For as long as I’ve been alive, Cats has been a musical theater punchline. How it got there is easy: It’s a show about cats. It features performers dressed as cats. They sing songs where…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:49PMI recently caught up with Kristina McNamara who is currently working as an off-stage swing in Chicago. What you might not know is that McNamara dreamed of performing in Chicago as a teen. W…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:44PMToday it was announced that a brand new musical starring 20 Bay Area teens will debut at Feinstein's/54 Below January 24 and 25.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMThe cast of the international tour of Chicago is celebrating the holidays with these Christmas meets Kander and Ebb mashups from Mexico City, Mexico!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03PMClare Barron's drama delivers flagrantly graceless dancing, but heartstopping truths.
The curtain never rises on Clare Barron's ferocious, Pulitzer-finalist play…
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The cast of Dear Evan Hansen stopped by Tamron Hall today to perform 'You Will Be Found' today!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45PMWith clever staging, high-energy performances and a superbly catchy score, Six is a history lesson you won't want to miss.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMCelia Rose Gooding in "Jagged Little Pill." (Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Celia Rose Gooding isn’t just Broadway’s newest star, leading Jagged Little Pill as Frankie Healy, the rebellious te…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMSamuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in The Inheritance (Photos: Matthew Murphy)
Samuel H. Levine is making his Broadway debut in The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s two-play int…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMAlex Brightman, Beetlejuice's beloved headliner, is the 2019 Broadway.com Star of the Year! From an elite group of 10 nominees, the fans voted for Brightman, who opened Beetlejuice as th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMIt is, indeed, the most wonderful time of the year! CBS' The Talk celebrated the holiday season with an all-musical episode on December 20 and the highlight of the episode, in our humble opi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMIn honor of the Cats movie, stars Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Rebel Wilson and more talk about turning the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical into a movie.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:33PMThough the list is all fiction, overall the trend is moving towards nonfiction on the best-seller lists. According to Lee Graham of the NPD Group, “In 2010, nearly 80 percent of the top-se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMWelcome work by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research examines all the areas of impact touring has on the environment and recognises that the issue is complex: it cannot be solved by plant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“Theater people resent “Cats” not just because it made Broadway uncool until “Hamilton” finally rescued it from the pop cultural stocks. What really infuriates buffs is that “Cat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThe academy had given its students “insufficient medical and therapeutic care,” a commission set up by the Austrian government, said in a report issued on Tuesday. There also seemed to b…
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TheaterMania chief critic Zachary Stewart shares his favorite things on Broadway from the past year.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:48PMSouth Africa's Ladysmith Black Mamabazo returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Co. for a clumsy love story that fails to celebrate sweet home Chicago.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:42PM“Sing Street” is a stage musical based on the sweet, funny “happy-sad” 2016 Irish movie by writer/director John Carney about a teenager named Conor growing up in Dublin during the ec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:31PMOn Monday, December 16th The Actors Fund held a benefit concert of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. The concert starred Gavin Lee as 'Mr. Magoo/Ebenezer Scrooge', Sierra Boggess as 'Belle',…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMDIVORCED. Six The Musical is taking the world by storm. Part pop concert and part musical, the show tells the stories of Henry VIII’s wives, and sides of the story that most are not famili…
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The company behind The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show brings the show to Union Square's DR2 Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMThe site-specific reading was held at New York’s Plaza Jewish Community Chapel December 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMBroadway’s supply and demand for theatres is a far cry from the mid 1980s, when commercial theatre in New York in general seemed like it might be on the ropes. Hamilton, Moulin Rouge!, The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PMBrendan Fernandes’s bronze sculptures congeal pain and pleasure.
Artist Brendan Fernandes has been having conversations about ballet and mastery within his wor…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMThe 12th annual festival will showcase six productions across multiple NYC venues, January 7–February 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMFeaturing cast members from the International Tour at Teatro Telcel, En Plaza Carso in Mexico City, Mexico.
Visit https://chicagothemusical.com/ for tickets.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:24PMFeaturing cast members from the International Tour at Teatro Telcel, En Plaza Carso in Mexico City, Mexico.
