Original and bubbling with ideas as this play is, and even with a ticket selling name like Robin Williams above the title, this is a risky Broadway venture.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:33PMBENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO - a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Drama - a tiger haunts the streets of present day Baghdad seeking the meaning of life. As he witnesses the puzzlin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23PMHe's brought his stand up to Broadway before, but now Oscar winning star Robin Williams is making his broadway acting debut in a new drama called "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:23PMOscar and Tony Award-nominee Kathleen Turner is making a return to the Great White Way by leading the cast of High, Matthew Lombardo’s drama of addiction and redemption. Turner stars a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09PMTOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND: 60 Plays in 60 Minutes
One Weekend Only Special Event April 1st and 2nd, 2011.
The NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS will attempt to perform a double-time vers…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:07PMGiven the amount of time Broadway actors spend at work, it’s no surprise that they enjoy a good joke—often at a co-worker’s expense! In celebration of April Fool’s Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05PMRobin Williams’s casting is one of the more astute choices for Moises Kaufman’s solidly crafted production of Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer finalist.
The post War Hoarse: <em>Bengal Ti…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PMRain: A Tribute to The Beatles plays the Bay Area, while other April highlights include No Exit, Vice Palace: The Last Cockettes Musical, Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge, and cabaret or conc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMStudio Theatre presents Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom, with other April highlights including Fragments at the Kennedy Center, Lynn Nottage's Ruined at Arena S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMApril highlights include Diana DeGarmo, Dee Hoty, and Mamie Parris in 9 to 5: The Musical; Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods; Mike Daisey in The Agony and the Ecstasy of Ste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMApril highlights include Janie Dee in All's Well That Ends Well; Rory Kinnear, Clare Higgins and Patrick Malahide in Hamlet; Rufus Norris directing London Road; Polly Pen's Bed and Sofa; and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMStephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet makes its world premiere, featuring Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason. Additional April highlights include Suzan Lori-Parks' The Book of Grace, Patti LuPon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMWhoopi Goldberg produces the new musical White Noise, featuring Tony nominee Douglas Sills. Other highlights include Steppenwolf's production of the late Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMPhiladelphia International Festival of the Arts features productions such as Wanamaker's Pursuit and AUTO, while elsewhere in the city, you can view The Master Builder, Laughter on the 23rd …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMNeil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Jon Cryer, and Stephen Colbert headline a starry Company; Ben Stiller, Edie Falco, and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in The House of Blue Leaves, Joe Mantello…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMHouse Theatre in Chicago's The Sparrow lands in Miami, with other April highlights including Dusk Rings a Bell in Plantation, Playfest! in Orlando, Blithe Spirit in Naples, The Innocents in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMJeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, and Marcia Gay Harden star in God of Carnage, with other highlights including Polly Draper in The Escort; Dick and Jerry Van Dyke in The Sunshine …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMTim Allen, Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Gladys Knight, Jay Leno, Barry Manilow, Ricky Martin, Steve Martin, Kevin Nealon, Reba, and Rita Rudner are among the performers gracing Vegas stages t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMKristine Nielsen and Sally Wingert star in Arsenic and Old Lace, with additional highlights including the national tour of Jersey Boys, Madagascar Live!, Man of La Mancha, The Magic Bus to A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMApril's kid-friendly shows include Madagascar Live!, Awesome Allie, First Kid Astronaut, Odd Day Rain, Barrio Grrrl! A New Musical, Cirque Mechanics' Boom Town, Potato Needs a Bath, Hansel a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM
Robin Williams has made his Broadway debut at last. This is a very good thing. The very bad thing is that he arrives in <em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo</em>, a decidedly th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PMDark and disturbing but also corrosively funny, Rajiv Joseph’s play set during the early days of the Iraq War is an exotic original.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:35PMLegit Reviews: Despite impeccable work from the design team, director Thea Sharrock's evocation of period behaviour is too uneven to create a convincing theatrical grip.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35PMNo more saves, no more exceptions, and no one can escape the outcome of your over 55 million votes. Ryan Seacrest painted the perfect picture of tonight's episode right off the bat. With las…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25PM"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, March 27, 2011
Rajiv Joseph is having a terrific season in New York. His Gruesome Playground Injuries recently …
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 10:10PMOscar winner Robin Williams is making his Broadway debut in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, an Iraq war drama that's quite different from Williams' many big screen comedies: He play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:02PMIt is 1942. At the Falcon Hotel, on the edge of an airfield in Lincolnshire, Teddy, a young bomber pilot is celebrating a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. Events take an unexpected tu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01PM“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is a powerful new drama by Rajiv Joseph, in which Robin Williams embodies the creature who becomes the play’s questioning conscience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMRobin Williams gives a nuanced performance in the title role of Rajiv Joseph's often poetic Broadway play about sin, violence, and redemption.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMMike Birbiglia's new one-man show is sharp, insightful, and downright hilarious.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011, The Timing of a Day opened its run at Center Stage, NY before a capacity crowd at its Benefit Gala Performance. Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway's In The Heights was…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:59PMHow to Succeed in Business without Really Trying originally opened in 1961 to across the board raves, a slew of Tony Awards and a rare Pulitzer win. A satire of corporate America, the show f…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 08:53PMFinally - the last of my responses to Dance Massive, which, such is the pace of life around these here parts, feels in the remote past already, although it only closed a few days ago. I mana…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:43PMPerformances have begun for THE MOTHERFKER WITH THE HAT by Stephen Adly Guirgis, starring Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vzquez. Directed by Anna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMAfter searching for four days, zookeepers Thursday found her coiled in a dark corner during a sweep of the reptile house, which has been closed to visitors since she went missing last Friday.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:33PMAfter a brief hiatus, ROCK OF AGES re-opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway on March 24. Just released is this cute promo as the show which closed just 3 months ago asks to be consid…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMBlack Watch is the kind of show that shakes you to the core. Not only are the grim realities of war and sacrifice played out with brutal honesty, but Gareth Fry’s sound design authenti…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:23PMMatthew Weiner, the "Mad Men" creator will continue running the show for two more seasons with an option for a third. AMC affirmed that the show would not return until early 2012.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:16PMRobin Williams brings 'Bengal Tiger' to life on Broadway.Robin Williams brings 'Bengal Tiger' to life on Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:14PMParker Posey, Alan Alda and Hugh Dancy will soon be making appearances on Showtime's 'The Big C.' Alda will play one of Cathy's new oncologists, while Dancy will have a recurring role in the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:14PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to unveil Episode 7 of its newest ongoing video blog - IN THE PAPERS with Julie Halston. In this series, the hilarious actress and comedienne will talk about all…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMAccording to NY Magazine, Diego Gonzlez Boneta will play leading man, Drew, in the highly anticipated film adaptation of ROCK OF AGES. The film is scheduled to open in movie theaters on June…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PM'The Simpsons' will re-air a 1992 episode of the show featuring the voice talents of Elizabeth Taylor this Sunday, April 3rd.
