A little celebration was in order at Joe Allen’s for Marianne Elliott’s Company as it keeps growing and growing as more stars join the gender-blind revival of Stephen Sondheim and …
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:48PM On October 22, during rehearsals for the 2019 Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, all 80 Rockettes rehearsed choreography from the stunning finale scene, “Christm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:34PMWhen the former Edna Turnblad plays the feminist firebrand of the 1970s, there’s no dress but it’s still a drag.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMThe director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMHarvey Fierstein creates a finely detailed portrait of the late Bella Abzug, a strong Democratic politician who made her mark on her time.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:18PMTony- and Emmy-Award winner Mary-Louise Parker has made her highly anticipated return to the Great White Way in Adam Rapp’s suspenseful two-hander The Sound Inside – an engrossing new Am…
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by Matt Smith “It is impossible to describe Marin Mazzie’s ability to make a song that you know well, sound like you’ve never heard it before…. every time she sings.” Quite a…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:55PMThe National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's celebrated off-Broadway staging of Fiddler on the Roof will play its final performance on January 5, 2020. Joel Grey directs the Yiddish-language r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42PMDirected by Leah C. Gardiner and choreographed by Camille A. Brown, the revival of the choreopoem opened at the Public Theatre October 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31PMThe new solo show, written by and starring Harvey Fierstein, opened October 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13PMIs one hotel bathroom big enough for personalities as outsized as Harvey Fierstein and Bella Abzug? The playwright’s Bella Bella, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Off Broa…
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★★★★★ Ntosake Shange's 1976 success revived with highest standards benevolently applied
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PM★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PMAnna Camp talks about Dolly Parton's reaction to her singing in 'Perfect Harmony.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48PM★★★★ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM★★★★ Harvey Fierstein remembers, and plays, "Battling Bella" Abzug
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PMSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonHannah Khalil’s play frames Iraq’s history through the eyes of real characters, but feels like a missed opportunity
A black-and-white photograph on displ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36PM"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is opening at the The Curran in S.F.; here's what you need to know about the books before you attend the show.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:15PMTo heighten tone means to heighten the mood of the audience, to strengthen the interest of the spectator in the performance; to quicken tempo means to live more strongly and intensively and …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:12PMby Nicole Gluckstern
Shortly after the Theatre Bay Area award finalists for 2019 were announced, multiple finalist D?arcy Drollinger took to social media to express gratitude at being ?legi…
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Theater Resources Unlimited TRU Love Benefit: Follow Your Art, Fulfill Your Dreams Honoring James Morgan and Haley Swindal Sunday, December 8, 2019 (via Michelle Tabnick) Theater Resources …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:50PMby Sam Hurwitt
Part of the beauty and the impact of live theatre is its ephemeral nature. You have to be there to experience it and once it?s over, it?s over?not just a run but any given pe…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:44PMForty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMToday we welcome Chicago ensemblist Arian Keddell to the Great White Way and learn about her journey to Broadway!
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NiteLife Exchange (NLE) celebrates Dawn Derow (DD) with Six Questions:
NiteLife Exchange: When did you realize you had the gift of singing and what were your early influences?
