Adrienne Wareen is simply the best in Tina
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:51PMI’ve never bought a copy of Rolling Stone. but I did buy The Rolling Stone Record Review, a mass-market paperback that came out in 1971, and I read it until the glue dried up and the pages…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48PMIf you want to relive Tina Turner’s prime, you can’t get much better than Adrienne Warren. The star of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, has t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:42PMTina Turner gets the bio-jukebox treatment, with all its lows (emaciated storytelling) and one of its peaks (a star-making performance from Adrienne Warren).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe Emmy-winning “Game of Thrones” star shows off his abundant charisma in a lachrymose musical adaptation of Rostand’s classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMTwo recent adaptations of Edmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” both titled simply “Cyrano,” play fast and loose with the 19th-Century French playwright’s masterpiece. At Two Ri…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 10:16PMElizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel The Enchanted April, set during the devastating aftermath of World War I and a severe epidemic of the influenza that ravaged England at the time, has been …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10PMVillainy takes many forms. And Ian Merrill Peakes – now plotting revenge against a gifted rival in the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Amadeus – has played more than a few. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMThere are two major elements that undeniably contribute to the success of the entrancing new Broadway Show “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” now playing at the Lunt- Fontanne Theatre. T…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:00PM“Can’t we slow down the groove just a little bit,” a young, gasping Tina Turner (Adrienne Warren) begs her hard-driving soon-to-be-husband early on in Tina – The Tina Tuner Musical. …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00PMIf a single voice, or a single performance, could send a Broadway musical soaring to greatness, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” would handily qualify as one of the best musicals to emerg…
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Adrienne Warren is exhilarating as Tina Turner in this biomusical.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:48PM★★★★ A triumphant Adrienne Warren powers the best biomusical in years
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:46PM★★ Broadway's latest jukebox tribute honors the queen of rock and soul
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PMLooking back at the 75th birthday of ITS
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:37PM★★ Peter Dinklage plays the iconic swordsman in director Erica Schmidt's adaptation
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PM★★★ Peter Dinklage plays the title role in The New Group's world premiere
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:29PMDoctor Stockman became popular at once in Moscow, and especially so in Petrograd. “The Enemy of the People” became the favorite play of the revolutionists, notwithstanding the fact that …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:10PMThere’s a terrific YouTube clip of Janis Joplin, resplendent in a 1969 splash of crimson, purple and gold, trying to explain to a square Dick Cavett why Tina Turner is her favorite singer,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:08PMThe bio-musical officially opened November 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06PMFor one night only join Austria’s greatest glam pop vocalist along with Australia’s queen of cabaret in an evening to remember. Eurovision legend Conchita Wurst returns to Australia wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PM
THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI JUST GOT MIGHTIER Do whatever you can. Take a raft, pretend you’re a duke, toss pig blood around your lean-to so everyone thinks you’re dead, but get to Rubicon Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:52PMThe New Group's Cyrano is playing a limited Off-Broadway engagement through December 22 at The Daryl Roth Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:41PMThe scope of the destruction is stunning: 89 medieval churches, 5,840 khachkars and 22,000 tombstones, the report said. The annihilation of cultural heritage dwarfs the more widely reported …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PMWhat people don’t understand is that, for most of history, music was a kind of cloud storage for societies. I like to tell people that music is a technology for societies that don’t have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PMHengdian World Studios, built in the 1990s on farmland in China’s southeastern Zhejiang Province, claims to be the world’s largest outdoor film studio and features full-scale replicas of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PM“In this guilty-until-proven-innocent cancel culture, where everyone is condemned to death or to a lifetime of unemployment based on an accusation that’s 12 years old, is criminal,” Ju…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PMSan Juan Community Theatre seeks a Director of Development to join our team in Friday Harbor.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PMDHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Vice President, Operations for the Peace Center in Greenville, SC.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PMAdrienne Warren, playing Tina Turner, is deserving of applause, but the show around her borders on sacrilege of a living goddess.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PM
It's time to see which jukebox musical you are! Are you Tina? Jersey Boys? Beautiful? We're celebrating Tina's Broadway opening night by giving you the chance to see which of Broadway's icon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PM(Martin Scorsese’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6.) When I was in England in early October, I gave an interview to Empire magazine. I was asked a question about Marvel movie…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMThe winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize, Shook by Samuel Bailey offers a glimpse into an unexpected corner of the criminal justice system. It is set in a classroom, but not in a s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:47PMIt’s June 18, 1983. You’re a waitress in St. Louis who’s all but given up her dreams of achieving renown, or at least impact, as a poet. You’re in an unsatisfying relationship and a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:44PMToday is the birthday of early silent film star King Baggot (read my full post on Baggot here). That makes today the perfect time to announce that I’ll be in Philadelphia this Sunday at th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:36PMIn 2003, the rock band the National released an album called “Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers.” That would also make a good title for their new musical, “Cyrano,” which opened off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PMThe show’s tallest order has been fulfilled as Dinklage brings his now-signature brand of razor-sharp wit, melancholy, intelligence – and a decent baritone singing voice – to the piece…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 07:21PMPeter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PMVirginie Despentes novel reads like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia mashed with Don Quixote and set in contemporary Paris.
