Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical by Darryl Reilly

As the romantic, tubercular and charismatic Satine, the magnetic Ms. Olivo delivers a ferocious, sensual and grandiose performance that’s one of the most memorable recently seen on Broadwa…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PM

Probing Tom Stoppard on Russia: Part of The Legacy of Theater Critic and Educator J. Cooper Robb by Henrik Eger

Cooper Robb, an immensely knowledgeable and prolific American theater critic, who recently passed away, left behind many articles, especially in Backstage Magazine and TheaterMania, filled t…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:37PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 9pm (Broadway Time)
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Review: ‘Young Frankenstein’ by Other Voices Theatre by Terri Magers

IT ALIVE! Other Voices Theatre brings not only a monster, but also a fantastic evening of laughter, to life with their production of Mel Brooks’ musical Young Frankenstein. If you love Mel…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PM

Summer Shorts 2019: 13th Annual Festival of New American Short Plays: Series A by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Series A of this year’s Summer Shorts: 13th Festival of New American Short Plays is unified around the theme of death and dying and how it affects the living. Lest you think that this soun…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:27PM

DAS RHEINGOLD Arcola, E8 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF GRIMEBORN’S GLITTERING TREASURE The Ring Cycle is opera’s biggest box set: a sixteen-hour binge of dwarves, nymphs, dragons, gods, h…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18PM

Review: ‘Generations: A Series of One Acts’ at The Colonial Players of Annapolis by Charles Green

Generations: A Series of One Acts, at Colonial Players, is a touching, thoughtful evening of three brand-new one-act plays, each about 30 minutes long, by three playwrights well-known in the…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:12PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 8pm (Broadway Time)
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Six The Musical coming to Australia by Gabi Bergman

“Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.” Six follows the lives of Henry VIII’s wives. Presented as a pop concert, the show has already gained a massive following since…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:09PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 5pm (Broadway Time)
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People You Should Know . . . Jennifer Mudge by Zack Calhoon

JENNIFER MUDGE: Broadway: The Philanthropist (Roundabout), Rocky (Winter Garden), Reckless (MTC/2nd Stage). West End: The End of Longing (Playhouse Theatre). Off- Broadway: Of Good Stock (MT…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:06PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 3pm (Broadway Time)
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Off-Off-Broadway Review: “Florida Man” at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival by David Roberts

In “Florida Man” by Michael Presley Bobbitt, a young man racked with guilt digs up his dead father William Crud (the crud of a memory John Higgins) to give him the proper Viking funeral …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:34PM

Tell Me More | Episode 33: Megan McGinnis on Family Dynamics of ‘Goldstein,’ ‘Come from Away’ by Matt Tamanini

On this episode of BroadwayRadio’s “Tell Me More,” Matt Tamanini talks to Megan McGinnis, who is currently playing Bonnie (and others) on the North American tour of “Come from Away,…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:23PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
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Visual artists continue to incorporate Ferguson into work by Jane Henderson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Visual artists have connected with Ferguson in the most intimate way possible.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18PM

History museum previews P-D, Pulitzer photo exhibit by Joe Holleman St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Running through Jan. 20, display shows both national, local images

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18PM

After Ferguson, classical music organizations broaden outreach, education by Sarah Bryan Miller St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From free classical guitar lessons to scholarship opportunities, classical music organizations have strengthened their efforts

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18PM

Theater inspired by Ferguson helps 'understand how we got here' by Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Among the merits of theater is its ability to respond to social phenomena, often walking the line between art and activism. After the shooting of Michael Brown, Ferguson made the transition …

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at noon (Broadway Time)
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Collapsible review at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh – ‘Breffni Holahan is mesmeric’ by Natasha Tripney

Essie is losing her grip. She’s lost her job and split with her girlfriend. She feels like one of those folding chairs.