Dawn Der…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:54PMTheir first two videos, for Wolf Totem, and Yuve Yuve Yu (or How Strange, How Strange) have amassed more than 45m views on YouTube over the last year, while their debut album, The Gereg, ope…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMHe was part of a generation of musicians who, aided by the burgeoning recording industry, helped revive Baroque music in concert halls after World War II. That group included Nikolaus Harnon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMThe acclaimed production from National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene broke the house box office record at Stage 42.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29PMAlexandra Silber is getting ready to live out her Broadway dreams in her upcoming Feinstein's/54 Below show I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been. In the second installment of Silber's conc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMJagged Little Pill stars Elizabeth Stanley, Lauren Patten, Derek Klena and more talk about breaking out of the jukebox mold and Alanis Morissette's iconic music.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMSecond Stage's upcoming world premiere staging of Will Eno's The Underlying Chris is getting ready for its performance on October 29. To celebrate their upcoming debut, the cast and creative…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMDrew Gehling, the star who originated the role of Dr. Pomatter in Waitress, will reprise his turn in the Broadway musical beginning on October 30. He will remain with the hit show until it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMThese three queens are one remarkable woman! Three Tall Queens is a fascinating, often horrifying and ultimately inspiring serio-comic theater piece based on the life of Lindsey Kay—a pro…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:19PMThe playwright on 'A Museum in Baghdad', and how she discovered the story of Gertrude Bell
It all started in 2009 in the National Portrait Gallery. I’d had a meeting nearby so popped in to…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18PMA potent anatomy of how words and power intertwine
At a point in history where – yet again – a few misplaced words from English politicians could wreak havoc with Irish lives, this is a …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:18PMOnce upon a time, Broadway was full of larger-than-life stars (often women) easily identified by their distinctive voices and mannerisms. Gwen Verdon. Carol Channing. Ethel Merman. Elaine St…
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Bruce Labadie, who has produced festivals for San Jose Jazz and the San Jose Downtown Association, received the Cornerstone of the Arts award from the city of San Jose.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:57PMKenneth Jones
Hometown: Birmingham, MichiganCurrent Town: Sunnyside, Queens
Q: What are you working on now?
A: A six-character play that I thought was going to be about a soc…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 05:42PM“The recent outcry online over the low wages, high stress and professional instability that assistants face — given a voice through the hashtag #PayUpHollywood — has served to highli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“The Academy’s response to any criticism no matter how facile or valid—including accusations of radical leftism, elitism, racism, sexism, and general mustiness—has been to make vague…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMThe psychological thriller, adapted from the transcript of the FBI interrogation of Reality Winner, opened at the Vineyard Theatre October 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PMHome Work, out now, was written with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMTHE SINS OF THE FATHER There’s no doubt that Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons is an astonishing piece of theater. Not only is the writing brilliant, but the themes addressed are tim…
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The Broadway alum steps back into the scrubs of Dr. Pomatter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMThe documentary theatre piece is adapted from the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials of 1963–1965.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PMA new era opens at Shakespeare Theatre Company on a minor key.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:33PMCanellakis makes her San Francisco Symphony debut October 24–26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM By Marilyn Lester It’s not often that the usually stellar Irish Repertory Theatre misses the mark on one of its productions, but with this mounting of Conor McPherson’s Dublin C…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:20PMTina Satter conceives and directs "This Is A Room," based on the FBI transcript reagrding Reality Winner's leaking evidence of Russian election interference.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:03PM“In his sly installations and sculptural work, Huang often melded techniques derived from the history of Chinese art and international avant-garde movements alike. His ability to deftly co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM“It’s that disconnect between long- and short-term interests that makes frothy articles so frustrating. The feeling of curiosity promised you’d learn something and, admittedly, you did…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMHer dancers, she tells Marina Harss, “are very excited. I want to give them confidence, a sense of security and, above all, justice. I think there are dancers who haven’t had an opportun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMWay back in the ’90s, Michele Loud applied to be a researcher for the show just a few weeks after she flunked the test to be a contestant; a year later, out of the blue, they called her in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM“There are different types of creepiness, and the array of things that creep us out ranges from dolls that are too lifelike to clowns in places where clowns should not be… The basic prem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMWilliam Paul Gerhard, an engineer with the British Fire Prevention Committee, stated in a report that by May 1897 there had been 1,115 recorded theater fires in Europe and America (since rec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM“Part of the appeal is the sheer human spectacle provided by costumed attendees (or playtrons, in Renfaire-ese). Though the village is ostensibly set in the 16th century, it most accuratel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMThe dancer-choreographer comes full circle in his return to musical theatre with the new MCC show from Ross Golan.
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Composer Jeanine Tesori on how musicals can spur change, and how her latest changed her.
