Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi tells Judith Mackrell how the worlds of classic and modern Indian dance collide in Wah! Wah! Girls, a Bollywood musical set in London's East EndJudith Mac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Jamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Perhaps you have heard of real-time captioning, or CART (Communication Access Realtime Transcription), as it is often called. This is the provision of captions to accompany a presentation or…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:16AMThursday, November 17, 2011
1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pirates of P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMMonday, November 14, 2011
1905 Blanche Bates is Minnie, sweetheart of the mines in Girl of the Golden West. She tends a saloon, fugitive lover and pursuing sheriff. Writer, director, producer David Belasco was no str…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 13, 2011
1833 Birthday of master actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893), a major interpreter of Shakespeare and brother to actor Junius Brutus Booth and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Broadway's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Prince Albert II of Monaco, and his wife Princess Charlene have arrived in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:40PMFriday, October 28, 2011
1928 Six-time Tony-winning costume designer Florence Klotz is born today. Her designs will be worn by the original casts of Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, On the Twentieth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 21, 2011
1933 Trying to follow-up the success of their Pulitzer-winning musical Of Thee I Sing, George and Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind bring back President John Wintergreen and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 14, 2011
1893 Lillian Gish, film acting pioneer whose Broadway career lasted from 1913 to 1976, is born today. Her stage shows will include Camille, The Trip to Bountiful and several versions of Uncl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 13, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts announced yesterday that it has raised the more than $1 million needed to buy the piece, which will remain in the MFA’s Shapiro Family Courtyard. In July, the M…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:17AMFriday, October 7, 2011
1907 The Gay White Way, a musical revue whose title meant something quite different in that innocent era, opens at the Casino Theatre for a then-healthy run of 105 performances. Blanche Ring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
1928 Mae West's controversial play Pleasure Man opens at the Biltmore Theatre. It's the story of an actor who has impregnated so many women that the brother of one of them takes up a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
I had heard a bit about Sharon Anyimi; but I didn't know much. I knew she visited Baychester Library in Co-Op City — a lot — and was always reading books with the help …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:26AMFriday, September 16, 2011
1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll (1892-1948) is born today. His best-remembered contribution to Broadway was the eponymous revue The Earl Carroll Vanities, which had nine editions b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
1894 Birthday of British playwright J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), author of plays An Inspector Calls, When We Are Married, Laburnum Grove and A Severed Head.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
Asmahan, an instructor at Pineapple dance studios in London's Covent Garden, traces the history of belly dancing back to ancient Mesopotamia, while her students explain its appeal Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSaturday, November 20, 2010
CELTIC YULETIDE Irish tenor and musical theater star Michael Londra — late of “Riverdance’’ — brings the sounds of his 2009 seasonal album, “Beyond the St…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMWednesday, August 12, 2009
Production designer Christopher Oram takes us behind the scenes to explain the artful detail and steamy authenticity of his set and costumes for the Donmar's revival of Tennessee Williams'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15PM 
