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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:55PMCatya McMullen’s work is a memory play, a friendship play, a delayed coming-of-age drama and briefly a romantic comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMThis inaugural offering from the Coop squeezes whimsy, character comedy and ecological allegory into one crowded play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMTracy Letts, the author of “August: Osage County,” reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMThe critics discuss locking up cell phones in Yondr pouches and heatedly debate 'Slave Play.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:40PMTracy Letts’ dark-tinged rom-dram is a portrait of an unsympathetic man in the throes of an ugly divorce and a middle-age tailspin.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:36PMAustralia’s leading theatre producer John Frost and Her Majesty’s Theatre owner Mike Walsh have announced an exciting new initiative, Kid’s Week at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fr…
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Deeply humane, often hilarious and ultimately heart-wrenching, Tracy Letts’ “Linda Vista" is a mass of contradictions and conflicts...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:51PMCan an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48PMShow-Score New Jersey is the first extension of Show-Score.com, the popular fan site for New York City shows. Under the leadership of newly-appointed CEO, Deeksha Gaur, Show-Score has partne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48PMA provocative new festival piece, a premiere Australian work, reimagined international and Australian classics and a post-modern masterpiece that rocks the very foundations of theatre itself…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:31PMMJ Announces, SLAVE extends, VISTA opens, Al makes pies again, Amber MERMAIDS LIVE, PI is endless, Helen Shaw saves civilization. “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, p…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:25PMDick Wheeler, the lead character – he’s hardly a “hero” – in Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista, a very funny new play about a very sad, not very likable man, is the type of determined, op…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMA sad romantic comedy sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s an apt-enough description of “Linda Vista,” a slight but funny and quietly affecting play from Tracy Letts, which h…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMLook back at 1980s is fun, if a bit ragged, and has lots to say about today.
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★★★★★ The 'August: Osage County' playwright returns with an explosively funny comedy of crotchety manners
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★★ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of “middle-aged desperation”
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:44PMThe Late Show host Stephen Colbert was “Doin’ It Donkey Style” tonight, focusing on the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate in Westerville, Ohio. Colbert ran down the list of candid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20PMThe Golden Globe nominee joins Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande, and Andrew Rannells in Murphy’s upcoming Netflix project.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19PMThere are plays written on the simplest of themes, which in themselves are not interesting. But they are permeated by the eternal, and he who feels this quality in them perceives that they a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PMA story of one man's toxic masculinity and the humiliating wake-up call he needed.
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(Hugo Hamilton’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/10.) Since his 1966 debut The Hornets, the Austrian playwright and author has tested, inspired and shocked audienceshares It was, undo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:49PMThe new comedy from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County playwright opens on Broadway October 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42PMFor example: “There’s nothing revolutionary about an artist creating a foundation. But the nonprofits set up by Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell and Robert Rauschenberg, to name three, were cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM‘Taking Part’ figures released by DCMS indicate about 77% of English adults engaged with the arts at least once in the past 12 months, a drop of about 1.5% on the year prior. About two-t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM“We won’t fund applications where you aren’t paying yourself or your co-workers at all, or are only paying a low/nominal fee,” the document says. – Arts Professional
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 08:24PMVictorian Opera is calling all rockers ahead of auditions for its 2020 production The Who’s Tommy. Based on The Who’s legendary 1969 concept album Tommy, which sold over 20 million copie…
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Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 07:26PMFour years ago, I walked into what was then the Barnes & Noble in downtown Bethesda and asked for a sales clerk’s assistance locating one of Jimmy Buffett’s greatest hits CDs. She wa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:13PMVaudeville, London From age six to 30, Mischief Theatre’s engaging band of classmates bicker and play but rarely test the assumption that character is formed in childhood
Mischief Theatre,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMBrian Cox had no intention of tackling a meaty character like Lyndon Baines Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s “The Great Society.” He’d moved away from big theater roles to focus on part…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:03PMAustralia in the 1890s – a time where a woman’s role was that of a housewife. But young Sybylla wants to break the mould and pursue her dreams of a ‘brilliant career.’ Miles Franklin…