SOURCE: stagecraft.libsyn.com at 03:54PMStephen Brackett talks about bringing the world of Percy Jackson to stage in The Lightning Thief, his act of rebellion with Be More Chill, and his hope for A Strange Loop.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 03:53PMCo-stars Francesca Faridany and Kate Mulgrew and director Gaye Taylor Upchurch discuss the friendship found within Lauren Gunderson's play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMPlaybill offers an extensive selection of available jobs within the theatre industry, serving as the online source for careers in theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PMJagged Little Pill, a new musical inspired Alanis Morissette's trailblazing album of the same name, is coming to Broadway. Following its sold-out summer run at the American Repertory Theater…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMOff-Broadway's Public Theater has announced a second one-week extension to the New York premiere staging of Soft Power. Originally announced to run through November 3 and later extended to N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMPresenting a version of Junot Díaz’s prizewinning novel, Repertorio Español is also showing off a confident cohort of Latino actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMA sven-tillating conversation with Chicago’s legendary horror host, Rich Koz, on 40 years of Svengoolie, celebrity fans, and BERWYN!
Local television legend R…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMLiz McQuiston writes that the posters collected in her book are meant to “pay tribute to the liberating concept of hard-won ‘freedom of speech’ throughout history."
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:12PMMark Twain’s 1881 novel, The Prince and the Pauper, receives an engaging update (with a “digital, Hip Hop-infused twist”) at Kennedy Center’s Family Theater with the world premiere o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMShe devils. Film-noir temptresses. Crazy women in attics à la “Jane Eyre.” In art of all sorts, women who speak up, sashay to a different drummer or who just challenge male authority of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PM“You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”- Bob Dylan Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a comedy in the sense that it has a happy ending. However, we only get to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMThe Hadestown Tony Award winner was honored October 21 alongside Emmy winner Leslie Jordan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PMThe season will feature the Off-Broadway premiere of Dan Hoyle's timely 'Border People'.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:00PM
Chance Theater will feature Orange County premieres in addition to family favorites.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:59PMHATE CRIMES ROCK A SUBVERSIVE COMEDY This show can never be nice: Along with The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy built squarely on misogyny, The Merchant of Venice, a tragicomedy festering w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56PMWhich Witch From Macbeth Are You?
Written by Rose Helsinger
October 22nd, 2019
The three Weird Sisters are an essential part of Shakespeare’s spooky tragedy. Mysterious, alluring, and…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 02:56PMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center is accepting submissions through November 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMOne Man, Two Guvnors, written by Richard Bean and directed at Vienna Theatre Company by Eric Storck, is aggressively funny stuff. Played as big as possible, each character pays homage to Com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMThe event celebrates artists and professionals with over 25 years of service to the Broadway community.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMLAST DAYS OF SUMMER is a tale of friendship, baseball, and the enduring bonds between fathers and sons will speak to all generations. Based on the bestselling novel by Steve Kluger, with mus…
SOURCE: www.monroenow.com at 02:17PMIn 1999, a small college in Kilgore, TX — in an area where, at the time, gay men were routinely beaten and sometimes murdered — staged Angels in America, angry protests from local fundam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PMRobert Townsend, known best for the groundbreaking film "Hollywood Shuffle," premieres a new stage show "Living the Shuffle" at The Marsh Berkeley.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:00PM
The new comedy stars Raúl Esparza, Krysta Rodriguez, and more and will officially open October 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMI am so thrilled to bring you this interview with long-time friend of this site, Alex Wyse. One of the great pleasures of the privilege of years of seeing New York theater is discovering an …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 01:54PMWhat Iconic Shakespeare Prop Are You?
