New play about an extramarital affair is short, but emotionally truthful
The best kind of two-hander is the play about couples. And the most dramatic way of saying something about relationsh…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48PM“Moulin Rouge The Musical” is opening on Broadway this month, and both comedian Dave Chappelle and singer Barry Manilow will have “Broadway residencies,” which is a pretentious way …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PM“Soulful Symphony: #SoulfulSetlist” was performed at Merriweather Post Pavilion in connection with the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Downtown Columbia, Maryland on Saturday, June 29, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:18PMEvery summer, Wolf Trap Opera plays a vital role in expanding operatic exposure by programming a new or rarely performed work. This year included not one, but two rare works in a brilliant d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:08PM“Matilda,” Roald Dahl’s perennially popular children’s book, will likely be familiar to most generations of readers and theatergoers. Olney Theatre Center’s impressive new staging …
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Several theater companies are dealing with temporary displacement for the next year or so due to construction work on a handful of Berkeley facilities. Live Oak Theatre is going to be closed…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:53PMPaul Mow had a dream of building a theater in the newly-revitalized Arts District of Benton Harbor/St. Joseph, Michigan, and as usual for Paul, he pushed and pushed and made it come true. I …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:44PMGiven her absence from my generation’s digital public square, it is a gift to “see” Morrison through reflections from Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, the critic Hilton Als and the poet So…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM“Although movies and television have long toyed with doomsday scenarios, we’re now seeing deeper, more poignant treatments of the issue, with scenes of children and young adults trying t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMIn a letter to Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley dated Friday, new Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III reiterated the institution’s position that it is legally bound to keep the name of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMDominique Meyer, who is French and has been director of Vienna State Opera since 2010, has been celebrated for increasing revenue at the Austrian institution at a time when many opera houses…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMMichael Kimmelman: “When was the last time you lingered for pleasure at Kennedy Airport? When was the last time you felt happy to be there? An architectural advertisement for the thrill of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM“To resist globalisation, we need to insist on the importance of the local, whether that’s local food, local dialects, local industries. At its most successful, Irish cinema tells local …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM“When we are performing our normal, practiced tasks everyday, we often are – counterintuitively — not paying attention to all the little details of what we are doing; our prefrontal co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMKERI RENÉ FULLER discusses recreating the iconic role of Grizabella for new North American Tour [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:42PMAndrew Barth Feldman stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about making his Broadway debut in Dear Evan Hansen with Beth Stevens.
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The $30 million musical is off to a great start as nearly a dozen other shows are set to close in the coming months.
SOURCE: Forbes at 05:51PMFiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick & Joseph Stein. National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in New York City. I regret that I waited so long before seeing this wonderful st…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:51PMThe one-day event in Miami brought together educators, administrators, and students to address issues at higher-ed institutions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:35PMThe controversial playwright takes on a ripped-from-the-headlines sex scandal, with intriguing but uneven results
The post From London: Mamet and Malkovich Reap Bitter Wheat from Harvey Wein…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:30PMJoan Didion Invokes Clear Blue Skies to Revive Her Life by Jesse Marley & Barry David Horwitz In “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Stacy Ross, playing Joan Didion with flair and subtle…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 05:29PMBetsy Brandt stars in a new Pasadena Playhouse version of "Riverdale" creator Aguirre-Sacasa's 2008 work, which centers on a prep-school sex scandal.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMThe free tapings will take place in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMTwo or three weeks ago, my daughter was finally patient enough to get all the way through Dr. Seuss’s book, The Cat in the Hat. A feat of patience and wit, to be sure, for someone who is t…
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Two performances in and Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical is kicking up some significant bucks. With a whopping average ticket price of $237 – second only to the mighty $299 Hamilton …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PMGet ready to hear Wicked star Hannah Corneau perform this iconic Stephen Schwartz tune.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMThere’s nothin’ like summer in the city! Theater fans will be sitting pretty with July’s picks from the Broadway.com editorial staff: Beyoncé's powerful vocals on the big screen, Shak…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMGood times never seemed so good! A Neil Diamond bio-musical is heading to Broadway. The new musical will chronicle his journey from born and raised Brooklyn kid to music showman. Directe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMIt's time to c-c-c-come on and listen to the newest addition to NPR's Tiny Desk Concert. The day following The 73rd Annual Tony Awards, Tony nominated composer Joe Iconis and the cast of Be …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMBroadway.com's #LiveAtFive is a daily news show on Facebook Live, in which our editors discuss the newest buzz on Broadway, chat with stage stars about their current projects, and take quest…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.Melissa McCarthy Set to Play Ursula in Live-Action The Little Mermaid
Two-time Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy is in talks to pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMIt's summer, and though Arabian nights are hotter than hot, audiences seem to be keeping cool at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Disney blockbuster Aladdin grabbed one of the top five spots, gro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMAlum urges Thespians to be passionate, curious, and resourceful
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 04:43PMThe revival culminated its Broadway run June 30 with record numbers at the box office.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMHome in Manchester and London’s Almeida Theatre are among the winners of awards celebrating arts organisations and individuals that have taken action
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CJ Eldred talks about living his rock star dream in Rock of Ages, notable survival jobs, and what he was like 10 years ago when Rock of Ages first opened.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:56PMBrowsing and accessing classical music online has been a chore. The data structures were set up for pop music, not classical. Finally, companies are working on some solutions. – The New Yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMAn artificial intelligence, or AI, successfully “recognizes” an author not as a person, but instead as the likeness of features that characterize a body of work. In order to find pattern…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMFelipe Fernández-Armesto: ‘Confused by chaos, infantilized by ignorance, refugees from complexity flee to fanaticism and dogma.’ But something else is happening too. Human history was f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMSome scientists believe if robots can master conversational humor, and speak like the people they serve, it could help humans accept them as part of our lives. But is that even scientificall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMRecommendations for the best classical music in New York City.
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Jukebox musicals, especially those that tell the biographical tale of their titular subjects, seem to be all the rage in recent years. That trend won’t be going away anytime soon as a biog…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:56PMThe show will play Off-Broadway August 9-14 at Rave Theatre Festival, following a concert at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMLanguage can be curved, bent, cajoled, broken, reconstituted, made to fit a creators passion. When that’s what you want to read, here are some ideas to put up higher on the TBR pile. – T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMHimesh Patel may be the star of the new Beatles (if they’d never existed) movie Yesterday, but he knows what happens if you don’t keep both feet on the ground in a media career: The New …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMBarnes, a U.S. football player turned artist who did such things as “creating album covers for Marvin Gaye, receiving a commissioned by Kanye West and being named the official artist of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMMaybe because it’s easier on certain types of reviewers and critics to ignore clear evidence of suffering and pain? “Oliver and Bishop share a clear appetite for animal flail and gore an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMOf course, LGBTQ life didn’t start in 1969 – but there’s not a lot of visual record out there, at least not in public. The director of 1982’s Before Stonewall reflects on her archiva…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMEven Star Wars – heck, even Disney – can’t protect against Homeland Security. Ahmed made a slight joke about it before explaining that, well, it’s simply scary for him to be travelin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMNot only has her former label not let the singer buy back her own masters, but Scooter Braun, a powerful music mogul whom Swift calls a manipulative bully, has bought the entire label (likel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWhen the poet laureate of Scotland meets the poet laureate of the United States … no, not the start of a joke. “Both strongly believe in poetry as a means of fostering empathy by inhabit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMObviously, perhaps, they used to be more common in poetry than they are now – think Wordsworth, Dickenson, and so many more. Now, “exclamation marks are not exactly rare in contemporary …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMPossibly. “Krantz was the ‘queen of the bonkbuster,’ those glitzy novels with their gaudy covers and snappy often one-word titles – Scruples, Lace, Rivals – that dominated commerci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMYikes: “How does a white man from New York City tell a Southern Gothic about a young girl growing up in the Depression Era South, a story inspired by the female author’s lived experience…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWell … it’s a first step. A big first step. “When you scale a sizable part of Mount Everest, are you making progress? Yes, but have you reached the summit? No. So we haven’t reached …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMStart with the murder of a social media star, and you unravel a thread that ends up in a particularly unsavory place. “It can very quickly spiral from someone disliking an opinion you have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMBari Weiss: “The notion of erasing art has an American pedigree. The [immigrant New Deal-era artist] Victor Arnautoff was intimately familiar with it, having been interrogated in 1956 by t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMYou know you’re just sort of renting those ebooks you supposedly bought, right? Well, let the demise of Microsoft ebooks explain it all to you. “The digital bookstore never took off. As …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMLACMA has dedicated a space to the exhibition of the new plan with a 15-foot model built in Zumthor’s studio. The site model is a single slab of molded cement, reproducing several blocks o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe challenges vary between access to the consumption of art and access to making and platforming it. In this multimedia age, these have to an extent blurred. However, a hierarchy remains. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMRobert O’Hara’s interpretation of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic, starring a brilliant S. Epatha Merkerson, puts the audience in the hot seat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMThe original London production is closing this month after a 33-year run. When it returns, a well-loved feature won’t be there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PM“This Is What Happens to Pretty Girls,” by Ken Kwek, was based on testimony of about hundreds of women who were victims of abuse and harassment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMDirector Stephen Brackett shares with Playbill how Michael R. Jackson's musical made its way to Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMMarlene Sidaway, who played Maureen in acclaimed sitcom Mum, stars on stage this summer, starring in Penelope Rawlins' new play Pigeons at the Hen and Chickens Theatre. Book your tickets now
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:27PM“Everybody Say Yeah” because musical theatre enthusiasts will soon be able to stream the long-running, hit musical Kinky Boots in the comfort of their own home. BroadwayHD, the premiere …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:21PMWhite will offer her newest concert, Make Someone Happy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMPhotographer Phillip Hamer captured the company of 1776 at The Muny in character.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:10PMThe TV movie, co-starring Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Scott Michael Foster, will now premiere on the channel's streaming site in August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThough he originally set out to make films, Andrzej Goulding has developed a career in stage video design with shows including People,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMThe British Theatre Academy presents this colourful, semi-staged concert version of Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell. Providing a space for young performers to gain real theatrical experience, …
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The Ma-Yi production will mark the first time a musical created by Filipino-Americans will be presented Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMIntimate Dinner offers a comic look at fine dining. The solo show written and performed by Lauren French explores our unique and absurd experiences with food. The play takes place at a Pop …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMHer revelations about Harvey Weinstein sparked #MeToo. Now, as the disgraced mogul’s trial approaches, the actor is back with an Edinburgh show
Sometimes Rose McGowan can say his name, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThe first round of democratic presidential candidate debates has come and gone. Although it’s early in the election cycle, we must remain well informed about each candidates’ policies on…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:52AMDon’t miss your chance to see these stunning shows this summer
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 11:52AMIf there’s one thing modern Broadway can’t get enough of, it’s biographical jukebox musicals about iconic pop stars. The Cher Show may be closing this August, but a new musical about t…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:46AMBy Paul T Davies
Frinton Summer Theatre Artistic Director Clive Brill has announced their 70th annual repertory season which opens on 9th July 2019.
This post Frinton Summer Theatre 2019 ann…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:37AMMeyer will succeed Alexander Pereira following a controversy surrounding Saudi Arabian funding.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMA Neil Diamond biographical musical is being developed for Broadway. Produced by Ken Davenport and Bob Guadio, the musical will feature Diamond’s hits and a book by Anthony McCarten, scree…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:18AMTony Award winner Michael Mayer will direct.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMA Neil Diamond bio-musical, with a score by the iconic singer-songwriter and a book by Bohemian Rhapsody writer Anthony McCarten, is heading to Broadway. Producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaud…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AMSee Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, The Prom, The Cher Show, and more before they close this summer—all at a discounted rate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMSee The Prom, The Cher Show, and more before they close this summer—all at a discounted rate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMIt was last spring. And I couldn’t have been busier. But when this mentor/friend calls, I pick up the phone. I don’t care where I am or what I’m doing. I answer. And this story i…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMCarrying on a new series, our editor Lisa Martland has picked out her Top Picks from the last week including Anne Cox’s thoughts on Present Laughter, while Aleks Sierz reports from Bitter …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMAstrid Van Wieren, Tony LePage, and Petrina Bromley all share the truth about being from Canada.
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It was fourteen years ago that Michelle Flower and Zena Barrie launched the Camden Fringe festival as a summer filler at the Etcetera Theatre in London NW1. Fourteen years later, London's an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:55AMPhoto: Alexander Cy
I am still seeing a lot of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, but I won;t be formally reviewing all of them. Starting with the 2019-2020 season, I am producing and writing …
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 10:54AMThe upcoming West Coast premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is expected to go on as planned at the venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMby Melina Young I’m scared. Terrified in fact. There, I said it. But really, who isn’t? It may come as a shock to absolutely no one that to be a recent college graduate is legitimately t…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:51AMWilton’s Music Hall is to stage a new version of A Christmas Carol this year with a female Scrooge. Written by Piers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMThe special performance was filmed live from Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre June 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth shares backstage stories from Playbill Travel’s cruise to Greece starring Colella, Rachel Bay Jones, Terrence Mann, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMThe show's Diana Trout—of the statement necklaces and withering one-liners—previews what fans will see on the latest season, now airing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMBy Douglas Mayo
Rehearsal images have been released for new musical The View Upstairs which is to have its European premiere at Soho theatre in July 2019
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:30AMTelling us in 10 this week is Jamie Ballard, who's currently playing the role of Harry Potter in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:29AMIt’s great to see new Unicorn Theatre artistic director Justin Audibert giving Aesop his due attention amid the seeming ubiquity of Messrs
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMDavid McVicar’s 2006 production comes up vividly in this imaginative revival overseen by Thomas Guthrie. This is a Marriage of Figaro moved
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMReview: Mass Epidemic Hysteria, Greenwich Theatre2.0starsMass Epidemic Hysteria is a play with a jumble of ideas, ranging from the dancing plague and Charcot’s hysteria theory. It includ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:12AMLeading Latin American dance star and Royal Ballet soloist Fernando Montano will stage Fernando Montano and Friends - Dance for the Sea, an evening of music and dance, later this month to ra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:11AMSome re-imagining of Shakespeare plays can creak under the weight of their own ideas, but this is not the case of Darren
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMIt's July, and it's hot. Some may even say "too hot." In fact, we're melting... but we've got the solution: catching one of London's new theatre shows!
The post July picks: new shows to see …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:01AMThe reading of Githa Sowerby's 1924 play is part of the Project Shaw series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMThe reading of Githa Sowerby's 1924 play is part of the Project Shaw series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMThe Hunt is not easy viewing. It will certainly divide opinion and it is loud and clear in its desire to provoke discussion. It is also an intelligently written adaptation steeped in theatri…
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Some of the UK’s best theatre designers showed off their work at this year’s Prague Quadrennial design festival – and now their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMTransformation and imagination were the themes at this year’s Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. Nick Awde reports on the highlights
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMChoreographer Sergio Trujillo has argued that it is more important than ever for immigrant stories to be told on stage in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMThe company that offers free performances of the Bard’s works is determined to make a statement and “do it our way,” says its leader.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMLast week, the Southbank Centre issued an apology after it was accused of disrespecting understudies by appear. Dove Cameron, appearing in The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMHOT on Broadway (adj): fierce, talented, big potential; has "buzz"; has "it" factor.
What a ride it has been this season! Last week's final happened exactly one year after the first week of …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:06AMThe Old Vic has revealed the first details of a £11.5 million plan to create an on-site education and community hub at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMMusicals can help young men, especially (but not only!), come out, and lord knows they’re often campy enough … but where are the happy gay musicals? Other than Bill Rauch’s happy and g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMOn Your Feet! isn’t perfect and isn’t up there with band bios like Jersey Boys or Sunny Afternoon but ultimately resistance is futile because the rhythm is gonna get you.
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The Radio Arts Foundation (RAF) in St. Louis is looking for a CEO/General Manager who is an experienced and highly creative individual with a demonstrated history of thinking out of the box
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32AMBrighten up the school holidays with the beloved Roola Boola Children’s Arts Festival as it returns for its tenth year with a program packed full of intimate performances, workshops and un…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:25AMThe captured performance from the West End production hits the streaming platform in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25AMRyoko Yonekura, the multi-talented original star of the Japanese-language production of Chicago, returns to the Broadway revival as Roxie Hart on July 1. Yonekura will play a limited 16-perf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18AMThe Stratford Festival in Ontario routinely employs the talents of two Theatre geniuses, separated in their endeavors by four centuries. The earlier is, of course, William Shakespeare, aroun…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 12:09AMAs dance performances go, The Master and Form at the Whitney is slow and teasing. No one makes a jeté across the floor in the piece.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMWhy I'm obsessed with revisiting my favorite shows when new stars arriveWhen I heard that Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel were going into Waitress, I immediately bought tickets. I'd already s…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMYonekura again plays Roxie Hart before joining the U.S. touring company in Japan.
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