Visit https://chicagothemusical.com/ for tickets.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:24PMThe holiday celebration was held in the Tennessee home where the series Nashville was filmed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMMenary will relocate from Chicago, where he co-founded Jackalope Theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:11PMThe two productions were put on by the Actors Fund.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMThe Windy City company will present new works by local playwrights as part of the lineup.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:05PMThe OWN series from the Moonlight and Choir Boy writer will return after a critically lauded first season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM“[Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill] report how they carried out an analysis of 24 emotional concepts, such as anger, love and pride, across 2,474 languages. The study also included more th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMEveryone has a special memory of their first musical. Mine was My Fair Lady. It had opened in London in 1958 on Drury Lane after taking Broadway by storm, and, as a young child living there,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:03PMThe Newseum was “prey to the economic and cultural forces that have bedeviled institutions as diverse as symphony orchestras and the electronic media. It had to compete for audience and ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMWhen young Tom arrives at the horrifying St Crook’s Hospital, he discovers the Midnight Gang. The members are the occupants of the children’s ward; they are the keepers of its secrets, a…
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Daniel Fish, the innovative director whose stripped-down production of Oklahoma! won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, has planned his next directorial excavation: Frank Loe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMRehearsal shots for Rags The Musical have been released just two weeks after the full cast was announced. The show opens on 9 January 2020 at London's Park Theatre and is booking until 8 Fe…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 03:45PMThe aquarium debuts Christmas Day, and while tickets for the big opening are already sold out, you can still visit Union Station's other new attractions.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:18PMRing in 2020 with fireworks, skating, hiking or even a library party.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:18PMCapsule reviews for professional theater on St. Louis stages.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:18PMYes, "Groundhog Day the Musical," getting its Bay Area premiere at SF Playhouse, is a worthy holiday show.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:05PMThe in-demand actor will also have recurring roles on Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere and the Amazon series Them: Covenant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMFormer Southbank Centre creative director join multimillion-dollar art institution in New York
The former artistic director of the Bush theatre and the Southbank Centre, Madani Younis, is mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMMatt Lucas will step in to play the role of Thénardier in the new production of Les Misérables at the newly refurbished Sondheim Theatre in the West End where performances began on Wednes…
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Cats hit the big screens today and with it comes the brand new soundtrack. The movie features Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic music and stars James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elb…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:59PMResearch released by Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) “shows an inverse relationship between institution size (based on operating budget) and the amount spent on artist f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“[She] is best known for having founded, in 1968, an electronic music studio at Hunter College in New York, where she taught composition and theory from 1966 until 1989. … [She] created …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“In traditional video games, labor and capitalism have been depicted in near-frictionless harmony. Take SimCity and Civilization‘s dogmatic views of economic progress popular during the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMWhat ’60s science fiction did do was establish one of the wildest, widest, most stylistically and conceptually various commercial spaces for writing (and reading) fiction in the history of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“The anti-slam was created by British performance artist Paula Varjack, inspired by poet Jamie DeWolf’s self-reflexive and satirical performance piece, The Worst Poem Ever. In DeWolf, Va…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“This episode [of Jad Abumrad’s Dolly Parton’s America podcast] delves into the controversy surrounding Dolly Parton’s Stampede (formerly known as ‘Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“As a transgression, plagiarism comes with a fully operational stigma attached. Not so with self-plagiarism. It can be forbidden but without the benefit of shame as a reinforcement. I did …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMOkay, Lois Smith is only 89 — and she’s currently on Broadway in The Inheritance. Estelle Parsons, 92, is at the Public in Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. Vinie Burrows is 95 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“Hollywood started as a green industry and then became brown. Everything was used repeatedly; nothing went into storage. Then when studios began to decline, they got rid of everything, sol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMJust about anyone who knows a bit of ballet history has heard of Marius Petipa, the man behind Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. Yet not many people know just how he came to en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe musical will hit the West Coast to kick off a national tour.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PMThe iconic Temptations tune celebrates its 55th anniversary.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PMThe New York Times has reported that Daniel Fish's first post-Oklahoma! project will be directing The Most Happy Fella at Bard SummerScape.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMSchools play a pivotal role in cultivating the next generations, and the arts have a key role. Research suggests that arts educational experiences can produce significant positive impacts on…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMArtsBeat Radio TV 12/20/19. Part Two of our visit to Hartford Stage. Mark G. Auerbach and Patrick Berry chat with new Artistic Director Melia Bensussen and Managing Director Cynthia Rider.