The post Book Review: “Vernon Subutex 1” — Rock and Roll, …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:12PMNeither a fully formed musical nor a staged concept album, this adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, featuring music and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMMaking its Off-Broadway debut at the Daryl Roth Theatre, following a developmental presentation by Goodspeed Musicals in August 2018, is The New Group’s production of Cyrano – Erica Schm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
'Burning Man: The Musical' gets a staged reading Dec. 7-8 at Z Space in San Francisco
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:52PMThe Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center is excited to announce the world premiere immersive production, Theater of the Mind, coming to Denver in August 2020 co-created by Talk…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMTitus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and present, invited me back for the latest in a series o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:28PMNationally syndicated morning talk show a?oeLive with Kelly and Ryana?? announces the lineup of guests appearing on the show the week of Nov. 11a?"15.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PMPeter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMNew Zealand-born Hayden has made his mark in the world of Musical Theatre both down under and internationally. His iconic portrayal of Inspector Javert in Les Miserables has been seen acros…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PM
With college theatre program auditions just around the corner, we're highlighting some of the country's most prestigious theatre programs and chatting with the schools' faculty to give you i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMSomething great is coming! Rehearsals are currently underway for this season's Broadway revival of the classic musical West Side Story, directed by Tony winner Ivo van Hove. Get ready to see…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMThe Other Palace, London This new musical by Alick Glass carries its fight against 30s movie plagiarism with pleasant songs, but lacks the showbiz sparkle to land a killer punch
This theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Michael Park Lands Role in Netflix Romantic Comedy Series Dash & Lily
Michael Park, the Emmy-winning star who recently wr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMAs catastrophic wildfires continue to threaten areas of northern California, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, in collaboration with the San Francisco-based Hamilton - And Peggy tour, is se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMIn telling the story of her mother, who died under a careless plastic surgeon’s knife, she hopes to illuminate both grief and injustice.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:30PMA new musical based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner, TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL opens on Broadway tonight, November 7. The best of Broadway will walk the red carpet tonight t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMGrants will be awarded to four northern California organizations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 11/7/2019 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMAfter three sold-out shows in the spring, singer, Liora Michelle, returns to Don’t Tell Mama on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, December 7th with her NYC cabaret debut show, The Greedy …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:14PMHE’S BACK ON DUTY It’s now become a holiday classic, Mary Zimmerman’s gorgeous The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass Theatre. It was glorious last year. It’s lost no luster since…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:10PMBroadwayWorld has an exclusive extended look at Christina Bianco in Funny Girl in Paris, which began performances at Théâtre Marigny November 7th, 2019 and opened tonight!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PM
“The new work, Black Exhibition” — which he developed under the pseudonym @GaryXXXFisher — “is described in the script as an attempt ‘to look at a queer black male psyche through…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM“That was me being able to look certain people in the face and say: ‘You’re wrong.’ So many people have dictated what my intentions were with Slave Play. One of the things they’ve …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMEffervescence is generated when humans come together to make music or perform rituals, an experience that lingers when the ceremonies are over. The suggestion, therefore, is that collective …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMPlanet Word isn’t the first to tackle language and reading in a museum format — there’s Mundolingua in Paris, as well as language museums in Toronto and the Netherlands, among others �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMWe asked, and you delivered! We recently asked BroadwayWorld readers to name the funniest on-stage mishaps they've either seen on stage or experienced while performing. We received so many h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMZal Owen stars as the famous physicist in the Prospect Theater Company production at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMThe production opened at Circle in the Square Theatre November 7, 2011.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMInventing Anna, written by Shonda Rhimes, will be a 10-episode limited drama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMStephen Sondheim and Hal Prince top the duo’s annual fall fling, while Lainie Kazan remembers flings, flames and fiascos.