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Ariana DeBose is well known in the Broadway community for her Tony-nominated performance in Summer as well as her standout work in Bring It On, Hamilton, A Bronx Tale and more (not to men…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMGo behind-the-scenes and see how Bradley Gibson gets into character as Simba in Disney's The Lion King.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar launched a 50th anniversary tour on October 9 at Bass Concert Hall, the flagship theatre of Texas Performing Arts, in Austin. Starri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMAin't Too Proud star Jawan M. Jackson investigates the dressing rooms of his co-stars backstage at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMOscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei is starring in Tennesse Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Directed by Trip Cullman, the production follows Serafina (Tomei), a widow who rekindles her desire for…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMPetrina Bromley in Come From Away (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
Petrina Bromley hails from Newfoundland in Canada, which is just a three-hour drive away from Gander. Now, Broml…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMProducers say the smash musical will open in Shanghai for a limited engagement in May, with further cities in China to be announced.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:37PMThe Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller. Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th Street, New York. The essence of this play is ambiguity and uncert…
SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 05:20PMSmile will explore the playwright's decade-long journey after being diagnosed with the condition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMIf this summer’s Baltimore Symphony Orchestra labor dispute underscored that remonstrating over the sustainability of American symphony orchestras is pointless if we don’t clarify whethe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PM"The Wrong Man" is a new musical by multi-platinum songwriter Ross Golan with "Hamilton"’s director Thomas Kail. Like "Hamilton," it began as a concept album and grew into a stage performa…
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“The atmosphere was hostile . . . Later, they tell us that all the documentation was correct but the visa that the American Embassy authorized us to be able to work in Los Angeles was not …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 04:55PMChoreographer Jennifer Lacey explains why there is more modern art than movement in her new life-coaching piece
In the basement of Nottingham Contemporary art gallery, Jennifer Lacey fans ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMWhat can the arcade classic tell us about competition, friendship and failure? Jasmine Price and Nikhil Vyas found out by making a show about it
Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) stirs up a nosta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA mother and daughter reunite and fight in Oliver Emanuel’s high-octane play, but it feels rushed and remote
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMSince his 1966 debut The Hornets, the Austrian playwright and author has tested, inspired and shocked audiences
‘A troubling choice’: authors criticise Handke’s win
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMWriters including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Slavoj Žižek say the 2019 Nobel laureate ‘combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness’
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMShort answer: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” The longer answer is movement set to and inspired by poetry. And it traces back to the 1970s and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMPhil Kennicott: “MoMA is billing these changes to the display of the art as the most significant aspect of the expansion. Not only is the museum growing, it is changing its relationship to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMMs. Ruhl, who learned she had Bell’s palsy in 2010, will explore her struggle with the condition in a book.
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The 10th anniversary of American’s largest documentary festival will also include Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back and The Apollo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMWith a 1910 boxing match at its center, this Marco Ramirez play contemplates entrenched racism in America.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:54PMWhen a linguistic shift is too heavy-handed, too obviously driven by an agenda to change hearts and minds, it can run up against a response known as reactance. Reactance is our mind’s inst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“With a rich accumulation of poems, metafictions and other unclassifiable prose works, … he superimposed a psychic overlay on the city’s mundane streets and terraces, its feuds and fac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“Bong’s last two films, 2013’s Snowpiercer and 2017’s Okja, were his first to be made in English: they weren’t exactly misfires, either critically or commercially, yet both clearly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMMore people watch live streams on Twitch than on any other digital platform, including YouTube and Facebook, according to a report from StreamElements. But the platform has struggled to poli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMThe tax will apply to tourists who arrive by coach, cruise ship, water taxi, plane or train. They will be able to pay the charge online with a credit card or from machines “installed in st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMJazz is a famously unstructured form of music. Often improvised, and unpredictable, it doesn’t matter if there is no clear ending to the song: the mere experience of listening is thrilling…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:39PMOriginal New York cast member Gabriel Barre will direct Red Bull Theater’s one-night-only benefit concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMSophia was second, with the mother and daughter of TV series dominating the vote, as "The Golden Girls Show: A Puppet Parody" arrives for the weekend.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:20PMThe touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical launched in Austin, Texas, October 8.
