Japanese theater gets off to a flying start in 2020 with a collaboration between leading British and Japanese creators on the world premiere of a major new play being staged in Japanese. Pos…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:53PMWriters are individuals whose job is to find language that can cross the unfathomable gap separating us from one another. They don’t write as anyone beyond themselves. But today, writers h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PMUnder the Trump Administration, the challenge for cultural workers who agree to participate in official events is akin to swimming upstream in boiling waters. Civil servants, thinking of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PM“Since the dawn of the internet, the problem of phony art being sold has only grown, experts say, and the primary coin of the forgery realm has long been the fake print, which is relativel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PM“Based on responses from our survey, a high share (66%) of cultural workers identify as White (non-Hispanic), compared to just 32% of New York City’s population. In contrast, Hispanics, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PM“The 20th century economy rewarded being the same, suppressing whatever made you weird and interesting. But this economy doesn’t reward that. This economy has shifted far more in the dir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PM“However difficult to imagine, across those eventful decades, countless people embraced the idea that what happened in the concert hall and the opera house was inseparable from the destiny…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PMOusted chief Deborah Dugan’s explosive claims threatened to overshadow the star-studded show itself, which is scheduled to air on CBS. Her brutal portrait of the Recording Academy as a chu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33PMHis theory of disruptive innovation made him a key influence on Silicon Valley powerhouses like Netflix and Intel and twice earned him the title of the world’s most influential living mana…
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The star of 'The Soldier's Play' on Broadway, David Alan Grier, points out that he was in the play's original cast in 1981 alongside such future superstars as Denzel Washington and Samuel L.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45PMThe City of Sydney is proud to again support Yabun – one of the country’s largest gatherings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures at Victoria Park on Sunday 26 Ja…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:44PMA SHIP THAT REMAINS DOCKED Sting’s musical The Last Ship has been in a shakedown cruise since it opened in Chicago six years ago. Based on last night’s star-studded opening night at the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:27PMSting talks about visiting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of our theatre, messing with people who are driving next to him listening to his music, the first time he ever hear…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22PM‘My General Tubman,’ a skillful playwriting debut at the Arden from Philadelphia author Lorene Cary, binds the legacy of Harriet Tubman to the current moment in history. Cameron Kelsall …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:22PMLucas Hnath Writes A Smart, Funny, Relevant Update by Lynne Stevens Anne Marie, the housekeeper, dozes on a chair. A gentle knock at the enormous blue door, where Nora exited with a bang fif…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 08:15PMNBCUniversal hosted a press junket at the Four Seasons Midtown Hotel in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, featuring new and returning mid-season series including 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,…
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A novel turned movie turned musical is now getting… a movie adaptation? It might sound confusing, but we promise it’s going
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:52PMPhiladelphia’s film culture will lose five movie screens, and a whole lot more, when the Ritz at the Bourse closes its doors. Stephen Silver considers the theater’s legacy.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:34PMTony nominee, Kate Baldwin, joined composer Georgia Stitt onstage at Birdland in New York City to perform Stitt's song, 'Something That You Do' as part of the The Broadway at Birdland conc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33PMWhat do you do when nobody’s buying what you’re selling? Change what you’re selling. The long-running Broadway production of Kinky Boots closed last spring, but Toby’s brings back th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMPlaywright Dominique Morisseau has had a whirlwind last few years since her play Pipeline premiered in 2017. In that span of time, she’s managed to begin her tenure as a Residency 5 playwr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM“Almost Maine” by John Cariani and directed by Susan G. Kramer is slated to be performed from January 24-26, 2020, at Monteabaro Recital Hall located Howard Community College, Horowitz V…
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Douglas Lyons is a playwright, composer, lyricist, and actor working and living in New York City. He was most recently seen on Broadway as an original member of Beautiful: The Carole King Mu…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:54PMA deeply rich and wickedly biting insight into queer stories and queer voices. Chris Edwards’ play is dripping with glittery venom – no one is safe as his characters slash and snap their…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 06:38PMBess Wohl's new play is led by Jane Alexander and James Cromwell.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMAaron De Jesus leads the cast as Frankie Valli in the Tony-winning Four Seasons musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMJennifer Damiano, Michael Zegen, and more star in Duncan Sheik, Amanda Green, and Jonathan Marc Sherman's new musical based on the 1969 film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMThe Keith Harrison-Laura Schein musical is currently running at the Duke on 42nd St.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMThe new musical is coming to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in February.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMOh, the argyle. Take a look at the first photos released from the New Group’s world premiere Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, set in 1969 Los Angeles as the sexual revolution swept u…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMSince 1988, The Phantom of the Opera has amazed Broadway fans with its mix of romance, melodrama, suspense and vocal acrobatics. Phantom celebrates its 32nd anniversary on Broadway on Janu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMBubba Weiler in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Phot: Matthew Murphy)
When Bubba Weiler was in third grade, he lied about being a fan of the Harry Potter books to fit in with his frie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed this week.
