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Fred Weintraub – The Bitter End – Woodstock – Enter The Dragon by Sandi Durell

Does the name Fred Weintraub mean anything to you? It should. He’s the guy who launched the careers of Woody Allen, Stiller and Meara, Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby, Judy Collins,…

Off Broadway Theater Review: LOST IN YONKERS (The Beckett Theatre/Theatre Row) by Sarah Taylor Ellis

SIMON’S LOST IS FOUND The disappointing turnout for The Neil Simon Plays on Broadway in 2009 suggested that Neil Simon’s style of dysfunctional family comedy, a mainstay of The Great Whi…

Los Angeles Theater Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Theatre Banshee in Burbank) by Jason Rohrer

MUCH ADO TO KNOW ITSELF Sean Branney has been as lauded as a Los Angeles theater director can be, and Theatre Banshee has done some great work recently, so it’s disappointing to report…

Shall I tell you what I think of you? by Stephen Farrow

This afternoon, I saw the current UK tour of The King and I at the Liverpool Empire. Unless hell freezes over, or I get forced to at gunpoint, or I suffer some kind of permanent concussion, …

Spotlight | Toms River: Reliving the Day the Unsinkable Sank by Michael Sommers

“100 Years: Titanic Survivors and Their Stories” will be staged on April 15, the anniversary of the disaster, at the Arts and Community Center on the campus of Ocean County College.

Review: Being Shakespeare at curtainup.com by Deirdre Donovan

Simon Callow cogently explores what Shakespeare achieved andexperienced in his lifetime. .

Art spotlight: 'Treasures' in Northfield

Dance spotlight: Sewell partners with Parker Quartet

Theater spotlight: 'The Glass Menagerie'

Using Chekhov's tools

Playwright Donald Margulies uses the ruminations of four people as a portal into the way we make life choices.

Alecky Blythe: 'To get interviews, there are certain risks'

Alecky Blythe talks about bringing real life to the stage in her verbatim dramas – as well as the siege hostage who tried to bargain for sexAlecky Blythe makes verbatim theatre shows, reco…

Uncle Vanya; The Cherry Orchard; The Grand Duke – review by Susannah Clapp

Print Room, London; Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Finborough, LondonThe tiny Print Room delivers classic plays with a magnified immediacy. Lucy Bailey's lovely Uncle Vanya is played in the round…

The Marriage of Figaro – review by Clare Brennan

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDC Jackson's comic drama of sexual and financial shenanigans among Edinburgh's banking elite relies heavily on its two sources: Beaumarchais's 1784 comedy The Marriage…

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Memorization" (part 8 of 8) by New York Philharmonic

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Memorization" (part 8 of 8) Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Assistant Conductor Josh Weilerstein sit down with 105.9 WQXR's Jeff Sp…

Anna Karenina – review by Luke Jennings

Coliseum, LondonThe Russian choreographer Boris Eifman arrived in London last week following a New York season that saw him greeted with mixed reviews. According to the online magazine NYC D…

Sam West: 'I'm cheap and available – tell your friends!'

On the most cursory of glances, it seems an unlikely fit. Actor-director Samuel West, owner of some of the nicest vowel sounds on our stage and Oxford-educated scion of famous acting parents…

Alison Steadman: 'A gang of lads saw me and shouted "Pamela!" It really gave me a thrill'

I was proud to be involved in the first lesbian kiss on TV It was in 1974 in a BBC play called Girl, with Myra Frances, and it got a lot of reaction at the time. Then, when Brookside came on…

Royal Ballet Triple Bill, Royal Opera House, London Anna Karenina, Coliseum, London

They came in all their finery: glam-rockers in nose-rings and dog-chains, the Kensington set in full-fig Chanel. The last time the Royal Ballet attracted such a mixed crowd was in 2006, when…

Wonderful Town, The Lowry, Salford

Showbiz legend has it that Leonard Bernstein knocked out the music for Wonderful Town (the second of his three New York shows) in only five weeks. With Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wro…

Puttin' on that Top Hat

When Fred Astaire put on his top hat, tied up his white tie and brushed off his tails to collaborate with Irving Berlin, he danced his way into the hearts of cinemagoers. More than seven dec…

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Performing Together" (part 6 of 8) by New York Philharmonic

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Performing Together" (part 6 of 8) Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Assistant Conductor Josh Weilerstein sit down with 105.9 WQXR's …

Stile Antico brings 'antique style' to Cathedral Concerts

It's one of the world's most innovative early music groups.

