By Peter Filichia --
These days, we often hear people complain that too many Broadway musicals are made from motion pictures. Actually, the start of that trend can be traced backed to 1953…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:53PMOn Friday, February 17, 2012, I attended OBIE Award Winner David Drake's new one-man show "My Tawny Valentine" at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in NYC. Performing as his alter ego, Tawny Heath…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 11:51PMYellowman
By Dael Orlandersmith, directed by Kasi Campbell
Through Feb. 26 at Rep Stage
A recent evening marked one of the few wintry days of the season. Snowflakes whipped around…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 11:44PMStaging Over Manipulation
At Guest Spot through March 3
More at weekly.citypaper.com
The current show at Fells Point’s intimate Guest Spot space is, and is not, a typical art sh…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 11:44PMThe world of charming social calls, proper manners, and
honorable upbringings throws audiences into a night of graceful
refinement in Nerinx Hall's recent production of "Pride and
Prejudice."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:30PMBy Byrne Harrison
Photo by Lauren Arneson
Ed Malin (Writer) is interested in language and history. After interning at The Women's Project in the '90s, Ed has enjoyed the diverse theate…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:28PMAs the curtain opens, Pattonville High School transforms into a
train station, carrying its audience into 1912 River City and its
small-town intolerances. As the characters watch their backw…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:27PMAll the galaxy's a stage in Francis Howell Limelight Theater's
production of "Return to the Forbidden Planet," a play in which
Captain Kirk, Prospero and the Beach Boys all come together in …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:23PMPlaybill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …
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In the third episode of NBC’s Broadway-centric drama Smash, entitled “Mr. DiMaggio,” things get personal. Karen (Katharine McPhee) spends a weekend at home in idyllic Iowa,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58PMAs Knicks fans are finding out, watching young performers rise to the top is a pleasure. The same is true in the arts. Here are four artists poised to deliver in major ways.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:25PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN ROUND 4 OF HOT AND HOTTERAND THIS MONTH'S BROADWAY POLL (LOOK TO YOUR LEFT!)Politics and Broadway shows are hit and miss. Hit: Born Yesterday, 1776. &nb…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:19PMHat tip to Ian David Moss at Createquity who linked to a New Yorker article on brainstorming in one of his “around the horn” summaries. The article talks about how the whole idea…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:17PMDebonair funny man and host of Birdland's long-running and late-running Monday night series Cast Party [in it's ninth year], returns on Thursday @ 8 P.M. to Town Hall, once again side by sid…
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ONCE, an acclaimed new musical based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film, will begin previews on Tuesday, February 28 and open Sunday, March 18 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Check out…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:49PMIn the Summer of 2012, the National Youth Music Theatre will be collaborating with the American musical theatre composer, lyricist and playwright, JASON ROBERT BROWN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46PM The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Written by William Shakespeare Direc…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:40PMRobert Adelman Hancock and the adorable Megan McGinnis in Daddy Long Legs. Photo: Meghan Moore.This is just a quick note to let you know that by far the most enjoyable show in town right now…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:40PMBeginnings and endings are very important in art, as in life. The start of something and its concluding moments are the moments in performances tend to make the greatest impact on us. What h…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 08:22PMThe Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center looks like somebody crammed Universal Studios Hollywood into a computer lab in Pittsburgh. Between gleaming classrooms, the hallways are l…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:15PM Laley: Thank you for meeting with me, Jeff. I was inspired to talk with you after reading Miriam Weisfeld’s article on Connectivity. Exciting ideas, but I’m curious about the …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:15PMThe Weekly Howl: Join HowlRound.com for our weekly Twitter conversation. This week we are exploring “Technology and Theatre – Do they mix”. Check out the article by Miriam …
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THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Mesmeric Revelation…, Central Works.