Written by Rose Helsinger
October 14th, 2019
Shakespeare plays include many iconic items that alter the course of character’s lives for better or…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 01:36PMJust last night, October 21, BKLYN came back with a 15th Anniversary reunion concert for one-night-only. The company was led by Eden Espinosa (RENT, Wicked) as Brooklyn, Karen Olivo (Mouli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33PMSophia Anne Caruso, Eddie Perfect, Kelvin Moon Loh, and more of the Broadway smash hit BEETLEJUICE performed for a sold-out crowd of fans of the strange and unusual at the Beetlejuice Black …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMKareem M. Lucas, Zhailon Levingston, Alex Hare, and Nehemiah Luckett will develop works over a two-year period.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMI went in with this insane piece, this musical phantasmagoria island site-specific thing -- and came out with my most, sort of, small quiet piece I've ever made that really relies upon, for …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:12PMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Eoghan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMWarmhearted and sincere, Jonathan O’Boyle’s concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical take on Cinderella is gorgeous to watch and listen to from start to finish.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
The Office! A Musical Parody, a new musical based on the Emmy-winning comedy series, has set a final performance date of January 13, 2020. The tuner began its run at the Orbach Theater at Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMGet ready to rock out to the music of David Byrne on repeat. The acclaimed singer-songwriter's theatrical concert American Utopia has been preserved as an original cast recording, Nonesuch …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMAward-winning stars Jane Alexander and James Cromwell will return to Broadway this winter as married couple Nancy and Bill in Bess Wohl's Broadway-debut play, Grand Horizons. The previousl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMDear Evan Hansen star Andrew Barth Feldman takes us to an event where he performs for many bigwigs and joins the cast in birthing something new.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMAlexandra Silber stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about her upcoming Feinstein's/54 Below show I Wish and more with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMGo beyond the palace walls as as Clinton Greenspan turns into the title star of Disney's Aladdin before a show.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMTickets are now on sale for Classic Stage Company's upcoming repertory stagings of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Dracula will begin previews on January 14; Frankenst…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMThe release includes four tracks by the Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner, including a duet with co-star Zoey Deutch.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMCast includes...James Patrick Nelson, Roger Hendricks Simon, Jeremy Fernandez, Debargo Sanyal, Lawrence Leritz, Leon Morgan, Nathan Wallace, Bari Hyman, Scott Watson and Addison LeMay.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMWho is being produced on our stages? What kinds of characters are appearing on our stages? And what do these plays look like in terms of form and thematic content? – Howlround
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:29PMThe playwright of 'Hearts Like Fists' has interviewed more than 1,000 playwrights on his website. Now it's his turn to be interviewed.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:26PMAfter the exciting casting announcement for Marianne Elliott's upcoming visionary production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's landmark musical comedy Company, newly announced cast mem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMSecond Stage Theater has announced that has announced that Tony Award winner, four time Oscar nominee and Emmy Award winner Jane Alexander and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Jam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe Broadway-bound production of Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons has two big names joining the cast for this ten-week limited engagement. Tony Award/Emmy Award-winner Jane Alexander and Emmy Aw…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:16PMThe world premiere, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, opened at LCT3 October 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMRachel Bay Jones has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming Amazon YA drama series Panic, according to Deadline. Enrique Murciano, Camron Jones, and Jessica Sula were announced as s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThe world premiere of Adam Gwon and Michael Mitnick’s new musical will open at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre October 23.
