Hadestown announced the first of its 2021 tour dates today!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57PMPhoto Credit: Russ Weatherford MANHATTAN ASSOCIATION OF CABARETS announces ANITA GILLETTE to receive LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) is pleased to make…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 11:56PMAt a February 3, 2020 celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24PMBeing in a bad mood can improve your memory. Aspirin helps not just for headache, but for heartbreak. (Hmm.) Indulging nostalgia in a cold room can actually warm you up. ‘List your blessin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PMKathleen Parker: “Once Cummins’s genetic shortcomings caught the attention of social media’s literati, it was off to the bonfires. Not only was she condemned, prompting her to cancel h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PMWhat are we to think, then, about a critic criticizing a critic? Do I intend to get you to see Sebald or Roth as I see Wood seeing them? But of course, to see Wood as I see him is, in part, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PMThe orchestras that get most of the publicity are just the tip of the iceberg. And they are seriously outnumbered by a less-heralded cohort. Just as the great teams in sport are outnumbered …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PMBryant’s injury prevention routine was particularly unique—and involved taking tap classes to strengthen his ankles. (You’ve probably heard of football players taking ballet, but this …
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Photo Credit: unknown TOVAH FELDSHUH: AGING IS OPTIONAL (‘CAUSE G-D I HOPE IT IS!) FEBRUARY 6 – 8, 2020 Acclaimed Broadway, film, and television star Tovah Feldshuh (“The Walking Dead…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 09:55PMConstellation Theatre musical scores 11 nods for Washington-area theater honors.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:54PMA flavorfully joyful, star-packed salute to the composer of Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and myriad favorite showtunes
The post Jerry Herman, A Memorial Celebration: A Grand Afternoon for Singing ap…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:53PMPhoto Credit: unknown The Green Room 42 Sings Love Songs Feb 06, 2020 – 7PM The Green Room 42 is proud to present the second season of “GR42 Sings” back to its stage! In our introducto…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 09:45PMPhoto Credit: unknown Karen Oberlin in Bad Love: The Randy Newman Songbook Birdland Theater TICKETS Sunday, February 16, 2020 Doors: 5:30 PM / Show: 7 PM $20.00 – $30.00 Birdland Theater…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 09:35PM Roberta Feldhusen: Who’s That Woman? Musical Director- Tracy Stark at the piano With- Wendy Russell Director- Lennie Watts $20.00 cover charge and a 2 drink minimum per person $15.00 co…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 09:31PMWith rehearsals commencing next week, producers Matthew Henderson and Neil Gooding have announced that stage and screen star Ian Stenlake is joining the cast of the Australian premiere of Th…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 09:29PM
Tonight on social media, writer Steven Sater fielded some questions on his various projects, including a revival of Alice by Heart and an update on the film adaptation of Spring Awakening!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMScreen Australia has announced five online projects including an animated satire about the ghost of Captain Cook; a science fiction drama; and a romantic comedy told from the perspective of …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 07:37PMThere's something terrifying happening at a bar near you—and no, it wasn't your last blind date. The Woman in Black first premiered at a theater bar in 1987 in Scarborough, England. A t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMIn honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is asking actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about a black theater artist who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor tho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMIn 1956, The Nat King Cole Show became one of the first television shows with an African American star at its center. This landmark variety program, initially 15 minutes long, was increased …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06PMIn what’s allegedly a record-breaking $75m deal, the Pulitzer prize-winning stage musical, with the original cast, will land at cinemas worldwide in 2021
The hit Pulitzer prize-winning mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMToday on our blog, we welcome NaTonia Monét to Broadway and learn about her journey to the Great White Way.