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Find your next job with these Equity calls for Broadway productions and shows across the country.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PMThe Tony- and Olivier-winning play comes to the Curran Theater October 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMThe highly anticipated musical framed around the life of the late singer-songwriter Michael Jackson has set dates and a main-stem venue for its world premiere. The previously announced musi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMGet it while you can! A Night with Janis Joplin, the 2013 Broadway musical about the life and music of the Queen of Psychedelic Soul, will appear on movie screens for a limited engagement th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMAccio, wand! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child just released a new trailer that takes audiences inside the magic that happens on stages across the world. The show is continuing to play at B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre has announced an additional weeklong extension to the upcoming new staging of Anna Deavere Smith's solo play Fires in the Mirror. Recently extended through D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMAmber Riley is going under the sea to join the upcoming Little Mermaid Live! on ABC. The Glee alum will serve as the emcee for the Disney favorite, which airs on November 5.
In the The Litt…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMThe best choice? A box of scarves. And no rules.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMThe Tony-winning director talks a possible Who’s Tommy revival, working with Christopher Plummer, and why he decided to direct The Temptations bio-musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMGeorge Street Playhouse (GSP) opens their inaugural season at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) with LAST DAYS OF SUMMER. The show will be on stage from October 15 to November…
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:28PM“Moulin Rouge!” has added a new stop onto its North American tour. The musical will play the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco in the summer of 20201. This adds on to the previously annou…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 02:16PMMegan Hilty, Patina Miller, and Jessie Mueller will also join Rudetsky at the Manhattan venue.
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:13PMThis is one Tennessee Williams woman you won’t soon forget. Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei unleashes a tour de force as Serafina, a widow who rekindles her desire for love, lust and lif…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:12PMThe events will reflect on what "home" means and weave themes of identity, immigration, and climate change.
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The one-night-only performance will take place October 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMThe revival of the Tennessee Williams drama opens at the American Airlines Theatre October 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMWhich Shakespearean Royal Family Do You Belong To?
Written by Rosalind Helsinger
October 10, 2019
There’s a heap of Shakespearean regal families to choose from, between the dynasties…
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMBoHo Theatre presents an emotionally and visually stunning revival of "Big Fish," featuring a score by Andrew Lippa.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:36PMVinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million (on 18.6 million units) generated by CD sales. Vinyl revenue grew by 12…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PMMarina Harss: “The material feels both so deeply literary and, at the same time, so utterly deflating. The subject is a solitary man” — Robert Walser — “whose writings tended to tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PMThe three-time Tony nominee assumed the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi September 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMPlaywright Brandon McCoy’s world premiere West by God, which he admits is semi-autobiographical, is onstage now at Keegan Theatre through October 20th. We caught up with him to chat about …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMDrew Anderson (poetically known as “Droopy, The Brokeballer”), one half of the #DynamicDuo that is responsible for producing the weekly Thursday open mic Spit Dat since 2002, describes t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMHow shocked must Jimmy Buffett have been when “Margaritaville,” his ode to heartbreak and mid-grade alcoholism, became not just a breakout 1977 hit but a potent lifestyle brand? It’s a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMIn 2017, the American Psychological Association acknowledged the existence of a new psychological disorder: eco-anxiety. The disease can cause a spectrum of despair in response to the effect…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMThe people of Linda Vista are looking for love and connection. Check out the characters dating profiles to learn more about the new comedy.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 01:23PMOh yes! It takes a woman to bring you the sweet things in life! Carolee Carmello joined the national tour of Hello, Dolly! on September 24 and now we have our first look at the three-time To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMTony-nominated actor Mario Cantone has been announced to star as Sir Pincus Glimmermore in the brand-new musical Bliss, slated to make its world premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMCome From Away will receive its Chinese-debut staging in 2020, marking the first production of the Broadway hit to be performed in a non-English-speaking country. The China production, which…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMPetrina Bromley stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Come From Away and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMThe diner is "opening up" with a full cast for the upcoming North American touring production of the hit Broadway musical Waitress. The company will be led by Bailey McCall as Jenna, Kennedy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMThe singer and performance artist is the third recipient of the award and residency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMWiltshire Creative has become adept at programming timely revivals. Thus we have Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play Breaking the Code in the year
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMThe Actors Fund event will take place October 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMThe Global HER Project shows viewers how they can help stop the U.S. policy affecting abortion care, HIV prevention, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMJulio Martinez’s weekly installment of This Week in LA Theatre.