New Musical Comedy Emojiland to Release Original Cast Album
The fan-favorite new musical comedy Emojiland will be preser…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMGrand Horizons, a new play by Bess Wohl, opened at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on January 23. The comedy is about a longtime married couple, played by Jane Alexander and James Cromwell,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMJon Robyns is no stranger to Les Misérables, the musical phenomenon now in its fourth decade on the London stage. The 37-year-old Englishman played Marius over 10 years ago in the West End …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMThis week, let’s review an artistic director. James C. Nicola of New York Theatre Workshop gets a rave. He’s been...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 06:14PMThe highlight of my holiday season was Richard Holbrook’s Holiday Chestnuts from Christmases Past and Present. It was the perfect way to plunge whole-heartedly into the very best of the se…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:09PMGet a preview of the new Broadway musical Mrs. Doubtfire from BroadwayCon 2020.
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Now in its 31st year, The Phantom of the Opera is the Broadway musical all others are measured against. The timeless story, the unforgettable score, an undeniable obsession that could neve…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:50PMWatch Claybourne Elder, Kyle Dean Massey, and Bobby Conte Thornton perform "You Could Drive a Person Crazy” from the upcoming Broadway revival of Company.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:30PMThe world premiere of the Duncan Sheik, Amanda Green, and Marc Sherman musical will open at the Pershing Square Signature Center February 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMIn a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot Díaz novel, the friendship between two Dominican men is a testing ground for competing visions of masculinity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMIn 2012, Selina Jenkins made the biggest and breast decision of her life. A multi-award winning Cabaret artist, musician, and
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Rob McClure performed two songs from Mrs. Doubtfire at BroadwayCon!
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMBy Ron Fassler If 20 years is the arbitrary cut-off when a couple begins to feel the test of time in their marriage, then Orfeh and Andy Karl only have another year to go before all hell bre…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
January 27, 2020: Pan Asian Repertory’s The Emperor’s Nightingale has everything a small child wants in theater – music, puppets, colorful costumes and audien…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:45PMThe Katori Hall play, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, will begin performances Off-Broadway February 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMJoin Lin-Manuel, Luis, Luz, Vanessa, Luz Miranda Crespo, and Luis Crespo and the rest of the Miranda family at a private performance of The Unsinkable Molly Brown on February 28th at Abrons …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMThe celebrated West End production of Mischief Theatre's The Comedy About a Bank Robbery will end its run on May 3 at the Criterion Theatre. The production opened on April 21, 2016; by closi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMPlaywright Bess Wohl and stars Ashley Park, Jane Alexander and more talk about Grand Horizon's universal understanding on opening night.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMGrand Horizons, Bess Wohl's comedy about a wife who wants to divorce her husband after 50 years of marriage, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater on January 24. Directed by Tony no…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMUpcoming Dear Evan Hansen star Jordan Fisher talks returning to Broadway and preparing to take on the Tony-winning title role.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMTickets are now on sale for the upcoming world premiere opera Intimate Apparel, based on the award-winning play by two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage. Tony winner Bartlett Sher will dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMSarah Lozoff is joining one of the nation’s leading regional theaters for all 11 of its productions in its 2020 season.
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The recording will feature performances from Lesli Margherita, Ann Harada, Max Crumm, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMThe following news was released today by theatreWashington: The Washington theater community remains in mourning over the loss of Victor Shargai, long-time theatreWashington board chair, the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMNext Thursday, January 30, please join Theater and Policy Salon for a discussion on Attainment, Fulfillment, and Resilience at Studio Theatre following the 8 pm show of Pipeline. The panel d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PMI was hoping to get some writing done today, but I am laid up on the couch with a severely awful pinched nerve and honestly all I want to do is die. I will settle for watching Pandemic on Ne…
SOURCE: daisyeagan.wordpress.com at 03:25PMGet to know all about the British transfer that has New York buzzing, The Lehman Trilogy.
