Theatre and pop songwriters Jeff Talbott & Will Van Dyke unveil some of their work on a new EP featuring Broadways stars Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonathan Groff and more.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:23PMMore than sixty titles are included in the just-published annual collection "2015 The Best Men's Stage Monologues" from Smith & Kraus. The eclectic list of playwrights includes The book feat…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:15AMQuick Silver Theater Company, devoted to artists of diverse heritage, will stage "Proof" in a co-pro with Classics in Color: A Theatre Company. An interview with QSTC's co-founder Tyrone Hen…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:47PM"Love On Ice," a musical tale about love preserved by "cryonics," gets Manhattan readings Aug. 24 and 31. The creators share their process.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:40AMA look at the collaboration between director Sean Daniels and singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, whose one-man musical "The Lion" is now on a tour of resident theatres.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:01PMEverything you wanted to know about the summer's hot trapeze-swinging shark movie parody, now at Dixon Place. John Behlmann and Wes Grantom are interviewed.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:33AMBroadway actress and voice teacher Ann Arvia teams with director Linda Brovsky to run classes for musical theatre performers in New York. They explain their goals.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:28AMNew theatre-pop songwriting team of Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott (2015 NAMT Festival of New Musicals) will release an album followed by a 54 Below concert. Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonath…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:47PMActress and playwright Julia Gibson, of Playmakers Rep, will hear her new play "105 Bank Street, or The Joanna Play," in a Manhattan reading this week. Tisch School alumni populate the priva…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:38AMThe titles and dramatists of the revamped Festival of New Works, running Aug. 7-8 at Ohio's Human Race Theatre Company, have been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:07AMA Q&A with playwright Melissa Ross, whose "Of Good Stock" — a tale of three sisters — is now at Off-Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:03AMWriters and titles for the eight musicals in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals have been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:42PMFault Line Theatre's Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Perlman's "At the Table" at HERE Arts Center conjures culturally eclectic conversation among a group of characters in their thirti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:11AMAn interview with Seattle playwright Vincent Delaney, whose new history-inspired play is getting a reading in Manhattan June 24-25.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:21AMLiz Thaler talks about working out the kinks of creating her new play "Happy," about a professional dominant who falls for a feminist gender studies professor, now at The Brick Theater in Br…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:24AMPlaywright Joe Tracz talks about collaborating with composer Joe Iconis to bring the late Ned Vizzini's YA novel, "Be More Chill," to life as a musical.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:16AMFresh from its Geva Theatre Center premiere, "The Road to Where," the folk-tinged musical memoir by actress-writer Cass Morgan, gets a "listen" in Manhattan prior to a run Weston Playhouse i…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:46AMPlaywright Jeff Talbott talks about his new play, getting a reading in the 2015 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays by Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:36AMBroadway's Robert Creighton talks about his passion for James Cagney and how it led him to co-write (and star in) a musical about the Hollywood icon.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:55PMThe complete cast of eight in The Pitmen Painters ring up their collective Broadway debuts Sept. 30 when Lee Hall’s biographical drama bows at the Samuel J. Friedman, but one of their …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGrey Gardens and 42nd Street Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will appear in the 7 PM Oct. 27 "Selected Shorts" evening called Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined hosted by Grego…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMComposer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMComposer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThere is no evidence that Dr. Sigmund Freud ever said that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” a quote that is attributed to the psychoanalyst. And there is no word about the sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe sold-out Nov. 15 Merkin Hall presentation of the conceptual concert All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern, part of the Broadway Close Up series there, proved that any New York City theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMStephen Sondheim took a surprise bow at the Nov. 19 New York Pops concert at Carnegie Hall. The evening's encore, "Old Friends," was completed with the introduction of Sondheim, who …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMPhil Lord and Chris Miller, the director-writers of the 3-D animated film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," are in talks to direct the movie musical “Bob the Musical,”…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe third annual New York City Christmas, a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub at 7 PM Dec. 20, will not be a mere repeat of previous years, or just a rehash of the lively album of the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Paramount Theatre, an 1,800-seat touring house in suburban Chicago, will expand its mission in 2011 to become a producing theatre, offering a four-show subscription series of Broadway mu…
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