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Role as Assistant Conductor" (part 5 of 8) by New York Philharmonic

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Role as Assistant Conductor" (part 5 of 8) Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Assistant Conductor Josh Weilerstein sit down with 105.9 WQX…

Booker winner attacks bid to ban Israeli national theatre company from Globe by Maggie Brown

Stars of theatre and literature split over invitation to Israeli company to stage Merchant of Venice in LondonAuthor Howard Jacobson has weighed into a debate over whether Israel's national …

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Role as Assistant Conductor" (part 5 of 8) by New York Philharmonic

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Role as Assistant Conductor" (part 5 of 8) Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Assistant Conductor Josh Weilerstein sit down with 105.9 WQX…

Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi at Symphony Hall by Arts Fuse Editor

If a few of his tempos, particularly in the opening movement, weren’t among the liveliest on record, there was a gravitas and underlying conviction to Mr. von Dohnányi’s interpretation …

Journalism vs Art by Chloe Veltman

One of the best things about being a John S Knight Fellow at Stanford is that when a line of thinking tugs at you and you're struggling to reel it in, all you have to do is put the word out …

Review: (Toronto) Clybourne Park by The Charlebois Post

Mark McGrinder, Sterling Jarvis and Audrey Dwyer in Clybourne Park. Photo by John Karastamatis.This GoodClybourne Park is another dish of brill from Studio 180 Theatreby Dave Ross“I w…

Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of THE COMMON PURSUIT! by Walter McBride

Meet the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of Simon Grays comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, directed by Moiss Kaufman. The Common Pursuit will feature Kristen B…

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Conductor Competition" (part 4 of 8) by New York Philharmonic

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Conductor Competition" (part 4 of 8) Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Assistant Conductor Josh Weilerstein sit down with 105.9 WQXR'…

News Nuggets: Is 'One Man, Two Guvnors' an original play or a revival? by Gold Derby

"Evita" opens to generally positive reviews: "Though some reviewers did not warm to [Ricky Martin] in the lead role, many seem to agree Olivier Award-winning Elena Roger is a …

"Wicked" allure endures for superfan Mike Meko of Denver by Lisa Kennedy

Superfan Mike Meko of Denver will mark his 15th and 16th viewings of the Broadway musical "Wicked" when it returns to Denver's Buell Theatre Wednesday through May 20.

Saturday, April 07, 2012

News I’ve Been Sitting OnSo in about a week or so it won’t matter that I mention this here on my blog as: 1) I think the O’Neill Playwrights Conference has had ample time since last Ja…

BroadwayGirlNYC: Broadway Workout Mix 2012 by BroadwayGirlNYC

Spring is here which means it's time to break out the sundresses and swimsuits. Working off the winter padding can be tough, so I've compiled a brand-new playlist to get your pumped up and …

Bach's elusive Passion by Thomas Garvey

Harry Christophers conducting soloists and orchestra in the St. Matthew Passion - photo: Kyle T. Hemingway.I've been pondering Handel and Haydn's version of Bach's St. Matthew Passion for so…

Don't Talk to the Actors by Wendy Caster

Tim Moyer, Kristin Wiegand, Lauren Rooney, Ellen Ratner,Paul Dake, Joel MalazitaOn the first day of rehearsal of the Broadway production of his heart-warming two-character play, Tuning Piano…

Yet Even More Women On The Stage/Page by Isaac Butler

I forgot to mention this earlier, but the ASME nominations just dropped. ASME is the American Society of Magazine Editors. Their awards are a big deal. Anyway, in case you haven't heard, not…

Translations: Engaging Engagement by Michael Rohd by HowlRound

This column, published every 4-6 weeks, examines issues of translation as they relate to the field of theater and its intersections with other public and civic sectors. What does the word �…

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Teachers and Practice" (part 3 of 8) by New York Philharmonic

Offstage with Alisa & Josh Weilerstein - "Teachers and Practice" (part 3 of 8) Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Assistant Conductor Josh Weilerstein sit down with 105.9 WQXR'…

Review: The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth by Lori Hopkins

The Unicorn Theatre is hosting its brand new production of The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth to lure in families over the Easter period.  Don’t expect yo ho ho and a bottle of rum; thi…