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PM

Sparkle review at Summerhall, Edinburgh – ‘heavy-handed show for the over-threes’ by Thom Dibdin

Using her own son’s experiences of being bullied at primary school for wearing dresses and all things glitter, Annie Cusick Wood has

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PM

‘Wonderfully colourful & lively’: MY SON PINOCCHIO JR – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★ by Emma Clarendon

Seimi Campell’s production for the British Theatre Academy of My Son Pinocchio Jr is filled with magic – particularly when it comes to being visually creative to keep the children in the…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM

Anthony Anderson by NPR

Anthony Anderson, actor, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Adam Burke, and Aida Rodriguez.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 11am (Broadway Time)
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Sophie Duker review – charismatic comic's eye-catching debut by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show Venus, the standup explores her sexuality, education and how black people are used as props in white narratives ‘What colour am I?” Sophie Duke…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM

Simon Brodkin review – the private life of prankster Lee Nelson by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic best known as a cheeky-chappy explores male emotional inarticulacy and antisemitism When you’ve pranked Theresa May at the Tory conference, or publ…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM

The week in theatre: Uncle Vanya; There Is a Light That Never Goes Out; Malory Towers – review by Clare Brennan

Theatre Royal Bath; Royal Exchange, Manchester; Passenger Shed, BristolRupert Everett’s astute direction of Chekhov results in a meeting of minds, and a luddite history is given a modern e…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 10am (Broadway Time)
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Dr. Munyon and His Paw-Paw Elixir by Trav S.D.

I became aware of Dr. James Munyon (1848-1918) through recent research into the quacks J.R. Brinkley (whom I played on stage) and Dr. Hawley Crippen (who was a sales agent for Munyon for a t…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AM

Collapsible review – a woman desperately seeking herself by Kate Wyver

Assembly Roxy, EdinburghOn display like a bust in a museum, Breffni Holahan is superb in this Beckettian monologue by Margaret Perry Breffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM

‘Camden has a reputation for introducing great work to the world’: Gary Phillpott on bringing Agent 14 to Camden Fringe by Featured Content

"The size of Camden Fringe festival allows creatives and performers to concentrate on their art rather than suffering the slings and arrows of Edinburgh’s outrageous misfortunes." Off The …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:11AM

Why Small Mouth Sounds Playwright Bess Wohl Wrote Her Next Play Specifically for Child Actors by Mark Peikert

With Off-Broadway’s Make Believe—and the upcoming Broadway Grand Horizons—Wohl challenges the status quo.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 9am (Broadway Time)
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Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear the Musical, National Theatre review – gleefully subversive family musical by Bella.todd

★★★★ MR GUM & THE DANCING BEAR, NATIONAL THEATRE Subversive family musical Madcap and menace as Andy Stanton adapts his cult children's books for the stage A great hunk of rottin…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:48AM

Book Review: “We Are All Good People Here” — From All Sides by Katharine Coldiron

We Are All Good People Here is an enormously insightful examination of how dangerous suggestible people can be, to those around them and to themselves. The post Book Review: “We Are All Go…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM

Review: Class, Tristam Bates Theatre by Olivia Kiely

Review: Class, Tristam Bates Theatre2.0starsClass is a piece which attempts to utilise verbatim theatre to portray the truth behind the stereotypes attached to the label of working class. Ho…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AM

Film Review: “Luz” — Strangely Compelling Retro Horror by Peg Aloi

A genre debut as self-assured as Luz is always exciting. The post Film Review: “Luz” — Strangely Compelling Retro Horror appeared first on The Arts Fuse.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM

From Screen to Stage: Songs From 9 Movie Musicals That Ended Up on Broadway by Dan Meyer

From “Mein Herr” to “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” dozens of songs added to movie musical adaptations ended up in later stage productions.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM

ROMEO AND JULIET           Jimmy’s Farm, Wherstead Suffolk by Libby Purves and Friends

   ROCK ’N ROLL N’ ROMEO        Deep under the trees, beyond Jimmy’s meerkat and camel enclosures lies a 1960’s beach: shelter, deckchairs and lounging teens,  Mods and Rocker…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:00AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 8am (Broadway Time)
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Enough review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘poetic play about flight attendants never ascends’ by Natasha Tripney

A sense of instability permeates Stef Smith’s play. By the end the world feels on the verge of collapse. Toni (Amanda Wright)

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AM

‘Reminds us of the importance of activism’: THE TIME OF OUR LIES – Park Theatre by Laura Kressly

As the world feels like it teeters on the edge of a war what with the rise of fascism and the far right, this collage of extracts from Howard Zinn’s writings, music, and original text in T…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM

9 Monologue Plays on Broadway Everyone Should Know by Marc J. Franklin

With Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge starring in Sea Wall/A Life, look back at nine other solo shows that took the Great White Way by storm.