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The Public Theater announced Thursday that its intimate performance venue, Joe's Pub, will close for renovations from July 2 to Oct. 1.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:55PMThink of the movie Buried, in which Ryan Reynolds’ character spent the entire film inside a coffin, except in your case, the camera will be infrared and the casket will be placed inside an…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:49PMAs recently announced by Ogunquit Playhouse, Sally Struthers is set to appear as Paulette in the upcoing production of LEGALLY BLONDE. The show will be on stage August 24 through September 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:39PMOn this week’s Show People, host Paul Wontorek catches up with a Broadway favorite: Marissa Jaret Winokur. The Hairspray icon gets personal about ups and downs, becoming a "person…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:38PMOn this week’s Show People, host Paul Wontorek catches up with a Broadway favorite: Marissa Jaret Winokur. The Hairspray icon gets personal about ups and downs, becoming a "person…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:38PMTanya Saracho recalls that as a theater student at Boston University in the 1990s, she didn’t hear much about Latino playwrights. So she seized on the work of Anton Chekhov, the Russian dr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:31PMA grand tradition of song, dance, and musical splendor returns to the screen when FIDDLER ON THE ROOF debuts on Blu-ray April 5th from MGM Home Entertainment in honor of the 40th anniversary…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMA little known 20-year-old Mexican-born actor, Diego Gonzalez Boneta, has nabbed the coveted role lead role of Drew in Adam Shankman’s forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Rock of Ages…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:19PMSuperstar comedian Chris Rock is making his Broadway debut in the world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat. This provocative new comedy about a drug addict…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:16PMTonight is nudist night at the show about artists and their nude models in 1920s Paris
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 07:02PM
Two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award amp Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner returns to Broadway this spring as Sister Jamison Connelly in HIGH, a new play written by Matthew Lombardo …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMThe ghosts and demons in the new play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened Thursday night with Robin Williams in his Broadway debut, may intrigue you, but the clutter of metaphors m…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:36PMThe Intiman Theater in Seattle, which is fighting for its survival, announced on Thursday that it had raised just over $450,000 so far in a seven-week emergency fundraising campaign and wou…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMIn 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 06:34PMThe show brings a superb cast to the Paper Mill Playhouse stage. Robert Newman Lt. Frank Cioffi is a four-time nominee for the Soap Opera Digest Award and two-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMLegit News: Noms in 14 categories announced -- Lincoln Center Theater's production of "Other Desert Cities" and Naked Angels' "This Wide Night" led the pack of 2011 nominations for the Off B…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33PMSeattle has gradually become the home of many professional women theater directors of note, shaping local stages in their own way. The Times talks with six of them about running the show.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:29PM
The multi-award winning Off-Broadway theater company Second Stage has been recognized with FIVE Lucille Lortel Award Nominations! Congratulations!!
Outstanding Play – The Elaborate…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 06:13PMTHEATER REVIEW: “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” plays on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Call 212-307-4100 or visit bengaltigeronbroadway.com. NEW YORK — The dark, rich and …
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The Off-Broadway revival of the Depression-era comedy Three Men on a Horse by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will be extended by seven performances, now to April 23, TACT announced March 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMGolden Globe winner and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner, who is currently starring in Matthew Lombardo's High on Broadway, will take on the role of larger-than-life columnist Molly Iv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, March 31, 2011 Breaking News Nominees Announced for 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, to be Hosted by Zach Braff & Samantha Bee Broadway.com No…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:48PMDiego González Boneta will star as Drew in Adam Shankman's upcoming adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages, according to New York Magazine. The film is scheduled…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMAfter decades as a standup comedian begins to reap benefits including stint at Comedy Bar.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:47PMNominations for the 26th annual edition of the Lucille Lortel Awards were announced Thursday. Two new works -- "This Wide Night" and "Other Desert Cities" lead with five …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:42PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The plays "Other Desert Cities" and "This Wide Night" have each received a leading five Lucille Lortel Award nominations in honor of the best of off-Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:39PMAmerican Idiot's Justin Guarini will continue to rock onstage after the show's April 24 closing: The American Idol vet will play Roger opposite Paul Iacono as Mark in Rent at the Sur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:39PMNominations for the 26th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, celebrating excellence in Off-Broadway theatre, were announced today. TO READ THE COMPLETE LIST OF NOMINEES, VISIT: http://tinyurl.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:37PMBrian Cox will be up for best actor Tony in 'Championship Season,' Frances McDormand for best actress in "Good People"
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMBrooke Shields will join the cast of The Addams Family as Morticia on June 28 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Current star Bebe Neuwirth will play her final performance on June 26.