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SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 07:01PM
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is asking Broadway actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about a black theater artist who inspired them. From Alvin Ailey to Audra McD…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMJordan Fisher just took his first bow as Evan Hansen, joining Ben Platt, Taylor Trensch and Andrew Barth Feldman as the fourth actor to play the title role of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's To…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMThe McKittrick Hotel, home to Sleep No More, has announced an extension to the off-Broadway staging of The Woman in Black. Originally announced to play a limited engagement through March 8…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PM★★★★★ A male swan king and male companions turn Ivanov/Petipa into masculine pride
The post Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Masterpiece Returns Triumphantly appeared first on New Yor…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:46PM★★★★ A classical ballet reimagined as a bisexual psychodrama briefly revisits New York
The post Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Spooky and Sexy Romance in Dance appeared first on New Y…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:45PMCast members Mahira Kakkar and Aaron Yoo discuss unreliable narrators, noir, and the changing nature of memory in this "Cocktails & Conversation." Catch them in THE HEADLANDS, running Febuar…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:36PMThe event preceded a special performance of the hit Broadway musical to benefit RAINN.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PMThe Sydney Opera House today announced that American Psycho – The Musical will be presented in the Sydney Opera House
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:24PM‘Many women have the exact same set of experiences that I do. No one talks about it,’ Moscovitch tells Karen Fricker. And, yes, it’s been scary, but she plans to keep putting personal …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:19PMEarlier today, Deadline reported that Disney had acquired the distribution rights to the recorded filming of Hamilton. With music, lyrics,
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:14PMWondering how well Tom Jones' musical has weathered the last decades? A 60th anniversary production in San Jose tells the tale.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:08PMEveryone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf… but did we ever think maybe
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMDirected by Wardell Julius Clark, Kevin Artigue's play speaks truth to power in an age when power rarely speaks the truth.
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The singers perform in the Met Opera's acclaimed production of Porgy and Bess, extended though February 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMDot-Marie Jones, the screen star known for her turn as Coach Beiste on Glee, will join the off-Broadway cast of Rock of Ages next month. Jones will take on the role of bar owner Dennis Dupr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMPaul Thornley is headed home to the Lyric Theatre. The talented actor who originated the role of Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will reprise his turn in the Tony-winning …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
Watch Rachel Bay Jones & Brandon Victor Dixon in Kennedy Center's Next to Normal
Audiences are raving about the curren…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMCarson McCalley stops by Broadway.com HQ to talk about The Inheritance and more with Paul Wontorek.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMCarson McCalley graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in 2018. Now, he’s making his Broadway debut in Matthew Lopez’s two-part play The Inheritance, where he’s hel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMBob & Carol & Ted & Alice, both the 1969 film by Paul Mazursky and the new off-Broadway musical from Duncan Sheik, Jonathan Marc Sherman and Amanda Green, is a comedy of manners,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMHamilfans got their wish granted today, when Disney announced the cinema release of a filmed performance of the Tony-winning hit musical Hamilton featuring the original Broadway cast. The n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMPrincipal casting has been announced for the next year of the Tony-winning play's Broadway run.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMThe creators of Hamilton have made Disney the show's worldwide distributor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMJuson Williams, Dionne Figgins, and more will star in the world premiere at Miami New Drama's Colony Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMThe three-time Emmy nominee will play Dennis Dupree in the 10th anniversary production at New World Stages.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMThe Tony winner leads a revival of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Pulitzer-winning musical at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMThe storied production returns to the Big Apple to end its latest international tour.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PM“Loserville,” directed at The Fredericktowne Players by Matthew Bannister, is a lesser-known West End musical based on a 2005 pop-punk album. It follows a plot fit for a young adult nove…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:49PMNow available from Harper Collins is Richie Jackson's Gay Like Me- a poignant and urgent love letter to his son. In the new book, the award-winning Broadway, TV and film producer reflects o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PM'Orbit is unlike any other theatre arts program I've experienced. The incredible programming, top notch instruction, and amazing work ethic are truly unprecedented. I'm inspired every time I…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PM“Miss You Like Hell” with Book and Lyrics by Quiara Algería Hudes and Music and Lyrics by Erin McKeown and directed by Lisa Portes is playing on the Main Stage at Olney Theatre Center t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:41PMIn a theatrical epic, playwright Rajiv Joseph uses Soviet history to make us look at ourselves, right now in the United States. Brad Rothbart reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:40PMKnown internationally as a visionary man of the theater, Bill T. Jones has built a reputation over the past 38 years for his ability to visualize the human condition through choreography and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMThe winner of this year's accolade, honoring women in playwriting, will be announced March 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMIF you plan to see this musical THEN you might want to prepare for a nonsensical (and misogynistic) vision of so-called female empowerment.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMSleek production of Lauren Gunderson play is now at Ford’s Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PMThe Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, the oldest and largest prize awarded to women playwrights.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMThe wizards, witches, and the Hogwarts Academy itself continue to cast their spell at the Lyric Theatre as producers of the two-part hit play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child announced the …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:05PMChouinard, returning to Toronto with ‘Radical Vitality,’ says her ‘inner fire’ has only grown. House, saying farewell to Toronto Dance Theatre with ‘House Mix,’ isn’t slowing d…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:00PM
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” announced Monday the complete cast for the production’s third year on Broadway. Paul Thornley, who played Ron Weasley in the original West End produ…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:57PMOnly 15 paintings are attributed to Leonardo. He lived off and on in Florence but for long periods was cosseted by potentates such as the Duke of Milan and the French King Francis I who cons…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMHeads are turning in the casino and lobby of the Las Vegas Flamingo as six drag queens — Asia O’Hara, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, Derrick Barry, Naomi Smalls, Kameron Michaels, and Yvie Oddly …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 03:48PMA host of Broadway stars will join Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley at The Green Room 42.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMSomething Rotten! authors Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and John O'Farrell talk about roles for women in the show.
