In its return to regular programming for the 2011-2012 season, Cherry Lane Theatre brings us Frank Strausser's new comedy.
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 10:56PMa respectful adaptation of nine short stories by the Russian master Anton Chekhov, but a bit short on excitement
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:42PMKate Fodor's new play does take a poke at a marketing and cure-all drug smitten economy, but the cautionary subtext doesn't spoil the fun of this contemporary screwball romantic comedy.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:39PMI received a batch of e-mails in response to my column two weeks ago about Nicol Williamson, the brilliant but troubled Scottish actor who died in December.
He was as famous for his off-stag…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:34PMOn January 31st, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it would halt grants to Planned Parenthood.I know this because on the 31st my Facebook page was saturated with the news. In the n…
SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 10:34PMWith the possible exception of exorbitant prices, prescription medication and theatre don’t share many salient qualities
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:19PM"... good intentions and disappointing results... "
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PMKurt Peterson and Harvey Evans of the original cast of FOLLIES with producer Ted Chapin; also comedienne/actress Jackie Hoffman on her one-woman show "A Chanukah Charol"
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:17PMIf the 1960s had never ended, perhaps Frank Strausser’s new comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Psycho Therapy, would seem fresh, relevant, and even daring.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:16PMThe emotional stakes are high in Geoffrey Nauffts’s “Next Fall,” an affecting tragicomedy about love, faith and death, at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre through Feb. 26. Thanks to a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:11PMThe latest play from Kate Fodor, “Rx,” a winning combination of light satire and romance, pokes gentle fun at our overprescribed culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Elizabeth Lucas’s slender but effective dramatization of “Myths and Hymns,” Adam Guettel’s songs remain the focus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Ugly One,” at Soho Rep, a man loses his sense of self when a miracle of plastic surgery turns him into a nouveau Apollo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMarius von Mayenburg's play about a man who undergoes plastic surgery is both hilarious and incisive.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMKate Fodor's enormously entertaining new play centers on a woman who enrolls in a clinical trial to treat workplace depression.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
The Prospect Theater Company showcases Adam Guettel's entrancingly ethereal song cycle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThis theatrical evening based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov lacks the necessary richness and subtext.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PMFrank Strausser's comedy about a couples therapy session for three never really develops much beyond a single-joke premise.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57PMA graf artist paid in Facebook stock.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:49PMThe Toronto production of the Tony Award-winning musical doesn’t give the audience the proper experience.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:48PMEven Ken Davenport has noticed it.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:45PMThere's another great installment of "The Decoder", where Howard Sherman breaks down awful PR speak into understandable tid-bits.
I just wanted to highlight this one:
7. Timely = addres…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:44PMThis year The Drama League's Gala featured Academy and Tony Award-winner Joel Grey, Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti, Elaine Paige, Tony Award-winner Donna Murphy, pop sensation Nick Jonas, C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42PMTwo examples of defending your work from critics today.
First up, Mike Daisey:
Daisey played to small but appreciative crowds across the US, winning critical praise but stirring little t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:29PMThe New York Times covered Paula Vogel's playwriting boot camp that was recently held at Second Stage Theatre. She holds these informal training seminars around the country, "usually a…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:12PM
Theatre fans everywhere are already itching to see Les Misrables brought to the big screen, and though the film isn't due to hit theatres until December 7, rehearsals have already begun for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:39PMPerry Young was living as a struggling actor in Los Angeles, navigating his way through the often volatile television and film industry, when he finally landed his big break in the cross-cou…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:30PMRyan Murphy is hoping to do another Madonna tribute episode on Glee, and this time around he wants Madge herself to make a guest appearance! Murphy recently dished about his plans during a v…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PMIn “Rx,” Phil tells Meena that she may be suffering from workplace depression, “which isn’t a personal failure; it’s a disease.” He quickly adds: “We hope.” If it is a diseas…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:23PMXL Nightclub, Cabaret amp Lounge just featured Broadway veteran Shoshana Bean who will also be performing on Mondays, February 13, 20, and 27 at 900 pm. BroadwayWorld was there for last nigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMAcclaimed singersongwriter Jeremy Schonfeld returned to Joes Pub last night bringing his exciting hybrid brand of rocktheatrical piano man storytelling for one night only. Joining him were L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PM"I'd love to direct one of the Olsen twins in the story of my life!" cracked the Tony and Emmy winning star at the Drama League tribute in her honor at the Pierre last night.
