Bricken Sparacino is a performer, writer, and director. She has collaborated with several solo performers to help develop and to direct their shows. Bricken has written numerous comedy sket…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM[SHARE]Chris Harcum is an actor and playwright. Over 20 of his works have been seen on NYC stages. He has performed in many of his own works and has worked as a teaching artist. With director Aimee…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hartford's Restructured Bated Breath Has New Artistic Director  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDaniel Davis , veteran actor o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will open its Distinctively Dutch Festival Saturday at the Byham Theater, Downtown, with the U.S. premiere of Dance Works Rotterdam's "ANATOMICA" -- a piece in …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wunderbaum theater company has played everywhere from an outdoor plaza in Tehran to railway stations in Flanders, Belgium.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]A half-dozen theaterworks that were born in the USA, starting with the Garson Kanin comedy "Born Yesterday" and including the return
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]On Feb. 16 the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell welcomes "Late Show with David Letterman" musical director Paul Shaffer, who was conductor of the original Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Three by Three in Rep, world-premiere plays by Curt Columbus, George Brant and Deborah Salem Smith, begins performances Feb. 16 at the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The American premiere of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes, about a young deaf man and his dysfunctional family, begins Off-Broadway previews Feb. 16 at the Barrow Street …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pittsburgh Public Theater's 2012-13 season will feature titles under the umbrella of "Made in America," sheltering works "by American writers and composers and set in citi…
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With 15 young talents who can act, sing and dance, the forthcoming 'Newsies' musical should expand Broadway's pool of future leading men capable of double turns.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:44PM[SHARE]Citi Pond at Bryant Park, Broadway's SISTER ACT amp God's Love We Deliver host Nuns On Ice, Feb.16th from 530 p.m. to 630 p.m. The first 100 people to rent skates during the event will recei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37PM[SHARE]This week on AMERICAN IDOL, the 185 remaining contestants are to be whittled down with both group numbers and solo performances. As the groups prepare to perform, some singers oversleep whil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18PM[SHARE]It's official. According to Deadline Hollywood, Meryl Streep will play Violet Weston and Julia Roberts will play Weston's adult daughter, Barbara, in the film version of the Tony Award-winni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07PM[SHARE]"It's many things " informative, well directed (by David Leveaux), well designed, and reasonably well acted " but exciting it is not."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PM[SHARE]Jack Canfora's taut tale of family deceit receives an exemplary production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Gabe McKinley's play, inspired by the plagiarism scandal surrounding New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, only partially taps into the story's dramatic potential.
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Veteran playwright Joanna McClelland Glass is one of those proven practitioners whose dramaturgical credentials are well established.Veteran playwright Joanna McClelland Glass is one of thos…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58PM[SHARE]Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, featuring Emmy-winning actor William Shatner, officially opens at Broadway's Music Box Theatre Feb. 16 at 8 PM following previews that began Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46PM[SHARE]Megan Hilty - "Let Me Be Your Star" [Live @ New Year´s Eve with Carson Daly]
Broadway actress Megan Hilty, one of the stars of the NBC hit show SMASH, fights the freezing we…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:40PM[SHARE]Blonde Ambition, a one-night-only concert featuring some of "Young Broadway’s favorite blondes," featuring Hunter Ryan Herdlicka and Ryah Nixon and more, was held Feb. 6 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:37PM[SHARE]Who'd have thought that a long-gone turning point in the story of cinema would be the high-concept theme of the 2011/2012 season? Hard on the heels of The Artist, the lauded silent movie, in…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32PM[SHARE]"Buddha -- A Fantastic Journey" borrows the ancient spiritual leader's own words to trace the progression of his life and philosophy."Buddha -- A Fantastic Journey" borrows the ancient spiri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:28PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Higher, American Conservatory Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
American Conservatory Theater doesn't do new plays all the time, but it likes to throw the occasional worl…
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Let’s pause this Chicago theatre discussion for something much more important and topical. I’m one of those people who goes around saying snobby things like, “I don’t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 07:32PM[SHARE]By Byrne Harrison
Cameron J. Marcotte's principle concern in creating theatre is the "here and now." To him, theatre must have an immediate and truthful impact on the audience and the artis…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:31PM[SHARE]Now playing at the Sierra Madre Playhouse is a very funny play featuring a great cast and a superb set (designed by Adam Smith). Twentieth Century, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (adapte…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PM[SHARE]Dance Moms - Season 2 Episode 6 - Wardrobe Malfunction - Todrick Hall Recap
Dance Moms Season 2 Episode 6 - "Wardrobe Malfunction" In this episode of FYI, Todrick Hall recaps ever…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:22PM[SHARE]OPENING ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE. Theatre at the Center presents the musical based on the true story of country legend Patsy Cline and her most devoted fan. Directed by Brian Russell. Preview F…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:14PM[SHARE]On Friday, March 16th, George Morfogen and Jim Stanek are set to join the cast of Off-Broadway's award-winning hit FREUD'S LAST SESSION as Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis respectively. Origina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:13PM[SHARE]When I named "The White City: The Columbian Exposition of 1893," the best dance event of 2011, I had every expectation that this 50-minute multimedia story ballet " co-choreographed by Tony …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:12PM[SHARE]In the town of Winchester in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, there is a gravestone that probably says it best: "Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies: Love." It is a tribute marker to the late, gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:06PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for a new U.K. regional production of Gypsy at Leicester Curve that begins performances March 10, prior to an official opening March 15, for a run through Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:04PM[SHARE]Riots and protests by the disaffected poor, with the looming spectre of "mob rule", have often troubled MPs and lords at Westminster. No lawmaker, though, has ever raised his voice on behalf…
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Adam Garcia is to return to the U.K. theatrical stage to star as Bill Calhoun/Lucentio in the new production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, beginning performances at Chichester Festival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48PM[SHARE]"Buddha -- A Fantastic Journey," Evan Brenner's solo performance show, opens at Bootleg Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:45PM[SHARE]The bank holding the mortgages on the Caldwell Theatre Company's building has filed a foreclosure complaint and asked the Palm Beach County Circuit Court to appoint a receiver to manage the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:41PM[SHARE]Before he was the object of teen crushes as one-third of The Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas was a working child star on Broadway. He has now returned to his stage roots as the lead in the Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:38PM[SHARE]According to Deadline.com, HBO has jumped on the Broadway bandwagon and recently bought a new theatre-themed comedy series titled '44th Street.' Created by NewsRadio's Paul Simms, the series…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PM[SHARE]Name: Alex DraperHometown(s): Middlebury, VT; Charlottesville, VAEducation: BA, Middlebury; MFA, YaleSelect Credits: A Map of Virtue (13P); Lovesong of the Electric Bear, Scenes From an Exec…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 06:15PM[SHARE]A beautiful young writer is torn between two lovers: the steady, dull provider and the flighty soul mate. Anais Nin, right?A beautiful young writer is torn between two lovers: the steady, du…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:09PM[SHARE]The city of Everett's new art center, open since April of last year, offers workshops, demonstrations, a gallery and affordable housing for artists.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:05PM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opens March 22, 2012 previ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PM[SHARE]SISTER ACT: Along For The Ride
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:02PM[SHARE]Prior to her appearance at Vancouver ComedyFest later this week, the comedian remembers when network comedy was ‘a guy’s thing’
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Stage veterans Zoe Kazan and Michael Stahl-David will star in the film, In Your Eyes, according to Deadline.com.
