The National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford will present four musicals which will undergo the center's signature development process, employing ac…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:59PMAndrewAndrew get confessions from the cast of Sister Act now playing on Broadway
SOURCE: Andrew Andrew at 11:32PMJeffrey Haddow long dreamed of the project. But it took Needham composer Neal Hampton and the people of Wellesley College to do it full literary — and musical — justice.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:26PMThe Lion King has all that’s required: a great tale, committed storytellers to carry the burden, and a magical overseer to make sure it all spins out beautifully.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:24PMWhen’s the last time you brought a roll of film to the store for processing? If you can’t remember, you’ll begin to understand why Scorby’s Camera will soon close its…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:21PMJujamcyn Theaters Jordan Roth, President and True Colors Theatre Company Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director have announced the 3rd Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, featurin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10PMFirst witches, now ghosts. But while Broadway's "Wicked" proved golden for Stephen Schwartz, his "Séance on a Wet After noon" came up lifeless and damp Tuesday night at its City Opera premi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMThe nominal lead in the misguided new drama “Picked” is a 20-something actor, Kevin (Michael Stahl-David), who gets chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood machine. But the only semi-int…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:03PMBig, glitzy numbers are the toast of Broadway musicals. The only thing better? Big, glitzy numbers . . . with nuns! “Sister Act” has plenty of both — and it’s one of the season’s h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PMThe Goodman Theatre said Wednesday that it will add a world premiere to its 2011-12 season: “Fish Men,” a play about urban “chess hustlers” by the Puerto Rican playwright Candido Tir…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00PMThe world premiere of Fish Men, Puerto Rican playwright Cándido Tirado's play about "chess hustlers" making their moves in an urban park, will play Chicago's Goodman…
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Injured SPIDER-MAN perform Christopher Tierney will return to the musical, according to news reports.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46PMAfter the great Pia Toscano debacle of 2011, last week's elimination of Paul McDonald was refreshing to say the least. Though I can't deny that I already miss his uncomfortably white teeth a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43PMOne theater company closes its doors and another opens them even wider. That is the story now unfolding in Highland Park as the Music Theatre Company, a new Equity kid on the suburban block,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:35PMLegit Reviews: Whoopi Goldberg looms large over the new musical comedy "Sister Act," and that's part of the problem.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:33PMAs reported by Idina Menzel's official website, the Tony winner joining the Musical Moments Symphony Orchestra in Newark, NJ on June 2 for a fundraiser benefiting Multiple Sclerosis research…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32PM“Sister Act,” based on the hit movie, offers tunes that echo the Philadelphia sound and a stage full of nuns flaring their gams like the Rockettes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PMThe fountain of youth must be located somewhere in the vicinity of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. That's where the fabulous Sutton Foster is headlining the Roundabout Theatre Company's magica…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:30PMChristopher Shinn's 10th play is about an actor who catches the gold ring on tinsel town's merry-go-round. To make the film he's picked to star in, he must allow the director to pick his bra…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:29PMCreating playgrounds is the mission of KaBoom!, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization. In the past 15 years, the organization has built nearly 2,000 playgrounds across the country, …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:27PMAlthough downright silly, outrageously hokey and pervasively shallow, under the snappy direction of Jerry Zaks, this latest nun-sensical musical ranks among the season'sbest
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:27PMWhen a stage adaptation of a pre-existing work fizzles, it's typically because it hasn't adequately captured the spirit or the necessity of its source. Whether or not it's otherwise faithful…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PMChristopher Tierney, the actor who plummeted 30 feet during the Dec. 20, 2010, performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, has been given the green light to return to the much-in-the-news p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21PMA lead producer for the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" said Christopher Tierney was cleared to rejoin the show and is expected back to rehearsal on Monday.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:07PMThings might have been quiet on TN (aside from the shenanigans on the Baal comment thread) but that doesn't mean that Ms TN has been idle. No, indeed: life in all its glorious variety has be…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:07PMTony Award winner Jane Krakowski and her fiancé, clothing designer Robert Godley, are now parents to a son, Bennett Robert, who was born on April 13, according to People Magazine.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:02PMChristopher Shinn's new play about a young actor's struggle in Hollywood is ultimately more depressing than illuminating.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMPatina Miller and Victoria Clark deliver superior performances in this fun new Broadway musical adaptation of the1992 film about a nightclub singer forced to hide in a convent.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Lauren Flanigan gives an impressive performance in New York City Opera's production of Steven Schwartz's new work about a medium's descent into madness.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM'Cyclops' lets the wine and libidos flow to create a thrilling freak show in Pasadena.'Cyclops' lets the wine and libidos flow to create a thrilling freak show in Pasadena.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50PMI thought an opera, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, would likely be an exciting stretch for a talented musical theater composer and lyricist like Stephen Schwartz, author of Godspell, Pippin and …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:36PMA new show on Broadway is quickly becoming an odds-on favorite. War Horse, featuring former Weston resident Matt Doyle, opened on Thursday, April 14, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincol…
SOURCE: The Weston Forum at 09:17PMSISTER ACT began preview performances March 24 and opens tonight Wednesday, April 20, 2011. SISTER ACT features an original score with music by multi-Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12PMWhat Went Viral? April 20, 2011
Perks Producer Tom Diggs vlogs about what went viral on April 20, 2011:
Hitler's birthday, Bieber, Jonas, medicaire ad, Tyler Perry gay, Spike Lee racist…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:06PM
LA MAMA TO PRESENT A PRAYER FOR JAPAN, AN EVENING TO BENEFIT RELIEF EFFORTS IN JAPAN
Monday, April 25 at 7:30pm
(April 19, 2011) New York, NY – La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will …
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 08:45PMSHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND
ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CASTING AND DESIGN TEAM FOR
SUMMER, 2011 PRODUCTION OF
“ M U C H A D O A B O U T N O T H I N G ”
DIRECTED…
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KENNY LEON’S TRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCE
3RD ANNUAL NATIONAL AUGUST WILSON
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AUGUST WILSON THEATRE
MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011
New York, N…
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25TH ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION
MONDAY, APRIL 25 at 4:30 PM
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Justin Vivian Bond, Danny Hoch & Carmelita Tropicana
at the 30th Anniversary Season Spring Gala
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Monday, April 2…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 08:27PMTHE MOST PROVOCATIVE EVENT OF THE YEAR
“ S L E E P N O M O R E ”
EXTENDS NEW YORK PREMIERE
UNANIMOUS RAVE REVIEWS SPUR
OVERWHELMING DEMAND F…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 08:21PMPatina Miller, the newly-discovered diva making her Broadway debut as star of “Sister Act,” doesn’t thank God in her Who’s Who bio, and thank God for that. She thanks Whoopi Goldberg…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:19PMCASTING AND DATES ANNOUNCED FOR
TRANSPORT GROUP’S
LYSISTRATA JONES
NEW MUSICAL BY
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE AND LEWIS FLINN
STAGED ON JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH GYMNASIUM
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 08:10PMAn actor whose back was badly hurt when he tumbled from the stage at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has been cleared to return to the revamped show and hopes to be swin…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:01PMDavid Rooney The Alan Menken/Glenn Slater musical takes two acts to establish an identity distinct from the 1992 film of the same name.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- A lead producer of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" says an actor badly hurt when he tumbled from the stage in December is expected be back rehearsin…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:51PMToday, La Cage Aux Folles celebrated its one year anniversary onstage at the Longacre Theatre. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the photo op and brings you photo coverage below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50PMEnchanted April seems to be a property for all seasons. It began its life as a 1922 English novel by Elizabeth von Arnin which was exceptionally popular in England and the United States. It …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:49PMKathleen Turner, two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award amp Tony Award nominee stars as Sister Jamison Connelly in HIGH, a new play by Matthew Lombardo and directed by Rob Ruggiero. HIG…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:43PMKathleen Turner
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Universally panned by critics, the limited run of Matthew Lombardo's High has been cut even shorter. Starring Kathleen Turner as an addict n…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 07:38PMAccording to Deadline.com, stage veterans Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs are set to star in the upcoming big screen adaptation of off-Broadway play BETWEEN US. Filming will begin in May.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMDaniel Radcliffe stars in the upcoming film, The Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill's novel of the same name. The Woman in Black film adaptation was overseen by Jane Goldman. Check out imag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PMThe comparisons are inevitable. Mention the word “cirque,” and it’s a good bet that Cirque du Soleil springs to mind. But there’s another troupe, situated pretty much across the stre…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:16PMOPENING ARIZONA, NO ROOSTERS IN THE DESERT. Prop Thtr presents Kara Hartzler’s drama about four women from Mexico crossing the Arizona desert. Previews April 23-24, 25. Opens April 28, 8 p…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:04PMShakespeare Theatre Company imports successes from New York and abroad
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02PM
Actress Alice Ripley has been attached to the 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Next to Normal” since 2006, when it was workshopped at New York’s Second Stage Theatre and she first …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:58PMMore often than not, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs to recorded music. But for the last seven years, the company also has found an ideal way to dance around the dilemma. For its annua…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:58PMDaniel Radcliffe, Sutton Foster and Harvey Fierstein will present awards at the 25th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition. The event takes place on April 25 and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:40PMBroadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS will present the 25TH ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION on Monday, April 25 430 PM and Tuesday, April 26 2 PM at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre 200 West 45th Str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMOn opening night of The Motherf**ker With the Hat, the red carpet was packed with funny people, from Ricky Gervais and Jerry Seinfeld (Motherf**ker star Chris Rock’s co-stars in the HB…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:29PMIt has nothing to do with the Middle East, though it is about lost tribes. Jez Butterworth's fascinating "Jerusalem," imported from London to showcase the uncontainable and strenuous life-fo…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 06:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 42011.
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As regular readers may have noticed, I've been in the theatrical wilderness for the past few weeks (hence the lack of posts) but I'll be throwing myself back into things with as much energy …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:52PMLegit News: Actress returns to Broadway -- It was hardly nunsense at Tuesday's opening night for "High" at the Booth Theater. Nonetheless, Kathleen Turner's Broadway return as caustically co…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:43PMTelevision commentator and half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin trashed the National Endowment for the Arts recently, describing the agency as "frivolous" in a Thursday interview on a Fox N…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:41PMForests is not a sequel but a logical follow-up to the smash hit Scorched.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:36PMAccording to published reports, Ben Stiller is working with David Zimmer to createa special benefit auction entitled Artists for Haiti. The event will be held at Christie's on September 22. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMHarvey Fierstein, Sutton Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, Robin Williams, Kathleen Turner and Josh Gad are among the Broadway stars who will participate in the 25th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PMCelebrity presenters, judges, and participants have been announced for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' 25th annual Easter Bonnet Competition, to be held at the Minskoff Theatre on Mo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:31PMKathleen Turner star of HIGH will appear on ABC’s “Live! With Regis & Kelly on Thursday, April 21st between 9-10AM (ABC internationally, channel 7 in New York). HIGH, by Matthew Lomb…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:29PMThe early 60s pop music scene comes alive at the Broadhurst Theatre in the new musical Baby It’s You! Centering on the career of Florence Greenberg (Tony winner Beth Leavel), who becam…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:27PMDonny Osmond and Marie Osmond's new CD, Donny & Marie, will be released by MPCA on May 3, according to a listing on Amazon.com.
The 16 track disc will feature songs written by Rich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PMOnly Make Believe, a non-profit organization that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities, will present the world premiere of DISASTER THE 1970…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMThe festival’s founder and artistic director, Ken Pinto, announces a two-year hiatus in a surprise decision
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:23PMDaniel Radcliffe, currently appearing in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway, stars in the new film adaptation of "The Woman in Black," based on Susan Hill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PMJoe Hortua's 2004 Off-Broadway drama Between Us is being adapted into a film, with Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs, Melissa George and David Harbour attached to star, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Live in Living Color
A clip of "Live in Living Color" from Broadway's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying new musica…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:12PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Good-Bye
Aaron Tveit performs "Good-Bye" in Broadway's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying new musical comedy based o…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:10PM Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical star, Olivier Award nominee Tony Sheldon, will sit down with Rosie O’Donnell live from her home studio during for her SIRIUS/XM “Rosie Radio�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:07PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Fly, Fly Away
Kerry Butler sings "Fly, Fly Away" from CATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway!
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying new musical comedy …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:06PMTaye Diggs, Melissa George, David Harbour, and Julia Stiles are attached to star in Between Us, the film adaption of Joe Hortua's 2004 Off-Broadway play, according to Deadline.com. Dan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMStephen Adly Guirgis, Cara Akselrad, Maggie Burke, Elizabeth Canavan, Scott Hudson, Danny Mastrogiogio, and David Zayas will perform in a benefit reading of Kristina Poe's Love Sick. Da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMThe first episode of Kelsey Grammer's new drama, Boss, is et to be directed by Oscar nominated Gus Van Sant, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Also joining the cast are Connie Nielsen, Je…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMTammy Blanchard (MTI Exclusive Interview) | H2$ Broadway Premiere
An exclusive MTI interview (and show footage) withTammy Blanchard at the Broadway premiere of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WI…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:02PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Little Boy, Be a Man
Broadway's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN stars Norbert Leo Butz and Tom Wopat sing "Little Boy, Boy Be a Man"
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:00PM
The world of “Off-Off Broadway” has been fertile soil for new American plays for decades. Since the late 1990s, one of its most fervent boosters and chroniclers has been Martin D…
SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 04:59PMAn emotional crowd cheered the first Broadway performance of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, which began a lightning-fast eight days of previews at the Golden Theatre on April 19. In …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Butter Outta Cream
A clip of "Butter Outta Cream" from Broadway's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying new musical co…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:56PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Don't Break The Rules
Norbert Leo Butz sings "Don't Break he Rules" from the new Broadway musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.
CATCH ME IF YOU C…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:53PMSantino Fontana and David Furr, stars of Broadway's The Importance of
Being Earnest, turn the tables on the play's author by taking
transcripts from MTV's "Jersey Shore" and dishing them o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMAs expected, Cirque Shanghai is returning to Navy Pier this summer. The 2011 show, featuring the usual Chinese cast and this year titled "Cirque Shanghai Extreme," will begin performances Ju…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN on Broadway: Jet Set
A clip of the number "Jet Set" from Broadway's CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying new musical comedy based o…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:32PMThe Tony-Award winning original cast of GOD OF CARNAGE celebrated opening night at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on April 13, 2011. Click below for a look at the evening's red carpet
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMTheater veterans Ben McKenzie and Eliza Dushku will be among the voice cast for the DC universe animated movie Batman: Year One, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film is adapted fro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PMBroadway ticket sales continue to climb, with box office reporting an increase in sales for the sixth consecutive week. Last week's reported total of $23,884,804 was an improvement of $637,7…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:15PMIn the fourth installment of Frump Tower: Behind the Scenes at “How to Succeed” with Christopher J. Hanke (and Bud Frump), our charming video blogger wanders the halls of the Al …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PM
It was an uplifting opening night for gritty new addiction drama High, which bowed on Broadway April 19 starring screen and stage icon Kathleen Turner. The story of recovery, discovery and f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:57PMIf Broadway were a high school, Sutton Foster would be a shoo-in for class sweetheart. She’s not a beauty but there’s an endearing quality about her gawkiness. She’s multi-…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 03:56PMThere's plenty of sizzling romance in the Tony-winning musical Memphis, but on April 17, a real-life love story took center stage at the Shubert Theatre. After the matinee performance, e…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:55PMAlan Arkin remembers doing THE IN-LAWS with Peter Falk on THEATER TALK
THEATER TALK's interview with ALAN ARKIN premieres on PBS/Thirteen, Friday, April 29 at 12:30 AM and syndicates na…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:50PMThe London revival of Moby Dick has been cancelled due to lack of funds a week before the production was due to start previewing.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:49PMI had seen The Color Purple the week it opened on Broadway in December 2005, with LaChanze and Elisabeth Withers-Mendes in the roles of Celie and Shug Avery and they were absolutely wonderfu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:41PMBroadway’s HIGH, starring Kathleen Turner, will close this Sunday, April 24. As of that date, it will have played 28 previews and 8 regular performances. HIGH is currently playing at t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:39PMTo say that "Sister Act" lacks plot development is probably beside the point. To people who love this show (and, judging from audience reaction at the performance I attended, that will be ma…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:37PMAs Glee returned to the airwaves on April 19, the New Directions crew banded together to plan a benefit concert to raise funds for their trip to Nationals competition in New York City. One c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMSwarovski is playing a dazzling supporting role in PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL on Broadway and they've shared an exclusive look behind the scenes at the show with BroadwayWorld…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMFind out more at their webpage.
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 03:27PMFull casting has been revealed for the Bridge Project's previously announced production of Richard III starring Kevin Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes. The production will kick off June…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMTHE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES was recently featured on NBC's The Today Show and The Charlie Rose Show. Click below to watch Ben Stiller talk to TODAY co-host Matt Lauer about returning to Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMOscar- and Tony-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is the latest A-lister attached to the upcoming film adaptation of metal musical Rock of Ages directed by Hairspray-helmer Adam Shankman, accordin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMAccording to Deadline.com,Dan Amboyer will join previously announced Jane Alexander in 'William and Kate A Royal Love Story' for the Hallmark Channel. The film, which chronicles the couple's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMSobering news for the cast of High: Matthew Lombardo’s drama of faith, addiction and recovery will come down to earth on April 24 when it plays its final performance at the Booth Theat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:14PMThe U.S. premiere of Wendy Weckwerth’s adaptation of the 1978 Ingmar Bergman film Autumn Sonata, about a mother and daughter attempting to reconnect, will officially open April 21 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMMEMPHIS wasn't Broadway's only award-winning act during the show's Sunday matinee performance. David McDonald produced a second show-stopping moment when he proposed to his girlfriend at the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMBilly Crudup and Raul Esparza, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, appeared on Bloomberg’s “The Charlie Rose Show” April 19 to talk about th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMThe play is pleasant, but the story is just too familiar
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:06PMStage and screen star Vanessa Williams will write a motivational book for women with her mother, Helen Williams, to be released by Gotham Books in Fall 2012, according to EW.com.
The site …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMBilly Crudup and Ral Esparza, currently appearing onstage together in the critically acclaimed revival of Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA directed by David Leveaux, appeared on Bloomberg's The Charli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMObie Award winners Colman Domingo and Nilaja Sun will co-host a benefit for the International Theatre and Literacy Project (ITLP), to be held at Intar Theatre on Friday, May 20 at 6pm.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02PM
Ben Stiller and art dealer David Zwimer are partnering to create Artists for Haiti, a benefit auction to be held at Christie's on September 22. Proceeds from the event will go to nonpr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMLegit News: Turner topliner ends its Broadway run April 24 -- B.O.-challenged Broadway play "High" will bow out quickly, setting a closing date for less than a week after its April 19 openin…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMPeter Pan at Arts Collective
Maryland Theatre Guide video about PETER PAN at Arts Collective. Video Hosted and Edited by Mark Beachy. Camera men: David Livingston and Mark Beachy. www.m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:57PMShakespeare on the Sound has announced casting for Much Ado About Nothing, to be presented in Pinkney Park, Rowayton June 16 - 26 and Baldwin Park, Greenwich July 5 - 10. As previously repor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PMThe Helen Hayes Awards is honored to announce that the United States Postal Service commemorative Forever stamp, honoring its namesake, First Lady of the American Theatre Helen Hayes, will o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMJerusalem, the Jez Butterworth play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner Mark Rylance in a performance acclaimed as positively titanic, pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMHere'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 02:52PMLegit News: Tuner bows on Broadway -- Give the producers of Broadway tuner "Wonderland" credit: They know how to throw a tea party.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PMNEW YORK - Dear Lord, what is that joyful noise rising to heaven from the spirited, snazzily habited stage-nuns at the Broadway Theatre? Could it be - the Philadelphia Sound of the '70s? Cou…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:49PMTony nominee Kate Baldwin and her husband Graham Rowat have just welcomed a baby boy to the family- Colin.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMBroadway's HIGH, starring Kathleen Turner, will close this Sunday, April 24. As of that date, it will have played 28 previews and 8 regular performances. HIGH is currently playing at the Boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMWICKED Scenery: The Oz Head
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:45PMMatthew Lombardo's new drama "High" opened April 19 at Booth Theatre. But the Great White Way has proved to be a revolving door for the show, which will exit just as quickly as it entered.
D…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:43PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN stars Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty, Aaron Tveit as Frank Abagnale, Jr., Tony Nominee Tom Wopat as Frank Abagnale, Sr. and Tony Nominee Kerry Butler…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMBroadway's Leslie Kritzer returns to Joe's Pub in her all-new extravaganza Beautiful Disaster for two performances May 1 and 2 at 930pm. Tickets are 30. For tickets, visit www.joespub.com or…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMTHE DIVINE SISTER
THE SMASH HIT COMEDY
BEGINS FINAL 2 WEEKS OF PERFORMANCES
TONIGHT AT 8PM
“This is Charles Busch’s freshest, funniest work in years, perhaps decades.”
-- Ben Bra…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:30PMTHAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Brian Cox is set to star in 'Passing Harold Blumenthal.' The independent film will feature a screenplay and direction by Seth Fisher. Filming will begin in June.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMBROADWAY’S HIGH TO PLAY FINAL PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 24 AT 3:00PM
Starring KATHLEEN TURNER
Written by MATTHEW LOMBARDO
Directed by ROB RUGGIERO
“Kathleen Turner has undeniable star wa…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:24PMTheatricum Botanicum has announced its slate of productions for its 2011 summer repertory season, to run June 4-September 10.
Alan Blumenfeld will star as the opportunistic schemer and woma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMSilence! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of "Silence of the Lambs," will play Off-Broadway's Theatre 80 beginning June 24, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMSilence! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of "Silence of the Lambs," will play Off-Broadway's Theatre 80 beginning June 24, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMStory of British women who create a nudie calendar to fight leukemia is sadly dimmed.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:18PMThe play "High" starring Kathleen Turner has crashed.
Producers said Wednesday that the show, which opened Tuesday night, will close on Sunday, having failed to become a box office addiction…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:18PMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Adam Shankman has created a role for Catherine Zeta Jone in the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of ROCK OF AGES. JOne, who is currently in final…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMFor a playwright who has enjoyed some 70 productions of his 51 or 52 plays – he’s lost count – Tom Jacobson can take a moment to smile as two of his works go up over the same weeke…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:05PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of High starring Kathleen Turner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of High starring Kathleen Turner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of High starring Kathleen Turner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMLUCKY GUY will begin on Thursday, April 28, 2011 and continue through Sunday, July 24, 2011 at the Little Shubert Theatre 422 West 42nd Street, between 9th amp Dyer Avenues. Opening night is…
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Matthew Lombardo’s play about a nun whose faith is tested while working with a young drug addict received mixed reviews after its Tuesday opening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:57PMMatthew Lombardo's "High," which opened last night on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, will close this
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SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:56PMBilly Crudup and Raúl Esparza, currently appearing onstage together in the critically acclaimed revival of Tom Stoppard’s ARCADIA directed by David Leveaux, appeared on Bloomberg’s “T…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:56PMMatthew Lombardo's "High," which opened last night on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, will close this Sunday, April 24.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:56PMThe new Broadway play High, which opened last night at the Booth Theatre, will play its final performance following the Sunday, April 24 matinee. As of that date, it will have played 28 prev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMAudiences 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 01:51PMHunt for Easter eggs or celebrate Earth Day this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:51PMThe play "High" starring Kathleen Turner has crashed. Producers said Wednesday that the show, which opened Tuesday night, will close on Sunday, having failed to become a box office addiction…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:51PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The play "High" starring Kathleen Turner has crashed....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:47PMThe B'way vets discuss their experiences as a guest teacher and student participant in the teen talent program.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:35PMCirque Shanghai is returning to Navy Pier for its annual summer residency from June 23-Sept. 5. Performed at the 1,500-seat Sky Line Stage, 600 E. Grand, “Cirque Shanghai Extreme” is a n…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:34PMTony Award and Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones will play the mayor's wife in Adam Shankman's upcoming adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages, according to pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMYesterday, April 19, Dan Lauria and Judith Light became the newest additions to Tony's di Napoli's prestigious Broadway Wall of Fame. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the unveiling and brings …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMHigh, Matthew Lombardo's play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth abuser…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMAnything Goes' Sutton Foster amp Kathleen Marshall will appear live on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show tomorrow between 1230-100PM on Channel 93.9FM and AM 820.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMDan Lauria and Judith Light are having a ball starring together in Broadway's sports drama Lombardi. Now the talented duo (who play married couple Vince and Marie Lombardi) have a fantas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMTheatre Royal Stratford East has installed a 'tweetzone' in its upper circle, as part of a new social media strategy it describes as a modern take on the "legacy of Joan Littlewood".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:21PMFirst witches, now ghosts. But while Broadway’s “Wicked” proved golden for Stephen Schwartz, his “Séance on a Wet Afternoon,” came up lifeless and damp Tuesday night at its City O…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:19PMGary Cole and Edi Gathegi lead the cast of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts at the Geffen Playhouse. Cole and Gathegi are joined by a formidable ensemble cast who take on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMOMG! The Music In This Sleeper Hit Is Heaven…. April 20, 2011 Joy is the feeling of grinning inside….Melba Colgrove If Broadway shows were listed on the stock exchange, I’d buy share…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 01:17PMDavid Hasselhoff attended the Tuesday, April 19 performance of Las Vegas' Jersey Boys at the Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino. Following the show, he went backstage to meet and congratulate …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMMatthew Lombardo's new play "High" opened on Broadway Tuesday to a range of reviews. The drama centers on a tough-talking nun (Kathleen Turner) working as a counselor at an add…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:13PMThe Public Theater will celebrate the life of late Hair and A Chorus Line costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge at a May 9 memorial in the Newman Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMOscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, who earned a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in the recent revival of A Little Night Music, will be seen in the Warner Bros./New Line feature film Rock o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMTony nominee Kate Baldwin and her actor husband Graham Rowat are the proud parents of a baby boy, Colin James, born on April 19.
Baldwin received a Best Actress Tony nomination for playing…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMAbout Face Theatre and the American Theater Company (the latter is soon to open its “original” production of “Grease”) will collaborate on a production of “Rent,” the Jonathan La…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:04PMJoel Rooks will star in Rupert Holmes' Say Goodnight, Gracie, to run May 1 - June 18 at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse of Cape May Stage. Roy Steinberg will direct the production.
The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PM
Time Out New York lists its favorite transfers from the silver screen to the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 12:58PMKnown for big musicals, the partnership of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment brings another favorite to its audiences with a new production of Little Sh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:55PMSPILL FESTIVAL 2011 ROUNTABLE Diana Damian interviews four of this year's National Platform artists about their work in the context of Spill Festival's curatorial theme of 'infection'. The a…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:53PMAccording to pulished reports, Broadway veteran Antonio Banderas will join previously announced Freida Pinto in 'Black Gold.' The film, which will be directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, takes p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMMiss Abigail's love-laden monthly talkback series continues!
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 12:49PMThe Broadway musical Fela! comes full circle April 20 when the story of the Nigerian musician and political figure Fela Anikulapo-Kuti begins performances in Lagos.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMTHE PLAY’S NOT THE ONLY THING Reinterpreting the setting of Shakespeare’s plays for modern audiences will always be a subject for debate: purists believe that a play’s relevance lies i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:45PMEdinburgh Fringe favourites and MTM Award-winners Babershopera, whose latest muscical Apocalypse No!::E8831281436060 enjoyed a short run at Trafalgar Studios earlier this year, have spectacu…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:45PMBarbican, LondonWith experimental theatre and live art from around the globe, the biannual Spill festival of performance never fails to surprise. Don't be astonished to find yourself attendi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMSalisbury PlayhouseToo many plays have a brief metropolitan life and then disappear off the map. So it is good to find Martin Crimp's cryptic thriller, originally seen at the Royal Court in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMThe full company is announced for the final season of The Bridge Project featuring Kevin Spacey, artistic director of The Old Vic, in the title role of Richard III. The Bridge Project will o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMIt Needs Horses should never have galloped away with the audience vote, still less the UK's biggest choreography prize. Maybe it's time for AV?So there I was the other night, at the finals o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMJustin Vivian Bond, Danny Hoch, and Carmelita Tropicana will be honored at PS 122's 30th anniversary spring gala, to be held at Abrons Arts Center on Monday, April 25 beginning at 6pm. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMThree-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is planning a Broadway return in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy, according to the New York Post. Lange…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Ben Stiller is getting some of the biggest names in contemporary art to help Haitian children affected by last year's earthquake....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:41PMBroadway Rhythm and Booze, a new cabaret series created as a platform to "highlight the soulful talents of the Broadway community," will kick off May 2 at Tillman's Bar & L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMTony nominee Barbara Walsh heads the cast of Reading Under the Influence: The "Real" Westchester Women's Book Club, which officially opened April 16 following previews that beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMMilan Peschel's stage production of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 film 'To Be Or Not To Be', already problematic in tone, manages to devalue comedy and seriousness alike, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:36PMPaul Taylor-Mills’ cross-gender Fringe revival of Alan Menken’s 1982 sci-fi musical spoof Little Shop of Horrors will transfer to the Landor Theatre next month, filling part of the gap l…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:34PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes announced today that it will host a memorial to honor the memory of famed costume designer and friend…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMNearly 50 years after he first emerged as a significant force in Boston theater, David Wheeler retains his gift for generating a certain kinetic power onstage.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PMOriginal Spring Awakening co-stars Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele will be reunited once again.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMTHEATER BROKE-OLOGY Johnny Lee Davenport excels in Nathan Louis Jackson’s unabashedly sentimental drama about two grown sons struggling to care for their father while coping with the c…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:17PMThe Geffen Playhouse has announced complete casting for Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, to run May 31-July 10. Randall Arney will direct the production.
The play centers on the unlikely…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMIn St Petersburg, the German great received a long-overdue award but ran into technical difficulties, while the Icelandic acrobats made a huge leap in public estimationSt Petersburg proved t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMOn Tuesday, April 19, Dan Lauria and Judith Light, the stars of Broadway's Lombardi, became the latest addition to the Wall of Fame at Tony's di Napoli Restaurant. The show is curr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMAnything Goes’ Sutton Foster & Kathleen Marshall will appear live on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” tomorrow between 12:30-1:00PM on Channel 93.9FM and AM 820.
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:13PMThis week on 'Dancing with the Stars' the top 8 got patriotic on 'America night,'but Petra Nemcova and her partner Dmitry Chaplin failed to impress. Check out images from the episode below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMTwo-time Oscar-nomtared director-filmmaker John Sayles kicks off his book tour at Trinity College for his new novel "A Moment in the Sun" Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m.
Barghain …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMThe British-born actor Mark Rylance has spent much of the current theater season in New York, recreating two acclaimed performances originally seen in London. Last fall, he starred in a revi…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:10PMMike Graham has for a quarter century been the guiding force for “The Story of Jesus,” full of miracles and betrayals, exotic animals and a cast of hundreds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:09PMTHE MOTHER WITH THE HAT aka The Motherfker with the Hat star Chris Rock will make his final guest appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, April 22 at 400 p.m. on WABC-7 in New York C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMBroadway's Tony Award winning Billy Elliot is welcoming a new actor to the title role, 11-year-old Tade Biesinger. Biesinger will become the thirteenth Billy to perform on Broadway, and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMThe actor, who has made a career of portraying famous people, will be doing a fresh take on the Lenten tradition of the Passion Play in Wales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMTony and Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo has joined the lineup for the New York Times' TimesTalks series in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMBrian Cox, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of That Championship Season, has been cast in the title role of the upcoming independent film "Passing Harold Blumenthal.&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM"High" at The Booth Theater: Did last night’s opening of “High” on Broadway leave us up in the air or headed for a crash landing? Watch the insta~review:
SOURCE: Andrew Andrew at 12:02PMCatch Me If You Can’s Alex Ellis walks through the stage door of the Neil Simon Theatre for her Broadway debut of the new musical that officially opened April 10. Ellis gives a backsta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMThe new Off-Broadway musical Lucky Guy, starring Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan (”Will & Grace,” My Trip Down the Pink Carpet), Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffery Roberson) (Chi…
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:59AMMichael Malarkey, a graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, is currently rocking out as Elvis Presley at the Noel Coward Theatre in Million Dollar Quartet&mdash…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMStage and screen actress Claire Danes has been cast opposite James Marsden in the upcoming film "As Cool As I Am," according to New York Magazine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMTHE PUBLIC THEATER
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:52AMComplete casting has been announced for the Bridge Project's production of Shakespeare's Richard III, which as previously reported, will star Kevin Spacey in the title role. Sam M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMComplete casting has been announced for the Bridge Project's production of Shakespeare's Richard III, which as previously reported, will star Kevin Spacey in the title role. Sam M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMDanceOn, a YouTube partnership channel exclusive to dance, released the sixth episode of DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL today. The cast and crew of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN move into the Neil Simon Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMPatti Murin will play the title role in Lysistrata Jones, the new musical that puts an Ancient Greek classic on a basketball court — literally. The Transport Group Theatre Company'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMAmerican Theater Company has announced its 2011-2012 season.
The company will begin the year with Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project, which examines the aftermath of the tragic 2006 sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMAs previously reported, Playbill has joined forces with Regent Seven Seas Cruises for the premiere voyage of a new cruise entitled Broadway on the High Seas, which will depart from Rome Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMSeance on a Wet Afternoon, an opera by Wicked composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz made its New York debut April 19 at the New York City Opera.
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:31AMA memorial for Tony Award-winning costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge will be held in the Public Theater's Newman theater on May 9, from 2pm-4pm.
The celebration of Aldredge's l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMComplete casting has been announced for Richard III, the final production of Sam Mendes' Bridge Project. Tony nominees Haydn Gwynne and Maureen Anderman, Olivier Award winner Chuk Iwuji,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMUniversal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced today that Tade Biesinger will join the cast of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMDan Amboyer will play Prince William in the Hallmark Channel's William and Kate: A Royal Love Story movie, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The project, which has a script by L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMWhatsonstage.com Rocket to the Moon offer. £20 Best available seats, valid from 26 April – 10 May.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:14AMThe line-up for the 10th Annual River To River Festival has been announced, with free events being held at various locations along downtown New York City's waterfront, including the Wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMAnne-Marie Duff will star in Terence Rattigans final play, Cause Clbre, opening for previews on 17 March 2011 with a press night on 29 March 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMUniversal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced April 20 that Tade Biesinger will become the late…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMBy August SchulenburgFor many reasons, I have been a little derelict with the Flux blog lately. Part of this is due to my blogging elsewhere, part is trying to keep up with my own writing, a…
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 11:05AMThe 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded this past Monday to Bruce Norris for his play, Clybourne Park. Clybourne had its New York debut over a year ago Off-Broadway at the non-profit s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Karen Mason seamlessly merges the worlds of cabaret and musical theater in the recently opened Broadway musical "Wonderland."
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:58AMClaim 20% off your digital copy of this award winning production with this exclusive offer.Valid until 9th May 2011.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:57AMAbout Face Theatre, the Chicago company devoted to plays related to gender and sexual identity, announced three titles for its 2011-12 season, which includes a production of the musical Rent.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMThe Dalton Academy Warblers will be part of the upcoming summer tour of "Glee Live! In Concert!," which has added additional dates and cities to its itinerary.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMFull casting and further international dates have been announced for Sam Mendes third and final transatlantic Bridge Project season, his production of Richard III, starring Kevin Spacey in t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:53AMThe Lincoln Center's Tony Award-winning revival of South Pacific, which transfers to the Barbican Centre from 23 August (previews from 15 August 2011) for a seven-week season to 1 October, w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:51AMThe latest Forever® stamp issued by the United States Postal Stamp will bear the image of Helen Hayes, regarded as “First Lady of the American Theater”. The first date of iss…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMIt is 1942. At the Falcon Hotel, on the edge of an airfield in Lincolnshire, Teddy, a young bomber pilot is celebrating a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. Events take an unexpected tu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMThe forthcoming revival of 1991 comedy musical Moby Dick at the Landor Theatre, which was due to run from 3 to 28 May 2011 (previews from 27 April), has been cancelled due to funding issues.…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:49AMA Surprise Broadway Marriage Proposal
Memphis cast member David McDonald proposes to the love of his life at the end of the Sunday matinee!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:44AMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and her husband, actor Graham Rowat, are now parents of a baby boy, Colin.
Baldwin received a Tony nomination for Finian's Rainbow. Her many stage credi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AMIn what The Daily Mail calls very serious negotiations, producers are in talks to bring AFTER THE DANCE to the Great White Way with Benedict Cumberbatch.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMTade Biesinger will join the Broadway company of Billy Elliot the Musical, playing at the Imperial Theatre, on Wednesday, April 13. He replaces Alex Ko, who will play his final performance o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMAbout Face Theatre has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will be performed at various venues in the Chicago area.
The season will open in the fall with The Kid Thing, by Sarah Gubbins. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMNikki Blonsky, Alan Cumming, Michael Douglas, Bill Irwin, Carson Kressley, Elaine Stritch, and Rachel York join Kathleen Turner and the company of Broadway's High at their opening.
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SOURCE: The AndyGram at 10:25AMPaolo Szot will recreate his Tony Award-winning performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific when the musical plays the Barbican Centre in London,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMHigh, Matthew Lombardo's new play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMPatina Miller has taken her role as a nun in "Sister Act" very seriously. How seriously? Her life these days is pretty cloistered.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:13AMAs a new piece at the Barbican shows, first-person recollections bring theatre performances back to life more vividly than reviews ever canNot long ago I had a conversation with a man in a r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMWoodie King, Jr.s New Federal Theatre NFT will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a special Gala at the historic Edison Ballroom 240 West 47th Street on Sunday evening, May 22nd.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMThe annual celebration of arts in lower Manhattan will feature Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Sean Lennon and Rosanne Cash, as well as a two-castle production …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:08AMBay Street Theatre has announced that former Rent stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will perform their acclaimed show, Adam and Anthony Live! In Concert at 8pm on June 13.
As previously re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMHIGH opened tonight, Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and we were there to capture the star-studded opening night red carpet arrivals HIGH stars Kathleen Turner, two…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMWICKED Journey of the Wand Mash-Up
Our fans passed a magic wand all the way to the Emerald City!
And now that the wand has reached its destination, we are happy to announce THE WICKED GAME…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:05AMThe previously reported commemorative stamp bearing the image of Helen Hayes will make its official debut at the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, held at the Warner Theatre on Monday, April 25.
The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AM
The charismatic performer delivers a wonderfully entertaining show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58AMIn the heart of Lincoln Center the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, nestled between the Metropolitan Opera and the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, thrives in its role as a vibrant c…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:50AMPaolo Szot will recreate his Tony Award-winning performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific when the musical plays the Barbican Centre in London,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMMichael Riedel reports in The New York Post today that Frank Langella will return to Broadway next season in MAN AND BOY, a long-forgotten but all too-topical play about a corrupt financier.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMEastEnders actress Samantha Womack is to star in the Lincoln Center production of South Pacific when it plays the Barbican this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMChicago favorite Hollis Resnik will portray Margo Channing in Season of Concern's benefit reading of "All About Eve" May 23 at the Mayne Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMThe Lincoln Center's Tony Award-winning revival of South Pacific, which transfers to the Barbican Centre from 23 August (previews from 15 August 2011) for a seven-week season to 1 October, w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:41AMOne of the many provocative points raised by James Fritz’s faux-verbatim drama Lines (which premiered at the Rosemary Branch’s new writing festival last autumn) is what it means to ‘en…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AMHIGH opened tonight, Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and we were there to capture the opening night curtain call HIGH stars Kathleen Turner, two-time Golden Globe w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMHIGH opened tonight, Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and we were there to capture the opening night party HIGH stars Kathleen Turner, two-time Golden Globe winner, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMNone of mathematically gifted characters who feature in Heat&Light’s collection of plays are happy. Maths does not seem to solve problems but create them. Life becomes a complex series…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:32AMLeslie Kritzer will offer an additional performance of her show Beautiful Disaster, on May 3 at 9:30pm at Joe's Pub. The piece, co-written with Randy Blair, had originally been schedul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMThree-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella, who was most recently on Broadway in the revival of A Man for All Seasons, will likely return to Broadway next season in Man and Boy, according t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMThe Pittsburgh version of the third annual August Wilson Monologue Contest, held Monday at the August Wilson Center, had the largest and best prepared field yet -- 29 students from eight Pit…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:22AMTalked about for months and now finally official, Paulo Szot, who has recently emerged as one of the most exciting voices in opera and who won a Tony for his performance as Emile de Becque i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:09AMA recovering alcoholic nun in mufti, Sister Jamison talks tough, swears a lot and can out- wrestle anyone foolish enough to take her on.
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:01AMIf the dozen or so producers of the addiction-and-redemption melodrama High really cared, it would never have gone to Broadway. Instead of raising millions of dollars to stick it in the Boot…
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 09:00AM
A feisty nun and a fidgety priest battle it out over a teen with sexual problems.
Sound like the Pulitzer wining Doubt?
You wish.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 08:59AMIt’s too bad Kathleen Turner never got a chance to play Sister Aloysius in “Doubt.” It might have spared her the embarrassment of now playing a nun in Matthew Lombardo’s disappointin…
SOURCE: AM New York at 08:58AMThere is something initially compelling about husky-voiced former sexpot Kathleen Turner playing a Catholic nun in Matthew Lombardo's High.
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:57AMTransport Group has announced casting for Lysistrata Jones, which will begin performances on May 15 at Judson Memorial Church, in anticipation of an official opening on June 5. As previousl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AMCo-director and choreographer of Broadway's "The Book of Mormon", Casey Nicholaw, talks about his initial reaction on reading the irreverent new musical and how it was to work with Matt Park…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:51AMThe Royal Court Theatre has announced complete casting for Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup with Barley, to run June 2 - July 7. Dominic Cooke will direct the production.
The play, the f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AMI downloaded, via iTunes, two wonderful new theatre-related albums yesterday: the Broadway cast recording of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Lisa Howard’s new solo album,…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:47AM"High" has already posted its closing date. But were reviews really that bad?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:39AMBackstage union BECTU has agreed an interim pay increase of 3% for West End members with the Society of London Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMLincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific will have its European premiere at London's Barbican Theatre this summer, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:22AMThe Bickford Theatre in Morris Township has settled on its 2011-12 season. First up is “The Last Days of Mickey & Jean,” by Richard (“Rounding ThirdR…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:18AMMultiply Miss Havisham by three, add Irish accents and a peculiarly compelling sense of the macabre and you have Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom, the female-driven companion piece t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMAlex Gaumond, who received a 2011 Olivier nomination for his current role as Emmett in the West End production of Legally Blonde, will make his debut West End solo concert at Leicester Squar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:16AMSo what did the critics say after the opening of Matthew Lombardo's "High" on Broadway Tuesday night? The show, directed by Rob Ruggiero, had its world premiere at Hartford's TheaterWorks la…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:13AMIn the intimate setting of The Space on the Isle of Dogs, Matthew Gould’s double bill of new plays was a refreshingly human affair. Investigating the convergence of church and stage, liter…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe talented Christopher Shinn seems to have set himself a difficult task with this irritating offering: writing a play largely devoid of dramatic conflict.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMA ramshackle yet agreeable film comedy with plausibility issues has here become an even more ramshackle and outlandish musical comedy that consistently diminishes its source.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Sherry Rubel Petronia Paley as Mama and Jimonn Cole as Walter Lee in "A Raisin in the Sun" at Crossroads Theatre Company. The nation’s first great African-American theater has fi…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:56AMJust yesterday I was writing here about Broadway being overrun by pop music, so perhaps the next step is for Broadway to find another outlet for its wares and work, namely the protected envi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMBelt Up Theatre is quickly becoming known for its immersive theatre, which seeks to allow audiences to break out of the traditional forms of theatre and into a world dominated by spatial con…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMGuildford Shakespeare Company is celebrating its fifth anniversary with productions of Much Ado About Nothing and the Merchant of Venice.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMINTERVIEW: JACQUELINE SOMERVILLE, who is directing the complete reading of the King James Bible at Shakespeare's Globe, running up to and across the Easter weekend, 2011, talks to Heather Ne…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:27AMManchester's Greenroom has become one of the first major casualties of Arts Council England cuts, announcing it will close its doors to the public in May after it had its subsidy axed last m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMThe Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark has now shut down temporarily, following its final performance on April 17 to allow technical rehearsals to begin for a major restructuring …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMLove Never Dies special episode of The Theatre Show
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies is coming to Australia in May, 2011. This special episode of The Theatre Show comes live from t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:13AMYou don't want to mess with no-nonsense, gutter-mouthed Sister Jamison Connelly, as played by Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo's occasionally gripping but also gratuitously lurid new play
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A rather decent rendition of Blues for an Alabama Sky is happening over at Atlas. The scene changes take too much time and distract from the quietly unfolding drama, but otherwise, the wri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:51AMExclusive Offer. Anton Burge's new play Bette and Joan starring Anita Dobson and Greta Scacchi. Tickets just £20! Thurs 5 May-Fri 13 May 2011. Tickets must be booked by 5 May
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:46AMStephen Schwartz's first opera, though not without its flaws, proves him to be a first-rate musical dramatist and is a welcome addition to the modern opera canon.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:40AMGlasgow's Ramshorn Theatre is under threat of closure at the end of July under a new cultural strategy proposed by its owners, the University of Strathclyde.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMThat former sexpot Kathleen Turner, who so memorably raised temperatures in such films as Body Heat and Crimes of Passion, has become a formidable presence in middle age. Her body thickened …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:33AMOne of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts’ most anticipated new plays is Rogelio Martinez’s Wanamaker’s Pursuit, which is receiving its world premiere at the Arden The…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 06:00AM
Ben Brantley: "Darkness is always more intense when you have glimpsed the sun. Much of the force of this invaluable troupe lies in its awareness that the light beyond the dark may be unreach…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM"Casting is a very loose adaptation of the story of A Chorus Line - a bunch of wannabe dancers converge on a rehearsal hall in order to audition for bit parts in a musical. But that's pretty…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42AMFELA, the landmark Broadway musical, which won three Tony Awards Broadways highest honor including Best Choreography Bill T. Jones, is coming to Lagos from April 20th to 25th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe play's called High because it follows the attempts of a street-smart, plainclothes nun named Sister Jamison Connelly (Kathleen Turner) to reform a serious drug user, Cody Randall (Evan J…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:17AMThe Landor Theatre production of Robert Longden and Hereward Kaye's musical version of Herman Meville's Moby Dick has been canceled due to funding issues, according to a report on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12AMSo how does a boy from Glencoe, Illinois wind up producing and directing every play by George Bernard Shaw? All right, David Staller hasn’t directed full productions of all 65 of GBS&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMSISTER ACT began preview performances March 24 and opens tonight Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Watch the cast in a special preview montage below for a sneak peek
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AMI've hit a bad patch on Broadway. In today's Wall Street Journal I pan High and Wonderland. Here's an excerpt....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMPeter Krouse loves to mix it up in his sets at the theater's 'lounge.' 'I really enjoy experimenting and finding connections,' he says.As you pass through the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Dou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
To be remotely bear able, the ham-fisted melodrama "High" requires a larger-than-life icon who can sink her teeth into its ripe dialogue, then chomp.
Thankfully, it has Kathleen Turner.
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:53AMAN EVENING OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS It was one of those magical nights in the theatre: a confluence of activism, sterling talent, and magnificent playwriting, made all the more joyous …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:49AMFrankLangella, who was unforgettable as Richard Nixon a few years ago in "Frost/Nixon," will return to Broadway next season in "Man and Boy," Terence Rattigan's long-forgotten but all-too-to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47AMKathleen Turner has a lot of loyal exes, I’ll say that for her. Last night for the premiere of her new play, called “High,” she packed the house with ‘em. Michael Dou…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:20AMGillian Gallow’s set is simple but brilliant — an expanse of snow which ends in a mound, out of which juts a huge, cruciform telephone pole. Michelle Ramsay’s slanted beams of light ad…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:09AMFamously husky-voiced film powerhouse Kathleen Turner is back on Broadway in High, a gritty addiction drama from Matthew Lombardo. She stars as Sister Jamison Connelly, a foulmouthed former …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07AMReligion is taking a beating on Broadway this season. That isn’t to say theater is pointing its gun at God, but rather shining a light on faith and daring audiences to make their own infor…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:01AMSouthern Ontario’s two large casinos — Casino Rama and Fallsview — will feature the likes of Alice Cooper, Russell Peters and Sinbad in May.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMGet ready to pull out those flamingo croquet mallets and hedgehog balls. For the second time, the National Ballet of Canada is tumbling down the rabbit hole.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSoulpepper consistently provides some of the highest quality productions in the Toronto area.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMEvery year, Ontario’s two major summer theatre festivals, Stratford and Shaw, offer a tremendous smorgasbord of drama for the hungry playgoer.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThis summer marks the fifth year that the Luminato Festival of Arts, Culture and Creativity has brought world-class talent to our local scene.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIn this production, the dark corners are under-explored and the tone flip-flops between tough and tender
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMEmmy Award winner Jim Parsons, famed as the genius-nerd Sheldon of TV's "The Big Bang Theory," is among the stars of The Normal Heart on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTracy Letts' volatile family drama August: Osage County, starring Atlanta actors Brenda Bynum, Jill Jane Clements and Tess Malis Kincaid, officially opens April 20 at the Alliance Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow, a new comedy about grieving like a grown up, starring Jill Eikenberry and Wrenn Schmidt, begins performances April 20 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSinger-songwriter Suzanne Vega's solo show Carson McCullers Talks About Love, an intimate musical look into the life of the late American writer, begins previews April 20 at Rattles…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a 2009 London premiere, the disco musical Sister Act is born again in New York City. The retooled Broadway production, featuring a score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, new direct…
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 12:00AMLanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of such works as Balm in Gilead, Fifth of July, Hot l Baltimore and Talley's Folly, died on March 24 at the age of 73. He touch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities production of Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' musical The Light in the Piazza begins previews April 20 prior to an official opening Apri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1908 The four Cohans are the stars of The Yankee Prince. George M. wrote, directed and co-produced this musical at Broadway's Knickerbocker Theatre. It will run 28 performances.
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