The Mick In the top drawer of my bureau, buried at the back amidst tangles of bracelets and enormous earrings I rarely get to wear, there is a napkin. It’s folded into the tiniest square p…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:58PMDown to just nine performers, American Idol's remaining contestants have proven week after week that they make up perhaps the most talented bunch of finalists in the show's 10 season history…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53PMThe New York Philharmonic presents a starry concert production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company — boasting Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris as perennial bachelor Bobby…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50PMWith Sienna Miller drawing rave reviews in Flare Path at the
Haymarket and Anne-Marie Duff being praised for her electrifying
performance in Cause Celebre at the Old Vic, we can't move for
T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:33PMTina Landau's production of Lanford WIlson's landmark play is full of strong directorial choices.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTony Award winner Lonette McKee's new cabaret show at the Oak Room offers both lustrous singing and awkward patter.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
In the past two decades, the Grammy Award that many theatre fans take note of has been known as Best Musical Show Album, and has been awarded to Broadway casts along with the producers and c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51PM[title of show] veteran Heidi Blickenstaff recently joined up with another zany Broadway crew: The Addams Family. As Alice Beineke, mother to Wednesday Addams' new boyfriend, Blickenstaf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:46PMThe touring production that celebrates fed-up working women, "9 to 5," comes to Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 08:06PMINTERVIEW: STEVE MARMION The new artistic director of the Soho Theatre tells Aleks Sierz about his innovative first season, including the first London production of Anthony Neilson's Realism…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:00PMInterview: Steve Marmion. The new artistic director of the Soho Theatre tells Aleks Sierz about his innovative first season, including the first London production of Anthony Neilson's Realis…
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NY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the April 2, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:47PMLegit News: Tuner hits the road in the fall -- The Tony-winning Broadway revival of "La Cage aux Folles" will shutter May 1 ahead of a national tour planned to launch this fall.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:34PMLaurie Metcalf, still best-known as the sister in “Rosanne” but currently mesmerizing audiences every night in “The Other Place,” is the latest of a surprising number of faces famili…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:28PMEach spring Symphony Space pays tribute to the artists, philanthropists, corporations, and others who share in its dedication to providing high-quality arts programming to a wide range of au…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:17PMThere’s an interesting backstory behind the creation of Adam Rapp’s “The Metal Children,” a disturbing drama about book banning and the moral obligation an artist has for the work he…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:12PMLegit News: Lewis, Grier also cast in Boston production -- Audra McDonald, David Alan Grier and Norm Lewis are set to topline the cast of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," the production at B…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:04PMIt was an ABC News story from 2005 that contained the seeds for “White Noise,” the new rock musical that opens April 9 at the Royal George Theatre with Whoopi Goldberg on board as a lead…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:04PM
The history of American theater and live performance always has counted on audiences eager to see famous people in close proximity. Almost always, though, it involved famous actors, singers,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:52PMThe Tony-winning Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles has set a closing date of May 1 at the Longacre Theatre. The show, which now stars librettist Harvey Fierstein as Albin and Christophe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:49PM‘Dirty Blonde,” Claudia Shear’s smart and affectionate little modern-day, vintage-style vaudeville, works a neat double trick: It is both an engaging homage to Mae West, that fearless …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:42PMLA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical, is now in its last four weeks on Broadway. Final performance will be Sunday, May 1 at 300 PM at the Longacre T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMTo celebrate the release of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL’s Original Broadway Cast Recording released this week by RHINO, here are some little known facts and trivia behind…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:29PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The sequin-spangled Broadway farce "La Cage aux Folles" (lah-KAJ'-oh-fahl) is putting away its boas....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:26PMDiana exists from one delusional episode to the next. Dan holds his emotions in check while barely holding his family together. Their genius daughter Natalie spews obscenities and rebellion …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 06:12PMTony Award winner Jerry Mitchell has been announced as the directorchoreographer of the Hollywood Bowl's production of HAIRSPRAY, the 2003 winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMLegit News: Stars in Off Broadway's 'Shoemaker' -- Thesp Danny Aiello, scribe Susan Charlotte and helmer Antony Marsellis are reteaming for Off Broadway play "The Shoemaker," a stage version…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09PMThree Broadway musicals in one season? Beth Leavel is in demand, jumping from the leading role of Donna Sheridan Mamma Mia! to loving mom Emily in the holiday hit Elf and now music industry …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:07PM2006 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Jersey Boys charts the rise to fame of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. This documentary-style musical tells the dark story of four blue-collar …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PMGilles Duceppe denounces the casting of Bertrand Cantat in a Montreal play
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:05PMThe Blank Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of Jon Marans' The Temperamentals, featuring John Tartaglia, Erich Bergen, Patrick Scott Lewis and more as the final production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 4611.