"I a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMOn March 31, the Tony Awards Administration Committee met for a third time during the 2010-2011 theater season to consider the eligibility of three Broadway shows that opened this winter: Go…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMOriginally published in Girl With Curious Hair. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 22.[Continuing the countdown to whenever my copy of The Pale King arrives from Shipping Limbo.] An odd…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:28PMProduced by Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment, SISTER ACT began preview performances March 24 and will open on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. SISTER ACT features an original score with mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMNominations have been announced for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring the best off-Broadway productions, performances and creative team members of the season. The awards will be prese…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:23PMMatt August returns to direct Ford’s Theatre’s world premiere of the musical Liberty Smith following up on the popular run of his direction of A Christmas Carol, that played at Ford’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:22PM"Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," a long-in-the-works musical by the horror writer Stephen King and the rock musician John Mellencamp, will have its world premiere in April 2012.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMAfter kicking off the inaugural season of Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, shattering all box office records from Arena Stage's 60-year history and rounding up 10 Helen H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMNominations in 14 categories and 3 special awards were announced today by the Off-Broadway League for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. This year's cer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. announced today that John Lithgow will be performing his theatrical memoir Stories By Heart to benefit the A.R.T. on Monday, May 2 at 730pm at the Loeb …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMArthur Miller's American classic All My Sons is refocused to explore the lives of an African-American family in 1940's Seattle in a new production, which opened March 25 at the Intim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMPaper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director is proud to announce casting for Curtains. Directed by Mark S. Hoebee, with choreography by Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMBroadway's hit musical comedy THE ADDAMS FAMILY welcomes stage and screen star Brooke Shields in the role of Morticia beginning Tuesday, June 28 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre 205 West 46th St…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met on March 31 for the third time this season to decide the eligibility of Broadway productions for the American Theatre Wing's 2011 Tony Awards, pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMIntiman Theatre in Seattle announces it has nearly met its latest urgent fundraising goal of $500,000. Intiman has also retained the services of veteran Seattle arts administrator and consul…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:00PM
Something that we didn’t expect to be talking about today: The 1992 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It seems that lots of other folks are talking about it,…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:55PMRobin Williams is no stranger to animated versions of himself, thanks to his iconic vocal work in Disney's Aladdin. As the Oscar winner makes his Broadway debut in Bengal Tiger at the Ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Bye, bye Bebe. Hello there, Brooke....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:52PMDirect from Broadway's American Idiot, American Idol's Justin Guarini and MTV's Paul Iacono star of the hit series The Hard Times of RJ Berger will star in Jonathan Larson's landmark rock mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMAlan Alda, Hugh Dancy, and Parker Posey will guest star on Showtime's The Big C, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Alda is scheduled to play Dr. Sherman, an oncologist whom Cathy Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PMThe military may have its own very specific definition of a “theater of war,” which involves geographical boundaries and strategic planning. But with the arrival here of “Black Watch,�…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:48PMIt was announced today that Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club, will be honored with the Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award recognizes MeadowR…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:47PMCasey Abrams is becoming the tortured victim of this season of "Idol." He's had to go to the hospital on a couple of occasions for ulcerative colitis.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMPreviews begin tomorrow, Friday April 1st, 2011 for Roundabout Theatre Company's Todd Haimes, Artistic Director, in association with Tracy Aron, THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE, starring two time …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMIn a casting move likely to ensure a busy summer at the Broadway production of "The Addams Family," Brooke Shields will take over from Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. Neuwith, who has been with t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:42PMBroadway Impact, a marriage equality organization, will present an Equality Happy Hour April 4 at 6:30 PM at Therapy, at 348 West 52nd St. in NYC.
Rory O’Malley, from the new Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMThe Seattle Men's Chorus uses music and theater to mark the "Cabaret" era in Germany, and the ruthless persecution of homosexuals that followed. "Falling in Love Again" shows are April 2 and…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:39PMNominations for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, have been announced. Zach Braff and Samantha Bee will co-host the awards ceremony at NYU Skirba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:39PM2011 Lucille Lortel Awards will be held May 1, 2011, 7pm. The nominations are to be announced on April 1, 2011 and we’ve got them here first. NOMINATIONS FOR THE …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:32PMTwo decades ago, Kenneth Branagh was "the new Olivier". Now he's directing a comic-book adaptation. Why? Because he was never meant to be an idolIn 1989, when he was not yet 30 years old, Ke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMPerhaps Chalk Repertory Theatre should be re-named Chalk Site-Specific Theatre. The company doesn't perform productions in repertory, but it's becoming one of LA theater's leading advocates …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:29PMWilliams makes his Broadway debut this week in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo as the ghost of a captive tiger. Joseph's play explores the war-torn streets of Baghdad and the …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:27PMStage and screen star Brooke Shields will assume the role of Morticia in Broadway's The Addams Family, playing at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, on Tuesday, June 28. She will replace Bebe …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:25PMNominations for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced March 31. Laurie Metcalf, Christian Borle, Edie Falco, Joe Mantello, Linda Lavin are am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMNominations for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced March 31. Laurie Metcalf, Christian Borle, Edie Falco, Joe Mantello, Linda Lavin are am…
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Superheroes. Space opera. True romance.…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 04:18PMStage and screen star Brooke Shields, who was seen in the recent world premiere of the new musical Leap of Faith in Los Angeles, will return to Broadway this summer in the musical comed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMAs previously reported by BroadwayWorld, Laura Benanti will star in NBC's drama pilot 'Playboy Club.' Benanti will star as Carol-Lynne, a 30-year-old Playboy star. Now Variety reports that t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMAge and Hometown: 22; Bedford, NY
Current Role: Taking on the voices of a variety of women who recall their personal clothing-related memories in off-Broadway hit Love, Loss and What I Wo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMPreviews begin tomorrow, Friday April 1st!
For Roundabout Theatre Company’s
New Broadway Musical
THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE
Starring
Donna Murphy
Book & Lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart
Music…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 04:14PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the third time this season to decide the eligibility of three Broadway productions for the 2011 American Theatre Wing's Tony Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee assembled March 31 for the third time of the 2010-11 season to discuss the eligibility of three Broadway productions for the 2011 Tony Awards, presen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMMs. Shields has previously taken over four Broadway roles in productions that began with other actresses: Roxie Hart in "Chicago," Sally Bowles in "Cabaret," Rizzo in "Grease," and Ruth in "…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMArena Stage has announced casting for the return of its critically acclaimed production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will return July 8-October 9 in the Fichandler Stage. Moll…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:01PMJustin Guarini will join the previously reported Paul Iacono in Surflight Theatre's production of Rent, May 28-June 19. Jen Bender will direct and choreograph the production, with music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
According to a report by Variety, Cameron Mackintosh is set to launch a UK tour of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in 2012. LES MISERABLES tour director, Laurence Conner, is on board to direct the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMTwo-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow will perform his solo show, Stories By Heart as a benefit for American Repertory Theatre on Monday, May 2 at 7:30pm at the Loeb Drama Center.
Lithgo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMComplete casting has been announced for the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the Peter Stone, Rupert Holmes, John Kander and Fred Ebb musical Curtains, which will play the N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMGiven the amount of time Broadway actors spend at work, it’s no surprise that they enjoy a good joke—often at a co-worker’s expense! In celebration of April Fool’s Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMThe current star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying battled alcoholism before finding fame on Night Court.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:47PMLock in your seats to this exclusive 8-week engagement featuring the original Tony-nominated Broadway cast - Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden. BroadwayWorld i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMGuild Hall has announced its spring and summer season.
As previously announced, the season will include a three-week engagement of Colin' Quinn's Long Story Short, to run June 8-2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Andre De Shields will star in Charles Smith's The Gospel According To James at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre, May 14-June 12. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Andre De Shields will star in Charles Smith's The Gospel According To James at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre, May 14-June 12. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PM"American Idol" finalist Justin Guarini, currently on Broadway in American Idiot, and MTV's Paul Iacono ("The Hard Times of RJ Berger") will star in Jonathan Larson&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMSister Act started preview performances on Broadway on March24, 2011 at the Broadway Theatre. The first 3 performances went clean (sold out) and people are starting to talk about the sho…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:33PMLaura Benanti is no stranger to stripping, having earned a Tony Award for playing famed burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee in the 2008 Gypsy revival. Now, however, Benanti may have to show some s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMRed Hot Patriot The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins starring two-time Tony and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner is the first production announced as part of the Geffen Playhouse's 20112012 season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMTHE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE Starring Donna Murphy Book & Lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, Music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler Musical Direction by Paul Gemignani Orchestrations by Michael St…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:26PMGiven the amount of time Broadway actors spend at work, it’s no surprise that they enjoy a good joke—often at a co-worker’s expense! In celebration of April Fool’s Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:26PMBilly Joel has canceled a memoir that was scheduled for release in June, his publisher, HarperCollins said on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:15PMWICKED will honor the Actors Fund with a special, added performance on Sunday, April 3 at 8pm at the Gershwin Theatre. All procedes will go to benefit The Actor's Fund's programs and servic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMA group of students from Middle School 301 and nearby Trinity Episcopal Church in the Bronx were thrilled to experience their very first Broadway show yesterday when they visited the long-ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMOne of the most highly acclaimed and most riveting films of 2010 is undoubtedly the Academy Award-winning BLACK SWAN by Darren Aronofsky. While the stunning lead performance of Natalie Portm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMRay Bennett
A captivating performance by Jessica Raine redeems a play by American playwright Clifford Odets' that raises more questions than answers them.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:07PMMelissa Errico and James Barbour, who played Guenevere and Lancelot, respectively, in the Hollywood Bowl's summer 2005 production of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, will return to those …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM"The Andy Monument," a glistening semi-accurate sculpture of the Pop artist Andy Warhol, was unveiled yesterday on the northwest corner of Union Square.
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On Thursday, March 31, Primary Stages celebrated Elizabeth Wilson in honor of her upcoming 90th birthday on April 4, with a luncheon held at the West Bank Café.