Joss Whedon has penned the screenplay, which is described as "a metaphy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PM[SHARE]From James P. Johnson to Thelonious Monk to Jason Moran, inspired mentors carry the past into the future.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:51PM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals will soon feature Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, in the coveted role of Mame Dennis in Mame at the Goodspeed Opera House beginning April 20th, and she will be well-dress…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PM[SHARE]Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Today's Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PM[SHARE]HBO has bought 44th Street, a new Broadway-themed TV comedy by Paul Simms (NewsRadio), according to Deadline.com. Broadway was also the inspiration for the rejected 2010 HBO p…
SOURCE: fortlauderdale.broadway.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]HBO has bought 44th Street, a new Broadway-themed TV comedy by Paul Simms (NewsRadio), according to Deadline.com. Broadway was also the site of the rejected 2010 HBO pilot&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, in association with Angelo Fraboni, Peter Martin, Rick Newman, Eugene Pack, and Dayle Reyfel, will present Celebrity Autobiography on Monday, February 27, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Savion Glover will bring his evening of dance and music SoLe SANCTUARY: A hoofer’s meditation on the art of tap to Washington, DC's Warner Theatre March 30-31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PM[SHARE]"Tokio Confidential" at Atlantic Stage 2 is a comically lurid tale that bases several characters' names on those in James's "Portrait of a Lady."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PM[SHARE]In today's Age, critic Cameron Woodhead buys into the recent controversy around Shit on Your Play. For once, a sensible, informed piece about theatre blogging in the mainstream press. As he …
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 05:03PM[SHARE]San Francisco audiences will receive a visit from the well-dressed boys of the nine-time Tony Award-winning hit The Book of Mormon, which will play the Curran Theatre this November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]The Public Theater celebrates their 50th Anniversary season of the Delacorte Theater with Shakespeare in the Park!           AS YOU LIKE IT     …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:01PM[SHARE]Beth Henley's new The Jacksonian opens tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. The three women in the cast -- Amy Madigan, Glenne Headly and Bess Rous -- gather to discuss the evil that permeates t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were thrown off their island to make way for a US military base. Lyn Gardner on how their story was made into a playHow wou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were thrown off their island to make way for a US military base. Lyn Gardner on how their story was made into a play Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]Margaret Gray reviews the Little Beast Theatre Company's production of "Mine" at the Elephant Lab Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]
Justin Kirk will return to Showtime's Weeds, reprising his work as Andy Botwin, for its eighth season, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The actor is currently starring on Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PM[SHARE]In Jim Findlay's "Botanica," at the 3LD Art and Technology Center, scientists grow a little too close to the flora they're experimenting with.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:56PM[SHARE]Stage actors and married couple Jenny Powers and Matt Cavenaugh surprised the Feb. 13 audience at Birdland with some good news: The Broadway favorites are expecting their first child.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PM[SHARE]Members of the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along reunited (with Stephen Sondheim, too) at a reception prior to the Feb. 14 performance of the current Cit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Sylvia McNair will headline Chicago Opera Theater's 38th Anniversary Gala: A Celebration Less Ordinary, to be held on March 11 at Canivale.
