Robert Chafe’s play is given a production by Newfoundland’s Artistic Fraud Theatre Company that reminds us once again how resourceful this company is.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:49PMGentle readers, this week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of the fun and frothy tap-musical parody Dames at Sea, currently running at the Colony Theater in Burbank. Click here to…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:39PMAccording to UK theater company Headlong's 2012-2013 season announcement, the group will be producing playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Grammy and Tony-winning songwriter Duncan Sheik's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32PMWhat a piece of work is this Telemachus, the Hamlet-like brooder of playwright Jason Gray Platt’s modern family tragedy, “Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysseus.” Spoiled and sullen, h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:25PM"... this comedy is as intense — and funny — as it gets."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PM"One Man, Two Guvnors" is a comedy as culture-specific as the lower-middle-class accents in the show. It's as if a play about Abbott and Costello were staged on the West End. Also reviewed: …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:01PM“One Man, Two Guvnors,” a splendidly silly import from London, is an adaptation of Goldoni’s 18th-century “Servant of Two Masters.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Labyrinth Theater Company’s production of Brett C. Leonard’s kitchen-sink drama, “Ninth and Joanie,” is at the Bank Street Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBrett C. Leonard's play about an unhappy Philadelphia family benefits from strong performances, but still remains something of an endurance test.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMJames Corden gives a hilarious performance in Nicholas Hytner's must-see production of Richard Bean's funny-as-can-be farce.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
After huge budget cuts and a damaging labor fight, City Opera is on track this season to balance its budget for the first time since 2000.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:57PMPeter Rowan, Tony Rice, and The Travelin’ McCourys, who are some of the biggest names in Bluegrass came together to honor Bill Monroe at The Music Center at Strathmore in a program called …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49PMAt nearly 3 hours, Frank Galiti's civil war drama *The March* is a long haul. Epic in scope and cast size, we never learn about separate human dramas and their shared histories. There's lo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:42PMONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, by Richard Bean, based on Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, with songs by Grant Olding, directed by Nicolas Hynter, began preview performances on Broadway at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19PMJoe Dowling says the announcement isn't complete and that focusing on one season is a narrow view.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 09:17PMThere are two directors -- one just for physical comedy -- in "One Man, Two Guvnors," the farce that arrived from London's irreproachable National Theatre with virtuosic clowning by James Co…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:02PMDavid Rooney James Corden stars in Richard Bean's riotous reinvention of the commedia dell'arte classic, "The Servant of Two Masters," which transfers to Broadway in Nicholas Hytner's smash-…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
The Broadway revival of “Godspell” has attracted attention by recruiting a team of about 700 investors, with some putting up as little as $1,000 each.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:53PM“One Man, Two Guvnors” asks us some tough questions: Is it funny to see an old waiter repeatedly knocked down a flight of stairs? A fat man eat an envelope? A member of the audience humi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:34PMDaniel M. Snyder, Chairman, and Mark Shapiro, Chief Executive Officer today issued the following statements about Dick Clark, who died today, April 18, after suffering a heart attack.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:29PMLast night, Melissa Errico blew the roof off of JOE'S PUB with another knock-out performance to a sold-out crowd, besting her impressive November show. With plenty of Broadway pals and oth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMFelicity Huffman, Jane Lynch, and William H, Macy will host Third Street Theatre's benefit performances of Jason Robert Brown's two-character musical The Last Five Years, May 4-6. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:19PMVijay Iyer, Rinde Eckert, and Young Jean Lee were among the 21 performing artists chosen to receive $225,000 in unrestricted funds from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:16PMDenver Center Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility The Musical, April 5 - May 26 in The Stage Theatre. The production will be directed and choreographe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:10PMThird Street Theatre, the West Hollywood 99-seat Equity Waiver theatre that brought LA the critically-acclaimed smash hit Falsettos, is pleased to announce three limited engagement fundraisi…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:00PMNinth and Joanie is — in this staging, at any rate — the rare play that gets everything wrong.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM
The Recording Academy's PresidentCEO Neil Portnow released a statement on entertainment legend Dick Clark, who died today, April 18, after suffering a heart attack.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMMaking a name for herself as a model at a very early age set the stage for a career on screens large and small - as well as the Broadway stage itself many, many times over - for iconic beaut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:55PMLa Jolla Playhouse's Hands on a Hardbody will run April 27 - June 17, 2012 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. The world-premiere, commissioned musical has a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:41PM25th Anniversary of the Longest-Running Play in NYC History Tonight: Tonight Wednesday, April 18th at The Snapple Theater Center 210 West 50th Street at Broadway at 7pm Perfect Crime, Warren…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:35PMVashon Island resident Wally Bell has a close connection to the story of miners who became painters in the hit play "The Pitmen Painters," running at ACT Theatre April 26-May 20, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:32PMAdditional artists have been announced for composer-lyricist Scott Alan's fourth recording, Live, which follows his critically acclaimed What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up, Dreaming Wide Awake a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PMLa Jolla Playhouse's Hands on a Hardbody will run April 27 - June 17, 2012 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. The world-premiere, commissioned musical has a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMLooking at CCTV footage of a school hall in Cardiff through Adobe Flash Player in the corner of a webpage and listening to the attendant interference, bells, buzzes and bleeps might not soun…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:22PMBefore High School Musical star Corbin Bleu made his official debut as Jesus in Godspell, Broadway.com was on the scene to get a first look at the star in rehearsals on April 17. A Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:16PMIn The Convert, Danai Gurira looks at the cultural conflicts facing a young woman who's fleeing a forced marriage in 1895 Zimbabwe. Gurira knows the turf -- born in Iowa, raised in Zimbabw…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:16PMAfter a critic called Wendy Johnson "a Judy Holliday clone," she began investigating her inner Holliday. The result is Johnson's Concealing Judy Holliday, a multi-actor play about the origin…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:15PMWatch the latest episode 3 of CafeMom Studios On Broadway With Kids - Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA - the exclusive online series that opens a rare and personal window into the lives of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMSlapstick smash One Man, Two Guvnors, a British import from the National Theatre in London, has arrived on Broadway, starring James Corden as the occasionally dim-witted and always ravenous …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:11PM
Word of Mouth Review: "One Man, Two Guvnors" on Broadway Starring James Corden
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:59PMThe cult musical Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King, is receiving its first official cast recording on Ghostlight Records. On April 17, the cast and creative team of MCC’s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:55PMFirst encounters with Shakespeare can be life-altering events, with some experiences inspiring lifelong devotion and others creating lifelong aversion. For British actor and polymath Simon C…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:54PMWomen in Theatre 2012 Is Their Year: This is the 30th anniversary of The League of Professional Theatre Women, a not-for-profit organization that seeks to promote visibility and increase opp…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:51PMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced the plays to be developed at the 2012 National Playwrights Conference.
