Something's coming a little later than expected! According to Deadline, the eagerly anticipated new main-stem staging of West Side Story has changed its opening night due to leading man Isaa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:36PMBroadwayWorld has learned that the highly anticipated Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY will be pushing back its opening night from the previously announced Feb. 6, 2020 until two weeks la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:31PMIdina Menzel tells Kelly about her camp and foundation A Broaderway, a 10-day experience in the Berkshires every summer that provides guidance and collaboration for young girls as they devel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27PMThe spooky musical has had an astonishing turnaround, and West Side's revival weathered a backlash over sexual misconduct.
SOURCE: Forbes at 08:16PMThe delay comes after star Isaac Cole Powell's onstage injury December 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:10PMBy . The VORTEX presents the Regional Premiere of Click by Jacqueline Goldfinger, currently nominated for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Award, and the 2020 J…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:00PM“It’s an old song, and we’re gonna sing it again.”
The opening hymn of the hit musical Hadestown offers a promise — not just to the eight shows a week for the folk musical that dom…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin is postponing the Feb. 6 Broadway opening of director Ivo van Hove’s much-anticipated West Side Story by two weeks after an onstage knee injury Friday left …
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Liz Callaway, who provided the singing voice for Odette in the The Swan Princess describes the love she's received from fans. She also shares her favorites songs to sing from the film.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56PMFrom Zadie Smith to Christian Marclay’s clock to Beyonce and Clive James – the decade was a series of flashes. The New Yorker
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PM“If you haven’t been in a public library lately, you probably wouldn’t recognize where you were if you entered one tomorrow. This is no longer, as I wrote early on, your mother’s lib…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMI have tried not to think too often about the long shadow that Paul Bowles casts over Tangier, but this year’s commemorations have made it hard to avoid: the twentieth anniversary of Bowle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMClassical music and opera are not an old wooded sailing ship about to break into pieces in a fierce storm. They are the thin, iridescent film of soap bubbles stretched and borne aloft by the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMBe More Chill and Little Shop of Horrors star George Salazar has been announced as host the 30th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards Ceremony on Monday, January 13, 2020.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PMThe SNL castmember rings in the new year with a pair of shows at Drafthouse Comedy.
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The top growing current Broadway musicals were Chicago (4.57%), West Side Story (2.65%), Jagged Little Pill (2.46%), Beetlejuice (1.64%) and Ain't Too Proud (1.26%). The top growing current …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMThis is the final week to submit votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards Worldwide, brought to you by TodayTix! Don't miss your chance to vote and make sure your favorite local thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMThe epic new work penned by Stephen Adly Guirgis entitled “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” refers to the vast array of residents in a transitional shelter for women on the upper W…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:35PMYouTube star, Trisha Paytas, is the latest to join the chorus of Beetlejuice supporters using the internet to prolong the show's life.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMSadler’s Wells, LondonAshley Shaw makes a triumphant return as doomed ballerina Vicky Page in Bourne’s inspired adaptation
The Red Shoes was the film that cemented my love for ballet. I …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMCircus founder and ringmistress inspired by the idea of a traditional travelling showThe rhetorical questions her flyers asked were: “Who wouldn’t want to run away with the circus? Who d…
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Tony nominee, Matthew Morrison, is set to take the stage next month at Hawaii Theatre Center!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMTo say it's been a major year for Alex Brightman would be an understatement. In the past 12 months, Brightman opened in his sixth Broadway show as the titular ghoul in Beetlejuice, earned hi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMSet in the 1950s, Flying Over Sunset is a work of fiction inspired by the lives of three extraordinary people: Clare Booth Luce, Aldous Huxley and Cary Grant.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMWaitress, starring Katharine McPhee, will close on Broadway January 5, 2020.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PMBasically, it’s always Christmas in July in British Columbia, complete with fake snow, fake characters, fake love stories, fake Christmas and … er … yes, the whole schlockfest (BELOVED…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMWait, if you let yourself be photographed for a feature story, aren’t you already out of the running for being the “Banksy of” anything? Well, it’s Vegas, y’all. Frankie Aguilar sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe headline: “Was this decade the beginning of the end of the great male white writer?” (#NotAllGreatMaleWhiteWriters, of course.) “Though few publications have reached parity, the ov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMBut let’s put it into context. “Just four percent down? At a time when the Star Wars franchise expanded into live-action television for the first time with The Mandalorian on Disney Plu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMLet’s talk more about what Andrew Lloyd Weber did with this music, and what’s been done to it since it premiered. Erm, the LAT‘s pop music critic isn’t a fan: “To hear the song’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe organizers of the festival, almost all women, had to come up with Plans C and D after the Belarus KGB said no to showing films in the theatres or bank buildings. “The confidence to cov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMIf you know the recipes date back to Portugal and Spain during the Inquisition, does that tell you what the secret is? “One of the most unusual recipes … uncovered [was] a sugary dessert…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMUh, congratulations? That’s very advanced of Dancing on Ice, if we lived in, say, 1994? But of course, someone has to be first. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe issue of delayed wages has been a thorn in the side of arts workers for months – or years. While unionized workers have shut down several museums over it, this protest was organized by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMLindsey started writing romance on a whim, and she wrote more than 60 novels – and sold more than 60 million books. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMWhat is Martha Cratchit thinking at the end of A Muppet Christmas Carol (and why hasn’t this ever been written about before)? “Your employer has brought an uncooked fourteen pound turkey…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMYou might as well just plan to stay for the entire year. Don’t forget your Beethoven-reality-enhanced sunglasses. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe world of Hallmark often resembles a kind of rear-guard action in a culture war that the network’s prime demographic is losing. The jobs, homes, community and security in the bleached p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMYes, Amy March was a spoiled brat who burned Jo’s manuscript, and thus earned the ire of every creative person ever, and the films and series have reflected that. But Amy … was also a cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMTypically kids, adolescents and adults with autism take in information differently than their neurotypical peers. They can be easily overwhelmed by the senses, noises, visuals and smells. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe last British owner of Penguin, Pearson, announced that it was selling its remaining stake in Penguin Random House, the book publishing joint venture it formed six years ago with Bertelsm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMWhile Clive James, a critic, writer and television broadcaster who left his native Australia to find fame in the U.K., received encomiums for the catholicity of his taste, the splendor of hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMLeaving people’s personal abilities to distinguish high sonic quality from low sonic quality out of this conversation, there is a virtually insurmountable issue with mass adoption of hi-re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMRaising profound, unsettling questions about slavery and the nation’s past and present, as The 1619 Project does, is a praiseworthy and urgent public service. Nevertheless, we are dismayed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM“If modesty sucks so bad, then why did I spend so much of my time thinking about it? Because, despite all the unsavoury accumulated baggage that modesty has acquired over the years, I thin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe DOJ investigation found that Live Nation had repeatedly violated the 10-year consent decree signed after the merger, in which the company agreed to refrain from monopolistic practices su…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM“My explanation is that interest groups that are involved primarily in providing professional services like finance or law or medicine have distorted or corrupted markets. The result is th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMToday, we're celebrating Christmas with Dame Shirley Bassey, who appeared on ITV this week to perform the Christmas show tune classic, 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMIdina Menzel has a lot to celebrate this holiday season, with the recent release of her latest holiday album and Frozen 2 freezing out the competition at the box office. With the release of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMSNL and Broadway veteran is celebrating the holidays this season with the release of her latest album, Sugar & Booze, and she's calling on a fellow Elphaba vet for support. Watch as she …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMBroadway’s West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week,…
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With ‘One-Man Nutcracker,’ Chris Davis brings some welcome grown-up wit to the hoary holiday chestnut. Gary L. Day reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:43PMMore top playwriting programs are preparing students to write for the small screen. And TV writers’ rooms are scouting those classrooms for new talent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMFrom Kristin Chenoweth in Los Angeles to Sutton Foster in San Francisco and Annaleigh Ashford in New York City, here are 7 Broadway concerts December 31, 2019.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMNew books document the processes and productions of 2 major New York companies.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:07PMA former executive at the Bank of Scotland has bequeathed £12 million to support the arts. William Syson, who worked at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMOne last standing ovation for these performers whose work quite simply blew us away this year. Ian Merill Peakes, Amadeus, Folger Theatre In Amadeus, Ian Merill Peakes brought Peter Shaffer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMIn Episode 3 of the @ This Stage Podcast, Julia Stier interviews our very own Michaela Bulkley, Director of Programs and Development at LA STAGE Alliance.
The post @ This Stage Podcast, Ep. …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMUnique Derique's "Fool La La" clown blends gentle humor with circus tricks, magic and other fun; it's playing at The Marsh Berkeley.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:00PMIt’s that time of year again... here’s View From the Circle’s Top Ten shows of 2019.
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Beetlejuice star Alex Brightman stops by to chat about his big year and, surprise!, be named 2019 Broadway.com Star of the Year!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMAdapting the musical’s purrfect stage formula has proved problematic on screen.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:51AMFeinstein's/54 Below welcomes Christine Pedi: Snow Bizness as part of its holiday schedule.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMThe Drama League Awards will be held May 15, 2020, the organization announced Monday. The 86th annual ceremony will take place at the Marriott Marquis Times Square at 11:30 a.m. The awards, …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:42AMThe Fre, a queer love story about today's cultural divide, will premiere at The Flea with direction by Niegel Smith.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMThis year’s favourite releases were spectacular in innovation rather than scale, from ‘Untitled Goose Game’ to ‘The Outer Worlds’
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:32AMSaoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:21AMAt their best, the artists who died this year could make us see the world in new ways — even as they made us laugh and cry. Here is a tribute to some of them, in their own words.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMA Method Grizabella, a disappointing Macavity and a lot of kitty nuzzling — it’s not a satisfying adaptation, but was that even possible?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMOver the past twelve months, we have heard and seen some magnificent singing and dancing on stages all around the East Coast. The gamut is pretty wide, too. Radical reinterpretations of clas…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:18AMNow the Krankies have confirmed their retirement from the pantomime scene, producer Qdos Entertainment has refreshed the largest pantomime in Scotland. This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AM5 Reasons Why You Should Celebrate Cole Porter with Harry Connick Jr.
By: Iris Wiener
1. Harry Connick Jr. has an appreciation for Cole Porter that is unmatched by other art…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:05AMThis is the best pantomime to be staged at the Pomegranate in many years. It’s a high quality show blessed with a fine
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMThe South African artist and director reflects on Alban Berg's operatic masterpiece, which premieres December 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMKnown affectionately as “the Oklahoma! that f—s,” this Rodgers and Hammerstein revival broke away from its roots, with its in-the-round presentation and potent carnal energy.
But the b…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:00AMIn Jackie Sibblies Drury’s case, Fairview is very much tied up with the method, the form. She blows the traditional form sky high, introducing repetition, caricature and a final twist.
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The new solo show, presented by three-time Drama Desk nominee Parallel Exit, will play A.R.T./New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMFriendship, music, success, drama, and survival – these are among the key ingredients in “Jersey Boys,” the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons packaged into a musical filled w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:56AMAt Whitey’s bar, gentrification and poetry are on the menu.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:54AMSilver Spring Stage’s production of Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol is a fun, family-friendly take on Charles Dickens’ classic tale. Written by Ken and Jack Ludwig, this 2015 play has Tiny …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AMDon't miss the upcoming London premiere of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed 2006 play, The Sunset Limited. The piece is set to run at the brand-new Art Deco venue, The Boulevard Theatre, follo…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:45AMThe Broadway alum celebrated the holiday album season with well wishes for the Tony winner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMNew 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: www.newjerseystage.com at 10:43AMAt the outset, I will confess a bias: I much prefer listening to baroque pieces played in the style, and on the scale, of the time in which they were composed. Handel’s 1741 oratorio Messi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMGus Halper talks returning to the stage in New York Theatre Workshop's hit Sing Street, the complexity of the characters he takes on, and his decision to stay off social media.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:38AMIt’s one thing to be in the presence of a Broadway veteran, it’s another thing to witness the beginning of a performer’s rise to stardom. This year was filled with actors who were bot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMThe annual celebration will be held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMAntoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 fable is brought to life by Frank Moon’s music in this dance theatre adaptation
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:30AMThe company looked ready for a strong run on the first night at the Opéra Bastille — but many performances have been cancelled
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:28AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - Tragedy struck the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular this week after local teen Brandon Morton was charged with manslaughter for putting a p…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 10:27AMBased on the Tony nominee’s popular play, the upcoming book of short stories follows the residents of a small town on the Canadian border.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThe Gershwin opera is one of five that will be seen on PBS during the 14th season of the Great Performances at The Met series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMRaw depiction of a community where dreams go to die
Despair hangs like mildew over the small iron-ore mining town of Duluth, Minnesota, where dreams go to die, and the living haunt the clapp…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:12AMSome music gets inside your head and stays there. Think “Sherry”, “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, “My Eyes Adored You”. It’s pretty much a guarantee you can at least hum at least one …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMWith Greta Thunberg being celebrated as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, it feels fitting to hail another uniquely intrepid Swedish girl
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMMore summertime adventures working with playwrights and new plays at the O'Neill Conference.