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A world premiere by Dane Figueroa Edidi and a play by Jen Silverman round out the slate of offerings at the Maryland-based theatre company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PM“The China Independent Film Festival has held 14 editions and shown some 1,000 films since it was established in 2003 in Nanjing, the capital of coastal Jiangsu province. Many of the title…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PMThe festival has been in turmoil for the past few years after letting its artistic and executive directors. Finalists are conductors Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Craig Hella Johnson and Julian Wachn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM“Researchers at InsuranceProviders.com analyzed data from the Occupational Information Network, a national organization developed through support from the U.S. Department of Labor …, to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMIt is not clear how Campbell will rebrand the museums, but he casts the de Young as a strong American arts institution and the Legion as a “treasure chest like the Frick, Kimbell or Neue G…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMThere are times when I deserve to be lectured and certainly my parenting is not above reproach. As a matter of fact, if someone decides to list my parenting fails, I'm sure I could name more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMCaroline, or Change, the revival of the 2004 Broadway musical readying to open on Broadway on April 7, 2020, has announced a complete cast. The musical, which will begin preview performances…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:32PMBroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Below, check out his latest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMMake sure to set your DVRs because the cast of Jagged Little Pill is set to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday, January 27.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMJoaquin Phoenix mesmerises as DC Comics’ murderous clown and Brad Pitt goes to great lengths for his absentee father
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:21PMBirmingham HippodromeSign language, speech and physical storytelling come together to interrogate history – and theatre itself
Devised from 40 hours of interviews with members of the deaf …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTake a front row seat for the finals of the first Dance Westminster competition, held at the Greenhouse Centre, London. The initiative is designed to provide accessible dance to everyone, an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMJanuary 24, 2109: Show business tour de force and seven-time Tony® Award-winning producer Jamie deRoy brings her acclaimed Jamie deRoy &friends Cabaret show to New York’s famed Bird…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:09PMBefore the It Takes Two concert at 54 on January 27, kick your weekend off with 50 of our favorite Broadway duets.
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The King-John Mellencamp musical is part of a lineup that also includes Douglas Waterbury-Tieman's Johnny & The Devil's Box.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMPittsburgh Musical Theater’s founder goes on a mission to rediscover “Hair” with a young cast.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:53PMThe Tony-winning musical opened at New World Stages in late 2017 after closing its Broadway production earlier that year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMLong before swiping on dating apps, a professional matchmaker was the way to go for those seeking help to find love.
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:50PMI have been a lifelong fan of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. So, I approached Ghostlight Records' LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (The New Off-Broadway Cast Album) with equal amounts of excitement and trepi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PM10 Inspiring Musical Theatre Performances from The National YoungArts Foundation Competition
Written by Tiffany Wilkie
January 16, 2020
Seeking some musical theatre song inspiratio…
SOURCE: performerstuff.com at 01:45PMThe cast and creative team—including stars Jane Alexander, James Cromwell, Michael Urie, and Ashley Park—share the secrets behind their new Broadway show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMInterview with PFS programming director Travis Trew about Bong Joon-Ho's films before PARASITE
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:25PMThe Lincoln Center Theater production, featuring a libretto by playwright Lynn Nottage and a score by Ricky Ian Gordon, will begin performances February 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMSay waht you will about this Bard inspired musical farce with its trigger-happy cast, it's a lot of fun packed into 90 minutes. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:11PMTime travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation
SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:10PMThe world premiere, by Kayla Martine, is part of Normal Ave's 2019–2020 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMasdasdIn a seedy Oklahoma motel room, a lonely waitress begins an unexpected love affair with a young drifter. And then they see the first bugsa?? Tracy Letts's mind-bending cult classica?'a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01PMIf our country’s politics is exhausting you with its complexity, this production offers the opportunity to consider some of the same themes in a gentler rhythm.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThere is an urgency and an immediacy about The Canary and the Crow that will leave you thinking and questioning everything about British society long after you’ve left the theatre