Chenoweth h…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 06:12PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Two more autism-friendly performances of Broadway musicals will be offered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first showing of a Broadway show s…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:10PMParticipants have been announced for the roundtable discussion, "RepresentAsian: The Changing Face of Theatre," to be presented by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:03PMAfter much buzz over the casting of the upcoming Les Miserables movie, the barricades are almost ready to be stormed as production begins on the highly anticipated big screen musical. Tony w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PM Dear readers, Here is a link to my latest article for LA Stage Times on Evan Brenner’s one-man play, Buddha – A Fantastic Journey Happy reading! Pr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:01PMJessica Stone's production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum will receive a Friends of Roundabout reading.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMVaudeville, LondonBeware of Americans bearing gift-wrapped versions of Greek legends. After the horrors of Martin Sherman's Onassis, we now have the return of Terrence McNally's version of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey takes the Brooklyn Academy of
Music's Harvey stage as the jealous and
ambitious hunchback-who-would-be-king in William Shakespeare's
Richard III. Pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMStage and screen star Peter Gallagher is sharing his life through songs and stories in a one-night-only performance at the Geffen Playhouse on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The Tony nominated Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by the Hypocrites in the Chopin Theatre ★★★
The quirky, lovable aesthetic of The Hypocrites is going to be in safe …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PMThe New Group has announced a two-week extension for the world premiere of Erika Sheffer's Russian Transport, starring Janeane Garofalo, Daniel Oreskes and Morgan Spector.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMTwo more autism-friendly performances of Broadway musicals will be offered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first showing of a Broadway show specially altered for …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:49PMWRENN SCHMIDT is currentlyplaying Ruth in Irish Repertory Theatre'srevival of Eugene O'Neill's Beyondthe Horizon (February 15-April 8).Other credits include: Irish Repertory Theatre: S…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:49PMThe court ruling on Tuesday doesn't mean the fight over Prop. 8 is over.The court ruling on Tuesday doesn't mean the fight over Prop. 8 is over.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, stage and screen star Allison Janney has just joined the cast of NBC's upcoming 'Friday Night Dinner' series. Based on the UK comedy of the same name, th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, February 7, 2012 In the news: ‘Mormon’ tops box office Variety – by GORDON COX “The Book of Mormon” hit No. 1 on the Broadway …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMThe Glee writers have thought up quite the clever character name for upcoming guest star Matt Bomer. The White Collar star will play Cooper Anderson, the older brother of Blaine Anderson (Da…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:39PMStage and film star Marni Nixon will act as the narrator for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company's acclaimed production of Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat at the Manhattan Music and Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:39PMDickens has been getting all the press in his 200th year, but there is another performer, even older, who celebrates: in 2012, Mr Punch, of Punch and Judy fame, is 350 years old, and Improba…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:38PMThe St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2012-13
season, featuring composers from A (John Adams) to Z (Alexander
Zemlinsky) and a wide range of soloists, from members of the
orches…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:35PMAna Reeder, Jeanine Serralles and Tony Award nominee J. Smith-Cameron will star in the Red Bull Theater revival of Jean Genet's The Maids, which will play a limited engagement Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PMLINDA LARKIN is the voice of Princess Jasmine inWalt Disney’s Aladdin, The Return of Jafar, Aladdin and The King of Thieves, and theEmmy-nominated “Aladdin” televis…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:35PMAdditional casting has been announced for a special Sarah Siddons Society event to be offered on Monday, March 5 at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre. David H. Bell will host the event.
Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:35PMRehearsals have begun for the American premiere of Nina Raine’s Tribes, and we’ve got a sneak peek at the cast of this dysfunctional family drama. On February 7, director David C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:34PMSchool #8: Desert Sands Middle School Phoenix, AZ Reported by: Marty Johnson, Director of Education, iTheatrics January 31, 2012 When I arrived at Desert Sands Middle School in Phoenix, I wa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 05:32PMNick Cohen in the Literary Review (UK) offers some useful ways to think about censorship in the 21st century:
We cannot puncture our own myth that we are fearless seekers after truth, even …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 05:30PMBroadway is very much like the United States’ economy -- it has periods of prosperous success followed by periods of quiet inactivity. This year has been one of the quiet ones in terms…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:19PMABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER is scheduled to hit theaters on June 22nd from 20th Century Fox. The horror, thriller film, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, stars Broadway veteran Benjamin Walk…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMThe highly anticipated revival of "Carrie" is now in previews off-Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:12PMFebruary brings a few solid experimental shows to Boston. All the shows are worth checking out. By David Cooper. Jason Lescaleet and Thomas Ankersmit. At the Goethe-Institut, F…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:08PMJamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Paul Meshejian continues this series. What makes an artistic home?…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:05PMOn Twitter Watch, Brian d'Arcy James wrote Are there plans for you to sing in an upcoming ep there are plans...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMEvan Brenner's solo Buddha - A Fantastic Journey condenses reams of sutras about the Buddha's life into about 90 minutes. Brenner discusses his show's path and how acclaimed actor John C. Re…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PMA fired-up Maria Callas (Tyne Daly) is hectoring a student. “I don’t want it done like me, I want it done like Verdi!” “With music?” enquires the nervy pianist. “Yes,” she snap…
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The off-Broadway show "Love, Loss and What I Wore" will end its run March 25 after more than 1,000 performances.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:59PM'My biggest career regret? Not turning up for that interview for a part in Alien'What got you started?I had no desire to be an actor. But I started going along to the Citizens theatre in Gla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PMAlec Baldwin, Anna Chlumsky, Justin Kirk, Kathy Najimy and many more were on hand to participate in Second Stage Theatre's 25th All-Star Bowling Classic at Lucky Strike Lanes and Lounge …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMThe Intiman Theatre in Seattle will continue to operate, albeit on a drastically scaled-back level.The Intiman Theatre in Seattle will continue to operate, albeit on a drastically scaled-bac…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:54PMWriting in Elliptical Motion Ian Walker on writing compelling dialogue and choosing “moments in time with real stakes behind them”: Compelling dialogue rarely progresses in a log…
SOURCE: direct address at 04:50PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The off-Broadway show "Love, Loss and What I Wore" will end its run March 25 after more than 1,000 performances....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:50PMThe cast and creative team of Now. Here. This. met the press on Feb 6. The new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], will get its world premiere by Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Tony Award-winning composer Sheldon Harnick will headline Arena Stage's Golden Gala: A Glittering Evening of American Musical Theater on Monday, Marc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:50PMStreep's voice has been much analyzed by critics for its versatile qualities, especially her facility with accents and her vocally uncanny impersonations.Streep's voice has been much analyze…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:48PMLaw & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay may be following her husband, former War Horse cast member Peter Hermann, onto the Great White Way. Best known as New York City sex crimes det…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMA patriotic concert for a patriotic season – the Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra presents American Musical Salute on Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. at Sexson Auditorium on the c…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:46PMValentine’s Day is all about romance, so Broadway.com decided to collect romantic stories (and ideas for celebrating the national day of love) from some of the most passionate people w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:45PMTwo-time Tony nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman is gearing up to star as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman beginning February 13, but the Oscar winner may be moving to Germany this f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:38PMThe 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against California's 2008 voter-approved ban on gay marriage. The courtroom drama surrounding Prop 8 was documented in Academy Award winne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMLove, Loss and What I Wore will play its final performance on March 25 at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre. At the time of closing the show will have played 1,013 performances. During the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMIn regard to my post earlier today, I’m glad to add that Cambridge University Press has announced that a new translation of the Fourfold Root is scheduled to be published as part of th…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:20PMResidue is a loud and somewhat forgettable comedy. Subtler direction may lend the characters more depth, which in turn would provide more weight to the piece. Still, it shows glimmers of cre…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:14PM2012 Playbill: MacHomer | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
General Director Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director Des McAnuff and Director of Communications David Prosser discuss the Stratford S…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:13PMon Thirteen: Fri., February 10th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., February 11th at 8:30 PM Sun., February 12th at 12:30 PM and Mon., February 13th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Jesse Gre…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 04:09PMon Thirteen: Friday, February 17th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., February 18th at 8:30 PM Sun., February 19th at 12:30 PM and Mon., February 20th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM We disc…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 04:08PMOur interview with KEVIN SPACEY is now online. Click Here to Watch!