Photo Coverage Exclusive: EVITA's Gypsy Robe Ceremony by Walter McBride

Read more about EVITA's opening night here, and check out full coverage of the Gypsy Robe ceremony below

Review: The American Clock by Guy Jones

Phil Wilmott looks at the past through the lens of the present in his revival of Arthur Miller’s 1980 play, inspired by Studs Terkel’s Hard Times, in which Americans tell the story of t…

Review: Broken News by Jake Orr

With a running time of less than an hour, Squint’s Broken News at the New Wimbledon Studio Theatre packs in an energetic production with a compact story fit for the micro-narrative soc…

Weekend Agenda: Shake Your Bon Bon Edition by Lucky

Ah, the weekend. That means you have two full days – or four Newsies lotteries, however you’re counting – to kick back, relax, and gossip your face off about what happened on Broad…

Pamela Anderson to Broadway? by Michael Block

Yes, you read that right. Rumors began swirling last night that Pamela Anderson, of Playboy and "Baywatch" fame, may make her Broadway debut in the stunt-casting friendly Chicago. Though no …

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 4/7- ANYTHING GOES by Stage Tube

Today in 2011, the third Broadway revival of Anything Goes opened at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where it is still running. Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.…

New York City Ballet at The Kennedy Center by Carolyn Kelemen by Carolyn Kelemen

 New York City Ballet Carries on the Message of the Master Ballet troupes have their ups and downs and dancers come and go, but the New York City Ballet soars high and steady because of a …

Stray Dog takes on both parts of Kushner's 'Angels in America'

It is a thrillingly ambitious work.

Theatre review: Second City’s Live Wrong and Prosper isn’t good comedy … it’s great by Robert Cushman

One of the cleverest bits in Live Wrong and Prosper, the latest Second City revue, depicts childbirth as a long-range spectator sport. There’s the father-about-to-be, tweeting each second …

Pamela Anderson to Join CHICAGO by BroadwayWorld

According to parezhilton.com, Pamela Anderson is headed to Broadway. The actress is set to star in the hit revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO.

Josh Hutcherson, Kelly Osbourne, Naya Rivera Win "NewNowNext" Awards by Brian Scott Lipton

Logo's "NewNowNext" Awards, which recognizes trendsetters as well as stars-on-the-rise to uncover in TV, music, film, and fashion, were held on Friday, April 6 and will be tel…

End of the Rainbow by Lesley Alexander

If you like your stars ragged and exposed, raunchy and self-involved, then you’ll love the British import about the last days of the legendary Judy Garland’s life, from playwright, Peter…

Newsies by Lesley Alexander

Delightfully charming, “Newsies,” is an old-fashioned style musical, big on heart and full of tap-dancing fun. It even offers a break-out star in Jeremy Jordon as Jack Kelly, the charism…

Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark Stuntman to Sue Production over Injuries by Chris Luner

Things have been relatively quiet over at Broadway’s Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark for some time now. And by quiet of course, I mean people aren’t flying into walls, falling into …

Writing a New Musical with Scott Alan and Christy Hall #1 by BroadwaySpotted

Writing team Scott Alan and Christy Hall sat down with BroadwaySpotted.com’s James the Intern to document the writing process. These two are writing a brand new musical and we will be …

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME With Lin-Manuel Miranda Plays at the Gramercy Tonight by BroadwayWorld

Lin-Manuel Miranda and his hip-hoprap group, Freestyle Love Supreme, will perform at New York's Gramercy Theatre at 730 pm tonight, April 7. Miranda founded the group at Wesleyan University …

Walter Winchell by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of that complex American phenomenon (and child vaudevillian) Walter Winchell. For his full bio go here. And here is delivering this exceptionally strange promo for Jerr…

Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory Remember When Everything Was Possible by Michael Portantiere

Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory met in the mid 1960s when they were both fresh faced kids studying at AMDA, and even before they graduated, they were cast as the passionate lovers Maria a…

Photo Coverage: On Set of SUBMISSIONS ONLY with Jesse Tyler Ferguson & More! by Submissions Only

Submissions Only is in full production for Episode 8 of its second season, and BroadwayWorld was invited inside the shoot with special guest star Jesse Tyler Ferguson Details of the episode…

Dream Cast: The Princess Bride the Musical by BroadwaySpotted

More than anything, when I see something I think could or should be a show, I love to speculate about who would play what roles. I love the way casting works and I love sticking my favorite,…

"Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" Cincinnati's Know Theatre by Scott Cain

It appears both Andrew Jackson and the musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson were/are great dichotomies.