Learn more about Something Rotten!: https://www.mtishows.com/someth…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PMDavid Byrne's theatrical concert is among the leaders of the boards, even when playing only six performances a week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMby Zach Raffio. @zachraffio. EDITOR'S NOTE: The original title of this piece referred to Amar Ramasar as a "sex offender". It has since been updated to the term "sexual harasser". Amar Ramas…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 03:19PMHYMN-DINGER Sweet lovin’ Jesus, Del Shores is back, and he’s brought a band of gospel singers with him. In This Side of Crazy, writer/director/producer Shores introduces us to a Southern…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:19PMReview: Something Awful, VAULT festival3.0starsThe internet is a scary place which only becomes scarier still when the on-screen chaos and storytelling leaks into our own lives. Something Aw…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:18PMCharles Fuller’s “A Soldier’s Play” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1982. Loosely based on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” it was originally staged by the off-Broad…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:05PMMara Nelson-Greenberg's play sneaks in themes of emotional manipulation, micro-aggression and male privilege to an audience that’s busy laughing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM
After joining the company of the Tony Award-winning musical, the Hamilton alum celebrated with family and friends at the Sardi’s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMA British concert musical about Henry VIII’s wives comes to Broadway on a wave of ‘Hamilton’-worthy buzz.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:57PMNewly released Index of Deep Disadvantage looks at poverty and disadvantage across all the nation’s counties and 500 of the largest US cities. The index was based on three categories of da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMTheodore Albrecht, professor of musicology at Kent State and Beethoven expert, claims, “Not only was Beethoven not completely deaf at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony in May 1824, he cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“1917” takes the top prize; Renée Zellweger wins for top actress. A complete list. – The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM) in Beijing announced its decision to suspend the inaugural edition of its CAFAM Techne Triennial, an ambitious exhibition of media art scheduled to open on Februa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMSchjeldahl’s primary mode is that of a lover, and you can read many of his pieces as impassioned love letters, often involving his favorite art: painting. His deep devotion to the medium c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMLaunching this month, 50+50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts is a program for which 50 artist-alums are creating new works, typically in editions of 10 to 20, and produced by Li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMAccording to the Fox News theory of art, an artwork’s primary purpose isn’t to awe, inspire, or delight, let alone challenge your understanding of the world, but to serve as an expressio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMObtaining the rights to movie, set for release on Oct. 15, 2021, is another huge coup for Disney — which topped $10 billion in box office sales last year — and allows a stage show that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“When I set out to write this novel, which takes place in Iowa and centers around 46-year-old Meradyth Spensir and her 8-year-old son Chab, my goal was to shed light on the struggles that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMGatiss to play ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner, Jacob Marley, in his version of Charles Dickens novella
He has long written Christmas ghost stories for television and now Mark…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM“He was her only child: her baby boy..maybe an A-1 student running, hiding, taking cover. The women gather crying tears that fill a million oceans. It doesn’t matter where you’re liv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMWedding breakdowns abound we look back at some of the most memorable performances of "(Not) Getting Married Today" from Company.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:33PMDisney wins rights to distribute Lin-Manuel Miranda's wildly popular musical
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 02:16PMWith the 92nd annual Academy Awards airing February 9, we aligned Oscar-nominated films with your astrological signs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMThe Broadway phenomenon Hamilton, the Tony Award–winning Best Musical of 2016 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has become one of the most sought-after tickets in Broadway history. Now the…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:08PMPerformances of the show were filmed in 2016, just before Lin-Manuel Miranda left the cast. Disney said the release date would be Oct. 15, 2021.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMIn this dystopian satire, “American Idol” and “60 Minutes” still reign, the White House is in Cleveland and a pair of writers compete to save the world.
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Review: Santi & Naz, VAULT Festival4.0starsHeart-warming and distressing, elegant and silly, Santi & Naz is a moving story of pairs that at first glance belong to distinct, different…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:54PMThe movie version of the smash hit, filmed with its original Broadway cast, will be released by Walt Disney Studios.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:53PMJones, who joins the Off-Broadway run this month, will be the first woman to play the role.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMA high energy musical premiere blasts onto the stage in the FrederickTowne Players production of Loserville. Excellently directed by Matt J. Bannister, with rocking musical direction from Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMWho's who in Pipeline Theatre's new post-Brexit staging of Drip Drip Drip? The taboo-busting play shines a light on the NHS' dependence on immigrants. Check out full bios and rehearsal photo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:29PMNew York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian's world premiere stage adaptation of his novel MIDWIVES opened January 24th to ecstatic notices. The cast celebrated after the opening night…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMThis news leaves us more than satisfied! Disney has announced the cinema release of a filmed performance of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton. The film, which features the orig…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMEXCLUSIVE: When Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted the news Monday that the movie adaptation of his groundbreaking Broadway show Hamilton was set for release by Disney in fall 2021, he omitted one o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:04PMThe Tony winner is the youngest recipient in the Harvard-born award's 54-year history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
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Folger Theatre will be out-of-house for the 2020-21 season while the venerable Folger Shakespeare Library undergoes renovation. To get its audiences ready for the pleasures yet to be, the co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMA film of “Hamilton,” with its original Broadway cast, is coming to cinema screens across the U.S. and Canada on October 15, 2021, released by The Walt Disney Studios, (which reportedly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMThe March 23 celebration will be held at Cipriani 42nd Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMThe actors and musicians behind “Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)” see themselves in the stories they will share, and sing about, onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe composer Matthew Aucoin is deferential to Sarah Ruhl’s text, in a Los Angeles production that comes to the Met Opera next year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe acclaimed classical troupe Bedlam brings a streamlined and confounding adaptation of ‘King Lear’ to Bristol Riverside Theatre. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:37PMHere’s a true fact that tells you everything you need to know about gender relations in America. I don’t believe I’ve ever met an American woman for whom Little Women is not a sacred t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:33PMWe've got casting announcements for a charity gala performance of Boublil And Schönberg's The Pirate Queen, Katherine Parkinson in the Shoe Lady and more!
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SOURCE: officiallondontheatre.com at 12:30PMDisney will release a feature film of the original stage musical Hamilton in the U.S. and Canada on October 15. The studio is teaming with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas Kail …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PMHamilton has legions of fans across the world, but not all of them got to see Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s game-changing musical with the acclaimed original cast. But next year, they will all get …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:26PMThe company's 2019-20 Realm Writing Fellows will present new works this month.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:24PMByrne's avant-garde concert is now running at Broadway's Hudson Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMKeone and Mari Madrid choreograph and star in their full-length dance piece about star-crossed love and political warfare.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMDavid Hein and Irene Sankoff's musical has been running in Melbourne since last July.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMWatch Rachel Bay Jones and her costars onstage in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMAs previously announced, Michael Arden will direct the one-night-only event, starring Noah Galvin, Eden Espinosa, and many more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMA filmed version of “Hamilton” will be released by Walt Disney Studios in October 2021. The film features a live capture of the Broadway show and was shot at the Richard Rodgers Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:16PMMary Kathryn Nagle's new drama "Manahatta" draws connections between how Native Americans were treated by Dutch traders in the 17th century and how they are treated by Wall Street nowadays. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:16PMIf you can't make it to Broadway to see four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney perform in My Name Is Lucy Barton, you're in luck! The audiobook of the one-woman play by Rona Munro, based on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMThe Feinstein’s/54 Below performance will celebrate female composers and lyricists.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMby Mikayla Petrilla. @HeyItsMikayy. NEW YORK, NY - Local investigators announced today that they’ve finally discovered the last remaining New York-based actor not cast in Amazon’s The Ma…
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:07PMLin-Manuel Miranda's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical was filmed at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMMichael Melski’s Canadian hit play Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad gets its European premiere in a new production directed by Proud Haddock's Jimmy Walters. It has a limited four-week limited seaso…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:02PMAn evening of toe-tapping bliss that delivers a commendation worthy of the Duke's talent.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PM
James Snyder will continue in the title role at the Lyric Theatre; see who's joining him.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMVerdi’s operatic ‘Requiem’ gets top-drawer treatment from the orchestra, chorus, and soloists of Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:37AMWe start to experience the world as Lear might, slowly losing their sense of reality
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:33AMby Mikayla Petrilla. @HeyItsMikayy. NEW YORK, NY - Local investigators announced today that they’ve finally discovered the last remaining New York-based acto...
SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 11:23AMBy Douglas Mayo
Wilton’s Music Hall today announces its glorious summer season 2020, packed full of inventive theatre and embracing its vaudeville heritage steeped in live music and perfor…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:21AMOur dance critic reviews the pop stars’ dazzling halftime performance.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:18AMIn honor of the prolific stage star's February 3 birthday, take a look back at his storied career.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe new family comedy from the Beautiful actor will play a limited run this winter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMKaren Peakes is portraying the sassy, outspoken Mrs. Allonby in A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at the Walnut
SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:11AMThe world premiere by Hilary Bettis will begin performances at the Laura Pels Theatre February 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMReview of the Saturday, January 25, 2020 evening performance at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. Starring Erika Henningsen, Renee Rapp, Krystina Alabado, Kate Rockwell, Barrett Wi…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:06AMThe evocative music synergises well with the poetic narration in Persona and adds emphasis to important plot points, while also giving a sense of pressure and entrapment.
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Grey Henson has set a March 8 departure date from the Broadway cast of “Mean Girls.” Henson originated the role of Damian Hubbard, first playing him at the Washington D.C. National Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:56AMAlfie Fuller talks bringing Angel Allen to New York in the debut of Blues for an Alabama Sky, the unlikely way she found out about her Drama League nomination, and the artists who inspire he…
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:56AMBenjamin Purkiss will star as the masked hero in the musical, featuring original music by the Gipsy Kings.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMAmbassador Theatre Group executive producer Adam Speers has claimed the industry needs to “work harder” at taking work outside of London. He
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMBunker Theatre artistic director Chris Sonnex has called for a greater diversity of accents to be heard in theatre. The comments were
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMPhoto Credit: D. Sabella Gretchen Reinhagen Special Kaye Pangea Jan 28, 2020, 7PM Gretchen Reinhagan presented, “Special Kaye,” her tribute show to the great Kaye Ballard at Pangea, in a…
SOURCE: www.cabarethotspot.com at 10:47AMSara Bareilles and Gavin Creel recently took over the lead roles of Jenna and Dr Pomatter in the West End Waitress production for a limited 6-weeks only! Of course, everyone has been eager …
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:45AMAgatha Christie’s A Daughter’s a Daughter at The Arlington Players features the character of Sarah Prentice: the most hateful, self-centered, pampered, jealous, possessive, resentful, ro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMKatherine Parkinson is to star in a new play by EV Crowe at the Royal Court. She will appear alongside Kayla Meikle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMThe British comedian takes on anti-Semitism through humor and the demystification of Judaism in his new Off-Broadway show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMMatthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl have adapted “Eurydice,” her play about the Orpheus story, for Los Angeles Opera. Next stop: New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMSeveral of the directors, including Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, “emerged from the period of 1980s civic turmoil that ended the military dictatorship. They were all members of the unive…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMAuthor Naomi Ishiguro: “I’ve always enjoyed the idea of total mundanity, and the struggles and the happinesses of ordinary life, and then contrasting it with something a bit strange; the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMIndeed, composer and performer Molly Joyce says, that idea may be offputting to potential new audiences, and new performers. “Although she eschewed pyrotechnics in her own music long befor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMJoanna Scotcher trained as a sculptor, but when she started trying to sculpt doorways between spaces and the human interactions in those spaces, one of her professors hinted that she might c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMEasy: Require Canadian content from networks – including Netflix and other streamers. First Nations advocates say it’s also time for their equal inclusion in Canada’s Broadcasting Act.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMThe popular platform honored the ensemble members from the hit bio-musical with a glam shoot by Jacob Smith Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AMPerformance and queer cabaret artist Vijay Patel is currently touring his latest show Pull the Trigger. He tells Ruth Comerford how the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThe four-time Drama Desk nominee was recently seen on Broadway in Tootsie.