By Sam Hurwitt
Mesmeric Revelation…Before Edgar Allen Poe has nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe. The second play t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:26PMHalf-term may be nearly over for many, but there is no shortage of children’s theatre on offer in London at the moment. Long-running family favourites including Shrek the Musical and The L…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PMMark Rylance, on a brief breather from playing Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre, stands with his chest puffed out in his dressing room, which is plastered with pictu…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMBritish ballet is making a habit of mysterious departures. A month after rising star Sergei Polunin shocked the Royal Ballet by exiting stage left, for reasons that remain best known to hims…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMBritish ballet is making a habit of mysterious departures. A month after rising star Sergei Polunin shocked the Royal Ballet by exiting stage left, for reasons that remain best known to hims…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
In “Poetic License,” at 59E59 Theaters, a father is about to be named poet laureate of the United States while his daughter’s boyfriend has something other than romance up his sleeve.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMBailey Hanks, who dazzled audiences as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, The Musical on Broadway repeats the lead role in Diablo Theatre Company's production of the show, which runs through Marc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:13PM“I Killed My Mother” is the tale of a Romanian orphan who grew up in a strict institution where she had one friend, a boy who taught her the art of turning people into stone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMWill their new ticket-pricing strategy attract new audiences?Will their new ticket-pricing strategy attract new audiences?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:04PM
Los Angeles Opera said that ticketholders for "Albert Herring" can bring along friends who have never been to the opera before for just $25 per seat.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:53PMJason Robert Brown will direct a new production of his 2008 Broadway musical 13, to be presented under the auspices of the UK's long-established young people's company at the Nationa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46PMCollaboraction has space available for up to a 6 week run from April 16 to May 27th in it's theatre in the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee. $1000 per week. Occupancy of 99. Please…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:39PMHow will future Oscarologists size up the inevitable victory of 'The Artist" as Best Picture? "I think we're going to look back at this and say, 'This is kind of like w…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:35PMJosh Young, who will be starring in the role of Judas in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar is engaged to be married to his girlfriend of one year, Alia Rose…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMFun Fact About the Best Actress Category - Their paths almost all began in NYC Off-Broadway: Four of the Five Oscar Nominees in the best actress category have already been declared honorees…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:24PMThe Daykin sisters do comedy sketches sending up their know-it-all uncle and their parents' divorce. How much of it is true? Brian Logan finds outGiven the comic potential of sibling ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 22012.
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Stage and television star Charles Shaugnessy will return to the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives as Shane Donovan in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor played the role c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:49PMBen Heppner has canceled his Tuesday appearance in "Moby-Dick" at the San Diego Opera.Ben Heppner has canceled his Tuesday appearance in "Moby-Dick" at the San Diego Opera.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:48PMEnter the Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES Cocktail Contest You could win two 2 tickets to see ANYTHING GOES on Broadway valid for one 1 performance from March 26, 2012 to Septembe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMBy Byrne Harrison
Rachelle Elie has been developing her unique vision of contemporary society for over fifteen years, beginning at Bishop’s University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:21PMNorth Carolina Theatre today announced that Tony Award-winning actress and Raleigh native, Beth Leavel, will star as MLynn in their upcoming production of Steel Magnolias. The play will run …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMToday, the company of ONCE met the press and BroadwayWorld was there to chat with the team
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMBy Byrne Harrison
Bill Stiteler is the co-founder of Theatre Arlo, and the writer/director of “Watching Porn” and “THACO,” the latter of which he adapted into a short film. He co-wr…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:09PMWilliam Shatner is back on Broadway! The last time he was on a Broadway stage was in 1956, the same year that Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time with "Heartbreak Hotel…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 04:00PM
According to the New York Times, Al Hirschfeld, who passed away in 2003, will get his own biography in the near future. Ellen Stern, who wrote about the artist in 1987 for GQ, will write th…
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:56PMWe are always proud and pleased when plays we have published get new productions and it’s always great to see new work from this same group of talented playwrights. ODYSSEUS DOA whic…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 03:52PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Kill Me" by WildClaw Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Kill Me" by WildClaw Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★ ... Most horror s…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMWho would have thought that the land of canals and wooden shoes would connect so perfectly with the city known for its bridges and and steel? Yet, for a short time on Saturday night at the B…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:32PMInterested in joining BroadwayWorld's worldwide network of published authorsBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Austin.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMFarrar Straus and Giroux has commissioned a biography of the legendary theatrical portraitist Al Hirschfeld, who died at 99 in 2003, to be written by Ellen Stern, author of a 1987 profile of…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PMAccording to comedy.co.uk, comedian Russell Brand is set to take the starring role in Eric Idle's latest stage musical WHAT ABOUT DICK at LA's Orpheum Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMBy Byrne Harrison
D’yan Forest (actor/writer/producer), 77 years young, has been lighting up audiences for over seven decades. She started early with piano, then ukulele, moved onto…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 03:04PMCella Gallery is pleased to present Femme Fatale, a group exhibition featuring the works of over 35 innovative artists handpicked by curators Nicole Bruckman and Stephanie Chefas. An arche…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMIn Lisa Kron’s excellent play IN THE WAKE, now being marvelously presented by the San Diego Rep in their Lyceum Space, everybody is eloquent and everybody suffers.