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:32PMFollowing an Olivier-nominated West End run, the new bio-show Tina: The Tina Turner Musical officially opens at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 7. Tony-nominated actress Adri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMName: Roberto AraujoHometown: Mexico City, MexicoEducation: Theatre Major in Mexico CitySelect Credits: West Side Story at North Shore Music Theatre, In the Heights at GALA Theatre, Evita at…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:24PMLondon's Piccadilly Theatre was evacuated during a performance of Death of a Salesman on November 6 after part of the theater's ceiling crashed down. Paramedics were called to the West End …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMPreston Truman Boyd is getting ready to go across the country by joining the national tour of Les Misérables as the newest Javert. Known for his roles in Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate, The Play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMJagged Little Pill's Kathryn Gallagher shows us what it's like backstage as the new musical begins Broadway previews.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMAndy Señor Jr. stops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about his documentary about bringing Rent to Cuba, Revolution Rent, with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMMark your calendar! The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice have announced a May 18, 2020 ceremony date for the 65th Annual Obie Awards. The yearly celebration of off- and off-off-Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMRoundabout Theatre Company has compiled a talent-packed cast for its upcoming one-night benefit staging of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The previously announced performance…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMAndy Señor Jr. has been involved with Rent since 1997, and now he's offering audiences an inside look into the musical's historic 2015 Cuban production with the new documentary Revolution R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMTickets are now on sale for the Broadway premiere of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-finalist play The Minutes. Anna D. Shapiro will direct the production, set to begin previews on February 25, 2020 a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMBy Mark Ludmon
Theatre company Reckless Sleepers are debuting their new show, A Long Long Time, at Dartington in Devon this winter.
This post Reckless Sleepers create new family show for Dar…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:01PMBy . New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and Carpetbag Theatre present the National Theater Project (NTP) Appalachia Regional Convening livestreaming from Knoxville, Tenessee on th…
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The Madwomen Monologues returns with a fresh crop of brilliant, original scripts by emerging local playwrights at the iconic The Butterfly Club this November. Independent theatre company Bag…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:58PMWho is Hugo Chiarella? I am a writer, producer and occasional performer. I am husband to actress Gabrielle Scawthorn. I am also the book writer and lyricist for the musical DreamSong which i…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:58PMA mysterious universe of alien architecture, humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, Heide Museum of Modern Art presents the National Gallery of Australia exhibition Terminus – a collaboratio…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:57PMAudiences across regional Victoria will get an exciting mix of entertainment in 2020 thanks to the latest round of funding from the Victorian Government. Minister for Creative Industries Mar…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:57PMAllred, who sang “Never Enough” on the movie’s soundtrack, will play her first NYC show January 18, 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMThe popular platform pays to tribute to performers who have continued to make a splash on Broadway after making their debuts as children.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMPlays about lives of quiet desperation are difficult to pull off because you run the risk of boring the audience. Liza Birkenmeier’s “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” has all the ele…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMThere are three public performances of Lyric's new children's opera this weekend.
Contemporary stories are having a welcome moment at Lyric Opera. While Dead Man…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:39PMThe romantic comedy series from Be More Chill and The Lightning Thief's Joe Tracz will be released in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PMThe vast majority of Netflix’s viewers (upwards of 80 percent, according to him) watch licensed content (“Friends” and the like) and in order to create a library of programming audienc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMLeslie Jamison considers “the enduring appeal of the afflicted woman — especially the young, beautiful, white afflicted woman: our favorite tragic victim, our repository of rarefied, ele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMCyndi Lauper a?" the Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning icon and advocate a?" has announced the lineup for her 9th annual Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays benefit concert, presen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMGate, DublinThe acclaimed writer’s version of the Greek tragedy focuses on her sister Ismene, with plenty of modern relevances
Colm Tóibín’s new version of the Greek tragedy Antigone d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThe Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater (the larger of NBPAC’s two theaters) is as beautiful and comfortable a space as one could have hoped for, and director Jeff Calhoun has assembled a fine …
SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 03:12PM
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Hometown: Born in St. Paul, MN, raised in Ann Arbor, Mi.