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:27PMThe return engagement of Novak’s critically acclaimed solo show opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre December 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMFans of social media will be excited to learn that Cameron Dallas is joining the hit Broadway production Mean Girls for a limited engagement this January. Dallas, an icon of the web and th…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:15PMJennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Ian McKellen, and more discuss combining their talents to create the movie adaptation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMLess than two months from now, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will grace the Old Vic Theatre stage opposite Alan Cumming in Endgame / Rough For Theatre II. Are you ready for it? Here a…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 02:10PMThe photographer’s first solo show crystallises the quieter moments of life in Ukraine’s eastern industrial region
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:05PMThe programme is planned around ‘Missa Beata Dei genitrix’, interspersed with Christmas motets and traditional carols
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:05PMThe 1956 musical drama, with an acclaimed operatic score, will premiere this summer at Bard SummerScape in Annandale-on-Hudson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMMadani Younis, who left the Southbank Centre in October after less than a year as creative director, is to join the Shed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:03PMTo celebrate the holiday season, AussieTheatre.com are going theatre crazy and will be opening a new window on our Advent Calendar each day to reveal some amazing theatre treats. Check back …
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The Chicago company's artistic director Kurt Chiang will be succeeded by Kirsten Riiber in 2020.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:37PMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved musical Cats has pounced into theaters this weekend, facing harsh criticism from critics and moviego…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 01:36PMThe Oklahoma! Tony nominee will put his own twist on the 1956 Frank Loesser musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced casting for Hilary Bettis' new play 72 Miles to Go... Jo Bonney will direct the previously announced drama, set to make its world premiere at off-Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMCelia Rose Gooding stops by Broadway.com to chat about Jagged Little Pill, her mom LaChanze and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMA look at some of Broadway’s dance-driven shows, featuring 42nd Street, Anything Goes, Bandstand, A Chorus Line, and many more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMFull casting announced for world premiere play. Previews begin February 13th, 2020
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 01:15PMThis week’s production news round-up includes Emilia Clarke’s West End debut in The Seagull, and Sophie Isaacs joining the cast of Six.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMThe recording of the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman musical revival Off-Broadway is released by Ghostlight Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMAladdin at Sheffield Lyceum is recommended to anyone who likes a laugh and a good night out, it’s not just for kids.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFurther 2020 casting has been announced for the West End production of Waitress, which continues to delight audiences at London's Adelphi Theatre night after night.
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The new play by Hilary Bettis will receive its world premiere at Roundabout in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMThis season's hottest shows will offer exclusive previews for BroadwayCon ticket holders.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMWhat matters most, when all the theatrical offerings for 2019 have been made, is what lingers in the minds and hearts of the audience. We asked our writers and the Gary Maker Audience Award …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThe star of “My Cousin Vinny” and Aunt May in the recent “Spider-Man” film series joins a growing cast in the Netflix drama.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:47PMCast members from three productions of the Tony-winning musical get in the holiday spirit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMSouthwark Playhouse has announced a new slate of productions for spring 2020 as they prepare to move into new premises. How many have you booked for already?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:39PMAlabama Story, the true tale of a librarian who was persecuted in the Deep South for her commitment to the freedom to read, will be produced by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and M…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:27PMObie winner Taibi Magar will helm the piece by the acclaimed author and poet at The Shed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe 50th anniversary Broadway staging starred Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht, directed by Bartlett Sher.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMCameron Dallas is headed to the stage in a fetch Broadway hit. The musician and popular social media presence will step into the Tony-nominated musical Mean Girls next month for a four-week…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThe musical runs at the Theater Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMPaulo Szot is headed back to the Great White Way in a jazzy hit. The opera star and Tony-winning actor will join the cast of the long-running revival of Chicago for a pair of stints next yea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMTo prepare for their roles in the Miss Saigon national tour, leads Emily Bautista and Anthony Festa traveled through Vietnam together, as they told Broadway.com’s Ryan Lee Gilbert on #L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMWe can't imagine better casting than Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin. The Cats standout and Oscar-winning Dreamgirls star who made a powerhouse Broadway debut in The Color Purple is heade…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMMean Girls' Mariah Rose Faith celebrates the holidays, heads to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, recruits Jonalyn Saxer as a guest vlogger and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMEmilia Clarke is headed across the pond for a new stage turn. The Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones star who made her Broadway debut in Breakfast at Tiffany's will take her first West End bow …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThe Temptations have marshaled 37 singles to Billboard’s Top 40 list, so it’s no surprise that a lucky group of commuters were on cloud nine when the cast of Ain’t Too Proud—The Life…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMOn the heels of a recent closing notice, producers of the new comedy The Office! A Musical Parody have announced that the show will continue playing the Orbach Theater at The Theater Center…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMAs a theatre critic, I see a lot of weird stuff on stage, but I’d never given serious thought to the dramatic
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The revival of Kevin Elyot’s 1982 play about the breakdown of a gay couple’s relationship will begin performances January 9 at Trafalgar Studios 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMYou can catch Rebel Theatre's "charming presentation" Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic A Little Princess at Drayton Arms Theatre this weekend. It's the perfect alternative to pan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:52AMIt's looking like 2020 will spell double trouble for Kevin Clifton fans' wallets! After it was announced earlier this month that Clifton would be taking on the iconic lead role of Robbie Ha…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:50AM“Cats” isn’t for everyone – much of it is a cheesy, B-grade affair seemingly crafted solely to take over midnight-movie slots from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Those with an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMThe Jamie Lloyd Company announced today that Emilia Clarke will be making her West End debut in 2020 in Anya Reiss' adaption of Chekov's The Seagull.