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SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMKing's Head Theatre's acclaimed staging of Kevin Elyot's groundbreaking 1982 play Coming Clean, which examines the breakdown of a gay couple's relationship, will return to the London stage …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 01:00PMLet’s stop smilingly pretending that tatty, cramped dives with dreadful lavatories are more artistically expressive than venues which conform to modern standards.
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The non-Equity tour will be headed by Bailey McCall as expert pie maker Jenna.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMThe theatrical memoir by bestselling author Tawni O'Dell, which began performances October 4, looks at the aftermath of sexual assault for a family.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMStage veteran Paterson Joseph has been cast as the evil Ebenezer Scrooge in the Young Vic's upcoming remount of A Christmas Carol. The smash-hit London production, adapted by Jack Thorne and…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:50PMEclipse Theatre is being taken to an employment tribunal by a former contractor who is accusing the company of being “exploitative” of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMArches below Manchester Central railway are to be developed into a 150-seat theatre and community space. The venue will become the new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMPerformances are set to begin this Tuesday, October 15th, with the official Opening Night on October 25th, for the new musical LAST DAYS OF SUMMER, presented by George Street Playhouse and d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMThe Olivier winner and Glee star joins Auli'i Cravalho, Queen Latifah, John Stamos, and more for the November 5 TV event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMJoseph Horowitz: “The modernist view of Gershwin the gifted dilettante is no longer heard. Concomitantly, American music historians, for whom Gershwin once barely existed, have flocked to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMEve Babitz: “I took the smock off, letting it fall beside me, but Julian kicked it far across the slippery floor, out of the way in a corner. I sat down quickly at the chess set and wonder…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“[Historian Peter] La Chapelle explains how fiddler-politicians and politician-fans have used this oddly flexible genre to advocate for the poor and dispossessed, fight for racial justice,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe Broadway favorite will receive the distinguished Prince Rainier III Award in recognition of her devotion to the arts and philanthropic causes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMBy Brendan Kiley What’s so special about theater? I’ve been asked that last question so many times, and asked it in return, never getting further than the theater enthusiast’s shopwor…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 12:10PMSecond World War story of a man reeling from battle and encountering traditional shamanic teachings in the Philippines.