McNair has performed h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PM[SHARE]HumanArts Theater Company has announced casting for its presentation of Arthur Miller's After the Fall, directed by RoZsa Horvath. The production will play Elephant Stages, Lillian Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PM[SHARE]Erez Ziv curated The FRIGID New York Collection — 15 plays from previous incarnations of this winter festival. Included in this group are two of the playwrights who also grace th…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 04:35PM[SHARE]According to Deadline.com, OTHER DESERT CITIES star Justin Kirk has signed on for the eighth season of Showtime's 'Weeds.' Kirk plays 'Andy' in the series, which will ikey eneter its final s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PM[SHARE]The Wicker Man is a cult horror classic. Are the team of Scots who have turned the film into a musical " and rejigged its shocking ending " worried about offending fans?The Wicker Man is eas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM[SHARE]Also in Michael Harris’s weekly picks: Calendar Girls, Chelsea Hotel, Intimate Apparel, The Silicone Diaries
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:31PM[SHARE]Playbill.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 04:30PM[SHARE]In its first formal move outside North America, The Second City is joining with Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd., one of Japan's largest TV producers, talent managers and entertainment companies, i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:28PM[SHARE],Collaboraction has extended Carlos Murillo's dark play or stories for boys. The production, directed by Anthony Moseley, will now run through March 11 at the Flat Iron Building.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:23PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony winner and Anything Goes star Sutton Foster knows a little something about Broadway, so when TV's Project Runway All Stars needed some expertise for their upcoming Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theater, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, will present the third event in the series, TCG Playwr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:20PM[SHARE]JITNEY - Audience Reactions
August Wilson's JITNEY at Two River Theater Company
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Runs: January 29 - February 25, 2012
Tickets: http://www.trtc.org
Fr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:13PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Don Gregory, is thrilled to announce the full company for the new Broadway production of Mary Chases Harvey starring Jim Parsons Elwood P. Dowd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM[SHARE]Broadway vet Carol Kane and two-time Tony nominee Larry Bryggman will join previously announced stars Jim Parsons, Jessica Hecht and Charles Kimbrough in the upcoming Roundabout Theatre…
SOURCE: fortlauderdale.broadway.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]Broadway vet Carol Kane and two-time Tony nominee Larry Bryggman will join previously announced stars Jim Parsons, Jessica Hecht and Charles Kimbrough in the upcoming Roundabout Theatre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company has announced full casting for its Broadway revival of Mary Chase's Harvey, to play Studio 54. Scott Ellis will direct the production, which will begin previe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM[SHARE]
Off-Broadway’s renowned Labyrinth Theater Company is welcoming 14 new members to the company including comedian Chris Rock (The Motherf**ker With The Hat) and Ethan Hawk…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]The complete company of the new Broadway production of Harvey starring Jim Parsons includes Larry Bryggman, Peter Benson, Tracee Chimo, Holley Fain, Angela Paton, Rich Sommer, Morgan Spector…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Get ready, Star Trek fans: Captain James Kirk is about to spill his secrets on a Broadway stage. William Shatner is back on the boards at the Music Box Theatre for 19 performances Shatner&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]The Twin Cities might seem dormant; and indeed, they spend half the year frozen and buried under feet of snow. But these cities " my cities " are not sleeping. The art we make here is innova…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:46PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which myths emerge from a pool of water, will open the Lookingglass Theatre's 25th anniversary…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]South Coast Repertory has announced casting for its revival of Donald Margulies' Sight Unseen, an SCR-commissioned play that had its world premiere at SCR 20 seasons ago. David Emmes wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PM[SHARE]Nick Jonas makes climbing the corporate ladder look simple in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but as a diabetic, starring on Broadway is especially challenging. On February…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]As previously announced, Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PM[SHARE]The Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along got a very special visit from some “old friends” when members of the show's original 1981 Broadway cast and composer Stephen …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PM[SHARE]Labyrinth Theater Company has inducted fourteen new members into its company of actors, directors, playwrights and designers .
The new Labyrinth members are performers Max Casella, Rosal …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PM[SHARE]on Thirteen: Fri., February 24th at 1:30 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., February 25th at 8:30 PM Sun., February 26th at 12:30 PM and Mon., February 27th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM A…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 03:27PM[SHARE]Stage and television star Neil Patrick Harris will join Kelly Ripa's as co-host on Live! With Kelly when the syndicated show broadcasts from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highlan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PM[SHARE]Our SPRING SEASON PREVIEW is now online. Click Here to Watch!
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 03:25PM[SHARE]Ava Jenkins and Adam Kemmerer will play the title roles in Castillo Theatre's production of the Fred Newman-Annie Roboff musical revival, Sally and Tom (The American Way), to run Febru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PM[SHARE]Theater Alliance will present the area premiere of How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, written by Fin Kennedy and directed by Artistic Director Colin Hovde. The play will perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PM[SHARE]"Call Me Adam" chats with Broadway's Shelley Thomas and Jason Wooten about their upcoming participation in "Broadway Rox," on February 17 and 18 at Queens Theatre, a two-day event celebratin…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 03:12PM[SHARE]ART Education Experience/Community Connections 2012
A.R.T. outreach programs provide an unprecendented level of access to A.R.T. artists and productions.
We believe a great arts experience…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:09PM[SHARE]We mourn the passing of Williamson Music writer Dory Previn Shannon, who died this morning. Â Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner, this lyricist/composer/novelist/author/playwright…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 03:06PM[SHARE]Arts Desk won't make a habit of reporting on season announcements this year—there are, after all, more than 70 professional theater companies in the D.C. area. But Arena's unveiling of…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:03PM[SHARE]For those who enjoy sad stories, even a good cry, Eveoke
Dance Theatre’s Reflections will be a potent elixir.
Resident choreographer Ericka Aisha Moore teams with
visual artists …
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Andrew Keenan-Bolger, who will star as Crutchie in the upcoming Disney musical Newsies, has released the first part of his "Meet the Newsies" video series. Here, he describes his r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, were reunited at New …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PM[SHARE]After winning major acclaim with a revival of Lynn Ahrens' and Stephen Flaherty's musical, Ragtime, the Landor Theatre is to present the European premiere of the composing duo&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:46PM[SHARE]Last night's remarkable performance by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Davies Symphony Hall as part of the San Francisco Symphony's American Orchestras series for its cen…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:44PM[SHARE]A coalition of performers complains that except for a handful of shows, Asian-American actors have had dramatically more trouble landing parts than their white, black and Latino colleagues. …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:43PM[SHARE]Once upon a time, Asian-American artists would have taken their anger to the streets.
That's what happened in 1990, when Asian-American actors, outraged over a Caucasian actor's yellowface p…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:43PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway production, Growing Up Gonzales has been extended through March 31, at The Jan Hus Playhouse.
Written and directed by Felix Roja, the solo show is a bittersweet comedy o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PM[SHARE]Watch all of these livestreamed events on #NEWPLAY TV’s channel page over here:Â newplaytv.info & Organize, host, or crash your own local community’s WATCH PARTIES for thes…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:41PM[SHARE]Screen star and Broadway veteran Chris Rock has been added to the list of presenters for the 84th Annual Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PM[SHARE]Actor who alternated roles on stage with Benedict Cumberbatch will play version of same Conan Doyle character in ElementaryLast year Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch shared a presti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PM[SHARE]Broadway Bound? Matthew Freeman on Mike Daisey: How is it possible that The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is not Broadway bound? Among its list of accomplishments are inspiring the mos…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:30PM[SHARE]Updated casting has been announced for the Shakespeare's Globe production of Twelfth Night, to run September 22 - October 14. As previously reported, Tim Carroll will direct.
