Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical about Marilyn Monro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58PMABDC Britney Spears - Season 7 Week 1 - Fanny Pak, 8 Flavahs, Irratik, Step Boys, Mix'd Elements
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), season 7 week 1, features songs by Britney Spears!…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:49PMJust quick reminder that this your last week to catch Hunter Parrish in Godspell! Hunter’s last performance will be this Sunday, April 15th at 7:30 PM. And let me just say, if you…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:45PMSmash - Season 1 Episode 10 - Understudy - Luan Legacy Recap
In the tenth episode of NBC's Smash, the show has landed star Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman), but Eileen is thrown into a pani…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:43PMLast night, April 9, the company of LYSISTRATA JONES - including Jason Tam, Josh Segarra, Libby Servais, Liz Mikel, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, LaQuet Shamell and more - reunited at Joe's Pub f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMDaniel John Kelley
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Current Town: Brooklyn, NY
Q: What are you working on now?
A: My latest play is Wall, Ball, Summer And Fall (A Coney Island Adventur…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 06:26PMI recently attended a preview performance of this whimsical and inventive prequel to Peter Pan, and I thought I'd offer readers the chance to win (1) voucher (for two tickets for any perform…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:23PM"You don't remember civilizations by their banks or their notaries, but by their artworks," says the manager of A Contemporary Theatre.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:15PMWest End star Kerry Ellis recently wrote article for the Huffington Pst, in which she urges tourists to see a show while in London for the 2012 Olympics. Ellis writes 'Theatre is part of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMSure, you’ve seen the workshop episode of Smash. But how do in-development musicals really get from an idea in a writer’s brain to the stage? One common step in between there som…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 06:05PMAn agitated city woman and a hokey outdoorsman find love in Drew Larimore’s romantic comedy “Out of Iceland.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PMThe former Liberal leaders political career may be dead, but his Booker Prize-nominated novel is very much alive and now comes to the stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:05PMJamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Molly Smith continues this series. What makes an artistic home? I hav…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:00PMApollo, LondonWhy, however often we see it, do we continue to find Eugene O'Neill's family drama so moving? Partly because the play draws so closely on the author's own experience. Watching …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
Oscar-Winning Actor Dead at 95. Ernest Borginine died Sunday at the age of 95. Here is my interview with the Hamden-born, Connecticut-raised actor in 2010.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:51PMAccording to the New York Times, the National Endowment for the Arts has just proposed a major cut in funding for PBS, which includes the theatre-themed 'Great Performances.' As a result of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMBroadway hunk Cheyenne Jackson last appeared on the Great White Way in the fall of 2009, leading the Tony-nominated revival of Finian’s Rainbow as Woody Mahoney. Since then he has appe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director and 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more informa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:29PMLouise Pitre, Judy Blazer, and Ray Roderick preview the Goodspeed Musicals production of Jerry Herman's classic tuner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:28PMTony Award nominees Maria Dizzia and Jayne Houdyshell, as well as Drama Desk winner Heidi Schreck, will appear in a series of free new play readings at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMThe Weathervane Theatre Alumni Association will present a gala evening entitled Raise the Roof! Recover, Rebuild, Rejoice!, April 30 at 9:30pm at Joe's Pub.
The event will feature pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:09PMIn this new feature, Broadway.com staffers send personal shout-outs to applause-worthy stars, shows and more.
“Are you high?” With those three words aimed at Gabriel Ebert, Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMProfiles Theatre has announced the productions set for its 2012-2013 season of Midwest premieres.
The season will open with the Midwest premiere of Tommy Nohilly's dark comedy about a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PM“Dreaming the Americas,” the 6th Annual NoPassport Theatre Conference will stream live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info this Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15 from the Arizona…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:02PM
Steven Sater, librettist and lyricist of Spring Awakening, is joined by stars Jonathan Groff and Lauren Pritchard to talk about the creative process behind the Tony-winning show, many detail…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMThe autobiographical play “From the Same Cloth” finds Megan Auster-Rosen setting out a journey, as her father did in the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51PMPartial Comfort Productions has announced casting for its previously reported 8th annual Welcome Mat Reading Series of new plays, to be staged at Atlantic Theater Company's Studio Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:50PMProfiles Theatre, the ever-ambitious company with two storefront operations and a loyal audience following, has announced five productions for its 2012-2013 season. It also has named playwri…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:50PMNPR's Bob Mondello looks back at classic examples of the showstopping theatrical phenomenon that's fallen out of fashion — the encore.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:35PMComedian Judah Friedlander brings his trucker-hat wisdom to the Varsity Theater.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:31PMFilmed here in 2009, Charles Atlas' "Ocean" documents a performance at a Minnesota quarry.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:31PMA TRIUMPHANT TRAINWRECK If you’ve never applauded a trainwreck, be prepared to do so when you see Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow. I am not talking about the gossip-driven, hardly rev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29PMSan Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (SFBATCC) announced its 2011 award winners during a ceremony held on April 2 at the Palace of Fine Arts.