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 11:44AMOpera star and Tony Award winner for his turn as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Revival of South Pacific Paulo Szot will make his return to the Broadway stage. The actor will join the…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:40AMGame of Thrones‘ Emilia Clarke is all set to torch London – in a good way – with her West End stage debut in Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. The former Daene…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AMGet ready to become a major Morgan James fan as she shows the power and control of her voice in this latest Broadway Bucket List video.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:31AMBill McMahon’s The Adult in the Room will play Victory Gardens in 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMCameron Dallas, a social media star and singer, will step into the role of Aaron Samuels in “Mean Girls” on Broadway. Dallas takes over for Kyle Selig, as he takes a four-week leave of…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:28AMKathy Burke will direct Amy Booth-Steel’s one woman show as part of the Turbine Theatre’s 2020 season. #HonestAmy, a show written and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMDirector Rebecca Frecknall stepped into her own production of The Duchess of Malfi at London’s Almeida Theatre this week, after a cast
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMThe art center’s 2020 season will present work from Claudia Rankine, the choreographer William Forsythe and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMAs the year draws to a close, we asked DCMTA writers to think back on the shows that left an indelible impression on them in 2019. In this category, outstanding overall production, we recogn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AMDallas will take over for Kyle Selig at the August Wilson Theatre for four weeks.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMHear covers of two songs from the beloved musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMNot too much more to say about Amélie the Musical, now in London at The Other Palace, other than book now for un moment merveilleux.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFirst directed by Stephen Schwartz, this musical, based on the writings of Studs Terkel, explores the nature of work in contemporary America.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMIt has just been announced that English actress Emilia Clarke — known internationally for her multi-award-nominated portrayal of Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones — wil…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:00AM
The Tony winner tackles “Surrey With the Fringe on Top,” while Jones performs “Lonely Room.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMOliver Savile, who starred with Sting in the Canadian premiere, will return as Gideon Fletcher.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMJackie Hoffman, Debbie Gravitte, and more will be part of the concert reading of the Douglas Carter Beane and Douglas J. Cohen musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMNew York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian will bring his world-premiere stage adaptation of his novel MIDWIVES to George Street Playhouse next month and kick off 2020 in George Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMThe comedy from Penn & Teller and the Olivier Award–winning creators of The Play That Goes Wrong will begin previews December 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMHear Oklahoma Tony Award winner Ali Stroker perform a new arrangement of "Surrey With The Fringe On Top".
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:36AMScoBar Entertainment continues PIANO BAR LIVE! every Monday night at 7pm at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Side. Joining Piano Bar Maestro, MICHAEL McASSEY at the keys, will be a ver…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:30AMSzot is the production's next Billy Flynn.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMThe Broadway alum will star in a production of Chekhov’s play at the Playhouse Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMPaulo Szot, an opera star and Tony Award winner for “South Pacific,” will join the cast of “Chicago.” Szot begins in the role of Billy Flynn on Jan. 6 for a four-week run. He then re…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:17AMThe Turbine Theatre has announced its spring 2020 season which includes the programming of a variety of new work and emerging talent from visiting companies, as well as the transfer of one o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:08AMDirector Tom Hooper and Andrew Lloyd Webber joined in the fun on The Late Late Show With James Corden.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMThe opera star will appear alongside The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Erika Jayne.