In addit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PM[SHARE]Repertorio Español and Puerto Rico's Boundless Theater Company will tour its adaptation of Nobel Prize of Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PM[SHARE]Tomorrow, February 16, SHATNERS WORLD WE JUST LIVE IN IT will take audiences on a voyage through Shatners life and career, from Shakespearean stage actor to internationally known icon and ra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PM[SHARE]Orchard theatre, Dartford"Some people leave my show feeling hurt. Broken. Destroyed," says Reginald D Hunter, by way of an introduction. It's part of his considerable charisma, this offer of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PM[SHARE]Additional performances on February 23 and March 1 have been added to the run of My Tawny Valentine at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, which runs February 17-March 2.
Written by and starring O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PM[SHARE]William Shatner's SHATNER'S WORLD WE JUST LIVE IN IT began previews yesterday, February 14, opens February 16, and will play through March 4 at the Music Box Theater on Broadway before embar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PM[SHARE]Ricky Martin, who will star as Che in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita, visited "Good Morning America" to talk about his return to Broadway as well as his participation in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Broadway ticket sales were up by four percent last week, marking the first time this year that sales increased for the Great White Way.
Through the week ending February 5, gross ticket sale…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:12PM[SHARE]The modern-day British take on "Pygmalion" opens in a crisp production at Hedgerow Theatre. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Rose Valley in Delaware County.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:11PM[SHARE]Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterGoing back is not always a good idea " you never know what nasty surprises you might find lurking behind the sofa. The destructive past invades the damaged p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Sanaa Lathan and Anthony Mackie will host the the 43rd NAACP Image Awards ceremony to be held on February 17 at the Shrine Auditorium and broadcast on NBC.
Lathan received a Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PM[SHARE]By now, I'm sure you've heard, the Grammy Award winning singer, Whitney Houston died on February 11 at the age of 48. Currently, a stage adaptation of The Bodyguard is in production, which m…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:06PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce that WIT, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow will extend at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:05PM[SHARE]MIGHTY MINNIE: Minnie Driver,
award-winning actress and vocalist, will headline the annual
Illumination gala to benefit Siteman Cancer Center and the
Washington University medical school on …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:04PM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Matilda — The Musical, based on the 1988 Roald Dahl novel, is currently playing to acclaim at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce that WIT, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow will extend at MTCs Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The limite…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway revival of Wit, starring Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, will play seven additional performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Lynne Meadow’s pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Wit has extended, and will now play the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre through March 17.
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM[SHARE]
Jordan Elgalby"Sarah"s War is this week's Pick. Go to the jump for all other new stage reviews.​The nominees for the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards will be posted Wednesday ev…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:59PM[SHARE]First-rate production at the Fox is full of thrilling dance and
music.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:59PM[SHARE]Director Joe Dowling today announced the three plays that will comprise the Guthrie's 2012 celebration of British playwright, screenwriter and director Christopher Hampton.
In addition…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:58PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Wit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow, will get an extra week at MTC's Samuel J. Friedm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]After the death of recording legend Whitney Houston on February 11, Glee spotlighted the singer on the show's Valentine’s Day episode, which featured a previously filmed …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]I’m not sure who linked to this interview with Jennifer Egan, but I’ve just discovered it, even though it was done about a year ago. It’s pretty terrific, walking you throu…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:45PM[SHARE]The Book of Mormon, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical and the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play a strictly limited five-week engagement at the SHN C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PM[SHARE]George Morfogen and Jim Stanek will star as Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, respectively, in Freud's Last Session beginning March 16 at off-Broadway's New World Stages. The duo wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:41PM[SHARE]Howard Rosenman, executive producer of the upcoming feature film "Sparkle," which stars In the Heights' Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston, has plans to adapt the 2012 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]You guys, Elizaveta’s music is weird. Her album Beatrix Runs, which was physically released yesterday after arriving in digital form a few weeks ago, fuses opera, chamber pop, and elec…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 01:31PM[SHARE]Anat Cohen has earned a solid following among jazz fans in New
York. Whether she's playing saxophone or clarinet, Cohen brings to
her instrument the key values with which all memorable jazz …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:30PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: HBO has bought 44th Street, a Broadway-themed single-camera comedy from NewsRadio creator Paul Simms. It centers on two veteran theatre actors struggle to find success amidst a wo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:26PM[SHARE]Members of the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along reunited — with composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim — during the curtain call of the Feb. 14 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[SHARE]Meet the Newsies: Crutchie
Meet Andrew Keenan-Bolger, playing Crutchie in Disney's newest Broadway production, NEWSIES.