Each year, SFBATCC gives out drama and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMYou've got to have guts to take on the role of Lady Macbeth but I'm afraid that's all the praise I can offer Nadja Michael's flat, screechy, air raid siren of an attempt. In other regards th…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 04:23PMThe Original Broadway Cast Recording of NEWSIES is now available digitally today on Ghostlight Records. The album has debuted at 1 on the iTunes Soundtracks chart and 15 on the iTunes album …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMA host of theatre artists will join forces April 30 at Joe's Pub for a concert to benefit the rebuilding efforts of the original Weathervane Theatre, whose historic New Hampshire barn wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMCast recording includes seven new original songs! As Newsies continues to bring in rave reviews from critics and fans alike, the Original Broadway Cast Recording is now available digitally t…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:16PMTriple-platinum recording artist Aaron Carter, scheduled to complete his run as Matt in The Fantasticks on April 22, 2012, will remain with the production through July 22, 2012. A new block …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMThe American National Theatre (ANT) has announced casting for two upcoming staged readings, to be presented at Theater Row's Clurman Theater on Monday, April 30.
At 4pm, Tim D. O'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMWe are delighted to see the Globe theatre welcoming Israel's national theatre, Habima, to perform The Merchant of Venice in London (Letters, 4 April). Founded in the early 20th century …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM
David Henderson is the new director of marketing, sales and communications at Hartford Stage . He takes over his new duties immediately.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:57PMTHE LYONS debuted last fall at the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre and just began previews on April 5, with an official opening night set for April 23. THE LYONS comes to Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:56PMREDCAT will present the world premiere of Sandra Bernhard's new show, Sandrology, May 30-June 2.
The show takes its name from Bernhard's appearances as a "pop culture anthrop…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMI suppose I only have myself to blame. A while ago I’d told a good friend, Francesca, about an idea I’d come up with to stage one of my favorite plays. She decided that this might actual…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:50PMWill Kern's "Hellcab," the comic exploits of a Chicago cabbie and one of the longest running shows in Chicago theater history, is coming back as part of the Profiles Theatre's 2012-13 season…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:42PMBy Three Former Women Inmates from Niantic's York Correctional InstituteA mash-up of Dante’s Inferno and life behind bars in a maximum-security women’s prison in Connecticut, the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:39PMMcCoy Rigby Entertainment and FX Arts, by arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh, will present Miss Saigon May 11 and 12 at the Fox Performing Arts Center.
Brian Kite directs Claude Michel Sch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMOf the seven surviving tragedies of Sophocles, two deal with the Trojan War: Ajax, one of his earliest plays, and Philoctetes, one of his last. Both are newly pertinent today.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:34PMThe Youth Theater Series at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport will present Cinderella, April 21 through June 17.
The classic fairy tale tells the story of the titular heroine, who, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMStrawberry Theater Workshop, New Century Theatre Company and Washington Ensemble Theater have been selected as resident arts groups for a new development in the heart of Capitol Hill in Seat…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:32PMMr. Azenberg, the producer of "Lost in Yonkers" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs," among many other plays, will get the lifetime achievement prize at the June ceremony.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMAn updated list of participants for the 10th Annual TV Land Awards has been announced. The prizes will be presented, as previously reported, in a ceremony to be hosted by Kelly Ripa and held…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMThe Improv Play - InFusion Theatre Company at the DCA Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph in Chicago, is offering $12.50 industry tickets on Thursdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm from April …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:29PMRecording artist and actor Aaron Carter has extended his run playing rebellious young romantic Matt in off-Broadway's The Fantasticks. Carter, who joined the show at the Snapple The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMGlee star Darren Criss made his Broadway debut earlier this year in the revival How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Since then, Broadway fans have been eager to get Criss back …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMBroadways Future - presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul in association with N NProductions - continues Monday, April 16th at 6PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMWinners of this year's Seattle August Wilson Monologue Contest have been announced. The contest, now in its second year, requires entrants to perform a 3-minute monologue from one of Wilson'…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:17PMA Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch, began its limited Broadway run at the Broadh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMPop singer Aaron Carter has extended his run in the Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks for a second time through July 22 at the Snapple Theatre Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMWith what promises to be its most ambitious slate yet, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has announced its impressive 2012 lineup and celebrates its 10th Year Anniversary. 33 f…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMAaron Carter has once again extended his run in the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, playing at the Snapple Theatre Center, and will now continue in the role of Matt through July …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Boho Theatre stages *The Rainmaker* in an intimate black box style. Director Stephen M. Genovese’s compact staging smartly pushes focus toward the characters rather than the circumstances …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:59PMOh, that Aphra Behn. She didn't let being a woman in the 17th century hold her down...along with being one of England's first professional female writers, she found time to travel and pick u…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:58PMHighlights from the American Theatre Wing's 2012 Jonathan Larson Grants Presentation event featuring music from "Rent" and 2012 Jonathan Larson Grant recipients Dan Collins and Julianne Wick…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:57PMGotta Dance! Photoshoot with Brian O'Brien of "Chicago"