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The Broadway alum, Oscar winner, and Cats star leads the upcoming biopic from Liesl Tommy, which will also feature Audra McDonald and Heather Headley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMConceived and directed by Tina Satter, the psychological thriller is adapted from the transcript of the FBI interrogation of Reality Winner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMThe standup, writer and social media master on the things that make him laugh the most
Alan Partridge’s Nomad is perfect. Either that or Reach for the Ground, Jeffrey Bernard’s collected…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTina Fey’s hit musical continues at the August Wilson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMThe international hit musical began performances at the newly restored and renamed Sondheim Theatre December 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM“The Czech State Opera hoisted an ornate curtain on Thursday as a three-year project to restore the 19th-century opera building to its original glory neared completion ahead of a planned r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMGHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release Little Shop of Horrors – the New Off-Broadway Cast Album on Friday, December 20 in all digital [...]
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:33AM“Archivist Anna Rimel came upon the four pieces, executed in watercolor, ink, pastel, and tempera paint, in a manila envelope while sifting through the [Smithsonian American Art Museum’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM“Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that people who engaged in the arts more frequently — every few months or more — had a 31% lower risk of dying early when compar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMThe siblings have individually appeared on Broadway and beyond in The Great Comet, Aladdin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMThe first thing you need to know about this version of Whistle Down the Wind is that it’s not the anthemic, US-based
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMThe very, very starry cast of Cats are making their feline debut across silver screens up and down the country today. From Judi Dench to Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson to Ian McKellan and even …
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:19AMLea Michele was a guest on Thursday night's episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen alongside singer Liam Payne.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMWith lots of laughs throughout and plenty going on to keep audiences entertained Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a fabulous alternative to a traditional pantomime with laughs for all the family.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNow, I don’t want to alarm you, but if you haven’t realized it yet, it’s the last weekend before Christmas … Still with me? This can be an overwhelming and busy time, but it’s impo…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMThe 5th Avenue Theatre recently premiered "Mrs. Doubtfire," a musical adaptation of the 1993 Robin Williams comedy. We talked with some LGBTQ members of the Seattle-area theater community ab…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM
Jennifer Hudson stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her film, Cats, which is out in theaters today!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonSandi Toksvig hosts a knowingly slapdash evening of irony-charged singalongs that revels in the magic of its venue
Snowdrop the fairy has misplaced the magic of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWorks & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents West Side Story: Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on Monday, January 27, 2020 at 7:30pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:35AMThe Stage has a wide pool of expert reviewers watching productions across the UK. Here, some of them reveal their favourite shows
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMIn preparation for their roles in the new 'Cats' film, director Tom Hooper hosts a workshop with some core members of the cast. Watch as Tom and head cat James Corden train Taylor Swift, Jen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMThe children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugarplums breakdanced in their heads… wait, breakdanced? You read that right. “The Hip-Hop Nutcracker” brings breakd…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:04AMBy garystringer
Gary Stringer reviews Neil Duffield's adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens now playing at Derby Theatre.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:03AMTis the season to sing holiday songs with your favorite Broadway stars! Raul Esparza and Krysta Rodriguez, stars of Seared at MCC, joined Taylor Peckham (Music Director for MCC's The Wrong…
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Carla Gugino, Emilia Clarke Come to the Stage, Much More about “Cats”! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. An…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMProducers have announced the new musical 'It Happened in Key West' will get a concept recording in 2020, featuring a diverse group of Broadway and international stars.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AMA lot of things happened in 2019. It has been a crazy year pretty much any way you look at it, including the theater scene. This week's Friday 5 is about shows that opened on Broadway or we…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:54AMChristie’s goes green; UK election result boosts auctioneers; Metzinger’s cyclist speeds away; Christmas gets a dollop of sauce
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:48AMWith a global audience of 30m and a new director, Daniel Hyde, the choir is the most high-profile survivor of a declining species
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:48AMThe Californian veterans compile a well-chosen selection of festive curios sourced from Latin America for their first Christmas album
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:48AMBeloved picture books by celebrated children’s authors Judith Kerr and Julia Donaldson become Channel 4 and BBC animations
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:47AMGhost stories dominate the BBC’s seasonal dramas, with Peter Capaldi in an MR James ghost story and Guy Pearce as Scrooge
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:46AMMegan Hilty, Adam Jacobs, Norm Lewis, Patina Miller, and the NSO Pops perform a medley of Alan Menken songs LIVE at The Kennedy Center during the REACH opening festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:39AMThe highly anticipated feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Cats, helmed by the 2012 Les Misérables movie director Tim Hooper, debuts in theaters on December 20.