Join Andrew in a live YouTube chat along with other NEWSIES cas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner and Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth will soon star in GCB, premiering on CBS on Sunday, March 4 from 1000-1100 p.m., ET. The soap opera format returns to Dallas in this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PM[SHARE]When Ricky Martin isn’t preparing to star in Broadway’s Evita or dancing up a storm as a hot new Spanish teacher on Glee, he’s dedicated to raising money for people living …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:17PM[SHARE]Watch a clip from The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall with Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Bogess singing "Phantom of the Opera." The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:15PM[SHARE]It’s true! The Book of Mormon musical is coming to San Francisco starting November 2012. It is only playing for a limited five weeks and I’m sure will sell out in minutes (jus…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 01:14PM[SHARE]Rosie Benton’s backstage digs aren’t quite as luxurious as the Martha’s Vineyard home that serves as the setting for Stick Fly, but her Cort Theatre home has everything the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]George Morfogen and Jim Stanek will assume the roles of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis respectively in Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session, playing at New World Stages. They wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PM[SHARE]Carnegie Hall has announced that German cabaret vocalist Ute Lemper and Berlin's Vogler Quartet will be joined by pianist and clarinetist Stefan Malzew, as they play music of the Weimar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM[SHARE]
Legit Reviews||Abroad:
Excuse me, but isn't that a real live hen? Threatening to upstage everyone with an off-beat cluck, it really is a cheery hen tucked beneath the arm of cou…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56PM[SHARE]Performances have been added for David Drake's My Tawny Valentine on February 23 and March 1 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Written by Drake and directed by David Briggson, the pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Marius von Mayenburg's dark comedy "The Ugly One" at SoHo Rep mines the incestuous relationship between good looks and power.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:49PM[SHARE]Kristin Chenoweth is keeping herself pretty busy these days with the premiere of her latest TV series a few weeks away, but she and her GCB co-star Jennifer Aspen took a break to check out d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]SPARKLE will be released in theaters on August 24th by Sony Pictures, starring Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Carmen ejogo, Tika Sumpter, Omari Hardwick, Cee-Lo Green, and the now lat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a fully-staged, lavish 25th anniversary mounting of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running Broadway and West End extravaganza, comes to Great P…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:36PM[SHARE]Broadway veteran Kearran Giovanni will co-star in the new TNT series Major Crimes. The new series is a spin-off of the network’s award-winning drama The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]Last June, I found myself running the Power Point for a session at the TCG Conference in L.A. titled "What If…We Could Bridge the Divides? The Role of Theatre in Iraqi-US Reconciliation", …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:33PM[SHARE]What started out as a leadership class project for Betsy Nahum-Miller turned into an artist endeavor that would unite the Jewish and Muslim communities.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 12:29PM[SHARE]Douglas Hodge, Gina McKee, Charles Dance and Rupert Graves are to join Gabriel Byrne in the Channel 4 drama Coup.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PM[SHARE]The couch of Off-Broadway's Freud Last Session will get two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — starting March 16 at New World Stages. Ori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM[SHARE]The couch of Off-Broadway's Freud Last Session will get two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — starting March 16 at New World Stages. Ori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]The bad news? Alan Rickman is leaving the hit play "Seminar" on Broadway. The good news? Jeff Goldblum is taking over.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:19PM[SHARE]A-listers like 30 Rock star Cheyenne Jackson, Smash headliner Debra Messing and many more will come together to honor Tony winner Linda Lavin at the Vineyard Theatre’s 2012 Benefit Gal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]White Collar hunk Matt Bomer will guest star on an upcoming episode of Glee as Cooper Anderson, the older brother to Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss). The episode is speculated to feature…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PM[SHARE]Stephen Fry will return to the London stage, starring as Malvolio opposite Mark Rylance’s Olivia in Shakespeare's Globe's upcoming production of Twelfth Night.
The final production in…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:14PM[SHARE]The year was 1981. A 21-year-old actor named Lonny Price was cast as playwright-lyricist Charley Kringas in the new Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along – the la…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the musical,
Rent, to play Casa Mañana Theatre, March 3 - 11. Tim Bennett will direct and choreograph.
Set in the East Village of New York City, R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PM[SHARE]Peter Pan always did seem like a rather difficult creature, as far as immortals go. Anyone with such a steadfast refusal to mature or learn anything useful can't be entirely pleasant to be a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PM[SHARE]The Boston Youth Moves' 2012 Swellegance Gala Benefit will feature two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera performing songs from her legendary Broadway career in her own concert, Chita…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PM[SHARE]
Most of the original 2011 Stratford Shakespeare Festival cast of Jesus Christ Superstar will repeat their work in the Broadway engagement of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Oliver Tompsett made his West End debut in the Madness musical Our House before moving on to Mamma Mia! and a long run as Fiyero in Wicked. The engaging 30-year-old is now getting the vocal …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AM[SHARE]Director Joe Dowling today announced the three plays that will comprise the Guthries 2012 celebration of prolific British playwright, screenwriter and director Christopher Hampton. A Guthrie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AM[SHARE]Dressmaker and Friend to Mary Todd Lincoln Playwright-director Tazewell Thompson isn't the only theater artist who is inspired to create a stage work about the life of Elizabeth Keckly , …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:51AM[SHARE]The Jerome Robbins Dance Division Oral History Archive is home to unique and rare dance related audio recordings that capture the voices of dancers, choreographers, composers, ligh…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:50AM[SHARE]Adam Garcia will play Bill Calhoun in Trevor Nunn's upcoming revival of Kiss Me Kate at Chichester Festival Theatre, according to reports.
Australian Garcia made his London debut in 1993 wi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:48AM[SHARE]Havana Rumba! has been confirmed for this year's Udderbelly Festival, which returns to Southbank for its fourth consecutive summer and will be situated within the 'London Wondergro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:47AM[SHARE]According to reports from IMBd.com, Chris Colfer, famous for his portrayal of Kurt in Glee, will be starring alongside George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly and Martin Sheen for a one-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AM[SHARE]Teatro del Luna's winter season, entitled The Moon's Embrace, will run from February 23 through March 17.
El Inmigrante, by writer-performer César Meléndez, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AM[SHARE]If you're interested in dating arts-loving singles, there's no better dating service for you than LoveArts.com.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AM[SHARE]Here is the latest entry in BroadwayWorld's new weekly feature - STAGE ART. This week, it's all about SMASH
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM[SHARE]Josie Rourke makes it look easy with a blissfully funny revival of The Recruiting Officer. But that doesn't mean the pressure is offWhen Josie Rourke woke up this morning I would hazard a gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:39AM[SHARE]Whenever Dahvi Waller tells colleagues about her latest project they get jealous. Whenever Dahvi Waller tells colleagues about her latest project they get jealous.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:36AM[SHARE]Playing ingénue Cosette in the upcoming film adaptation of Les Miserables is more than just a plum role for Amanda Seyfried, it’s the realization of a life-long dream. In a rece…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]Canal Park Playhouse will present the world premiere of Stunt Lab, created and performed by Mark Heyward and Jonathan Burns. The show will begin performances on Saturday, March 10 for a limi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AM[SHARE]Artistic director Joe Dowling announced Feb. 15 the three plays that will comprise the Guthrie’s 2012 celebration of British playwright, screenwriter and director Christopher Hampton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Ambassadors, London: As we move irreversibly into the age of digital TV it is fun to be reminded of a simpler time when the sounds of drama were more important than the pictures.