In the newest installment of Gotta Dance!, Broadway.com gets an inside look at a dancer's life courtesy of Brian O&…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:56PMOn Monday, April 9, Broadway stars Karen Mason and Brent Barrett thrilled a packed house with an evening of Kander amp Ebb showstoppers at Birdland The concert, titled Sing Happy, was a cele…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PMTheresa Rebeck’s Seminar is kicking off the spring semester with a new class of stars including Oscar nominee Jeff Goldblum, movie star Justin Long and TV star Zoe Lister-Jones. The tr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:50PMAlterTheater's AlterLab Salon Now One Week Away AlterLab playwrights: Ann Brebner, Rebecca Frank, Marisela Treviño Orta and Ignacio ZuluetaThere are lots of reasons why I'm excited for nex…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 02:48PMWhat's the buzz? Jesus Christ Superstar headliner Chilina Kennedy stopped by NBC New York to chat about the mysterious relationship between Jesus, Mary and Judas in the hi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMLauren Kennedy and Nikka Lanzarone, currently starring in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods at Baltimore CenterStage, introduce an unsung hero and veteran of the show: T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMSinger-actor Tony Vincent, most recently seen on Broadway in American Idiot, covered Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" on the April 9 broadcast of NBC's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMStart with love, success, and crime-busting all wrapped up in the glamour of flapper dresses, bobbed hair, and talk of the “modern woman.” Mix in some tap-dancing and jazzy vocals and it…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:44PMThe lights come up on the Secret Annex, left in the same disordered state from when the residents were taken away. One man sits at the table, lost in memories, crying, and broken. Already, e…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:41PMCasting has been announced for The Theatre @ Boston Court's world premiere production of Michael Elyanow's The Children, to run May 3 through June 10 at the Boston Court Performing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMJohn Znidarsic's Broadway's Future will spotlight the work of composer and lyricist Steven Jamail in a free performance on April 16 at 6pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMTHE LYONS debuted last fall at the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre and just began previews on April 5, with an official opening night set for April 23. THE LYONS comes to Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMOn May 15, Broadway Records released the original cast recording of the Broadway musical, LYSISTRATA JONES, featuring music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn and book by Tony Award nominee Douglas C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMBroadway star Tony Vincent performed on the April 9 edition of NBC's reality-talent competition The Voice, singing "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears. He i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMRicky Martin, Elena Roger, Michael Cerveris and the cast of EVITA will perform two numbers from the show and discuss the highly-anticipated return of Andrew Lloyd Webber amp Tim Rices iconic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMAuschwitz survivor turned clutch purse manufacturer Lucy Deutsch has now turned her autobiography into the musical No Time to Weep, opening at the Matrix. Starring as the young Lucy is Caitl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:19PMIn anticipation of the upcoming Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which will begin May 9, New York City Center offers the "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" vid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMMusical Theatre Guild will present a one-night-only production of William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain Monday, April 16 at the Alex Theater.
Todd Nielsen will direct and choreog…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMM-34 is set to present 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane and Letter To My Father by Franz Kafka together in repertory, May 10-27 at Brooklyn's Magic Futurebox Theatre. James Rutherford will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PM
CoffeeHouse Productions will present the world premiere of Richard Martin Hirsch's The Closeness of the Horizon May 17 through June 24 at the Odyssey Theatre.
Darin Anthony directs th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMTHEATER REVIEW: "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915" at the V…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:56PMOn May 15, Broadway Records released the original cast recording of the Broadway musical, LYSISTRATA JONES, featuring music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn and book by Tony Award nominee Douglas C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMThis is a Tranny Marilyn impersonator surrounded by multiuple PhantomOfTheOperas courtesy of http://thewongcouple.com/blog/travel/thailand-land-sensory-extremes-part-2We're, like, …
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 01:49PMTennessee Williams’ landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire is back on Broadway with an all-star cast, and we’ve got a peek at photos of these A-listers in action. Blair Underwood…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMCabaret artists Jim Caruso and Billy Stritch will offer a concert of "swinging standards" every Sunday in June at the Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel beginning June 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMWalk The Line
Through May 26 at School 33 Art Center
More at weekly.citypaper.com
By day, Michelle Joan Wilkinson is director of collections and exhibitions at the Reginald F. Lew…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 01:42PMShowtime continued its ongoing series of panel discussions about its returning television series at the 92nd Street Y on Monday, April 9, with a talk about the series The Big C.