The post The Feingold Column: Recollections of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference – Part 2 a…
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Below is the Broadway schedule between Monday December 23, 2019 and Sunday, December 29, 2019, with links to my reviews of the shows. Eight shows will be performing on Christmas Eve (Tuesday…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMWriter-composer-lyricist Ross Golan brings the work to London as a solo show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMThe highly-anticipated King's Head Theatre revival of Coming Clean is now in rehearsals ahead of its big reopening at Trafalgar Studios 2 on 8 January 2020.
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:45AMThe new prints of the film will allegedly include improved visual effects.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMThe new prints of the film will allegedly include improved visual effects.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMThe unauthorized send-up of the hit TV series will continue in an open-ended run at the Jerry Orbach Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/18; via Pam Green.) Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of “…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31AMIn all of academia, not only theatre, women who teach become support for students rather than only academic help – and it’s burning the women out. One recent Ph.D. discovered that she co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AMIt has recently been reported by Tony Britton's daughter, Fern Britton, that the legendary stage and screen actor has passed away.
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 09:10AMPippa Stacey writes Life Of Pippa, a blog on theatre, books and life with chronic illness. Read her review of her trip to see Come From Away here.
The post Guest Blog: Experiencing theatre w…
SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 09:00AMCurtains is a toe-tapping, giggle-inducing spectacular that stays just as true to the whodunnit – Samuel Holmes absolutely steals the show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJust like Young Adult literature, YA theatre – or Teen theatre, perhaps – had an initially rapturous welcome, and a rapid cooling-off. “Critical consensus about Young Adult Theatre too…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM
Paulo Szot & Cameron Dallas Coming to Broadway, Daniel Fish to Dirct “Most Happy Fella” “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre hea…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMBritish Sign Language interpreter Becky Barry steals the show in Christmas at the Snow Globe, Shakespeare Globe’s seasonal offering created by Sandi
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMAs part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock catches the premiere of a brand-new play about legend of the silver screen, the Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. Go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThe longest-running West End musical, Les Miserables, officially reopened on Wednesday, 18 December at the Sondheim Theatre after the venue underwent an extensive refurbishment project. …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 07:30AMTom Hooper’s big screen interpretation of Cats is a mess. It’s a mess that misuses some of the worlds’ best dancers and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
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The largest gathering of artists and performers of its kind in Australia, and one of country’s most iconic events, the annual Woodford Folk Festival kicks off on Friday 27 December with on…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 04:37AMBy Ray Rackham
Ray Rackham and his son Barnaby review Circus 1903 which has returned to play this festive season at the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank.
This post REVIEW: Circus 19…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:25AMAfter he won the World Heavyweight Championship by roundly defeating Sonny Liston on February 25th, 1964, Cassius Clay celebrated his victory in private with three friends: R & B star Sa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:12AMLennox Berkeley’s “I sing of a maiden,” performed by Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, in 2016: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-relate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01AM“Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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