Acting coach David Legrant, whose career in the entertainment industry spanned nearly six decades, has passed away. He was 87 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26PMA literally damning critique of American popular culture, Jerry Springer the Opera soars in the Chance Theater’s Southern California premiere. An opera this critical could have only origin…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 09:15PMMusic, theater and mischief. As summer begins to wind down, there will be a slew of special events worth catching. Mark your calendar for the following: CHICAGO DIVAS: Head to the Ethel M. B…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:11PMI know, the subject of this blog makes it sounds like I’m counting a warehouse full of soccer balls before shipping them off to Modell’s. But nope, I’m talking about taking…
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Writer, producer, director and activist Del Shores is bringing
his new comedy act, "Sordid Confessions," to St. Louis on Sept. 1.
He will be joined by recording artist (and husband) Jason
Do…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:41PMMusic Theatre of Wichita will celebrate its Fabulous Fortieth Season with a summer full of magical musicals. MTWichita's versatile repertory company will perform The Little Mermaid August 5 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:21PMHEDY WEISS: Cute but cloying. That is the best way to describe “Pinkalicious: The Musical,” Chicago’s Emerald City Theatre’s production of the hourlong musical created by composer-ly…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:19PMMuch Ado About Nothing
The Old Globe presents the 2011 Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24.
The Much Ado About Nothing cast…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:12PMCariad LloydThere are many female performers doing character comedy, but it can be hard to tell which ones have proper comic instincts running through their bones and which are simply aspiri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMThe Tempest
The Old Globe presents the 2011 Shakespeare Festival production of The Tempest directed by Adrian Noble, June 5 - Sept 25.
The Tempest cast features Michael Stewart Allen (Seba…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:07PMLabyrinth, St AustellTo celebrate its 10th anniversary, The Eden Project has imaginatively commissioned NoFit State Circus to devise a show for its biomes. The famous eco-attraction should p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMEdinburgh FringeDance on the fringe is getting stronger, and even if it can't begin to rival the range of theatre and comedy on show, this year's programme has some rich pickings. Opening in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMPhoto love story starring The Boy With Tape On His FaceLinda Nylind
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMComedian Josie Long has created an exclusive comic strip for the Guardian GuideJosie Long
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFact-checking the festivalsJohnny Dee
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMOur expert panel tell us their inspirations, favourite funny words, and what always gets a laughHow many gigs does a comic have to do before they're any good?Tom Rosenthal How many lives doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSurreal comedy's loss was the folky Fence Collective's gain. But I was the better singerBefore I mustered the courage to get up on stage on my own, I was part of a double act. The other half…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMToday we are shining a special solo spotlight highlighting a particularly thrilling new theatrically-related entertainment entity on the not-too-distant horizon the just-released trailer for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:02PMAmadeus
The Old Globe presents the 2011 Shakespeare Festival production of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, directed by Adrian Noble, June 12 - Sept 22.
The Amadeus cast features Michael Stewart …
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:01PMThe Canopy Theatre Company’s Lysistrata — The Sex Strike (their subtitle) is the most satisfying production of an Aristophanes play I have ever seen. That isn’t quite the sweeping stat…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:00PMIts colonnaded façade, topped with a sculpture of a galloping quadriga, is one
of the enduring images of Moscow, alongside the swirling domes of St
Basil's. Inside its walls, some of …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe door of the pub swings open and, not for the first time, in walks Micky Lay.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMBox office takings at London's theatres have bounced back from a winter slump thanks to a string of big productions and star performers.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
'I was discovered by Peter Kay. He saw me in Manchester, rang me and asked me to play Holy Mary in Phoenix Nights'My real name is Janice Connolly, but I spend my weekends performing as Barba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMThe nominations were released earlier this month for the Academy of Television Arts amp Sciences 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mad Men topped the list with 19 nominations, followed by Boardwal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of July 18-24, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,882,731
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PMLa Jolla Playhouse has announced casting for Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar, to run August 30 - September 25 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Rebecca Taichman will direct…