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Ilana Levine’s series will be released on Fridays on the new streaming service The Stage Network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMDance Umbrella, London’s annual international dance festival, launches its 41st year in style with Gisèle Vienne’s Crowd. Painstakingly choreographed, yet effortlessly executed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMMost people will probably think of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as the film in which Marilyn Monroe (in a role originated by Carol
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The previously cancelled, now retitled “MJ the Musical”, based on the life of the highly controversial “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, anno…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:33AMFrom crooning to spooning, this production of Michael John LaChiusa's musical goes from crush to carnality and back again over the course of several decades.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:31AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - The previously cancelled, now retitled “MJ the Musical”, based on the life of the highly controversial “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, anno…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:30AMThe writer, previously at Time Out, takes over the position from Sara Holdren, who has returned to full-time directing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMMore manner than message in adaptation of Klaus Mann's 1930s novel
You wonder about the title of French dramatist Sam Gallet’s Mephisto [A Rhapsody], an adaptation for our days of Klaus Ma…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:24AMOprah Winfrey sits down one-on-one with the award-winning actresses Lupita Nyong'o and Cynthia Erivo, who discuss their fast rise to fame and how their leading roles have shaped them persona…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMYears ago, when the popularity of cell phones started exploding, theaters in other countries started experimenting with the idea of using signal jammers to prevent cell phone use in the thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMHadestown's Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada recently went 'way down' to visit Oklahoma!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMIt is Ginger Grace as Amanda that is the crowning glory of this production. Though slender and frail looking, she is still a powerful, if bothersome figure, memories of a golden southern b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21AMIt was announced today by the show's producers that the Broadway World Premiere of MJ The Musical (previously titled Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough) will begin preview performances on Tuesda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMAl Roker is headed back to the diner. Following a cheered Broadway debut last fall in the hit musical Waitress, the beloved weather forecaster and journalist will reprise his turn as Old Joe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMThe highly anticipated musical framed around the life of the late singer-songwriter Michael Jackson has set dates and a main-stem venue for its world premiere. The previously announced musi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMJeremy O. Harris' acclaimed debut work Slave Play will remain on Broadway for a little longer. Originally announced as a limited engagement through January 5, the new play will now conclude…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMTickets are now on sale for the upcoming Broadway revival of Neil Simon's 1968 comedy Plaza Suite. Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey will direct the production, set to begin previews on Marc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMKaren Malpede-(Playwright/Director) Co-founder Theater Three Collaborative. Author/Director 19 plays produced in the US and Europe. “Other Than We,” forthcoming, LaMama, Nov. 2019. “…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:12AMDue to popular demand, the Jeremy O. Harris written Slave Play, is extending its Broadway run by two weeks. The critically acclaimed work will now run through January 19, 2020, at the Golden…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:08AMHelen Shaw will join New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture as theater critic. Shaw, who was most recently a critic for Time Out New York and 4Columns.org, takes over the post …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:08AMFragments of a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose — containing a double entendre-filled episode about a pilgrim at a shrine — were found in a centuries-old book binding in the public reco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“MoMA is a machine for viewing art, and the success of this latest incarnation will be gauged by how many visitors the facility can process in any given day. … The 2004 expansion created…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“The 2019 Fringe Festival page touting [a solo biofeedback session with psychologist Gary Ames] reads biofeedback will open the bridge ‘between conscious and subconscious realms. Let cre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThe streaming giant is renting the Belasco Theatre in midtown Manhattan for a four-week, eight-shows-a-week Broadway-style run of its latest major feature, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMToday Gaslighting is a familiar phrase used by psychologist and domestic abuse organisations. The origins of that phrase are this very play, a dark psychological thriller. Patrick Hamilton�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMIf you follow me on Facebook, then you know last week I was a lucky attendee at the musical improv Freestyle Love Supreme, the brainchild of upcoming Podcast guest, Anthony “Two-Touch”…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMI learned to write in the theatre, though at the time I didn’t realise it. When I was small we were not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMThe highly-anticipated return of Translations has found its cast. Following a sell-out run at the National in 2018, Brian Friel's masterpiece is set to re-open at London's National The…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:00AM
“Today” show weather anchor Al Roker will rejoin the cast of “Waitress” for the month of November. Roker will resume his role as Joe, which he first played in October of last year. R…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:58AMCongratulations to the entire companies of Linda Vista and The Rose Tattoo on the upcoming opening of your show. Here's to a successful run!We'd like to send special congratulations to t…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 10:54AMIn Sideshow Theatre Company's "X," a distant space station provides the backdrop for a dystopian thriller that loses oxygen midway.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:54AMBroadway’s MJ The Musical, formerly known as Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, will begin previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on Tuesday, July 6, 2020, with an opening night set for Thurs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:52AMIt only seems fitting that the first production to grace George Street Playhouse's new stage centers around baseball. After all, the city of New Brunswick and arts proponents stepped up to t…