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Where is our place? What happens when we have nothing left to hold on to? Do we remain? These are the questions asked by new dance work Living Here? which runs as part of the VAULT Festival …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:54PMImagine Romeo (a spectacular Nikita Burshteyn) if you will (as in William Shakespeare) finding himself in 1960’s Brooklyn chasing a girl he believes to be his beloved Juliet. Actually th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:54PMLincoln Center Theater will present Intimate Apparel by Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage with Bartlett Sher. Previews begin February 27th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMHave we got news for you. Paul Merton will make his West End musical debut as Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray at the London Coliseum from 23 April to 30 August 2020, as full casting is announce…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 12:50PMAbracadabra! As their weekly episodes of The Goes Wrong Show continue to delight television audiences, I was delighted to continue my series of Mischief Theatre post-show talks with a return…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:46PMThe world premiere of Ali Milles’ new thriller opened performances at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, January 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMPasadena native Max Crumm was catapulted to fame when he won the 2007 reality TV show Grease: You’re The One That I Want, which landed him the lead role of Danny Zuko in that year’s Broa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMCharles Fuller’s murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMIn this week’s production news round-up, Paul Merton is set to make his West End musical debut in Hairspray, and Richard Gadd’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PM“Worn by audience members during a performance, the glasses project dialogue directly onto the lens, allowing the wearer to follow the action without having to glance toward the sides of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe author got a seven-figure advance, the first print run is half a million copies, the book jacket features gushing blurbs by famous writers, and the book got loads of coverage in The New …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe letter, addressed to Art Basel global director Marc Spiegler and Adeline Ooi, its director Asia, did not mince words when airing complaints about the state of the fair amid the Hong Kong…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMAs the North American tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats continues to make its way across the U.S. and Canada, a slew of stage talents will be bringing our favorite Jellicle cats to life on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThe cast and creatives of Roundabout Theatre Company's new off-Broadway production of 72 Miles to Go... posed for pictures with the press on January 23. Written by Hilary Bettis and directe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMYou can't stop the touring beat! Hairspray, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon that inspired the blockbuster film and live television event, will launch a new North Am…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMTony nominee Will Swenson recently headlined an industry reading of a new musical based on the life and music of Grammy-winning hitmaker Neil Diamond. Tony winner Michael Mayer is directing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMBubba Weiler stopys by Broadway.com HQ to chat about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and more with Ryan Lee Gilbert.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMColton Ryan, Caitlin Houlahan, Austin Scott and the cast of Girl From the North Country share what it's like to tell an original story set to the music of Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThey can't stop the beat! Paul Merton, Rita Simons and Jonny Amies have been cast as Wilbur Turnblad, Velma Von Tussle and Link Larkin, respectively, in the upcoming West End remount of Hair…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMIowa Stage Theatre Company is staging a parody of A Chorus Line. The show is a song-by-song parody of A Chorus Line featuring all the 2020 Democratic Candidates.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PM
The Hayes theatre was hoppin' last night as Grand Horizons officially opened on Broadway. Written by Bess Wohl and directed by Leigh Silverman, GRAND HORIZONS stars Jane Alexander (Nancy), J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AM“Nothing Left to Lose” appears in an upcoming episode of the Disney Channel animated series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMGEORGIA STITT & FRIENDS
November 18, 2019 - Live at Birdland Jazz
BAND: Georgia Stitt (piano), Elena Bonomo (drums), Alex Eckhardt (bass), Adele Stein (cello), Angie Swan (guitar)
Downloa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:58AMPlaywrights Jasmine Lee-Jones, Winsome Pinnock and Sabrina Mahfouz are among writers who will create a series of performances celebrating history’s underrepresented female
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - Local security guard and 20-year decorated marine veteran Steven Millhouse shared his shock and dismay today upon...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:53AMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. NEW YORK, NY - Local security guard and 20-year decorated marine veteran Steven Millhouse shared his shock and dismay today upon arriving for his first shift of …
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:53AMThe work explores modern-day themes of social injustice through the biblical story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMThe 34th annual ceremony from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets will take place March 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMJack O'Brien and Jerry Mitchell will reprise their collaboration on the Tony-winning musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMYou've seen these West End shows on stage, but are you excited to see them on the shiny big screen? Musical films are certainly nothing new. And if we can all pretend that last year's Cat…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:40AMArtsBeat Radi/TV 1/24/20. From the new lobby at Hartford's TheaterWorks, Mark G. Auerbach chats with the director and cast of the upcoming production "The Lifespan of a Fact". L-R. Director …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:38AMIsaac Mizrahi returns to Café Carlyle for a three-week gig and a new set of jazz-flecked songs and celebrity and super model anecdotes.