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SOURCE: Corine's Corner at 05:28PMIt is very difficult to take a strong position in the gay world without being, at the least, misunderstood, and at the most extreme, vilified mercilessly. I suppose it's like this in the str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PM1. When Jessica proposes intricate plays, she prefaces her pitch with, "Ok. This is not complicated." I am guessing she would say that about this class too. It's not rocket-science, so don't…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:02PMTonight, I'm off to New York to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale and King Lear (above, the RSC stage under construction in the Park Avenu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:00PMConsultation with other theatre experts ensured only state-of-the-art technology for the Alberta venue
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Roman Polanski's upcoming big screen adaptation of God of Carnage will debut this summer at the Venice Film Festival August 31- September 10. Now, according to the Holywood Reporter, the fil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMAccording to Empire Magazine, stage and screen star Antonio Banderas isn't too upset about being left out of the line-up for the 2009 film adaptation of Nine. Banderas played Guido in the 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMJuly 23 - July 29These days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMBackstage at JERUSALEM on Broadway - Barry Mills
A look behind-the-scenes of the award-winning production of JERUSALEM on Broadway. Warning: Contains mature (but Rooster-approved!) language…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:33PMLegit News: Polanski's adapation stars Foster, Winslet, Waltz, Reilly -- The opening night selection of the 2011 New York Film Festival is ''Carnage,'' Roman Polanski's adapation of Yasmina …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:33PMBackstage at JERUSALEM on Broadway - Charlotte Mills & Frances Mercanti-Anthony
A look behind-the-scenes of the award-winning production of JERUSALEM on Broadway. Warning: Contains matu…
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SOURCE: Corine's Corner at 04:15PMRoman Polanski's new movie Carnage, a film version of Yasmina Reza's play God of Carnage, will have its North American premiere at the opening gala of the 49th annual New York Film…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMAdam Chanler-Berat, Annaleigh Ashford, Matt Shingledecker and more star in the NYC return of the acclaimed Jonathan Larson rock musical Rent.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Details have just been released on concerts featuring Broadway legends Elaine Stritch and Lorna Luft at New York City's Town Hall. Stritch will appear on October 22at 8Pm, while Luft will tr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMTour De Fierce, a new revue by the Broadway Dolls, the oratorio Tut and an evening of songs by Drift songwriter Jeremy Schonfeld have been added to the New York Musical Theatre Festival'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMWith my waitressing days behind me, as I stumble into the next phase of my life, I'm beginning to suspect that the name of this transition time is: Babysitting. In fact, as I type, I have o…
SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 03:40PMHappy Anderson, Mark Banik, Hanna Cheek, Jordan Gelber, Trent Hulen, Amy Landon, Tony Manna, Sean McNall, Triney Sandoval, and Sheila Vand will be featured in a reading of Waterwell's T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMA couple of fun videos on a Friday afternoon. One thing I've found is that when communicating a vision, especially when we lack a shared vocabulary, is that music, video and other art fo…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:37PMCoby Getzug will star in The Los Angeles Festival of New American Musicals and ASCAP's free staged reading of the 2010 Richard Rodgers Award winning musical, Rocket Science, at the Barn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMNancy Opel, currently in the cast of the Broadway musical Memphis, sat down with Seth Rudetsky on the latest episode of Playbill Video’s “Obsessed!”
Here, Opel talks about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMMTV will add animation to its programming lineup with the premiere the new animated series Good Vibes. This half-hour coming-of-age comedy will follow transplanted Jersey boy Mondo voiced by…
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SOURCE: Corine's Corner at 03:11PMRevised casting has been announced for the previously reported If It Only Even Runs a Minute 7, to be presented at Caroline's on Broadway, on Monday, August 1 at 7pm. Caleb Hoyer serves…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMDaniel 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. Now according …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMThe government says it took down Pellan’s paintings of Canadian scenes, which hung in the Foreign Affairs building, to pay tribute to Canada’s head of state in advance of her 50th annive…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:04PMThe musical Next to Normal goes irretrievably down the tubes at the moment, early in Act One, when one of its characters, already a driving force in the action, is revealed to have been dead…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:00PM
In the video below Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth sings the touching 'Fathers Daughters'. Click below to check it out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMProducer Ryan Murphy has confirmed that a "Glee" spin-off featuring soon-to-be McKinley High graduates Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith was in the works but has been put…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMThe award-winning Hero: The Musical will make its American debut at Lincoln Center's at the David H. Koch Theater, August 23-September 3. Ho Jin Yun will direct.
With book and lyrics b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMThe final battle from Cirque du Soleil's hit Las Vegas show KA was played out on the wall of Petco Park during the opening night of San Diego Comic-Con 2011. BroadwayWorld's Audra Stafford s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PMDoug’s Trailer Scaler for New Year’s Eve struck a nerve, arousing feelings so strong that I could not express them in a mere comment on his post. So now, I present an entirely se…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 02:37PMThe new, off-Broadway production of Rent began previews on, July 14, and opens Thursday, August 11 at New World Stages. The highly anticipated resurrection of the cult classic, written by Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:28PMThe humidity in NYC got us hot and bothered this week. Here’s the theater news we’ll be discussing while we’re huddled inside with cool towels on our foreheads like swoony …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:26PMAdrian Iglesias, Betsy Helmer and Justin McCarthy perform an original song about food consumption. Courtesy of Georgetown University.
Guess who's coming to dinner? You are, but you'…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:23PMMary Sohn and Tim Baltz in Second City’s “Sky’s the Limit (Weather Permitting)” It’s been a long time (months, really) since I’ve actually teared up in th…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 02:21PMRosie's plans for her new talk show are changing. She isn't going to focus on single-issue topics, as she had initially said.
SOURCE: USA Today at 02:19PMMSG Entertainment has announced that “Christmas in August,” the kickoff to the holiday season featuring the Radio City Rockettes, will be held in Times Square Aug. 11.
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SOURCE: Corine's Corner at 02:14PMPITTSFIELD - In the annals of strange political bedfellows, few alliances can have been stranger than that of Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:11PMBECKET - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, that wonderful little United Nations of dance, is proudly presenting, for the first time in its 79 seasons, a contemporary dance company from Ko…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:11PM"Exposure 2011,’’ the annual juried show at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, includes small projects, ranging from four to eight images, by 10 different pho…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:10PMAccording to USA Today, Rosie O'Donnell's upcoming talk show for the OWN network has switched time slots, and thus will change up the overall concept of the show. On the show's new 7PM spot,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PM***
Breathtakingly inventive and theatrically innovative, the hit show Watson is BACK for a short season of only three weekends at Sacred Fools Theatre Company.
Review by Pauline Adame…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:04PMBy Doug Strassler It’s been said (mostly by me) that the current crop of ensemble romantic comedies, fueled in large part by Love Actually early last decade, are this generation’s versio…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 02:04PMLifelong New Yorker and Oscar nominee Danny Aiello (Do The Right Thing, Moonstruck) has returned to the stage to lead the cast of emotional drama The Shoemaker, currently running at off-Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PMAs previously reported, previews will begin in March of 2012 in anticipation of an April 2012 opening and rehearsals begin in February of next year for the highly anticipated revival of EVIT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:01PMThe summer sun is beating down on Broadway as August arrives, and we can't help thinking that the Great White Way's hard-working stars deserve a break. It's time for these hottie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PM
The Addams Family at Broadway in Bryant Park - Just Around The Corner.mov
The Addams Family performs "Just Around The Corner" at Broadway in Bryant Park, July 2011.
For more inf…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:57PMDetails have been announced for the seventh annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by TheaterMania contributer Scott Siegel.
The festival will kick …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMAccording to published reports, stage veteran EDdie Izzard will guest star on season three of CBS' 'The Good Wife' as Abbott Thrush, an Upper Class English Barrister.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMJustin Bartha may be lining up back-to-back Off-Broadway roles. The current star of Second Stage's All New People told the L.A. Times that he's planning another Off-Broadway venture …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM"Sleeping Beauty," "Peter and the Wolf" and "The Nutcracker" are
among the attractions in Alexandra Ballet's 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:35PMSecond Stage Theatre continues fundraising toward the $24 million purchase of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre following an extension of the closing deadline to May 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMColiseum, LondonRecently, Carlos Acosta has been branching out from ballet superstardom. Last year he presented Premieres, a rather misjudged programme of short modern ballets for himself an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMVeteran actor is loving his turns at Stratford
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:29PMAfter initial reports were revoked that Glee stars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer would depart the series after the third season, the show's co-creator Ryan Murphy sat down …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMA stunning AGO retrospective demonstrates why and how a collective trio from Toronto turned the art world on its stuffy head
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:25PMSpiderman: Turn Off the Darkphoto: Sara Krulwich, New York Times
Makes the show look exciting, huh?
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:15PMGLEE star Jane Lynch will host the 2011 Emmy Awards on September 18. She'll be only the third female to host the show by herself in the history of the awards show- the others being Angela La…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMSamuel L. Jackson and Angela Basset are readying to hit the Broadway stage in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, where Jackson will play Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Performances don't beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PMSamuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett are readying to hit the Broadway stage in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, where Jackson will play Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Performances don't be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PMYork Theatre Company Oh, Coward and The Mad Show, the next titles in its Summer 2011 Musicals in Mufti Series-the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performanc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMCatch Me If You Can star Kerry Butler may get tired of being called “adorable,” but there’s no better word for her Ask a Star video, in which she answers questions posed by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMRobert Pattinson is heavily favored to win his second Choice Movie Actor prize at next Sunday's Teen Choice Awards. Nine of our 11 editors predict he will prevail for his work in "E…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:04PMArt by Ben Chlapek, Courtesy of Gallery 1988
Pee Wee Herman is back in full swing, with an appearance last weekend at San Diego's Comic-Con, a show here in L.A. that moved to Broadwa…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PM
The UK's Independent reports that Tony Award winner Mark Rylance has given away his 2011 trophy, which he received for Best Performance by an Actor for Jerusalem, to Mickey Lay - a British m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival NYMF has announced a full slate of musical productions, a developmental reading series and special events for their eighth annual festival. This year's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMMarred by basic execution hurdles and a lack of apparent vision, Director Brian Conley’s Macbeth aims for perfunctory and falls short at mundane. Not recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:50PMAs previews begin on the Edinburgh fringe, festivals and outdoor theatres around the country offer summer treats from circus to ShakespeareThe Edinburgh fringe kicks off next week, but altho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMThe newly imagined Broadway production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER starring Grammy and Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. will open on Sunday, December 11,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMLoni Ackerman, who played the title role during the original Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita, will take on the lead role of former silent-screen star Norma Desmo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThe standup and star of We Need Answers pens the Guardian an exclusive ode to the Edinburgh festival fringe – and, first, explains its genesisCatch tomorrow's special festival-themed Guid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMThe Michael Grandage-directed production of Evita — which opened at London's Adelphi Theatre in June 2006 starring Argentine actress Elena Roger — will arrive on Broadway in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College has announced its programming for the fall 2011 season.
Among the events on the venue's schedule is The 9/11 Performance Project, to be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMWell, we're in the final countdown to the official start of the Edinburgh Fringe this Friday 5 August 2011. So it seems a good opportunity for crunching the numbers. Amongst this year's…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:28PMENTER LAUGHING, The Musical, the hilarious Broadway-bound production, is now in rehearsal at the New 42nd Street Studios. The first preview is August 9. A limited number of Pay What You Can …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the complete line-up for its 2011 festival, to run September 26-October 16.
Newly added full productions include The Kid Who Woul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMWalking Shadow Theatre Company has announced casting for its upcoming production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, September 16-October 2, in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie. Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMNew York is once again rolling with the sound of rockabilly now that Million Dollar Quartet has moved into New World Stages. The retro tuner, about a fateful day in 1956 that got Elvis Presl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMNew York is once again rolling with the sound of rockabilly now that Million Dollar Quartet has moved into New World Stages. The retro tuner, about a fateful day in 1956 that got Elvis Presl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMAnnabella Sciora, Melvin Van Peebles, Chloe Webb and Laurie Anderson will celebrate late author, poet and illustrator Shel Silverstein Aug. 6 in Central Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMLauren Molina and Geoff Packard will bring the Goodman Theatre's acclaimed production of CANDIDE, directed and newly adapted by Mary Zimmerman, to the Huntington Theatre this fall, the theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMWith no strong, unambiguous political or social line to these plays, between them they take in the entire country; this is England, they say
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:17PMCBS Films has pushed back the release date for "The Woman in Black," according to Deadline.com. The movie will now be released Feb. 3, 2012, instead of the previously announced Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMAfter running for over a year on Broadway, Million Dollar Quartet, the jukebox musical that conjures an iconic moment in rock 'n' roll history, began performances at its new Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMTop price tickets to Mon - Fri perfs from 17-30 Sept 2011 to see The Playboy of the Western World at The Old Vic. Must be booked by 31 Aug 2011.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:11PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMTRACES has its first preview tonight, July 29, at the Union Square Theatre! This amazing acrobatic theatre show officially opens on August 8th, but don’t wait to get your tickets bec…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:04PM"Ululating" is the word that started it all. That little gem of a word always makes me smile, as does a smart lyric in a Broadway musical. Apparently, a lot of you enjoyed the fi…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMWomen without knickers kept showing up on the stage the other day, in two different theaters. And, honestly, I wasn't hanging out in those hole-in-the-wall clubs in Soho, land of gentlemen's…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00PMAmy Graves
This week in our theater section, Steven Leigh Morris reviews Anne Deavere Smith's latest set of interview-based monologues, Let Me Down Easy, now at the Broad Stage.
Whil…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PM
The MacDowell Colony, one of the nation's leading artist residency programs, will present its 52nd Edward MacDowell Medal to renowned playwright Edward Albee on Sunday, August 14th. Since …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMStage actors who achieve fame and riches in Hollywood seem to follow one of three second-act career paths.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMDanny Aiello and his co-stars share their thoughts on this new drama about 9/11.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:55AMThe "How I Met Your Mother" actor hits theater Friday alongside the little blue creatures in "The Smurfs."
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:54AMOr, at least, the greatest story-teller I have ever met. Ladies and gentlemen I am pleased to present to you Mr. James Monaco, accompanied by Mr. Jerome Ellis:
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:49AMTony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will be honored with the 2011 Edward MacDowell Medal, which will be presented by Mike Nichols Aug. 14 in Peterborough, NH.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMAs even people casually acquainted with our theater might have heard, the admission price to see Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is decided by random chance when you reach the door: $…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:47AMAs he first told Broadway.com, Mark Rylance has followed through with his plan to give away his 2011 Best Actor Tony Award to Micky Lay, the man who inspired his character, Johnny "Roos…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:45AMBay Street Theatre's production of Enter Laughing, The Musical is currently in rehearsal. Stuart Ross directs and choreographs the musical, which will run August 9 - September 4.
With…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMAcademy Award nominees Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett will be coming to Broadway this fall when The Mountaintop begins previews Sept. 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with an offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMIt seems like whatever gets thrown at Shields, she gamely returns. Few actresses seem as approachable, as sweet or as genuine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:43AM"London's theatreland has recovered from a slump earlier this year, seeing box office takings between April and June up by 2% on the same period in 2010. The industry had braced itself after…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMSamuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett are featured in a newly released promotional video for Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, which is scheduled to begin Broadway previews on September 22 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMSamuel L. Jackson will soon star as DR. Martin Luther King, Jr. opposite Angela Bassett in the Broadway production of the new play, The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall directed by Tony Award-nom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMSHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE GOES FROM STAGE TO SCREEN Backstage By Suzy Evans Taking a play from stage to screen typically involves an adapted screenplay, new cast members, a film crew and set, co…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:38AMShakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series, a stage-to-cinema presentation by NCM Fathom, Globe Theatre and Arts Alliance Media, is an exclusive four-part in-theater series of the most classic…
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SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 11:31AMAs a horse-loving German officer in the Tony-winning play War Horse, Peter Hermann immerses himself in the horrors of World War I eight times a week. Away from the Vivian Beaumont Theater, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:29AMHouse panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history | The Raw Story:The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require Internet service provider…
SOURCE: Mike Daisey at 11:25AM"As the budgets of Broadway shows have grown -- $10 million to $15 million is standard these days -- so too has the financial incentive to fix flops. And a show's second shot at success isn'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:23AMDetails have been announced for the 7th Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMCurrently in the cast of Memphis, Nancy Opel understudied Patti
LuPone in Evita at the tender age of 22. Although her musical
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SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe bubbly star answers your questions in her dressing room at the Neil Simon Theatre.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:13AMTony Award nominee Eddie Izzard has signed on for a guest appearance in the upcoming season of the CBS series "The Good Wife," according to TVGuide.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMIan Rickson's critically acclaimed production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Douglas Henshall and Ben Miles, will end its scheduled run at the Comedy Theatre on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMOk, this "overheard" entry didn't happen at Angus. It happened in Massachusetts about a week ago, when my Mom took one of her grandkids, a second grader, to see a show at the local…
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As the eccentric anthropologist Honor Klein, sleeping with her half-brother in Iris Murdoch and JB Priestley's musical-beds comedy A Severed Head (1963-64), she was reputed to be the first a…
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:58AMThe Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation said that it plans to make an additional $1 million available to Chicago-area arts groups.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:51AMOn Thursday, July 28, the Off-Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet opened at New World Stages. Cast members and guests celebrated the opening at Bowlmor Lanes in Times Square.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMDirected by Carl Andress (The Divine Sister)Music Direction by Matt Castle (Enter Laughing, The Musical)
The Mad Show premiered in 1966. A comic revue filled with songs, sketches and the ir…
SOURCE: Corine's Corner at 10:47AMMark Rylance, who won his second Tony Award this past June for his performance as Johnny “Rooster” Byron in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, has given his Tony statue to the ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMAudra McDonald on The View
Four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, Bess in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, recently appeared on T…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 10:43AMEllen Greene, the original stage and screen Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, stars in the new British comedy musical Betwixt!, which runs at the West End's Trafalgar Studios 2 fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMAs a member of the ITBA (Independent Theater Bloggers Association), I have had the opporunity to meet some of the most wonderful people who blog about theatre. While we all have our own ni…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 10:38AMMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET resumed performances yesterday, July 28, at New World Stages after closing on Broadway on June 12, 2011. MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET played nearly 500 performances on Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMGeoff Packard and Lauren Molina, who starred in earlier regional stagings of Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman's Candide, will again search for the best of all possible worlds in the Leon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMOn July 26, Little Shop of Horror's original Audrey, Ellen Green, returned to the West End in Betwixt at Trafalger Studios. Betwixt is a musical comedy conceived and written by Ian McFarlane…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMJust as his character will soon be crooning in the West End premiere of Rock of Ages, we “Can’t Fight This Feeling” anymore that Justin Lee Collins is just a little bit adorable.
To …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:21AMThe new owner of the trophy is Mickey Lay, a 71-year-old builder whom Mr. Rylance consulted in creating the character of Johnny "Rooster" Byron, the caravan-dwelling ex-daredevil at the hear…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20AMNYTimes:In the days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, some workers and mourners at the World Trade Center site seized upon a cross-shaped steel beam found amid the rubble as a symbol …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:18AMWalking Shadow Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Tony Award-nominated dark comedy reasons to be pretty will play the Guthrie Theater's Dowling Studio Sept. 16-Oct. 2.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThis is a fascinating play that goes in a bunch of surprising directions. What begins as another tale of a man taking advantage of a woman because it is easier than working for a living, be…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 10:11AMDenis O'Hare and interior designer Hugo Redwood were married on July 28, according to the actor's Twitter feed.
O'Hare won the Tony for his performance in Take Me Out and mos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMLegal action against a 'malicious' book review has revived an old question: can critics stay honest without giving offence?I was out of the country last week and have only just caught up wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMCast members from Anything Goes, The Phantom of the Opera, Hair, The Fantasticks, and Traces performed at the July 28 edition of 106.7 Lite fm's Broadway in Bryant Park. Lite fm Christ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMFinian's Rainbow, the 1947 Yip Harburg-Burton Lane musical about race relations in the fabled land of Missitucky, has been streamlined into a new hour-long package as part of the Broadwa…
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Shows including “Shrek the Musical” and “Legally Blonde” have found success in Europe after bombing on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:56AMPOP MUZIK The 1979 hit single is featured in a memorable scene in the second act of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, The Musical, which will forever change the way we think about ping pong bal…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:53AMby Michael Wheeler Six days to opening and things are heating up. In the current configuration and story-telling methods this means we have probably room for 5-7 more guys in the cage. It wi…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:47AM"The math dictates that not everyone can play Hamlet," were the words of preparation and, perhaps, warning that spilled out the Head of the Drama school just last week as he readied us for i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:46AMLend Me a Tenor - the Musical, based on Ken Ludwig’s award-winning play, may be ending its short run at the West End’s Gielgud Theatre Aug. 6, but the score will live on in a cas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMActress-singer-comic Sandra Bernhard, who will bring her newest solo show to Los Angeles next month, has already extended her engagement due to ticket demand.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMWelcome to Games 29 and 30 of the Ultimate Pop Song Tournament! These games are OPEN. They will close on Tuesday, August 2. (ALL OPEN GAMES) To see the complete bracket, just go here. For…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 09:34AMMichael Crawford has extended his engagement in the West End production of The Wizard of Oz, at the London Palladium, and will now appear through February 5, 2012. Jeremy Sams directs the pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMWith the Edinburgh Festival only a week away, our community bloggers are typing up a frenzy about last-minute preparations, packing and all the excitement ahead. For one Oxford Imp, this has…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:32AMThe latest entry in critic John Simon's Blog (John Simon Uncensored) talks about what he calls "Titular Mischief" -- the practice&…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:18AMTalking points: Adam Rothenberg from Adaumbelle’s Quest co-hosts! Sexy Performers Week at Broadway in Bryant Park Word Association with Chester Gregory‘s best roles One Night Sta…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 09:17AMTerry Adams, Laurie Anderson, Bobby Bare Jr., Pat Dailey, Gary Lucas, Duke McVinnie, Janine Nichols, Melvin Van Peebles, Kembra Pfahler, Shilpa Ray, Lou Reed, Roswell Rudd, Annabella Sciorra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMDavid Suchet, best known for playing the title role in TV's "Poirot," will return to the West End’s Apollo Theatre, the same venue where he last appeared on the London st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AMActor Mark Rylance has given his Tony Award for his role in the Broadway hit Jerusalem to the man who partly inspired it.
SOURCE: BBC at 09:06AM
Tony and Academy Award-winning director Mike Nichols will speak at the MacDowell Colony as playwright Edward Albee receives The Edward MacDowell Medal on Sunday, August 14 at 12:15pm. Also …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:58AMThe Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas is heading back to the West End for a five-week Christmas season, beginning performances at Wyndham’s Theatre Dec. 20 for a run through Jan. 21, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AMThis week the Mariinsky Ballet swanned into London, same-sex marriages took centre stage on Broadway, Alan Ayckbourn bemoaned the lack of original plays and a budgie master caused a flutter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMThis week the Mariinsky Ballet swanned into London, same-sex marriages took centre stage on Broadway, Alan Ayckbourn bemoaned the lack of original plays and a budgie master caused a flutter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMGerry GoodsteinPhilip Goodwin, who has won three Helen Hayes Awards for his work in the Washington, D.C., theater scene, will star in "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" at the Shak…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:03AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
The BBC's new drama The Hour, starring Dominic West and Romola Garai as hacks on a 1950s news show, is oddly familiarIt features an intense, difficult, principled reporter (Ben Whishaw), who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMStomp, the multi award-winning dance and noise-making extravaganza, will mark its 20th birthday this autumn with a series of one-off celebrations at the various venues it’s played over…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:15AMZippo Spy Gun4mm, the "Zippo" brand lighter, the firing mechanism disquised as a normal lighter, the barrel occupying the place of the wick, the flint striking wheel acting as the trigger. S…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AM
"We’re a theater for actors, Berkshires-based actors," Bell-Devaney says proudly of her new company, Berkshire Actors Theatre. That’s why she chose an actors’ play for the company’s …
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:58AMInspired by this true story as chronicled by Osha Gray Davidson in his book, "The Best of Enemies," St. Germain has crafted an insightful, quite often funny, highly theatrical play about the…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:57AMTaut. Incisive. Focused. Penetrating. Not words one readily applies to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s towering novel, "Crime and Punishment." They are perfect, however, for the treatment collaborato…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 05:55AMThe Theatre Gods have smiled down on Maine State Music Theatre with a solid gold show called "Xanadu"!
SOURCE: portlanddailysun.me at 05:50AMFollowing their fourth successive Edinburgh Fringe, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical will transfer to the West End for a second stint at the Ambassadors Theatre. It will play at the Ambas…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMMichael Crawford will continue in the title role of The Wizard of Oz, currently running at the London Palladium, through Feb. 5, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31AMIan McFarlane's new musical comedy Betwixt! opened last night (28 July, previews from 26 July) at Trafalgar Studios 2 where it runs until 20 August 2011.
With a cast which includes former B…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:09AM
A slow day in theater news when playbill headlines: “godspell producer is producing godspell” & “new tom wopat recording, CONSIDER IT SWUNG”
SOURCE: lezbehonest at 02:18AMFrom a modern-day context, the repetitive running gags of this early sex farce can be a bit wearying. From a modern-day context, the repetitive running gags of this early sex farce can be a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11AMIn the video, Carney and "Spider-Man" songwriter Bono share vocals (no, Bono hasn't joined the actual musical), with the Edge on guitar.In the video, Carney and "Spider-Man" songwriter Bono…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:07AM"Plans to excavate the remaining third of the Rose Theatre on London's Bankside and develop the site into a permanent exhibition and performance space have been dealt a blow after its bid fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04AM
NT associate director Ben Power: "There's a certain energy that comes from knowing that a space that was built and used as something else is being inhabited by a particular performance. That…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:52AMStage Rush TV: Episode 72
Talking points:
Adam Rothenberg from Adaumbelle's Quest co-hosts this week!
Sexy Broadway Performers Week at Broadway in Bryant Park
Word Associat…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:27AMFaithful readers will recall that on Wednesday, I wrote that I’m driving up to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario to see the Shaw Festival’s production of My Fair Lady. The motivation …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM"Betty Blue Eyes," the musical at the Ivor Novello Theater based on the 1984 film "A Private Function," captures the the writer Alan Bennett's sensibility in its portrayal of the age of aust…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I report on two more Shakespeare & Company productions, Romeo and Juliet and...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Compassion is something individual and voluntary. You cannot compel somebody to be compassionate; nor can you be vicariously compassionate by...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
Friday July 29, 2011
PITTSFIELD
There’s a new theater company in town and while "Actors" may be its middle name, actors come first in
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:04AMFriday July 29, 2011
What: "She Stoops to Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith
Who: Williamstown Theatre Festival
When: Tonight through Aug.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:04AMFriday July 29, 2011
What: "Four Dogs and a Bone" by John Patrick Shanley
Who: Berkshire Actors Theatre
When: Wednesday through Aug.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:04AMReview: Broadway in Bryant Park, July 28, 2011: "The Phantom of the Opera", "Hair," "Anything Goes," "Traces," and "The Fantasticks."
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 12:00AMRod Brogan is George Bernard Shaw opposite Angela Pierce playing wealthy heiress — and romantic prospect — Charlotte Payne-Townshend in the West Coast premiere of John Morogiello…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTraces, the acrobatic theatre show that has been exciting audiences in Canada and on an American tour, makes its New York City commercial debut July 29 at the Union Square Theatre. Opening n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe award-winning York Theatre Company's production of The Mad Show, part of its Summer 2011 Musicals in Mufti Series, which presents musical theatre gems in staged concert performances,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMUnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. presents an exploratory reading of the 1969 musical comedy The Fig Leaves Are Falling July 29 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Creative Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTricks the Devil Taught Me, the new play written and directed by Tony Georges, begins previews at the Minetta Lane Theatre July 29 with an official opening scheduled for Aug. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1981 An ad in Variety today accuses theatre critic John Simon of being "racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, vicious, and derisive." Included in the ad/protest are excerpts from Simon…
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