"Long Day's Journey Into Night" in Watertown Mass. by Nancy Grossman

New Repertory Theatre offers up a taut, dramatic staging of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American classic Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill.

Circus evolves amid market, regulatory challenges by Matthew Barakat

The circus has been around for centuries and epitomizes traditional family entertainment. At Vienna, Va.-based Feld Entertainment, the challenge has been to balance tradition and innovation.…

NIBBLES AND SIPS AROUND TOWN: Hop On In! by Jordan Wright by Jordan Wright

Seems like the holidays stacked up on us this year. It’s times like these we wish we were still in school or had paid federal holidays. But noooo – we’re still hopping around finding t…

Artist Sibony hopes Pulitzer exhibition inspires moments of insight

Among the virtues of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is its sheer spaciousness. It's a place that inspires thoughtful wandering, with the perfect atmosphere for taking in paintings, scu…

Fuse CD Review: Basya Schechter Sings “Songs of Wonder” by Arts Fuse Editor

This CD marks a turning point: a solo effort by Basya Schechter with outstanding back-up by a wide range of musicians that features music based on the Yiddish poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua …

The Silent Clowns Plunder the Library of Congress! by Trav S.D.

Drat, drat and double drat! I am traveling today or else I definitely would have attended this! Today, April 7th at 2:30, The Silent Clowns Film Series will present… “Forgotten Funny…

BWW's On This Day - April 7, 2012

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

The Latter-Day Resurrections of "Godspell" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Jan Simpson

Here’s a question for the Baby Boomers among you:  was the substance you abused in your youth more likely to be speed or hashish? I ask because the answer could determine which of t…

Jesus Christ Superstar: Don't Give It Up for Lent by Peter Filichia

Good Friday would seem to be an apt day to discuss Jesus Christ Superstar, wouldn't you say? Only minutes into the new production at the Neil Simon, director Des McAnuff displays an idea tha…

Underestimation by Don Hall

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.-- Ernest HemingwayI think the worst mistake one can make in life is underestimating people.There is a sense of secure…

Interview: a radical spin on The Odyssey in Oxford by TheatreVOICE

Interview: Madeleine Hyland (performer with The Factory) and James Erskine (executive director of Creation Theatre) talk to Ella Parry-Davies about a new collaboration between the two compan…

‘Killer Joe’ offers a lurid, exciting cast of characters

The Smith family of “Killer Joe,” an astonishingly lurid play at the St. Louis Actors’ Studio, is not an unfamiliar group of characters in the world of American letters. William Faulkn…

B Street looking for $8 million to launch Sacramento theater project by Edward Ortiz

The clock is ticking for the B Street Theatre in its effort to raise the remaining $8 million sought for a proposed $24 million theater complex.

West End Review (pt1): Sweeney Todd, Abigail’s Party, Filumena, and more by TheatreVOICE

West End Review (pt1): Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International…

West End Review (pt2): The Master & Margarita, Can We Talk About This? and more by TheatreVOICE

West End Review (pt2): Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) convene t…

Moor Power, Moor Problems by Sam Hurwitt

Othello, the Moor of Venice, Marin Theatre Company. Marin Theatre Company does its first Shakespeare play in years, and I reviewed it in Thursday’s Marin Independent Journal. So click …

Andrew is Hungry! by BroadwaySpotted

Andrew is Hungry! Andrew Keenan-Bolger of District Newsies has made it through the first round of The Broadway Hunger Games! He beat his first opponent and now he is OUT FOR BLOOD! From: Bw…

Lucille Lortel Nominations, Did Your Favorites Make it on the List? by Suzanna Bowling

Lucille Lortel Nominations, Did Your Favorites Make it on the List? The award season is upon us and is happening so fast we missed the Lucille Lortel nominations. The Lortel Awards will be h…

Planet Egg by Aaron Riccio

More polished than your average tech-demo/theater-hybrid, Planet Egg takes up the baton from where the delightful Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer left it, and crafts a t…

