Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, March 4, 2012 - Sunday, March 4, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45PMIt's too bad that Broadway Talks With Jordan Roth: Nick Jonas at 92Y wasn't sold out tonight, because I believe everyone in the auditorium would have bought a ticket to see him in How To Suc…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:42PMBy Michelle F. Solomon When Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked, Pippin) first adapted Studs Terkel’s 1974 book Working for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre it wa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:01PMToward the end of “Tribes,” Sylvia, a young woman who works for a charity, admits, “I love being ironic.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn ABC's hot new show GCB, which premiered on March 4, Kristin Chenoweth is TV’s newest Jesus-loving mean girl, Carlene Cockburn. The Tony-winning actress plays a connivi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00PMLegit News:
Coward memorabilia on display in New York
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM
The women address us from the stage, speaking in soft, halting tones, their eyes darting nervously. They’re clearly not comfortable being there.
But when they look directly at each other,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMThere’s so much going on in the new off-Broadway show “Tribes” that it’s almost overwhelming: intellect and sentiment, love and cruelty, witty zingers and biting put-downs. But in Ni…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:38PMDavid Cromer directs a beautifully acted production of Nina Raine's affecting play about the challenges of communication.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PM“I ♥ Alice ♥ I,” at the Irish Arts Center, takes a look at the intricacies of the relationship of a lesbian couple over a 30-year period.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMNina Raine’s play “Tribes” concerns a family whose deaf son brings home his girlfriend, who is losing her hearing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAmy Conroy's charming play tells the love story of two Irish women.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Jennifer Haley has been named the 34th winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play “The Nether.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMTopher Grace and Olivia Thirlby have joined the cast of Paul Weitz’s new comedy, “Lonely, I’m Not,” at the Off Broadway Second Stage Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMAccording to The New York Times, actress Shirley Knight will lead IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE, Tennessee Williams' final full length play which has never before received a stage producti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMTheatre Novi Most's newest work combines two plays. At its best, it is unified and comprehensive.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 06:05PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO TAKE THE MONTHLY POLL AND TO VOTE INROUND SIX OF "HOT/HOTTER" - BOTH ARE TO YOUR LEFT!The Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the 39th week of the 2011 - 2012 season…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 06:01PMJulie Taymor filed court papers with damaging e-mails in the lawsuit against the producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMCanadian dancer has been accused by some of ‘dancing for the audience.’ His response: Why wouldn’t he?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMDavid C. Nichols reviews "An Evening With Bernadette Peters" at the Valley Performing Arts Center. A concert review for the Los Angeles Times.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PM
Shirley Knight will star in the coming production of “In Masks Outrageous and Austere,” the final full-length play written by Tennessee Williams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PMDisney’s ‘The Lion King’ comes to St. Louis for two whole weeks towards the end of summer. Simba and his friends are slated to play The Fabulous Fox Theatre from August 15 to September…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:48PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Titus Andronicus, Impact Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:21PMThe North American premiere of Nina Raine’s Tribes opens March 4 at off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre. Directed by David Cromer, the family drama stars Mare Winningham, Russel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMGarden Bike, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:02PM
Who are 2012's possible lead-acting Oscar contenders? "The next twelve months promise has a number of meaty parts to choose from, with several previous winners coming back with role…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:57PMBroadway and worldwide certified box office hit musical ‘Jersey Boys’ will be “Working Its Way Back” to the Mile-High City for a month-long run at the Buell Theatre. The chart toppin…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:53PMThere’s crackling dialogue and spiky comedy in Ishy Din’s new play about young British Muslim men, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:49PMAudiences will definitely exclaim ‘Oh, What a Night!’ for eleven nights this fall as ‘Jersey Boys’ serenades Cincinnati with a two-week run at the Procter and Gamble Hall of the Aron…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:44PMMarch brings a solid lineup of experimental shows including an electronic show and an indie rock show. The definite highlight of the month is Steve Reich at MIT. By David Cooper …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:02PMHow do you unite a modern metropolis? With 500 people and a song called Ah Poor BirdThe human urge to build cities with tall buildings is an ancient one. In the Book of Genesis, the generati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01PM With your friendship, Japan moves forward from the Earthquake one year ago. Arigato!! To convey their heartfelt gratitude for the massive worldwide support they received after …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMThe comedian was one of those characters who comes on as a cameo and steals the show. He saved my groom's speech from disaster, tooIt might be overstretching it to say that Ray Presto, the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM
We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat! The National Theatre’s production of Dr. Seuss’s THE CAT IN THE HAT is a lively, engagin…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:52PMThe Tony Award winning and groundbreaking musical ‘Wicked’ flies south to Las Vegas this summer for a six-week run at the Reynolds Hall of the Smith Center from August 29 to October 7, 2…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:50PMThe comedian is loved by all of Montreal’s solitudes even though his stereotypes sometimes seem easy