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Cheo Bourne and Cliff Odle will navigate life's musical travelogue in the New Repertory Theatre production of the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:57PMBy Cody Daigle
She's got this.
At least that's what Jennifer Hudson's saying in "I Got This," a smooth groove self-empowerment anthem from her sophomore effort "I Remember Me" : "And if y…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:55PMLegit News: Ensler and others also to receive special honors -- Shubert Organization chairman Philip J. Smith and playwright Athol Fugard are set to receive special Tony Awards for lifetime …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:51PMBroadway vets Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier will join previously announced star Audra McDonald in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMThe Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles will play its final performance at the Longacre Theatre on Sunday, May 1. As of that date, it will have played 433 performances …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMThe Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles will play its final performance at the Longacre Theatre May 1 at 3 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PMJoanne Kaufman has a Cultural Conversation with award-winning actor Norbert Leo Butz, who plays FBI agent Carl Hanratty in Broadway's new musical version of "Catch Me If You Can."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 05:39PMAt the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a different brand of “Macbeth” — one less imposing and more unsure — still suffers from an excess of ambition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMTate Donovan & David Lindsay Abaire: GOOD PEOPLE on Theater Talk
An excerpt from Theater Talk's interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Lindsay-Abaire and actor Tate Dono…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:35PMWhen a show runs as long as Blue Man Group (twenty years!), it's easy to take it for granted, a part of the neighborhood you, having once been there, hardly think about any more. I speak fro…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:35PMHartford Stage cancelled Wednesday's performance of "The 39 Steps," because of technical difficulties with lighting.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:34PMTony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, currently represented on Broadway with the new musical Catch Me If You Can, will direct and choreograph the Hollywood Bowl's summer production of the To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PMThe Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which played an almost two-year Broadway run and is currently on national tour, is preparing for a regional life in theatres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PMTony Award winner Jerry Mitchell will direct and choreograph the Hollywood Bowl production of the musical Hairspray, August 5-7. Lon Hoyt will serve as musical director.
Based on the classi…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:22PMOBIE AWARD-WINNER
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 05:18PMLegit Reviews: It's not just the menacing grind of Gareth Fry's vaguely industrial soundscape that gives "Wastwater" its looming air of apprehension. Fear stalks Simon Stephens' elliptical t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PMThis month's title photo is by Brittany Duck and comes from the Red Fern Theatre Company's production of Donna Fiumano-Farley's A Shot Away: Personal Accounts of Military Sexual Trauma.
The…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:15PMObie Award-winner Daniel Beaty will direct his new musical Tearing Down the Walls at the Riverside Theatre, with previews beginning May 6, and an opening scheduled for May 12.
Featuring boo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:03PMLegit Reviews: Work occupies a recognizable but limiting middle ground, too tied to its source to explore its own milieu.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM
“Rocket to the Moon” at the National Theater is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:55PMNorm Lewis and David Alan Grier will join four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in the American Repertory Theater production of the George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera Porgy and B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMTearing Down The Walls, a new musical featuring direction, book and lyrics by Obie Award winner Daniel Beaty (Through the Night, Emergency) and music by Beaty and Oscar and Grammy-nominated …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. announced that Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald, and David Alan Grier are joining the A.R.T. to play Porgy, Bess, and Sportin' Life in the A.R.T.'s new produc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMA special fundraiser was held at Lincoln Center on April 5th for The National Theatre of Great Britain. Sir Nicholas Hytner, Gala Chairs Sir Nigel and Lady Sheinwald, Sir Mark and Lady Lyall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMJoanna Riding has two Olivier Awards to her name, one for Carousel and the other as a replacement Eliza in My Fair Lady—not to mention further credits ranging from The Witches of Eastw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PMThe Flea Theater will present the world premiere of Just Cause, written and directed by Flea Resident Director Zack Russell. The play will run May 6-June 6, with opening night slated for Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMThe New York Philharmonic's Company will be taped
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 04:03PMHappy items on Company, The Normal Heart and Susan Blackwell
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 04:00PM
Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald will the title roles and David Alan Grier will play Sportin' Life in American Repertory Theatre's previously announced The Gershwins' Porgy and B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMAccording to DarkHorizons.com, Alec Baldwin recently revealed that NBC's hit comedy '30 Rock' wil end next season. Baldwin revealed I will tell you one thing, and that is our show next year …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMCurtains at Paper Mill Playhouse
Soap Stars Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer
from "Guiding Light" to Grace the Paper Mill Playhouse Stage!