Cats is th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:36AMAs part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Southwark Playhouse for the official opening night of the UK premiere of COPS. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMWe've got Matt Lucas joining the cast in the new production of Les Misérables, new pictures from Magic Goes Wrong and Emilia Clarke's West End debut!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:15AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the off-Broadway premiere of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ new play. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Stephen Adly …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMShirley Temple is interviewed by Michael Parkinson on Parkinson. This episode was originally telecast by the BBC on July 22, 1972: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-relat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMActress Carolyn Maitland chatted to Emma Clarendon about starring in Rags The Musical at the Park Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTake a look at the cast recordings, solo albums, and soundtracks that grabbed our attention this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM“When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are…
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The weather might be unseasonably warm and the news unspeakably grim, but English National Ballet’s Nutcracker ameliorates all that – at least
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMIain Lauchlan drops enough local mentions into his Jack and the Beanstalk to ensure that, combined with plenty of pantomime set-pieces and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMMichael Billington’s five-decade career will be honoured by the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, which is to name its best play prize after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMThe next Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, celebrating the best of 2019’s theatre, will take place at 1pm on Tuesday 11 February 2020 at the West End’s Prince of Wales Theatre, hosted by…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:36AMWhat a trouper Matt Lucas is. Having heard that Gerard Carey, originally playing Thénardier in Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre, had been taken ill, he rescheduled his Christmas plan…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:30AMThe Game of Thrones actor will play Nina in the adaptation by Anya Reiss, directed by Jamie Lloyd
Emilia Clarke is to make her West End theatre debut in a new production of Chekhov’s The S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThe new Cats movie has had almost nine lives.
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Matt Lucas is stepping in to play Thénardier in the West End production of Les Misérables, after Gerard Carey, who had been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMGame of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is to make her West End debut in Anya Reiss’ adaptation of The Seagull. The production,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMWith racy gags and outlandish costumes, Kirk Vs Ming is a Star Trek spoof that satirises not only the hammy acting and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMMess is missing from so many pantomimes these days, so it’s refreshing to see it in all its sudsy glory in Basingstoke.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMArthur Pita’s version of Hans Christian Andersen’s mournful story evokes a fittingly festive combination of charm and hope. That said, this family
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMThe Jamie Lloyd Company has announced that Emilia Clarke is to make her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, completing the new season at the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:29AMChristmas has become a cultural event, associated with the giving of gifts and lavish meals with friends and family. But the traditional understanding of Christmas is that it’s a Christian…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:29AMToday's top stories: The CATS film officially hits theatres today, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12AMWho is George Bray? Who is George Bray? Some say he’s a hero, some say the saviour of these modern times. But most people just call him an idiot! I’m a straight forward, brutally honest …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 05:04AMInua Ellams’ writing is always so multifaceted and beautiful and this interpretation of Three Sisters is no exception, whether you have strong feelings on Chekhov or not.
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Millennial Notes Charles Dickens’ London Explodes in Songs & Spirits by Natasha Munasinghe For Christmas, Center REP offers a charming musical rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christm…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:59AMDo you love staring at screens? Are you staring at a screen right now? You should get out more. Specifically, to a show that has an enormous screen smack-bang in the middle of it. The Umbili…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:39AMKen Dodd’s laugh riot, Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Lucy Prebble’s dazzling debut and ‘off-with-your kit Harington’ … revisit the hits and flops assessed by our outgoing theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMFresh from the stages of their world tour, including the Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals and a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House, The Choir of Man offer up 90 minutes of indi…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:18AMEnsconced on a huge sea shell, aping her idol, Bette Midler, Catherine Alcorn is a unique and highly accomplished artist. She spits orders to her two long suffering Harlettes (Candy Cane and…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 03:01AMThe show opened at the Imperial Theatre December 20, 1981.
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Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores how two performances of this year’s ImPulsTanz, Vienna’s International Dance Festival, challenge our understanding of a mechanized body-based …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:41AMThese are the schedules for every Broadway show from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33AMWatch the stars sing an iconic holiday season classic.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33AMIt was a year of provocation, controversy, and turnover---and that was just in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:16AMThe film’s soundtrack, featuring stars Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, and more, is also now available.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhat’s the one Cats question that stumped both stars?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHow the Tony-winning director was instrumental in bringing this cult movie musical to the stage---Rebecca Taichman isn't just the director of Sing Street at New York Theatre Workshop, she's …
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