The post ‘It’s Not for Sissies, This New World’…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:36AMRitchie is celebrating a welcome return to form, complete with bullets, Brits, and enough creative uses of the word “cunt” to make your grandmother shake her head in shame
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:31AMDid you miss the news that Waitress London was recently saved by Broadway actress Desi Oakley when the West End Jenna’s (Lucie Jones, Sarah O’Connor and Olivia Moore) were too ill to p…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:25AMIn the midst of all chaos and drama happening down in Washington, a benchmark will happen this year. November will mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock. Throug…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AMCormac McCarthy two-hander tries an audience's patience
Cormac McCarthy’s two-hander, premiered at Chicago's mighty Steppenwolf Theatre in 2006, has by this point been everything short of…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18AMStudy your Master in puppetry at Central European universities in Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Białystok! The PuppeTry focuses on different artistic and teaching methods of the participati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMZach Finkelstein: “Company X is a prestigious music apprenticeship festival for instrumentalists and singers. They take in about $15 million a year in revenue, own over $80 million dollars…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“The thinking goes: If Marfa, the pint-size Texas town located a three-hour’s drive from the nearest airport, can become a site for pilgrims seeking to commune with Donald Judd’s Minim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMHow many opportunities are there out there for aspiring songwriters to have their music heard by one of Broadway's brightest stars? How many chances do you get to turn your creative dream in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMBob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Book by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Music by Duncan Sheik, Lyrics by Duncan Sheik and Amanda Green and Musical Staging by Kelly Devine, is currently in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMA breath of fresh air. Delightful! See for yourself. Probably twice so that you catch all the jokes and details you might have missed the first time around.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 11:06AMFrom the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along to the premiere cast recording of Assassins, these Broadway insiders saw (and heard) it all.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMAbove all it is Kretzmer’s stunning lyrical treatment of those soaring French melodies (on press night, immaculately delivered under Steve Moss’ baton) woven around a story that is breat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
The documentary, directed by James D. Stern and Fernando Villena, is about the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMS.F. Opera has announced its 2020-21 season, including West Coast premiere of 'Handmaid's Tale' and a new production of Beethoven's 'Fidelio.'
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 10:45AMSocial commentary in a dance performance is not unusual, especially in the modern dance community. But in a week-long residency by The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at George Mason Univer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMAn audience member stepped into save a production of Macbeth, after one of its leading actors suffered an injury. Emma Barclay was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMFollowing the previous announcements that Michael Ball, Lizzie Bea and Marisha Wallace would be starring in the West End revival of Hairspray, we were more than content with that exciting ca…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:40AMCharles Fuller’s murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AMThe production of Jason Robert Brown’s musical begins at Southwark Playhouse February 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMBleak, tender and shot through with stinging black humour, Flights is a meandering but intricately written meditation on the joyful recklessness of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMThere will be many Broadway debuts this season (most of them in West Side Story!). Of course, even Broadway icons had to start somewhere. That's what this week's quiz is all about. Read c…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 10:18AMThe performance will be held at London's O2 Arena.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMThe Tony-winning musical will play the London Coliseum ahead of a North American national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMFollowing in the footsteps of stars such as Rita Ora and Daniel Kaluuya, students at Sylvia Young Theatre School are taught not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMBess Wohl’s play, directed Leigh Silverman, opened at the Hayes Theater January 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Jeremy Jordan will return to The CW's 'Supergirl' this Sunday, January 26, in the episode titled 'Back From the Future - Part One.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMA new play written and directed by Emil Varda to premiere at Access Theater
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 09:49AMThe Conor McPherson adaptation also stars Olivier nominee Richard Armitage and Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMThere was an old woman all skin and bones… Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh…
So began my favorite song in music class throughout elementary school. The song ends with a loud “Boo!” meant to scare …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 09:46AMBy Gary Stringer
Gary Stringer reviews the Frankenstein UK Tour which is currently playing at Derby Theatre. Full tour schedule through BritishTheatre.com
This post REVIEW: Frankenstein, Der…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:45AMThe Tony-winning musical will launch its new tour in (aptly) Baltimore in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMAmong the key findings: 74% of American adults engage with the arts via electronic media, 54.3% attend arts events, and 53.7% create or perform art themselves. Three states, D.C. and metro C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“While best known for his anchor work [as co-founder of what is now The PBS NewsHour], which he shared for two decades with his colleague Robert MacNeil, Mr. Lehrer moderated a dozen presi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMSome three-and-a-half weeks after Mehta’s death, the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf has appointed Reagan Arthur, currently senior vice president and publisher at Little, Brown, to succee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMIn 2004, Steve Dunstone and Timothy Awoyemi, on a Police Expedition Society goodwill trip, were on a boat on the Niger River being greeted by the people of a southern Nigerian town. As the e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMThe singular nature of this play, brought to life by Kathryn Hunter’s exceptional lead performance, is reason enough to see this production.