SOURCE: The Asbury Park Press at 10:49AMThe BroadwayHD production, starring Tony nominee Mary Bridget Davies, was captured live in L.A. last year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMThe hip-hop musical begins October 27 at Under St. Marks Theater downtown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMThe Jack Thorne adaptation of Dickens’ classic begins previews November 23 at Old Vic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMMJ, a new musical inspired by the life of Michael Jackson, has been rumored to be Broadway-bound for some time. Today, producers have made it official. The jukebox musical, drawing from the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:38AMThe staging will reflect the 2013 Broadway version of the musical, which features a new book and additional songs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMFierstein is no stranger to portraying women onstage. This time, he’s skipping the drag to play the outspoken politician Bella Abzug. Why him? He’s got an answer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMFollowing the huge success of Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic, it was only right that it was announced to return once again for a limited run this festive …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:30AMCasting has been announced for Matthew Warchus’ adaption of A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic, which returns for the third year running on 4 December, with previews from 23 November.Paterso…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 10:27AMWhat remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward -- rather minimal in this case -- and t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMSome big news coming from the Broadway production of Waitress which will wind up its hit run at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre after the New Year. Beloved weatherman and anchor of the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:22AMThe musical features a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThe Michael Jackson musical, entitled “MJ The Musical,” announced Thursday that it will come to Broadway this summer. The musical will play the Neil Simon Theatre beginning July 6, 2020,…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:09AMThe musical, currently starring Jordin Sparks, continues at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre through January 5, 2020.
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James Mannion’s new play Mites is a shape-shifter. It begins on an absurdist register but gradually disrobes itself, shifting towards what it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMThe Jeremy O. Harris play opened October 6 at the Golden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMThe stars and creative team of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical discuss the music icon ahead of their Broadway bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMThe musical fantasy, which upends the traditional princess narrative, will debut at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMGot your weekend plans yet? We've got some nifty ideas, from Fleet Week fun to Litquake to a sizzling SF street food fest.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:30AMWhile jukebox musicals may never die (at least based on the enduring popularity of titles like Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia), Broadway is also expanding its space for pop and rock musicians, in…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:30AM2019's TheatreCraft Ambassadors have been announced - the UK's biggest free careers event for young people interested in offstage theatre roles.
The post Yamin Choudury, Nadia Fall and Miche…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:08AMOn Monday, October 21st, members of the original cast of BKLYN: The Musical, including Eden Espinosa, Karen Olivo, and Ramona Keller will reunite for a special one-night only 15th Annivers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMBy: David Sheward
October 10, 2019: Robert Schenkkan provided a brilliant example of political theater with his Tony winning All the Way which played Broadway in 2014 after premiering a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMThis very well presented version of The Merchant of Venice is excellently executed, proving to modern audiences that Shakespeare doesn’t have to be complicated in order to understand it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Javiera Benavente, Liza Bielby, David Bollier, Jamie Gahlon, Jax Gil, Matthew Glassman, Richard Newman, Gina Reichert, Jennie Rose Halperin, JD Stokely, Carlos Uriona. In honor of World C…
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The star of “The Greatest Showman” and “The Boy From Oz” doesn’t skimp on the glitz or the charm in his world tour show.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:59AM“Slave Play” will extend an additional two weeks on Broadway, the producers announced Thursday. The Jeremy O. Harris play, which opened at the Golden Theatre on Oct. 6, will now run th…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:57AMDo you remember what else was happening in the world in 2003? That was the year The Permanent Way premiered, ten years after The Railway Privatisation Act. It was also the year that the US, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:51AMThe Nobel committee cited Polish novelist Tokarczuk, awarded the delayed prize for 2018, for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMMore than its disappointing 1985 predecessor, the Met’s vigorous new staging of Gershwin’s opera manages to vindicate a controversial cultural landmark whose reputation, still unsettled,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM“For all its intelligence and skill and its obvious desire to make the place feel friendlier, the expansion seems to me not to have solved the problem of the Modern’s ambience. … You m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMDiego Ramalho grew up breakdancing in a small city in Brazil and reluctantly started taking ballet lessons at age 18. Eight years later, he’s a full member of Ballet Edmonton, coaching his…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMBy Libby Purves
Libby Purves reviews Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins now playing at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
This post REVIEW: Assassins, Watermill Theatre Newbu…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:37AMThe musical opened at the Majestic Theatre October 10, 1947.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:08AM"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" kicks of its run at The Curran in S.F. Oct. 23 -- here are photos the cast.