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 04:07PMLove, Loss, and What I Wore, Nora and Delia Ephron's Off-Broadway production that features a rotating cast of notable women, will end its run March 25 at the Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM
According to published reports, Twentieth Century Fox's 'The Wolverine,' which will be the prequel to 'X-Men Origns Wolverine' will be released on July 26, 2013. James Mangold will direct th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMAn utterly charming, disarming crossroads moment.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:56PMThe Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore will end its record-breaking run at the Westside Theatre on Sunday, March 25. As of that time, it will have played for two and a ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Ameriville" by Universes at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Ameriville" by Universes at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★ ... The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:53PMVideo of the current Buenos Aires production of FREUD'S LAST SESSION, courtesy of TVPublicaArgentina.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:52PMSupporters of Roundabout Theatre Company are being invited to a starry presentation of director Jessica Stone's all-male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMProducer Daryl Roth announced today that the long-running Off Broadway favorite Love, Loss, and What I Wore will close on Sunday, March 25, 2012 after playing for two and a half years and 1,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMAn updated list of performers has been announced for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 12 and aired live on CBS. LL Cool J will host …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMThe company of Dan LeFranc's play The Big Meal met the press on Tuesday, February 7, prior to the start of rehearsals at Playwrights Horizons. Sam Gold directs the production, which wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMHeres a reason to Like the Official JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Facebook page if you arent a fan already The Broadway-bound Stratford Shakespeare Festival hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PM42nd Street Moon has announced casting for its upcoming production of Peter Stone, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's Sugar, to play April 4-22 at the Eureka Theater. Dyan McBride will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMTony Award winner Chita Rivera will co-host the 13th annual Column Awards Gala, honoring excellence in theater within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The event will be held at the Patty Gra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMHere’s a reason to Like the Official JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Facebook page if you aren’t a fan already! The Broadway-bound Stratford Shakespeare Festival hit production of Andrew Lloyd …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:18PMIf Mondays are dark on Broadway, where do the stars go while the lights are down? On February 6, some of the lucky ones got together for beer and bowling in support of Second Stage Theatre.&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMAs Kristin Chenoweth preps for the premiere of her new ABC series GCB, the Tony-winning star was honored for her Broadway roots at the 2012 Drama League benefit gala. The annual event, which…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMThe cast and director of the North American premiere of Nina Raine's Tribes met the press on Tuesday, February 7 at the Barrow Street Theatre, where the production will begin previews F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonPlays about casual sex among today's twentysomethings are not that uncommon. But two things give this cryptic, 80-minute three-hander by Stefan Golaszewski (wri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM
According to NY Magazine, television star Marishka Hargitay, who recently showed off her voice in NBC's 'Brotherhood of Man' commercial, would like to take her talents to the stage. She told…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMThe Asian American Performers Action Coalition and Fordham University will present RepresentAsian: The Changing Face of Theatre, a roundtable discussion moderated by Chinglish playwright Dav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM“I just finished wrapping my legs around a lycan’s neck and shooting everyone in the room.” Sounds like just another typical day on the set of an Underworld movie. Sexy star of the fir…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:54PMThe planned L.A. reading of the play "8," featuring George Clooney, Matthew Morrison and others, will take place as scheduled on March 3, following Tuesday's ruling by a U.S. appeals court d…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:53PMThe well-known Chicago cabaret star Spider Saloff is to appear in her self-penned, one-woman musical, "The Roar of the Butterfly" at Victory Gardens' Richard Christiansen Theater , 2433 N. L…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series was proud to present Amazing Sex - A New Revue, written by Barry Harman and Keith Herrmann. The event starred Alison Fraser, Jason Graae and Caesar Sa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMGhost the Musical, beginning previews March 15th with the opening date set for April 23rd, is directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus God of Carnage, The Norman Conquests, Boeing-Boein…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMChalk Repertory Theatre will present the West Coast premiere of Slither by Carson Kreitzer, February 9-March 4 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Casey Stangl will direct.
Slither illuminates …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PMBroadway superstar Kristin Chenoweth received a singular honor on February 6, when the Drama League celebrated her career at its annual black-tie benefit gala at NYC's Pierre Hotel. Afte…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMAfter the closing of Chinglish, On a Clear Day, and Relatively Speaking the grosses take an understandable dip. They’re down another $2 million for the week ending 2-5-12. The Book of Morm…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:29PMLincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook has returned to the Allen Room for its fourteenth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 16 nights the series is e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMUnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. has announced casting for Make Mine Manhattan, to run March 1-17 at the Connelly Theatre. Ben West will direct the production, which will have choreography by Rommy S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMOn last night's 'Watch What Happens Live' on Bravo TV, guest Ryan Murphy confirmed to the talk show's host Andy Cohen that actress Jessica Lange would be returning for Season 2 of FX's AMERI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PMRicky Martin, who will return to Broadway in the upcoming revival of Evita, guest stars as "The Spanish Teacher" on the Feb. 7 episode of Fox's "Glee."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMLauren Class Schneider talks to actor Martin Rayner as he inhabits the character of Freud from "Freud's Last Session".