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Drew Baker will direct the presentation of the Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg musical at the London Coliseum.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMThe Arlington Players (TAP) are proudly presenting the American premiere of the Agatha Christie play A Daughter’s a Daughter, running February 1 – 16 at the Thomas Jefferson Community Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:48AMI only had to assume the manners and habits [of the character], on the stage or off, and in my soul there were born the feelings and perceptions that had given them birth. In this manner, in…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:42AMYou are invited to a wedding this month, well, a theater experience recreating a wedding. It may seem at first blush not your everyday wedding with the title Diego & Drew Say I Do, but a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMMichael Greif, who directed the original Broadway production, again helms the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMMichael Greif, who directed the original Broadway production, again helms the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMITF returns to IU bigger and better than ever
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:19AMThis week’s round-up includes the first UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, and Katherine Parkinson starring in the stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMDesigner Joanna Scotcher tells Fergus Morgan about balancing simultaneous projects with the Royal Opera House and Lyric Hammersmith, and why more needs
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMWhile Parasite and Jojo Rabbit were winners at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night, Parasite and clear Oscars Best Picture frontrunner 1917 shared awards at the BAFTAs on Sunday. But …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMThere were 269 films that were eligible for awards nominations this year, and voters had watched, on average, about a quarter of them. “The current system leaves Bafta voters free to decid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMThe city might not be so walkable, but for a concrete savannah laid out and built within four years, Brasília is holding up pretty darn well. “I worried before I visited Brasília that t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMLondon’s thoroughfare is a tidal river, and when the river retreats, the mudlarks emerge. These mudlarks are people, and they find cool things: “A gold ornament from the 16th century, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMIt’s the first classical troupe in the world to make that choice. “‘Why not? There’s been all-men years for the past 150 years where only men choreograph,’ says Patricia Barker, th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMThe book isn’t due to be published until June in English translation. The writer Martha Cooley asks her husband to read the novel – a first-person account by a woman – to her. “Low i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMDominion Stage has given this rowdy, irreverent, and rollicking rock musical a remarkably woke production that is as rousing as it is reflective and as satiric as it is unsettling. Set in 18…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01AMAnother year, another star-studded Uncle Vanya. Whereas 2019 gave us Rupert Everett as Vanya in a David Hare adaptation in Bath, 2020
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe actor and playwright is bringing her new work, “Over 140 LBS,” to the stage at ACTLab’s inaugural Solo Fest.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:00AMFor the Sake of Argument at Bridewell Theatre is certainly a thought-provoking production with bags of potential.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBy Anca Hațiegan. Anca Hațiegan looks at the history of theatre in Cluj-Napoca, from the first production in the 1600s, to the power dynamics between the Romanian and Hungarian companies, …
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Summerhall, Edinburgh Annual festival of visual theatre delivers a busy mix of puppetry, silent comedy, modern dance and the hard to define
When you’re used to performing to four people, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThe consequences of the UK leaving the European Union on the arts and creative industries have been much discussed in the three
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMThe charity concert premiere of The Pirate Queen, which will be running at the London Coliseum for just one night only on Sunday 23 February 2020, has just announced its final casting for t…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:05AMHear what Michael Larson, star of the https://raleighlittletheatre.org/shows/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/ (Raleigh Little Theatre) production of The Curious Incident of…
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“Aida” Tour to Launch at Paper Mill, Reviews for “Medea” at BAM & “Next to Normal” in DC, Changes Coming at “Mean Girls” Patreon: BroadwayRadio https://www.patreon.com/br…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMJohn Osborne's 1956 classic Look Back in Anger gets a rare fringe revival at the 50-seat White Bear Theatre in Kennington, south London. The Big Boots Theatre Company production runs from 25…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:42AMThe 19-year-old leapt to his death around 6 pm on Saturday, with hundreds of tourists near him. “On Sunday, dozens of visitors waited in line to enter the sculpture. No areas appeared to b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMMinari, which is an autobiographical feature based on Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood in rural Arkansas, won both Audience and Grand Prize. “All four of the jury directing prizes went to fem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMFirst of all, kids’ shows now have merchandise baked in from the beginning – Paw Patrol being only one of the offenders. Then there’s YouTube, where many kids get almost all of their s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMSelladoor Worldwide chief executive David Hutchinson has urged the theatre industry to make its voice heard in conversations around Brexit during the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMJoe Louis is the guest on This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards and originally telecast by NBC in 1961:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AMThe podcaster and Broadway alum shares the advice from guests like Allison Janney and Donna Murphy that help her get back onstage in Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Perplexed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM“Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.”
Samuel Johnson, The Idler (May 26, 1759)
Continue reading Almanac: Dr. Johnson o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThere is fine work from Jodie McNee as Johanna Faustus in Faustus: That Damned Woman but the piece is overshadowed by a disappointing structure that sidelines real, factual female achievemen…
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Rebecca Front and Stephen Dillane have won the lead acting prizes at this year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards. Front and Dillane were
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMAn arts venue in Morecambe that was set to close indefinitely has been saved by community funding, and will reopen as the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMYork Theatre Royal is to partner with leading pantomime producer Evolution Productions on its next festive show – its first following the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMKatherine Parkinson and Kayla Meikle have been cast in the world premiere of Shoe Lady written by E.V. Crowe and directed by Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:52AMThere’s quite a line-up for the new spectacular production of Zorro The Musical, running at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre from 14 March to 18 April 2020, with Antony Costa, Alex Gibson-…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:40AMAd Infinitum’s Extraordinary Wall [of Silence] opens with an arresting history lesson. In 1880, the performers tell us, the Milan Conference ruled
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMKnown for his roles in The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, Hugo Weaving is about to star at the National Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AM"Refreshing," "talented" and "fabulous - take a look at what critics have been saying about Harry Darell's new play about a journalist who discovers the devastating impact of her words For t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:09AMMozart’s most famous opera has been staged so many times it’s difficult to see how much freshness can be brought to a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMOn Friday evening, a trove of well-heeled guests gathered on the 14th floor of the Edition hotel, where fêteing for a cause was in order. At the Ian Scrager outpost, partygoers shed coats (…
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Full cast and creatives have been announced for Alces Productions' new production of Mary Rodgers' rarely seen, 1959 Broadway fairy-tale musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress. Tickets are now …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMA new production of Emma Rice’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, originally created with Wise Children, is set for a national tour, concluding at t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AMHampstead Theatre has announced its spring/summer 2020 programme, Hampstead Classics, celebrating 60 years of original theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMBy Paul T Davies
Paul T Davies reviews Eric and Ern, a tribute to Morecombe and Wise playing at the Duke Of York's Theatre, London.
This post REVIEW: Eric and Ern. Duke Of York’s Theatre, …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:17AMLove London Love Culture rounds up the critics thoughts on John Kani’s play, Kunene & The King.
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THERE’S ARSENIC AND LACE; BUT IT DOESN’T FEEL OLD Serial murder, euthanasia, slasher psychopaths, bodies buried in a crawl space, face-lifts for people trying to change their images, the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMOpera Australia has announced the hit Australian musical Bran Nue Dae will return to Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay in April as part of the show’s 30th Anniversary tour. Jim…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 02:37AMThe city’s theatre is emotional, indignant and polemical finds our critic on a whirlwind trip through a dozen shows
The sparky young performers on stage thank us for coming out tonight. Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFairview finished at London’s Young Vic a couple of weeks ago, but wherever theatre people are gathered I still hearing it being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAsk Me Anything – Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne The Paper Birds’ gently immersive new show takes its inspiration from the agony aunts of
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A remarkable, award-winning, one-woman show written for renowned Australian actress Noni Hazlehurst is coming to HOTA, Home of the Arts
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:59AMFull of energy and bursting with laughter, Voca People are an international a-cappella musical comedy that has been seen in
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:20AMA theatrical performance by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants grapples with the subject; the show is set to travel to many parts of the country Two junior associates at a la…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:19AMAttending marathon or multipart shows is a challenge I embrace---Water bottle? Check! Lozenges I'll unwrap before the curtain goes up? Yup. A change of clothes? That last one might seem like…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00AMIn Day in the Life of Dance: A Conversation with Mira Cook of NYC Community Ballet, "In 2015, along with dancer friends, she founded NYC Community Ballet, a collective dedicated to providing…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIf you're missing the uplift of live performance, you're not alone. We asked our TDF Accessibility Programs (TAP) members to email us their indelible theatre memories, and their stories brig…
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