Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
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REVIEW: Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre London ✭✭✭✭✭ by Danny Coleman-Cooke

By Danny Coleman-Cooke Danny Coleman-Cooke reviews Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer which is now playing at the Bush Theatre in London. This post REVIEW: Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre London ✭�…

SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:00PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 10pm (Broadway Time)
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CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (45) by Robert Shuman

The Chekhov mood is that cave in which are kept all the unseen and hardly palpable treasures of Chekhov’s soul, so often beyond the reach of mere consciousness. The cave is that vessel in …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:39PM

‘Phantom of the Opera’ still thrills at the Hippodrome by John Harding

Baltimore’s fussy old Hippodrome Theatre is the ideal setting for any show dealing with fin de siècle madmen acting out obsessive love fantasies. So consider it a reward to have a thrilli…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20PM

Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ at Irish Repertory Theatre by Deb Miller

Now playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement at Irish Repertory Theatre, Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol, which made its debut at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2000, t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 9pm (Broadway Time)
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Family Struggles With Autism In New City Players’ Falling by Bill Hirschman

Underneath, Falling is not just about a family dealing with the complex challenge of living with an autistic adult. New City Player’s profoundly moving production seems to be as much about…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM

Review: India.Arie at Strathmore Music Center by Ramona Harper

India.Arie is music therapy for the soul – part mindfulness meditation through song and part groove-funk to keep it real. Authenticity is her brand essence, but her performance is much mor…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 8pm (Broadway Time)
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Top London Stage This Month: Ian McKellen, Cher, Ariana Grande, Adrian Mole by Mark Beech

The London stage this month has a range of different performing artists of every age and type. Among them: Ian McKellen, 80; Cher, 73; Ariana Grande, 26; Little Simz, 25; and even Adrian Mol…

SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:54PM

Review: Theater Alliance’s ‘Day of Absence’ by Douglas Turner Ward by Andrew Walker White

Two clowns open a suitcase. In that suitcase lies a rope. A long rope. They start to play with it, tug-of-war stuff, with the loser pretending he’s winning. Lotsa yuks. Then the twist. And…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PM

Review: ‘Broadway Center Stage: Footloose’ at The Kennedy Center by Mara Bayewitz

Footloose, the 1984 movie starring everybody’s friend, Kevin Bacon, was a hit for many reasons, but one stood out over the others: dancing means life, and dancing gives meaning to life. Th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 7pm (Broadway Time)
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DVR Alert: Lin-Manuel Miranda Will Appear on Tonight's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

This just in! Lin-Manuel Miranda will appear on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live!

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PM

VIDEO: Tina Turner Shouts Out TINA THE MUSICAL Ahead of Tonight's First Preview

Tina - The Tina Turner Musical officially begins previews tonight on Broadway. Tina herself is giving the show a shoutout in an all new video.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:16PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 6pm (Broadway Time)
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VIDEO: Susan Egan and Krysta Rodriguez Perform 'I Won't Say I'm in Love' From HERCULES

Two 'Megs' took on I Won't Say I'm in Love from Hercules at the Broadway Princess Party on October 7 at Feinstein's/54 Below.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 5pm (Broadway Time)
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Paramount Theatre’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Begins November 13 by Showbiz Chicago Newsdesk

Great dancing candlesticks! Just wait to see what Aurora’s Paramount Theatre has in store for [...] The post Paramount Theatre’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Begins November 13 appeared first on…

SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:48PM

Goodman Theatre Announces 2019/20 Season Update by Showbiz Chicago Newsdesk

Artistic Director Robert Falls announces an update to Goodman Theatre’s 2019/2020 Season. The Chicago premiere [...] The post Goodman Theatre Announces 2019/20 Season Update appeared first…

SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:48PM

Chita Rivera Returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below by Sandi Durell

  By Ron Fassler   If Chita Rivera isn’t a living legend, then who is? At eighty-six, she has been working primarily in the musical theatre for sixty-two years. The recipient of two Best…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:12PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 4pm (Broadway Time)
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Theater Review: TRUE WEST (VS. Theatre in L.A.) by Tony Frankel

SHEPARDING OUT THE TRUTH Sam Shepard’s domestic disruption True West hasn’t left the theatrical landscape since it first premiered with Peter Coyote at San Francisco’s Magic Theater in…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55PM

Producer Jesse Murphy Is Shaking Up Showbiz - Starting With Gary Busey by Lee Seymour

Murphy is running Busey's musical stage debut, while planning to upend Hollywood's financial structure.