THEATER: Planet Egg by Aaron Riccio

More polished than your average tech-demo/theater-hybrid, Planet Egg takes up the baton from where the delightful Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer left it, and crafts a two-ma…

JKTS Interactive: HOT/HOTTER: Round 11: The Replacements Part 1 by JK

Several weeks ago, when I asked you to send me in the names of Broadway Boys that you found to be uniquely attractive - not your typical Broadway Bares poster boy, but attractive in an uncon…

"Elephant Room" - Exactly What You Expect, and More! by Byrne Harrison

By Judd Hollander Photo by Pavel Antonov Many performers end up looking totally ridiculous on stage, but it takes that special blend of performance and personality to be able to do it with s…

Penny Jackson by League of Professional Theatre Women

published novelist and playwright New York, New York USA Paula Vogel said that “Theatre is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in dialogue right now.” Dialogue outsid…

Robert Lepage's the Ring draws fire in New York by Michael Posner

A Canadian superstar is blasted by critics for a $16-million Ring cycle that tests the balance between soul and spectacle onstage

Ayala Zacks: A tribute at the AGO by Murray Whyte

Ayala Zacks almost single-handedly introduced Toronto to Modern art, capping years of weekly salons with a gift of more than 400 works to the AGO in 1970. This week, the gallery opens a trib…

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With David Auburn, Playwright of Broadway's The Columnist by Kenneth Jones

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn returns to Broadway with The Columnist, a biographical character-study of the powerful journalist Joseph Alsop.

THE WEEK AHEAD, April 7-13: Magic/Bird Opens on Broadway; Off-Broadway's Carrie Dies by Blake Ross

Playbill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Lin-Manuel Miranda returns to his rap roots… Carrie dies her last death… Magic Johnson and Larry Bird go legit… and An…

PLAYBILL PICKS: From Jafar to Scar to Gaston, A Rogues' Gallery of Disney Stage Villains by Michael Gioia

With the Broadway arrival of the new Disney musical Newsies — a show with a surprising history-inspired antagonist — we take a look at the most notorious baddies from Disney'…

Theatre For Thought, April 7, 2012 by The Charlebois Post

(photo credit: Trudie Lee)SOME GUY AND HIS DOLLSRonnie Burkett and the Theatre of Marionettesjoel fishbane“Life is finite,” says master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. “I’m just killing us…

Review: BLAST RADIUS by Michael Mraz

Part 2 of Gideon Productions' and Mac Rogers' sci-fi trilogy, Blast Radius, now playing at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City, expands the story's scale. While it deals with the socio-po…

Review: THE MORINI STRAD by Martin Denton

Erica Morini--the inspiration for Willy Holtzman's new play The Morini Strad--was a real person. She was a child prodigy who became famous in the 1920s in Europe and the United States; the j…

Review: END OF THE RAINBOW by Julie Congress

The first question you must ask of a play is: Why this play now? Unfortunately, I have no idea why the producers and creators of End of the Rainbow have deemed this show, about the addiction…

CHART TOPPERS: Most-Read Playbill.com Stories, Week of March 25–31 by Judy Samelson

Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of March 25–31, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.

Freestyle Love Supreme, With Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Iglehart, Anthony Veneziale, Plays the Gramercy April 7 by Michael Gioia

Freestyle Love Supreme, the freestyle hip hop crew featuring Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, who was last seen in the Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along, plays the Gramercy Theatre…

West End Run of Legally Blonde the Musical Ends April 7 by Mark Shenton

The West End run of Legally Blonde the Musical shutters April 7 at the Savoy Theatre after a run of over three years.

Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still Begins Guthrie Run April 7 by Andrew Gans

The Guthrie Theater's production of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still begins previews April 7 prior to an official opening April 13 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage. Performances wi…

STAGE VIEWS: Original Follies Stars Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory by Andrew Gans

Playbill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-mail, we he…

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: APRIL 7 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas and Ernio Hernandez

1913 On The Purple Road there's a disguised Napoleon waiting to woo an unsuspecting girl named Wanda. Valli Valli is the innocent soon to meet her Waterloo at the Liberty Theatre in New …

Raven-Symone helps 'Sister Act' B.O.

Legit News: New player boosts sales in up week for Broadway

Horses leap into touring spotlight

Legit News: 'Apassionata' tackles road tour logistics