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:50PMMartin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Jane Lynch inspired instant response as a vehement same-sex marriage opponent;…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:38PMWho Goes ThereI can't believe that. That suddenly a window closes and it closes forever. And two people can never be anything more than friends. Maybe it like a re-entry window. The way spac…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 02:26PMGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matthew Morrison and others appeared in the L.A. premiere of the play "8," based on the court trial over Prop. 8 in California.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:12PM
As well as looking at the issues currently facing musical theatre, I want to look at the genre as an art form. I want to look at what goes into the making of a show and how it faces just as …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:59PM‘Les Miserables’, the legendary musical from Boublil and Schonberg comes to Des Moines this fall for a week-long engagement at the Civic Center Main Stage from October 2 to 7, 2012. This…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:57PMNew isn’t always better, and this is proven over and over again by the Broadway and West End timeless masterpiece ‘Les Miserables’. For 25 years, this dramatic stage piece that cel…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:49PMDream the dream for one of the greatest musicals to be ever staged is coming to Philadelphia once again as part of its 25th anniversary tour. ‘Les Miserables’ will be playing the Academy…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:43PMLin Zhaohua's production of Gao Xingjian's "Of Mountains and Seas" is the first time in more than two decades that a mainland Chinese cast and crew have performed one of Mr. Gao's works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:26PMGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Chris Colfer, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly and Martin Sheen are amoungst the stars that were featured in last night's one-night perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PM
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonYou can tell from their clothes, that the dancers in this fantastically amiable and energetic street show have arrived from Paris. In contrast to the monochrome g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMBig names in line-up for summer of music, dance and art to celebrate the Goethe-Institut's 50 years in LondonUntil the fall of the Berlin Wall, the popular British perception of German cultu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christine Lahti in staged readingOn Saturday night in Los Angeles a group of A-listers tried to walk the precarious…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMOur 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 12:15PMRomanian diva brings glamor, passion, and rarely heard repertoire to the KenCen.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 12:14PMThe New York Times 03/03/12
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Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at 82. If you'd have asked me yesterday who my heroes were, I probably wouldn't have listed him (or his Star Trek counterpart, M…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:55AMAs a play about the fundamental issue of human rights and the importance of ensuring access to justice, Terence Rattigan's classic play about a boy accused of stealing a five shilling postal…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 11:47AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Martin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Jane Lynch inspired instant response as a vehement sam…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:45AMSo I had this friend. An old girlfriend, actually, who is now (I swear this is true) a Christian missionary who serves mostly in Thailand. And last night she posted, as her Facebook status, …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:44AMLos Angeles Times 03/02/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:16AMMartin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Jane Lynch inspired instant response as a vehement same-sex marriage opponent;…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:10AMThe final season of The Bridge Project starring Kevin Spacey, Artistic Director of The Old Vic, in the title role of Richard III, will close at BAM tonight, March 4th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMYou know how when something really bad happens to you, someone says, "Hey, in a few years, you'll look back on this and laugh." Well, that's the theory behind the the award-winning…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Broadway veteran Patti LuPone will perform at the Centennial Hall at the University of Arizona tonight, March 4th at 8pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMRoundabout Theatre Company's production of Athol Fugard's THE ROAD TO MECCA closes tonight, March 4th at the American Airlines Theatre. THE ROAD TO MECCA will have played 34 previews and 56 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMWhat’s coming up now in this small gap between the Awards shows and the Film Festival Season? Lots! This month is a cornucopia of adventurous off-the-radar films. March features several gr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMThe Tony Award winning musical ‘The Book of Mormon’ swings by Des Moines in early 2013 for a two-week run at the Civic Center from January 24 to February 3. Winner of nine Tony Awards in…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:33AMGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Chris Colfer, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly and Martin Sheen are amoungst the stars that were featured in last night's one-night perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM‘The Book of Mormon’ comes to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis from February 19 to March 3, 2013. A clever parody about religion and culture, ‘The Book of Mormon’ is a criticall…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:23AMNewsies, the new American musical which will move to Broadways Nederlander Theatre 208 W 41st St for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMThis interview is adapted from the version that appears in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. This book includes the final report from research firm WolfBrown on thei…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:04AM Thursday, March 8, 2012, 5:30PM at the Snapple Theater Center Musical Theatre and Jazz Workshop members, friends and colleagues of Jean Banks, who managed BMI’s jazz a…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:02AMToday in 1999, Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Marquis Theatre, where it ran for 1045 performances.Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMActor Andrew Keenan-Bolger discusses the original Broadway production of "Ragtime."