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Claudio Macor's new play Different From the Others, which runs at London's White Bear Theatre from 29 October to 16 November 2019, tells the story behind the making of the first-ever pro-gay…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:59AMThe new LGBTQ+ theatre company Stay True presents the November performances at The Playroom Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMThe solo show by Charles Gershman imagines an alternate version of America’s First Daughter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMIn 2006, when plans for the Philharmonie de Paris were announced, the venue, with a flashy, futuristic design by starchitect Jean Nouvel, was supposed to open in 2013 at a cost of €173 mil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“The equation of upscale readers and upscale brands with profit, projecting an aspirational image of the ideal consumer through both editorial and ads so that vulnerable readers would chas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMNext year, St. John’s Co-Cathedral in the Maltese capital, Valletta, will open a €4 million annex as a home for Caravaggio’s 1607 St. Jerome Writing and the world’s largest complete …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“If the judges felt that they needed the world to know about these two novels, shouldn’t that be a cause for celebration? It seems to me that the work of these two fine writers is being …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMThe longtime Harlem institution is remounting its adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates's book and taking it on tour.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:46AMArtsBeat reporter Mark G Auerbach visited "Brad Shepard Today" on Pioneer Valley Radio to talk about the "Berkies", The Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards; BroadwayWorld's Audience Poll in WMa…
SOURCE: pioneervalleyradio.com at 11:46AMFor those of us who began making regular pilgrimages to Palsson's Supper Club back in the early 80s to see Gerard Alessandrini's smart new revue pack with parody lyrics and impersonations th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMJane Alexander and James Cromwell will join the cast of “Grand Horizons” on Broadway. Alexander, a Tony and Emmy Award winner and four time Oscar nominee for films including “Kramer …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:32AMAmong the 16 shows participating this season are Come From Away, Oklahoma!, and The Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMAhead of the show’s move into the Broadhurst Theatre, the company celebrated October 21 at Drift Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMJane Alexander and James Cromwell have boarded the previously announced Broadway production of Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the play, a Second Stage production …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMParity Productions awards two commissions for women and/or transgender or gender-nonconforming writers annually.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:29AMThe new Bess Wohl play, directed by Leigh Silverman, will premiere on Broadway this winter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMLaura Michelle Kelly and Clifton Davis lead the cast of Austen's Pride: A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice at The 5th Avenue Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMLaura Michelle Kelly and Clifton Davis lead the cast of Austen's Pride: A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice at The 5th Avenue Theatre. Check out the cast in action in all new photos!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMBroadwayWorld has learned that Spectra Musique will present a concert version in French of the musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in Montreal. In a staging by Etienne Cousineau, 20 singers an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMThe unauthorized send-up of the hit TV series will have run for 16 months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMThe cast album for the critically acclaimed Broadway production of David Byrne's American Utopia, has been released today, with music and lyrics by David Byrne. It is available now via the N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMOn 10 and 12 November 2019, 42nd Street will be screened to more than 650 cinemas across the UK and Ireland. Critics were sent into a frenzy over this largest-ever staging of the Tony® Awar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:06AMKnud Adams directs this one-set show which at times has moments of humor, but overall is a slow moving and usually depressing narrative. Ari Fliakos, who plays the son, gives a reserved perf…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:03AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMLast week, grosses ticked up just 1.4% from the previous week. While most shows felt a slight decline coming off the holiday weekend, overall, the street was bolstered by newcomer Tina-The T…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe beloved British Classic is making a long-awaited return to the West End this winter and it comes as a sweet relief after sixty years of absence. Tickets for A Taste of Honey are availab…
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An anthology of short plays for women performers has been published, described as an “antidote to casting anomalies” often found in drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMThe November 9 event will be held at The Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe Oscar winner says the moonlit scene of “Something Good” wasn’t as romantic as audiences might think.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe Oscar winner says the moonlit scene of “Something Good” wasn’t as romantic as audiences might think.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe Drama League has revealed more of the artists who will be celebrating Sutton Foster at the organization's 36th Annual Benefit Gala next week. The black-tie evening honoring Foster a?" a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMby Victoria Looseleaf The Spanish term for a heightened state of emotion and authenticity, “duende,” roughly translates to a single word, “soul.” It’s also the elusive ingredient a…
SOURCE: intimateexcellent.com at 10:47AMNow available from Nonesuch Records for digital streaming and purchase, the album will also get physical releases on CD and vinyl.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMCameron Mackintosh will receive this year’s Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts. The accolade is traditionally handed out as part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMGRAMMY®, TONY®, and Emmy® Award-winning artist Ben Platt has announced today's release of a remarkable new EP.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMThe choreographer shares her creative process and how she brought David Byrne's American Utopia to Broadway
SOURCE: Forbes at 10:38AMThe duo star in the upcoming London musical, which retells the story of Cinderella with a queer twist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMBecky Gulsvig will take over the role of Beverley in “Come From Away,” the production confirmed Tuesday. Gulsvig, who played the role on the national tour, begins with the Broadway c…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:26AMKicking off this year’s National Youth Theatre REP season, Neil Bartlett’s take on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is an engaging if unadventurous adaptation.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMThe new Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill will begin preview performances at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th St., NYC) on Sunday, November 3, 2019, with an official opening night of Thu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMCraft Recordings has announced a special, 60th-anniversary reissue of The Sound of Musica?'Original Broadway Cast Recording. Featuring legendary stage actress Mary Martin as Maria von Trapp …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMTEDxBroadway embraces young professionals
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 10:16AMSome of the nation's biggest theatrical questions are being asked, and vigorously answered, in Chicago.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:14AMThe Windy City challenges and inspires the theatre ecosystem from coast to coast.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:14AMA town known for tight acting ensembles and distinctive writers may have another ace in the hole: its directors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:12AM“Ms. Abrera, 41, joined Ballet Theater in 1996. Five years later she was promoted from the corps de ballet to the rank of soloist. A serious injury in 2008 made further advancement difficu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMAt this past summer’s Salzburg Festival, director Peter Sellars turned Mozart’s opera Idomeneo into a warning about climate change. Not even three months later, the Festival announced a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“A meeting of Australia’s arts and cultural ministers in Adelaide … has seen a major overhaul of the way the Major Performing Arts sector is funded through the Australia Council for th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMIn 1502, Leonardo submitted to the Ottoman sultan a design for a bridge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul that would have been, at the time, by far the world’s longest, and tall enough for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMWhat makes Chicago's well-known ensemble ethos special, and where did it comes from? A new book finds some surprising answers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:10AMThe reality behind Chicago's mythic small-theatre scene: hard work, low pay, burnout---and growing signs of solidarity.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:08AMThe LCT3 production, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, stars Dina Shihabi as Yasmine, a young Syrian refugee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMHow Chicago’s theatre scene reflects its legacy of racism—and what can be done to fight it.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:06AMFrom dramaturgs to directors to teachers, here are 6 Windy City artists to keep on your radar.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:04AMIf you’re not ready to give in to an autumnal chill in the air, one of the hottest place to be right now is decidedly Teatro de la Luna. In its Friday night series, Noche de Luna: Tango Sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03AMArmed with the idea that truth-telling and empathy don't have to be mutually exclusive, they founded Rescripted, an independent Chicago theatre publication.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:02AMThe October 28 celebration will be held at The Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMArtists of color have had to work hard just to get to work in the Windy City, and in the process they've changed its theatres for the better.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AMCharlotte Melén is the founder of award-winning immersive audio platform Almost Tangible, which launched a year ago with a recording of Macbeth.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM
The 51st annual ceremony took place October 21 in the Windy City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMThe current Little Shop of Horrors star dropped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to talk about his love for the Julie Andrews film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMOscar Emmanuel Fabela made his New York City acting debut in Theatre 167’s You Are Now the Owner of this Suitcase Directed by Ari Laura Kreith, followed by Jekyll & Hyde Directed by S…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:36AMAnthony Ramos was the musical guest on the Late Late Show with James Corden where he performed 'Mind Over Matter' from his upcoming album, The Good & The Bad, which will be released on�…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AMThe cast also features her Dear Evan Hansen co-star, Mike Faist.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMBy Douglas Mayo
Luke Bayer and Millie O'Connell perform Wishing For The Normal from Soho Cinders which is playing at Charing Cross Theatre from 24 October 2019.
This post FIRST LISTEN: Milli…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:34AMThe play, which examines the dynamics of a gay married couple in an open relationship, opens at the Waterloo East Theatre October 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMIan Rickson’s atmospheric staging of Brian Friel’s intricate and lyrical 1980 play about language, communication and colonialism returns to the National Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMJonathan Groff, who stars in the new Off-Broadway 'Little Shop of Horrors,' was a guest on Monday night's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Groff is such a big fan of Julie And…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:27AMThe Hamilton alum sang from his new album The Good & The Bad on The Late Late Show With James Corden.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMThe Hamilton alum sang from his new album The Good & The Bad on The Late Late Show With James Corden.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM Nancy McGraw celebrated Johnny Mercer with Mark Nadler at the piano – a perfect collaboration! by Linda Amiel Burns On October 20, 2019 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Nancy McG…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:12AMBy Douglas Mayo
Take a look at these great photos from Darren Bell as Afterglow transfers to Waterloo East Theatre, London. Opening night tonight!
This post FIRST LOOK: Afterglow, Waterloo E…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:12AMRed Bull Theater’s one-night-only benefit concert, starring Patrick Page, Steven Boyer, and Mary Testa, was presented at Symphony Space October 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMThe Show People Podcast is back and in this episode host Andrew Keates is joined by world renowned and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Stephen Mear.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe seriocomic, affectionate but bloated musical revolves (literally) around a character representing Jane Austen, with her fictional offspring dancing, singing and emoting around her.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMBy Charles M Pepiton. Charles M Pepiton discusses professional theatre’s commercial roots, how mission statements of non-profits today focus on social engagement, community-based developme…
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The comedian has written his first play – on whether science can prove that the Almighty exists. But first, there are some hecklers to deal with ...
Schrödinger’s cat can be both alive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMDeborah Bestwick is to step down as director of Ovalhouse as the theatre prepares to relocate to a new building in Brixton.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMCurrently starring in On Bear Ridge at London’s Royal Court, the actor has enjoyed a run of extraordinary roles. She talks to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMThe 2019 winners in the Middle School and High School divisions were chosen from among 367 entries.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:30AMThe Phantom Of The Opera has been wowing us for 33 years! We thought we'd check out what some of our favourite Phantom Of The Opera Actors are up to now.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:27AMBecky Gulsvig, the star who delighted audiences across America in the national tour of Come From Away, will reprise her turn as Beverley Bass in the Broadway production beginning on November…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:24AMTS Eliot's tale of the killing of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, Murder in the Cathedral, will be staged in a trio of religious buildings next month as Scena Mundi Theatre takes it o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:18AMBy Mark Ludmon
Get ready for the 2019 UK Theatre Awards for regional and national theatre which are being announced on Sunday 27 October 2019.
This post Nominees for 2019 UK Theatre Awards f…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:15AMJemima Rooper, Kate O’Flynn, Zainab Hasan and Joanna Horton carry a lion’s share delivering the vitriol, pain and helplessness of struggling women in [Blank].
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM
The 51st Annual Jeff Awards Ceremony took place on October 21, 2019, during a spirited evening at Drury Lane Oakbrook. 'Frankenstein,' produced by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, took home five…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53AMJulie Andrews appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, October 21, where she opened up about going to therapy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMToday's top stories: casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Company, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20AMUntil recently, it may have seemed that the singer and songwriter Anne Phillips had resigned as a performer. She had not. Coincidentally, one of her colleagues on her most recent album, pian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AMAfter watching Leonard Bernstein’s “Bach Transmogrified” Young People’s Concert (back when I was a young person), I went to Smalltown USA’s local music store the very next day hopi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AMHow do I not love the Museum of Modern Art’s reinstallation of its permanent collection in it expanded, renovated galleries? Let me count the ways. – Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AMOn Stalin: “People underestimate the level of control that Stalin maintained. I once tried to count the number of people in the arts that Stalin controlled personally – it was close to o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AMBy Douglas Mayo
Rotterdam’s Alice McCarthy joins the cast in gender shifted role previously played by Michael Caine and Jude Law. You Game is a modern, female-led, story based on the Tony …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:08AM
Who is Antoniette lesue? I’m an actress living in LA but originally from Melbourne, Australia. I studied at the Western Academy of Preforming Arts majoring in Musical Theatre, however I qu…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:56AMAfter its rave reviews and New Writing award at Edinburgh Fringe, Glenn Chandler's new play The Good Scout has won another round of plaudits and an OffWestEnd.com nomination on its London tr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMThe Powerhouse Museum has launched one of the largest digitisation projects in Australia with the Museum to digitally capture around 338,000 items from its extraordinary collection. Launchin…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:14AMFollowing King Charles III and Albion, Mike Bartlett returns to the Almeida Theatre with an adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s play, Vassa Zheleznova.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMVarious forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:02AMFrom 2009: Film was the master medium of the twentieth century. Within a few years of its invention, it had supplanted live theater and the novel as the main way in which most people experie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01AMPart of the success of Lungs is that it is not the uber-liberal, finger-wagging climate change play you expect it to be, plus both the production’s stars are superb and entirely believable…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMIs there anything more thrilling than the sound of a massive company tapping up a storm? Now you can experience the thrill of the largest-ever staging of Broadway classic 42nd STREET on the …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:00AM“Don’t ever try to learn from other people’s mistakes. Learn what other people do right.” An unknown first-century rabbi (quoted in Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander)
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One of the most interesting things about Theatre by the Lake’s relentless producing schedule is the way it pushes plays conceived for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMA wild satire that will have audiences laughing out loud, Sugary Rum Productions presents The Underpants by Oscar-winning comedy legend, Steve Martin at the Seymour Centre this October and N…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 04:51AM‘The sheer idea of having a stampede on stage was exciting – the bigger the risk, the bigger the payoff’
It was a surprise to get the call from Disney. Their world wasn’t my aestheti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMCaroline Cornélis draws on everyday life to make elegant shows for young audiences. In 10:10, three dancers and a drummer recreate break time
Shows for young audiences are frequently set in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMWhen a set of twins (Eve and Evan) press the wrong doorbell on Halloween, they are forced to fight for their lives against a manipulative, mean, and hungry witch. Can they save themselves? C…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:24AM
Among the reviews: a terrific, important release that celebrates one of the most interesting – and hitherto overlooked – composers of the late-19th- and early-20th centuries in style. Do…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06AMA trio of stars from the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen step into the Tony-winning Broadway production on October 22. Tony nominee Christiane Noll, Jared Goldsmith and Phoebe Koyabe repri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03AMNo prayers can save this Off-Broadway musical of biblically bad proportion, including Academy Award nominee Gary Busey.
The post Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do: ‘Only Human�…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:03AMLies are inevitable, but the quality of our relationships are what save or damn us. One Hundred Lies by Alan Haehnel, is so much more than a “game show” play. Prepare for something deepe…
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The Fairy Princess is processing a few things right now – First – sending good, healing wishes to John Cho, who has kneecapped the production of COWBOY BEBOP because…yeah, knee injury.…
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 12:32AMThis summer, Cirque Stratosphere, a spectacular new space-based circus from the creators of THE ILLUSIONISTS, CIRCUS 1903 and LE NOIR, is heading to Canberra Theatre Centre, Sydney Opera Hou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:09AMA Latinx theatre fan recounts the barriers she had to break through in order to attend shows---I first fell in love with Broadway musicals listening to the original cast recording of Lin-Man…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet’s George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham Program — David H. Koch Theater: "In a time when fashion dictates adding technology and special effects to w…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: Teac Damsa’s “Swan Lake/Loch na hEala” at BAM Harvey, "A 75-minute work of Irish tanztheater, Teac Damsa’s Loch na hEala manages the impossible by being radical yet …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMConnor Walsh, Karina González & Yuriko Kajiya On Dancing Houston Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season At New York City Center.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMSignature Theatre revives Anna Deavere Smith's documentary play, written in response to the 1991 Crown Heights riots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony winner stars as Bella Abzug in the new monologue play at MTC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLeah C. Gardiner directs the groundbreaking choreopoem, with choreography by Camille A. Brown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLarissa FastHorse’s satire is scheduled to run at the Geffen Playhouse through December 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony-winning musical will also welcome a new Evan Hansen alternate in November.
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