The post Review: <em>Timon of Athens</…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:20AMThe Hayes theatre was hoppin' last night as Grand Horizons officially opened on Broadway. Written by Bess Wohl and directed by Leigh Silverman, GRAND HORIZONS stars Jane Alexander (Nancy), J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMThe Hayes theatre was hoppin' last night as Grand Horizons officially opened on Broadway. Written by Bess Wohl and directed by Leigh Silverman, GRAND HORIZONS stars Jane Alexander (Nancy)…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMHAIRSPRAY will launch a new North American tour in Fall 2020. Following the Baltimore launch November 10-15, 2020, HAIRSPRAY will visit more than 60 additional cities in its first touring se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11AMHow the endowment and American Theatre Wing's national musical theatre songwriting competition is supporting tomorrow's creators today.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMWhilst the script for Faces In The Crowd demands unwavering focus and attention in order to not get lost, women’s individuality, voice and their suppression by patriarchal systems are prof…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRob Rokicki, composer and lyricist of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical will appear in an exclusive Q&A session at this year's BroadwayCon with David Gordon, President of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
American fans of the Tony-Award winning musical Come From Away have the opportunity to join Kevin Tuerff's 18th annual Pay it Forward 9/11 tradition through a guided tour of Newfoundland. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMPlaywright Lucy Kirkwood has had something of a golden touch in recent years. In 2017 she had the widely lauded Mosquitoes at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMWhy have portraits of mothers-to-be been so rare? An exhibition at London’s Foundling Museum explores a neglected genre
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:08AMBack in that age we call golden, Broadway marquees were frequently set ablaze by long-running plays that producers looking to turn a profit lovingly referred to as boulevard comedies. These …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:07AMComposer Gerald Barry tells George Hall about discovering music as a child, cutting up Oscar Wilde for The Important of Being Earnest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMLast week, the extremely troubled immersive theatre show The Wolf of Wall Street closed. The show’s official Twitter at one point declared
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“Blue” to Play the Apollo, Mandy Gonzalez Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis, “Karate Kid” Musical Eyeing Broadway, Rachel Tucker to Join “CFA” “Today on Broadway” is a daily, M…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMLondon’s Old Vic has created a 360-degree interactive film of its theatre to allow audiences to explore the space online before they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMWhen Kate Hamill first met Jason O’Connell there was an immediate spark that neither could act on. He later went from being her leading man to her real-life beau.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54AMMischief Theatre’s production of The Comedy About a Bank Robbery is to close after four years in the West End. The show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMActors including Olivia Colman and Mark Gatiss have been depicted in roles they wished they had played, as part of a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMCapsule reviews for professional theater on St. Louis stages.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:54AMBroadway power couple Andy Karl and Orfeh return to Feinstein's/54 Below this month with their hit show Legally Bound. The pair performed their first show of the four last night, January 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:53AMPaul Merton, the popular comedian and star of BBC’s renowned programme Have I Got News For You – is to join the new production of Hairspray the Musical at the London Coliseum, making his…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:49AMDepression, miscarriage, self-harm, social anxiety and eating disorders; these are the trigger warnings for Rosalind Blessed’s new play Lullabies for the Lost,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTheatre fans, the weekend is finally upon us and boy oh boy have we got news for you!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 07:14AMBy Douglas Mayo
Paul Merton is to play Wilbur Turnblad alongside Michael Ball who is returning to his Olivier Award-winning role as Edna Turnblad in the revival of Hairspray the musical at t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:14AMLinbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThis experiment by film-maker Kibwe Tavares and choreographer Sharon Eyal brims with talent but is frustrating
Two young women in heavy robes and el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThere isn't a huge amount of action here – Chekhov was a bit of a pioneer in the "play where nothing happens" genre – but when it comes to nuanced character studies, Uncle Vanya is an em…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Broadway premiere of A Soldier’s Play. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama can be a mixed bless…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMDecca’s original-cast album of the 1950 Broadway production of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, directed by E. Martin Browne and starring Alec Guinness, Robert Flemying, and Irene Worth:…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMA new play about optimism, You Stupid Darkness! is compassionate in conception, but repetitive and frustrating in performance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.” George Orwell, “Lear, Tolsto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThe hilarious comedy of errors from Mischief Theatre Company will officially close this year, it has been confirmed. Originally booking at London's Criterion Theatre until 1 November 2020, …
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The Last Ship plays the Ahmanson January 14 -February 16, 2020.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56AMComedian Paul Merton is to make his West End debut in the musical Hairspray. Merton, who will perform the part of Wilbur
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMBy Douglas Mayo
After four years at the Criterion Theatre in London, Mischief Theatre's The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is to close on 3 May 2020.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:10AMTicketSource have crunched the gross earnings and attendances of Broadway musicals to find out which have been the most popular. Find out which musicals have had the staying power over the y…
SOURCE: www.ticketsource.us at 06:07AMReview: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Theatre Royal Plymouth3.0starsReader Rating 0 VotesJust over 25 years have passed since the first showing of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and albeit …
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The latest national tour of the Broadway revival of "The Color Purple" is at Foxwoods on Feb. 2 to 9.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:54AMYou go, Glen Coco! In what is surely the 'groolest' London theatre news of the year thus far, Tina Fey and Lorne Michaels have announced their intentions for Broadway's Mean Girls musical …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 05:50AMWe're back with another deep dive into our archives! This time, our photo flashback features Dom DeLuise.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42AMToday's top stories: Mean Girls the Musical is being adapted into a movie, read the reviews for Grand Horizons, and more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21AMRehearsals are underway for the UK premiere of viral hit musical Be More Chill. BroadwayWorld UK reporter Jamie Body attended a very special press rehearsal, where he got to chat with some o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16AMThis Uncle Vanya is more roundedly entertaining than other recent productions and while that detracts a little from the emotional undercurrents of the original, the fluidity and richness of …
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Soho theatre, LondonThe standup’s new show, Backward, dissects the pitfalls of fame but her joyfully undercutting humour hasn’t suffered
Rosie Jones appeared eight times, she specifies,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMWho is Nat Jobe? Nat Jobe is a father, a son, a partner, a friend… and a Donkey. Hee haw! I live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with my partner, Richard, my daughter, Taj, and her mother, …
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 03:24AMUncle Vanya feels like such a natural fit for Toby Jones that it’s a wonder he hasn’t played the role before now.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:14AMFred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Eleanor Powell performed some of the most popular tap dance routines on film. They were icons with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMDael Orlandersmith’s solo play explores the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of Michael Brown.
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By Mark Ludmon
Mark Ludmon reviews Faces In The CrowdFaces in the Crowd, an adaptation by Ellen McDougall of Valeria Luiselli's novel now playing at the Gate Theatre, London.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:49AMA musical retelling of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with Italian mobsters circa 1960 is a tragedy for all the wrong reasons.
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SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:42AMWe wax on, as Broadway waxes off.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42AMCelebrate Diggs's birthday with this great video.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42AMFollowing sell-out seasons in London and Edinburgh, Gavin Roach presents the Western Australian premiere of Rob Hayes’ critically acclaimed dark comedy about love, acceptance and boundarie…
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Fog wafting, an empty rocking chair moving by itself, blackouts, ghostly apparitions and crashing music are all part of the spooky fun in "The Woman In Black." Scary moments, intriguing hoku…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57AMJennifer Holloway, singing the title role in the Atlanta Opera’s production of...
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:54AMThis native Bostonian theatre production is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running play in the history of the USA. Shear Madness has everything: intrigue, humo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:40AMTurning their thirst for provocation and liberation on the modern Australian man, Kissing Booth and Theatre Works presents the world premiere of Leopard Print Loincloth as part of the 2020 M…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:34AMIt’s been almost two years since Ty Autry’s A Southern Fairytale made is New York City premiere. Now, the show is returning for a run in the FRIGID Festival before heading out on an inte…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:24AMWe talked with orchestrator Harold Wheeler and music supervisor and arranger Kenny Seymour about recreating the iconic hits of The Temptations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Cambridge, Massachusetts, engagement follows the Emily Mann play's Off-Broadway premiere and a run at the McCarter Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTheodora Skipitares' new spectacle celebrates a pair of pioneering African Americans---In an exchange of letters with Thomas Jefferson in 1791, Benjamin Banneker—a free black man, inde…
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