Read the fu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AM[SHARE]The late Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston is perhaps remembered best by her soulful rendition of Dolly Parton's “I Will Always Love You,” from her blockbuster 1992 film,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Cast members from ABC's Grey's Anatomy will perform Grey's Anatomy: The Songs Beneath the Show, a live musical celebration to benefit The Actors Fund, at Royce Hall on the UCL…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AM[SHARE] Reviewed by: Linda Amiel Burns – February 13, 2012 The 12th season of the acclaimed Broadway By The Year concert series at The Town Hall began with "The Broadway Musicals…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:23AM[SHARE]Arena Stage's 2012-13 subscription season at The Mead Center for American Theater will include the world premiere of Cheryl L. West's Pullman Porter Blues, the Washington, DC, premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]How I learned to Drive, Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is being revived off-Broadway starrring Tony winning Broadway veteran Norbet Leo Butz and "Twilight" star El…
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:12AM[SHARE]The movie remake of Sparkle, starring the late Whitney Houston and Broadway veteran Jordin Sparks, won’t be released until August, but plans are already in the works to adapt the film …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:10AM[SHARE]Kevin Bacon, Glee’s Chris Colfer and Tony nominee John C. Reilly will join the previously announced George Clooney in the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black’s 8…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AM[SHARE]Preliminary casting has been announced for If It Only Even Runs a Minute 9, to be presented at Joe's Pub on March 26 at 7pm and 9:30pm
Each performance will feature a different cast in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AM[SHARE]The Curve Theatre has announced full casting for its upcoming production of Gypsy, according to WhatsOnStage. The production is set to open March 15. Artistic director Paul Kerryson will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AM[SHARE]SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, will add Sunday evenings to the new spring playing schedule beginning March 4th at The 9th Space Theatre at Perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AM[SHARE]This morning on 'Good Morning America' EVITA star Ricky Martin appeared alongside Nicki Minaj as the newest spokespeople For MAC Cosmetics' VIVA GLAM Campaign. The duo unveiled this year's e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AM[SHARE]Stage and screen actor Jonny Lee Miller has signed on to play Sherlock Holmes in the upcoming CBS pilot "Elementary," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]One of the greatest challenges of building an audience for Broadway shows is that our experience pretty much stays the same, so it's hard to get people to come back time and time again. We'r…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]
Jeff Goldblum will return to the Broadway stage in on April 3 for an 8 week run in Seminar. The Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee will assume the leading role of 'Leonard,' a spot current…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:57AM[SHARE]Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses will open the 2012-2013 season at Lookingglass Theatre. As previously announced, the production will also be part of the upcoming season at Arena Stage.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AM[SHARE]Judy Kuhn, Cheyenne Jackson, Debra Messing, Jessie Mueller, Colman Domingo and Will Chase will be part of the Vineyard Theatre's gala honoring Tony Award-winning actress Linda Lavin on M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]The world premiere of the Wooster Group / New York City Players co-production of Early Plays, at St. Ann's Warehouse, has extended its run, and will now play February 15-March 11. Richa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AM[SHARE]TVGuide.com reports that actress Allison Janney will be making a guest star appearance on an upcoming episode of Showtime's THE BIG C.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tony-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who will be represented on Broadway this season with revivals of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita as well as the long-running The Phantom of the Op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Today in 1905, Harold Arlen was born. Having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is best known for writing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, inclu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AM[SHARE]The Town Hall 123 West 43 Street signed on Marilyn Maye, Ben Davis, Dameka Hayes, Jessie Mueller, Alice Ripley, Tom Wopat and Noah Racey, who also choreographed, to perform in THE BROADWAY M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AM[SHARE]Legit News:
Cast set for Primary Stages production
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44AM[SHARE]If plays are judged by the sheer force of their emotional impact, Really Really " the world premiere of playwright Paul Colaizzo's contemporary, college-set drama, now playing at Signature T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM[SHARE]Gary Wilmot and Clare Buckfield are to star in the world premiere of A Bowl of Cherries, at Charing Cross Theatre, March 6-31.
This new Off West End musical looks at life through a cycle o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AM[SHARE]American producers are eyeing up the bestselling musical " but Royal Shakespeare Company is likely to keep a firm hold over the projectThe RSC is considering taking its hit musical Matilda t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Broadway veteran Kearran Giovanni will co-star in the upcoming TNT series, Major Crimes, according to Deadline.com.
The actress will play undercover police detective Amy Skyes in this cop d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AM[SHARE]Arena Stage has announced the productions set for its 2012-2013 season.
Arena Stage will present the Lerner and Loewe classic My Fair Lady (November 2-January 6), directed by Molly Smith, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AM[SHARE]Robert Hogan returns to Rutherford and Son — In 2001, when he first stepped onstage as John Rutherford, the flint-hearted protagonist of Githa Sowerby’s 1912 drama Rutherford …
SOURCE: TDF at 10:31AM[SHARE]I'm talking about a reboot. Some of you may have taken the four hour workshop version of Solving for X. It had a good run, but I have decided to retire that one and take a cue from ol' spide…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AM[SHARE]BAC, LondonPuppetry and live music, drawing and storytelling come together in Paper Cinema's ingenious retelling of Homer's story, which offers 70 minutes that are a cross between a silent m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM[SHARE]According to EWOnline, actor Jonny Lee Miller will star as the classic literary character Sherlock Holmes in the CBS modern-day version of that classic story entitled ELEMENTARY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AM[SHARE] Reviewed by: Linda Amiel Burns " February 14, 2012 The versatile Ted Sperling put together a program in what he calls "my own idiosyncratic look at what feels and sounds like a…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:23AM[SHARE]"Glee" star Chris Colfer, stage and screen actor Kevin Bacon and Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly will take part in the March 3 Los Angeles reading of Dustin Lance Black's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]If It Only Even Runs A Minute 9, the ninth edition of this series of rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales, and inspiring photos from Broadway musicals that may not have been fully appreciated…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AM[SHARE]The League of Professional Theatre Women, in association with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, will present Celebrating Our Legacy: Oral History Photographic Exhibit of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AM[SHARE]Brimming with energy, Paige Hernandez brings a joyful creativity wherever she goes. As a teaching artist, actor, dancer and choreographer, and a self-professed hip-hop advocate, Hernandez ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:15AM[SHARE]“Mary T. and Lizzy K.,” a new play by Tazewell Thompson (“Constant Star”) will receive its world premiere in the 2012-13 season at Arena Stage in Washington D.C.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:14AM[SHARE]"Call Me Adam" once again chats with Broadway and Television star Julie Halston. This time around Julie and I get personal as we discuss her husband, Broadcaster Ralph Howard's, diagnosis of…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:13AM[SHARE]Violist Katherine Greene and Her Temporary Houseboat in Amsterdam, 02/14/2012
For the Orchestra's stay in Amsterdam, violist Katherine Greene has chosen to reside on a houseboat on the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:11AM[SHARE]Dory Previn Shannon, a lyricist, composer and singer who wrote songs for film soundtracks in the 1960s, often in collaboration with her then husband, Andre Previn, and later became a noted r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AM[SHARE]British musicians are calling for a consistent policy on carrying instruments on planes across airlines, after a similar bill was passed in the US.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AM[SHARE]A Brassy Encore, 02/13/2012
Following the first of two the Orchestra's concerts at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, on February 13, 2012, the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:09AM[SHARE]Gloucester Stage Artistic Director Eric C. Engel has announced Gloucester Stage's 2012 Summer Play Pass season, which will run from June 14 through September 16.
The season will begin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:09AM[SHARE]Backstage in Amsterdam, 02/13/2012
Backstage in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw on February 13, 2012, the New York Philharmonic prepares for the concert. Musicians arrive, warm up, play chess…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:06AM[SHARE]The hit West End musical "Matilda" may be making the jump across the pond for a Spring 2013 Broadway opening, but a few details have to be ironed out before any official announcements are ma…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AM[SHARE]Cast members from the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along reunited, many for the first time in a decade, Tuesday, February 14, to v…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM[SHARE]
An updated list of performers has been announced for Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball, to be held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, March 4 at 7pm.
The event -- w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AM[SHARE]February 15th – April 8th I have to agree with the Irish Rep’s assessment that O’Neill is America's greatest playwright. Furthermore, I'm very much not in accord with the m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:58AM[SHARE]The Ruckus Theater, in association with Tympanic Theatre Company, will produce the world premiere of Scott T. Barsotti's Brewed, in early 2013. Casting and creative team will be announ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AM[SHARE]Cutesy productions full of sentiment and charm seem like they're everywhere right now. I'm not sure I can cope with another ukuleleCall me a grump, but I'm getting a little fed up of "enchan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Gabe McKinley’s drama CQ/CX opens February 15 off-Broadway at the Peter Norton Space. The Atlantic Theater Company production, directed by David Leveaux, has been…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:47AM[SHARE]Nine West End stars can be heard on the concept album for the new musical The In-Between, which is released online Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Stars of both stage and screen are set to join the celebration when the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre honors Tony Award-winner Linda Lavin at the Off-Broadway companys ann…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AM[SHARE]Robb Sapp, Tally Sessions and Teal Wicks offer two performances of the revue, I Can't Wait: The Songs of Patrick Dwyer at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, Saturday, February 25 at 4:30pm and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AM[SHARE]19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheims MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, were reunited at New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]A revue of songs by theatre/cabaret songwriter Patrick Dwyer will be presented at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre Feb. 25 at 4:30 PM and Feb. 27 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]It was with a degree of trepidation that I decided to attend and review Love Box: a Valentine's edition of Word of Mouth at Bristol Old Vic, a monthly event introducing local theatregoers to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:31AM[SHARE]If It Only Even Runs A Minute 9, the latest edition of the series that offers rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales and inspiring photos from Broadway musicals that may not have been fully app…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Hope Davis, Cheyenne Jackson, Judy Kuhn, and Debra Messing will be among the artists participating in the Vineyard Theatre Company's annual gala, to be held at the Hudson Theatre at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AM[SHARE]As first reported on Deadline.com, actress Kearran Giovanni will be co-starring in the upcoming TNT series MAJOR CRIMES, a spin-off from the cable network's popular series 'The Closer'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM[SHARE]19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheims Merrily We Roll Along, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, were reunited at New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie, who will head the cast of TheatreZone's March 8-18 production of Little Women: The Musical, will first perform her critically acclaimed solo show for F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AM[SHARE]Sabrina Aloueche, Julie Atherton, Daniel Boys, Cassandra Compton, Hadley Fraser, Alexia Khadime, Dianne Pilkington, Lauren Samuels and Liam Tamne are featured on the concept album for Laura …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AM[SHARE]Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer and John C. Reilly have been added to the roster of performers who will take part in the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black's 8, to be offered as a ben…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AM[SHARE]On the Monday, February 20th episode of NBC's SMASH entitled 'Enter Mr. DiMaggio', the search begins for a Joe DiMaggio to play opposite Marilyn-but everyone's first choice, Michael guest st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AM[SHARE]Nina Arianda's star has never shone brighter. Recreating the off-Broadway role that her made a name to watch, the actress returns to Broadway in "Venus in Fur" in what the New York Times cal…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:01AM[SHARE]It appears that the late Whitney Houston's upcoming final film, "Sparkle," may be heading to Broadway. Forbes reports that producer Howard Rosenman was so impressed with the unedited pieces …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:00AM[SHARE]Over the last five years I have had the honor of working with all types of folks. In theory, the goal was for me to teach them stuff. In reality, I have learned as much from them as they hav…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:00AM[SHARE]
Since yesterday was Valentine's Day, my husband K and I took some time out to celebrate the great good luck of being able to share our love and lives with one another.
But …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AM[SHARE]Connecticut's Shakespeare on the Sound Offers Play with a Twist Guess who's coming to dinner? Romeo and Juilet and their whole damn families.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AM[SHARE]Just out from Eyecorner Press, Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance, edited by Caridad Svich, brings together several essays by significant artists, scholars, and critics …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:33AM[SHARE]Every third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For Februar…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:32AM[SHARE]Legit News:
Cast set for Broadway revival
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM[SHARE]To judge from the all-around energetic playing of the BSO, it seems conductor Jaap van Zweden has struck a good rapport with the players and I, for one, look forward to hearing more from him…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22AM[SHARE]The Curve Theatre, Leicester has announced full casting for its forthcoming production of Gypsy which opens on 15 March 2012 (previews from 10 March) starring, as previously announced, Carol…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:18AM[SHARE]“Hello, I am Michael Kahn, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Welcome to my new blog.” So begins the first entry in what will be a series of eight weekly a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AM[SHARE]Adam Garcia will star in Trevor Nunn's production of Kiss Me, Kate at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AM[SHARE]In Matt Trueman’s Noises Off this week on the Guardian Blogs he highlighted the spat caused by the recently launched online publication The Globe Mail in Australia over its fi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AM[SHARE]The award-winning actress returns to the stage in Signature Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]
Gabe McKinley's thinly veiled fictionalization of the 2003 Jayson Blair journalism scandal rarely dips beneath the surface, playing more like an extended TV-drama episode than a thoughtful…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:50AM[SHARE]There is probably a good and entertaining play to be written around the premise of a woman dating an alleged wife killer, but this world premiere production at the Raven Theatre, sadly, isn'…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44AM[SHARE]There are many things one might expect to find in a church school basement—coffee, donuts, Sunday school materials—but not a full-scale production of a Broadway musical, and one which wa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44AM[SHARE]19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheims Merrily We Roll Along, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, were reunited at New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AM[SHARE]Â Junie McCree (born Gonzalvo Macrillo this day in 1866) earned a good living writing jokes, sketches and song lyrics for other vaudevillians, and performing on variety, vaudeville, burle…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:35AM[SHARE]Jack Canfora's new drama about a renowned poet and his family is held hostage by its own hyper-articulate characters, leaving the plot stuck in second gear.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:33AM[SHARE]Simon Callow, Patricia Hodge, Celia Imrie, Stephen Fry and Sheila Hancock are to star in a season of programmes on Sky Arts celebrating the works of Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Noel Cow…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AM[SHARE]Children at up to 3,000 secondary schools across the UK will be able to watch a Royal Shakespeare Company production broadcast 'as live' into their classrooms this summer, through an initiat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AM[SHARE]The show transfered to London's West End and opened November 24 to tremendous critical acclaim. Today, Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post that the show is now aiming to open on Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM[SHARE]Theatre for a New Audience presents a riveting, ravishingly beautiful production of John Ford's tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM[SHARE]Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM[SHARE]
The Ivoryton Playhous e’s 2012 season will be filled with music, comedy and Mrs. Robinson.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:56AM[SHARE]Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on New Jersey stage
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:45AM[SHARE]Hello, I am Michael Kahn, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Welcome to my new blog, "Stage Interludes from Michael Kahn." Every Wednesday for the next eight weeks, I …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:40AM[SHARE]The recent Off West End Theatre Awards, also known as the Offies, saw Howard Hudson pick up the prize for best lighting designer, a category sponsored by ETC.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AM[SHARE]Design Day, the annual fundraising event for Light Relief in the UK and Behind the Scenes in the US and Canada, will take place on Tuesday, April 24.The main fundraising event for the charit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AM[SHARE]Unusual Rigging has announced that, with immediate effect, all its NRC assessments will take place at the company's facility in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, including those originally schedu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]Creative & Cultural Skills is celebrating 1,000 young people being employed as creative apprentices across the UK, since the scheme launched in 2008.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]PLASA Events has extended the PLASA 2012 free registration offer. More than 6,000 people have already registered for this year's show, to be held at Earls Court in London from September 9-12.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM[SHARE]From Sophocles to Shirley Jackson, the novelist chooses the best depictions of the pain and comedy that come with our closest relativesWill Eaves is the author of three novels, The Oversight…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:38AM[SHARE]Sam Mendes was a hard act to follow as inaugural artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. But Michael Grandage overcame that difficulty with flamboyantly flying colours.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:22AM[SHARE]Sam Mendes was a hard act to follow as inaugural artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. But Michael Grandage overcame that difficulty with flamboyantly flying colours.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:22AM[SHARE]...that sometimes I embrace the concept of "I'll sleep when I'm dead." and other times I just sleep LIKE I'm dead....that there is huge benefit in creating a plan, step by step, and then hav…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AM[SHARE]
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S POLL AND IN ROUND 3 OF HOT/HOTTER (LOOK TO YOUR LEFT)!Ms. Broadway February 2012Celia Keenan-BolgerWHY SHE'S MS. BROADWAY: It is reall…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:46AM[SHARE]A hit musical to producers is like red meat to carnivores.
When one comes along, they scrap and claw for a hunk and then tear into it with abandon.
The show they're salivating over right now…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]Love proves lethal in John Ford's 1629 revenge drama "The Broken Heart." Theatre for a New Audience's stylish rendition of this difficult and rarely performed play captures all of its chills…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]Shatner's career is defined by a bottomless capacity to try it all -- nothing is too weird or outlandish and selling out is nothing to be ashamed of.Shatner s career is defined by a bottomle…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:18AM[SHARE]Administrator / Fundraiser New York, New York USA At age 90, my greatest inspiration comes from waking up and facing the day. I loved Providence but am happiest in NYC and grateful to LPTW f…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AM[SHARE]The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), officially opens Feb. 15 following previews that began Feb. 7 in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]There are three main questions raised by "The Gammage Project," Attilio Favorini's ambitious, sprawling new theater piece.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AM[SHARE]Part II of the "documentary" series made bySidemart Theatrical Grocery for Scientific Americans (see Part I here)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM[SHARE]A 1958 BBC TV interview with Kingsley Amis: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM[SHARE]One of the great villains of the stage, Shakespeare's Richard III, is in power once again. Kevin Spacey, who's played plenty of villains on the big screen, is under Sam Mendes's direction as…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AM[SHARE]Gabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 15 following previews that began Jan. 25 at the Peter Norton Space on West 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Wait are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Carole Demas, who starred as Sandy in the original Broadway company of Grease, brings her cabaret act, Summer Nights, to the Laurie Beechman Theatre Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]February House, the new musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley, which brings to life a host of bohemian intellectuals, artists and icons of the 1940's, begins performances Feb. 15 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Early Plays, the Wooster Group and New York City Players' adaptation of the works of Eugene O'Neill, debuts Feb. 15 at St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"24" star Geraint Wyn Davies leads the cast of Jack Canfora's Poetic License, a drama about a literature professor whose success may be a work of fiction, which officially open…
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