A new three-character play about German students charged with treason in Nazi Germany gets additional development this month.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:59AMDoor County's major resident Equity theatre announces a five-show 2016 season, including the Midwest premiere of a play about censorship and Civil Rights.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:51PMCasting has been announced for the new holiday revue "It Happened One Christmas," premiering in Salt Lake City in December. Rehearsals begin Nov. 9.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:11AMFlorida Studio Theatre has announced its 2015-16 season, to include the Southern premiere of "Alabama Story," a six-actor drama characterized as a highly theatrical cousin to "To Kill a Mock…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 07:17AMBroadway and Off-Broadway stars sing the songs of composer Will Van Dyke and lyricist Jeff Talbott, who are collaborating on two musicals and a pop album, tonight at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:42AMPlaywright-actor Matthew-Lee Erlbach talks about the characters and conflicts of his new Off-Broadway play "Sex of the Baby."
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:20PMTheatre 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…
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