Guests included …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PMProducer Cameron Mackintosh intends to present a newly imagined international production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, to premiere in England perhaps as early as 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMAccording to an announcement on her website, Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara is set to perform at this year's 'A Capitol Fourth' in Washington D.C. The event will air on July 4 on PBS, Additional…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMJERUSALEM, the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning play by Jez Butterworth and starring Tony and Olivier Award-winner Mark Rylance Boeing-Boeing, La Bte, is pleased to announce a ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMLegit News: Mackintosh to produce new staging for launch in early 2012 -- Cameron Mackintosh will mount a brand new production of legit blockbuster "Phantom of the Opera" for a worldwide tou…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PMFormer rapper Vanilla Ice (aka Robert Van Winkle) will soon make his U.K. stage debut playing Captain Hook in the Chatham Central Theatre pantomime production of Peter Pan. The show will beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:43PMNearly a year after hosting "SNL" - and nearly 20 years after "The Golden Girls" - Betty White will return to NBC as the host of a hidden-camera show featuring senior citizens who pull prank…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:40PMA record 39 recipients of the 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMOn March 30, the "American Idol" Top 11 contestants took to the stage to perform Elton John tunes in an effort to stay in the competition for one more week on their journey to beco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMWINNER! BEST PLAY
EVENING STANDARD, LONDON CRITICS’ CIRCLE
WINNER! BEST ACTOR, MARK RYLANCE –
OLIVIER, EVENING STANDARD, LONDON CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARDS
“ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NE…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:33PMStory of Russian poet builds to intellectual revelation no more profound than an undergraduate essay
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:31PMfInteresting show this weekend at the Yale Cabaret in New Haven.
Michael Vincent Skinner, a third-year sound designer student at the Yale School of Drama, has created the comedy "The Musical…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:27PMBefore it flies to its fall world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in California, the musical Finding Neverland will get its latest developmental reading presentation March 31 in Manhattan, Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMHave you ever wanted to go to Paris and speak French? From April 11-28 at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), you can learn key French words and phrases in a safe and…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 02:23PMPREVIEWS BEGIN TONIGHT FOR
BORN YESTERDAY
A COMEDY BY GARSON KANIN
DIRECTED BY DOUG HUGHES
STARRING
JIM BELU…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:20PMGarson Kanin’s Born Yesterday begins previews at the Cort Theatre March 31.
The producers bill the 1946 comedy as the “timely story of a not-so-honest businessman and a not-so-du…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMWith a batch of ridiculous-sounding shows about to hit the air, we dare you to tell the real ones from a bunch we made up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMIn response to the devastating events in Japan, producers Patty Onagan and Ronn Goswick have announced Rebuild Japan: A Benefit Concert at the Pasadena Playhouse, a one-night-only event on …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:14PMPreviews for Born Yesterday, starring Jim Belushi, Robert Sean Leonard and Nina Arianda, start tonight, March 31, at Broadway's Cort Theatre 138 West 48th Street at 8 pm. Directed by Doug Hu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:07PMThe play touches on many things, and captures beautifully the quiet despair of a group of people trapped by circumstance and the debilitating effect of time
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:07PMThe spicy bits are a fraction of a sprawling narrative that uses the duplicitous goings-on in a wealthy Chinese merchant's home as a metaphor for a corrupt society
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:07PMThis prison drama, Beethoven's story of political injustice, sparks off almost no sense of passion or anger. But Nina Stemme sings the role of Leonore with unfailing skill and confidence
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:07PMLuminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, today announced the Festivals 2011 programs. The fifth edition of Luminatos annual multi-disciplinary celebration of theatre, dance, music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMHarvey Fierstein on La MaMa and Arthur Laurents
Harvey Fierstein, visiting THEATER TALK to discuss his starring role in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, talks about two great influences on his career, T…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:03PMThis week, I had the pleasure of seeing Tom Stoppard's masterpiece, Arcadia, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. As the idea of time was deconstructed onstage, I began to think back to the other…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:01PM
Like his hero Bill Cosby, Elizardi Castro started out as a child. His one-man comedy show “Made in Puerto Rico,” which opened last weekend at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:54PMThe network will have eight nights of programming during which its personalities and performers will post live on Twitter during shows like "NCIS," "Survivor" and "Hawaii Five-0."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PMTanya Saracho recalls that as a theater student at Boston University in the 1990s, she didn’t hear much about Latino playwrights. So she seized on the work of Anton Chekhov, the Russian dr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:43PMReal estate — the house and grounds of the Mexican family at the center of Tanya Saracho’s “El Nogalar” — is of crucial importance. And anyone familiar with the work of set designe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:42PMAt a cafe in Brooklyn near his home, playwright Rajiv Joseph locks eyes with an adorable toddler in a fuzzy one-piece jumpsuit.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:41PMA musical episode of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," featuring Tony Award-winning actress Sara Ramirez as well as her co-stars singing songs used in prior episodes of the hit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMTomorrow Morning, Laurence Mark Wythe's musical about "coupling and uncoupling," seen in London and Chicago, opened at The York Theatre Company on March 30 starring Autumn Hurl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMThose who consider the music of composer Cy Coleman as being synonymous with the energy, heat and sensuality of Manhattan will be pleased that a new revue of his songs — The Best Is Ye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMPhoto © Joan Marcus 2011 To celebrate PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL’s Original Broadway Cast Recording being released by RHINO next week, here are some little known fact…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:15PMPuppet directors Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company showed audiences at this year’s Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference how the puppetry us…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMNow where did I put my Tippi Hedren outfit?
To help promote its production of "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps" now in previews, Hartford Stage is asking patrons to dress as their favorite c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PMNew Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThe old way is often the best. This summer, the New Vic is returning to first principles with a proper rep company appearing in a rotating season of pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMWith the "American Idol" judges having saved Casey Abrams from elimination a week ago, the same slate of 11 competitors faced off again on Wednesday with two hours of musical trials.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMLilian Baylis, LondonIn 1931, this Broadway revue was considered the last word in sophistication. It starred Fred and Adele Astaire, boasted satirical sketches by George S Kaufman and H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMThe syndicated morning chat show "Live with Regis and Kelly" will feature several actors currently on Broadway next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMAccording to Deadline.com, Margo Matindale is set to join previously announced Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Ehle in a still untitled CBS pilot. The series is the brainchild of Susannah Grant,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMThe Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, NY, has announced its 2011 season, which includes Greetings!, Sirens, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment and Samuel J. and K. on its mainstage and Angelo P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMNorwich's The Spirit of Broadway Theater will receive a grant to suppoprt the development of a new musical, "Snow."
The funding (between $10,000 and $15,000) is given out by the National All…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PM
Kathleen Turner will star in the one-woman bioplay, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, at the Geffen Playhouse during the theater's 2011-2012 season. It is planned for th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:59PMStephen Karam didn’t set out to write a play about where he grew up, in an aging Pennsylvania city long past its boom, built on industries that deserted it decades ago.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56PMTony Award winner Ken Page and Tony nominees Kathleen Chalfant and Ann Hampton Callaway will be part of Painting the Town Red, a gala concert event for Arizona's Invisible Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PMNEW YORK — “Chautauqua!’’ is the latest work by the New York-based collective the National Theater of the United States of America, and might at first seem an odd cre…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:52PMWELLESLEY — When one of Africa’s most celebrated artists, El Anatsui, first came to New England, it was to take up a short residency at the Cummington Community of the Arts in We…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:51PMJoin Broadway Impact for an Equality Happy Hour Monday April 4th at 630PM, the Broadway community and supporters will come together to hear from key stakeholders in the equality movement. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMNow THAT’S News: A Robin Devours A Bengal Tiger…. March 31, 2011 When an atheist finds himself in the afterlife, that calls for some serious re-evaluation….The ghost of the Bengal Tig…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 12:49PMWhen F. Murray Abraham, as Shylock, faces his contemptuous foes and delivers the most famous speech in “The Merchant of Venice’’ (“Hath not a Jew eyes? . . . If you p…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes, Joe's Pub Director Shanta Thake, and Joe's Pub, LLC Managing Director, Partner Kevin Abbott and Desi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMThree-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara, who was seen earlier this season in the City Center Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing, will be part of the annual Fourth of July celebration …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMMouth Wide Open - An A.R.T. First Look
** PLAYING AT THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER IN CAMBRIDGE, MA - MAY 24 - 29, 2011 ** Soulful, transcendent, laugh-out-loud funny, Amy Brenneman (Priva…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:41PMTony Award winner Billy Joel has canceled plans to release his memoir, The Book of Joel, which was scheduled to hit stores later this year.
As previously reported, Joel's book was to c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMIn a recent interview with the Telegraph, Tony-winner Alan Cumming went on the record about his current and hopefully future projects, Cumming shared I want to do a production of Macbeth whe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMLinda Perry, best known as lead singer of the all-girl '90s band 4 Non Blondes, hopes to take her songwriting talents to Broadway with a musical adaptation of the 1996 Gus Van Sant film …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25PMWhat's Hot on Broadway April 2011
WHAT'S HOT ON BROADWAY, hosted by Maribel Aber, features the satirical take on celebrity, religion, and the frequent merging of the two in HOUSE OF…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:18PMSinger-actor Steven Brinberg, in his alter ego as Simply Barbra — Streisand, that is — will begin a series of spring and summer concerts April 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMThe line-up for Toronto's annual Luminato Festival, which runs June 10-19, has been announced.
Theater will include Dash Arts' production of Tim Supple's One Thousand and One…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMProducers Bob and Harvey Weinstein are developing the 2004 Oscar-nominated film Finding Neverland into a Broadway musical, according to The New York Observer. Centering on Peter Pan author J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:11PMInternationally renowned opera baritone Nathan Gunn celebrated the opening of his cabaret engagement, An Evening With Nathan Gunn at the Cafe Carlyle on March 29. The show features musical d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMIn last night's 'American Idol,' the final 11 got the chane to perform yet agian, but the music of Elton John this time around. Check out images from the episode below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMThis is a largely commendable script-in-hand staging of the 1945 Broadway musical, which is driven by glorious Sigmund Romberg music and set against the backdrop of Tammany Hall politics.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:06PMMac, Bistro, and Nightlife Award winner Karen Oberlin will headline a spring benefit for Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, to be held in the Music Room of the historic Rosen House, on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02PMJoe's Pub will take a three-month hiatus, beginning July 2, in order to do an interior redesign and renovation spearheaded by original designer and Joe's Pub, LLC partner Serge Bec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMTACT/The Actors Company Theatre's production of Three Men on a Horse, by John Cecil Holm & George Abbott,will now extend through April 23 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre. Scot…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PM
The Public Theater
Announces
Three Month Hiatus
For Joe’s Pub
Renovation and Expansion
Beginning July 2
Joe’s Pub To Reopen on October 1
Original Designer Serge Becker Returns
Fo…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:58AMThe Public Theater's music and lightlife venue, Joe's Pub, will shut down in early July to undergo renovations as part of the organization's revitalization of its 158-year-old ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMThe winners of the 70th annual Peabody Awards have been announced by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. The prizes recognize excellence i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMPlayhouse on Park presents Stages on the Sound's production of William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" to the West Hartford theater next week.
Brad DePlanche, Jesse Graham, Venessa Moro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AMTony Award winner Geoffrey Rush will voice the role of Tomar-Re in the Warner Bros. film "Green Lantern," which is scheduled for a June 17 release, according to The Hollywood Repor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMTony nominee Margo Martindale will co-star with previously announced leads Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Ehle in the pilot for as as-yet untitled CBS-TV supernatural medical drama, according t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM"Anyone Can Whistle" presented by Encores! at New York City Center, April 11, 2010
(Looking back for a link to another review, I discovered that this one never got published. A …
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 11:46AMTony Award-winning Secret Garden actress Daisy Eagan will perform as part of the William Inge Festival's April 16 gala honoring Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMTriple-threat author Laurence Mark Wythe proves a talented new musical theater artist, but his musical, though smart and pleasant from moment to moment, suffers from unoriginality.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:44AMOpera star Nathan Gunn is making his Café Carlyle debut with a beguilingly intimate set that feels as if you're sharing an evening salon of song in his home.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:37AM"In 1984, Time proclaimed that with the Olympic Arts Festival, in which the best of the best of world theater strutted on our stages, Los Angeles theater had finally come of age. It hadn't. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:35AMTony Award-winner Victoria Clark returns to the Broadway stage as Mother Superior in the new musical SISTER ACT. She discusses her impressively star-studded Broadway career and admits to b…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 11:34AMTHE MOTHERFKER WITH THE HAT star Chris Rock will appear on CBS The Late Show with David Letterman tonight, Thursday, March 31st between 1135PM - 1235AM. Check local listings.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMCasting has been announced for Prospect Theater Company and New York Theatre Barn's production of I Married Wyatt Earp, to be presented at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Americas Off Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMBroadway Channel April 2011
April is an exciting month for The Broadway Channel® welcoming London's divine musical sensation, SISTER ACT. Broadway Previews spoke with multi-award wi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:31AMToday marks the 75th anniversary of the children's book "The Story of Ferdinand," written by Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AMThe Alliance Theatre and Susan V. Booth, the Jennings Hertz Jr. Artistic Director today announced the final pieces of the theatre's 43rd season. Joining previously announced titles Into the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMBroadway's original JERSEY BOYS, currently touring as The Midtown Men, will be appearing live in concert at Queens College's Colden Auditorium, Saturday, April 9th at 800 pm. The Midtown Men…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMThe Addams Family continued its month-long celebration of Grandma's Sweet 116th birthday on March 30 when fellow Grandmas were invited to attend the show for free and join her for some c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM'Addams Family' on Broadway
© Joan Marcus
More cast changes are in store for The Addams Family on Broadway. The show recently lost half of its principle ensemble, including Nathan Lane and …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 11:21AMF R E U D’ S L A S T S E S S I O N
OFF-BROADWAY’S RUNAWAY HIT PLAY
TO HOST SOCRATES IN THE CITY
THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 3 AT THE
MARJORIE S. DEANE …
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:19AMGrandma Addams, the feisty potient-brewing matriarch of the Addams clan played by comic actress Jackie Hoffman, turned 116 on Wednesday, March 30 and to celebrate, the producers of THE ADDAM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMJust recently new members of the Love Never Dies cast took to the stage at the Adelphi Theatre... and in this video, the Phantom himself takes a moment to answr fans' questions. Click below …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMChris Rock, who is currently making his Broadway debut at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in Stephen Adly Guirgis' star-filled Motherf**ker with the Hat, will sit down for a chat with Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMSiriusXM launches
“The Book of Mormon Radio”
Exclusive special for the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical, featuring behind the scenes interviews with Trey Parker and M…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:10AM'Memphis' on Broadway
© Jason Bell/Kevin Berne
"Go big or go home" isn't just for auditions anymore. It's now applied to Broadway shows. And if you won't be in the vicinity of Broadway in t…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 11:09AMTHE 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 11:08AMTony Award winner Denis O’Hare will join Connie Britton in the FX pilot American Horror Story, the new series from Glee creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Deadline.com reports that…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMTony Award winner Denis O'Hare will play opposite Connie Britton in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's upcoming FX pilot, "American Horror Story," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMJust the other week, I was talking to a very well-respected Producer who has been around for quite a few Tony Awards. He wanted some advice on hiring an internet marketing firm. I was giving…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBrooks Ashmanskas, Ken Barnett, Zabryna Guevara and Adam Rothenberg star in Center Theatre Group's new production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, under the direction of Nicholas …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Raylan Givens, Alicia Florrick and Sherlock Holmes may not share much when it comes to righting wrong-doings, but programs featuring these characters have all won an award for excellence in …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:53AMOnce upon a time, going to the theatre was a sartorial event to rival a film premiere. Now, you're lucky if I even comb my hairWhen I was a little girl, I had a uniform for the theatre of bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AM'Bengal Tiger' starring Robin Williams
© Bengal Tiger
All is quiet on the western front, but it's a minefield of mental meanderings in the Middle Eastern-set Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 10:41AMGhost Brothers of Darkland County, the world-premiere Stephen King-John Mellencamp Southern gothic musical, has been added to the Alliance Theatre's 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM'Mary Poppins'
© Getty Images
Hold on to your umbrellas -- the cast Down Under has created a live cast album of their Mary Poppins. Produced by Walt Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, the belov…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 10:30AMRory O'Malley, who co-stars in Broadway's The Book of Mormon, will host a special Broadway Impact Equality Happy Hour at 6:30pm on Monday, April 4 at Therapy (348 West 52nd Street…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMGuild Hall, the performing arts venue in East Hampton, Long Island, will feature numerous theatre artists within the next few months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMBENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO is a new American play by Rajiv Joseph Starring Robin Williams in his Broadway acting debut and directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Moiss Kaufman. The pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMTelevision personality and former Broadway producer Carrie Ann Inaba has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Jesse Sloan, according to People.com.
Sloan proposed to Inaba during a br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMAs part of the Festival of Ideas for The New City--a series of arts and civic events that the New Museum and several other downtown cultural institutions will conduct from May 4 through May …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AM
The network said it had "no plans to continue" the show in its current format, but was seeking ways "to continue telling these rich stories."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:55AMThe Alliance Theatre has announced additions to its 2011-2012 season, which will conclude with the world premiere of John Mellencamp and Stephen King's Ghost Brothers of Darkland County…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AMPenguin Rep Theatre has announced its 2011 season, which will include a co-production of Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, starring Miche Brade…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:31AMThe Broadway cast of the Tony-winning The Lion King welcomed two new additions to its cast March 29 at the Minskoff Theatre: 11-year-old Judah Bellamy as Young Simba and nine-year-old Shayli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMDamian Lewis, Ben Miller, Bhasker Patel, Lucy Sheen, Juliet Stevenson, and Harriet Walter will be among the participants in The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, which will feature more…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMBroadway veteran Farley Granger died on Sunday, March 27. He was 85 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AM
Packawallop Productions has announced casting for Kari Bentley-Quinn's Paper Cranes, to run April 15 - May 8 at the Access Theater. Scott Ebersold will direct the production.
The piec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMRobert Longden and Hereward Kaye's 1991 flop musical Moby Dick, originally produced at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre by Cameron Mackintosh, will get its first major London …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AMDarren Murphy's Irish Blood, English Heart, which originally premiered at London's Union Theatre, will transfer to Trafalgar Studios 2, beginning performances May 2, prior to a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AMTony Award nominee Margo Martindale will join Tony Award nominee Patrick Wilson and two-time Tony Award winner Jennifer Ehle in an untitled CBS pilot, according to Deadline.com. She is takin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:13AMAfter one of the biggest protests in British history and yesterday's news about funding, theatre bloggers have responded to the cuts with fighting talkThe past week has seen both one of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMMad Cow Theatre’s Orlando Cabaret Festival has featured some big names in the past, but this year it’s taking a leap toward the up-and-coming, with its guests the final weekend W…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 08:00AMThe comedian's latest one-man show never reaches the heights of his earlier "Sleepwalk With Me," too often feeling like a mishmash of generic romantic anecdotes.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 31 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Public, CTG receive coin for new musicals -- The National Alliance for Musical Theater has handed out 15 grants from the org's National Fund for New Musicals, disbursing coin tal…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
It would be difficult for Frank Verlizzo to not feel like a large portion of Times Square belonged to him. The massive, mustard-yellow artwork for The Lion King that stretches across the win…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 02:53AMIn a series first, the music that has been at the heart of the show and been beloved by fans comes to life for Grey's Anatomy The Music Event. A cataclysmic event rattles the doctors of Seat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30AMDebbie Kurup and Sarah Lark will star in a revival of Robert Longden and Hereward Kaye's musical version of Herman Meville's Moby Dick, to run April 27 - May 28 at the Landor Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26AMThe SAG/AFTRA contracts covering work done for corporations and educational institutions, which was to expire April 30, has now been renewed through April 30, 2014.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:15AMScience fiction isn't normally encountered in the higher-brow realms of theater and opera, but when it is, the world is more likely to listen to their cautionary tales of a possibly disastro…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:08AMNEW YORK - In the middle of a whirlwind week this month, Rose Hemingway finished stage-smooching with Daniel Radcliffe in a matinee performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really T…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:08AMLanford Wilson's play “Balm in Gilead” at Steppenwolf Theatre in 1980, starring Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise (background) and William Petersen. • Read the Tribune's obituary for Lanford…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:01AM
Since I was a young boy, I would press crayons against paper and create imaginary worlds and characters. I was born with the mysterious gift of being able to draw. In fact, when I was in sec…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:18AMGet ready to be taken a journey back to Paris 1910-1920 on April 9 from 10:30am-12pm and 1pm-3pm with Alex Ross and Joan Acocella, music and dance critics for The New Yorker, Michael R. Tayl…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 12:01AMThe road to "Mercy & the Firefly" went from Homestead to East Los Angeles. It started with Amy Hartman boarding a bus as part of the Bricolage Urban Scrawl and picked up steam when the p…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AMUpdating the Bard The University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre presents "As You Like It" as you've never seen it before -- the Shakespeare comedy is set in modern day and features 21st-cen…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AMRogelio Martinez's Wanamaker's Pursuit, a new play with local color, gets a production by Arden Theatre in Philadelphia March 31-May 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDetroit Repertory Theatre gives William Missouri Downs' Forgiving John Lennon — the story of a Somali Muslim woman clashing with two American professors — its world premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams as the self-questioning title character who roams a haunted patch of Iraq, circa 2003, opens on Broadway March 31 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Amoralists' world premiere of Derek Ahonen's Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, about a Gramercy Park apartment thrown into chaos, begins performances March 31 at Performance Sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBorn Bad, debbie tucker green's [sic] Olivier Award-winning play about a young woman searching for the truth of her past, makes its U.S. premiere Off-Broadway March 31 at Soho Rep.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBorn Yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1940s hit comedy about a rough-edged chorus girl who refines herself in the context of a world of greed and corruption, makes a return to Broadway March 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Anika Noni Rose is the co-creator and producer of the new musical Morgan Street, which receives a private, invitation-only presentation March 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, a new comedy written by and starring Mike Birbiglia, officially opens at The Barrow Street Theater March 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1922 Birthday of actor Richard Kiley (1922-1999), who will create memorable roles in mid-20th century musicals, including Kismet, Redhead, No Strings and his signature role, the title charac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYou think you know Grease. An original Broadway production that ran eight years, a major revival that ran nearly four years, a third revival that ran a couple seasons, and a film versio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
