It happened in the winter of 1938 in Paris, as he was walking home from a movie with friends: a pimp named Prudent (yes, really) badgered them for money. (Later, in court, Beckett asked his …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMUnlike some of its streaming competitors, Apple TV+ is being built almost exclusively for original content. Its smaller, more focused catalog is starting to look attractive to Hollywood A-li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMWant to break out of your algorithmically-determined musical taste? How about being more intentional about what you listen to? Musicology Duck has set up a listening challenge for 2020 that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMThe discovery, first announced by the country’s state-run news agency, came during a decade-long excavation of the first of four pits at the mausoleum, a 4,300-square-foot area where some …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMIt’s rare that a book hitting the list is a total surprise, but there are nail-biters and books that hit higher than we expected and that’s a beautiful thing … but not as beautiful as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMChangi in Singapore, which has long striven to enthral and entertain its users, outdid itself with its new “Jewel” extension to its existing terminals, essentially a shopping mall and na…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMIn 2001, the newly-unified Arts Council England (ACE), with plentiful government and lottery arts funding, made the expansive claim of making artists central to arts policy. The individuals …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMThe Associate Dean champions the processes of decolonizing, Indigenous Vitalization, and diversifying the Faculty’s curriculum, as proposed in OCAD U’s developing Academic Plan. Comme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMShowbiz Chicago
Capathia Jenkins & Ryan Shaw Headline Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra’s ARETHA: A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN OF SOUL
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra begins 2020 with two p…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:36PMPerformances begin tomorrow, Saturday, January 4, for the American premiere of the London Theatre Company (Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr) production of My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20PMToday a little thing on Beatles and Bonzos. We’ve been overdue for a tribute to Sir George Martin (1926-2016, it’s his birthday today), having done 20 posts on the Beatles over the past …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:12PM“How the cat purred and how the witch grinned, As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind…” Produced by CDP Theatre Producers, Room on the Broom, is about to open at Me…
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By Herbert Sigüenza, Matthew McMahan. Matthew McMahan talks to playwright Herbert Siguenza about branching out as a solo writer after years as a member of Culture Clash, writing bilingual c…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:38PMSam Gold, who directed the Tony-winning Broadway production, has also reportedly been tapped to direct the film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMJesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams also star in Second Stage's upcoming Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMThis weekend is your last chance to see Santino Fontana's Tony-winning performance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMWe're heading to the diner for a look at the little Lulus of Broadway's hit musical Waitress reuniting ahead of the show's final performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on January 5th. Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMCelebrated writer and actor John Cariani is turning his highly produced play Almost, Maine into a young adult novel. Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, is publishing the book, s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMStage-and-screen star Jake Gyllenhaal has reportedly secured the rights to produce a film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Fun Home. The Oscar-nominated actor most recently seen on Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMMean Girls' Mariah Rose Faith meets two walk-on rolers, captures the chaos of a two-show day, films a quick Sara Bareilles song cover and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMNo Bronx cheers here. The first cast photo has been released for the upcoming Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's Tony-winning play, Take Me Out. Jesse Williams makes his Broadway de…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMA new stage play about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will make its world premiere later this month at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater. Bill McMahon penned the new work, titled The Ad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMThe poet fell in love with Emily Hale in 1912, while he was a graduate student at Harvard. She did not reciprocate at the time, though they corresponded until 1956, when she announced that s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMBy the time the software was euthanized earlier this year, it had become an embarrassment, a mess of greasy preference panes and grayed-out, unreliable content. We were glad to see it go. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Watch clips of fevered crowds, from today or the past, chanting against ‘enemies of the people’; they are malignant scenes, but ones that in no small part mimic religious revivals. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMOver the past decade, the Super Bowl accounted for $3.66 billion in advertising revenue, according to data from research firm Kantar Media. In that same time, the average cost for a 30-secon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PMBy Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon previews some of the Scotland Theatre Highlights coming up in 2020 as part of our British Theatre regional previews.
This post Scotland Theatre Highlights 2020 fir…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:23PMFor the first time since 2014, LGBTQ group GLAAD will include Broadway productions in its annual media awards categories, the organization said today. With such major recent Broadway product…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:22PMComposer/lyricist Jerry Herman was, of course, a Broadway legend. He gave us such unforgettable shows as "Hello, Dolly!," "Mame," and "La Cage Aux Folles." These musicals were all huge…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMShrek is finally here, wading through the misty (or should I say smokey) swamps of Sydney and into the Lyric theatre. The company is currently in full swing with previews, until their open…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00PM
The Tony-Awarded group rearranges the song from the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMOn 4 and 9 February 2020, Kinky Boots The Musical, the multi-award-winning stage hit based on the hit 2005 Britflick, will be screened at more than 650 cinemas across the UK and Ireland care…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:47PMBruce Springsteen having a third act of genuine substance, and taking a global hit series while adding pots of money
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:46PMThe critically acclaimed production from The Movement Theatre Company will play at Playwrights Horizons over the summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMThis year’s GLAAD Media Awards will include an Outstanding Broadway Production category for the first time since 2014. The decision to bring back the category came after “a surge of powe…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 01:20PMBy Douglas Mayo
I Think We Are Alone Tour - Frantic Assembly celebrate its 25th Anniversary with a new play by Sally Abbott co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham.
