What's not to cheer about one of our favorite musical comedies from the 1950s getting a crisp and colorful concert presentation featuring adorable stage stars Kelli O'Hara (South Pac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57PM59E59 Theatres, Off-Broadway
By Terra Vetter
BOTTOM LINE: Personable and vivacious acting from the ensemble in this character driven, plot skimpy play.
Set in a post World War II la…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:38PMAccording to EW.com, stage and screen star Ellen Greene is set to join te cast of CBS' The Young and the Restless, beginning January 7. Greene will star as Primrose, who acts as a person fro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35PMThe Lincoln Center Theater production of John Guare's new play, A FREE MAN OF COLOR, directed by George C. Wolfe, opened tonight Thursday, November 18 at 645pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21PMAccording to Deadline.com, Starz has picked up the political drama Boss for eight episodes. The show will star La Cage's Kelsey Grammer and will be written by Farhad Safinia. Gus Van Sant w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07PMA unique marriage of theatre, dance and history which explores every angle of human sexuality.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:04PMJohn Guare’s historical comedy “Free Man of Color,” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, tosses up bright balls of allusion and prays they’ll land in a coherent pattern.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMJeffrey Wright returns to the stage in John Guare's wearying mash-up of Restoration Comedy and historical drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMKelli O'Hara and Will Chase bring beautiful voices and surprising sizzle to Kathleen Marshall's Encores! revival of the beloved musical about a resourceful telephone operator.
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BroadwayWorld.com presents Twitter Watch, which brings you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:57PMEach Thanksgiving Scott Macaulay cooks dinner for anyone who wants to join him. In the past 25 years the tradition has grown from 12 people to more than 80. But Macaulay says he always hopes…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:56PMIn his first speech since the Fed announced the bond-buying program on Nov. 3, the Fed chief made his most forceful case to date that Congress also must provide more stimulus aid. He said th…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:50PMToday we are talking to the talented and visionary directors of the new Disney Digital 3D animated feature film musical adventure TANGLED, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. In this informative …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:47PMAccording to a report by Baz Bamigboye for UK Daily Mail, Ellen Burstyn and Carol Kane are in talks to star in the upcoming West End production of The Children's Hour. Ian Rickson is set to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42PMBroadway veteran Ellen Greene is joining CBS' daytime drama The Young and the Restless, starting on January 7, according to EW.com
She will play Primrose, a gal who represents a surpri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:41PMAccording to a report by Baz Bamigboye for UK Daily Mail, Michael Cerveris is in talks to reprise his role in Sondheim and Weidman's musical Road Show. Cerveris appeared in the Public Theatr…
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Legit Reviews: "9 to 5: The Musical" comes across in its current touring company production as a light and lively crowdpleaser.
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:56PMScott Adsit, Michael Ian Black, Mario Cantone, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Brooke Shields, and Alan Zweibel will star in the Monday, November 22 edition of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54PMLegit Reviews: Both scribe John Guare and helmer George C. Wolfe have undermined the play's grand historical sweep.
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:41PMThe House GOP's effort was a response to the controversy over the ending of former NPR analyst Juan Williams' contract.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:19PMAlmeida, LondonIbsen's weird, autobiographical 1892 play gets a radical makeover at the Almeida. Out go the oppressive furniture, the frock coats and even the statutory intervals. Instead we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10PMArray of props, scripts and other show remnants that filled London house to move to University of BristolA vast theatre archive that, after a lifetime's collecting by two actors, once filled…
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Businesses have lost lucrative contracts and conventions have relocated. But the state's economy hasn't come to a screeching halt -- as some who organized the boycott hoped.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:59PMWith an ingenious invention called a ‘reverse fishing license,' Kiribati has been able to make conservation economically feasible.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:37PMPrincipal cast changes have been announced for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history. Produced by Cameron M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28PMIt's Fiyero vs. Fiyero in the Broadway-bound musical Catch Me If You Can. In one corner is Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz, who originated the role of Fiyero in Wicked. He's duking…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:23PMA gentle children’s book turns into a musical even adults will like
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:13PMThomas Ostermeier’s stage version of “The Marriage of Maria Braun,” at the Next Wave Festival, is essentially a line-by-line re-enactment of the screenplay.
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Have you been longing to see an old-school Christmas musical? One with tuneful songs, witty lyrics and unabashed sentiment?