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Berlin’s theater season opens with directors taking audiences through the fog of war, down the gloomy tunnels of cyberspace and into a world without hope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54AMNikolai Foster’s production of Grease the musical is to embark on a second UK tour, opening at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMThe Cervantes Theatre, London's home of Spanish and Latin American drama, concludes its female-led 2019 season with a major new staging of Isabel Allende's literary bestseller The House of t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:03AMTom Chambers and Sally Bretton are to star in a 2020 UK tour of Dial M for Murder. Chambers, whose stage credits
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMRuby Thomas’ experimental debut play Either is an intriguing questioning of gender identity that retains an air of politeness.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“Lavender Women & Killer Dykes” at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives shines a light on the people, places, and publications that shaped Chicago’s lesbian culture.
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Curtains was the last show John Kander and Fred Ebb worked on together before Ebb’s death in 2007. The most notable thing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMJonathan Larson died in 1996 just before the opening of his first major Broadway musical, Rent. Before this he was a struggling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMStanislaw Moniuszko (1819-72) is one of those composers much admired inside his homeland – in this case, Poland – where he is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMSelladoor Worldwide is developing a stage adaptation of the CBeebies show Pablo, which is the first animated TV series to star an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AMSondheim's 1990 show gets more disturbingly pertinent with every revival
“Every now and then the country goes a little wrong”: so goes one of the many lyrics from the Stephen Sondheim-Jo…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:06AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review an important New York opening, the Irish Repertory Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol. Here’s an excerpt. * *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AMThe Adelaide Fringe has announced its diamond anniversary ambassadors with Queen of Pop Marcia Hines, international superstar Amanda Palmer and glamazon-drag superhero set to shine in 2020. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:03AMTHE DARK AND THE CRAZY This is – for us anyway – the first production in the Trump era of this savage musical: a revue reimagining of all the attempts, successful or not,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AMIn this week’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, which appears in the online edition of today’s paper, I discuss the case of Plácido Domingo. Here’s an excerpt. * * *…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02AMSean Foley’s adaptation of the 1950s Ealing comedy The Man In The White Suit stars Stephen Mangan as clever but hapless scientist Sidney and Kara Tointon as Daphne, a posh, mill owner's da…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM“But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?” Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
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Veteran principal dancer James Whiteside makes his American Ballet Theatre choreographic debut---American Ballet Theatre's fall season is a two-week whirlwind of revelations. The troupe's fu…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMThe new play by Barbara Hammond, directed by Shana Cooper, is the first show from new NYC-based company The COOP.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCorey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star in the John Doyle–helmed production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIan Barford stars as Wheeler in the new comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLayla Khoshnoudi, Diana Oh, and Claire Siebers star in the world premiere at EST.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGeorge Thorogood, Carrie Underwood, the Pittsburgh Symphony and more on the agenda this weekend.
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