This post I Think We …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:19PMThe Tony-winning Best Musical of 2015, Fun Home, is heading to the “Big Screen” with a big name attached to the project. Star of stage and screen, Jake Gyllenhaal, will both produce and …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:02PMAnd so here it is... my top 10 musicals of the decade. It turned out to be a slightly emotional journey. But it turns out musicals meant a lot in that time and I’ll fight anyone who says m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM
Before the musical closes January 5, former and current Jennas—Tony winner Jessie Mueller, Betsy Wolfe, Nicolette Robinson, Shoshana Bean, Stephanie Torns, Jordin Sparks, and Katherine McP…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMIn a video introduced by composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda, BIV continues Season 3 of BOW with an elegant and liquid rendition of a?oeThe Room Where It Happensa?? from Hamilton. This soph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMThe Bill McMahon play will premiere at Chicago's Victory Gardens.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMBroadway lights will dim on January 7, 2020 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday, December 26 at the age of 88, and at the end of a year that saw at its beginning the death …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMReviewed by Judd Hollander
Just about everybody has wished for a second chance at least once in their lives. The opportunity to undo a certain decision, change the direction of one's life o…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:06PM“The last 10 years have seen a boom for black British playwrights, actors, artistic directors and others in the industry. What has changed on and off stage – and what’s next?” Eight …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM
The category returns in 2020 after a six-year hiatus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMAn immortal lyricist and composer leaves us plenty to be joyful about
How is it that, in the nearly 900 pages of Sondheim's collected lyrics with extensive comments Finishing the Hat and Loo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:54AM“These works include George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and books such as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, E. M. Forster’s A Passage…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMUri Sands, who founded the St.Paul-based TU Dance in 2004 with his spouse, Toni Pierce-Sands (both are former Ailey dancers), after “a lawsuit was served on a member of the company’s boa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMWe're heading to the Pridelands to get to know Kayla Cyphers, who is currently playing Nala in the North American tour of the legendary smash-hit musical The Lion King. Get a behind-the-scen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMDeadline has reported that memorials for actor Rip Torn are set to be held in both Los Angeles and New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMThree cheers for character actor Dabney Coleman (b. 1932). Educated in acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Texas native got his first TV credit in 1961, meaning he’d been acting prof…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AMWriting and performing in Schism three years ago, put Writer, Athena Stevens on the map and now she’s back with a new show, Scrounger. Here, she talks about the expectations put on margina…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:33AMBirmingham Hippodrome has survived a string of owners, more than one makeover and even a German bomb. Nick Smurthwaite looks back at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMby Kath Dunham. @kathdunham. NEW YORK, NY - Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim announced today the development of his latest musical, sharing, exclusively with The Broadway Beat, that hi…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:23AMLittle Angel theatre, LondonComposer Barb Jungr and director Samantha Lane serve up a characterful take on a Scandinavian folktale, with lashings of puppetry and song
There are so many Snow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThe comedian, actor and writer on the things that make him laugh the most
There’s a sketch in Chris Morris’s Jam where a fight breaks out over some poppadoms and it doesn’t really bear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMConor McPherson’s adaptation of Chekhov play, starring Toby Jones, will begin performances at the Harold Pinter Theatre January 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMSeyi Omooba, the actor removed from a production of The Color Purple after a historic Facebook post exposed her anti-gay views, has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMThe Los Angeles event will be held at the Paramount Studios Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM
“Since 2016, California musicologist Linda Shaver-Gleason has been using [her] site” — called Not Another Music History Cliché! — “to compile a clear-eyed and level-headed account…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AMWilliam Robin: “Linda tackled subjects from the purported ugliness of contemporary music to the contested idea of the ‘masterpiece’ to myths around Beethoven’s deafness to whether mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AMThe singer joined the Broadway company on stage for a performance that made headlines for its "bleeps."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMFrom Artemisia Gentileschi to Wangechi Mutu, 2019 was a year in which women artists broke through the male canon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:34AMUS indie cinema’s rising stars talk about how they finally got Adam Sandler and a Netflix budget for their sparkling New York movie
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:34AMIt's time to come to the Fun Home! As BroadwayWord previously reported, Academy Award-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal will produce an upcoming big screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMJesse Williams is a man in uniform.
The Grey’s Anatomy star is set to make his Broadway debut in a revival of the Tony-winning play Take Me Out, which follows a professional baseball play…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00AM
Mike Bartlett’s play returns to the West End following a sold-out 2017 run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMArtistic Director Daniel C. Levine will set the Stephen Schwartz musical in an abandoned church.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM“‘We can’t become anaesthetised and think, ‘Oh, he won [the election]. There’s nothing we can do,” said [Edu] Krieger, who has written songs for some of Brazil’s most celebrate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM“Seventeen stalls will be moved from sites including the Trevi fountain, Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. However, eight of the 17 will still be able to trade on streets away…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMA month after the disastrous flood of November 12, the president of the historic church’s governing body said that the building cannot withstand repeated exposure to salt water it has face…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM“Examining the 1,300 top films from 2007 through to 2019, the Annenberg researchers found that on average just 4.8 percent of directors were women, yet that spiked to 10.6 percent in 2019 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMBy Douglas Mayo
Faustus: That Damned Woman Tour - Chris Bush's new play will be presented by Headlong and the Lyric Hammersmith in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2020.
