A Simple JoyToday I got to sleep in 'til 8am. A luxury. That may not sound like a lot but my bedroom gets a lot of natural light in the morning so it's hard to sleep past 8am unless I'm seri…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:45PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, February 26, 2012 - Sunday, February 26, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45PMThe 2012 Academy award for Actress in a Leading Role has been awarded to Meryl Streep for her performance in The Iron Lady. This marks Streep's third Oscar win.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38PMDo critics think the world revolves around "Galileo"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 11:37PMThe blend of music, comedy, and empathy in TUTA Theatre Chicago's *Fulton Street Sessions* makes for a challenging and exciting night. Go see it and take a friend, the more easily-offended t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:35PMThe 84th Annual Academy Awards were held on Sunday, February 26 in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC-TV. Tony Award winner Billy Crystal hosted the event.
The Artist took home five Academ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23PMThe music making, highlighted by James Conlon s vital conducting, is, for the most part, excellent.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:22PM"The Artist" was named Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, which was held Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to honor excellence for the 2011 year in film. B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12PMTortured families and thwarted dreamers are the stuff that Eugene O’Neill plays are made of. That includes his first full-length work, “Beyond the Horizon,” a 1920 rural tragedy that w…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMChristopher Plummer, winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, talks Rooney Mara, his Order of Canada pin and his Stratford Shakespeare Festival show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:00PM
The 2012 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay has been awarded to Woody Allen for the film Midnight in Paris.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36PMCirque du Soleil performed at the 84th Annual Academy Awards, paying a tribute to going to the movies. Watch their performance here
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26PMMemphis Celebrates TIOS: Brad Bass
Original cast member Brad Bass talks about discovering Broadway in this fantastical tribute to Theatre in Our Schools!
Theatre and drama are essential i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:21PMThe 2012 Academy Award for Actor in a Supporting Role has been awarded to Christopher Plummer for his performance in Beginners.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11PMLife is a dream-smothering joker in Eugene O’Neill’s bleak drama “Beyond the Horizon,” at the Irish Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe Irish Repertory Theatre presents Eugene O'Neill's groundbreaking 1920 work about an unhappy marriage.
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Broadway veterans and real life couple Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo performed their new duet, It's Us Against the World, at the MovieGuide Awards on February 24th. Check out their performance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:55PMAlan Menken let CBS News into his home today. He showed off his Oscar Awards and gave a detailed account of the way he writes music for movies, using his newest project, 'Mirror, Mirror' as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMPart I: What We Want Wake well-rested. Grains, fruit, wheat toast, no butter. Floss with confidence. Feel good about yourself and others will feel good about you. The phone rings, the new em…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:34PMPoetic License Rips into the Poetry of Plagiarism: Plagiarism and false credit is a running theme as “Poetic License” playing at 59E59 Theaters joins “CQ/CX” and “Seminar,” in ri…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:29PMGLEE's Darren Criss and Kermit the Frog performed a duet for E Online. They sang Rainbow Connection at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel for E's live Oscar countdown. Their duet is in honor of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PM“Winsome” isn’t a word you hear very often these days. The taint of coy, simpering campery already hung about it in the 1920s when Noel Coward gave it a starring role in the after-dinn…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PM“Am I for t’ see mi own lad bitted an’ bobbed? Theer’s more blort than bustle i’ this world - an’ ‘er’s a clat-fart”. Welcome to the old curiosity shop of English drama, fr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PMAn old man sits on the ground, his feet clapped in stocks. But he doesn't much want rescuing – in fact, he could do with the sit down.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN ROUND 5 OF HOT/HOTTER!AND YOU ONLY HAVE 3 DAYS LEFT TO PICK BROADWAY'S MOST ROMANTIC COUPLE!(LOOK TO YOUR LEFT AND CAST YOUR VOTES!)BROADWAY PICTURES OF THE W…
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Rebecca Louise Miller, author of Fault Lines, is just back from the West Coast premiere of her play. NYTE Small Press published it in print and as an ebook on kindle in Plays and Playwrights…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 06:58PMLin-Manuel Miranda and Tyler Martins started a Twitter conversation about a Stephen Sondheim lower back tattoo. The topic is now trending on Twitter with numerous tweets of tattoo ideas
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMBE IN THE ROOM Are you interested in learning about theatre, the ins and the outs? Are you interested in directing, producing, marketing? Are you in college, a recent college graduate, f…
SOURCE: www.kimweild.com at 06:53PMPlaywright Jayme McGhan has penned a tribute to the working class. McGhan writes about corporate corruption from the point of view of those affected by top decision makers. Despite strong p…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:52PM"Orpheus" runs through March 10 at Seattle Opera.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:51PMMark Swed reviews Los Angeles Opera's sassy and well performed production of Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PME Online posted a sneak peek of GLEE's Darren Criss performing a duet with Kermit the Frog. They will be performing on E's Oscar Countdown in honor of the Oscar-nominated song Man or Muppet …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMSwedish actor Erland Josephson, best known for his long collaboration with Ingmar Bergman, has died at age 88, according to EW.com.