This is chewy theat…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PM”Visiting Mr. Green” is a Yiddisher bon-bon, perfect as a recommendation for elderly Jewish relatives interested in a night out.
Really, really elderly. Because things have chang…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PM
Russell Brand, stage actor? The British comedian, performer and tabloid fixture is coming to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A. Russell Brand, stage actor? The British comedian, performer …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:51PMWho would have thought that the land of canals and wooden shoes would connect so perfectly with the city known for its bridges and
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:48PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld.com's newest photo series 'Photo Blast From the Past'. Featuring some of the collected theatre gem's of BroadwayWorld's own senior photographer Walter McBride, the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMAs part of Steppenwolf's Garage Rep Series 2012, LiveWire Chicago's *Oohrah!* is bleak, reductionist and simplistic, exploiting stereotypes that “Hurt Locker” at least tried to justify.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:33PMAt People’s Light and Theatre Company’s, director David Bradley keeps John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic "Of Mice and Men" stripped to its bare essence, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:23PMSouthbank Centre, LondonDennis the Menace is almost an OAP. He first appeared in the Beano in 1951, but for generations of children he – and his partners in crime, Minnie the Minx and Roge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22PMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 84th Annual Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC-TV. Tony Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMEmma (Katie Atkinson), an assistant in a laboratory dedicated to the preservation of dying languages, is trying to learn Esperanto. She is having heavy weather of it. Finally she blurts out …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:11PMGuests have been announced for the upcoming In Conversation Speaker Series at the Museum at Eldridge Street; The Series is part of an ongoing 125th Anniversary celebration of Jewish life an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMTony Award winners Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber and Touy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Toni Collette will among the directors involved in the feature film Sydney Unplugged, acc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMAs a companion to Playbill's newly-launched database of theatrical history Playbillvault.com, the video series "The Vault" — a look back in time at shows past — kicks off with the classi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Union theatre, LondonThis is the third all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan that Sasha Regan has directed at this tiny Southwark theatre. But, while the result is as "blithe and gay" as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMAccording to the official LYSISTRATA JONES blog, Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn are currently at work on a high school-friendly edition of the Broadway comedy, which will be made avail…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMWe're starting something new here on theaterinthenow.com. We want to hear from you! So let your creativity start flowing with the first uPick, President's Day Edition! Today, we want to know…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:36PMThe battle between producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and former director of the production Julie Taymor has been settled and Taymor should be flying high. Producers have agreed to p…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:35PMHollywood and Broadway award-winners Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi, and Lee Roy Reams are to star in Doin' It For Love, a Broadway-style tribute to the standards and the stories behind t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMDespite its provocative title, this musical reveals itself less as a tangle of beliefs and more of a full-throated celebration of marriage equality.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:15PMREVIEW: A compelling, well-acted new play turns on touchy issues of racial identity.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:14PMAlli Mauzey and Andy Kelso soon will join the cast of the first North American touring version of “Wicked.” Mauzey will be playing the role of Glinda, which she has previously played on …
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ONCE, an acclaimed new musical based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film, will begin previews on Tuesday, February 28 and open Sunday, March 18 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Today, th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Royal Lyceum associate artist John Dove takes up where he left off after his cycle of Arthur Miller plays with a solid production of Of Mice and Men. As a di…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMThis worthy play falls squarely into the genre of “independent woman squashed by the patriarchy” dramas, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMThis worthy play falls squarely into the genre of "independent woman squashed by the patriarchy" dramas, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMThis production of Athol Fugard’s 1961 play is less satisfying than the new theatre complex that hosts it, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMThis production of Athol Fugard's 1961 play is less satisfying than the new theatre complex that hosts it, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMAccording to Patrick Healy of the New York Times, the musical adaptation of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ has been delayed. The world premiere was supposed to take place in June, but has been p…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:34PMThe stars of Theatreland descended on the Prince of Wales Theatre last night to hear the results of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards - the only major theatre awards to be decided entirely by…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:33PMHow Mike Daisey has changed America Mike Daisey brought his provocative, withering attack on the state of regional theater, How Theater Failed America, to Woolly Mammoth in 2009. Why are suc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:23PMLook below to see what Broadway shows are playing on each night this week. Want to know what Broadway shows have Sunday evening performances Which Broadway shows have Wednesday matinees Just…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMTom Rooney, Laura Condlin and Sofia Tomic shine in Play, one of several Samuel Beckett works in Queen of Puddings’ Beckett: Feck It!