The event …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:37PMSince the very beginning of NBC’s Broadway-loving Smash, Marilyn Monroe wannabes Ivy (Megan Hilty) and Karen (Katharine McPhee) have both been hoping, praying and conniving to be …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMBroadway's Seminar, the new play by Theresa Rebeck, got a new poison pen in the form of Jeff Goldblum starting on April 3. He succeeded Alan Rickman as a literary lion who judges the wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMOn April 9, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Nick Jonas stopped by Planet Hollywood in Times Square to donate a very special costume to the restaurant’s famous mem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMMax Stafford-Clark will direct a revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, according to WhatsOnStage.com. The production will inaugurate London's newest theatre,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMThe stars of the Broadway revival of Evita -- Ricky Martin as Che, Elena Roger as Eva, and Michael Cerveris as Juan Perón -- will perform alongside other members of the cast on AB…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMGhostlight Records announced today that they will go into the recording studio with the cast of Carrie next week, April 17, to record the first-ever cast album. Release dates for the album w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMTony Award winners James Earl Jones and John Larroquette, who are co-starring in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, will appear with the play's director Michael Wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMSteppenwolf Garage TheatreMonday, April 30th, 6pm-8pmRSVP to [email protected] READY FOR THE NEXT SOCIAL HOUR? WE ARE!Topic: Is Chicago Theatre Still White? How far have we come sin…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:26PMIn the newest installment of Gotta Dance!, Broadway.com gets an inside look at a dancer’s life courtesy of Brian O’Brien, the standout male dancer in the long-running hit Chicago…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PM"Good Morning America" will welcome the stars of the Broadway revival of Evita April 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMApple Core Theater Company is set to present the world premiere of Israeli-American playwright Ken Kaissar's A Modest Suggestion, May 10-27 at the Studio Theatre at Theatre Row. Walter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMJennifer Lim will receive the inaugural Immigrant Artists and Scholars in New York (IASNY) Trophy for Excellence at the company's New York With An Accent celebration, to be held on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMYesterday, history was made on Broadway as the longest running musical in Broadway history, The Phantom of the Opera, was ousted as the highest grossing Broadway show in history. Instead, it…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 01:17PMSpin City with "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" star Christina Sajous: Episode #8
Get tickets to "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark":
For the past seven weeks, "Spider…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14PMThe Olney Theatre Center is set to present two cabaret performances of Ebony, Ivory and Ink featuring DC area favorites, May 4 and 5 at Olney Theatre Center's Mainstage.
Ebony, Ivory…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMBenjamin Busch, author of the new memoir Dust to Dust (Ecco, hardcover), writes with the precision of a stonemason, the courage of a combat veteran, and the inquisitiveness of an artist, whi…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 01:13PMBayside! The UnMusical!, an unauthorized parody of beloved nineties Saturday morning mainstay, Saved By the Bell, returns to the East Village's Kraine Theatre from May 9th-19th. From w…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 01:10PMMortified – click to enlarge by Shira Leuchter I’m a big fan of Harbourfront’s HATCH program, and the 2012 season begins this week with Mortified, a performance that “creates a s…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:06PMMCC’s remounting of Carrie will live on with a cast recording from Ghostlight Records. The off-Broadway cast, led by Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson, will record the album during the wee…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMJames Denton will guest star on the May 16 episode of TV Land's Hot in Cleveland, as a love interest for Joy (played by Jane Leeves), according to TVGuide.com.
Denton's stage cred…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PM
Wheaton High School Silver Spring, MD Reported by: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher March 29, 2012 What a day to be back at Wheaton High School in…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:59PMThink your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Lyons! As matriarch Rita Lyons, Linda Lavin is always quick with a zinger, especially when they come at the expense of her ill husband (Dick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMThe cast of 7 Fingers' Traces, currently playing at the Union Square Theatre in New York City, will be special guests at TEDMED 2012, the annual multi-disciplinary gathering where leade…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:56PMBroadway's Tituss Burgess, Ramona Keller, and Joy Jacobs are set to join Jordan Tang and The Jackson Symphony for I Hear a Symphony, Motown's Greatest Hits!, April 14 at 7:30pm at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:55PMSkylark Opera has announced the productions planned for its fifth annual Summer Festival, which will take place June 8-17 at E.M. Pearson Theatre.
The festival's offerings will inclu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMNearly 15 years after it made its debut to both critical and popular acclaim, "The Lion King" has topped "The Phantom of the Opera" as Broadway's highest-grossing musical of all time.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:52PMBroadway star, singer and new father Tony Vincent performed Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World on last night's episode of NBC's The Voice. To see if Vincent will make Cee-Lo …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMTwo-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel and Tony-nominated The Book of Mormon star Rory O’Malley will headline the upcoming staged reading of Dustin Lance Black's 8 Ion Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMGhostlight Records will record the cast album of MCC Theater's production of Carrie on April 17. The show's composer Michael Gore, along with Joel Moss, will serve as producer. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMA Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch, began its limited Broadway run at the Broadh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMSome new work from this past week. Working with natural media textures and representational imagery. The first based on a photograph I took in New York last summer. The second from a product…
SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:32PMGhostlight Records will record the cast album of the revised Off-Broadway production of Carrie, the musical by Oscar winners Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMThe actress plays a cantankerous diva for Primary Stages – Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles With silver hair…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:30PMPreview performances for Second Stage’s production of Lonely, I’m Not begin today, April 10. The production is scheduled to open on Monday, May 7. This is a limited engagement to May 27.…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:28PMKaty Perry Part of Me 3D Concert Film - Official Theatrical Trailer #2 2012 (HD)
The second official theatrical trailer for Katy Perry: Part of Me in 3D! In theaters on July 5, 2012!