SOURCE: Forbes at 04:12PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 2pm (Broadway Time)
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‘The Flick’ taps into the melancholy of millennials and the magic of moviegoing by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

The buzz surrounding “The Flick” meant that Toronto audiences were ready to sit in silence, having already been waiting patiently and quietly for years for the play to finally arrive.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:20PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
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This ‘Bohème’ takes on the lives of today’s 20-somethings by John Terauds - Special To The Star

Against the Grain Theatre’s new “La Bohème” resets the tragic boy-meets-terminally-ill-girl in modern-day Toronto, complete with references to shopping on Bloor St and friends texting…

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:52PM

‘Glenn Chandler is a master mason, expertly layering themes into story & character’: THE GOOD SCOUT – Above The Stag Theatre ★★★★ by Darren Ross

The Good Scout achieves the impossible - finding an original, untold story from World War Two. In the 1930s, boys from the Nazi Hitlerjugend visit British Rover Scouts for a cycling holiday …

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:48PM

The week in dance: Gisèle Vienne: Crowd; Dada Masilo: Giselle – review by Sarah Crompton

Sadler’s Wells, LondonGisèle Vienne creates a mesmeric night of intrigue at a rave, while South African whirlwind Dada Masilo makes a ballet classic her own The women are coming: dark, da…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM

🍸For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Closing Dec. 15th) by Theater With A Twist

The Public Theater Let yourself be lulled inside this colorful, edgy, ‘choreopoem’ celebrating beauty, strength, sadness, and sisterhood.  Seven individual yet connected women use the

SOURCE: theaterwithatwist.com at 01:11PM

“The Great Society” at The Beaumount Theatre at Lincoln Center by Richard Seff

“All the Way” by Robert Schenkkan dealt with Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to influence the 88th U.S. congress to vote in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It first appeared in 2012 at the Oreg…

SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:07PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at noon (Broadway Time)
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STREAMING LIVE: TUNE IN FOR THE FUNERAL SERVICE OF INTERNATIONAL OPERA STAR JESSYE NORMAN (TODAY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2019) by Robert Shuman

Tune In for the Funeral Service of International Opera Star JESSYE NORMAN Today, Saturday, October 12, 2019 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT/10:00 a.m. PT) ABC-TV (Augusta, GA) NBC-TV/CBS-TV (Aug…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:57PM

LINDA VISTA – by Tracy Letts, a Steppenwolf production at 2ndStage by Oscar E Moore

Dick Wheeler’s life is anything but a pretty picture.  He seems to have been born with low self- esteem.  He is in the middle of a prolonged divorce, bickering over child support and wha…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:48PM

Regina King by NPR

Regina King, actor, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca, and Shannon O'Neill.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 11am (Broadway Time)
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Idina Menzel is in Talks to Play the Evil Stepmother in the Upcoming CINDERELLA Film

Idina Menzel may be joining the upcoming movie adaptation of Cinderella, starring Camila Cabello!

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AM

REVIEW: Ghost Stories, Ambassadors Theatre London ✭✭✭✭ by Mark Ludmon

By Mark Ludmon Mark Ludmon finds Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories still shocks in its latest West End outing at the Ambassdors Theatre This post REVIEW: Ghost Stories, Ambassado…

SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:25AM

‘Roars along’: GROAN UPS – West End by Libby Purves

Groan Ups has hamster substitutions, unexpected subtler laughs and a moment of real pathos before it swizzles into something more poignant.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 10am (Broadway Time)
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Ivanov review at Barbican Theatre, London – ‘powerfully performed production of Chekhov’s early play’ by Dave Fargnoli

One of Chekhov’s earliest, lesser-known works, bleak domestic drama Ivanov gets a sharply insightful treatment by Moscow-based company Theatre of Nations. It’s

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AM

Accused of racism, renowned museum confronts its blind spots by William J. Kole Associated Press

BOSTON — Boston’s regal Museum of Fine Arts, home to some of humanity’s greatest artworks, is scrambling to make amends.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:42AM

Speak your truth inside the Truth Booth, an inflatable, globe-trotting sculpture by Monica Obradovic | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Next week, the truth will come to St. Louis— at least, the truth according to you.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:42AM

Watch the Cast of Broadway’s The Great Society Sum Up the Play in a Political Slogan by Ruthie Fierberg

“The great society” was LBJ’s campaign slogan; so what is the Broadway play about in slogan form?

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 9am (Broadway Time)
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Call Readialed: NEW Michele Brourman Interview: , "Love Notes" at Birdland by Adam Rothenberg

It’s been almost a year since composer Michele Brourman and I have spoken. She is gearing up for her solo debut at Birdland with Love Notes, an evening of original songs. It was quite mel…

SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:54AM

Linda Vista - Highly recommended. Through November 10th at Second Stage Theater by Oscar E. Moore

An extremely funny play. Truthful and moving with dialogue that is sharp and wise and caustic about this troubled Dick who is caught between his past and his future all the while having to …

SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 09:24AM

What Katori Hall Discovered About Her ‘She-ro’ Tina Turner While Writing the Musical About Her Life by Joe Dziemianowicz

'I was born to lay my hands on her story,' Hall says of Turner, an idol since the age or 3 or 4. Writing the book for 'The Tina Turner Musical' gave the playwright a chance to sit down with …

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM

Deserves to be heard: THE GOOD SCOUT – Above The Stag Theatre ★★★★ by Elaine Chapman

Glenn Chandler focuses on events that haven’t been spoken about for many years in The Good Scout and in the process a charismatic cast reveals an extremely interesting twist in history.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM

Ep. 41. Osha Gray Davidson on The Best of Enemies, the Story of Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis by Lauren Van Hemert

The unlikely friendship of black community activist Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the Exalted Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, brought together to co-chair a series of meetings about the des…

SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AM

Can You Guess the Missing Lyrics From Little Shop of Horrors? by Nathan Skethway

An Off-Broadway revival of the Howard Ashman and Alan Menken musical, starring Jonathan Groff, Tammy Blanchard, Christian Borle, opens October 17.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM

Celebrating Tony Winner Hugh Jackman on the Stage by Mark Peikert

The Tony Award winner, slated to return to Broadway in The Music Man in 2020, celebrates his birthdays October 12.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 7am (Broadway Time)
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Sara Zahn: Both Sides of Bernstein by Sandi Durell

    By Marilyn Lester   As if a CD release isn’t enough to celebrate on its own, the féte for singer-songwriter Sara Zahn’s newly released Both Sides of Bernstein came with a happy-m…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:18AM

Faculty Job Fair by Artsjournal

Victor Valley College Faculty Job Fair October 21, 2019

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AM

Finding Fatty Voss by Trav S.D.

We mentioned him briefly in our Hall of Plus Sized Comedians, but today a little attention for Frank “Fatty” Voss (1888-1917). Chicago born Voss was hired by Henry Lehrman in 1914 to be …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:03AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 6am (Broadway Time)
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Terri trips: Islander at Southwark Playhouse & Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Union

Two of the theatres on my doorsteps in south London are Southwark Playhouse and the Union Theatre. So when I planned my visits to two musicals I've been working on Featured Show campaigns fo…

SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 4am (Broadway Time)
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On the Couch with David Griggs by Arts Review

Who is David Griggs? In terms of what I do, I make paintings, sculptures and films. I keep my life very simple, gym, studio, meditation, family, friends, travel and cooking. If you have bad …

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:35AM

Record crowds for Queensland Museum’s NASA – A Human Adventure  by Arts Review

Queensland Museum has signed off on its most successful mission yet, with NASA – A Human Adventure entering the record books as the museum’s most visited exhibition ever with more than 2…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:17AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 3am (Broadway Time)
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Fully Committed by Arts Review

This October, Ensemble Theatre will stage American playwright Becky Mode’s brilliant comedy, Fully Committed, which has been updated and relocated to a Sydney setting especially for this p…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:32AM

Tina—The Tina Turner Musical Arrives on Broadway by Andy Lefkowitz

Following an Olivier-nominated West End run, the new bio-show Tina—The Tina Turner Musical makes its Broadway premiere on October 12 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Tony-nominated actress Ad…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 2am (Broadway Time)
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Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Begins on Broadway October 12 by Ryan McPhee

Tony and Olivier Award nominee Adrienne Warren takes on the rock-and-roll superstar in the musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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October Review – Sensory Immersive Shows and Off-Broadway Debuts by Maxamoo

  Nicole, Ben, and newcomer Linda talk about 2 immersive shows and 2 shows Off-Broadway. Introductions (0:00) Theatre In The Dark at TheatreLab (2:21) Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at WP Theater …

SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:00AM

Rehearsal Warm-Up Game: Switching Roles by Kerry Hishon

Here’s a warm-up game you can try at your next rehearsal: Switching Roles. Students will use an improv game to take on a different part in the play you’re currently working on.  It’s …

SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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The Lady of the Swamp by Arts Review

An original musical theatre work about one of Victoria’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries, the L’Nane Sisters present The Lady of the Swamp at The Butterfly Club for a limited season f…

SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:33AM

Tony Nominated Composer Dave Malloy on His Russian Inspiration and Hitting London with Preludes and Ghost Quartet by Matt Wolf

The Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn’t had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represent…

SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:00AM

Lauren Molina, Lee Roy Reams, More Star in The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter by Andrew Gans

The York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti production begins Off-Broadway October 12.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Caesar & Cleopatra, Starring Brenda Braxton and Robert Cuccioli, Ends Off-Broadway Run October 12 by Andrew Gans

David Staller directs the Gingold Theatrical Group revival of the George Bernard Shaw comedy.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Tamyra Gray, Phillip Boykin, More Star in National Tour of Once On This Island Beginning October 12 by Andrew Gans

Tony nominee Michael Arden directs the tour of the Tony-winning revival.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

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