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:52PMSIRIUS XM Radio NASDAQ SIRI announced today that Pee-wee Herman will sit down for a lighthearted QampA about The Playhouse with Raw Dog Comedy host Mark Says Hi on Friday, November 19 at 600…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMObama said the federal help to GM saved more than a million jobs and proved the naysayers wrong. He boasted of the rightness of his administration's decision on the same day GM went public a…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:34PMTheatre 80, Off-Broadway
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: An interestingly disturbing, beautifully directed exploration of vain attempts at progress within a stagnant, backwoods fa…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 06:31PMAfter charming Broadway audiences as Nina in In the Heights for nearly three months, American Idol darling Jordin Sparks played her final performance on November 14 and her Heights pals sent…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:16PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterDon't mess with the gods: good advice, seldom heeded by humans in Greek tragedy. Enter Pentheus, King of Thebes, who laughs when his cousin Dionysus returns home wi…
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Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 25, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 14.A rough litany, but one filled with unusual--and thereby intriguing--events: as Means dri…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:58PMFuror over airline passenger checks has grown as more airports have installed scanners that produce digital images of the body's contours, and the anger intensified when TSA added a more int…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:44PMThe Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter is now selling tickets to the Thursday, December 16th performance of Broadway's La Bte, David Hirson's satire starring Tony Award winners D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMWhen Caissie Levy headed to London to reprise her Broadway performance as Sheila in Hair, she didn’t realize she would be extending her U.K. stay in an even bigger role: Molly, the lea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:29PMLegit Reviews: Page 73 and the Play Company do right by emerging young scribe Eliza Clark with this well-mounted production of "Edgewise."
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:06PMIn the new Broadway comedy Elling, the title character (played by Denis O'Hare) and his close friend Kjell Bjarne (Brendan Fraser) are former mental institution patients who find themsel…
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Rolex presented Career Transition For Dancers' 25th ANNIVERSARY SILVER JUBILEE A STAR-STUDDED RETROSPECTIVE on Monday, November 8 at New York City Center. Tony Award Winners Tommy Tune, Kare…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMAge & Hometown: 13. West Palm Beach, Florida
Current Role: Michael Hobbs, a New York teen who discovers the joys of Christmas from his long-lost half brother (newly arrived from the N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMScientists have created a video from a sliver of a mouse brain that shows different kinds of synapses in different colors. Eventually, they hope to be able to map changes in synapses when pe…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:52PM“Stage Matters” is a new video produced by Theatre Communications Group that features theatre artists, politicians, teachers and many others discussing theatre’s far-reachi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMWhen civil war erupts in an unnamed African country, a stubborn and self-interested Frenchwoman refuses to leave her coffee plantation. Her world is compellingly disorienting, but it's the c…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:48PMOn Monday, November 22nd, 2010, a host of theatre actors will take part in an exclusive concert and cocktail reception featuring the music and lyrics of Steven Jamail. This invitation-only …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMI currently follow almost 1,000 people on twitter -- all of them, in some way or another, involved in the world of theatre. I like to get my information from as many sources as possible but …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PM2010 has been quite the year for lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, who celebrated his 80th Birthday, saw two of his shows on Broadway and even had a Broadway theatre named after him. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMSadler's Wells, LondonEver since the ballet world claimed Wayne McGregor as its hottest new choreographer, it has been tempting to see him as a dance-maker of two halves. There's the McGrego…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PMSalome Jens
“Anne Sexton saved my life,” Salome Jens says. The actress, still beautiful in her 70s, sits munching her salad in a trendy outdoor cafe. Her words are startli…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:22PMThe eagerly awaited new musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is scheduled to begin previews Nov. 28 at the Foxwoods Theatre.
“Drawing from more than 40 years of Marvel comic books for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMTony Award winner and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and stage and screen star Anne Hathaway will host this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway on December 11.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PMYou may feel as if you’ve entered a Broadway time machine—in a good way!—as you click through Joan Marcus’ portfolio of production shots from Encores!’ producti…
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SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:10PMThe Lincoln Center Theater production of John Guare's new play, A FREE MAN OF COLOR, directed by George C. Wolfe, opens tonight Thursday, November 18 at 645pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMBroadway history spills over with colorful and/or agonizing stories about shows in their out-of-town tryouts. Now come the stories about staying in town.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PMVirgil Thomson, who grew up in a Baptist family and was a church organist in his youth, was never susceptible to religion, even as a child. Yet like his student Mr. Rorem, Thomson wrote many…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PMThe casts of American Idiot, The Addams Family, Next to Normal, A Little Night Music and more join with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to help make the holiday season more festive with Vo…
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Obama lobbied for the START treaty with Democratic and GOP administratiojn foreign policy and national security big names at his side. He said the treaty wasn't about politics with past pact…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:54PMChristina Anthony, far right, in the cast of "The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life" at Second City. Christina Anthony, a standout star in such stellar Second City e.t.c. productions …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:50PMTyler Perry's "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family" -- whIch toured this fall and playing Hartford and Bridgeport (the latter twice) -- goes on sale Tuesday as a DVD and Blu-ray.
The stag…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:46PMJerry Brown has been active in California politics for over 30 years.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:46PMBari Hochwald prepares Romeos and Juliets
Michelangelo Buonarroti said: ”The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:45PMA look at eight areas of the U.S. finds that some high-priced hospitals are getting the upper hand with insurers. San Francisco’s average inpatient payment rate was more than twice what…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:42PMTarget saved the lives of American soldiers and ended up on Oprah but a happy ending was not to be.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:35PMWith the fall gridiron season going strong, Broadway.com decided to check in on the Great White Way's own football friendly drama, Lombardi. Bill Dawes, who plays the show's charming…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMWith the fall gridiron season going strong, Broadway.com decided to check in on the Great White Way's own football friendly drama, Lombardi. Bill Dawes, who plays the show's charming…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMEVENTS… Making his first LA solo outing in two decades, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby is offering a one night only concert to celebrate and benefit Hollywood- based Blank Th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:27PMLiz McCartney will return to the role of opera diva Carlotta and Sean MacLaughlin will assume the role of romantic lead Raoul in the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera on December …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:19PMNBC's Saturday Night Live has announced additional hosts and musical guests for 2010, according to EW.com.
On December 4, Oscar winner Robert De Niro will host and be joined by musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMMemo to aspiring dramatists: If that whole playwriting thing doesn’t work out, there are other job possibilities out there. You might even get elected president.
That’s what happened to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:06PMSave for a precious few exceptions, the fall theater season has been disappointingly bland. And so Thomas Ostermeier’s cold, cerebral “The Marriage of Maria Braun” comes as a relief. T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:06PMA play constructed from video, with a lead character who’s a composite of real people, ends up distant and unengaging
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The Public Theater
Announces
Line-Up For Seventh Annual
UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
January 5 – 16, 2011
12 Day Celebration Spread Over Six Venues
Features 11 Companies …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:55PMPrincipal cast changes have been announced for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webbers THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMAnd speaking of the personal side of spirituality, I have to say that for all the cross-cultural variety that has been cited on the festival's behalf, I found that my own spiritual interests…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMBlake Chisam, the chief counsel for the House ethics committee who has been prosecuting the ethics case against Rep. Charles Rangel is recommending a censure against the Harlem Democrat.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:52PMThe New York premiere of Adam Rapp's first play, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods opened at Theater 80 on Saturday, November 13. Rapp has directed the production, which is being presented by T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PM"Harry Potter" and How to Succeed star Daniel Radcliffe recently visited “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and discussed his upcoming Broadway musical debut in How to Succee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMThe government of Cuban President Raul Castro has issued a rescue plan to pull the country back from the economic abyss. The proposals offer major policy changes that include an expanded pri…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:44PMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young will perform a concert as part of the Actors Fund's Musical Mondays series, in the lobby of the Pantages Theatre, on Monday, December 13 at 8:30pm. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMBirdland has announced its schedule for December 2010.
Among the artists scheduled to appear in special engagements are Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch, who will offer two performances…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PMThe New York Times is reporting that talks are underway to potentially extend the run of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE past its originally scheduled January 9 closing date if a deal can be worked o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMOh boy! Mickey Mouse is one old rodent! Disney's most famous cartoon character turned 82 on Thursday.
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NPR Statement On The House Rejection Of An Attempt to Prohibit Federal Funding For NPR
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:53PMI was in my 20s when I discovered that my grandfather, Abraham Lishinsky, painted giant murals, vistas of human progress, for the WPA and other jobs programs of Roosevelt’s New Deal. I…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:51PMThe Give a Damn Campaign, a project of Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund, has released its latest video during National Runaway Prevention Month to raise awareness about homeless gay, lesbian,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMLiz McCartney will reprise her performance as Carlotta and Sean MacLaughlin will assume the role of Raoul in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, playing at the Majestic Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMRichard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy will lead the cast in Ghost The Musical playing Sam and Molly in Matthew Warchus stage musical version of the Academy Award winning film.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMA survey of 11 developed countries compared the experience of patients and found the U.S. came out at the bottom on almost every count. Some weak spots include costs of care and dealing wi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:39PMOff-Broadway musicals rarely get a mention on a national talk show, but when the guest is Julianne Moore, you can bet there'll be a plug for Freckleface Strawberry, the kid-friendly adap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMThe study found that four in ten Americans said marriage was becoming obsolete.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:35PMTom Basden's modern Kafka adaptation is 'darkly comic' in a production that blends three parts absurdity with one of pomposity and a healthy dash of black unease, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:32PMThis beautifully pitched revival of Tennessee Williams' 'memory play' makes you see afresh what a fine playwright he was, says Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:32PMImagining the dancers as living structures as much as people, this work straddles architecture and dance, awkwardness and intrigue, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:32PMWayne McGregor, as maker of dances, is absolutely of the moment. But 'Far too Far' might be a more honourable identification for this work of exquisite tedium and limb-wrenching gymnastics, …
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:32PMHelene Yorke (Wicked), Adrienne Warren (Dreamgirls) and Nick Blaemire (Cry Baby) will star in the world premiere of Bring It On at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre. The musical adaptation of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PMThe Public Theater has announced the line-up for the 2011 Under the Radar festival, to run January 5-16 at The Public Theater as well as at partner venues around the city. Now in its seventh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMClara is played by Laura Grey in “The Nutcracker” at the Steppenwolf Theatre in fall 2007. When the House Theatre of Chicago first burst onto the Chicago scene a decade ago, several thin…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:30PM“The other night I dreamed I was Anne Frank,’’ Najla Said says. Not unusual, maybe, for an actress playing a young Israeli woman in a drama about the Middle East. But it…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:29PMMark Bradford’s career trajectory is on a steep, heady rise. Last year, the Los Angeles artist was awarded a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award. He follows that up with the first museum s…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:27PMImposing and even quite grand at a distance, Mark Bradford’s paintings, like the sprawling cities they evoke, suggest ruins up close.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:26PMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that its inaugural production, Rodgers and Hammersteins Oklahoma, extends through December 30, 2010, adding six performances to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMTHE ARTS As the holidays approach, it’s time to start thinking about one of the more traditional annual pastimes: fighting with your family. Compared to the relationships on display in…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:16PMThe decadelong project is done and you can see the new Art of the Americas Wing at tomorrow’s Museum of Fine Arts Free Community Day. MFA director Malcolm Rogers will welcome you at 10…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:13PMArtists at one of the area’s oldest resident artist buildings invite you to Brickbottom Open Studios this weekend where you can see their studios, creations, and them. About 100 creati…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PMIs it better to read (or more likely, re-read) "The Great Gatsby" before settling into your seat at "Gatz," or to go in cold?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMIs it better to read (or more likely, re-read) "The Great Gatsby" before settling into your seat at "Gatz," or to go in cold?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMDarren Criss’ cover of Katy Perry’s "Teenage Dream," which he performed on the Nov. 9 episode of “Glee,” has made it to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, accordi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMTony nominee Tom Hewitt will return to Chicago as Billy Flynn beginning November 22 at the Ambassador Theatre. Robert Creighton and LaVon Fisher-Wilson will join the cast on November 29 as A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PMHow the Oscar nominee surfs the chaos of Mistakes Were Made
Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about how actors and how they create their roles
The bipolar truth-t…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:01PM
In scenic design these days, the biggest thing in the theater is film - or to be precise, digital projections.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PMShould the Bible and religious thought be used to guide our approach to climate science? Some in Congress believe that the word of God can show the way on this issue.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:56PMThough it opens with a glimmer of hope, Fences' "My Girl the Horse" conveys more defeat than triumph. Tegan & Sara's Sara Quin, who makes her debut as a producer here, puts the finishing tou…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:53PMBells Are Ringing is the opener of Encores production of the 2010-11 season, with music by Jule Styne and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, will run November 1821 at New York…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMAn entire evening of Dwight Rhoden's choreography is exhaustingly monotonous. The dances feel like chains of unmotivated tasks, which all become a wearisome waste of energy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:43PMTwo Democratic strategists panned Obama's campaign metaphor of the Republicans driving the economy into a ditch as a way of saying things had improved on his watch. But they liked his re-ele…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:43PMIn scenic design these days, the biggest thing in the theater is film - or to be precise, digital projections.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMArena Stage has extended its production of Oklahoma!, at the Mead Center for American Theater, which will now close on December 30.
Set at the turn of the 20th century, Rodgers and Hammerst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMSignature's Angels in America at 20 Years Video Series continues with a video interview with George C. Wolfe, the director of the Broadway production of Angels in America.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMThe court said there was no evidence the Islamic center was intent on implementing Sharia law in the state and that there was no reason to deny the building permits.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:35PMWith a barrister father and a solicitor grandfather, my husband, George Pensotti, who has died aged 73, seemed destined for the law. But an early introduction to the theatre led him in anoth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMFunnyman Dane Cook will join Robin Williams on Broadway next year, making his own debut in a production of Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig."
Cook is the star of "Employee of the Month" and several HB…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:28PMThe A.R.T. partners with Amnesty International to integrate direct action into the production of Prometheus Bound, starting February 25, 2011.
Steven Sater, writer…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 12:23PMHarry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione go hunting for horcruxes in the first installment of the Harry Potter finale. "Wait, horcruxes?" you ask -- and you won't be the only one.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:22PMTony Award nominee Tom Hewitt will return to the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning November 22. He will succeed Brent Barrett in the role of lawyer, Billy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMFunnyman Dane Cook will join Robin Williams on Broadway next year, making his own debut in a production of Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:21PMJim Wann, the principal author and composer of Pump Boys and Dinettes, writes about the creation of the popular show.
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES began with nary a thought of Broadway. I was…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:20PMLast week Playbill.com had the chance to speak with talk-show host and Broadway star Rosie O’Donnell during the opening-night party of The Pee-wee Herman Show.
O’Donnell spoke of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMOn Monday, November 22, 2010, the Broadway company of the international musical smash CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back Tony Award nominee Tom Hewitt in the role of slick criminal lawyer Bi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMBefore opening, MCC Theatre’s production of Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon has been extended through December 22 at off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre. The show, which …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:11PMVenus was missing one of her hands, and Mars was lacking the very feature that some might say made him such a manly god of war.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:08PMComedian Dane Cook will make his Broadway debut alongside theater vet Josh Hamilton in a Broadway mounting of Neil LaBute’s 2004 black comedy Fat Pig. LaBute, who directed the play in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07PMJurors in New York City convicted Ahmed Ghailani of conspiracy to blow up government buildings in the al-Qaida attacks on two U.S. embassies in 1998, but they acquitted him on more than 280 …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMThe National Congress of American Indians is convening its annual conference to set the agenda for the coming year, and ahead of a Tribal Nation Summit at the White House next month. Host Mi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMAfrican Mosaic, the newest exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, includes modern and contemporary, popular and traditional works. Host Michel Martin speaks…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMTyler Perry's film "For Colored Girls" has received widespread criticism and praise. Even the White House had a screening. To get a taste of what reviewers and the public had to say about th…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMFor actress Kimberly Elise, her soulful music taste is a source of inspiration and relaxation. Her new film "For Colored Girls" is in theaters now. Kimberly Elise shares the songs playing in…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PM
Glee scored quite the guest star this week when Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow showed up as a substitute teacher at McKinley High. With Holly reinvigorating the teens' passion for performi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMTony Award winner Jerry Mitchell will direct the 2011 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, honoring the best in dance and choreography on stage and in film, to be held on Monday May 23 in The Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMCaptioned performances have revolutionised theatregoing for the hard of hearing and given theatres access to a new audienceNot many theatregoers stop to think what they would do if their hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMOn Thanksgiving Day, Americans can celebrate priceless national bounty with excess. Or a second helping of reverence and restraint.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:38AMTonight marks the beginning of the end -- the end of Harry Potter the movie star, that is. But fans needn't worry: With the second half of the final story not due onscreen until next summer…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:36AMStuck with months with "mawkish drivel" from the Royalists and "vinegary carping" from the Republicans. Some Brits are thinking perhaps a long holiday is in order.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:36AMFor those who don't subscribe to any particular deity, music is often a substitute religion and offers all the spirituality they need.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AMThe cast and creative team of Ghost The Musical celebrated its official launch at the famed Abbey Road Studios, on Thursday, November 18. The show will begin performances at the West End&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMThe off-Broadway production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps has set a closing date of January 16, 2011. The show will have played 23 previews and 318 performances at New World Stages …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMFrench painter's fascination with movement to be focus of Royal Academy's canvas and film exhibitionAn exhibition on Degas and his fascination with ballet dancers – surprisingly, the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AMFinal Weeks For 21 Broadway ShowsAs incredible as that headline sounds, it's for real. A whopping 21 Broadway shows out of 39 will be closing between now and the end of January 2011. Yes, ov…
SOURCE: steveonbroadway.blogspot.com at 11:13AMOn Sunday, November 14, the New York Musical Theatre Festival hosted it's annual awards gala, honoring the winners of this year's fest and industry veterans Chita Rivera and producers Barry …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMALFRED HITCHCOCK’s
THE 39 STEPS
WILL CONCLUDE OFF-BROADWAY RUN
ON JANUARY 16, 2011
“This delicious deconstruction of Hitchcock’s classic film has been happily re-incarnated O…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:07AMOn Sunday, November 14, the New York Musical Theatre Festival hosted it's annual awards gala, honoring the winners of this year's fest and industry veterans Chita Rivera and producers Barry …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMDANE COOK
TO MAKE BROADWAY DEBUT
JOSH HAMILTON
RETURNS TO BROADWAY
IN
FAT PIG
Written & Directed by Neil LaBute
BROADWAY – SPRING 2011
Comedy superstar and actor Dane Cook wil…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:03AMOn Sunday, November 14, the New York Musical Theatre Festival hosted it's annual awards gala, honoring the winners of this year's fest and industry veterans Chita Rivera and producers Barry …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMSo there I am, trotting down the streets of London, on my way to a restaurant that serves squirrel, when I realized I was out of pounds. I saw a Barclay's cash machine on the next corner (in…
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The quick-change show adapted from the Hitchcock movie will have played more than 1,100 performances at four different theaters when it ends on Jan. 16.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57AMThe quick-change show adapted from the Hitchcock movie will have played more than 1,100 performances at four different theaters when it ends on Jan. 16.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57AMDeadline.com is reporting that Paramount has moved the release date for its Footloose remake to October 14, 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMOn Sunday, November 14, the New York Musical Theatre Festival hosted it's annual awards gala, honoring the winners of this year's fest and industry veterans Chita Rivera and producers Barry …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMOn Sunday, November 14, the New York Musical Theatre Festival hosted it's annual awards gala, honoring the winners of this year's fest and industry veterans Chita Rivera and producers Barry …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMComedian Dane Cook and Broadway veteran Josh Hamilton will star in a new Spring 2011 Broadway production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig. LaBute is slated to direct the show, which will be pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMOn Sunday, November 14, the New York Musical Theatre Festival hosted it's annual awards gala, honoring the winners of this year's fest and industry veterans Chita Rivera and producers Barry …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMIn this scene from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1," the director David Yates turns a coffee shop into a battlefield.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:45AMOkCupid utilizes social networking and gaming features to aid in the online dating game.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42AMFinal Weeks For 21 Broadway ShowsAs incredible as that headline sounds, it's for real. A whopping 21 Broadway shows out of 39 will be closing between now and the end of January 2011. Ye…
SOURCE: steveonbroadway.blogspot.com at 10:40AMFOX has just released a photo of stage and screen legend Carol Burnett, who will make her previously reported guest appearance on FOX's hit series Glee on November 23 as the mother of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMThe MCC Theatre production of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, now at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, has extended its run through December 22. Jo Bonney directs the production, which offi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMThis article was published on Discover Jersey Arts, for which I am the theater blogger The Paper Mill Playhouse is soon to be at the center of national theatrical attention when it hosts the…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:34AMComedy superstar and actor Dane Cook will make his Broadway debut this spring in the first Broadway production of Neil LaBute's FAT PIG at a theatre TBD. Cook will be joined by stage, film, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMIn the next couple of weeks, we'll post our annual music poll so you can vote for the best albums of 2010. We're compiling the list of nominees now and want your help.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:31AMBroadway veteran and Glee star Matthew Morrison graces the cover of the December issue of Details, and discusses his career with writer Claire Hoffman.
In the story, Morrison not only des…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AMA history of General Motors' emergence from the brink of failure.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:29AMThe memoir recently published by former president George W. Bush has been an opportunity for many to revisit the Bush presidency. E.J. Dionne Jr.of The New Republic argues that for the tea p…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:28AMThe Off-Broadway production of The 39 Steps, at New World Stages, will play its final performance on January 16, 2011. As of that time, it will have played 23 previews and 318 performances O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMMr. Cook, the standup comedian and actor, will star with Josh Hamilton in a Broadway production of "Fat Pig" that Neil LaBute will direct.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:17AMBroadway veterans Tony Danza and Henry Winkler and television personality Joy Behar are among the 2011 recipients of AARP The Magazine's Inspire Awards, which pay tribute to extraordin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMAlfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS, the award winning long running comedy, will conclude its Off-Broadway run on January 16, 2011, when it will play its final performance at New World Stages 34…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMMr. Cook, the standup comedian and actor, will star with Josh Hamilton in a Broadway production of "Fat Pig" that Neil LaBute will direct.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe Alliance Theatre announced the cast of its world premiere production of Bring It On The Musical.
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Urban Stages has announced the line-up for its second annual Holiday Cabaret Nights series, with proceeds going to help support the Urban Stages Outreach Program which brings theatre to chil…
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SOURCE: gracenotesstage.blogspot.com at 09:55AMBrendan Fraser Crash, Gods and Monsters, and critically hailed in the West End's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Denis O'Hare Take Me Out -Tony Award-winner, HBO's True Blood star in ELLING on Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMActor and comedian Jackie Hoffman is currently starring as Grandma Addams in The Addams Family, and later this month, Hoffman will be bringing her all-new solo show, Jackie Five-Oh A Celebra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMWas John Osborne's "Personal Enemy" worth rehabilitating?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:37AMA New Jersey pastor is telling his flock to delete their Facebook accounts. He says he's seen too much marital strife caused by the social network.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:36AMMs. Moss said the "density of activity" created excitement and spurred people to buy tickets to multiple events and view works in a different way when compared with other performances just s…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:31AMMary Schmich writes in the Chicago Tribune that your first e-mail address is like a first kiss -- you never forget it. Still, she's moved on from that well-worn AOL address. Do you still…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:29AMOh, the holiday programming keeps on coming.
Over at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, there's "Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold" Dec. 3 to 5.Then the New Haven B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:21AMA New York jury acquitted accused U.S. embassy bomber Ahmed Ghailani of nearly all charges. His trial was supposed to have been a sure thing -- and a test case to bolster the Obama administ…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:21AMMusic legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her memoir Just Kids, according to a report on EW.com. The book centers on her life in New York in the 1970s and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:18AMBBC America will air a marathon of its ht series Doctor Who, beginning at midnight on December 24 and leading up a special of its new Christmas special A Christmas Carol at 9pm on Saturday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMTheater veterans Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Dick Van Dyke, and Ace Young will be among the celebrity participants in The 2010 Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting Marine Toys For Tots, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMDreier said he wants to move Obama to the political center though that's where Obama arguably is. In fact, the president has angered his political base with many centrist positions.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:11AMThe time has come to cast your vote for the next I Will If You Will Book Club selection. So don't let a novel be chosen without you.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:02AMAnne KeefePlayhouse Artistic AdvisorI’m at my desk in my little office, still reeling from the fun of last night. The audience for the Script in Hand Playreading Series is truly insp…
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Today we are taking a look at one of the most exciting DVDBlu-Ray releases of the year - perhaps ever, at least as far as Broadway connoisseurs are concerned. Taped back in mid-March of this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMPoints International Ltd. owner and operator of the world's leading loyalty reward program management website, www.Points.com, is joining the theatre community by partnering with Audience Re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56AMFilmmaker Mark Craig has been saving his answering machine messages for two decades, and now he wants you to hear them.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:50AMSlightly more people applied for unemployment benefits last week, but first-time claims remain near their lowest level in two years. Initial claims rose by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 439…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:47AMBefore it had officially premiered, Undercovers, a show produced by J.J. Abrams and featuring two black leading characters, was hailed as the new wave of diversity in television programming.…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:36AMSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will hold a vote on the repeal of the ban on openly gay service members after the Thanksgiving recess.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:32AMGlen Berger's one-man play, "Under the Lintel" is the next show up at the Yale Cabaret in New Haven with performances starting tonight and continuing through Saturday.Blake Segal directs the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:26AMCirque du Soleil kicked off the final season of its family-friendly holiday show, Wintuk, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, by renaming 33rd Street "Wintuk Way."
Cast memb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:22AMThe rise of the Tea Party has popularized a particular brand of what Foreign Policy's David Rothkopf calls Snookiism, after the popular character on the TV show, Jersey Shore. Rothkopf argue…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:20AMThe Doors' poet-prophet rock idol drew unlikely inspiration from the literary likes of William Blake and Bertolt Brecht"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05AMJust a quick note that last night I caught the final performance of Point of Contention Theatre Company’s Chaos 5 — their fifth annual festival of ten-minute plays. This year, th…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:01AMMatt Pelfrey's tightly written drama works as a metaphor for today's bellicose political climate, but Joe Tantalo's expressionistic staging undercuts its emotional effectiveness.
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With arts organisations struggling financially, corporate sponsors have a vital role to play – and that includes alcohol distributorsWe begin this week by raising a glass to Guy Yedwab of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMThe equestrian spectacular Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Horse and Human, created by Normand Latourelle, will return to Los Angeles, under the White Big Top in downtown Burbank at 777…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRepublicans, poised to take control of the house in January, are preparing themselves in the most intellectual way: by reading. Tevi Troy of the National Review argues that conservatives sho…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:53AMThe Royal Opera House is about to open a new production workshop in Purfleet, EssexA little piece I did on the new production workshop for the Royal Opera House, near the Thames in Purfleet,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMNobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiabao is still in prison and his wife under house arrest. The award must be given to the winner or a close family member.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:41AMGM stock will be priced at $33 a share this morning. The stock offering will be one of the largest IPOs in history, and more than half the government's stake in the company.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:17AMThis highly promising collaboration between playwright John Guare and director George C. Wolfe never fulfills its laudable ambitions despite Lincoln Center's lavish and loving production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:16AMPlaywright Eliza Clark takes a seeming ordinary fast-food restaurant and three normal kids and turns out a taut and scary examination of the effects of terrorism.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:09AMSteve Solomon returns to Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven with "My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm Home for the Holidays."The seasonal solo show of comic cross-cultural family ta…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:08AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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The Tony-winning revival of The Norman Conquests remains one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life. Matthew Warchus’ production was so brilliantly realized at the Circle in…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:19AMEncores presents Bells Are Ringing November 18 at New York City Center. Bells Are Ringing is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall with music direction by Rob Berman, has music by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMHedy Weiss: With its 2010 Winter Pageant, Redmoon Theatre has devised a show that easily unites the generations — from geezers and boomers, to all those X,Y and Z types, to those ranging i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AMLegit News: Composer-lyricist to receive prize later this month -- Composer-lyricist Douglas J. Cohen has picked up the 2010 Fred Ebb Award, the $50,000 prize named after the late lyricist E…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:00AMLegit News: New musical 'Elf' opened on Sunday -- Warner Bros. Theater Ventures on Broadway hasn't been on the Rialto since the short-lived Elton John tuner "Lestat" closed in 2006.
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:00AMLegit News: Toronto hit to play Off Broadway -- Producer Kevin McCollum is backing an Off Broadway tryout run of Toronto hit "Blind Date" at Ars Nova next month.
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The billionaire toured a 30,300 square foot, English
style mansion on the sprawling grounds of the old Frick estate in Alpine, New Jersey, which is part of the lavish "Estates at Alpine" wh…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMThe prominent Beverly Hills publicist Ronni Chasen, 64, was gunned down in her Mercedes Benz E350 Tuesday after attending the premiere of the Cher film Burlesque, whose soundtrack she was pu…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMWarner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution sold the second off network syndicated cycle of tv's #1 comedy (Two and a Half Men) from The Big Bang Theory executive producer Chuck Lorre to t…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMOn November 7, five casting directors in the Los Angeles area received death threats via their office telephones. It is not known whether the perpetrators of the death threats indicated to t…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM"I'm looking at the lay of the land now, and ... trying to figure that out, if it's a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it's a good thing," Palin said
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM"The physical pain from that car accident has long healed. But the pain in my soul is more complex and unsettling; it has been far more difficult to ease and to understand. But this much is …
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMA rep for both actors explains: "Oli and Jake are huge Justin Timberlake fans...the joke is that he can sell millions of records, sing, dance and do everything. He meant [Jake] is a really g…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMReportedly Tony Parker, 28, sent Erin Barry, 37, the mother of two, hundreds of sex texts. Erin is estranged from her husband former NBA basketball star Brent Barry, Parker's former San Anto…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMThe number of people subscribing to US cable tv has suffered its biggest decline in 30 years as younger, tech savvy viewers lead an exodus to web-based operations, such as Hulu and Netflix.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMThe Harry Potter star, 21, was horified at the wave of gay teen suicides but sees hope in the wake of these tragedies. "The attention and the more publicity and the more awareness that can b…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 which opens at 12:01 AM Friday is already breaking records and it hasn't even opened yet. It will play in 3,700 midnight locations, which is a re…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMDirector Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty)delivered movies on time, under budget and with little to no fuss. It made him a millionaire.…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMJay-Z in his autobiography, Decoded, said on on Tuesday's Late Show with David Letterman that Reaganomics and Iran-Contra put crack into urban neighborhoods. Jay Z: "During that time, you kn…
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMEva Longoria is breaking her silence after filing for divorce from Tony Parker, her husband of three years.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMDemi Lovato won't be home for Thanksgiving but she will have her family by her side.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMA SWAT team posted up outside a home in Wisconsin after a man shot his TV because he was so enraged with Bristol Palin's performance on "Dancing with the Stars."
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMAlanis Morissette is getting ready for a new little man in her life.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMDenis Leary is negotiations to play the father of Emma Stone in Columbia’s new Spider-Man movie.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMThe post-Super Bowl episode will revolve around the musical dramedy's sports story lines and see the glee club perform a "Thriller" mash-up.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMChris Daughtry and wife Deanna welcomed fraternal twins Adalynn Rose and Noah James.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMAmerican Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe says that finalists will face new challenges, including contests to make the best music video, on the Fox's singing competition.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMIt is heartfelt sentimentality at work here combined with musical comedy show business expertise that makes Elf so entertaining.
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There's little rhyme or reason to Complexions. Kicking off a two-week run Tuesday at The Joyce, the New York troupe's work is built on little besides sex appeal. It's hot, but empty -- the C…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:55AMDo critics think "Mistakes Were Made"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 12:28AMCombining men in drag with a spoof of cheesy '50s-era sci-fi movies, "Devil Boys From Beyond" is like time-capsule camp. A hit at last year's Fringe Festival, its familiar brand of kitsch se…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AMHarry Potter enthusiasts are being brought together online for a variety of causes. Fan communities, it turns out, can do more than just share their enthusiasm.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:01AMU.S. troops have been conducting major combat operations in parts of Afghanistan's southeastern Kandahar province, and have managed to disrupt insurgent networks. But it's hard to know how m…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:01AMNPR's Don Gonyea profiles Bob Gibbs, the Ohio Republican who ousted a Democrat in the November election and spent this week with more than 80 other incoming GOP members of Congress in Washin…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:01AMActor-playwright Chazz Palminteri performs "A Bronx Tale," a story based on his life experiences. In it, a young boy witnesses a mob killing and comes under the influence of the local mob bo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSimon Gray Play Set for Long Wharf TheatreTony Award-winner and two-time Oscar-nominee Shirley Knight (Hartford Stage's "Necessary Targets," TV's "Desperate Housewives") joins Sam Waterst…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMJessica Kirson, Lynne Koplitz and Chris Rich are next up in the latest installment of "Ha! Ha! Hartford" at the Belding Theater in the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on Friday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe "mad as hell" mood might have taken over at the ballot box earlier this month, but Lewis Black has been tapping into that frustration for years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMichael Bakwin and his wife left their Stockbridge house on Memorial Day weekend in 1978 for a short trip. Soon after they returned, they discovered that someone had broken in and stolen sev…
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