Dire…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:22PMWhatsonstage.com officially turns 15 this week. From humble beginnings we’ve chalked up 9,913 news stories, 7,641 reviews, 2,825 gossip items, 1,549 interviews, 1,112 features and 5,36…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:22PM"The Lion King" has dethroned "The Phantom of the Opera" as Broadway's all-time box-office champion. The Disney musical, based on the popular animated movie, has grossed a total of $853.8 mi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:16PMTony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad will direct Paul Oakley Stovall's Immediate Family, a new comedy about secrets revealed at a family reunion, to play a Chicago run beginning Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMABC will release a 3-DVD set of the first season of its series GCB, starring Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth on Tuesday, June 12.
The series, which airs on Sunday nights, has been creat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMThis week on SMASH, Tom and Julia Christian Borle and Debra Messing celebrated their anniversary with a ritual and faced some hard truths about what show business can do to relationships. Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced this years recipient for the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. This years award will be presented to producer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMSometimes I take living in the city for granted. To avoid the rat race, I typically take the Pedway to get from the train to my downtown office and back again, which means that I may go for …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 12:11PMThe Best Man Gore Vidal’s 1960 behind-the-scenes drama, about a contested political convention, campaigns for another shot at Broadway with a cast of big names including John Larroquet…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:10PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFER and Broadway Impact, today announced a one-night-only reading of 8, a play chronicling t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMComedian Jim Breuer is widely recognized for performing the Goat Boy and Joe Pesci characters on Saturday Night Live, and for participating in the ’90s stoner film Half Baked. His Podcast …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:06PMThe Soldier Dreams
By Daniel MacIvor, Directed by Steven J. Satta-Fleming
Through April 21 at Theatre Project
We here at
City Paper
have fallen all over ourselves praising…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:06PMReasons to be pretty
By Neil LaBute, Directed by Peter Shipley
At the Maryland Institute College of Art BBOX April 12 and 14
Neil LaBute is known for his true-to-life, often dark …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:06PMMadani Younis took over from Josie Rourke as artistic director of the Bush Theatre in January 2012, with his first season, ‘New Writing, New Artists’, launching this Thursday wit…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:06PMAre theatregoers more easily distracted than they used to be? And does it matter?I've been to the theatre hundreds, if not thousands, of times. I've sat in large auditoriums, small auditoriu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMBroadway audiences know all about Smash star and Tony nominee Christian Borle's triple threat abilities, but it wasn't until the theatrical series' April 9 episode that Borle was…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PMOscar winner Emma Thompson may star as Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers in Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, according to Deadline.com. As previously announced, Tom Hanks is in talks to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMBE SURE TO VOTE IN THE NEW MONTHLY POLL AND VOTE IN ROUND 11 OF HOT/HOTTER!DO BOTH TO YOUR LEFT...JUST CLICK THE ICONS!The Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the 45th week of the 2011…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 432012 - 4102012.
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A new production of Our Country's Good secures a footnote in West End history today as the first production to be confirmed for London's newest theatre - the St James Theatre.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:58AMWar Horse at the Vimy Ridge Commemorative Celebration
The battle of Vimy Ridge claimed the lives of 3,598 Canadian soldiers. On Monday April 9, 2012, Alex Furber and Joey made an appearance…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:55AMThe Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up is flying back to Broadway as the Peter Pan prequel Peter and the Starcatcher nears its April 15 opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Adapted from a young…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMIt’s spring, and I’m starting a whole new speaking cycle! Lots of great workshops and classes over the next couple of months, and I’m going to share them with you this week…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:52AMJim Caruso's Broadway at Birdland concert series continued April 9 with an evening entitled Sing Happy featuring theatre favorites Karen Mason and Brent Barrett.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMKevin Costner brought his band Modern West to Strathmore on Thursday night. Kevin Costner … as in Academy and Golden Globe Award winning actor, as in Dances with Wolves, The Body Guard, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will appear in the American Repertory Theater staging of Dustin Lance Black's marriage equality drama 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMToday in 2003, the first Broadway revival of Nine opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 283 performances. Nine is a musical with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMLegendary film director Peter Bogdanovich attended a performance of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session, on Saturday, April 7. The play performs Off-Broadway at New World Stage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMThe Royal Exchange Theatre, Hallé Orchestra and Lowry production of Leonard Bernstein's classic musical comedy, Wonderful Town starring Connie Fisher opened at the Lowry Theatre, Salf…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:32AMTate Donovan, Josh Hamilton, Heather Burns, David Pittu and Anthony Arkin will star in the forthcoming world premiere of Medieval Play, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. The Signatur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMSuper Bowl star Donald Driver borrowed from Gene Simmons' playbook to emerge victorious on Rock Week. Melissa Gilbert suffers an injury.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:30AMThe Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones offered two April 9 reunion concerts of the acclaimed Broadway score at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMDude, how cool is Kacie Sheik? She starred as Jeannie in the hit revival of Hair, she’s a complete rockstar, and she’s about to star as Gypsy Rose Lee in the musical February House, whic…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:28AMProducer Emanuel "Manny" Azenberg has been selected for the 2012 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, which he will receive on June 10 at the 2012 Tony Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMProducer Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg will receive the 2012 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
Azenberg has produced 65 productions for Broadway, receivin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMNext week on SMASH, Bombshell is turned upside-down by the arrival of movie star Rebecca Duvall special guest star Uma Thurman. Karen Katharine McPhee and Ivy Megan Hilty are drawn into an u…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMA mounting debt forced the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, Florida to pay the actors in their production of “Working” out of the Equity Bond.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:24AMThe Signature Theatre world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play will star Anthony Arkin, Heather Burns, Tate Donovan, Kevin Geer, Josh Hamilton, David Pittu and others to be ann…
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:22AMTHE PIRATES OF PENZANCE will be presented at The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL, opening April 13 and running through June 10, directed by Multi-Jeff Award Winner Domi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMSpring Into the Nova, Ars Nova's benefit to support emerging artists, will be held April 30. Alex Timbers, who helmed Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher, will direct.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMThe Bizarre Fantasy of "The Feast: an intimate Tempest"
http://www.playbill.com/video Caliban (Adrian Danzig) and the spirit Ariel (Samuel Taylor) are commanded by Prospero (John …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:20AMTracie Bennett’s performance as Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow is the “talk of the town.” In the new play, Bennett sings Garland’s most famo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMOutgoing director of the Royal Ballet Monica Mason is to be given a special prize at the Olivier Awards this weekend.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMHighlights from Gore Vidal's "The Best Man"
http://www.playbill.com/video A starry revival of "The Best Man," Gore Vidal's 1960 play about the lead-up to a U.S. …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:17AMReality singing competition The Voice is heating things up with its round of live shows, and Broadway rocker Tony Vincent was ready to face a nation-wide audience! The American Idiot, Jesus …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMHighlights From Dublin-Based "Once," Now on Broadway
http://www.playbill.com/video "Once," the new stage musical based on the independent film about an Irish singer-song…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:13AMTwo-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel will play the part of Ted Olson in a staged reading of Dustin Lance Black's new play, 8, to be presented by American Repertory Theatre at OBERON on Mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMHighlights From Disney's "Newsies"
http://www.playbill.com/video After a successful run at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, Disney's "Newsies"— the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:11AMWelcome 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 11:10AMLast night on SMASH, the show landed a star, the mercurial Rebecca Duvall guest star Uma Thurman, but Eileen Anjelica Huston was thrown into a panic when Rebecca got stuck in Cuba. Derek Jac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMAbout the Author:
Emily Mann made her Broadway debut as both writer and director of Execution of Justice in 1986. She repeated that feat in 1995 with Having Our Say, for which she earned tw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced this year’s recipient for the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMJames McAvoy and Zach Braff are among the presenters for the 2012 Olivier Awards on April 15 at at London's Royal Opera House. Dame Monica Mason, Director of the Royal Ballet, will join …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the addition of five intriguing fall and winter presentations from abroad for its 2012-2013 STC Presents Series. Three of the five presentations…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMDisney musical dethrones Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera despite having run for a decade lessThe musical version of Disney's family favourite The Lion King proved that it really …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThe veteran producer of more than 65 Broadway shows, including more than 20 Neil Simon productions, will be honored for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 11:03AMI’ve been watching a lot of banner advertising for shows lately, especially on news sites like Playbill (as opposed to shopping sites, like Broadway.com). And, of course, the most co…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 23rd, 2012, 7pm to 9pmSteppenwolf Theatre CompanyAdministrative Offices, 758 West North Avenue, 3rd FloorThe event will be co-hosted by Douglas Post (Chicago Regional Rep, DG) …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:00AM
Director David Cromer's cast of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent in Chicago will feature resident performers Alex Agard as Tom Collins, Lili-Anne Brown as JoAnne, Esteba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMHigh: an Interview with Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner, the star of High, sat down and chatted with us about the show. She told us a little about her character, Sister Jamison Connelly, an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:58AMThe hit musical series "Glee" returns to Fox April 10. The episode, entitled "Big Brother," welcomes guest star Matt Bomer (New York and Los Angeles readings of 8), who p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMTBS Just For Laughs Chicago, which will take place June 12-17, has announced the lineup of comics set to perform.
Comedians set for the festival include Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ans…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMTony Award-nominated director Kenny Leon (Stick Fly, The Mountaintop), Playwrights Horizons board chairman Judith O. Rubin and the Shubert Foundation will be honored during the Theatre Commu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe Changeling and Going Dark are both to return to the Young Vic this autumn.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMSignature Theatre has announced initial casting for the world premiere of Medieval Play, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. It will be presented in The Irene Diamond Stage at the Comp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective will present the New York premiere of neat & tidy, written and directed by artistic director Steven Carl McCasland, beginning May 15 at The Living T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThis Thursday, April 12, Melissa Errico Irving Berlin's White Christmas, My Fair Lady will make a guest appearance at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't Tell Mama.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMGo behind the scenes of the NEWSIES recording sessions with Andrew Keenan-Bolger This video including a little look at how tap dancing is recorded in a professional recording studio as well …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMThis was one of the favorites for my readers and deserves repeating. I also often use this one in many of my talks. Enjoy. Excelsior! Make the water rise Yesterday I sat down for a meeting w…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced five presentations from abroad which will be added to its 2012-2013 STC Presents Series.
