Playwright Dennis Kelly has created a series of scenes, in reserve chronological order, detailing a marriage's demise. Though the technique leaves us less emotionally invested, Steep Theater…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:23PMWILL THE REAL MOLLY IVINS PLEASE STAND UP? Molly Ivins was a ballsy Texas-based reporter who became a legend in her own time by calling a spade a spade (or, more succinctly, calling George W…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:21PMOn the heels of my last citation by Andrew Sullivan, another one (I'm the one who took screenshots of InTrade.com).
Carve it on my mausoleum.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:20PMAs in the plays of Harold Pinter, Reza realizes that violence seethes underneath our words; our language betrays our better nature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:19PM
My friend and colleague Molly Smith Metzler had a really shitty Christmas: She got a bad case of mono just as her long-anticipated and star-studded New York debut, Close Up Space, got a bad …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:56PMNot really. This is just leftover merchandise that capitalized on CBS's failed series Swingtown.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:38PMOn Thursday night I got a sneak peek of Ghost The Musical at the Ghost Light Sessions. The event kicked off with a cocktail called "The Unchained Melody" made from Frozen Ghost Vodka (that's…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 09:35PMPlaywright Tony Kushner on racism and the Kennedy assassination, part of the context for his musical, Caroline, or Change.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:32PMI've had my tickets for MCC Theater's production of Carrie since the tickets went on sale as part of a subscription (along with The Submission and Wild Animals You Should Know). As it …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:30PM
Times Square isn't usually the place for works that challenge the status quo, but that is the mission of the new Times Square International Festival at the Roy Arias Studios. The other part …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 07:25PMPercussionist Andrew Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show, a chamber music ensemble based in San Francisco, have embarked upon an unusual project -- to build quarte…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:23PMMayors invited to submit plans to spur urban centers with artConnecticut cities will be getting a bit of an artistic face -- and spirit-- lift.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:20PMTenor James Valenti and mezzo soprano Roxana Constantinescu not only have the voices, but the looks for Minnesota Opera's production of "Werther."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 07:08PMYasmina Reza's 2008 play God of Carnage was a worldwide hit. Here she talks about working with director Roman Polanski on the film adaptation and the year she spent with Nicolas SarkozyIn la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMYasmina Reza's 2008 play God of Carnage was a worldwide hit. Here she talks about working with director Roman Polanski on the film adaptation and the year she spent with Nicolas Sarkozy Cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThe actor has triumphed in the cinema with My Week with Marilyn, commanded the stage as Richard II and is about to explode on to our TV screens in BirdsongHe certainly does not look it, but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM“I need more mongness from you,” director Stephen Rayne calls across the hallowed, ancient auditorium of the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe silent movie has certainly made a comeback, what with The Artist nominated for 12 Baftas, alongside its Golden Globe wins. And the National Theatre is impressively on the ball – or so …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMWhat's a likely tonic in a time of economic gloom? A musical made for an earlier time of economic gloom. Oh yes, and a hero desperate not to be a banker.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe supposed visit by Princess Diana's spirit to Chinese tourists in Scotland, revealed last week, was a timely apparition: ghosts are gearing up to make their presence felt this year, thank…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:57PMFour dinner plates, a flash of gold at the ears, a lingering kiss, a bottle of scotch, a swipe of color on a tarpaulin… The clues are all there. In her thrilling two-act play Theresa Rebec…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:54PMAfter an intense internal auditing process, the results are in for the 2011 BroadwayWorld BWW Philippines Awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMThe Tony Award nominated rock musical ‘Rock of Ages’ is slated for a weekend run at the Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City on March 2 and 3, 2012. The musical features the greatest rock lo…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:03PMI’m 22 years old, a student at NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program. I’m sitting in a coffee shop, surrounded by friends. The topic of conversation is how a teacher admitted that he couldn�…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 04:00PM
The Tony Award winning musical ‘Billy Elliot’ comes to Milwaukee this summer for a week-long engagement at the Uihlein Hall of the Marcus Center, from July 17 to 22, 2012. ‘Billy Ellio…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:58PMThe Road to Meccais a long, tedious one. As directed by Gordon Edelstein, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Athol Fugard’s 1987 play is a dirge. Despite the pres…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:44PMThere’s something about sharing a common mythology that makes being in certain audiences particularly electric. Maybe that’s why making theater in the Bay Area is so charged: the mytholo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:36PMOWNING HER INNER KVETCH In Michael Wex’s treatise Born to Kvetch, he asserts that Kvetching (complaining) is not only a pastime for Jews – it’s a way of life. Kvetching can be applied …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:24PM
Nick Jonas is only a few days away from his debut as J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and climbing the corporate ladder takes lots of practice. Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:59PMA century ago, the interior of Christ Church Cathedral acquired
its single most distinctive feature: the carved stone reredos, or
screen, behind the matching high altar. Elegantly sculpted, …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15PMYou guys, it’s SNOWING! Happy weekend, and happy gossip… On Thursday night, we attended Ghost Light Sessions, a preview of… wait for it… Ghost: the Musical. Of note: Dave Ste…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:12PM
Well, I'm glad I was at least somewhat prepared for the desecration of the operatic masterwork Porgy and Bess that's now on view on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theater, or I probably wou…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:49PMSon Gabe (Eddy Rioseco) and husband Dan (Mark Sanders) vie for the sanity of Diana (Jodie Langel) in next to normal / Photo by Alberto Romeu Editor’s Note: We’re in high theater season w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PMLast night at Symphony Hall (I was there for Handel and Haydn's excitingly quirky take on The Four Seasons, you should go on Sunday) the audience once more sat through the usual Symphony dri…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:16PMToday in 1957 Waiting for Godot opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 6 performances. An absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, it revolves around two characters, Vladimir and E…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, which was a surprise hit in London and which has been running on Broadway since the autumn, hasn't really fallen off my radar since it began previews. The subj…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:55AM"Art" is, on the surface, about a white painting. However, when penned by Yasmina Reza, the surface is a thin veneer that is easily chipped and scraped away to reveal what the play is actual…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:34AMYuri Rasovsky, the co-founder of the National Radio Theater in Chicago, where he created hundreds of radio productions heard on commercial and public outlets around the world, has died at ag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
A few selections from Broadway's beloved videographer Bradshaw Smith.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMAs in the plays of Harold Pinter, Yesmina Reza's script explores how violence simmers beneath the words; our language betrays our better nature, if you listen carefully enough.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AMCasting has been announced for Ryan Murphy's film version of Larry Kramer's landmark play The Normal Heart, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The play -- which debuted Off-Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMPianist and musical director Paul Trueblood passed away on January 16, 2012 at 77 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMRyan Murphy, creator and director of the hit Fox series "Glee," has assembled his cast for the film version of Larry Kramer's Tony-winning The Normal Heart, which concluded its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM“A book is like a mirror. If an ass looks into it, you cannot expect an angel to look out.” Bearing the humbling injunction from Arthur Schopenhauer above in mind, I recently att…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:12AMTalking about her new album, Another Piece of Me, with KyForward, the singer revealed that the first single from the album is slated for a February 27 release.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMIt's serious! It's hilarious! It's Richard Strauss' delightful
"Ariadne auf Naxos," and it's the penultimate offering of Winter
Opera St. Louis' 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
I eat meat.I like eating meat.Yes. I have seen Food, Inc. and I still eat meat.Rather than shame people for eating meat, my suggestion for PETA activists and vegans is to attack those …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:38AMCanadian director takes to the stage with a production of Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMThey’ve built a long and successful marriage, inspired each other’s careers, and worked together on critically acclaimed, award-winning films. Now, Atom Egoyan and Arsinée Khanjia…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM
The four scientists in “Instinct” spend most of the play’s 85-minute running time debating parenthood, religion and sexual identity.
Oh, and they’re also trying to halt an epidemic k…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMA Midwestern mother and her businesswoman daughter travel to a small American city. Their purpose? To identify the body of a family member who committed suicide.Hilarity ensues.If that sound…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:36AMDavid Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof has found a perfect venue in the intimate Independence Studio on 3 at the Walnut Street Theatre. This luminous production, directed by Kate G…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:33AMNOTES FROM THE LONDON UNDERGROUNDjoel fishbaneA few weeks ago, while most people were braving the Canadian cold, I was across the pond braving the damp chill of Mother England. It was my sec…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMDori Berinstein, when she's not producing Broadway shows, directs feature film documentaries that celebrate theatre. Her latest, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," premieres t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMDirector, Dramaturg, Teacher, Writer Santa Monica, California USA In 2001, I was invited to lead an “East African Theatre Workshop” in Kenya and Tanzania, working with many of the region…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AM(Photo credit: Yves Renaud)Hiromi Omura is Not Madama ButterflyBy Richard BurnettThere are not many great opera singers who come out of Japan. And fewer who take the opera world by storm. Bu…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTyne Daly begins performances Jan. 21 in Terrence McNally's Master Class, reprising the role of Maria Callas that she played in Washington, DC, and on Broadway last year, at the West End…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Follies is "Still Here" for only a little while longer… Elizabeth Reaser and Norbert Leo Butz Learn to Drive… and I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, featuring Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd, begins a world-premiere run Jan. 21 at The Old Globe's inti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan. 8–14, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Bill T. Jones and the Arnie Zane Dance Company premiere Story/Time Jan. 21 at New Jersey's Montclair State University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Engeman Theater's Broadway Spectrum concert, featuring Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley and Tony nominees Emily Skinner and Stepanie D'Abruzzo, is presented Jan. 21 on Long Islan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's series features brief chats with Broadway actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing an American Express exclusive presale, tickets for William Shatner's one-man show at Broadway's Music Box Theatre go on sale to the general public Jan. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe girls upstairs are preparing to click their heals down that infamous staircase for the last time when the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies ends its li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIt's not often that we get a visit from an distinguished network anchor. This one even tells jokes. Seth Meyers, who mans the desk of "Saturday Night Live's" Weekend Update, took advantage o…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMOh, what a feeling: "Flashdance -- The Musical," the stage adaptation of the movie that was shot in Pittsburgh, will open on Broadway in the fall, then launch its national tour at Heinz Hall…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIn all my previous encounters with Shakespeare's Richard III, on stage, on screen, and even on the page, the character of Richard himself has been central to my experience of the play: a vi…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMWith the combination of a still-reeling economy and a rapidly shortening attention span of the American public, the idea has begun to surface that theater is a dying art-form. Film and TV ha…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMFor the seventh time, Metropolitan Playhouse is presenting a "Living Literature Festival," in which the life and work of one or more artists from American's past serves as the insp…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM 