Paper Mill Playhouse Introduces the Backst…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:48PMIn episode two of Frump Tower: Behind the Scenes at “How to Succeed” with Christopher J. Hanke (and Bud Frump), our intrepid video blogger chats with the people who know Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMAccording to Deadline.com, Tony winner Hugh Jackman has been offered the role of the huntsman in Universal Pictures' 'Snow White and the Huntsman.' If Jackan accets the role, he will star al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMTheatre legend Colm Wilkinson attended Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on Tuesday, April 5. Wilkinson is internationally known for his critically acclai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMAfter a resounding success in March with WAM2, In Series Artistic Director Carla Hubner takes another daring leap by bringing together the unexpected. Now back on home turf in the more intim…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:30PMComplete casting has been announced for the upcoming Broadway production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. Broadway vets Mark Harelik, Richard Topol and Wayne Wilcox join the company…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:27PMFor musical theater lovers who didn’t score tickets to the New York Philharmonic's upcoming mounting of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, you’re in luck: The star-studded con…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:19PMA director handles the realism and the symbolism Soho Rep’s latest play
No one defines it. No one says the actual word. But it’s obvious what the characters are talking about. Th…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:11PM
Responding to longstanding criticism in the music industry that too many awards categories were diluting the Grammys impact, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced on …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:59PMOff-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater will present the world premiere of Zack Russell's Just Cause, about a group of revolutionaires in Brooklyn, May 6-June 6. Resident director Russel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMHow To Succeed... : Montage
Website: H2SYouTube Starring the multi award-winning international stage and film actor Daniel Radcliffe (Equus on Broadway, Harry Potter film series) and five-t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:44PMThe Laguna Playhouse's 2011-2012 in Laguna Beach, CA, will include the world-premiere productions of Lonesome Traveler, billed as an American folk-music "concert," and Tickled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMPamela Cobrin’s book From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927 (University of Delaware Press, 2009) investigates the suffragis…
SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 02:35PMOn Twitter Watch, Lea Michele wrote Had a mini Spring Awakening reunion dinner last night It was so much fun I miss Spring Awakening so much I wish it were back on bway2 hours ago Favorite …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMEver wonder about the routine of a theatre actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Autumn Hurlbert, currently starring in the new musical Tomorrow Morning at the York Theatre, o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMEvan Harrington (The Phantom of the Opera, Avenue Q) will star in "Not Your Mama's Meat Loaf," a one-night-only concert paying tribute to Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMEver wonder about the routine of a theatre actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Autumn Hurlbert, currently starring in the new musical Tomorrow Morning at the York Theatre, o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMSouth African playwright Athol Fugard is to receive an honorary award at the Tony Awards on June 12. In making the announcement, the kudos commitee described Fugard as "a playwright who…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:22PMRehearsals are underway for the New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which will play Avery Fisher Hall, April 7-9. Lonny Pri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere a new digital restoration of Bye Bye Birdie on Wednesday, April 27, at 730 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMChoral composer Eric Whitacre recruited vocalists from 58 countries via YouTube to sing his work. Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, featuring his piece "Sleep," makes its debut Thursday night.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:13PMScreen star George Takei (”Star Trek,” “Heroes”) may soon be seen on Broadway. Takei is scheduled to star with Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Les Misera…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMNew Wimbledon theatre, LondonA change of stage can do surprising things to choreography. Two of the works in the Richard Alston Dance Company's current tour were created for closeup vie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonI brusquely dismissed Terence Rattigan's play when it opened in 1973 accompanied by a clunky curtain-raiser: I even have a copy of the play inscribed to me by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMOld Red Lion, LondonThe wealthy Snelgraves, shut up in their house in a plague-ravaged London in 1665, have only hours left of a 28-day quarantine when their home is invaded by a sailor, Bun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:58PMTony Award-winning director-choreographer Twyla Tharp and Olivier Award-winning actor Derek Jacobi will receive honorary doctoral degrees at the Juilliard School's 106th commencement cer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM“ T H E N O R M A L H E A R T ”
ON BROADWAY
ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CASTING
PREVIEWS BEGIN TUESDAY, APRIL 19
OPENING NIGHT SET FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
AT THE GOLDEN TH…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 01:50PMActors Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey visited Capitol Hill yesterday to press Congress to preserve arts funding amid budget cuts, after a hearing at which the actors were to testify Tuesday w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMMasterworks Broadway will release the Broadway cast recording of Wonderland - Alice Through a Whole New Looking Glass on May 3. Composer Frank Wildhorn, along with David Lai and Jason Howla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMThe New York Philharmonic will present Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Company, with an all-star cast led by Neil Patrick Harris Robert, on April 7-9, 2011. The award-winning musical will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway presentation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which begins previews at the Golden Theatre on Tuesday, April 19 in anticipation of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMThe April 26 episode of "Glee," which will pay homage to music sensation Lady Gaga in an episode entitled "Born This Way," will be extended to 90-minutes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMCasting is now complete for Larry Kramer’s ground-breaking play, The Normal Heart, which will make its Broadway premiere beginning April 19 at the John Golden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMLincoln Center Theater's production of A MINISTER'S WIFE, a new musical with book by Austin Pendleton, music by Joshua Schmidt and lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen, based on Candida by George Berna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:35PMNow that How to Succeed has opened, Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter co-stars have been pouring in to support him in his Broadway musical debut. Following the April 5 performance, Radclif…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:34PMNew York City Center honored Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall and Jack Viertel in a benefit celebration entitled Encores! Treasures — hosted by Christopher Fitzgerald — on April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PM'La Cage aux Folles'
© Joan Marcus
A sad day it is, indeed. The producers of the Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Musical, La Cage aux Folles, have announced that the show will close...…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 01:33PMSupermodel Christie Brinkley will make her Broadway debut April 8 as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre.
Brinkley visited ABC’s “Good Morning AmericaR…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMTheater legend Colm Wilkinson attended Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on Tuesday, April 5. Following the show, he went backstage to meet and take a pho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMLove, Loss and What I Wore is holding a contest in honor of Mother’s Day, and your story can be performed by cast members of the Off-Broadway production.
The show at the Westside Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMAcademy Award-winning actress and Tony-winning producer Whoopi Goldberg is planning to direct a documentary based on the life of African-American female comedian Moms Mabley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMThe Grammy Awards have announced a number of changes for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, including changing the total number of categories to be recognized in 2012 to 78. Last year, awards we…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMMark O'Rowe's three characters – lonely, desperate souls – confide their experiences of one dark, desolate night, pour out their wild deeds and wilder fantasies in torrents of dense, dar…
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:18PMMark O'Rowe three characters – lonely, desperate souls – confide their experiences of one dark, desolate night, pour out their wild deeds and wilder fantasies in torrents of dense, dark…
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:18PMThe New York Yankees aren’t the only out-of-towners invading Boston this weekend. The Boston-based nonprofit TransCultural Exchange is hosting its third biennial Conference on Internat…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:07PMDavid Burnett writes: The actor Michael Gough (obituary, 18 March) had a great affection for Ireland, and was an accomplished artist. He would have been delight…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMComposer and conductor John Adams, jazz pianist and producer Herbie Hancock, actor Derek Jacobi, and choreographer Twyla Tharp will receive honorary doctoral degrees at Juilliard's 106t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMThe Amoralists' world premiere of Derek Ahonen's Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, about a Gramercy Park apartment thrown into chaos, began performances March 31 at Performance Spa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth will make an appearance on the series premiere of 'CMT Next Superstar' on April 8. The show airs Fridays at 9PM on CMT
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMKristin Chenoweth will appear on the April 8 premiere of CMT Next Superstar! at 9pm ET/PT. Thea Andrews will host the reality program.
On the show, singer-songwriters will compete to see w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:47PMThe Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West will air on THIRTEEN's Great Performances on Sunday, April 24 at 12 Noon ET on PBS. In New York, THIRTEEN will air the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY
OPENS TOMORROW THURSDAY, APRIL 7th!
Sutton Foster
And
Joel Grey
ANYTHING GOES
Music & Lyrics by
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Original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton
a…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 12:38PM2009 TONY AWARD-WINNING
BEST MUSICAL
BILLY ELLIOT the musical
CELEBRATES 1,000 PERFORMANCES
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The 10-time Tony Award-winnin…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 12:32PMAccording to EW.com, Wanda Sykes, Ben Shenkman, and Tony Goldwyn are all set to make appearances on the upcoming third season of Lifetime's 'Drop Dead Diva.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMAn Afro-Caribbean take on Stravinsky's Petrouchka among new offerings by Ballet Creole’s spring program.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:29PMU.S. DEBUT OF CUBA’S
DANZA CONTEMPORANEA de CUBA
NATIONAL TOUR INCLUDES TWO-WEEK ENGAGEMENT AT NYC’S
JOYCE THEATER
PROGRAM FEATURES NEW WORK HORIZONTE BY PEDRO RUIZ
MAY 10 - 22
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 12:28PMRoundabout Theatre Company
THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE
Will play its final performance this SUNDAY, APRIL 10th
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Michael Wilson
“Round…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 12:25PMMike Stoller shares his story
To learn how you can share your story, visit http://www.ThePeopleInYouPicture.com
For more information on the new musical, The People in the Picture, visit ht…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:21PMThe New York Philharmonic will present Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Company, with an all-star cast led by Neil Patrick Harris Robert, on April 7-9, 2011. The award-winning musical will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMShow at Barre welcomes Valerie Pettiford to the cast of FOR THE RECORD Baz Luhrmann. Ms. Pettiford will perform this Saturday, April 8th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMCatch Me If You Can’s Alex Ellis never considered her strongest suit to be dance. In episode 4 of “Diary of a Chorus Girl” Ellis gets whipped into shape by the production&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMKristin Chenoweth is headed back to Glee as April Rhodes, and the Tony winner recently took a break from filming to shack up with Matthew Morrison inside his trailer. Chenoweth got the chanc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMIf you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook Jame…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:08PMClubbed Thumb has announced the plays that it will present as part of its Summerworks 2011 series, to run June 5-25 at HERE Arts Center.
This 16th annual festival of new works will begin wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMThe 10-time Tony Award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical will celebrate 1,000 performances on Broadway this Friday, April 8th, 730pm at the Imperial Theatre 246 West 45th Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMA reading of Paul Iacono's Prince/Elizabeth will be presented April 7 at 8 PM at The Delancey in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM
About the author:
Rajiv Joseph is having quite a year. The playwright's Gruesome Playground Injuries ran earlier this season at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre, which previously…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMMusic and language make sense, as do music and movement – but is it possible to dance to the spoken word?We have danced to music as long as we have been making music. In some African langu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMNew York City Center honored Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall and Jack Viertel in a benefit celebration hosted by Christopher Fitzgerald on Monday, April 4 at The Plaza Hotel. Highlights fro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMJoseguillermo Cortines will join the Off-Broadway company of David Maldonado and Ari Maniel Cruz's La Barbería (The Barbershop), at New World Stages, beginning with the Monda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMPlaywright Athol Fugard and Shubert Organization executive Philip J. Smith will receive lifetime achievement honors at this year's Tony Awards....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:50AMStage actors Catherine Tate and James Spader along with comedian Ray Romano will join previously announced Ricky Gervais, Will Arnett and Will Ferrell for the season finale of NBC's &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMThis week on 'Dancing with the Stars' the top 10 got a chance to dance to songs that were personal to them, but Wendy Williams and partner Tony Dovolani failed to impress, becoming the secon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMKate Shindle, who stars as The Mad Hatter in Broadway's WONDERLAND - A New Alice. A New Musical, will appear as a judge on the Food Network's Last Cake Standing episode which airs Sunday, Ap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMHere's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Playwrights Athol Fugard and Eve Ensler will receive special honors at this year's Tony Awards....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:29AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) production of The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams and directed by Michael Wilson, will play its …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:29AMThe New York Philharmonic's starry concert production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which will play Avery Fisher Hall April 7-9, will be filmed live, according to T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMRoundabout Theatre Company's Todd Haimes, Artistic Director production of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams and directed by Michael Wilson, will play its final …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMThroughout the season, BroadwayWorld has been bringing you video updates of the quests of comedian Randy Rainbow. First he tried to save the cast of SPIDER-MAN. Then he auditioned for Amer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMTony and Emmy-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, most recently on Broadway in the revival of Promises, Promises, will make an appearance on an upcoming episode of "CMT Next Superstar.&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMNorbert Leo Butz, Aaron Tveit, Tom Wopat and the company of Catch Me If You Can discuss the much-anticipated new Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for the one-night-only concert, The Bridge: Where Hope and Respect Come Together, to be offered on Monday, April 11 at 8pm at New World Sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AMDanceOn, YouTube's partnership channel exclusive to dance, released the fourth episode of DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL today. The first webseries of its kind, DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL documents the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMWhether you felt it or not, the Tsunami that tragically fell upon our friends in Japan hit our shores as well, just not like you'd think (and for that we can thank the same guy/girl that cau…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company has released a preview video for the new musical The People in the Picture, which will officially open at Studio 54 on April 28.
Directed by Leonard Foglia and mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Stage actors Wanda Sykes, Tony Goldwyn and Ben Shenkman are set to make appearances throughout the third season of Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva," according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMAppearance in 1984’s The Grey Fox was his career’s highlight.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:57AMJeremy Peter Johnson and Nicole Lowrance will co-star in the Westport Country Playhouse production of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, which will open the company's 2011 season A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMSouth African playwright, director and actor Athol Fugard and Shubert Organization Chairman Philip J. Smith have been awarded 2011 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMFrom April 28, 2011 through May 28, 2011, the Melbourne Theatre Company will present the Australian premiere of the 2010 Pulitzer-Prize winning Broadway hit, Next To Normal. The production, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMThe ten-time Tony Award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical will celebrate 1,000 performances on Broadway April 8 at 7:30 PM at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMNew York City Center presented a benefit celebration on Monday, April 4 at The Plaza Hotel. Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall and Jack Viertel, past and present artistic directors of City Cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AMKate Shindle will appear as a judge on the April 10 episode of Food Network's Last Cake Standing, to air at 9pm ET/PT, and be rebroadcast on April 11 at 12am and April 13 at 9pm.
On…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AMCause Celebr is proud to announce Academy Award Nominee Danny Aiello will star in what he calls a role of a lifetime, in the World Premiere of Susan Charlottes The Shoemaker, directed by Ant…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMKate Shindle, who stars as The Mad Hatter in Broadway’s WONDERLAND – A New Alice. A New Musical, will appear as a judge on the Food Network’s “Last Cake Standing” episode which a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:38AMProduced by Theresa Wozunk, LIBERTY A New Musical of Monumental Proportions features a book and lyrics by Dana Leslie Goldstein and music by Jonathan Goldstein. Currently preparing for a com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMPlaywright Athol Fugard will receive a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre along with Philip J. Smith, chairman of The Shubert Organization. Also being honored i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:24AMTony Award nominee Felicia Fields will star in Dan Goggins' Nunset Boulevard, The Hollywood Bowl Show, which will make its Chicago-area premiere at Theatre at the Center in Munster, Ind…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMThe Amoralists celebrated the opening of its world premiere production of Bring Us The Head Of Your Daughter, at PS 122's 9th Space theater, on April 2.
The play, written and directed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMAfter the Arts Council cuts, it's clear the future lies in partnerships – but how do we make it happen?There's a theme emerging from the many passionate calls to arms in the aftermath of l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMThe cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of The Wizard of Oz will be released May 2 through Really Useful Group/Polydor Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe Tony Awards Admonsitration Committee has announced this year's recipients in three catagories. Among the honorees are a world-renowned playwright originally from South Africa, a longtime…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMThe award-winning comedy Yes, Prime Minister, returns to the West End starring Simon Williams and Richard McCabe from 6 July. Take advantage of our early booker offer rate with top price sea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:05AMPolice drummer Stewart Copeland and Monty Python star Terry Jones are the unlikely pair in a new operatic double bill which opens in London on Friday.
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When Tomei and Whaley are left alone to portray opposite poles in the eternal quest for meaning in a meaningless world, their pain becomes yours. When they're not, their existence becomes pa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AM''Rocket to the Moon'' at the National Theatre is the latest in the parade of American works showing on London stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:56AMIs there a comedian cuddlier than Mike Birbiglia? His girth and dress sense suggest a fraternity brother gone to seed, but his pleading eyes and...
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:55AMThe Mad Ones head off to the New York World's Fair
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:55AM59E59 Theaters hosts Douglas Maxwell's U.K. import
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:54AMThe Transport Group takes a musical revival site-specific
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:54AMRajiv Joseph's powerful, ghost-ridden new drama earns its stripes
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:53AMActor Wayne Robson has died in his home in Canada. He was 65.
Robson appeared in over 100 Canadian theater productions, 30 feature films and 120 television productions, including 12 seasons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMMusical Mondays Theatre Lab will present a preview of the award-winning musical The Fartiste April 14 at 6:30 PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater in the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMOrganizers of the Tony Awards also announced special honors for Eve Ensler, Bill Berloni, the Drama Book Shop and Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37AMAcademy Award nominee Danny Aiello ("Do the Right Thing") will star in the world premiere of Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, which will begin previews July 14 at The Acorn The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMTheo Ubique says it will expand its hit production of "Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein" though June 5 (and possibly longer). Artistic director Fred Anzevino said…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:32AMPlaywright Athol Fugard and Shubert Organization chairman Philip J. Smith will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 2011 Tony Awards, which will be presented at The Beacon Theatre Sund…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMAs reported by Idina Menzel's official website, the Tony winnerwill be returning to Cincinnati on June 25 for an outdoor performance with The Cincinnati Pops to open their Riverbend Summer C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMOscar nominee Danny Aiello will star in the world premiere of Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, to be presented Off-Broadway by Cause Celebrè at Theater Row's Acorn Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:23AMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the recipients for the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, the Isabelle Stevenson Award and The Tony Honors for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AMValerie Pettiford will make a guest appearance in the April 8 performance of For the Record: Baz Luhrmann, running at Show at Barre. Directed by Shane Scheel and featuring musical direction …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMRubicon Theatre Company has announced casting for James O'Neil's Lonesome Traveler, to run April 13 - May 15. Writer O'Neil will direct the production, which will have musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMKef theatrical productions, which is headed by artistic director Adam Fitzgerald, will present the world premiere of Israela Margalit's First Prize at the Arclight Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AMCasting has been announced for two upcoming jazz benefits at the Highline Ballroom. 100% of the ticket proceeds will be donated to the Japan Relief and Recovery Fund spearheaded by Direct Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:04AMTony Award nominee Stephen Mo Hanan will star in Spanish playwright Inigo Ramirez de Haro's We Couldn't Call It What We Wanted to Call It, So We Called It Holy Crap!!, to play La M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:02AMDaisy Eagan and James Mooney, in association with the Catalina Jazz Club, will present Cabaret Cares: Songs for Japan April 11 at 8 PM at the Hollywood venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for the one-night-only concert, Cabaret Cares: Songs for Japan, to be offered at the Catalina Jazz Club on Monday, April 11 at 8pm. Procee…
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Encompass New Opera will present Evan Mack's new music drama, Angel of the Amazon. May 6-22 at The Jerome Robbins Theater at Baryshnikov Arts Center. The production will be directed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMStage veterans Tony Goldwyn, Ben Shenkman, and Wanda Sykes will be among the guest stars during the third season of Lifetime's hit series Drop Dead Diva, according to EW.com.
The show,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AMIn a new video to promote the upcoming Broadway production of ALLEGIANCE aiming for 2012, star George Takei explains why he should be in SPIDER-MAN on Broadway. Watch and enjoy
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMStage stars Will Ferrell, James Spader, and Catherine Tate will be among the guest stars on the May 19 season finale of NBC's hit comedy, The Office, according to The Hollywood Reporter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:31AMThe Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival has closed, but 1st Stage’s sensitive and skilled rendition of The Glass Menagerie allows us to revel in the talent of the great Tennessee W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AM"Arcadia"'s Lady Croom, Margaret Colin, discusses grappling with the intellectuals concepts in the play, the experience of spending several days having Tom Stoppard explain them, and what it…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:13AMIn a recent interview, Daniel Radcliffe claimed that he had three successive actors dismissed from the role of Rosemary in "How to Succeed..." before Rose Hemingway got the part.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Nominations revealed May 2 ahead of May 23 ceremony -- The Drama Desk has set the sked for its 2010-11 awards, with noms to be announced by Liev Schreiber and Audra McDonald May …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Produces two stage shows that open this month -- Whoopi Goldberg is gearing up to direct a documentary about comic Moms Mabley while producing two very different stage tuners tha…
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This is essentially a plot-less, character-driven play about a notably incompatible married couple, trapped in a surreal-existential world of their own making.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:41AMMichael Frayn's elegantly structured 4-character 1984 play is still relevant . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:38AMSome say the world will end in fire, the poet Robert Frost observed, and some say in ice, but at Woolly Mammoth next season the world will end with a rampage of feral pigs, a hip-hop Thomas …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:22AMPlaywrights Athol Fugard and Eve Ensler will receive special honors at this year's Tony Awards. Fugard will get a lifetime achievement award; Ensler will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Awar…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:20AMGiven that going to a Broadway musical is easily the most expensive form of entertainment — a ticket to Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark costs as much as a dozen movie tickets or a year's s…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:00AM
Tis the theatrical season for high-end call girls. First a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica in Dangerous Beauty and now Manhattan-based Charlotte in the premiere of Jane Anders…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:36AMMe and my big mouth (or, for the grammatically conscious among us, my big mouth and I). On one of the recent podcasts I do most Sundays on Broadway Radio for Broadway Stars, the subject came…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMA friend of mine recently had to write a piece called "Twenty-five Interesting Things About You" for her workplace newsletter,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMJane Anderson's new play at Geffen Playhouse features no physical nakedness (to stars Maggie Siff and Polly Draper's relief), but don't expect it to be modest.Jane Anderson's new play at Gef…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
Be sure to catch fellow "Adaumbelle's Quest" participant "Naked" Eddie Capuano in Richard Greenberg's Tony Award Winning show "Take Me Out" at Nutley Little Theatre in NJ. Directed by R…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 12:14AMAfter an emotional night of personal performances last night, it was time for someone to receive the news that they'd be going home on DANCING WITH THE STARS. Would it be Wendy Williams, the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08AMPlaywright Sean Grennan will see two of his plays world-premiere in the 25th season of American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, MO, where three of his musical comedies have been popular.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMA starry Broadway revival of John Guare’s House of Blue Leaves is in previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
In The House of Leaves, “Ben Stiller is Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStanley Bahorek and Jeffrey Bean face the music in Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning drama Amadeus, which officially opens April 6 at the Alley Theatre after previews that began April 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLynn Nottage pays homage to the "afterthought" black actors of yesteryear in the new Off-Broadway play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, a comedy about an African-American maid and her white movie-star employer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSeveral up-and-coming songwriters will perform their own songs April 6 at Le Poisson Rouge in an evening titled Composers Sing Composers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichael Stahl-David, of the horror film "Cloverfield," stars as an actor who gets his big break in Hollywood in the Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere production of Christopher …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFalsettos Tony nominee Barbara Walsh heads the cast of Reading Under the Influence: The "Real" Westchester Women's Book Club, which begins performances April 6 at Union Square&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRogelio Martinez's Wanamaker's Pursuit, a new play with local color, opens April 6 in a production by Arden Theatre in Philadelphia. Performances began March 31 for a run to May 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1947 The first Tony Awards ceremony is held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Thirteen awards are presented to the likes of Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Fredric March, Jose Ferrer, A…
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