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 02:22PMTony Nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Joshua Henry The Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot, who is currently starring as Jake in the production of The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS, will give a so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMThe multiple Emmy winner, who was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Writers Guild, East in 2010, talks about having friends like Billy Crystal, Larry David or Gilda Radner and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning production of Sleep No More has announced another extension, and is now set to run through April 14, 2012. The production, presented by Punchdrunk and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:16PMTony Award nominee Joshua Henry, who currently stars as Jake in the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will offer a solo concert entitled Soul Weakness Feb. 20 at The Tri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PMCasting has been announced for Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage's co-production of John Van Druten's Bell, Book, and Candle, which will play at Long Wharf Theater, March 7-Apr…
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PMThe Public Theater announced new February dates today for THE TOTAL BENT by Stew and Heidi Rodewald and directed by Joanna Settle. The shift in dates for this Public Lab production is due to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMThe Public Theater announced new February dates today for THE TOTAL BENT by Stew and Heidi Rodewald and directed by Joanna Settle. The shift in dates for this Public Lab production is due to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMAfter months of anticipation NBC’s buzzed-about musical drama series, Smash, debuted on February 6 to 11.5 million viewers, according to Entertainment Weekly. The pilot episode had als…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PMAt the beginning of December, I breached countless confidences, both personal and professional, in order to bring you “Decoder,” a post which revealed the true meaning of timeworn wo…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:28PMSecond Stage Theatre celebrated its annual All-Star Bowling Classic last night, February 6th. For over 20 years, stars of stage and screen have come out to bowl in support of Second Stage's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMName: Jessica Allen Where are you from originally? Devine, TX It’s a town consisting of 4,000 people south of San Antonio, and yes, the name says it all. How long have you been in Aust…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:26PMLast night, February 6, Hip Hop star Jay-Z performed at Carnegie Hall to benefit United Way of New York City and the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation. He was joined on stage by special mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMActor talks with the Globe about playing the Phantom and branching out
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:10PMThe Muppets big-screen musical is coming to town, but, ladies and gentlemen, we need to know who is the greatest star of the Muppet show … does Miss Piggy hog your heart or has Kermit the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMRamin Karimloo talks with the Globe about playing the Phantom and branching out
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:10PMJeffrey Fauver, a longtime publicity associate at the Goodman Theatre, is the Steppenwolf Theatre's new comunications director. Fauver, 28, replaces David Rosenberg, who left the Chicago the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:07PMCarrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking
At the Hippodrome through Feb. 12
More at weekly.citypaper.com
Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show, opens with a song, Hollywood-…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:04PMThat Pretty Pretty; Or, the Rape Play
By Sheila Callaghan, Directed by Jayme Kilburn
At Strand Theater Through Feb. 18
Despite the warning that the show you are about to watch wi…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:04PMThis was the sort of program that demonstrates the diversity, depth and quality of the New York City Ballet's repertory and dancers. It also unfortunately exposed their real weakness, the qu…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 12:03PMIt’s rare for a show to grab you from beginning to end, but the long awaited Josephine Tonight does just that. It’s so hot it sizzles! Based on the larger than life Josephine Baker, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMIn 2004, Mike Read’s Oscar Wilde proved to be a
musical monstrosity, closing after just one night at the newly re-opened Shaw Theatre.
The show earned space in the record books as t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMMelanie Lockyer is casting teen and adult actors for a developmental workshop of "Because of Winn-Dixie." Equity principal auditions will be held Friday, February 17 in New York City.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:02PMChita Rivera attended SILENCE! The Musical at P.S. 122 this past Thursday, February 2nd, and she remained afterwards to praise the cast and pose for photos. SILENCE! The Musical, the unautho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S POLL AND IN ROUND 2 OF "HOT/HOTTER". THANK YOU.Review of NBC Television's Smash (Pilot Episode) which officially aired on Monday, Febr…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMBasketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMBasketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
The ABC Family pilot "Bunheads," a dance-drama series starring Tony Award-winning Anything Goes star Sutton Foster, will move forward, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMThe lineup for the Feb. 9 performance of Scott Siegel's Broadway Ballyhoo, the concert series that is now playing an open-ended run Thursday evenings at 11 PM at Feinstein's at Loews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMIt's a great idea for fringe theatres to share their spaces – but they need to share the financial numbers tooWhen the Park Theatre – a new 200-seat main house and smaller studio space �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMIsraeli-style gaga, a 20th-century classic by choreographer Paul Taylor, and Philadelphia hip-hop. Which is more surprising: That one dance company would perform all three? Or that the troup…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:56AMNational Theatre Live continues its third season with Nicholas Wrights new play TRAVELLING LIGHT, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Wrights new play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMThe critically acclaimed theatre-inspired TV series "Smash," in its pilot airing at 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6, was a ratings hit, earning 11.5 million total viewers and scoring high with v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMTuesday will be a Dickens of a day. Feb. 7 marks the bicentennial of Charles Dickens birth, and plenty of celebrations are planned on both sides of the Atlantic.Tuesday will be a Dickens of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:48AMThe Girl in the Yellow Dress -- Next Theatre Company at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St, Evanston, is offering $15 industry tickets for Thursday, February 16. For tickets, call …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:47AMSchool #7: Westinghouse Academy Pittsburgh, PA Reported by: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher January 30, 2012 The great jazz legend, Duke Ellingto…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:45AMThe Intiman Theatre in Seattle will continue to operate, albeit on a drastically scaled-back level, thanks to having successfully raised pledges amounting to $1 million that were needed to s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:45AMStage and television star David Schwimmer will direct the Bush Theatre's production of Sabrina Mahfouz's Dry Ice, according to WhatsOnStage.com. The work will be presented in a dou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMA host of Washington, D.C. theatre companies will stage a four-production festival celebrating the work of acclaimed, Obie-winning puppet designer Basil Twist in March.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMImaging and Digital Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition
Through Feb. 18 at UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
More at weekly.citypaper.com
A Thesis Exhibition may not sound…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 11:42AMArs Nova has announced additional February and March programming.