Current Town: Living in New York City.
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SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 02:59PMThe Disney+ series debuts November 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMPhoto by Will Haraldson.
Ecuadorian-born, Los Angeles-based illusionist Siegfried Tieber is currently performing his new magic show in Downtown LA.
Best known for his close-up card wor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:54PMThe George Eastman play, starring Len Cariou and Craig Bierko, begins performances at New York City Center November 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMSignature Theatre revives the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning musical, with energy and heart.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMThe all-male a cappella choir, embodying otherworldly sound from the world’s oldest polyphonic tradition, performs November 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM(Photo by Paul Greco)
Shabazz Green - New York Credits: Philosophy for Gangsters (Beckett Theatre); Intruder: The Musical (Hudson Guild). Regional Credits: Oklahoma (Denver Center for the …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:36PMThe post Department of Dreams appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:30PMThe season will feature the world premiere of a musical about Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:16PM“The 76-year-old screen icon … had a ‘very limited stroke which is reversible’, her family said in a statement. ‘Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“The Justice Department is going on the offensive against the anonymous author of A Warning, telling them in a letter obtained by CNN Business that he or she “may be violating ‘one or …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“Paris’s National Picasso Museum and the Giacometti Foundation are teaming up to manage the new institution for at least the first five years, from June 2020 through June 2025. (After th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“If the question is whether, a century from now, his operas will get new productions, his symphonies will circulate more frequently, or pianists will take on his études, Mr. Glass couldn�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMTwo visual-effects companies will apply CGI to surviving film footage and photographs of the actor, who was killed in a car crash at age 24 in 1955, to create “a realistic version of James…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“Countless dancers find themselves at a crossroads when they question whether they still love dance, whether the sacrifices are worth it or whether a professional career is truly what they…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMSays Anthony Roth Costanzo, who plays the title role, “It brings you back to the most fundamental things about your technique. And if your house is not in order, you’re not going to get …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMThe American Bible Society is building a $60 million museum, roughly halfway between Independence Hall and the National Constitution Center, that it’s calling the Faith and Liberty Discove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMA tersely worded email sent to employees at 6:13 p.m. Tuesday stated that attendance was low and that the museum would be closing its current exhibition effective Wednesday. – Los Angeles …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMBack in the 1990s, videographer Frederick Allen documented the salvage of the pirate Blackbeard’s 280-year-old wrecked ship on the North Carolina coast. Earlier this decade, a department o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMFor the first time since 2015, the orchestra this year is in the black. On a budget of $53 million supporting everything from concerts and touring to outreach and special presentations under…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMFor just $76 per person, you can take a guided tour through the halls of the Vatican after the crowds have gone home. Tour groups now arrange affordable, intimate nighttime visits to the hea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMCheck out all new photos of Matt Doyle as The Tin Man and chart his long and varied stage career.
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The production, based on the book by Mitch Albom, runs through Nov. 24
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:42PMDispatch from the front. “Greetings: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States.” For those in the audience of the Boomer generation, Rainbow Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41PMThe series, hosted by Rhiannon Giddens, returns to dissect performances by such singers as Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, and Eric Owens.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMAnother unique cabaret evening is arriving at 1st Stage in Tysons. It is a musical performance by the quartet All 4 Bass. The event is entitled Play it LOW…Play it COOL. The All 4 Bass …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMBackstage and front-of-house staff from the Piccadilly Theatre will continue to be paid by Ambassador Theatre Group while the venue remains closed,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMDeath of a Salesman will stage a series of scratch performances at the Young Vic this week, following the partial ceiling collapse
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMLast night, the Lincoln Center Fall Gala honored John E. Waldron for his continued support of the arts. The evening raised over $4 million in support of Lincoln Center for the Performing Ar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMIn theory, Dhana and the Rosebuds, a theater-dance hybrid about a Syrian emigree seeking her refugee grandmother, should be compelling. It is topical. Its wedding of abstract and ritualized …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMWild things abound in this production of Washington National Opera’s The Magic Flute, currently playing at the Kennedy Center. With Maurice Sendak’s artwork at its forefront, the opera…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMLight Falls is Sarah Frankcom’s swan song as artistic director at the Royal Exchange. And what a moving and beautifully crafted performance to leave on. Light Falls is one of the best perf…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
By Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews Reputation - a new musical by Alick Glass now playing at The Other Palace London.
This post REVIEW: Reputation, The Other Palace Studio London ✭ first …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:47PMThere are all sorts of reasons why you may need to block a page from appearing in Google search results and fortunately, Google provides a tool you can use to make this happen. Having said t…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:26PMToday is a great day, and here's why: we have a look at 13-year old Asher Reynolds performing the Dear Evan Hansen classic 'Waving Through a Window' in his latest music video. Check out the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMLeicester Square theatre, LondonWith typical deftness, the standup has made his scintillating two-part show a hymn to political correctness and a giddy attack on lefty sensibilities
What is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMPlanning is underway for the 2020 Met Gala, which this year will be themed: About Time: Fashion and Duration. Set to host the festivities are Broadway favorite Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Stre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMCheck out our round-up of all the best shows closing this month!Every month we pull together some of the best shows closing this month or leaving London for a wider tour! Here are some of th…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:07PMThe annual awards honor Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMMikhl Yashinsky-Born in Detroit and educated at Harvard, where he studied modern European history and literature. Acting: Nokhum/Mordkhe (Fidler afn dakh), Tankhum (Der goylem), Guildenstern…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:06PMI know you are lured by the headline but there are other things to tell about Grace Stafford (Grace Boyle (1903-1992) first. Stafford was only 16 years old when she married actor Tom Keene i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PMOkay, now here me out: Petrocelli (1974-76) was kind of like Perry Mason meets Baretta, mixed with a backwards version of McCloud, with some Rashomon thrown in. Barry Newman played the titul…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PMRoundabout Theatre Company will present a one-night only Benefit Reading of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy The Importance of Being Earnest starring the legendary 5-time Tony winner Angela Lans…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMIt's a #TBT with MLP! Look back at The Sound Inside star's career on stage.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:00PM
Roundabout unveils an all-star cast for its fall event at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMFollowing the ceiling collapsed during a performance of Death of a Salesman at London's Piccadilly Theatre last night, the production has announced a number of modified performances.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe set design and costuming for the play about the late sculptor are meant to evoke the feeling of the artist without replicating her sculptures or clothes.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:54AMAt its annual Gala, Shakespeare Theatre Company announced to a surprised audience that the Lansburgh Theatre at 450 7th St. NW would be rechristened as the Michael R. Klein Theatre. In addit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AMMeryl Streep, Emma Stone, and, of course, Anna Wintour are also behind the annual star-studded event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMThe Addams Family musical is set to tour the UK and Ireland for a second time. The 2020 tour will open at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMMorecambe’s endangered Winter Gardens has received £123,312 from Historic England, which will help secure its future. The Winter Gardens Preservation Trust has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMSheffield Theatres is to stage a production of My Mother Said I Never Should, which has been translated into British Sign Language
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMNational Ballet’s production shares the roles out among its principals, letting many take a place in this triumphant production.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:07AMBy EDWARD RUBIN Will Arbery’s latest play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, having been extended two times by popular demand, is now running Off-Broadway through Sunday, November 17, 2019 at …
SOURCE: TheatreCriticsm.com at 11:05AMWhat has always been a surprise to me is the amount of the emails I receive from Actors around the world looking for a tip on how to break into the biz . . . and fast. In fact, do you know w…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMA Prayer for Wings is a beautifully observed slice of life (despite odd moments that remind you it was written 35 years ago).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Fiona Gibson has been appointed new chief executive of the trust that runs Edinburgh’s Festival and King’s theatres. She is currently interim
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMBarrie Rutter has criticised the use of microphones by actors on stage, labelling it “the monster of today’s theatre”. The actor and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMThe celebration will recognize the honorees for their extensive achievements in the arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM"Something wicked this way comes..." but for all the wrong reasons in Classic Stage Company's gloomy production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
The post ‘Macbeth’ and the Thane of Thrones ap…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:54AMIn artist Alexandra Grant, the Hollywood A-lister and heartthrob has found a partner who is 'spiritual, sensitive and kind,' a new report says.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:53AMIn the theater world, a performer who is a true triple threat – one with the ability to perform at the highest levels as an actor, singer, and dancer all at the same time – is rare. Luck…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AMPulitzer Prize and Tony-winning playwright Tracy Letts will see, not one, but two of his plays play on Broadway this season. His Linda Vista is currently playing at Broadway’s Helen Hayes …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 10:41AMThe return of the immersive Broadway holiday experience brings “an explosion of happiness” to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre starting November 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMScoBar Entertainment presents PIANO BAR LIVE! for an open-ended run at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Side. Joining Piano Bar Maestro, MICHAEL McASSEY at the keys, will be a veritabl…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:26AMAdmissions is a successful comedy, but not quite the hot, scathing satire of 'privileged whiteness' one might gather from the ads. (Or from some of the local reviews.)
The post Theater Revie…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMThe pair of stage greats star in the upcoming movie The Good Liar.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMThe recording features guest vocalists Rachel Potter, Jamey Ray, and Mykal Kilgore.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMJackalope's 12th season gets off to an energizing start with this entertaining and empathetic Midwest premiere directed to perfection by Lili-Anne Brown.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
The production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, directed by Matthew Gardiner and choreographed by Denis Jones, opened November 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMPerformed in Norwegian with English surtitles, Jon Fosse’s play Shadows has a conceptual premise that depends on a disjuncture between the actor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AMMatthew White will direct the 2020 tour of the Andrew Lippa show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMTina Taylor Explores Women’s Secret Work in WWII by Lynne Stevens We hear World War II French jazz music as we descend into the Theatre Lunatico’s Subterranean Theatre—40s jazz of Step…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:36AMBy Douglas Mayo
The Addams Family UK Tour is back in 2020, creepier and kookier than ever at a venue near you. Initial dates are announced and tickets will be on sale soon.
This post The Add…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:30AMGot your Bay Area weekend plans? We have some nifty ideas -- from Harry Potter with a live orchestra to STOMP to some classic date-night fun.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:30AMArmie Hammer is counting down the minutes to his next Broadway role.
The actor behind Call Me By Your Name and Wounds has set his return trip to the stage for next year’s production of The…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:23AMShadow culture secretary Tom Watson has announced he is standing down from parliament to focus on health campaigning. The MP for West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMAn urgent investigation into the partially collapsed ceiling at the Piccadilly Theatre has been launched this morning, after audience members were injured
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMShortly after the start of Wednesday evening’s performance of this production — well-known for casting Black actors as the Loman family — audience members began to hear dripping water.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:01AMSydney & the Old Girl is a refreshing breath of foul air, a dark comedy with deeply unpleasant characters which manages to echo Pinter and Joe Orton in its macabre domestic antagonism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Brídín Clements. Brídín Clements talks about the accessibility of educational and professional programs, like internships, in theatre administration.
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Tony-winning writer and actor Tracy Letts will lead the cast of his Pulitzer-finalist play The Minutes on Broadway next year. Letts will be joined by Tony winner Jessie Mueller and Golden …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:54AMRiverside Theatre hits the mark for a designated demographic with its season opener, Beehive – The 60s Musical. The show is a musical revue of songs from the 1960s made popular by girl gro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AMFrancesca Joy is a writer and actor and founder and artistic director of Imagine If theatre company, which focuses on working with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AM‘The Minutes,’ which aims to capture fractious American politics by focusing on a City Council meeting, will also feature Armie Hammer and Jessie Mueller.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AMPlaywright Sam Ra tells us why Sleuth inspired her to create new thriller You Game and what difference it makes switching the gender of one of its characters. Read the interview, then book y…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:33AMTony & Pulitzer Prize winning playwright & actor Tracy Letts will return to Broadway with Steppenwolf's production of his new play THE MINUTES, in which he will also star.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:31AMBroadway’s upcoming The Minutes by Tracy Letts has set its large cast with a roster that includes Armie Hammer, Jessie Mueller, Blair Brown and Letts himself in a production directed by An…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AMTracy Letts will star in his play “The Minutes” on Broadway this season. Letts, who penned the new play, will star alongside Jessie Mueller, Armie Hammer, Blair Brown, K. Todd Freeman,…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:30AMThe play, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will arrive on Broadway in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AMDirector John Stephens knows this show inside and out
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:24AMBy Julian Eaves
Julian Eaves reviews I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! now playing at Chiswick Playhouse.
This post REVIEW: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Chiswick Playhouse…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:16AMMost props, most props, you could hold them in your hand. A suitcase. A tooth. A (shudders) doll. They’re part of the pleasure of theatre, the imagination made palpable. But sometimes, som…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThis was one the now-forgotten Warner/Reprise “Loss Leader” albums, a series of low-priced sampler albums by Warner/Reprise artists that was one of the most ingenious and effective promo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThe following is an incredibly thoughtful response written by Carter Gilles to my post The Chasm of Disbelief. I am particularly grateful to him for pointing out the important role that doin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMIn honor of the Czech dissident, political prisoner, and playwright Václav Havel, Alliance for New Music-Theatre has served up a two-course theatrical repast in DC’s most outré new arts …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08AMThe inaugural 2020 season for London's Park Theatre has been announced and will most notably feature the English language world premiere of La Cage Aux Folles, the long-awaited London tran…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:05AMThe co-founding leader of Ithaca's Civic Ensemble prepares to take the helm of the similarly community-minded HartBeat Ensemble in Connecticut.
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Recapping all of the “Little Mermaid Live!” News and Reviews, Ceiling Falls in West End, GFTNC Completes Cast “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMLinbury theatre, LondonWorks by Kenneth Tindall, Mlindi Kulashe and Morgann Runacre-Temple give these dancers a chance to get their bodies around abstraction
Trends for favoured composers i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFour theatregoers taken to hospital after incident during Death of a Salesman stage show
A theatre in the West End of London has been evacuated after part of its ceiling collapsed during a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTis the season for holiday fun at Navy Pier’s 19th annual Fifth Third Bank Winter WonderFest! For [...]
The post Navy Pier’s 19th annual Fifth Third Bank Winter WonderFest Kicks Off …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:54AMI was first introduced to the charms of Jackie Joseph (b. 1933) in her role as Audrey in one of my favorite films, the original The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). Gradually, I began to noti…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMI am rarely if ever find myself able to get excited or even interested in stage directors (sorry, stage directors!) but in the case of Julian Mitchell (1851-1926) will make an unambiguously …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMOn 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 07:51AMBroadwayWorld has your first look at Signature Theatre's A Chorus Line! Check out the photos and video!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48AMUnion Equity is to meet with theatre managers “as a priority” to discuss the safety of its members, following the partial collapse
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMCongratulations to the entire company of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on your opening night! Special congratulations to the following 10 cast members who are making their official Broadway…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:33AM"My father would mischievously try and shock people at social gatherings by telling them that he met his wife ‘in bed’". Playwright Simon de Cintra tells us the truth behind that story a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMA National Endowment for the Arts competition rewards high school musical theater songwriters with Broadway-caliber recording sessions.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18AMVarious 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 07:02AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the Boulevard Theatre’s inaugural production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.” John Galsworthy, Justice
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How does the working of a beehive related to Chekhov's masterpiece Uncle Vanya? Venetia Twigg, who adapted the play for Theatrical Niche, gets busy, telling us about it. Read he interview th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:25AMA Little Princess, the classic children's novel by The Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett, gets a Christmas run at London's Drayton Arms Theatre, in a brand-new stage version adapt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:12AMThe name Lucille La Verne (Lucille La Verne MItchum, 1872-1945) may sound well suited to burlesque, but she was the very essence of “legit”. La Verne’s best remembered role today is th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:12AMMultimedia haunting from Norwegian company De Utvalgte in Jon Fosse's theatre-poem
In a flowering branch of London theatre, Norway comes to Notting Hill with what's becoming revelatory regul…
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The producers of Billy Elliot the Musical have today confirmed that unfortunately due to personal circumstances Kelley Abbey is unable to continue in her role as Mrs Wilkinson and has had to…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:59AMInevitably, in the aftermath of another partial ceiling collapse in a West End theatre, people will want to question the state of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMTonight’s performance of Death of a Salesman has been cancelled, following the partial collapse of the ceiling at the Piccadilly Theatre. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMStars of stage and screen, playwrights, composers, and supporters of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley came together Saturday, November 2, 2019 to celebrate the acclaimed regional theatre at And t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42AMWhen Sir Bryn Terfel sings, everyone stops to listen. Whether he’s singing show tunes, Wagner or traditional Welsh songs, he sells out theatres. Melbourne audiences will have the chance to…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 05:27AMFollowing a successful career in marketing, Alick Glass created this new, original musical. Written in collaboration with his daughter, Reputation is an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMLondon's Piccadilly Theatre was evacuated last night (6 November 2019) after the ceiling collapsed on audience members mid-performance during Death of a Salesman. Several theatregoers were i…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 05:20AMKatori Hall's "Hoodoo Love" receives a gripping production by Chicago's Raven Theatre.
The post Desire and Danger Dramatically Converge in ‘Hoodoo Love’ appeared first on The BroadwayBlo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:18AMThe Green Fairy is a realistic and different musical. It doesn’t shout or leave you speechless because of special effects but it is an entertaining and emotional story about love, parentin…
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Accelerate your career with Drexel’s flexible graduate program tailored to your needs. Online, on-campus, or hybrid programs. Complete your degree in 15 months or on your own schedule in a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM“The Louvre is being held hostage by the Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture: the handsome but only moderately interesting Lisa Gherardini, better known (after her husband) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to join the organization at an exciting time of institutional accomplishment and growth.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMWhen I saw a story on Non-Profit Quarterly about four Kalamazoo, MI non-profits entering a shared-services partnership, I immediately assumed it was confined to back office functions as I ha…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AM
Who is David Carlin? David is a writer, teacher and researcher who lives in Melbourne with his wife, Linda Mickleborough. His latest book is The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:59AMAn essay by Nora Amin that traces the presence of shadow theatre within the modern and contemporary Egyptian theatrical practices. From the analysis of the imaginative value of shadow, to th…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:57AMCasey Donovan has enjoyed a bold and varied career since her meteoric rise to fame at the age of 16. She became the youngest ever winner of Australian Idol in 2004 and over the last thirteen…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:44AMIn Murray Mednick’s “Mayakovsky and Stalin”, which made its New York premiere at the Cherry Lane Theatre on October 20th, the life of an avant-garde socialist poet intertwines with the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:40AMFollowing an Olivier-nominated West End run, the new bio-show Tina—The Tina Turner Musical officially opens at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 7. Tony-nominated actress Adr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18AMA new interpretation of Charles Dickens' classic story A Christmas Carol arrives at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on November 7. The celebrated production, headlined by veteran actor Campbell…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18AMThey’re the ones that Australia wants! Ten new titles have been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s (NFSA) Sounds of Australia registry of sound recordings…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:16AMIn order to analyze the concepts “skill”, “artistry” and “virtuosity” within the performing arts, I need to unpack their meanings. If they imply spending a long time with a pract…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:06AM Jose talks to musical theatre composer Jaime Lozano about his career, and how he went from disliking Jesus Christ Superstar when he was growing up in Monterrey, Mexico, to becoming one of…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:00AMPlus: French prime minister turns Hong Kong gallerist; confidence fragile ahead of New York season; children to bid at auction
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMTony and Olivier Award nominee Adrienne Warren takes on the rock-and-roll superstar in the musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKristine Nielsen and Aidan Quinn star in the Pulitzer Prize–winning play, directed by Michael Wilson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Erica Schmidt adaptation from The New Group opens November 7 at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLabhaoise Magee stars as Pumpgirl in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMatthew Warchus directs the new version of the holiday classic from Harry Potter playwright Jack Thorne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMQuantum is in West Homestead with “Shakespeare’s Will,” while Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown reunite on the South Side.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMAfter almost a quarter century, Migdalia Cruz's FUR has its belated New York premiere---Migdalia Cruz, who turns 61 this week, wrote FUR when she was in a very different place in her life. F…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMFour new dance programmers talk about their respective visions for the Joyce, BAM and other cultural institutions---New York's dance scene has some fresh movers and shakers. At a striking nu…
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