This…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:41AMLike many of you, I'm sure, news of Jerry Herman's passing caused me to reflect on his shows. I realized that Mame is my favorite score of his, but each one is a bounty of tuneful toe-tappe…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:18AMIf we're being honest, we can probably count on one hand the number of viewers who went to see Tom Hooper's ill-advised movie version of Cats for the music. Andrew Lloyd Webber's music has n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:16AMThe novelization of John Cariani's play Almost, Maine will be released on March 31, 2020.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMTaylor Mac will premiere new play, The Fre, at off-Broadway venue The Flea. The Flea's Artistic Director and frequent Taylor Mac collaborator, Niegel Smith will direct. It has been revealed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMMind the Blog has a fairly wide-ranging wish list of things I hope to see, including major shows such as Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, Magic Goes Wrong, Uncle Vanya and the Jamie Ll…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFrom the reopening of the Seattle Asian Art Museum to the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Sweat," here are five arts events to put on your calendar in 2020.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AM
By Douglas Mayo
Critics Mark Ludmon, Julian Eaves, Ray Rackham and Editor Douglas Mayo were asked to select the musicals on the Top 10 list of new musicals 2010-2019
This post The top 10 new…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:26AMReggae’s elder statesman is a sprightly presence at the microphone in the companion album to the excellent Rainford
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:12AM
NYMF Ceases Operations, Jake Gyllenhaal to Produce/Star in “Fun Home” Film, Matt & Ashley’s 2020 Theatrical Resolutions! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMThe Wedding Singer starring Kevin Clifton will play a strictly limited season at the newly opened Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre from 30 January until 1 March 2020. Further casting to be an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMRichard Eyre guides the four-time Tony Award nominee through the new solo play My Name Is Lucy Barton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMRichard Eyre guides the four-time Tony Award nominee through the new solo play My Name Is Lucy Barton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM
When Russian troops seized Crimea in 2014, the television sets in people’s homes became a crucial propaganda tool
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:53AMFun Home is set to be adapted into a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The film will reportedly be produced by Gyllenhaal’s production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMSmart caption glasses, launched by the National Theatre for hearing impaired audiences, are to have their first pilot in a cinema, as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMSheila Mercier will be best remembered as the stern matriarch Annie Sugden in ITV’s Emmerdale Farm (latterly, Emmerdale) for 22 years from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMThe Stage’s lead critics Natasha Tripney and Tim Bano take their pick of this year’s productions Rockets and Blue Lights – Royal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMIt will be popular Strictly Come Dancing pro dancer Kevin Clifton playing the lead role of Robbie Hart in the stage musical version of The Wedding Singer when it arrives at the newly opened …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:15AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review Lincoln Center Theater’s off-Broadway production of Samuel D. Hunter’s Greater Clements. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Now that Horton Foote …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:02AMIda Lupino appears as the guest on This Is Your Life. The host is Ralph Edwards. This episode was originally telecast live by NBC on March 3, 1958: (This is the latest in a series of arts- …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:01AMUnleash the Llama's acclaimed, sell-out romantic comedy JEW...ish returns to London this month for six performances only at the King's Head Theatre, running from Tuesday 14 January to Sunday…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM“Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other’s good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.” W.H. Auden, “Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AM
I gave the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art a test it was bound to fail by revisiting on the Sunday after Christmas—a tourist-heavy time of year. Below is my report card, along with som…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMVarious venues, EdinburghCharlotte Runcie and Irvine Welsh are among the writers exploring Scotland’s maritime history in these evocative installations
A litany of names is projected on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMIn the main Sala of the Vorpommen Theater in Greifswald, northern Germany, a row of bare-footed actors in simple clothing introduce themselves, one by one, to the audience. Their reserved po…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:16AMUma Lava by Victor Rodger, Circa Theatre, Wellington. 23 November – 7 December 2019. Directed by Vela Manusaute. Produced by F.C.C. Playwright Victor Rodger writes from a Polynesian persp…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:12AM
The St. Louis area, with its river confluences and open bodies of water, is a favorite stop for American bald eagles escaping colder weather and frozen water up north. Some are here year-rou…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18AMFive (plus) upcoming shows to see at local museums.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18AMOfficials will break ground soon at MOBOT for a new visitor's center, and prepare to ooh and ahh at a new baby elephant this summer at the St. Louis Zoo.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18AMWatch Jessie Mueller, Christopher Fitzgerald, Keala Settle, and the rest of the original cast preview their new Broadway show for the press in 2016.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18AMIn a travel advice story, "25 Best Places To Visit in 2020," Forbes writer calls St. Louis "a cool city with class."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:18AMDo you struggle with teen dancers quitting as high school activities beckon? One way I combat this problem is by implementing seven ideas to make every dancer’s senior year at the studio s…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:07AM 