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:18PMWest End star Linzi Hateley is involved in the upcoming Les Miserables movie.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMMatt Mithun of the Somerset Amphitheater is taking over the event after founder Ira Heilicher died last summer.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:05PMSteven Leigh MorrisMorris' chicken, FortinbrasThe Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers.…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PM
The inspirational voice coach Elizabeth Pursey has died aged 89. Elizabeth had a long teaching association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. From the late 1970s, she also worked on man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMFREUD’S LAST SESSION, the play by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its 600th performance tonight, February 20th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). FREUD’S LAST SESSION is the wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMMusic Box Theatre, Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: William Shatner creates an engaging one man show by sharing humorous and touching anecdotes from his 80 years of life.
A…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:41AMNorm Lewis Invites You to Charity Night!
Norm Lewis invites you to Charity Night at The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess supporting Broadway Cares on Tuesday, February 21st. Get your tickets o…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:38AMDisrespecting your artistic competition, or your audience, is a sign of immaturity. It's easy (and fun) to talk about how everything sucks. It's easy (and fun) to blame the rigid, old, infle…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 11:32AMOriginal cast members Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope both recently departed the West End production of THE WIZARD OF OZ, and have been replaced by Over the Rainbow finalist Sopie Evans a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMLast year, when I was on a public bus in Bloomington, Indiana, the bus driver pulled the bus over, grabbed me by the shoulder, and said to cut it out or he’d call the police. In a scen…
SOURCE: www.tynansanger.com at 11:22AMThe Northern Ireland Assembly has given a one-year reprieve to the Laganside Arts Grant with a one-off cash injection of £250,000 less than a week after announcing it was to close in M…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMFYI, due to the President's Day holiday in the United States today, Monday February 20, 2012 this week's grosses will be released on Tuesday February 21, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMThe Merchant of Venice is rightfully considered one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” with its dark overtones of anti-Semitism and a feud between a Jew standing obstinately with the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMAs the big behemoths in the music biz try to figure out what the &#$@ they are going to do with their turned-upside-down business model, some young tech-savvy upstarts are coming with id…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
BroadwayWorld reported earlier this month that E Online revealed that Spring Awakening's original Wendla, GLEE star Lea Michele, is being courted for her old role in the upcoming film versio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMToday in 1957, The Taming of the Shrew openend at the Phoenix Theatre, where it ran for 23 performances. A comedy by William Shakespeare, the play is believed to have been written between 15…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMNBC has announced that select songs from tonights third episode of NBCs new critically acclaimed musical drama series SMASH Mondays, 10-11 p.m. ET, will be available today from NBCUniversal …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMREVIEW: Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai conjures references to Chinese, Western and minimalist approaches to modern dance.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:40AMSir Paul McCartney, along with his wife, Nancy, and daughter, Beatrice, attended a Broadway matinee performance of Mary Poppins on Saturday, February 18.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMIt's often been said that an idea is nothing without the execution to back it up and I have been in plenty of rooms where ideas have been bandied around, but not many where someone actually …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:33AMFollowing sell-out success at Chichester Festival Theatre, Jonathan Kent's acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd transfers to London's West End for a limited season from 10 March 2012. Widely…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMThe Donmar finds a new answer to the perennial mobile problem, and are theatres getting more middle of the road?Switching audiences on to switch it offWe all know how annoying it is when som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMPHANTOM Celebrates 10,000 Performances on Broadway
Join the celebration as PHANTOM plays its 10,000 Broadway performance.
Phantom continues to entrance audiences around the world, with And…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:15AMThe play that inspired the movie finally receives its first staging in this extravagantly cast production, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:03AMThe play that inspired the movie finally receives its first staging in this extravagantly cast production, writes Ian Shuttleworth
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If ever an actor was born to take the stage, it is Hamish Linklater. Son of revered Shakespeare teacher Kristin Linklater, he grew up on Edith Wharton's estate in the Berkshires and perf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMTony and Grammy award-winner Heather Headley will star in a musical version of Whitney Houston's 1992 film, which opens at London's Adelphi theatre in NovemberA musical version of The Bodygu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMFive of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:46AMThe acclaimed City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along ended its limited engagement at the fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AMOscar winner and noted playwright Woody Allen has won the Writers Guild of America award for original screenplay for his film Midnight in Paris.
Other films and television series honoured b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMMAGICBIRD, a new play from the team that brought you LOMBARDI on Broadway, will play the Longacre Theater beginning Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in anticipation of an April 11, 2012 opening nig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10AMToday on Backstage with Richard Ridge, we bring you Richard in conversation with international songbird Lea Salonga, best known for originating the role of Kim in the West End production of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:09AMWayne Eagling is to leave his role as artistic director of English National Ballet at the end of this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMNot that these are presidentially themed...Bad reviews as a potty-training tool? That's one way to put them behind you.Smash superfan sez: Don't watch it tonight.Looking for some good news a…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:02AMRussell Brand, stage actor? The British comedian, performer and tabloid fixture will try his hand at a new medium when he stars in a stage play written by Eric Idle that will have a four-per…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Every so often you encounter the perfect pairing of actor and role. Mary-Arrchie founding member and Artistic Director Richard Cotovsky has found one of those roles. From his shoulder-slumpe…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:57AMMichael Brazier has been appointed to succeed Holly Kendrick as director of the National Student Drama Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMPerhaps most remarkably, BSO conductor Stéphane Denève managed to create an atmosphere in which the Symphony Hall audience, which at this time of year sometimes sounds like it’s made up …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AM Today is the birthday of Hollywood film director Roland West. Born Roland Van Zimmer this day in 1885, he was part of a family of actors from Cleveland, OH. He began acting in vaudeville …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:33AMTickets for the Broadway production of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER go on sale today. Peter and the Starcatcher, which is co-directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Tony Award-nominee Alex…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24AMMontserrat Mendez is awriter. His first full-length play, Thoroughly Stupid Things,premiered at Manhattan Theatre Source in 2008 and was later called “a comicmasterwork” by Ba…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:12AMMissed out on last night's Whatsonstage.com awards Check out our photo coverage from the red carpet and the press room
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:11AMTheaterMania reports on eight worthy prodcutions, including Absent Friends, Collaborators, The Comedy of Errors, and The Recruiting Officer.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM"Bad Kid," David Crabb's one-man show at Axis Theater about his goth-gay Texas adolescence, is vivid and amusing storytelling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Matilda the Musical led the winners' list at the Whatsonstage Awards last night, picking up four gongs including newcomer of the year for composer Tim Minchin.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMMitchell Jarvis, who has starred in ROCK OF AGES since it opened on Broadway in 2009 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Texas, returns from his leave of absence to the show tonight, on February…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45AMGHOST THE MUSICAL, now entering its second year in the West End, will be releasing over 250,000 new tickets for sale next month, on March 28, taking bookings at the Piccadilly Theatre to Apr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23AMUnlike other comedians, Riches’s material is not primarily observational humour; there is only the briefest smattering of crude sexual innuendos or vulgar swearing, and the one liners are …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17AMTowards the end of his show Poet in New York, flamenco star Rafael Amargo tenderly leads each of his musicians off stage, one by one. You might think this was an early curtain call, a chance…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:13AMDon't get me wrong. There are plenty of dangers in the world. Human beings manage to survive weather, predators, and the ill-fated consequences of their own myopic stupidity by the skin of…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMStandups like Peter Kay and John Bishop pride themselves on being everyman comedians. So does it matter if they're raking in squillions every year?It's often said that football has never bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMStandups like Peter Kay and John Bishop pride themselves on being everyman comedians. So does it matter if they're raking in squillions every year? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with rising performer Zachary Infante about starring in "GAP: Songs For A New World," at NYU (music by Jason Robert Brown) through February 25 as well as othe…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:01AMIt’s a showtune showdown this spring. The
stage is set for a battle for musical-theater domination between two top-tier composers.
In one corner: Alan Menken, 62, from N…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Do critics recommend a visit to "Shatner's World"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 05:55AMFlamenco singer-dancer La Shica performs a traditional Sevillanas, moving with courtly seriousness. Then she and her band add a bassline, teasing rhythms and shapes. She turns to the audienc…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:39AMWales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Berlioz's last opera is an adaptation of Shakespeare's playful comedy Much Ado About Nothing and, sung in English, is perhaps one of the more acce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMTravelling Light Trailer
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:33AMMatt Rees has won this year's Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award given out at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMSunday is not a day I usually spend in the West End, but of course the Whatsonstage.com Awards Concert filled the area with stars yesterday and most of them headed straight to the Delfont Ro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:05AMLegit Reviews||Los Angeles:
The script needs work, but Crispin Whittell's stylish production makes for a not unsatisfying evening.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03AM
Union, London, February 15-March 10: After opening at the Savoy Theatre in 1881, Patience became a huge success for Gilbert and Sullivan, eventually running even longer than their previous h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMGrange Arts Centre, Oldham: As the sun began to sink on the 1970s, Robin Herford was touring with Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, Taking Steps. One of the venues was the Grange, which by …
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44AMPolka Theatre, London: Michael Morpurgo's sensitive portrayals of man's inhumanity to man, and how the fallout affects children, translate well into theatre for young people. In th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:43AMThe winners of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards
- the only major UK theatre awards to be voted for entirely by the
theatregoing public - were announced last night (19 February
2012) durin…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:34AMCastillo Theater's revival of the musical "Sally and Tom," about the relationship between slave Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, is emotionless.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:24AMThe winners of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards
- the only major UK theatre awards to be voted for entirely by the
theatregoing public - were announced last night (19 February
2012) durin…
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Sunday is not a day I usually spend in the West End, but of course the Whatsonstage.com awards concert filled the area with stars yesterday and most of them headed straight to the Delfont Ro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:59AMBroadway (and the West End) is strewn with the corpses of bad musicals, some of them (like Rock of Ages or We Will Rock You) still breathing, against all the odds. But sometimes, by the same…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:54AMLegit News:
Heather Headley to take Whitney Houston role
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37AMI was chosen to be apart of a group of Twitter members that were invited to live-tweet during the Broadway production Godspell. As a fan of the show itself and this production, I went into …
SOURCE: youngmrproducer.blogspot.com at 03:19AMPosted in Networking I’m curious- how often during the course of the month do any of your colleagues make demands of you without asking, “please?” How often is it that you do a f…
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One thing’s guaranteed about an evening with Marc Salem — he’ll mess with your head. The renowned mentalist does it again in his latest show, “Mind Over Manhattan,” which will leav…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:50AMIt’s hard to imagine that a crackling drama could revolve around a poet laureate’s career. But Jack Canfora’s “Poetic License” manages to render a tale of artistic ambition and hid…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:11AMIn 1981, Merrily We Roll Along opened and closed quickly, a devastating failure that became one for the record books. The day after it shuttered, the cast and crew assembled in the recording…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 12:07AMWarona Steshwaelo and Mike Payette in New Canadian Kid(photo: Ashley Belmer)Veteran Canadian WriterUpstage host Eric Sukhu spoke with playwright Dennis Foon about his play New Canadian…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMProducer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Music, musicals, plays, friends and family! What’s your favorite book / movie / line from a play / pop culture guilty ple…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThis week the community theatre group Eastside Players are premiering a new work (we just like saying that phrase...makes us hum). Rapture, by Joanna Murray-Smith, tells of a group of friend…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMI went at Mood Indigo: A Life of Duke Ellington with hammer and tongs last week, and by the time...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMElaine May and Mike Nichols appear in a commercial for General Electric: (This is the latest in a series of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMWith the spring arrival of two revivals of his past classics Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar Phantom composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will have three musicals on Broadway at the same tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWilliam Shatner, the Emmy-winning actor best known for his work on TV's "Star Trek" and "Boston Legal," recently sat down on "Good Morning America" to talk …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office opens Feb. 20 for the Broadway transfer of Peter and the Starcatcher, the prequel to the tale of Peter Pan, which will take flight before audiences beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMComposer-lyricist Scott Alan offers tunes from his songbook Feb. 20 at Los Angeles' Show At Barre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," which airs weeknights at 12:35 AM ET on NBC, kicks off its "Broadway Week" Feb. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Joshua Henry, who currently stars as Jake in the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, offers a solo concert entitled Soul Weakness Feb. 20 at The Triad T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the latest show tune to be revealed from Marilyn the Musical — the show-within-a-show in the NBC series "Smash" — is available for downl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe two men look as though they’d crawled out from under a rock into a landscape of broken glass and shit. Their little shack, in the South African town of Port Elizabeth, is less a ho…
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