Josephson met Bergman when he was 16 and participated as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:07PM
Two new shows announced for the Guthrie Theater's studio season
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:58PMI've been asked to write a play. What a dreadful idea'Critics," said the Irish writer Brendan Behan, "are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMDon't miss this acclaimed progressive jazz combo.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:30PMIn the age of the blogosphere, in which everyone’s a critic and in which informed, impartial analysis often takes a backseat to gleeful off-the-cuff savagery or unrestrained gush, the deat…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:12PM
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments belowOpening this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Jeff Woodbridge
Show: "Stripper Lesbians"
Website: www.risingsunnyc.com
How did you first get involved in theatre?
Way back in the 2nd grade I was cast in a readin…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:55PMThe Place, LondonIt's the dance equivalent of a red-carpet event to get Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as choreographers on the same programme. And it says much for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMNoel Coward, LondonHoward Davies has a gift for revitalising Coward's comedies. Having put the sexuality back into Private Lives, he now visually redefines Hay Fever and pulls off the daring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMThanks to Wally Jones and the whole gang at Fort Worth's historic Casa Mañana Theatre for bringing me and Shoshana down to Texas to have a foot-stompin' good time. The theater itself looks …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:08PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
In the second act of Noel Coward's weekend-in-the-country comedy "Hay Fever," Judith (Lindsay Duncan), her family and a gaggle of deliciously ill-matched …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PM
Michael Shannon will return to A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago next season, the actor told the Tribune's Mark Caro in Los Angeles on Saturday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:42PMA LACK OF PHILOSOPHY Elina de Santos’ production of David Ives’ 2008 New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:39PMThis Coward revival has a solid cast but the staging does not always hit the right note, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:21PMLast night I came home to an unusual comment on my recent review of Medea at the Actors' Shakespeare Project. Here it is in full:I have just seen the performance of Mrs Israel. Well I …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:13PMWelcome 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…
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Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about CQ/CX, Galileo, Rutherford and Son, CCM’s Into The Woods and rememberances of Ted Mann and Howard Kissel. Please t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 11:47AMIt's rare for a musical to communicate this much depth of character, and deliver so solidly on the "theatre" part of "musical theatre."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:31AMIn honor of Oscar Sunday, it's time for another uPick! There's 9 movies up for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but which one do you think would make the best musical? In case you've been…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:31AMAbout 4:30 a.m., Bradley Wrenn knew his fellow cast members needed a lift: They had been acting for nearly nine hours straight - and had 15 more to go. So he scrapped his fireman's uniform a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:16AMThe Observer (UK) 02/25/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:01AMToday in 2004, Fiddler on the Roof opened at the Minskoff Theatre, where it ran for 781 performances. Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMOk, here's a first in the five years (!) of Producer's Perspective history! I had another giveaway all lined up for today. I had finished the blog entry and everything. And then I got a call…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The glass is definitely half-full in this dark two-hander, set in a wine shop which borders on the ethereal. In just 30 minutes, Eye Saw Theatre delivers intrigue, drama and laugh-out-loud h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:47AMReview by Judd HollanderPhoto by Kevin Berne
If you want to enjoy a good steak, don't visit the slaughterhouse. An old American proverb mentioned in the show program of the solo piece The Ag…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:23AMToday is the birthday of Robert Alda (Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D’Abruzzo, 1914-1986). He started out as a singer and dancer in vaudeville, then moved to burlesque when vaudevi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:08AMThe previously announced extension of Second Stage's production of How I Learned to Drive has been cancelled. The off-Broadway production had been announced to run through March 18, but …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMThe previously announced extension of Second Stage's production of How I Learned to Drive has been canceled. The off-Broadway production had been announced to run through March 18, but w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMThe Broadway production of Bruce Norris's CLYBOURNE PARK will open on Thursday, April 12th at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The production is now being produced by Jujamcyn.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM
The 27th annual Independent Spirit Awards were held in Santa Monica yesterday. The event was hosted by actor Seth Rogen.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:47AMJohn Oliver, director of the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, deserves the thanks of all involved for his willingness to take on this unenviable assignment, as well as credit for ensuring that…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMIt’s Betty Hutton’s birthday (see here for her full bio). Check out this cool artifact, a 1977 interview with her onThe Mike Douglas Show: To find out more about the history o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:10AMThe 84th Annual Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011, hosted by Billy Crystal, are being presented tonight, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood amp Highl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AM
INTERVIEW: JULIAN BIRD The new Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) tells Philip Fisher about his job, the current state of London West End theatre today, with special ins…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:55AMToday is the birthday of The Great One, Mr. Jackie Gleason. The fact that that title was bestowed upon him by Orson Welles will give some indication of how highly his artistry was regarded i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AMIn a typical orchestra pit of a West End or professional touring show now, it’s usual to have three, sometimes four, keyboards, however it is rarely the case that pianos are used. My …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:26AMLegit News:
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SOURCE: Variety at 07:11AMI left the Arcola Theatre’s performance of Sofi Oksanen’s Purge in a state of shock, the tension in my ribcage palpable. The play is about how the Estonian country and women were ravaged…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08AMGod/Head is less of a theatre performance and more a slightly odd practical therapy session in which the creator and primary performer of the show shares with the audience his deep and very …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre blows the dust off Eugene O'Neill's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner, "Beyond the Horizon," in this fresh and challenging production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
The virtuosic 'Iron Lady' star is stuck in two self-parodying modes of late: impersonating a character quite unlike herself or playing one who bears a teasing resemblance to her starry self.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:53AMBrightest and Best begins as a caustic portrayal of the City rat race, and metamorphoses into a sophisticated musing on teaching. It follows the story of Rob (William Owen), who quits his hi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49AMShakespeare has retired and his theatre lies in ruins. Gone are the streets of London filth, drunken applause and royal favour. Instead, he sits in Stratford-upon-Avon among the birdsong and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:41AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising actor John Early about currently starring as "Juliet" in Tragedians of the City's premiere production, an all male production of "Romeo and Juliet" from Febr…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
44(photo by Michael Cooper)So what’s the problem with reviewing that non-Equity show anyway?by Arden Ryshpan, Executive Director, Canadian Actors' Equity AssociationA couple of weeks ago, …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMArtistic & Administrative Director of NY Artists Unlimited, Playwright-Director-Actress New York, New York USA A relic of the Warhol days, ex-”Queen of off-off-Broadway,” and…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThis week's column discusses the initial cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's A Christmas Story, plus four-song selections from the 1920s musicals Shuffle Along and Blackbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMRex Reed (from Facebook)On the Town with BugsWhy people love nasty reviews, and a sampling of the nastiest reviews in showbiz historyBy Richard BurnettThere are reviews and then there are na…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMCharming and cheerful as one of Jane Austen’s novels, Afternoon Tea with Jane Austen is a delightful sixty-minute introduction into Austen’s life. Writer/performer Tali Brady has…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMPoe-Dunk by Kevin McHale is a delightful trip through all the Edgar Allen Poe stories you might not have read yet. You will really see how many-sided Mr. Poe was; did you know he anticipated…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMIn the spring - well, actually, any time of year - a corps de ballet member’s fancy not so lightly turns to thoughts of featured roles in his or her company’s next production. &#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMVeteran actor wins award for Barrymore performance, while Amy Price-Francis picks up best female performer honours
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMThe London cast album of the inbound Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring the band The Craze performing original songs by Grant Olding, and using original troupers including star …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBilly Crystal hosts the 84th Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26, honoring excellence for the 2011 year in film. Among the nominees for Best Picture are "War Horse," "The Artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly, about a summer weekend of awkward family moments and secrets revealed over scrabble and cocktails, ends its Broadway run Feb. 26 at the Cort Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Waite are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSam Gold began his life in theatre as a young actor, appearing as a replacement understudy in Broadway's The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997-98. What a difference 15 years has made. He's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEarlier this month, "Glee" and Broadway star Matthew Morrison was signed to the new record label 222, recently launched by Maroon 5 frontman and "The Voice" coach Adam Le…
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