Saturday, December 27, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMFriday, December 26, 2014
Tony Award-winning Hedwig star Neil Patrick Harris has released a new promo video in anticipation of his upcoming gig as host of the 87th Academy Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMThursday, December 25, 2014
1865 Birthday of Fay Templeton (1865-1939), durable musical comedy actress from the 1870s to the 1930s. Her appearances include Roberta, Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway and Fiddle&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
1904 Lillian Russell, a.k.a Diamond Lil, stars in Lady Teazle, a musical based on The School for Scandal. John Kendrick Bangs and Roderic C. Penfield provide the music to a score by A. Baldw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Eamon Flack and Brigid Delaney join the Guardian Australia culture team to look back at a year of controversy, delight and some surprising Australian cultural highlights for 2014 Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:40PMMonday, December 22, 2014
Small budgets and even smaller venues are often part of the fringe theater equation. But what sets Chicago apart from most other theater towns is that our grass-roots scene blossoms with wor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:25PMBen Rimalower's new solo show, Bad With Money, which opened Sept. 4 at The Duplex, has been extended into February 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMProducers of Peter Morgan's drama The Audience, which stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, announced that the play will now begin Broadway previews Feb. 14, 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMArtistic directors from leading theatres in the U.S., including the Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse and the Guthrie Theater, issued a letter …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThe movie musical remake of "Annie," which stars Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis in the title role alongside Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, earned $16,300,000 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMSunday, December 21, 2014
Actor Steel Burkhardt, who appeared in the recent Broadway revival of Hair, steps into the role of sidekick Kassim in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Aladdin beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMIn this episode, Amber chats with Condola Rashad., two-time Tony nominated actress, for a closer look at her life beyond the curtain.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM1889 Beatrice Cameron stars as Nora Helmer in the U.S. premiere of Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking drama, A Doll's House at Palmer's Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, December 20, 2014
1912 Laurette Taylor stars in Peg O' My Heart, written and directed by her husband, J. Hartley Manners. This story of a winsome orphan becomes a vehicle for Taylor, and she will revive …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 19, 2014
1865 Birthday of Mary Augusta Davey, who acted under the names Minnie Maddern, Minnie Maddern Fiske and Mrs. Fiske (1865-1932). Performer, director and producer of many dramas before and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is both transcendent and transplendent! This fun and funny, family-friendly musical lights up the stage at The Kennedy Center this holiday seaso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company announced Dec. 18 that the Broadway remounting of Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony-winning revival of Cabaret will again tour North Ame…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PM1907 Playwright Christopher Fry (1907-2005), author of Ring Round the Moon and The Lady's Not for Burning, is born, with the additional surname of Harris, in Bristol, England.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Macrobert, Stirling: Clear and simple, Natasha Gilmore's short piece of dance theatre immerses its under three-years-old audience in a solid old pine forest, where Vince Virr's ath…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AM1906 Opening night for Lew Dockstader's Minstrels, the final Broadway appearance for one of the last of the great minstrel shows. It runs 26 performances at The New York Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
An antidote to Christmas overkill from Hannahband, Charli XCX with her 90s throwback and Troye Sivan’s melancholic electro-pop Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:51PMMonday, December 15, 2014
The two-disc deluxe and single-disc standard soundtrack editions of the Disney film version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods," starring Meryl Stre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1919 Frank McGlyn is Abraham Lincoln in John Drinkwater's drama. The story follows Lincoln's life from 1860 to his assassination in 1865. There will be 193 performances at the Cort T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 14, 2014
1885 Birthday of Brock Pemberton (1885-1950), producer of many Broadway plays and comedies during a 30-year career, including the original Harvey, Miss Lulu Bett, Six Characters in S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony winning star of "If/Then" invited us to her dressing room at the Richard Rodgers theater to talk about her journey with this smash hit rock musical and to look back on her legendar…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, December 13, 2014
1925 Birthday in West Plains, MO, of actor Dick Van Dyke, who will appear on Broadway in Bye Bye Birdie and The Girls Against the Boys, and create memorable TV and film roles in "The Di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Stormy and Tara on Alex Rodabaugh and Rakiya Orange in a split bill curated by Miguel Gutierrez for Gibney's DoublePlus.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:24PMFestival Theatre, Malvern: There's nothing better to raise the seasonal spirits than a good old-fashioned panto. Happily the verities are adhered to at Malvern, and so the dame is jolly…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:40PM1902 There will be two debuts in Everyman. Edith Wynne Matthison makes her American debut, and Charles Rann Kennedy makes his stage debut.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 11, 2014
An email exchange disclosed through an attack by hackers commented on the president’s imagined movie tastes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PM1893 Oscar Wilde gets his second Broadway production in a year with the U.S. premiere of his play A Woman of No Importance at Miner's Fifth Avenue Theatre.
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