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 7am (Broadway Time)
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Harold Prince’s Broadway Shows, Playbill by Playbill by Jonathan Mandell

Harold Prince, the consummate Broadway producer and director who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, had his first Broadway credit in April 1950, as an assistant stage manager for “Tickets…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AM

Until the Flood review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘sensitive and moving documentary theatre’ by Natasha Tripney

Dael Orlandersmith’s compassionate exercise in documentary theatre explores the aftermath of the shooting in 2014 of Michael Brown, a young black man,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AM

Indigenous Contemporary Scene review – resistance, revenge and jolly cabaret by Mark Fisher

Songs in the Key of Cree, Deer Woman and Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools, three shows by Canada’s Indigenous artists, are presented at the Edinburgh festival This summer, Canada’s National I…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 6am (Broadway Time)
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CAMDEN FRINGE NEWS: Dark comedy Adventures of a Trip Advisor Seaside Guest House Keeper comes to Water Rats by Featured Content

Fiona Spreadborough will bring her one-woman comedy show, set in coastal Portugal, Adventures of a Trip Advisor Seaside Guest House Keeper to the Water Rats later this month. Time to book yo…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:27AM

Art Heist review – clever and chaotic study of art's value by Catherine Love

Underbelly, EdinburghPoltergeist’s mischievous show asks how we determine the worth and meaning of artworks A plastic shoe, scuffed around the edges, sits atop a white plinth. A figure st…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM

London's Witness for the Prosecution Star Lewis Cope on His Famous Former Co-Star & Huge Family by Matt Wolf

Witness for the Prosecution, the Agatha Christie thriller directed by Lucy Bailey, has turned into a sleeper hit inside its unusual location of a onetime debating chamber at Westminster’s …

SOURCE: Theatre.com at 06:00AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 5am (Broadway Time)
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CAMDEN FRINGE NEWS: Michael Morpurgo’s The Mozart Question is re-gendered at Upstairs at the Gatehouse by Featured Content

The Mozart Question, a virtuosic monologue based on former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo's 2007 children's book, comes to Camden Fringe in a regendered production, running from 13 to …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 3am (Broadway Time)
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Milton Jones: ‘I’ve never had a funny hairstyle’ by Harriet Gibsone

The standup, writer and Mock the Week regular on the things that make him laugh the mostNot the Nine O’Clock News, specifically Gerald the gorilla. Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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On the Couch with Jake Speer by Arts Review

Who is Jake Speer? He’s a country boy at heart living out his childhood dream. What would you do differently to what you do now? I would probably try and be a little more patient. I’m in…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:22AM

Common Assumptions About Drama Class by Kerry Hishon

There are lots of reasons why students choose to take drama class. But unfortunately not all of them are positive reasons. On the other hand, students also come up with lots of reasons to av…

SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AM
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Thoroughly Modern Millie by Arts Review

Based on the Oscar-nominated movie of the same name, The Production Company presents Thoroughly Modern Millie as its second show for the year in the State Theate at Arts Centre Melbourne fro…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:45AM

Melbourne’s Inner West to be bathed in light for the 2019 West Projections Festival by Arts Review

Melbourne’s Inner West will shine bright after-dark when West Projections Festival flicks the switch on over 30 light installations for 10 nights from Friday 9 August 2019. This intimate p…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:23AM

Broadway Horoscopes: Which Musical Theatre Character Are You? by Felicia Fitzpatrick

According to your astrological sign, which musical theatre character are you most like?

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM

Barbra Streisand Plays Madison Square Garden August 3 by Andrew Gans

The award-winning actor and director returns to the famed New York venue.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM