Stage and screen star Farley Granger died on Sunday, March 27 in New York, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 85.
Granger worked extensively on stage, including the Broadway produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29PMSo devastating is Laurie Metcalf in "The Other Place" -- so vivid her anguish, confusion and despair -- that at times she's hard to watch.
But it's even harder not to. She's giving such a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMThere are big, fun, gaudy numbers in the beloved musical "La Cage aux Folles," but the show really hangs on the emotional strength of its stars.
Happily, Harvey Fierstein and Christopher …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PMIf you care about theatre, or about the evils that people have done (and still continue to do) in the name of politics, then you must see this show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:04PMUniversal Pictures is no longer attached to produce a film based on the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, according to Deadline.com.
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 09:57PMBroadway fans hoping to see Usnavi and his Washington Heights friends on the big screen may need to sit tight. Universal Pictures has dropped their plans to bring the Tony-winning musical In…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:44PMTheatre Communications Group Announces National Conference Speakers
Award-winning Columnist Mona Eltahawy to Keynote
New York, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organ…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 09:42PMGlenn Davis and Necar Zadegan are making their Broadway debuts with Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Rajiv Joseph’s tense and metaphorical drama about American soldiers, Iraqi civilians,…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:26PMActress T.V. Carpio may be the fifth cast member of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" to suffer an injury, but she is the first to have done so at the hands of the superhero himself: He fell o…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:24PMBroadway Grosses for the week ending March 27, 2011 are in. Some newcomers to the party as well as a few openings during the week. Overall numbers were down from last week with total gross a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:22PMSpirits were high on the red carpet and black-tie opening night celebration for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. First-nighters such as Liza Minnelli, Sara Ramirez and David…
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Chicagoans can take the heat in June, but can they take a roasting? Jeffrey Ross, the “roastmaster general” known for taking down Donald Trump and David Hasselhoff on Comedy Central, pla…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:49PMIn the American theater, one quest is eternal: the pursuit of the hot young playwright of the moment, the sort with a freshly minted MFA from Yale or Brown or NYU, living in Brooklyn or on t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:11PMWhen we first see William King, the ebullient, hard-working family man at the center of “Broke-ology,’’ he is such a larger-than-life figure that his house seems barely abl…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:11PM‘Car Talk: The Musical!!!’’ is the kind of show in which a character borrows the tune of “Maria’’ from “West Side Story’’ to sing a love…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:10PMLegit News: Co-wrote 'The Little Prince' adaptation -- Composer, lyricist, playwright and performer John Scoullar died of cancer on Friday, March 25. He was 62.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMThis is a painting I like to go to when I’m in an agitated state, when my eyes have been darting senselessly from screen to screen for far too much of the day, when the world feels hec…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:08PMNEW YORK (AP) -- This week's "Grey's Anatomy" is being billed as a musical episode, and cast member Sara Ramirez understands that saying the word musical "tends to mislead people" by imp…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:01PMInterview: David Edgar, whose play about the making, 400 years ago, of the King James Bible, Written on the Heart, will premiere at the RSC's Swan Theatre at Stratford in the autumn talks to…
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The city's two major operas may be on similar creative tracks, but it's unlikely the Met would put on anything as extreme as "Monodramas," which opened at City Opera on Friday.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:55PMIt’s now the most wonderful time of the year — or, according to songwriter and comedy scribe Mark Nutter, the least. The Chicago native and soon-to-be re-established local resident think…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:50PMKristin Scott Thomas is set to be reunited with director Ian Rickson, who helmed her last theatrical outing at the Royal Court and subsequently on Broadway in The Seagull, for a new West End…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:41PMToday, the word is that Universal Pictures has removed the planned IN THE HEIGHTS movie from its projects, according to Deadline.com. Though the project carries with it only a price tag of a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:23PMI don't usually get choked up reading about critics and other assorted theater journalists (even though I am one), but this tribute to Mel Gussow and Michael Kuchwara by Howard Sherman, the…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 07:13PMThis was a busy weekend for award-winnig composerlyricistplaywrightpianistauthor Andrew Gerle as he celebrated not one, but two new books.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMThe Hartford Currant has confirmed that Audra McDonald will lead a new production of Porgy and Bess at A.R.T. A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus confirmed the news in a recent interview.…
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Tony winner Victoria Clark is remarkably philosophical about her impressive career. Ever the spiritualist, Clark finds the life lesson in every part she plays, including shrill Alice Beane i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:57PMBoth Alan Alda and HUgh Dancy will soon be making appearences on Showtime's 'The Big C.' Alda will play one of Cathy's new oncologists, while Dancy will have a recurring role in the series.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMA number of fresh faces joined the cast of Broadway's The Addams Family this month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:47PMTony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman will bring her staging of the Leonard Bernstein musical Candide to Boston as part of the Huntington Theatre Company's 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40PMThe new production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opened at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMHOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING had its opening night last night, and with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe receiving mostly positive reviews for his turn as J. Pierrepont…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35PMEvery performance of Broadway's Chicago is filled with plenty of razzle dazzle, but the March 25 show had an extra special sizzle, as the revival became the fifth longest-running show in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PMBroadway’s best party is back and had a killer re-opening weekend at its new home, the Helen Hayes Theater! Check out some rockin photos of the curtain call from BroadwayWorld.com.
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 06:28PMThe head of the American Theatre Wing salutes two major critics
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 06:21PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Star Witness" ★★½ Through May 7 at Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.; Running time: 2 hours; Tickets: $25 at 773-769-3832. With Mary Redmon (left), Gary Simmersand B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:10PMFinally, a rave: I review How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, rapturously. This...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:05PMJudging by the rehearsal, the performance will have an intimate feeling, like someone with an ear close to a radio set
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An A-list crowd donned black-tie on March 27 for opening night of Rob Ashford’s red-hot Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Al Hirschfeld Theatr…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMJermyn Street, LondonAn unknown 17-year-old schoolgirl called Sheridan Smith was the hit of Howard Goodall and Charles Hart's musical The Kissing Dance, based on Goldsmith's She Stoops …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PM“QUEEN OF BROADWAY” - New York Post PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT STAKES HER CLAIM ON BROADWAY INCREASES WEEKLY EARNINGS BY OVER $220,000 Priscilla stars Tony Sheldon and Nick Adams also…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:31PMThe spring season continues to bloom on Broadway as four new shows began previews this week. New musicals Wonderland, Baby It's You and Sister Act all played to capacities over 92%, with…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:29PMHow To Succeed... : Daniel Radcliffe Performs "Brotherhood of Man"
Website: H2SYouTube Starring the multi award-winning international stage and film actor Daniel Radcliffe (Equus…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:26PMThe critically acclaimed new production of Tom Stoppard’s ARCADIA, directed by David Leaveux, gained $90,000 at the box office this past week, making it the biggest box office increase by …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:23PMThe news magazine "60 Minutes" and reality shows on Sunday topped the night's ratings in prime time for CBS.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Award-winners John Cullum and Tonya Pinkins will be leading the casts at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park series this summer....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:22PMFrom Girl With Curious Hair (1989). Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 97.[In honor of David Foster Wallace's pending, posthumous novel, The Pale King, I'll be spending the weeks until …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:20PMLooking to buy last minute tickets to a Broadway show Don't know what to see Trying to find a theaterWelcome to BroadwayWorld's newest feature the Broadway Ticket Buying Guide. Inside, you …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:17PMFresh off his second stint in Broadway's Wicked, Kyle Dean Massey headed out of Oz and into the recording studio for his newest show, Lucky Guy. The Next to Normal vet and co-star S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:15PMTheatre 503, LondonBrighton's Hydrocracker company makes its London debut with this lively new play by Neil Fleming about management consultants. It's a rich topic given that government spen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PM"Behind the Lines" at WAR HORSE - Episode 2
In the second episode of his backstage video blog, Matt Doyle takes you through the first 2 weeks of previews and shares a special pre-…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:08PMAlthough it's not a musical, Lea Michele will sing in the upcoming New Year's Eve, her first big-screen movie. Director Garry Marshall told Broadway.com that the Glee star and Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMPatrick Breen and Luke MacFarlane have joined the cast of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart on Broadway, playing Mickey Marcus and Craig Donner/Grady, respectively. They join the previou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PM'Once when I was playing Groucho Marx I fainted – and when I came round my trousers were round my ankles'What got you started?As a child, I had an innate desire to think about what it was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMSan Diego Asian American Repertory Theater will conclude its 2010-11 residence at La Jolla Playhouse with a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, May 12-Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMA nonprofit photo gallery in Vienna and a group of analog photography entrepreneurs announced Monday that they had acquired a collection of several thousand Polaroid prints by well-known art…
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The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences touring production of Barrio Grrrl!, penned by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes and Tony Award winner…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMAlan Alda will guest star on Showtime's The Big C. He is scheduled to play an oncologist whom Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) consults after her previous treatment failed.
Alda, who is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PM Some of you may know playwright Deborah Brevoort, who has conducted play-writing workshops here and whose play The Blue-Sky Boys, about the engineers responsible for the first Apollo …
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 04:49PMDo critics want to assassinate "Macbeth"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:48PMIn their first full week of performances since opening on Broadway, the new musical "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" notched a 30-percent increase in ticket sales and the revival of "Arcadia"…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMWith the opening of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING occurring just last night, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is in the news yet again with the release of the first post…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMTHE ADDAMS FAMILY welcomed five new principal cast members beginning Tuesday, March 8 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46th Street when Heidi Blickenstaff title of show assumed the role…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMCasting has been announced for the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park repertory productions of All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. Tony winners John Cullum a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:22PMThere's a new crew of kooky folks taking over in The Addams Family. Roger Rees, Heidi Blickenstaff, Brad Oscar, Rachel Potter, Adam Grupper and Jesse Swenson recently moved into the fami…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:19PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening night of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMHere’s the thing about How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: it is not a joke. Sitting in the Hirschfeld Theater—where the show opened Sunday night—for two hours and fort…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:16PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening night of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending March 27, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AMERICAN IDIOT $474,804 8,336 60.97% $56.96 ANYTHING GOES $571,560 8,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 04:15PMAudra McDonald will play Bess in American Repertory Theater's production of Porgy and Bess, according to an interview in The Hartford Courant with Diane Paulus, the theater's artis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMTony Award winner Chita Rivera, Robert Petkoff, Nicholas Rodriguez, Sharon Washington and Dan Butler are among the actors participating in the Sundance Institute's 2011 Theatre Lab in Al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMMidtown Theatre, Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: A politically provocative stand-up comedy show.
As anyone who has ever watched The Daily Show with John Stewart knows, c…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 04:08PMProducer Daryl Roth announced today that Patrick Breen Next Fall and Luke MacFarlane Brothers and Sisters have joined the cast of the premiere presentation of Larry Kramer's ground-breaking …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMWe’re lucky. We know there’s a market for what we do. We know there are thousands upon thousands of people that want to see the theater every single day.
SOURCE: the Situation at 04:06PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 3272011
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMThe Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitzky discusses her debut feature in New Directors/New Films, "Happy, Happy."
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art named a new director of its famed concert and lecture series. She is Limor Tomer, a producer, programmer, administrator and musician who has worked at New York…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:51PMI am convinced that if you love broadway musicals, it is impossible not to adore La Cage Aux Folles. Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein created a damn near perfect musical that remains relev…
SOURCE: www.moxiethemaven.com at 03:50PMIt has become a familiar irony: The most brilliant brains are also the most fragile.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:46PMIn Three Men on a Horse, hen-pecked greeting-card writer, Erwin Trowbridge, has an uncanny ability for predicting the winners of horse races.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMAvid Theatricals presents the Off-Broadway premiere of Lucky Guy, a new musical comedy, written and directed by Willard Beckham. Performances will begin on Thursday, April 28, 2011 and conti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMJohn Forslund and Electric Playground Inc. will present Theatre of Rock: People You Know Singing Songs You Don't April 18 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMDaniel Radcliffe does it all in Rob Ashford's revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." The former Harry Potter is no Robert Morse—but then who is, and so what?
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 03:39PMKristin Chenoweth has hinted on her Twitter that she may be heading back to Broadway in the near future in a Scott Ellis production.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:39PM"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe may follow up his pursuit of Lord Voldemort with an even more challenging feat: A successful movie musical.
The 21-year-old said Monday he was open to re…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:36PMTwo-time Drama Desk nominee Leslie Kritzer, whose Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim, A Catered Affair, Legally Blonde and Hairspray, will join the cast of Newsical Full Spin Ahea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes announced casting today for the 2011 Shakespeare in the Park summer season featuring MEASURE FOR MEAS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMIs Broadway big enough for two drag-queen musicals? You bet your sequined set of falsies.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:23PMThe Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture has withdrawn its controversial offer to spend $750,000 on 1949 murals of early black Californians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:14PMDavid Armstrong, Rosalie Celestial, Mindy Chu, Rossana De Leon, Michael Demoret, Angela Evers, Ana Jacala, Kezia Liu, Tiffany Loui, Dante Macatantan, Patrick Mayuyu, Albert Park, Elise Kim P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMAdditional cast and creative team have been announced for the Broadway revival of The Normal Heart. Joel Grey, working with George C Wolfe, will direct the production, which, as previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMRay Bennett
One of the best Broadway revues of the 1930s makes its way for the first time in Europe.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:12PMThe cast of the new Off-Broadway musical Lucky Guy, including Kyle Dean Massey, Varla Jean Merman and Leslie Jordan, stepped in front of the green screen March 25 to film a future TV ad. Pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMThe cast of the new Off-Broadway musical Lucky Guy, including Kyle Dean Massey, Varla Jean Merman and Leslie Jordan, stepped in front of the green screen March 25 to film a future TV ad. Pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMProducer Daryl Roth announced March 28 that Patrick Breen (Next Fall) and Luke MacFarlane ("Brothers and Sisters") have joined the cast of Larry Kramer’s ground-breaking play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMThe Public Theater
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All’s Well That Ends Well
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 03:05PMWalt Disney Records is pleased to announce the Tuesday, April 5th album release of Mary Poppins The Live Cast Recording from the stage musical MARY POPPINS, presented by Disney and Cameron M…
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The cast of the upcoming Broadway musical WONDERLAND - A New Alice. A New Musical, will be live streaming from backstage at the Marquis Theatre tomorrow, Tuesday, March 29 630pm to 700pm. Cl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMThe Public Theater has announced casting for its repertory productions of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, to run June 6 - July 31 at the Delacorte …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMBobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciorra are hard at work prepping their own Broadway show, The Motherf**ker With the Hat, for its April 11 opening, but the co-stars are also eager to check out…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:53PMJohn Scoullar, a composer, lyricist, playwright and performer, died on March 25, his partner Bradshaw Smith said. He had been battling skin cancer. He was 61.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMBorders Columbus Circle at NYC's Time Warner Center has announced its April line-up of events
On Saturday, April 2 at 1pm, there will be a Madagascar Live! celebration, including stori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMThe Tony Award-winning musical Chicago became the fifth-longest running production in Broadway history March 25, surpassing Oh! Calcutta with a total of 5,960 performances. Supermodel Christ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMI nearly deleted this piece of blogmail because the subject header looked like spam. Something made me hesitate and open...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:43PMBaltimore's Centerstage has announced its 49th season, which will kick off Sept. 28 with Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, directed by David Schweizer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMThe Actors Fund will be honoring Tony winner Hal Holbrook during their annual Los Angeles screening of the best of Broadway kudocast. The award, named for five-time Tony champ Julie Harris, …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:34PMThis fall I was puzzled by quite a few things on Broadway. I didn't foresee Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson tumbling so quickly. It had no stars, but neither did Spring Awakening.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:33PMShows have done a lot of nutty things over the years to show an audience that their $127 is well spent. Priscilla‘s thing is sequins. And feathers. And glitter. Splashed across the sta…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:33PMIn early March, CBS ordered two more seasons of "Survivor," another one of its reality shows, bringing the total number of seasons to 24. In mid-March NBC ordered new seasons of three Thursd…
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:28PMTony Award winners John Cullum and Tonya Pinkins will lead the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park repertory productions of Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMThe new production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opened at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMAfter having been interviewed last week on Studio 360 (in an unfortunately-named episode called "Too Much Theatre?") discussing the #supplydemand "controversy," I wanted to follow up with a …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 02:23PMDreamWorks Theatricals and Broadway Across America have indefinitely postponed all planned performances of its touring production of Madagascar Live, following the end of the New York City e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMHOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opened Sunday, March 27, 2011, at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th Street. Check out producer Candy Spelling talking about the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMNew York's Public Theater announced its second consecutive summer of casting a repertory company of actors in its two Shakespeare in the Park productions, "Measure for Measure" and "All's We…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMTom Stoppard's complex drama Arcadia isn't the easiest show to describe, so when the play's star Billy Crudup joined Late Night host Jimmy Fallon on March 25, Crudup re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:19PMWalt Disney Records will release Mary Poppins: The Live Cast Recording on April 5. The album was recorded over the course of five performances at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMBob Walton ( Broadway's "Merrily We Roll Along," "42nt Street," "Once Upon a Mattress," "Show Boat") will play Caldwell B. Cladwell in the musical comedy "Urinetown," which will play the Har…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:12PMCENTERSTAGE Theater in Baltimore will present the world premiere of Toni Morrison's Jazz, adapted and directed by Marion McClinton, January 4-February 5.
The theater's 2011-2012 s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PM30 rush tickets will be available for Baby It's You the new Broadway musical now in previews at the Broadhurst Theatre 235 West 44th Street. Rush tickets will be available beginning at 10am …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMDespite a Broadway career spanning over half a century, Estelle Parsons remains without a Tony despite four nominations. However, her supporting performance in David Lindsay-Abaire's new…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:09PMNew York, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, announces an initial list of three speakers for its annual National Conference in Los Angeles, Jun…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:06PMThe best of times is now to see Harvey Fierstein and Christopher Sieber in the Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles. Not only are the stars perfectly in sync as Albin and Georges, there&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMKyle Dean Massey and Savannah Wise, who play love interests in the coming Off-Broadway musical comedy Lucky Guy, recorded a song from the score recently, and Playbill.com got first-crack at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMWalt Disney Records will release "Mary Poppins: The Live Cast Recording" April 5.
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Intiman Theatre has announced a donor's $100,000 matching grant as part of the theater's fundraising campaign.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:58PMJohn Scoullar, a Broadway performer and theater writer, died on Friday, March 25, following a battle with skin cancer. He was 61.
Scoullar appeared on Broadway in the 1978 musical King of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:53PMChristopher Sieber stepped into the role of Georges in the Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles at the Longacre Theatre March 11. He joined Harvey Fierstein, who assumed the role…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMTony and Emmy-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, most recently on Broadway in the revival of Promises, Promises, may be headed back to The Great White Way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMWe are now seeing performances in this radiant ballet, by Sergey Polunin and Steven McRae, that rival my memories of Baryshnikov's genius
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 01:49PMLaura Linney loves theater, so we’re not surprised that the celebrated star of Broadway’s Time Stands Still and TV’s The Big C took time to see one of the season’s mo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:45PMDaniel Radcliffe survives this athletic conception – a dance extravaganza that celebrates an era remembered by Americans for vigour and optimism – manfully
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:42PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Daniel Radcliffe received a warm response from critics in reviews posted Monday for his Broadway musical debut, if not for his musical prowess, for his enthusiasm …
SOURCE: Reuters at 01:41PMBABY IT'S YOU: Mama Said
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:35PMPatrick Wilson may have his eyes set on TV as he readies to star in a supernatural pilot for CBS, but the Tony nominee still has a special place in his heart for Broadway. On March 28, the t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMThe cast and cretive team of Broadway's THE BOOK OF MORMON chatted with Broadway Beat at the opening night after party on March 24. There, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone went on the rec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMPlaywright Read presents compelling, fully realized characters, and their secrets are both surprising and believable.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:29PMWhat holds the sun and the moon, runs circles around itself and turns men into women? The answer is the Pittsburgh Opera's stunning new production of "Turandot," Puccini's opera in which the…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:29PMKate Shindle, who stars as The Mad Hatter in Broadway’s WONDERLAND, now in previews at the Marquis Theatre, is featured in the Star Ledger: A Role to Hang Her Hat On By Ronni Reich, The St…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:23PMHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Christopher J. Hanke will take Broadway.com viewers behind-the-scenes at the smashing new musical revival with his very own video blog. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMTony nominee Will Swenson, who currently stars in Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert, will direct a film adaptation of Carol Lynn Pearson's play, Facing East, according to The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMEduardo Souto de Moura, a Portuguese architect who has worked mainly in his native country, designing a major soccer stadium and numerous private houses, has been awarded the 2011 Pritzker P…
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Manhattan’s Regis High School is on the Upper East Side, but for teachers like James Kennedy, that̵…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:02PM"Newlyweds," the 10th film written and directed by Mr. Burns, chronicles "a newly wedded couple whose honeymoon period is upended by the arrival of the husband's wild-child baby sister and t…
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Documentary plays with an activist bent originated in the 1930s, but The Heretic and Greenland shows they are here to stayI recently spent a week in London. While walking through Hyde Park a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMJohn Scoullar, a composer, lyricist, playwright and performer, died on Friday, March 25, following a battle with skin cancer. He was 61.
Scoullar made his Broadway debut working on the 1974…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMMADAGASCAR LIVE, DreamWorks Theatricals' first-ever live family touring show, is currently touring the country, making stops in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and more. This brand new s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMAt Intiman Theatre in Seattle, director Valerie Curtis-Newton directs Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" through April 17.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:52PMTony Award nominee and Priscilla Queen of the Desert star Will Swenson will direct the upcoming film adaptation of the Carol Lynn Pearson play Facing East, which centers on a young Mormon ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMCandy Spelling talks with "Today Show" co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb about co-producing the 50th anniversary production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Tryin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe Stella Adler Studio of Acting announced today that the Sixth Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala will be held on May 2nd at the home of songwriter and philanthropist, Denise Rich. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMThe Book of Mormon, the smash-hit new musical from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, claims to have scored quite an impressive fan: God! Mormon, which is billed "God's…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:38PMThe Global Theatre Project (The GTP) is looking for theatre artists and residents of all ages, ethnic and religious backgrounds, and sexual orientation to participate in the “Double Doub…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:37PMRAIN cast members Steve Landes, Joey Curatolo, Joe Bithorn and Ralph Castelli honored The Actor's Fund in a special performance last night, March 27. Proceeds from the added performance got…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMDaniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette, director-choreographer Rob Ashford and the rest of the cast talk about reviving Frank Loesser's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMIrish Repertory Theatre will revive Dion Boucicault's ripe 19th-century comic melodrama The Shaughraun on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage starting April 21. Artistic d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMAccording to a report by Variety, stage and screen star Hal Holbrook will be honored with the 2011 Actors Fund's Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award. Holbrook will receive the award at t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMThe Tony Award-winning production of the celebrated musical comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES now stars four-time Tony Award-winner and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES author Harvey Fierstein as Albin and two-ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMA dancer and a documentary filmmaker on Monday received this year's Martin E. Segal Awards, which recognize emerging artists associated with Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMThe works of late writer Shepherd Mead, whose book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was turned into a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical, are being …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMPriscilla Queen of the Desert and The Book of Mormon both opened on Broadway in the same week—Priscilla on March 20 at the Palace Theatre and Mormon March 24 at the Eugene O’Neill Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMThe New York Times reports today that Will Swenson Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hair will direct independent feature film adaptation of Carol Lynn Pearson's play Facing East. Pearson is al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMKathleen Chalfant, Amanda McBroom, and Ken Page will be special guest artists at the Invisible Theatre's Painting the Town Red cabaret to be offered April 9-10 at the Berger Performing …
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The cast of the upcoming Broadway musical WONDERLAND – A New Alice. A New Musical, will be live streaming from backstage at the Marquis Theatre tomorrow, Tuesday, March 29 6:30pm to 7:00…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:59AMPrior to a West End run opening summer 2011, Ghost The Musical will have a strictly limited 7 week season at the Opera House, Manchester, running from 28 March - 14 May 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMLiza Minnelli will receive the Marlon Brando Award and Annette Bening will receive the Stella Adler Award at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting's sixth annual Stella by Starlight gala be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMPorchlight Music Theatre Chicago will stage the Sondheim revue "Putting it Together," Harvey Fierstein's "A Catered Affair" and Jonathan Larson's "tick, tick...Boom" during the 2011-12 seaso…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMBroadway Workshop, Manhattan's fastest growing acting program for young artists, welcomed Tony Award Winner - Daisy Eagan for a one day musical theatre master class. The master class, took p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMTheatre and television actress Jo Anne Worley will guest star on the April 14 episode of Fox's "Bones," according to TVGuide.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThe new production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opened at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMCast members from the Alliance Theatre's production of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, along with members of the creative team and the show's director, Susan V. Booth, will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMThe Stella Adler Studio of Acting's Sixth Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala will be held May 2 at the home of songwriter and philanthropist Denise Rich.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMA week in the life of actor, writer and music director Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMA week in the life of actor, writer and music director Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMAva Astaire and Patricia Watt have announced the nominating committee for the 2011 Fred amp Adele Astaire Awards, the only awards that recognize excellence in dance on Broadway and in film.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMBroadway star Will Swenson will direct an independent film adaptation of Carol Lynn Pearson's play Facing East, about a Mormon couple who grapples with their faith after the suicide of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMArmed only with a glass of water, a skeletal outline, and perhaps a rush of adrenaline, monologist Mike Daisey delivers unscripted, hours-long meditations on life, theater, and politics. Emb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMThe Baryshnikov Arts Center, a laboratory and performance space for multidisciplinary artists, will sell a painting of St. Petersburg that its founder, Mikhail Baryshnikov, fell in love with…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:15AMAlec Baldwin took home the award for Best Comedy Actor in Television, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "South Park" received the award for Animated Comedy Series, and "Modern …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMThe Route 66 Theatre Company production of "A Twist of Water" is transfering to the Mercury Theatre. This very successful show will start performances on Apr. 14 and re-open officially on Ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:07AMThe panel of playwrights - Annie Baker, Rinne Groff, Karen Hartman and Alfred Uhry - talk about their writing process; the role of the dramaturg; writing adaptations; collaborating with dire…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:01AMThe Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Rent and the short-lived Broadway revue based on the music of Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire, will be part of the 2011-2012 season at Casa Ma&ntil…
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Irish Repertory Theatre has announced casting for Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, to run April 21 - June 12. Charlotte Moore will direct the production, which will feature choreograp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMDaniel Radcliffe climbs the ladder from window washer to corporate wunderkind in the 50th anniversary revival of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Withou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMThe Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM, directed by Ian Rickson, will open on April 21, 2011 at the Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street. Previews begin April 2. The production will play a li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMVeteran actor Hal Holbrook, a Tony winner for Mark Twain Tonight!, will be presented with the Actors Fund's Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Tony Awards Party in Los…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMROCK OF AGES opened on April 7, 2009 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre to critical acclaim, following an off Broadway engagement in the fall of 2008. The Broadway production was nominate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMMary Hollis Inboden reveals some personal truths from a painful past in “The Warriors.” “I Googled you,” says Jeff (Wes Needham) to Mary Hollis (Mary Hollis Inboden, …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:45AMJim Caruso's Cast Party will play a one-night-only engagement at Mayne Stage in Chicago on Sunday, April 10 at 8:30pm. Caruso hosts, with Billy Stritch on piano.
The open mic event is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMLogo, the entertainment network for gays, lesbians and their families and friends, announced today that award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and provocative, dynamic entertainment …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMHandspring Puppet Company founders Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, who brought the animals of War Horse to life in London and now on Broadway, will speak at the New School April 15 in Manhatt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMWill Swenson, a star of the new Broadway musical "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," will direct an independent film adaptation of the play "Facing East."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMActor and star of the hit TV series, Modern Family, Jesse Tyler Ferguson joked around with Woody Woodpecker while being hosted with boyfriend Justin Mikita at Universal Orlando Resort on Mar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMOn Friday, March 25, 2011, the internationally acclaimed revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO reached another major milestone when it became th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThe question that faces the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism is that if it become absorbed into the Department of Economic and Community Development, can it still receive funds …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:27AMRather than simply being tragic poems of frustration and loss, Tennessee Williams's plays provide a rich – and very comic – social record of his timesAnniversaries offer a cue for reasse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMThe current offering from Peccadillo Theater Company is A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. The first words that come to my mind, describing the current production of the classic, and in my opinion, u…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 10:17AMGiven all that has been happening on planet Earth lately....Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Middle-East unrest, Charlie Sheen....it seems like a perfect moment to take off into outer space and to exp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMHal Holbrook will receive the Actors Fund's Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement at the organization's annual Tony Award party to be held on June 12 at the Skirball Cultural…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14AMDavid Lee, who has spent the past half a dozen years as associate director of new-play development at Orlando Shakespeare Theater and as an assistant professor of theater at UCF, is leaving …
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 10:07AMDominic Fortuna, who played the role of Vince Fontaine in the most recent Broadway revival of Grease, will assume that role as well as the part of Teen Angel in the current national tour of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AMThe cast recording of Lincoln Center Theater's production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the new musical based on the film by Pedro Almodvar, with book by Jeffrey Lane, music …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05AMMs. Adams, a three-time Academy Award nominee, will play the intrepid Daily Planet reporter for Mr. Snyder, the director of "Sucker Punch."
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Carrie Manolakos, who played Sophie in the Broadway and national tour of Mamma Mia!, will go it solo at Splash Bar April 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMThe new production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opened at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMVictor Garber, Anjelica Huston, Michele Lee, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, Sara Ramirez, John Stamos and more join Daniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette and company at their Broadway openin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMPerforming Tonight: Liza Minnelli's Daughter will begin previews April 28 at Chicago's Neo-Futurarium prior to an official opening April 30. Performances will continue through June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM100 West End tickets a night available at Hampstead prices - £29. 12 April – 28 May 2011 at the Duchess Theatre.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:40AMHere’s a ticket deal: The Sands Theater Center is offering a buy-one-get-one-free deal on tickets to Thursday’s performance of The Producers, at the Athens Theatre in DeLand. You…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 09:30AMPrivate Practice star Tim Daly and Tony nominee Euan Morton will participate in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 9th year of Will on the Hill, which utilizes actual Washington politici…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMAt the March 27 Inner Circle Comedy Show, which is presented each year by City Hall reporters, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donned Spiderman garb.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMMichael Wilson, who will be stepping own as artistic director of Hartford Stage at the end of the 2010-11 season will receive a special community tribute at an event to be held at the theate…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:15AMDominic Fortuna will assume the roles of Vince Fontaine and Teen Angel in the national tour of Grease when it plays at Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre, running April 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMShe’ll Be Here! Elaine Paige on playing Carlotta in Kennedy Center’s upcoming production of Follies I was so excited when it was announced that Elaine Paige would be playing the role of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:11AMIn recent days, several members of the media have opined that we should cease to mention the name of a certain former governor of Alaska until she does something that's actually newsworthy. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMThink dream ballets went out with the likes of Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille? Think again. There's an example of the genre in "Mirandy and Brother Wind," the enchanting new children's mu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMFor a theater company that has been staging children's plays for nearly 60 years, Adventure Theatre is certainly celebrating a lot of firsts. The recently opened "Mirandy and Brother Wind" m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMWhat we liked about "Stomp" - and there must be something, for the dance-a-little, whack-a-lot percussion show has been kicking around the world for 20 years - used to be its ferocious energ…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMThe one-man show "Tynan" at Studio Theatre is based on the great British theater critic Kenneth Tynan's diaries of his final decade - he died in 1980, only 53 years old. Listening to his pro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMMeasured against his greatest dramas, "Cymbeline" counts as an iffy achievement for Shakespeare, what with subplots recycled from weightier efforts and characters lacking in lightning-bolt i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AMHow long has it been since you read or recited "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Or Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? How about Edgar Allan Poe's "Anna…
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In anticipation of Next to Normal's upcoming Chicago stint as well as her Chicago concert debut, Tony Award winner Alice Ripley is taking YOUR questions, BroadwayWorld.com readers.With shows…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55AMYesterday, March 27, 2011 was World Theatre Day. There were celebrations all over the world commemorating the day. We grabbed a sample of the numerous tweets about the day and assembled them…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:46AMSharr White's taut, incisive puzzle play, beautifully directed by Joe Mantello and featuring a raw and riveting Laurie Metcalf, tells a harrowing and moving tale.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:03AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Off Broadway company sets 2011-12 season -- New plays by Gina Gionfriddo, Itamar Moses and Leslye Headland are among the offerings on tap for the 2011-12 season at Off Broadway's…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMThe proliferation of film work in Boston has greatly benefited area stage actors, many of whom have been quietly toiling in theater companies for years.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMAlmost a year later, the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of the Jerry Herman–Harvey Fierstein musical retains its raw appeal, and Fierstein admirably fills Douglas Hodge's pumps.
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Born on March 26 1911, Tennessee Williams, whose centenary was celebrated on Saturday, is one of America's most celebrated playwrights. How much do you know about him?Leo Benedictus
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AMSpecial Offer * for Whatsonstage.com Orchestra Stalls Tickets £95 (usually £158.30) for performances on 29 April and 2 May at 7pm
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:15AMDiane Paulus confirmed to me in a phone interview for an upcoming Hartford Courant story on the tour of "Hair" that Audra McDonald will be starring in a newly conceived production of "Porgy …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:07AMDear Readers:
On Jan. 11, 2011, I received an offer to become Director, Cultural Institutions Unit, at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. I have accepted the offer. My first …
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At a time when so many people have lost their jobs, when others fear they might lose theirs at any moment, and when some worry they might never find employment again, the timing could not be…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:16AMDuty and demons - they are the stuff Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder is made of. The great Norwegian playwright's work about a man who builds homes and great towers but cannot find pleasur…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:06AMEvery business keeps a ledger of debits and credits. Shall we count each in the current revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying? Director-choreographer Rob Ashford has de…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02AMOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast, Tom Williams talks with Sara Pavlak, the star of Agnes Of God by Hubris Productions at The Greenhouse Theater Center. She talks…
SOURCE: www.theatreinchicago.com at 02:01AMMat Fraser will offer a one-night-only performance of his solo show From Freak to Clique in the Zacek-McVay Theater at the Victory Gardens Biograph on Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 7:30pm. The …
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Esoteric music staged by an operatic outsider paid off for the New York City Opera on Friday night with "Monodramas," a program of three single-character operas.
Though the works weren't …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AMThat Shakespeare describes the three witches in "Macbeth" as "hirsute" wasn't lost on the Theatre for a New Audience, since the meddlesome crones in its new revival are played by shaggily be…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AMDaniel Radcliffe is so ador able in his Broadway musical debut, you just want to pinch his cheeks. It's not just his youth -- the "Harry Potter" star is 21 -- but the endearing amount of ded…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:40AMExclusive: The last time Woody Allen and Elaine May combined forces was about fifteen years ago. They put their one act plays together with another by David Mamet. “Death Defying Acts&…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:14AMTony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf stars in the MCC Theater world premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, the new thriller that officially opens March 28 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA memorial service for William L. Thunhurst Jr., who served as the head of the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera from 1971-83, will be held today.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMStephanie J. Block, Ashley Brown and Kathleen Turner are among the nominees for the 2011 Kevin Kline Awards, recognizing professional theatre in the greater St. Louis area, which are present…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a staged concert reading of Troy Women March 28 at the Theatre at St. Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning Secret Garden actress Daisy Eagan offers her solo concert, Still Daisy After All These Years, at New York's Laurie Beechman Theatre March 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOur Sweet Life by the Pacific Ocean, Houshang Touzie's play about a modern Iranian family, gets a Manhattan reading starring the actor-playwright and his Oscar-nominated wife 7 PM March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIf It Only Even Runs a Minute 6, featuring "rare and inspiring songs, anecdotes, and photos from Broadway musicals that may not have been fully appreciated the first time around," …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAngela Lansbury and Friends, an all-star salute to Terrence McNally benefiting The Acting Company, will be presented March 28 at the Longacre Theatre at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway Speaks OUT and Dixon Place present Broadway Sings for Japan, a benefit concert for Japan earthquake and tsunami relief, March 28 at 7:30 PM at Dix…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Project Shaw series continues March 28 with readings of two one-act plays by George Bernard Shaw: Great Catherine and Annajanska, The Wild Grand Duchess.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1939 Philip Barry tells The Philadelphia Story at the Shubert Theatre in New York. Katharine Hepburn, Van Heflin, Shirley Booth, and Joseph Cotten star. Robert Edmond Jones designs the sets …
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