The venue will present Delilah Dix - America's Showgirl! (2/24, 3/2); You Like Me: An Evening of Classic Acceptance Sp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:42AMAndrew Garfield, the breakout star of the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network, will soon make his Broadway debut as Biff Loman opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and Linda Emond in the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMTectonic ShiftsI grew up with a lot of science in my life. My father was an Earth Science teacher at our local Jr. High School. So that meant I was doing science fair starting in kindergarte…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:36AMAmy Sherman-Palladino's "Bunheads" joins "Baby Daddy" as pilots receiving series orders from the youth-skewing cable network this year.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:35AMSignature Theatre has announced casting for Brother Russia, to run March 6 - April 15. Eric Schaeffer will direct the production, which will have choreography by Jodi Moccia and music direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMRockers Anonymous: Love Sucks, a one-night-only concert celebrating Valentine's eve with heartbreak and break-up tunes, will be held Feb. 13 at the Underground Lounge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMLegendary Broadway star Chita Rivera attended the Thursday, February 2 performance of Silence! The Musical, currently performing at The 9th Space Theatre at PS 122.
With a book by Hunter Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMMax Raabe and Palast Orchester are set to visit Philadelphia as part of their U.S. tour for a performance at Merriam Theater, March 2 at 8 pm. The tour will support the release of their new…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMEveryone knows everyone...Right? No, but its expected that everybody does, so a strange practice of having to internet stalk someone before you meet them is becoming quite common.
SOURCE: Luke Weidner at 11:26AMHappy Birthday Charles Dickens An English novelist, Dickens is generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous au…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMCasting has been announced for the London production of Gatz, the epic theatrical retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The show will bow in London presented by LI…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:22AMWalnut Street Theatre will present the world premiere of Ethel!, the life stories and memorable songs of singer-actress Ethel Waters, beginning Feb. 21, prior to an official opening Feb. 23,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMWIT Opening Night
Check out the red-carpet arrivals and the opening night party of WIT, the critically-acclaimed Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club.
For more information about WIT…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:19AMThe Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons is gearing up to headline the Broadway revival of Harvey this spring, so he asked a special acting coach for help: Ellen DeGeneres. On the February …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMBroadway's Max von Essen, along with Sonja Morgan, of The Real Housewives of New York City and choreographer Nick Kenkel, was among the guests at the Harper's Bazaar and Jeffrey Fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMBroadway star Max von Essen, Sonja Morgan of The Real Housewives of New York City and actor-choreographer Nick Kenkel were among the guests at the Harper's Bazaar and Jeffrey Fashion Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMIntiman Theatre has met its deadline to raise $1million in order to remain open, according to a report in The Seattle Times. As previously reported, the theater had cancelled much of its 20…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMJacques Brel Returns, the long-running evening of songs by the beloved Belgian songwriter and chanteur, continues to romance audiences by adding two special February shows at The Triad, Wedn…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:13AMThis Thursday at 8pm will be the final performance of Poor Baby Bree,’s Ragmen, Ragtime, and Ragamuffins: Historic Songs of the Lower East Side at Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, be…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:13AMCast members from the Broadway musical Sister Act will perform as part of Nuns on Ice, a charity event for God's Love We Deliver on Thursday, February 16 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm at CitiPo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMThe 2012 DC Theatre Technician Cattle Call will be held over two days, Sunday April 15 and Monday April 16 from 10:00 Am until 6:00 PM on both days, at the Harman Center for the Arts. Sun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMThe zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is a clear reconception, while the Young Vic's hot-and-sticky new interpretation of "The Changeling," a Jacobean…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AMThe Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced details for its 2012/2013 season.
Among the highlights is a fully staged world premiere production of John Adams' The Gospel According to the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMTHE AMAZING SPIDER MAN is coming to theaters on July 3, 2012. The action adventure film is directed by Marc Webb and stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Meagan Good, Embeth Davidtz, Rhys Ifan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMIt back! The acclaimed show, Venus and Fur, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie and featuring Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda and Emmy Award nominee Hugh Dancy, begins performances t…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:00AMFor the first time in its ongoing 11th month Broadway run, “The Book of Mormon” topped the box office last week. The show, which has been widely successful, had been kept out of the top …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 11:00AMIt took Judi Dench's astonishing 1989 production of Look Back in Anger to give us the play that John Osborne actually wrote – a play, like Beckett's, about waiting Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMIt took Judi Dench's astonishing 1989 production of Look Back in Anger to give us the play that John Osborne actually wrote – a play, like Beckett's, about waitingBritish theatre is full o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMHey, don't blame me. I wanted to play Will It Recoup. After all, we've done it for three years in a row, and I have just as much fun as you do trying my luck at "Fantasy Broadway".…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 1312012 - 272012.
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Stern Grove Festival, the country's longest running admission-free outdoor music festival, has announced the season it has planned to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
The celebration wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMA clip of Thames Television's 1989 production of John Osborne's play starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMGet a taste of Judi Dench's classic 1989 production of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, starring Kenneth Branagh as Jimmy Porter and Emma Thompson as his wife Alison. This small-scree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMLast night was the premiere of the highly-anticipated musical drama SMASH, and according to published reports, the show is off to a great start when it comes to ratings. SMASH ended up with …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMA New York ensemble is to stage an eight-hour production of The Great Gatsby, as part of the London International Festival of Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMAs first reported on Deadline.com, feature film director Adam Shankman has signed on to direct Hilary Winston's yet untitled comedy pilot for the NBC network.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMTony Award winner Sir Elton John will be among the performers at London's Buckingham Palace on June 4 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, according to published repo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMMy brother just found this curio in the house where we grew up. He writes: Do you know anyone in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:52AMAyckbourn's "House & Garden" To Be Presented Simultaneously In 2 TheatersWilliam Shakespeare's "King Lear" will kick off the 2012-13 season at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AM"The Book of Mormon" took in approximately $1.5 million for the week ending Sunday. "Wicked" brought in a little more than $1.3 million while "Spider-Man" grossed a little less than $1.3 mil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMIntiman Theatre has met its pledge goal of 1 million., and as a result the Intiman Board of Trustees has voted to reopen Intiman and move forward with production of the 2012 Intiman Theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMBroadway veteran and rock music superstar Madonna will launch a new live tour on May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The tour, which will include selections from her soon-to-be-released CD MDNA, wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMThe San Diego Theatre Critics Circle named The Old Globe's 2011 production of Tracy Letts' drama August: Osage County the Outstanding Dramatic Production in the 10th annual Craig Noe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMSUBMISSIONS ONLY is in the thick of shooting Season 2, and BroadwayWorld was on hand for the production's latest shoot with Broadway favorites Marc Kudisch, Cass Morgan, Bryce Ryness and mor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMGet SMASH-ed. Last night, NBC unveiled the most sparkling, dazzling jewel of many a TV season with the hotly anticipated debut of the new musical dramedy series SMASH. Hatched from an idea b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMMike Daisey's acclaimed monologue about the late Apple CEO will be shown as part of HighTide festival for emerging playwrights in May, alongside a debut play by Laura PoliakoffAn off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMAlex Parker Productions will present Brava, an evening of musical theatre tunes featuring a 62-piece orchestra and over 70 singers, April 1 at G LIVE in Guildford, UK.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMTheatreworks USA has just announced the complete lineup for its upcoming 50th Anniversary Celebration gala, set for this Sunday, February 12, 2012 at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMFrank Strausser’s new off-Broadway comedy Psycho Therapy opens February 7 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Directed by Alex Lippard, the limited engagement will continue through February 25…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:34AMWe knew when we walked into the Kennedy Center Family Theater space, this was not going to be an ordinary play. And when the central character, Ikarus, appeared, we just knew this was no…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMThe winners of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle's 2011 Craig Noel Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on Monday, February 6 at the Museum of Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMUpdated casting has been announced for Theatreworks USA's 50th Anniversary Celebration will take place on Sunday, February 12 at 6pm at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. This…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AMThe story of the controversial Mad Monk, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is now the subject of the new rock musical Brother Russia, which makes its world premiere at the Tony Award-winning Signa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMThe board of Seattle's Intiman Theatre announced Feb. 6 that the Tony Award-winning institution has raised the $1 million needed to reopen its doors this summer with a four-play summer f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMAlso Cast Is Thomas LevertonJonathan Epstein, a frequent actor in the Massachusetts Berkshires, stars as abstract artist Mark Rothko in John Logan 's Tony Award-winning play "Red." The…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:26AMGet top price tickets for THE FITZROVIA RADIO HOUR at the Ambassadors Theatre on 14,21, 28 February and 6 March for just £15
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:23AMThe world of theater has always had a wee bit of difficulty surviving in the mainstream media. Hollywood actors have crossed over to the theater world and vice versa to help engage a newfoun…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:21AMTrinity Repertory Company has announced its 2012-2013 season, helmed by artistic director Curt Columbus.
The season, which will celebrate the notion of epics, will kick off with Shakespeare…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMJim Parsons, who is starring in the upcoming Broadway production of Harvey, appeared on NBC's The Ellen DeGeneres Show on yesterday, February 6th. While he was there, Ellen decided to help h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMThree arts projects are helping people across the Twin Cities cope with the stresses of illness and age, providing therapy whose ripples reach beyond the artist.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:13AMAlan Alda, Jamie Bernstein, Boyd Gaines, Sheldon Harnick, Helen Hunt, Linda Lavin, Patti LuPone, and Faith Prince will be among the artists paying tribute to Mary Rodgers Guettel at The Juil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMThe Juilliard School will honor longtime Juilliard trustee and patron of the arts, and former Chair of the Juilliard Board, Mary Rodgers Guettel, with a gala evening, Hail Mary!, April 30 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMHighTide Festival Theatre has announced the lineup of works that will comprise its HideTide Festival, to run May 3-13 and include the European premiere of Mike Daisey's acclaimed The Ag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01AMTony Danza will star in the upcoming musical adaptation of “Honeymoon in Vegas.” After a run in Toronto later this year, the musical is expected to make its Broadway debut in the spring …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AM
The inaugural production of Katori Hall’s Hurt Village begins previews February 7 at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at off-Broadway’s new Signature Center. The Signature Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:59AM The Tony Award® winning production of Bette Midler’s hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT hosted a very special surprise on stage engagement at the Palace Theatre recently when Na…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:57AMDisney's The Lion King will return to Australia in December 2013, performing at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.
Based on the 1994 animated film, the musical was originally adapted by di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMAfter successful engagements off-Broadway and at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Venus in Fur, starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, is set to re-open on Broadway. The sexy David Ives …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:55AMThe Tony-winning musical The Lion King will return to Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMEncores! Production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes will feature Megan Hilty, previously seen in Wicked and 9 to 5. The soon to be sensation stars in the upcoming musical series “Smash” on N…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:51AMValentine’s Day is all about romance, so Broadway.com decided to collect romantic stories (and ideas for celebrating the national day of love) from some of the most passionate people w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:50AMThe Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic will present a comedy benefit, February 20 at 7pm at The Laugh Factory.
The comedians featured at the event will include Billy Gardell of Mike and Molly, Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMThe Intiman Theater, which has been under financial duress for a year, said that it had raised over $1 million in pledges and would present a four-play season in the summer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:46AMMaltz Jupiter Theatre has announced the productions set for its 2012/2013 10th anniversary season, which will run October-March.
The season will begin with Amadeus (October 30-November 11),…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:46AMEd Murray/The Star-Ledger Playwright and actress Danai Gurira explores her Zimbabwean identity in âThe Convert,â being staged at McCarter Theatre in Princeton With melodious, crisp…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:45AMLast night was the premiere of the highly-anticipated musical drama SMASH In case you missed any of this exciting debut episode, BWW offers you a 'SMASH-Peat' of all the show's musical perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMThe 2012-2013 Mirvish season was unveiled Monday morning, and it features the world premiere of Honeymoon in Vegas, an all Canadian cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Wizard of Oz, Book of Mormon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMMusic director Gustavo Dudamel and president Deborah Borda have announced the 2012-13 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AMMusic director Gustavo Dudamel and president Deborah Borda have announced the 2012-13 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMPaula Vogel's award-winning 1997 play is receiving its first professional production since it premiered 15 years ago at the Vineyard Theater. Second Stage Theatre …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:38AMPerformer and songwriter Nick Blaemire, along with the songwriting teams of Kyle Ewalt and Michael I. Walker and Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, will take part in Behind the Musica-al: T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMStage and television star and recording artist Paul Nicholas will direct a new musical version of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, at The Charing Cross Theatre in London, April 5-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMWe’ve been debating this on the Twitter for ages, but we think its time to formalize our research. So. In the wake of the Smash premiere, it’s time for us to just come out and ask…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:29AMCharles Dickens: Tuesday marks the bicentennial of Charles Dickens' birth. Britain's National Film Theatre is holding a retrospective, and a ceremony will be held at London's Westminster Abb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27AMJosh Young makes his Broadway debut as Judas Iscariot in The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of Jesus Christ Superstar directed by Des McAnuff at The Neil Simon Theatre. Preview …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26AMSurreal one-liners and juvenile humour abound in this look at the early, anarchic days of Stewart Lee and Richard Herring"It's not as good as I remember it," says the Stewart Lee quote on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth was honored at the Drama League's 28th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway on Monday, February 6 at the Pierre Hotel.
The evening featured perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:20AMVictor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, and Thomas Young will perform Three Tenors in Harlem at The Faison Firehouse Theater, February 10-12.
The show will feature selections that come from the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:18AMNOW.HERE.THIS., which last year received a Developmental Lab Production at The Vineyard - will be given a fully staged, world-premiere production with previews beginning March 7 prior to an …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMMadani Younis, the incoming artistic director of London's Bush Theatre (he has succeeded Josie Rourke), has announced his inaugural season at the helm of the influential West Londo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company has announced casting for Bruce Graham's The Outgoing Tide, to run March 23 - April 22. James J. Christy will direct the production.
Graham's play, s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:11AMLast night was the premiere of the highly-anticipated musical drama SMASH Now that viewers had their first look at the show, NBC offers a preview of what's to come during the upcoming season…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMThe role of sexuality and tragedy in Samuel Beckett’s work is receiving new attention. Published by Palgrave just last year, Paul Stewart’s Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett&#…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:06AMFarah Alvin, D.C. Anderson, George Dvorsky, and Terri White will star in Broadway Ballyhoo at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Thursday, February 9 at 11pm.
Produced and hosted by Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:03AM
ABC Family will move forward with the new drama Bunheads, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As previously reported, Sutton Foster stars in the show, slated to air in September, which has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMABC Family will move forward with the new drama Bunheads, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As previously reported, Sutton Foster stars in the show, slated to air in September, which has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMChelsey's Two Truths and a Lie Reveal
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:50AMThe UK's sixth annual HighTide Festival, to be held in Halesworth in Suffolk from May 3-13, will feature 18 world and European premieres, including Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMMaster Class, which stars Tyne Daly as opera legend Maria Callas, opens tonight (7 February 2012, previews from 21 January) at the Vaudeville Theatre having transferred to the West End from …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:49AMThe Old Globes 2011 production of Tracy Letts drama August Osage County was the leading honoree at the San Diego Theatre Critics Circles 10th annual Craig Noel Awards ceremony, held Monday a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:49AMby Michael Wheeler The movement to work outside strictly partisan lines to take Parliament back from a Harper Conservative Party supported by a minority of Canadians has been bolstered recen…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:47AMThe 28th Annual Drama League Benefit Gala, A Musical Celebration of Broadway Honoring Kristin Chenoweth, was held on February 6, 2012 at the famed Pierre Hotel in New York City. Check out ph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMINTERVIEW: SIMON STEPHENS The award-winning playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about his new play, The Trial of Ubu, which is currently at the Hampstead Theatre in a production directed by Kati…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 08:41AM"If Shakespeare saw most of the productions of his work today, he'd probably say: 'Roland Emmerich was right. Edward de Vere actually wrote this.' "-Michael Musto (h/t Charles McNulty)
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:37AMThe Drama League's annual benefit gala, this year entitled A Musical Celebration of Broadway Honoring Tony and Emmy Award Winner Kristin Chenoweth, was presented Feb. 6 at the Pierre Hot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AMWith Hull Truck's new production of adolescent drama DNA currently on tour, actress Leah Brotherhead talks hectic touring schedules and inspiring young audiences.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:22AMHomer’s Odyssey is the epic Greek poem of King Odysseus’s 20-year journey to return to his homeland and wife Penelope. He meets goddesses, kills a Cyclops, survives PoesidenR…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:09AMAlfred Enoch and Joel Samuels star as psychologically damaged brothers in the UK premiere of Brendon Cowell’s play. Described as “a dark Australian comedy with extra BBQ sauce”, the th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMPhiladelphoa native Francis Wilson (born this day in 1854) got his start in minstrelsy and old school variety as one of half of the blackface team of Mackin and Wilson. He’s not part o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AMA part in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play is usually reason to rejoice. So it might be surprising that Elizabeth Reaser was frightened when she first found out she had scored the starring role…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMThe popular star discusses her latest stand-up gigs, her reality show Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best, and covering the Oscars and Grammys for E's Fashion Police.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Winter holds a certain charm before the holidays, with turkeys and caroling and gifts and gift-wrapping. But then comes months of gray skies and tax season. The soul begins to demand summe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58AMOn the February 13th episode of NBC's new musical drama series SMASH entitled 'Callbacks', Ivy Megan Hilty and Karen Katharine McPhee jump through hoops for the brilliant but temperamental d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52AMT Charles EricksonBob Ari, right, and Randy Harrison face off as painter Mark Rothko and his assistant in âRedâ at the George Street Playhouse. While any actor loves to get exit ap…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMSex With A Stranger, a new play by writer and comedian Stefan Golaszewski starring Russell Tovey, Jaime Winstone and Naomi Sheldon opened at Trafalgar Studios 2 last night (6 February, previ…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:45AMToday we celebrate the 200th birthday of one of my favorite writers (and no doubt the favorite writer of a couple of billion others), Charles Dickens. As the photo above records, I made a pi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:35AMDirector Elizabeth Lucas has tried to turn Adam Guettel's 1998 song cycle into a musical by adding a narrative, but her ambitious and undeniably inventive attempt is not theatrically satis…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMMarius von Mayenburg's sharp satire on the nature of identity and the inescapable human bent for conformity is a wicked piece of japery that elegantly makes its points in one breezy hour.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMMarie Cahill (born this day in 1870) was one of the great transitional figures from the age of 19th century theatre to the vaudeville era. A Brooklyn native, she started out in legit theatre…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMYou'll get more laughs by watching clips from classic TV sitcoms on YouTube than you will from 90 minutes of misery at Frank Strausser's flimsy excuse for a play.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMPlaywright Kate Fodor mixes strong dosages of satire and pathos in this piercing new comedy about our overmedicated society. It's the perfect prescription for an anemic theater season.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMThis dramatization of nine short stories by Anton Chekhov has fluid staging, aptly defined performances, handsome period costumes, and evocative music, but soul is in short supply.
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Garrow's Law, the BBC1 drama created by Tony Marchant, has been axed by the Corporation after three series.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMMadani Younis has unveiled his inaugural season as artistic director of London's Bush Theatre, saying he intends to take more work "beyond the building".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMThis year's HighTide Festival will feature 18 premieres, a significant expansion that has been made possible as a result of the company becoming one of the arts council's national portfolio …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMA Tale of Two Cities, a new musical of Charles Dickens' novel, is to open at London's Charing Cross Theatre, beginning performances April 5 prior to an official opening April 17, for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AMThe singular comic talents of Stefan Golaszewski are mostly expended on works for television - as in Him & Her, a sitcom that applies Royle Family techniques to twentysomething slackerdo…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:21AMSex With A Stranger, a new play by writer and comedian Stefan Golaszewski starring Russell Tovey, Jaime Winstone and Naomi Sheldon opened at Trafalgar Studios 2 last night (6 February, previ…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:17AMA new musical production of A Tale of Two Cities is to run in London later this spring, and will be directed by actor Paul Nicholas.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMTheater people want every performance to be memorable for each new audience. But the pressure really mounts when a theater celebrity is in the audience, as was the case Sunday when Sir Steph…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:09AM...at least according to Alabama State Senator Shadrack McGill:Teachers need to make the money that they need to make. There needs to be a balance there. If you double what you're paying edu…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMMadani Younis has announced his first season as artistic director of the Bush Theatre at its new home on Uxbridge road.
Highlights include Lee Mattinson’s Chalet Lines presented in a …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:05AMI have to confess I was about five minutes in to Dennis Kelly’s DNA last night, before I concluded, definitively, that I had seen it before. Four years ago, it was part of the Connections …
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Memo to theater companies specializing in the classics: Take a cue from Marvell Rep. The troupe’s second season doesn’t have a Shakespeare, Chekhov or Shaw in the bunch — just six cont…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:48AMBy Peter Filichia --
I received a nice e-mail from Elliot J. Cohen, who’d read my “A Tale of Three Dollys” a few weeks ago. In it, I wondered why Carol Channing on the original Broa…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:47AMI have been following The Producer’s Perspective, the blog of Broadway producer Ken Davenport, for a number of years now. While I don’t have solid evidence, I suspect he is not l…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:10AMTwo-time Tony winner Sutton Foster will soon be starring in her own TV show. Bunheads, the ABC Family pilot that she headlines from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, has been pick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08AMActor, Director, Playwright, Teacher New York, New York USA Reading— A Love Story I love reading—That solo escape into other times, countries, people, and events; time spent in solitude…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMOn The ROC And Le P'tit QuébecThe dangers of villageryBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisA Facebook friend of mine made a surprising statement this week. "What happens in the ROC doesn't interest me."…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), begins Feb. 7 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Bill Pullman, Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award nominee Kathryn Erbe, curently back onstage in Daniel Talbott's Yosemite at the Rattlestick Theater, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage tr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping." Jonathan...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMPrimary Stages' world premiere of Kate Fodor's comedy Rx, starring Tony Award nominee Stephen Kunken, Marylouise Burke and Marin Hinkle, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 7 after pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSignature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is unveiled to the public Feb. 7 with the first performance o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGirlfriend, composer-lyricist Todd Almond's musical based on Matthew Sweet's 1991 album of the same name, gets a one-night-only concert staging at Joe's Pub Feb. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe City of Lights welcomes the humans and puppets of Avenue Q, the Tony-winning musical by Jeff Whitty, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, beginning Feb. 7 at the Bobino in Paris.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNick Jonas, currently starring in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is joined by Charlotte St. Martin (executive director of the Broadway League), Jor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPsycho Therapy, the world-premiere comedy by Frank Stausser, starring Jeffrey Carlson and Angelica Page, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVenus in Fur, David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel, begins a commercial run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTyne Daly opens officially in Terrence McNally's Master Class, reprising the role of Maria Callas that she has played in Washington, DC and on Broadway last year, at the West End's V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe monthly roundup of London's theatrical events past, present and future includes a peek into the Young Vic, the National, the Noel Coward and the Rose.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFor anyone who has ever squeezed into the sausage skin of a leotard, hobbled funk-less through a hip-hop combination or been chastised for poor posture in a ballet class, comedian Jen Childs…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWhat was not to love about Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's succulent dance foray among the hallmark composers known as the three B's -- Bach, Beethoven and Brahms? Called "Uncommon," it wasn't a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNothing seems as fascinating to a middle-aged American male as the guy himself. Examples abound, so I'll leave Charlie Sheen alone, but for an evening's immersion in this area of self-absorp…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe musical A Man of No Importance features music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally. It tells a touching tale about a man struggling with his sexualit…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMYou may leave Kate Fodor's Rx, a comedy about the relationships people have with one another and their pharmaceutical drugs, feeling a bit drowsy. Weariness is indeed a side effect of this o…
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