International additions to the series will include Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMDavis Gaines and Andrea Marcovicci are the latest artists to join the Ojai Playwrights Conference's April 28 Body and Soul benefit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced five presentations from abroad which will be added to its 2012-2013 STC Presents Series.
The series will include The National Theatre of Scotl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMTony Award nominee Jonathan Hadary will be honored with the P.T. Barnum Award for Excellence by his alma mater, Tufts University, at the 8th annual From Ballou to Broadway event, which will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMThe world famous Rockettes are the latest additions to Capezio's previously reported 125th Anniversary Gala, which will take place April 23 at 7 pm at New York City Center. The show is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMLonely, I’m Not gets company on April 10, when the world premiere Paul Weitz play begins previews at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. Screen favorites Topher Grace and Olivia T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMRachel Griffiths and Anthony LaPaglia have been cast in the Australian television movie Underground, according to a report on Deadline.com. Robert Connolly has written the screenplay and wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMPerformers ages 6-16 will have a chance to be part of a special encore number following the 8 PM performance of Godspell May 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMEnding on a nod to Michael Bennetts heart-stopping coup de theatre Act One Finale to DREAMGIRLS - with the button of Karen Katharine McPhees exquisitely and evocatively emotional Never Give …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AMWhat struck me about "Hunger Games" is that the rules change in Katniss Everdeen's battle to survive against others like her, including others she likes, might even love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AM
Directors Walter Bobbie and Sam Gold will participate in a one-on-one conversation, presented by Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), at The Mint Theatre on Monday, April 30…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMThis year's Laurence Olivier Awards, being held April 15 at London's Royal Opera House, will be available to an international audience for the first time, with the entire event strea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM- Will Gartshore has been nominated seven times for a Helen Hayes Award and received two awards, each for musical theatre performances. - If someone has just told you that they don’t go …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AMBox office figures released Monday show that “The Lion King” last week swiped the title of Broadway’s all-time highest grossing show from “The Phantom of the Opera.”
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:47AMLast night a reception was held at Rivers at the Watergate in Washington, DC to honor this year’s Helen Hayes Awards nominees. It was a wonderful event filled with lots of schmoozing, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AMNEW YORK -- Tug Coker grew up in suburban Virginia with an impossible dream: One day he'd love to play pro...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:43AMArkansas Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of Treasure Island -- A New Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMTeam StarKid will launch a national tour of Apocalyptour with two performances at House of Blues in Chicago, May 9-10. Julia Albain will direct the show, which will have musical direction b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMIt's not a marketing/fundraising/artistic problem. It's a leadership problem. I know, I know. It would be much easier if it were just a marketing problem. Solving those are pretty easy. Just…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:38AMThe April 23 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash" is titled "Publicity" and will air at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMLegit News:
Donovan among actors on board
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMTony nominee Melissa Errico will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox April 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMOn the Monday, April 9 episode of NBC's Smash, Broadway star Christian Borle led the cast in "Don't Say Yes," a musical number in which he portrayed the famed Hollywood m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24AMControversial writer/performer Mike Daisey will develop a new work as part of Cape Cod Theatre Project's 2012 season, to be directed by Jean-Michele Gregory.
Daisey has come under fire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMIf the Viennese Modernists, both scientists and artists, flourished in Vienna at the turn of the century, it was not a result of the acceptance of their work by the Viennese critical communi…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:17AMImmerse yourself in Curious Directive's exciting world of theatre, science and devising as their Hexagon season continues.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:16AMa play that’s not done often because it's perhaps too wordy, too old fashioned for modern audiences. But it's worth seeing if you want to get a glimpse of O’Neill’s lighter side. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:13AMHOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING stars Nick Jonas, Michael Urie and Stephanie Rothenberg made an appearance at Time Square's Planet Hollywood Monday, April 9, to donate a cos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:08AMINTERVIEW: BRIAN LOGAN, ALEX MURDOCH and NEIL HAIGH Three members of Cartoon de Salvo speak to Diana Damian about the two shows marking their 15th birthday, Made Up at Soho Theatre, a show i…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:06AMImagination Stage presents Rapunzel, a musical fairytale adventure, with Book and Lyrics by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and Music by Michael Skloff. Director Kathryn Chase Bryer gives a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AMFollowing his huge 2010 success with All My Sons::E8831275035309 - for which he was named Best Actor at the 2011 Whatsonstage.com and Critics' Circle Awards - David Suchet returns to the Wes…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:04AM
Beginning today, look to DC Theatre Scene for a new series of articles all about this past season’s shows, featuring many of DC’s most well-loved theatre artists. The series, cal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMSome say that England's rep theatres need a revolution if they're to have a future. Perhaps instead they could learn from the pastSome argue that the days of the civic repertory theatre and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:47AMThe 2012 Olivier Awards ceremony, honoring the best of British theater, will be streamed live to audiences around the world on both BBC Radio 2 (www.bbcco.uk/radio2 and the official site for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:42AMThe search for a full understanding of the life and works of Oscar Hammerstein II might well begin with this twelve-song disc, but it certainly won’t end here. Indeed, the disk will se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30AMNEW YORK—Tug Coker grew up in suburban Virginia with an impossible dream: One day he'd love to play pro basketball.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:19AMWhy did the recent Off-Broadway revival of Carrie fail? Easy: Lack of blood.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:14AMBrittany Howard sings a musical phrase like a track and field star throws a shot put. She’ll lean far back in a note, pausing to amass lung power and heft. Then, in a burst, she’ll hurl …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMLong on gams and short on stage chops, Christie Brinkley is a Roxie without much moxie in the Broadway hit “Chicago.”
The Uptown Girl avoids embarrassing herself in the long-run…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMLook up in the sky! Slinging through the trees! It’s a bird – it’s a plane – it’s – a nerdy teenage boy in a comical musical farce? Yes! Our Spidey senses are tinglin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe original Broadway cast recording captures the energy and exuberance of this delightful show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMIn the Red Bank show, the singer freely owns up to three score and two years.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM
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Broadway veteran to receive special Tony
SOURCE: Variety at 06:56AMHow sad, and stirring, to observe the author counting the coins of his childhood. I am sure some playwrights wonder, as they tally up days gone by, whether a crisis is costly enough to pay o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:41AMHabima, Israel's National Theatre, is facing criticism within its own country for agreeing to perform The Merchant of Venice next month at the Globe to Globe Festival at London's Shakespeare…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMBoughton club, Nottinghamshire: Aimed at the club, holiday centre and fly-back market, Flair presented its annual showcase event in this Nottinghamshire backwater venue in front of bookers a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMRoyal Opera House: The Royal Ballet's latest mixed bill includes two new works representing very different aspects of classical dance. First is Sweet Violets by the fledgling choreograp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMA possible new legal challenge against the producers of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark began this week with the filing of legal papers by former stuntman and cast member …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMWhite Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks, a new study reveals. Sociologists from Harvard and Tufts universities asked 209 white and 208 black men and women t…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:01AM
Over my last few days in the US from where I returned yesterday morning, I made an out-of-town trip to Arlington, VA, to see the first production of a brand-new musical Brother Russia, with …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AMCaught Annie Baker's subtle play about modern manhood, The Aliens, in a beautifully crafted production at SF Playhouse over the weekend.Forgive the concision of this blog post, but I'm dog-t…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:46AMI am thrilled to announce that Tony Vincent, BROADWAY’S Tony Vincent, has made it past the battle round on NBC’s The Voice singing competition! He’s moving on to the live rounds and th…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:05AMFrom 2004: Reformers, like saints, can be awfully awkward people. Their singlemindedness is no small part of what makes them...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." Francis Bacon, Apophthegms...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS will launch “Mariah’s Corner,” an exciting new video blog which will feature cast member NaTasha Yvette Williams answering your question…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AM
"I just realized what I look like when they put this wig on me."...
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 12:58AMIf the icon is both a window into the mystical experience of the painter and a door allowing the saint to come into the believer’s world, am I, unbeliever that I am, hoping to stand in the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18AMBy Peter Filichia --
Julie Andrews played Maria von Trapp on stage two years before she started filming The Sound of Music.
Well, at least in a manner of speaking. Andrews actually portr…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:05AMPerformance Maker, Director New Orleans, Louisiana; heading to Providence, Rhode Island soon, USA Recent inspiring thing: “Say what you mean, literally and in all other senses.”…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMJennifer Laura Thompson, currently back on Broadway in Nice Work If You Can Get It, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night opens officially at the West End's Apollo Theatre April 10 following previews that began April 2, and a pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMLeo On Dirty Kitchen Floor, the originalGetting The PictureIt's not that hard and it's not that expensive to make a decent first impressionby Gaëtan L. CharleboisOnce again this week we wer…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe London cast album of the new Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring the band The Craze performing original songs by Grant Olding, and using original troupers including star Jame…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJustin Long, the goofy-handsome actor of TV's "Ed," "New Girl" and Mac commercials — and Hollywood's "He's Just Not That Into You" and "L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGerda Stevenson's Federer Versus Murray opens in its U.S. debut April 10 as part of Scotland Week at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTopher Grace, of "That '70s Show," plays a young man who has been through the mill — and is ready for his next step — in Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Collegiate Chorale presents Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, featuring a host of Broadway artists, April 10 at 6:30 PM at Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe original Broadway cast recording of the new Disney musical Newsies, which recently opened at the Nederlander Theatre, is released digitally on iTunes April 10 from Ghostlight Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony winner Barbara Cook, a recent Kennedy Center Honoree, offers a new program at Feinstein's at Loews Regency beginning April 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including Hamilton and Disraeli.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Broke House is Chekhov's Three Sisters, reality TV, Grey Gardens and Jack Smith diced up and served fresh in a visually and technologically stunning, lighting fast performance matrix," the…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMLegit News:
Ricky Martin the talk of 'Evita' opening-night party
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM