 34…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 12:24PMRemember D:Ream’s “Things Can Only Get Better”? I was bopping along in my seat to that New Labour anthem and so many other chart-topping hits from my youth before curtain up at Educat…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:19PMJustice Hehir
Current Town: Newark, NJQ: What are you working on now?A: Two things: a play about dildo manufacturing (fun times) and a postpartum play for new parents and their babie…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 12:18PMThe Tony winner will take on the role of Sloane in the upcoming summer production at New York City Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMHere's a sweet treat: Pictures from the Hansel And Gretel rehearsal room. Performing at Regent's Park Theatre, get tickets from Official London Theatre.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:10PMSan Francisco Ballet continues to dish up delectable European premieres in the second of its four mixed programmes. The only narrative piece
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMIn ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ the two are unearthing a forgotten slice of queer history and drawing parallels to today’s presidential race.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PMThe glorious Broadway revival makes a quick stop in Chicago.
Halfway through the first act of Falsettos, Trina, a woman whose husband has left her for a younger …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMGiven the state of the world, who wouldn’t want to be abducted? I mean, it would at least be nice to keep that option in one’s back pocket: When our streets fill with water and our plane…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMNot Exactly Billington has set themselves a challenge to read a new (to them) playtext every week. In May, their #ReadaPlayaWeek titles included Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, …
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Today we’d like to acquaint you with vaudeville and burlesque comedian Sam Goldman (Samuel Isaac Goldman, 1883-1945). The bulk of this post is drawn from pre-eminent Marx Brothers scholar …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AM“‘I’ve always been attracted to those ballet steps, and using them as a framework, or form, but then changing stuff within that,’ she says. Nevertheless, breaking into the ballet wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“We were going round the table and he just went, “I wonder if there’s a world in which you say L.A. doesn’t really have a theater community, but you’ve made it your mission to brin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMJames Davis talks growing up as the class clown, his passion for travel, and crafting his performance as Will Parker in Oklahoma!.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:47AMFor many folks throughout Los Angeles, June means the end of school, the pageantry of graduation ceremonies and the long awaited start of summer. For the more than 600,000 LGBT citizens in t…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.wpcomstaging.com at 11:39AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending June 2, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:30AMA dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Nathan Lane, were honored at the 75th annual Theatre World Awards. Some spoke on the red carpet about when they first realized the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMI was a little late to the party in respect of Vladimir Jurowski’s scintillating new recording of the original 1877 version of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake with the State Academic Symphony Or…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMShakespeare's romantic comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream" is all over the SF Bay Area, with 2 more productions about to open in Concord and San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 11:00AM
75th Annual Theatre World Award Honorees Announced. Nathan Lane Receives John Willis Lifetime Achievement HonorBy: Ellis Nassour
June 4, 2019: Well, there are Tony’s, the blacktie g…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54AMOver 500 not-for-profit performing arts organizations received grants, including 95 in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMMary Elizabeth Winstead and Colin Woodell star in the Second Stage theatre revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM“[Emilie] Skinner launched DNCB in 2011 after dancing with Contemporary Ballet Dallas and carved out a niche re-staging groundbreaking examples of early modernist ballet, particularly piec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMAs a Change.org petition (with about 3,000 signatures so far) puts it, “We [pro-choice people in Georgia] now share the burden of condemnation for actions we fought from the beginning — …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMStarting today, fans of Broadway’s history-making blockbuster can enter to win $10 tickets via the Broadway Direct Digital Lottery. The lottery opens at 11:00 AM two days prior to the perf…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:35AMA new engaged gay couple's car breaks down outside of a nudist camp, and what happens next is a nudist new musical, perfect for Pride month in NYC.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:24AMPlaybill offers an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry, serving as the online source for careers in theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMThe Tony and Oscar winner stopped by NBC Nightly News.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMThis year’s Tony nominees gathered June 3 at the Sofitel New York Hotel to celebrate ahead of the awards ceremony Sunday.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMAs a piece of theatre Zog is enjoyable and beautifully thought out, although the synchronicity with the much loved book is lacking.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe concert will celebrate songs from Broadway musicals of 1987 and 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMEphemeral Ensemble co-founder Ramon Ayres tells Giverny Masso about the company’s first full-length work Offstage, which compassionately explores suicide and the mask
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Richard Beecham will direct the production, which will premiere in October at the Watford Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMThe superstar plays Nala in the upcoming Disney remake, in theatres July 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMLondon PalladiumThe exhilarating comedian known for her hit Netflix series puts on an addictive night of comedy and song
American comedian Rachel Bloom gets musical theatre tropes drunk and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSongs from the original Broadway cast album will be released in batches this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMThe hit Disney musical, stars Gavin Lee, Belinda Allyn, Tally Sessions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMBy: Isa Goldberg
June 6, 2019: Among the often repeated clichés that riddle the dialogue between Frankie and Johnny, one that is unspoken registers clearly. Love makes the world go …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:37AMLynch, Studi, and Wertmüller will receive honorary Academy Awards for lifetime achievement, while Davis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work toward g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMDespite high praise for Jackson’s performance, reviews for the show have been ambivalent at best, and initially robust sales have slowed considerably. The final performance, originally sch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“The Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities, Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani, … intends to visit Washington ‘to recover 5,500 artefacts from the Hobby Lobby company and 10,000 clay figuri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“Leathers is best known to the global jazz audience for his affiliations with pianist Aaron Diehl and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. He won two Grammy awards backing Salvant, as a member …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMMuseum management said in a statement that “this auction allows us to deaccession a number of works in areas where we have significant breadth and depth and the proceeds will return to the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMBy: Isa Goldberg
June 6, 2019: The Irish Repertory Theatre’s revival of Sean O’Casey’s 1926 play, The Plough and The Stars, the conclusion of his Dublin Trilogy, evokes the madne…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:32AMCarla Ching's meditation on growing up in America now in its New York premiere by the Atlantic Theater Company has heart and wisdom but should have gone further. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:27AMCelebrating 90 years of Thespians
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:09AMThe Evening Standard has ended the contracts of its two theatre critics after a combined 27 years due to “necessary cost cutting”.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMKids Week 2019 is back! Hit shows in London are offering free tickets for children throughout the month. Here's the list of shows taking part this year.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:02AMBy verity healey. verity healey looks at Teatr.doc’s latest show, Torture, and the vital need for “truth-telling” theatre.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00AMSmall Island is an absolute joy and an overdue, no reservations at all, win for Rufus Norris at the NT. There’s nothing else to say. Well except this: you must see it, immediately.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM
As well as having its own building in the heart of the city, the Dundee Rep Ensemble has also created a strong
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMRussell Hicks (1895-1957) appeared in over 300 films, in all sorts of genres, but he’s probably best remembered by classic comedy fans in particular for his priceless turn as a flim flam m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:42AMTwo of the country’s four major chains have raised the price of a standard ticket from ¥1,800 ($16.50) to ¥1,900 ($17.50), citing the costs of new IMAX and 4D equipment as well as “ant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AMThe dramaturg at the Kaaitheater, a Flemish company in Brussels, has written an open letter arguing hard against a merger between the Kaai and Rosas, the company of choreographer Anne Teresa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM“About 50 people packed the inside of the Children’s Book Cellar, where is was shoulder to shoulder, like a rainbow mosh pit. Ophelia, a drag queen from Topsham, read from two books abou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AMThe creators of Sun and Sea (Marina) at the Lithuanian pavilion say they had never really expected more than 15 visitors at a time and certainly never expected to win the Golden Lion or draw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AMOf the 300 distinct Broadway productions I've seen over the past 35+ years, and 22 of them play revivals. And they've run the gamut in quality, as you might expect. In looking over my lists …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:06AMTalent and technique are must-haves for anyone pursuing a musical theatre career, but what else do you need to succeed in auditions?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMJonathan Kent's production of Tosca is a must-see and is a perfect introduction to the drama and beauty of opera.
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Formal dance training includes much about patterns in the body: the sequential arcs of port de bras, common step sequences such as a pas de bourrée, the actions in the body that lead to a p…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:57AMA medical emergency. If that’s not song and dance material, I don’t know what is. But under composer William Finn’s tunefully neurotic steerage, serious brain trauma becomes a bright, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMDane Figueroa Edidi: “To be Black, and a woman and trans means each time someone experiences you or your work there is a shift that has to happen in others for them to even begin to lean i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMCocker to collaborate on new Simon Stephens play, while Lucy Ellinson to play Macbeth and Neil Bartlett to stage 24-hour work on Remembrance Sunday
He’s a musician, actor, broadcaster, wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMArcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr’s engaging production puts an African American family at its centre but misses some of the play’s quietly heart-wringing moments
Playwright August Wilson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWe've got an exciting first look at Waitress' new stars Ashley Roberts and Lucie Jones in the rehearsal room, as they prepare for the smash-hit new musical.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:39AMTrying to decide what London show to see? Check out this list of shows closing in June. You never know what incredible productions you could be missing!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:38AMSince joining the Royal Ballet in 2002, the principal dancer has developed an impressively varied repertoire that includes leading roles in works
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMA career in classical ballet can feel incredibly all-encompassing — from rehearsing to class to cross-training and maintenance, the work is constant. Yet Kathleen Breen Combes, to her cred…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:11AMPowerful and hard-hitting, the trailer for Custody cuts straight to the heart of the hit drama about police brutality. Steel yourself, watch the trailer, then book your tickets for the play'…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:09AMTheatre company Selladoor has cancelled a planned show starring Ann Widdicombe after the politician claimed science might one day “produce an answer”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMCome From Away, the story of how one small town, Gander in Newfoundland, responded to events of 9/11 when 7,000 passengers from 38 diverted aircraft landed in their midst, is one of the most…
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Watford Palace Theatre has announced a 21st-century reimagining of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gaslight, which gave rise to the modern term ‘gaslighting’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMReview: Horrible Histories: Dreadful Deaf, Bristol Old Vic4.0Overall ScoreI am so excited by the prospect of a live rendition of Horrible Histories, that I have to tell all my twenty-somethi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMThe Ensemble wins special award. You are all magnificent! Just heard they never got rid of the lottery but pay full price and let me win again. 🤗😇😎
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SOURCE: broadwayshowbiz.com at 06:03AMThe inimitable Kneehigh retools The Beggar’s Opera in Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSarah Frankcom has announced her final season as artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, which includes a new play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMAfter 25 years as artistic director, and another 15 as a dancer with the company, House tells Michael Crabb he’s ready to try something new.
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Who is Daniel Sumegi? Daniel Sumegi is the son of an Australian/Polish mother and a Hungarian immigrant father, I’m also the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor. I grew up at Bondi Beach, at…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:55AMWinner of the 2018 Griffin Award, Griffin Theatre Company presents the premiere of Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman show, Prima Facie, at the SWB Stables Theatre until 22 June, before pla…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:41AMKathy Burke and Scott Graham are to co-direct a new play by Sally Abbott, as part a programme of work celebrating the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMRevival of Githa Sowerby’s 1912 classic of industrial patriarchy Rutherford and Son is worthy but rather cumbersome and inaccessible.
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New York Notes finds Broadbent leading a trio, the setting that brought him to the attention of audiences and critics early in his career. His associations with Woody Herman, John Klemmer an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AMThis is the second in a series of posts by guest blogger Milton Moore, a longtime music critic who has covered a wide array of genres. – Scott Timberg
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AMThere’s barely a scrap of frivolity in the Rutherford home. The seat of a Tyneside manufacturing family in the 1910s, it’s imposing, substantial, stuffed to the gunwales with heavy furni…
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Robert Glenister has revealed his struggle with depression and anxiety following a long-running dispute with HM Revenue & Customs, which he said
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMHAS TOLSTOY EVER BEEN SO HOT? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz created the role of striking, velvet-voiced, Cuban Lothario Juan Julian, a lector who is hir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:29AMIt’s stunning to think that the George Gershwin-composed Rhapsody in Blue was first performed in 1924. Many of his songs from stage and screen, such as Someone to Watch Over Me, have becom…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:21AMTHERE’S HUMOR TO BE PROUD OF HERE, SO DON’T BE PREJUDICED For those who have read or seen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, there are many nouns that come to mind such as “classic,�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:16AMHe’s the producer behind smash-hit musical Come from Away and now a very different beast: David Mamet’s new work, which has already
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIt’s ok. I promise. So, you should have been tracking goals in Google Analytics all this time, but you didn’t know how to set it up and now you do but you don’t have any data to show. …
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Netflix has optioned three titles of the New York Times bestselling YA author Sarah Dessen. These include “Ride” (Viking; 2009); “This Lullaby” (Viking; 2002), and “Once and For Al…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:52AMAlthough Carla Ching’s script is uneven, her subject and characters are intriguing.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:48AMErich Bergen heads home to Broadway on June 4, reprising his celebrated turn as the goofy, charming Dr. Pomatter in the hit musical Waitress, a role he first played to acclaim in 2018. Berg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMA confluence of events and information made me realize that it might be time to revisit the subject of one of my favorite posts. Last week I was talking to one of my staff about who to inclu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:18AMCreatures with the kind of quick wicked wit you only wish you had, the kind who rarely let pass the opportunity for a pithy exit line, populate Rich Orloff’s Veronica’s Position in Islan…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AMThe National Gallery of Australia has launched a major ongoing campaign, #knowmyname, to recognise and celebrate Australian women artists. The campaign will include social media and digital …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 12:04AMAaron Posner's critically acclaimed, Chekhov-inspired play returns for a limited run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Manhattan Theatre Club presents the new play from Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMRipley will make a return to “Sunset Boulevard’’ 25 years after appearing in the show’s original Broadway cast.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMIn Erik Abbott-Main on Boy Friday’s “Cowboy” at Prime Produce, "Exploring both individual and collective dream space, Cowboy’s vignettes feel like a string of prose poems. In drivin…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMAudible releases the recording of David Javerbaum’s comedy June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Sara Bareilles musical continues at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKate Hamill adapted the Louisa May Alcott classic for the new play, directed by Sarna Lapine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCarla Ching's new play Nomad Motel is a different kind of coming-of-age story---One of the worst days of Carla Ching's life took place when she was living in New York City. At the time, the …
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