The Palestinian family in “Urge for Going” argues about what happened in 1948 and 1967, and why they now live in Lebanon, in “temporary camps built 60 years ago.” But they argue the …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:53PMAfter a night of classical pieces on DANCING WITH THE STARS, the attention shifted - momentarily, at least - to the usual results show performances. This week featured Jennifer Hudson and vi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23PMIn the past few years, the Roundabout Theatre Company has had a lot of trouble delivering the goods when it comes to musical revivals. Their productions, last year, of Pal Joey and Bye Bye B…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:13PMHERE, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: A bizarre, disorienting work with a complex, hard to follow storyline that alienates the audience but succeeds in ruminating o…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:06PMThough Universal Pictures has chosen not to produce an IN THE HEIGHTS film, the studio has its sights set on another Broadway hit Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01PM
It struck me as odd, when I was walking through that annoying passageway between Port Authority and Times Square, that the revised La Cage Aux Folles posters were billing the show as "I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:52PMIt's a shame the audience at Ghost Stories on Tuesday night were otherwise occupied, because they could have been watching something really scary, like the Federal Leaders' Debate.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:49PMLegit Reviews: A romantic antidote to cynical gay comedies, this slight but engaging piece bravely affirms that you're never too old or too soiled to win the love of a nice young man.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35PMWhat Went Viral? April 12, 2011
Perks Producer Tom Diggs vlogs about what went viral on April 12, 2011:
Kristie Alley, Justin Bieber, David Burn, Charlie Christ, Flip, Civil War, Yuri Gagar…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:31PMLegit Reviews: The Whoopi Goldberg-backed new rock musical about a neo-Nazi band making it in the mainstream is well-intentioned but over-blunt.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PMAmerican Idiot may be ending its Broadway run on April 24, but the Green Day musical is going Hollywood. Universal Pictures currently in negotiations to turn the Tony-nominated hit into a fe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11PMIn David Greenspan’s new play, “Go Back to Where You Are,” he is also an actor, playing a demon traveling through time on a mission of salvation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the April 9, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:00PMDavid Greenspan's delightfully giddy show is equal parts love story and metatheatrical exercise.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMYoung Jean Lee's often beguiling new cabaret piece at Joe's Pub shows off the playwright's talents as a singer and songwriter.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
A memorial service for Orlando dance pioneer Kip Watson, who died yesterday morning of cancer, will be at 4 p.m. Friday April 15 at the First Congregational Church in Winter Park.The church …
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 09:54PMA proclamation is imminent in Eugene Ionesco's play. A Noise Within pulls up a seat.A proclamation is imminent in Eugene Ionesco's play. A Noise Within pulls up a seat.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:34PMToday we are talking to the multi-talented actresswriterproducer of the hit indie romantic comedies KISSING JESSICA STEIN and IRA amp ABBY, who is now adding director to her list of abilitie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMThe story of a city in denial, The Normal Heart unfolds like a real-life political thriller -- as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians and the press bury the tru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19PM
If your heart belongs to the disco era, and you can never get enough sequins, then the musical adaptation of the film, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," is the glitzy, psychedelic-colored fa…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:47PMTraditional in form and style, but subversive in content, the new musical, “The Book of Mormon,” is a no-holds-barred extravaganza rife with irreverence.
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 08:46PMHere’s an audition notice from Breakthrough Theatre: AUDITIONS: A Weekend in Winter Park with Sondheim Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park 419 A W. Fairbanks Ave Winter Park, FL A musi…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 08:32PM
Mary Poppins Rehearsals Sydney Special Episode of The Theatre Show
Overseas version of our Mary Poppins in Sydney Episode. The Theatre Show were at Sydney's Capitol Theatre for the prev…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:47PMSo. Broadway’s unlikeliest star, Billie Joe Armstrong, is clearly having a fabulous time playing St. Jimmy in American Idiot, which closes in two weeks–and raiding the show’…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 07:41PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playwright Edward Albee, the author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?," will receive the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement, the organization behind the…
SOURCE: Reuters at 07:40PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonI find it strange that one of Harold Pinter's most accessible plays has had to wait 18 years for a major London revival. It deals, after all, with mortality, love, lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37PMThough tepidly reviewed and shuttered early in its Broadway incarnation, a substantially re-staged 9 to 5 has proven a crowd pleaser in its national tour, and from the smiling faces and laug…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMOn Thursday, April 14, audience members at the new Broadway musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN will get the chance to hear first-hand from the real Frank W. Abagnale Jr. played on stage by Aaron Tv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28PM... existentialism among the pioneers ... Which way to turn? Whom can we trust? It's 1845 and three couples, one wife pregnant, one couple with a little boy, journeying west in covered wagon…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:28PMYesterday, April 11, Garnier brought some of NYC's most fabulous Broadway dancers, The Cagelles, to Times Square to mark the inaugural stop of their Cleaner Greener Tour. The Cagelles posed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMBATMAN LIVE will begin a full arena tour in the UK in July. The show will follow Dick Grayson, an orphaned circus performer who is looked after by Bruce Wayne. In his search for justice, he …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21PMCurious about what the real Frank Abagnale Jr. is really like? Audience members at the April 14 performance of Catch Me If You Can can see and hear him onstage at the Neil Simon Theatre at a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:17PMSharr White’s The Other Place by is a terrifying play, illuminated by an astonishing performance by Laurie Metcalf as a middle-aged scientist struggling with dementia.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:12PMSo many twisted roots have grown beneath the American soil as a consequence of this country’s racial divide. And it is from that complex, often deeply hidden network, that Louisiana-bred p…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:11PMStephen Adly Guirgis knows street talk and can write dialogue of astonishingly funny mad-dog ferocity. But somebody has to speak that dialogue onstage, and Chris Rock, the crass standup come…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:10PMThe story Pirates will hold their third annual AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL benefit on May 20 at Peter Norton Syphony Space. Set to make appearances are Ana Gasteyer, John Oliver, Kristen Schaal and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10PMTovah Feldshuh is set to star in GYPSY at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The four time Tony nominee will begin performances December 6.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:05PMTheatre Royal, Stratford EastIt makes perfect sense. Beatrice and Benedick's verbal sparring in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a precursor to freestyle rap - or at least, it's easy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM
A female astronomer bumps up against the celestial ceiling in Lauren Gunderson's period dramedy. A female astronomer bumps up against the celestial ceiling in Lauren Gunderson's period drame…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:52PM"This is kind of a weird play," announces the actor portraying Bernard, a dramatist, in "Go Back to Where You Are." The term "fantastical" also comes up. No wonder. The 70-minute one-act by …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:52PMAs previously reported by BroadwayWorld, NBC has picked up a new pilot entitled SMASH, which is about a group of people who come together to put on a Broadway musical. The series was develop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMA Palestinian refugee family is torn by the Arab-Israeli conflict in Mona Mansour’s “Urge for Going,” at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PM"Leave the gun," Jackie, the volatile, recovering-addict ex-con at the center of The Motherf**ker With the Hat, is told halfway through the play. "Take the empanadas."
It's a throwaway line,…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:31PMKathleen Turner stars on Broadway as “Sister Jamison Connelly” in HIGH, a new play by Matthew Lombardo, directed by Rob Ruggiero. HIGH is playing at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and ope…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:26PMHugh Jackman is in the final stages of prep for his solo concerts at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, where he’s set to appear May 3-15. “I’ve been working on my one-m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:26PMThe logo has been revealed for the American Theatre Wing's 2011 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. This year's Tony nominations will be announced on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMJoy Behar and Blythe Danner will head the cast of a benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday, April 23 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:04PMAccording to Variety, Rufus Sewell will join previously announced Anthony Mackie and Benjamin Walker in 20th Century Fox's 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.' Sewell will star as the main vam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:01PM
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 05:55PMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Broadway veteran Kelsey Grammer will produce a new reality television series about three women who launched ThatsNotOkayNY.com.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMLast night, April 11, Carly Simon was honored at the 8th Annual Our Time Gala. On hand to honor the star were Paul Rudd, Kelli O'Hara, Ben Taylor and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMIn a recent interview with the AssociatedPress, Emma Watson revealed that she wouldn't mind following in her Harry Potter co-star's footsteps by starring in a shw on the Great White Way. Wat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMFour-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh will climb the Everest of musical theatre this fall, playing Mama Rose in Gypsy at Bristol Riverside Theatre. The Bucks County, PA, theatre announ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMFrank W. Abagnale Jr., whose youthful adventures are the basis for the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, will host an on stage, post-show talk back and Q & A at the Neil Simon Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMA musical adaptation of Xaviera Hollander's popular 1971 memoir, The Happy Hooker, has its sights set on Broadway, according to the New York Daily News. Writer Richard Hansom and compose…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:25PMElicia MacKenzie and Yvan Pedneault will be leading the cast in The Wizard of Oz.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:25PMChris Noth, star of TV’s The Good Wife and, of course, Sex and the City, came bearing gifts when he stopped in to visit with the ladies of The View on April 12. Noth, who is currently …
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 05:23PMRainn Wilson, the star of the Emmy Award Winning Hit Series, The Office will host the 2011 Children's Theater Company Benefit at the OHM, New York City's newest hot spot in West Chelsea whic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMTate Donovan and David Lindsay-Abairephoto by Kalin Ivanov on CUNY TV: Saturday, April 23rd at 8:30 Sunday, April 24th at 12:30 PM and Monday, April 25th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM Acto…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:18PMFive-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer attended the 900 p.m. performance of PEEPSHOW at Planet Hollywood Resort amp Casino Monday night, with his new wife Kayte Walsh. Following the perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMTHEATER REVIEW: ‘42nd Street' ★★★½ Through May 29 at Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire; Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes; Tickets: $41-$49 at 847 634-0200 or www.ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:14PMLisa Howard, who made her Broadway debut in William Finn's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, celebrated the release of her new all-Finn CD with an April 11 Birdland concert. S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMJohn E. Alexander, the current managing director of Off-Broadway's Naked Angels, will exit his position this summer, the organization announced April 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMThe New York-based creators of "Smash" - an NBC fall season prospect about the making of a Broadway musical - have concluded filming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMMinutes before Peggy Sawyer, that talented but inexperienced little chorus girl from Allentown, Pa., steps into the leading role of a new Broadway show titled “Pretty Lady,” her director…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00PMAs Ballet BC marks 25 years as a dance company, Chinese-born dancer Wen Wei Wang remembers the magical birth of his Canadian career, dating from the same time
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM
The 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring the best of Off-Broadway will be held on May 1, 2011. A recption for nominees was held yesterday, April 11th. Check out photos from the event below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMCAP 21, now in its 18th year of creating new work and developing new talent as America's Musical Theatre Conservatory and Theatre Company, honored award-winning composers and lyricists Jason…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMAccording to TVGuide.com, Broadway veterans Clay Aiken and Lance Bass are set to star in the fifth episode of the third season of DROP DEAD DIVA. Bass will star as a casting directorand Aike…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMThe world premiere of Matt Schatz's The Tallest Building in the World, which explores the birth of the World Trade Center Towers, will begin performances April 14 at New Jersey's Lun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMThis week on 'Dancing with the Stars' the top 9 got a chance to dance to classical pieces. Check out images from the episode below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMHarry Potter heroine Emma Watson hasn’t yet seen Daniel Radcliffe’s star turn in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but she’s already thinking about followin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:38PMThe Lark Play Development Center announced four playwrights — Joshua Allen, Thomas Bradshaw, Bekah Brunstetter and Andrea Thome — to receive cash awards and professional support …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMBy Byrne Harrison
Laura Frankos writes the “Great White Way Wayback Machine” column on TalkinBroadway.com and is the author of several books in the fields of mystery, science fiction, a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:34PMThe more outrageous and bile-filled you are, the more successful and media-worthy you will likely become. That seems to be the unavoidable message of much contemporary pop culture. The examp…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:31PMBroadway stars Clay Aiken and Lance Bass will be among the guest stars during the third season of Lifetime's hit series Drop Dead Diva, according to TVSquad.com The series will return …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMHere is an early look at the upcoming episode of the hit comedy "Glee." The April 19 episode is entitled "Night of Neglect." The show airs at 8 PM on FOX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMRufus Sewell has joined the cast of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, according to a report in Variety. Timur Bekmambetov will direct and co-produce the picture with Tim Burton and Jim Leml…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMWant the chance to attend the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards at the Hammerstein Ballroom? Enter Drama Desk’s contest to become a trophy chaperone at the ceremony.
A panel of theatre pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMIn anticipation of the upcoming Lucille Lortel Awards on May 1, the Off-Broadway League honored the 2011 nominees with an April 11 cocktail reception at Planet Hollywood Times Square. From O…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:11PMExecutive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for Tracy Letts' award-winning play, August Osage County. Directed by Obie Award winner Sam Gold, the dark c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMFeaturing complex and lifelike equine puppets, the National Theatre
of Great Britain production of War Horse charges onto
the stage at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. War Horse
…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMSignature Theatre Company’s (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) New York revival of Tony Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay Fantasia on National …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:02PMThe Associated Press reports that actress Emma Watson is interested in following in the footsteps of Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe with a stint on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMAccording to the Daily News, THE HAPPY HOOKER, a best-selling 1971 book by Xaviera Hollander, is being turned into a musical. Writer Richard Hansom and composer Warren Wills are currently wo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM"El cakeito-El cuarto nivel" (2011) by Jamex & ...
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PM
On Tuesday, April 12, members of the press caught a sneak peek at Willard Beckham's new musical comedy Lucky Guy, which will play Off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theatre, April 28-Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:57PMAs Signature Theatre gets ready to move to Signature Center, it's new home, in celebration of their 20th anniversary, the company interviewed nearly 40 actors, playwrights, directors and des…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:53PMPlaywright Edward Albee has won the McDowell Colony's Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding achievement in his field, according to The Associated Press.
Albee, who has won numerous P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf**ker With the Hat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf**ker With the Hat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMKristine Zbornik (Forbidden Broadway, Random Unrelated Projects) will be heard singing Jason Robert Brown's "The Blues Have Got the Best of Me" in Aaron Mark's upcoming ind…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PMThe Glimmerglass Festival has announced its lineup for ShowTalk, a series where visiting scholars and artists explore topics related to the company's 2011 Festival.
The series will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMTHAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Chris Noth appeared on ABC's The View this morning, April 12. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherlan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:39PMClifford Odets'
WAITING FOR LEFTY
to play Off-Broadway
this May
The Portmanteau Theatre Company, led by co-founders Ilana Becker and Mic…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 03:38PMThe daughter of former Hollywood power couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, 22-year-old Rumer Willis has successfully paved her own acting career in films such as Sorority Row and The House B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMClassic tunes from Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello, She Loves Me, The Apple Tree, and others will fill the air at New Yorks legendary National Arts Club on Monday May 16, 2011 as The Theatre M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMWith Chris Rock making his Broadway debut, it’s no surprise that a starry crowd would turn out to cheer him on opening night of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker With the Ha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMBroadway stars Clay Aiken and Lance Bass will be among the guest stars during the third season of Lifetime's hit series Drop Dead Diva, according to TVSquad.com The series will return …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMPatina Miller (Deloris van Cartier) and the cast of SISTER ACT raised the roof off of “Good Morning America” this morning when they sang “Take Me to Heaven,” from the…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:28PMPittsburgh CLO's 2011 Summer Season will fill the Benedum Center with performances audiences will remember well into 2012. In addition to favorite local performers, this summer will be highl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMMissing Glee? Have no fear: the talented McKinley High crew is readying to hit the road again with another national concert tour. Last summer Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Rile…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMAnything Goes opened on Broadway last week to great reviews. BroadwayWorld was there for the Gypsy Robe Ceremony, as usual, and brings you photo coverage below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:25PMFive-time Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Kelsey Grammer and his new wife Kayte Walsh attended the Monday, April 11 performance of Peepshow at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMNational Corporate Theatre Fund NCTF will hold its Annual Chairman's Awards Gala and benefit on Monday, May 2 at the St. Regis New York hotel 2 East 55th Street at Fifth Avenue. This year, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMAs new musical Sister Act gears up to open at the Broadway Theatre on April 20, the musical’s talented Sisters, led by show-stopping star Patina Miller, spread a little early morning s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMTony Award winner John Lithgow, opera star Renee Fleming and graphic designer Milton Glaser will each receive the 2011 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal April 13 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMKevin Chamberlin, Merle Dandridge, Ellen Greene, and John Tartaglia will perform at the Celebration Theatre's first annual May Day Cabaret to be held on May 1 at Space 916 in West Holly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:12PMHere'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 03:12PMThe Old Globe Theatre in San Diego has announced casting for its production of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, to run May 7-June 12. Sam Gold will direct.
Winner of the 2008 Tony Aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMAccording to WAToday, producers are hoping to bring OCTOR ZHIVAGO STAR Anthony Warlow alongfor a West End transfer. The production is currently enjoying a successful run at Her Majesty's Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PM
The Portmanteau Theatre Company's inaugural production will be Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, which will play The Hartley House May 7-29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMTHE TOWN HALL'S
90TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT CELEBRATION AND CONCERT
MONDAY, MAY 2
FEATURES JASON ROBERT BROWN, LIZ CALLAWAY, TOVAH FELDSHUH, BUCKY PIZZARELLI, EMILY SKINNER, AND MORE.
Hist…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:52PMAbout the author:
Sure, Harry Potter and the Twilight vampires became blockbuster movies, but the idea of bringing a children’s book about World War I cavalry horses to life in a thea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:44PMNATIONAL CORPORATE THEATRE FUND
PROUDLY ANNOUNCES
“2011 CHAIRMAN’S AWARDS GALA: FUNDING NEW AMERICAN THEATRE”
MONDAY, MAY 2
THIS YEAR’S HONOREES:
JOEL GREY
CHARLES DILLINGHAM
(Mana…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:42PMThough he has only written the score for three Broadway musicals--The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown--David Yazbek is one of the best musi…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 02:42PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Edward Albee has received another top literary honor....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:41PMWONDERLAND
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Beginning today, April 12, Broadway’s WONDERLAND – A New Alice. A New Musical announces…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:35PMThe Music-Theatre Group presented Music-Theatre Jam, a one-time-only happening featuring a treasure-trove of material from their past productions, on Saturday, April 9 at 10 Jay Street in Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:34PMBeginning today, April 12, Broadway's WONDERLAND - A New Alice. A New Musical announces a lottery ticket policy. A limited number of 30 tickets includes a 2 facility fee will be available at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMAnything Goes opened on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre April 7 to rave reviews.
The revival stars Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Little Women, Shrek the Musical), Joel Gr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMSeveral Broadway favorites will be part of the first annual May Day Cabaret, which will be held May 1 at Space 916 in West Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMThe Story Pirates Benjamin Salka, CEO Lee Overtree, Artistic Director, a national arts and literacy organization, will host its Third Annual After School Special Fundraiser on Friday, May 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PM
Multi-platinum superstar Jennifer Hudson will make her debut Festival performance, joined by RampBFunk icon Chaka Khan and the reunion of New Edition at the 2011 ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL celeb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMA concert version of the pop-rock musical fairytale Gay Bride of Frankenstein will be presented April 24 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMChris Rock made his Broadway debut in the dark comedy "The Motherf**ker with the Hat" Monday and earned the respect of some of the the town's toughest theater critics. This is …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:55PMCasting has been announced for various productions that will play the Pittsburgh CLO, at Benedum Center, during the summer months.
Kevin Gray will star in the title roles of the Frank Wildh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PMF. Murray Abraham has about 30 minutes to talk before he has to go to rehearsal for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which is set to open April 14 on the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:51PMLanguage has failed -- that's Guirgis's story and he's gallantly sticking to it. This modern rom-com is to be greatly admired, enjoyed and seriously pondered after the final fade-out.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:42PMTHE MOTHERFKER WITH THE HAT, by Stephen Adly Guirgis and starring Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vzquez, opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMA musical version of "The Happy Hooker," the 1971 memoir by Xaviera Hollander that inspired the 1975 Lynn Redgrave film, is in the works, according to the Daily News.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMTony and Oscar Award winner Joel Grey will receive the 2011 Theater Artist Award at the National Corporate Theatre Fund's 2011 Chariman's Awards Gala, to be presented at St. Regis …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:38PMThe New Yorker Cole Porter rides the waves BY HILTON ALS Watch a photo slide show of the Anything Goes company preparing for a performance
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:36PMAudiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the fami…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMAndrew Andrew Steppin’ and Repeatin’ on the “Blue” Carpet of Opening NIght of Catch Me If You Can currently playing at The Neil Simon Theatre. We ask the hard questions no one else d…
SOURCE: Andrew Andrew at 01:29PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghOn its debut three years ago, Liz Lochhead's reworking of Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes came across as cheeky, witty and linguistically playful. Theatre Babel's stagin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMKing's Head, LondonRapidly transferred from the Cock Tavern, which has been forced to close, this 75-minute play by Rob Hayes proves weirdly compelling. Although the image of three men …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMTony Award-winner Dick Latessa, and Chairman of the Board, brings together Broadway stars to help raise funds for Creative Alternatives of New York CANY which uses theatre to help New Yorks …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMComic-book hero tours with Gotham City sets and a Batmobile. But not, director insists after Spiderman's musical tangle, songsThere will be bats. And flying. And huge sets. And spectacular s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMShellburne Thurber’s remarkable exhibition at Barbara Krakow Gallery at first presents itself as a loving and faithful document of the ornate and eccentric home of her friend Ralph Hor…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:08PMThe Portmanteau Theatre Company will present a revival of Clifford Odets' Waiting For Lefty to run May 7-29 at The Hartley House (413 West 46th Street). Ilana Becker will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:08PMMDQ at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame
The Chicago cast of Million Dollar Quartet visits the Rock 'n' Roll Hal of Fame in Cleveland, OH.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:07PMBeginning today, April 12, Broadway’s WONDERLAND – A New Alice. A New Musical announces a lottery ticket policy. A limited number of $30 tickets (includes a $2 facility fee) will be …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:04PMThe British have few peers when it comes to humor that manages to be bracingly smart and deeply silly at the same time. Think Monty Python.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:03PMA special reception was held April 11 at Planet Hollywood to celebrate this year's Lucille Lortel Award nominees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
Jonny Lee Miller: "To be able to stand back during rehearsals … and watch another actor do the work you've just been working on … it's fascinating, because you get to see things th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:58PMThe cast of Broadway’s Sister Act appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” April 12, performing “Take Me to Heaven,” which features the show’s lead…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMRoyal Mail is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company on a new set of ten stamps issued tomorrow, 12th April.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMAll praise to the company who perform with gusto a type of ballet rarely seen today: limited classical dancing but enchanting mime and character work, writes Gerald Dowler
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMWriter Ella Hickson deserves a real West End venue for her tale of a father trying to alienate his daughter before his early onset dementia does it for him, says Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMComedian Chris Rock acquits himself well in this comedy about drugs, desperation and friendship among low-lifes, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMFlorida Stage, the West Palm Beach, FL, company devoted to recent and new American works, announced its 2011-12 season, the Equity troupe's 25th. Two-time Tony Award winner Frances Stern…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMThe Druid and Atlantic Theater Company production of Martin McDonagh's darkly humorous The Cripple of Inishmaan just opened at the Center Theatre GroupKirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PM"The Woman in Black," based on the 1983 fictional novel by Susan Hill, was adapted for the stage by Stephen Mallatratt in 1987 and is still playing in the West End. It is now being t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMAccording to IMDB, Tom Cruise, who will soon be staring in the big screen adaptation of ROCK OF AGES, is preparing to play 'Stacee Jaxx'by studying with Axl Rose's vocal coach. Cruise will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMBWW Discounts is offering you the chance to save 30 in select sections of the house when you purchase tickets now through May 1st to NYCB's Tribute to Broadway program May 28 2 amp 8, 29.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMKelli O'Hara will release her forthcoming CD Always later this year on Ghostlight Records.
She will perform selections from the CD as part of An Evening with Kelli O'Hara., a con…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMKelli O'Hara will release her forthcoming CD Always later this year on Ghostlight Records.
She will perform selections from the CD as part of An Evening with Kelli O'Hara, a conce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMLynn Nottage has penned a unique and clever work now being performed at Second Stage Theatre. The play takes place in two distinct parts - Act I in 1933 and Act II 1973/2003 involving…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:22PMOn Sunday May 1 Andrew Lloyd Webber A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites' will air on ITV1. In the show Lloyd Webber talks about the artists that inspired him. Catch a sneak peek of the program…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe Post-Gazette's annual list of regional dance recitals includes No. 44 at the Thomas Studio of Performing Arts and marks students' journeys and celebrations through June.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:14PMWonderland, the new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, plays Broadway's Marquis Theatre. Janet Dacal, of In the Heights, plays a modern-day Manh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMI don't often talk about my sexuality in great detail on my blog. It's not because I'm a prude by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm intensely private about that aspect of myself, at le…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:14PMProduced by Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment, SISTER ACT began preview performances March 24 and will open on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Watch the cast perform Take me to Heaven on G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMEnda Walsh, the featured playwright of The New Ireland Festival at Studio Theatre, defies easy classification. But one thing is sure: whether he grabs part of the myth of Odysseus and resets…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMTHE MOTHERFKER WITH THE HAT, by Stephen Adly Guirgis and starring Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Rodriguez,Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vzquez, opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB ANNOUNCES
FULL CASTING FOR NEW BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF
TERRENCE McNALLY’S
MASTER CLASS
DIRECTED BY STEPHEN WADSWORTH
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED OLIVIER AWARD NOMINEE…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 12:03PMThe Duke Ellington Center For The Arts has scheduled numerous events for “Duke Ellington Week” in New York City, April 24-30. The week-long celebration will honor the late musici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 452011 - 4122011.
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An initial lineup of performers has been announced for the 2011 Essence Music Festival to be held July 1-3 in New Orleans. This year's event will celebrate the roots of R&B.
Among…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMOn June 3, 2011, for one night only, The Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street will present Broadway star and Tony Award nominee, Kelli O'Hara in An Evening with Kelli O'Hara. With this concert, Ms…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMPlaywrights Horizons Artistic Director, Tim Sanford Managing Director, Leslie Marcus and New York Theatre Workshop Artistic Director, James C. Nicola Managing Director, William Russo present…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMTony Award winners Patti LuPone, John Lithgow, Oscar winner Robin Williams and Daniel Beaty are the nominees for the 2011 United Solo Awards, which will be announced during the annual festiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMFamily albums are not just images - they are full of our family stories. Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway musical, The People in the Picture is creating the ultimate family album on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMDavid Lindsay-Abaire's RABBIT HOLE, which was rleased in theatres on December 17 will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 19. Check out a deleted scene from the movie below, featuring HO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMThe irreverent emo rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which played a brief Broadway run last fall, will be available for licensing from Music Theatre International.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMAna Gasteyer, John Oliver, Kristen Schaal and Jon Stewart will take part in The Story Pirates' third annual After School Special, to be held on Friday, May 20 at Peter Norton Symphony S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMOur Latest Update from the City of Angels
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TDF is pleased to bring you more stories from LA Stage Times, the magazine of the LA Stage Alliance. These features provide a fascinating lo…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:25AMFormer PM will explore elements of his own family's past in forthcoming history The Rise and Fall of Music HallHe's explored the history of cricket in More Than a Game, and he's written abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AMVeteran director Peter Hall, who turned 80 last year, will return to Bath’s Theatre Royal in the U.K. to head up his eighth resident season of the Peter Hall Company this summer, runni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMOyez, oyez, oyez, all you girlz and boyez! Last night, rhe Honorable the Supreme Court of the United States (supplemented by Judges from the Honorable the Less Supreme Courts) let the extort…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMThe Off-Broadway League hosted a cocktail reception for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award nominees at Planet Hollywood Times Square on Monday, April 11.
Among those in attendance were actors C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMLaChanze and Ann Hampton Callaway will perform at Broadway at the Boathouse...Ovation, to be held on Monday May 16 at the Loeb Central Park Boathouse. The event will be a fundraiser for Cre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMGwyneth Paltrow will make her latest appearance as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on Fox's "Glee" April 19; the Oscar-winning actress will cover Adele's "Turning Tab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMWe are a little late to the party in announcing the next play in our reading series. But we think the wait was worth it. Our next reading will be on Monday, June 13th . . . the day after...
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Jenni Barber puts her stamp on the fizzy sixties comedy
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Like an episode of Mad Men or a rerun of Laugh-In, Abe Burrows’ fizzy comedy Cactus Flower is rooted in the sixties. The…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:56AMTheatre 20, a new musical theatre company in Toronto, will offer a three-concert series at the Panasonic Theatre in 2011, featuring stage stars Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia!), Colm Wilkinson (Les…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMProfiles Theatre company has announced its 2011-2012 season.
The company will begin the year with Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane, to run August 26 - October 16. Rick Snyder …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMThe West End impresario's first new show in a decade features an animatronic sow, voiced by Kylie. Can he make a silk purse from a sow's ear? Stuart Jeffries meets him to find outCameron Mac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMStephen Adly Guirgis' star-filled new play, Motherf**ker with the Hat, officially opened April 11 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMOwing to the council, it seems to be curtains for our Olivier-award-winning venue. But that's the beauty of fringe theatre – survivalAnyone who thinks size doesn't matter should think agai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMGet Sister Act Tickets
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 10:29AMKatselas Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Mad Women, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck, at Skylight Theatre - Skylab in Los Angeles, May 6-28. Ric Montejano wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AMElizabeth Stanley, Robert Cuccioli, Billy Porter and Doug Kreeger will fill out the summer season in the Pittsburgh CLO productions of Jekyll & Hyde and Jesus Christ Superstar.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMElizabeth Stanley, Robert Cuccioli, Billy Porter and Doug Kreeger will fill out the summer season in the Pittsburgh CLO productions of Jekyll & Hyde and Jesus Christ Superstar.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMCREATIVE ALTERNATIVES OF NEW YORK (CANY)
BRINGS OUT THE STARS FOR THEIR
2011 ANNUAL GALA:
“BROADWAY AT THE BOATHOUSE…OVATION”
2011 HONOREES:
TONY AWARD-WINNER CADY HUFFMAN
AND CLINICA…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 10:25AMKelli O'Hara will celebrate her forthcoming CD Always
with An Evening with Kelli O'Hara, a concert to be offered at Town Hall on June 3 at 8pm. Her new album will be released by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMDeirdre O'Connor's latest play, Assisted Living, about a pushing-40 woman who is stuck, will get its world premiere in the 2011-12 season of Profiles Theatre in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM2011 United Solo Nominees Have Been Unveiled
United Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, is proud to announce the nominees for the annual special uAwar…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 10:19AMCreative Alternatives of New York (CANY), which uses theatre to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults, will present its annual gala, Broadway at the Boathouse…Ovatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMAll I can say to David Leveaux, director of the current Broadway production of Arcadia, is shame on you.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:16AM "Blacktop Sky" by Christina Anderson, "Passing" by Dipika Guha, and "The Tall Girls" by Meg Miroshnik are the three plays selected for Yale School of Drama's sixth annual Carlotta Fest…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:11AMProspect Theater Company announces
Musical Theater Summer Intensive Program
for Young Performers Ages 12-17
from July 11 – 30, 2011
Program Includes Workshops, Coaching …
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 10:10AMIt doesn't take long for an interview with Broadway veterans and Tony Awards winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey to evolve into something more like a vaudeville routine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
Four-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh will direct a staged reading of Naomi Ragen’s Women’s Minyan May 9 at 3 PM and 7 PM at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMRoundabout Theatre Company, L.A. Theatre Works and BY Experience
Announce dates & venues for international high-definition screenings
of
Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed Broadwa…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 09:56AMTHE MOTHERFKER WITH THE HAT, by Stephen Adly Guirgis and starring Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Rodriguez,Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vzquez, opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMTony winner Linda Lavin, recently seen Off-Broadway in Other Desert Cities, will release her new solo recording, "Possibilities," later this year on the Ghostlight Records label.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMA movie starring Denzel Washington was a little too thrilling for a Cape Town neighborhood that has experienced gang violence.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:46AMMurray Hill, World Famous BoB, Erin Markey, and Becca Blackwell will head the cast of Mud! The Musical, to be held at the 100 Grand Street Theater, April 29 and 30. Scott Lyons will direct.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:46AMJohn E. Alexander, the current managing director for Naked Angels, will depart the company in mid-July, and will take over the post of Executive Director at San Diego's Diversionary The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:46AMMy review of Lisa Howard's CD release concert, "Songs of Innocence & Experience: The Music of William Finn" at Birdland in NYC.
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 09:40AMPlaywright Mark St. Germain and cast members Mark H. Dold and Martin Rayner will celebrate the publication of Freud's Last Session at an official book launch party at The Drama Book Sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMMeet The Calendar Girls
The stars of Calendar Girls sat down with us for a brief chat about the show. Meet Miss January, Miss February, Miss March, Miss April, Miss May and the seven other …
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:33AMThree-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara will celebrate the release of her upcoming solo recording, "Always," at her June 3 concert at Manhattan's Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMJosh Charles, Tate Donovan, Sutton Foster, Ricky Gervais, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Jerry Seinfeld, Isabella Rosellini, Paul Rudd, and more stars join Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMJosh Charles, Tate Donovan, Sutton Foster, Ricky Gervais, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Jerry Seinfeld, Isabella Rosellini, Paul Rudd, and more stars join Bobby Cannavale, Chris Rock and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMVictoria Arrives
Victoria, the star of The Railway Children has finally arrived! After an epic 5000 kilometre journey across the Atlantic from the National Railway Collection in York, Engla…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:27AMMusic Theatre International MTI, the leading theatrical licensor, has obtained the rights to license the award-winning, cutting-edge musical celebrating America's populist roots, BLOODY BLOO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMCasting has been announced for the Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, to run May 19 - June 18 at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Par…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMStephen Schwartz on the New York premiere of his opera "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" and the upcoming gala concert of his musical theater songs.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:20AMIntermission at the Neil Simon Theater Lucky turns to me and reading the dry, dead-behind the eyes look on my face says, “I feel like you’re not enjoying this.” Ding ding ding, we have…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:17AMStage and screen stars Barbara Bain and D.B. Sweeney head the cast of Dale Griffiths Stamos' Thicker Than Water, a world premiere presented by Three Roses Players and Venice Sky Product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMDates and venues for the upcoming screening of Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMThe folks at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas are taking a leap of faith in hoping they will find the finds of make the free concert by The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma -- …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:06AMFull casting has been announced for Jeremy Herrin's production of Much Ado About Nothing, to run May 21-October 1 at Shakespeare's Globe.
Joining the previously announced Eve Best…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:03AM
The nominees for United Solo's uAwards have been announced. The prizes will be presented at the closing of the United Solo Theatre Festival, running October 20 - November 20.
Nomine…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:46AM'Wonderland' on Broadway
© 'Wonderland'
Are you a gambler? If so, head on over to the Marquis Theatre and throw your name into the "mad" hat for a chance to win a lottery ticket to the …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 08:44AM(What is Flux Sunday?)Playwrights: David Ian Lee (The Curing Room)Actors: Ken Glickfeld, Jane Taylor, Matthew Archambault, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Kari Riely, Brian Pracht.This was a very differe…
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 08:37AMLittle Anthony and the Imperials, from the golden age of doo-wop, still exude showmanship and solid harmonization in their show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:22AMThe curtain on my first producing project, Routes at Hampstead Theatre, has fallen and for a brief moment I can relax. When I say a brief moment, I mean for one weekend. Casting for the nex…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:17AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 12 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: 'Women's Minyan' makes New York bow -- Thesp Tovah Feldshuh tries her hand at directing with an upcoming industry reading of "Women's Minyan," a play by American-born, Jerusalem-…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Box office, attendance robust last week -- Broadway maintained a seasonal spring in its step last week, with the healthy sales of a trio of newly opened productions helping to ke…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
Andrew discusses the Pre-Raphaelites - clip 2, HD
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On Sunday 1 May, "Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Passion for the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:58AMAndrew discusses the Pre-Raphaelites - clip 1, HD
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On Sunday 1 May, "Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Passion for the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:54AMThe union representing singers and production personnel at NYC Opera has declared that a strike beginning April 30 "seems a virtual certainty" if no agreement is reached by April 29.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:37AMCatherine and Nick share their thoughts on a preview of Betty Blue Eyes, and Andrew meets the cast of Funk it up About nothin' - a new hip hop Shakespeare musical version of Much Ado About N…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:10AMJames Archer is another rising performer. From theatre to cabaret to dance, James is a triple threat! He's about to perform his 3rd Cabaret Show "Dying To Get In!" at The Duplex in NYC on Ap…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:00AM
IndigO2, LondonSomebody once told Andy Parsons that it was his rhythm that makes him funny; that what he's actually saying is neither here nor there. It ain't so – as he demonstrates tonig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53AM'The Importance of Being Earnest'
© Roundabout Theatre Company
If you're looking for a wonderful, ol' fashioned comedy of errors but don't live in New York City, then you are in for a treat…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 04:42AM It might seem strange to review a show without technically ‘seeing’ it, but unfortunately today I have no choice as I was blindfolded throughout the performance. No, I was not kid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39AMBeing taught how to unicycle and juggle in a public space while strangers glance at you as they walk by, is exactly the kind of hilariously random situation that can only be enjoyed by spend…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33AM
Orpheum Theater Corporation will present Three Sisters or Perestroika, a world premiere adaptation by Pavel Cerny of the classic play by Anton Chekhov. Cerny will direct the production at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51AMA state Land Court judge has ruled against residents suing the city of Cambridge and Lesley University over plans to relocate the Art Institute of Boston to the site of a historic church in …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:29AMSo the f word, which already makes dozens of appearances in “The Book of Mormon,” is literally all over Stephen Adly Guirgis’s uneven new play, “The Motherf**cker wit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:29AMPeople's Light & Theatre has announced casting for its production of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, to run May 11 - June 5 on the Main Stage.
Director Abigail Adams will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26AMJazz pianist, harpist and singer Corky Hale will present her show, An Evening With Corky Hale at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill on Thursday April 21 at 9pm and 11pm. The performances will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06AMBroadway is jumping, and for the rest of the month I'll be filing two or three drama columns each week...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe company is used to transmitting plays for radio and online audio streaming. With 'Earnest,' it has to focus on the visual as well. The play is being beamed to 13 countries.In June, thank…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMAudiences have bonded with the horse puppet at the heart of an emotion-charged World War I tale that now has come to New York's Lincoln Center.Audiences have bonded with the horse puppet at …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
Roundabout Theatre Company, L.A. Theatre Works and BY Experience are thrilled to announce dates and venues for the upcoming screening of Roundabout's critically acclaimed Broadway production…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46AMIn his Broadway debut, Chris Rock plays Ralph D., the AA sponsor of Bobby Cannavale's Jackie. They share some heavy scenes -- red-blooded, profanity-laden bouts -- but Rock is a lightweight:…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:39AMBy Peter Filichia --
All right, it may not be the most significant anniversary in theatrical history. But for the record, 14 years ago this week – on April 16, 1997 -- David Ives’s new…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AMThis week's episode of DANCING WITH THE STARS promised to raise things up a notch with the world's fastest violinist, a full orchestra sound, and mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins providing vo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15AMChris Rock's Broadway debut notwithstanding, the main event here is a terrific performance from Bobby Cannavale.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:02AMNoah Robbins, currently playing the joint roles of Gus and Augustus Coverley in the Broadway revival of Arcadia, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMNoah Robbins, currently playing the joint roles of Gus and Augustus Coverley in the Broadway revival of Arcadia, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM“Rabbit Hole,” the Academy Award-nominated film starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest, is coming to DVD and Blu-ray April 19.
How to Succeed in Business Without …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning soprano Barbara Cook, Academy Award nominee Bette Midler and acclaimed musician James Taylor celebrate Carnegie Hall's 120th anniversary in a special April 12 gala per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1905 The colossal Hippodrome Theatre opens on Broadway today. The inaugural production is the colorful extravaganza A Yankee Circus on Mars. It will run 176 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHere's one for Mr. Ripley: A quarter of a century separates the two Broadway credits of Ben Stiller, and he still hasn't left The House of Blue Leaves.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWASHINGTON D.C. -- George Balanchine's preferred programming generally consisted of a choreographic appetizer, a more substantial entree and a fun-filled dessert.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM"The Amish Project," the one-woman show that opened Friday at City Theatre, deals with one of the most horrifying events in Pennsylvania history: the 2006 shooting of 10 Amish schoolgirls by…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM"Joel Grey/A New York Life," a new exhibit that examines the relationship between Broadway actor Joel Grey and New York City, opens April 12 at Museum of the City of New York (MCNY…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHere's one for Mr. Ripley: A quarter of a century separates the two Broadway credits of Ben Stiller, and he still hasn't left The House of Blue Leaves.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMActor-writer David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are, the tale of a chorus boy from the theatre of ancient Greece who travels to modern-day Long Island, opens April 12 at Off-Broadway…
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