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
The hilarious and critically acclaimed musical ‘Book of Mormon’ will walk the talk and spread the good word in Portland right at the start of the new year via a week-long run at the Kell…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:59AMBroadway's longest-running production of all time celebrates a triumphant quarter century on stage with The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall. The 25th Anniversary performance wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44AMAs in years past, BroadwayWorld has teamed up with Seth to exclusively bring you the full length episodes right here and we're pleased to bring you Seth's latest candid chat with Alan Menken…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AMAccording to TMZ, Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, approves of the Broadway bound musical inspired by her son. She was given a preview of HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME, directed by Kenny …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26AMSILENCE! 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 09:21AMT. Schreiber Studio's production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' play focusing on a retrial of Judas is provocative, playful, and layered but also belabored.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:15AMAre critics looking "Beyond the Horizon"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:14AM
James and Oliver Phelps attended Mystère, playing at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, on Saturday, March 3.
The show, recently updated to include a new aerial act and trapeze finale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:58AMIn celebration of its 10-year anniversary, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts has commissioned acclaimed New York sculptor Gedi Sibony to create a temporary large-scale work featuring 40 o…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:15AMBroadway veteran and Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris will host the opening gala for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas on Saturday, March 10, according to reports.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:01AMIt's hard to write a musical about capitalism. Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill gave it a shot with The Threepenny Opera. The musical Urinetown took a crack at it. Now comes Mission Drift, a tw…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:00AM
Jon Robin Baitz OTHER DESERT CITIES, Talk, Q&A and Book Signing
Jon Robin Baitz, author of Other Desert Cities, will be interviewed by theatre critic and author David Finkle, followed by a …
SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 06:45AMUnsungMusicalsCo.'s attempt to resuscitate Richard Lewine and Arnold B. Horwitt's 1948 hit musical revue, "Make Mine Manhattan," is at best painless.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:05AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with two-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel. This time around Gavin and I discuss his new album "Get Out," which is comes out on March 20, 2012, performing a…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
Let Britain have its Hamlets and Lears. Here, there’s no role more iconic than Willy Loman, the doomed American dreamer
of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
Philip Seymour Hoff…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:54AMHap-hap-happy!...it began in a small village in Spain...by Rose CullisThe Happy Woman began a number of years ago, when I was briefly living in a small village in Spain. Every morning …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AM“We should not seek immortality in reproduction. But if you contribute to the world’s culture, if you have a good idea, compose a tune, invent a spark plug, write a poem, it may live on,…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMLPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMMae WestThe Old Boys ClubMen still dominate showbiz – but from Mae West to Barbra Streisand, from Julie Taymor to Canada’s very own Ellen David, the times-they-are-a-changing. By Ri…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist, played by Rosemary Harris, and the forces that wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Bridge Project, a three-year transatlantic venture between the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Old Vic and Neal Street Productions, comes to an end March 4 with the final performance of R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMP.S. 84 The Lillian Weber School Parent Teacher Association presents Part of His World: An Evening with Alan Menken, a special cabaret event to raise money for the school's enrichme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA young deaf man escapes the emotional cacophony of his dysfunctional family when a woman who is losing her hearing transforms his life in the American premiere of Nina Raine's Olivier A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCarrie writers Lawrence D. Cohen, Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford look back at their notorious musical's past — and revel in its present revised revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"GCB," the new hour-long television series starring Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth, makes its series premiere March 4 at 10 PM ET on ABC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSeth Rudetsky's Disaster, A 1970's disaster movie…musical, written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick, welcomes Annie Golden and Felicia Finley to its cast March 4 at The Tria…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe cast of the new Disney musical Newsies, which begins previews on Broadway March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre, records the show's original cast album March 4-5. The recording will be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe film of the 25th anniversary staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall airs March 4 at 7 PM ET in the New York metropolitan area as par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1922 Eugene O'Neill's drama The First Man describes the strange tale of a scientist who curses the unborn child in his wife's womb. The wife dies in childbirth and the child thri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTribes made me excited about New York theatre again; I haven't been this knocked out by a play in a long time--maybe not since Our Town opened at Barrow Street Theatre under the direction of…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM 