Each will undergo the O'Neill's signature development …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:50PMAnd the Winner of the Pulitzer Isn’t Ann Patchett’s article on the lack of a Pulitzer fiction winner includes this nice quote: Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means o…
SOURCE: direct address at 05:49PMMichael Cumpsty has appeared in 15 Broadway shows, so he knows a thing or two about setting up a cozy dressing room. The actor, who is back on the boards as Judy Garland’s pianist and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PM4000 Miles director Daniel Aukin will stage the world premiere of Derek Ahonen's The Bad and the Better, a new dark detective tale from The Amoralists, which will debut Off-Broadway June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PMMy Space: Michael Cumpsty of "End of the Rainbow" - Judy Garland Play on Broadway
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Michae…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:46PMon Thirteen: Fri., April 20th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., April 21st at 8:30 PM Sun., April 22nd at 12:30 PM and Mon., April 23rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Our guest is the reve…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:43PMGavin Creel is readying to don a white shirt and black tie as Elder Price in the upcoming national tour of The Book of Mormon, but the two-time Tony nominee almost turned down the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMUniversity Hospitals Case Medical Centers Seidman Cancer Center is hosting IMAGINE A Celebration of LIFE, a unique musical ensemble on Monday, May 7 in New York City. Led by Broadway actress…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMPlay based on memoir of man who fought the Nazis with the Polish resistance, only to be imprisoned by the Stalinist regime.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:42PMThe Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, starring Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane, has been extended one week and will now be presented April 21-J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:30PMInnovative.Thrilling.Irreverent.Is this you?Steppenwolf Theatre Company is now accepting applications from storefront theatre companies for Garage Rep 2013.Garage RepThree Plays. Three Compa…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:28PMFela! star Saycon Sengbloh will be part of the Soho Rep Studio presentations of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon April 27-28 at the New Ohio Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMWhen Paul Nolan is making his powerful transition into the title character in Jesus Christ Superstar eight times as week, it's as much an emotional transformation as a physical one. "Some ni…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:21PMFor years, at least 15 or so by my count, Theater Schmeater has been honoring the memory of one of the most enduring television series of TV's golden age, Rod Serling's late 50's/early 60's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:20PMAccording to published reports, entertainment legend Dick Clark passed away today, April 18 2012, after suffering a heart attack. He was 82 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMThe Great White Way had another successful week with an overall increase of about $2 million (six percent) in gross ticket sales through the week ending April 15.
According to figures provid…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:08PMMeet the Cast of Nobody Loves You
The Old Globe presents the World Premiere of Nobody Loves You, a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and book and lyrics by Itamar Moses set…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:05PMThe new Broadway show “One Man, Two Guvnors” is the hoot of the season. On one level, it’s a story about a dum-dum who becomes the full-time lackey for two different shady …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:00PM
The Goodman Theatre has extended “The Iceman Cometh,” with six additional performances, through June 17. The Robert Falls-directed revival of the Eugene O’Neill classic stars Brian Den…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:58PMBefore High School Musical star Corbin Bleu made his official debut as Jesus in Godspell, Broadway.com was on the scene to get a first look at the star in rehearsals on April 17. Though Bleu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:57PMThe New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will honor Suzan-Lori Parks at its upcoming benefit by inducting her into the NYFA Hall of Fame. The benefit will be held on April 30 from 6:30p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMLaura Osnes will play Cinderella and Santino Fontana will portray the Prince in the new Broadway-bound production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's CINDERELLA, it has been announced by the musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMNEW YORK — Nick Jonas has leveraged his gig on Broadway in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” into a mini-album. Producers of the show said Tuesday a five-song EP will …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:48PMNEW HEAD OF CAM • Lisa Melandri, deputy director at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, has been appointed director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:47PMTen years ago we connected in a moment of mutual frustration at a TCG gathering in Portland, Oregon, called New Works, New Ways. We recognized instantly in our feeling on the outside of that…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:43PMThe cast of Dancing with the Stars: Live -- including Carson Kressley, Joey Fatone, Sabrina Bryan and choreographer Jason Gilkison -- attended the Tuesday, April 17 performance of Absinthe a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMTACTThe Actors Company Theatre will celebrate the success of its critically-acclaimed 201112 season and honor the accomplishments of Victor Garber one of this countrys most versatile actors…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMIt's opening night at Peter and the Starcatcher, and Adam Chanler-Berat is backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre filming all the last minute preparations for the first episode of his Broa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:32PMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston will present Avenue Q, May 11-June 9. The show has music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, and a book by Jeff Whitty. Spiro Veloudos will direct.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMAguas/Waters by the Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company opens April 19 at Harbourfront's Fleck Dance Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:32PMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston will present Avenue Q, May 11-June 9. The show has music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, and a book by Jeff Whitty. Spiro Veloudos will direct.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMSantino Fontana will play Prince Charming opposite previously announced title star Laura Osnes in the forthcoming Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:31PMAlterLab RecapLast night was AlterTheater's AlterLab salon featuring me and three other playwrights who for the past nine months have been each working on a new play while in residency. Desp…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 04:30PMOff-Broadway's Page 73 Productions will present a reading of playwright Scott Organ's Point Last Seen, the first in a series of readings of plays by members of their Interstate 73 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMTony Award-nominated "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James and Wicked's Ana Gasteyer will perform One Night, Two Voices, Three Cheers May 26 at the Bay Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMLena Dunham on GirlsLena Dunham’s HBO series has been hailed for itssharp, insightful snapshot of 20-something young, white, straight womennavigating their New York City lives in a post-Se…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 04:28PMBritish references abound but inspired improv and physical comedy transcend the cultural differences, Brendan Lemon writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:26PMCHICAGO DRAMATISTS’ NEXT SEASON Three world premiere plays will be showcased during the Chicago Dramatists’ 2012-2013 season. They include: “Freshly Fallen Snow” (Sept. 20-Oct. 28), …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:26PMNEW YORK — To properly play a pirate, Christian Borle has appropriately been stealing. He’s lifted from comic book villains and swiped from Indiana Jones baddies. He has even plundered f…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:20PMReading the script of 'Water by the Spoonful,'' the new Pulitzer Prize winner in drama, makes clear that one can appreciate a play on the page as well as on the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMTelevision legend Dick Clark has died of a heart attack, according to a report in Variety. He was 82.
Clark's career extended to Broadway two times. In 1975, he was one of the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMA British comedy that was the fastest selling ticket in the history of London's West End opens on Broadway tonight with its original cast. As Jeff Lunden reports, One Man, Two Guvnors is ful…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:12PMA British comedy that was the fastest selling ticket in the history of London's West End opens on Broadway tonight with its original cast. As Jeff Lunden reports, One Man, Two Guvnors is ful…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:12PMRaul Esparza, Jessica Phillips, and the company of the new Broadway musical give a sneak peek at their show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PMDance Moms Miami - Season 1 Episode 3 - Don't Judge Me - Todrick Hall Full Episode Recap
Dance Moms: Miami season 1 episode 3, "Don't Judge Me."
In this FYI recap, Todric…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:10PMPhoto: Bruce Zinger / Marie McDunnough & Jack Rennie, Artists of Atelier Ballet.The One by LullyArmide - the singer and the opera - are gorgeousby Axel Van CheeThe story of Armida b…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:09PMI’ve joked for years that a nail in the coffin of a professional directing career is to teach. As more of us join the rank of the “teaching-professionals,” or “working-professionals …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM
The cast of the revised Off-Broadway production of Carrie, including leading ladies Molly Ranson and Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie, assembled in a Manhattan recording studio April 17 to re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMA re-imagined revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which will debut on Broadway during the 2012-13 season, has cast Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana as its royal couple, produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMThe Actors Company Theatre (TACT) will honor actor Victor Garber at its annual Spring Gala on Monday, May 7at The Loeb Boathouse Central Park (East 72nd Street & Park Drive North).
Si…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMTheatre Tribe will present the Los Angeles premiere of the 2004 Kaufman and Hart award-winning play, The Sleeper, written by Catherine Butterfieldand directed by Stuart Rogers . The Sleeper …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMRevered in Edmonton, playwright Stewart Lemoine's The Exquisite Hour is his first Toronto production in 13 years.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:47PMLaura Osnes will play Cinderella and Santino Fontana will play the prince in the upcoming Broadway-bound production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.
As previously reported, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PM“Pinocchio’s Ashes,” the Danish playwright Jokum Rohde’s dark satire, is receiving its American premiere at Theater for the New City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMAdditional artists have been announced for composer-lyricist Scott Alan's fourth recording, "Live," which follows the critically acclaimed "What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMLaura Osnes will play the title role and Santino Fontana her prince in a Broadway-bound version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:29PMTime Magazine has released the annual Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Among the names on the list are stage and screen actresses Jessica Chastain, Claire D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:28PMThe subject of identity rings loudly and clearly in the title of The Second City’s new show, “Who Do We Think We Are?” — the 100th revue in the troupe’s more than half-century hist…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:22PMTacoma Musical Playhouse has announced its 19th season, which includes six Broadway-style musicals on the TMP Mainstage and three equally exciting family-friendly productions from the Tacoma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMWith its iconic scene of Olympic athletes running on the beach to a pulsating Vangelis score, "Chariots of Fire" is making a well-timed comeback, only this time as a play.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:22PMWelcome to That’s Gross!, a weekly analysis of one aspect of the Broadway Grosses. As always, the numbers below are provided by the The Broadway League. “PS everyone be sure to check out…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:19PMThe Eugene ONeill Theater Center announced today eight plays to be developed at the 2012 National Playwrights Conference NPC PROVENANCE by Anne Garcia-Romero, RECLAMATION by Ken Weitzman, TW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMCharacter Study: Paul Nolan of "Jesus Christ Superstar"
Get tickets to "Jesus Christ Superstar": http://www.broadway.com/shows/jesus-christ-superstar/
When Paul Nolan i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:13PMSutton Foster appears to be putting her Broadway experience to good, or at least remunerative, use in "Bunheads," the new series on ABC Family that is set to premiere June 11. The network ha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:07PMMaureen McGovern in CARRY IT ON - Audience Reaction
Maureen McGovern in CARRY IT ON at Two River Theater Company
Directed by Philip Himberg
Runs through April 22, 2012
Tickets: http://ww…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:03PMPixie dust was in the air on April 15 when "Peter and the Starcatcher" flew onto the Great White Way as headliners Adam Chanler-Berat, Christian Borle and Celia Keenan-Bolger sailed away on …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:03PMBroadway's Best is Coming to Baltimore Show Packages are Available Now
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMWord of Mouth Review: "Peter and the Starcatcher"
Get tickets to "Peter and the Starcatcher": http://www.broadway.com/shows/peter-and-starcatcher/
"Peter and the S…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:01PMIf you weren't a college theater major, you can be forgiven for not knowing much about commedia dell'arte, the 500-year-old theatrical tradition that Carlo Goldoni used for his comedy The Se…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PM
Julie Atherton, Paul Ayres, Louise Dearman, Jack Shalloo, Jennifer Tierney, and Michael Xavier will be featured on the concept recording of Lift - A New Musical. The album will be available…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMTDFs Autism Theater Initiative will present autism-friendly performances of Disney and Cameron Mackintoshs Mary Poppins on Sunday, April 29, at 1pm, at the New Amsterdam Theatre 214 West 42n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMRoute 66 Theatre Company has announced the lineup for its annual benefit, Mile Markers, that will be held on Monday, May 7 from 6pm to 9pm at Stage 773.
Mile Markers will be hosted by E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMFor reasons unknown, R&B superstar and mentor to the Biebs, Usher, will be joining the cast of the Argentine-multi-sensory-anti-theater production, Fuerza Bruta, for two performances on …
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 02:55PM"War Horse" star Stephen James Anthony made his Broadway debut as part of team of puppeteers in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning production, and in the short year since it first opened …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:55PMNew York City Opera announced Wednesday it will be holding half of its upcoming season in its original home at City Center in Midtown.
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:54PMKutlug Ataman has created a performance piece that melds fabric art with theater, and audience with performer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMWhen Paul Nolan is making his powerful transition into the title character in Jesus Christ Superstar eight times as week, it’s as much an emotional transformation as a physical one. &l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMShannon Matesky and Harry Groener in Steppenwolf’s “The March“ When adapting a 400 page epic novel for the stage, you usually have about three options: 1) Make the play 6 h…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 02:47PMHigh School Musical star Corbin Bleu returned to Broadway on April 17 when he took the stage for the first time as Jesus in the revival of Godspell. After a rousing performance of show class…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMABC Family's "Bunheads," a dance-drama series starring Tony Award-winning Anything Goes star Sutton Foster, will make its debut June 11. Here is a first look at the series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMTo properly play a pirate, Christian Borle has appropriately been stealing. He's lifted from comic book villains and swiped from Indiana Jones baddies. He has even plundered from sci-fi's Da…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:41PMOriginally staged in 2005, the companys production of this baroque opera doesnt have any weak links
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:38PMNEW YORK (AP) -- To properly play a pirate, Christian Borle has appropriately been stealing....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:35PMThe Amoralists' new show, Derek Ahonen's The Bad and the Bettter, will run June 14-July 21 at the Peter J. Sharp Theater. Daniel Aukin will helm the production.
The play focuses o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMPlanet Connections Theatre Festivity has announced its 2012 lineup. New York's premiere ecofriendly/socially-conscious theatre festival will take place from May 30 through June 24 at 45…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMTHE PIRATES OF PENZANCE at Marriott Theatre- Lincolnshire (3/3)
The exuberant musical theater masterpiece from the clever pens of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:26PMTHE PIRATES OF PENZANCE at Marriott Theatre- Lincolnshire (2/3)
The exuberant musical theater masterpiece from the clever pens of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:24PMThe exuberant musical theater masterpiece from the clever pens of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE will be presented at The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Linc…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:22PMThe Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre honored esteemed stage actress Patti LuPone with the company's third Stephen Sondheim Award on April 16, 2012. The award, established in 2009 in hono…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMThe Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre honored esteemed stage actress Patti LuPone with the company's third Stephen Sondheim Award on April 16, 2012. The award, established in 2009 in hono…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMCome round the Goddess Wheel and experience history tonight. After a year long workshop and creative process to mount a full stage production, the time has finally arrived. Readings, script …
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:16PMCritically acclaimed comedian Lewis Black has joined the roster of performers aboard Playbill's Broadway on the High Seas 2, a ten-day cruise through Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil that l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMNew York City Opera has announced the productions for its 2013 season, according to a report in the Associated Press.
Two productions will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMThe 2012 Lucille Lortel Award nominees were honored with an April 16 reception held at the Times Square Planet Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMLovers of Jane Austen mark your calendars. Aficionados of spanking new musical theater, ditto. Fans of the Denver Center Theatre Company's burgeoning New Play Summit, you do the same.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:05PMThe Tony Award-winning epic drama War Horse, which galloped away with five Tony Awards last season, including Best Play, may be on the move, according to the New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PMBroadway vet Jason Alexander will guest star as Alans cardiologist, Dr. Goodman on the 200th episode of the CBS comedy TWO AND A HALF MEN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PMHouse of Detention, London: Belt Up score a blinder with their choice of location for Macbeth. The House of Detention in Clerkenwell is a dripping maze of low arched corridors and chambers t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01PMThe Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre season continues with a production of "Pride and Prejudice," an adaptation by Jon Jory of the classic Jane Austen novel. Performances begin Thursday at the …
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PMThe first thing you need to understand about Kyle Hatley is that he isn't well. No, Kansas City Repertory Theatre's associate artistic director is an obsessive young theater artist, given to…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PM
Legit Reviews||Off Broadway:
The Labyrinth's take-no-prisoners performance style is made to order for the seething hostilities in "Ninth and Joanie," Brett C. Leonard's bleak dr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PMStars are generally not low-key people. From Bette Davis to Patti LuPone they are often mannered, fascinating, and almost painfully distinct. They are never generic. Love 'em or hate 'em, yo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:57PMEver since I saw Evita on Broadway, my brain has been ticking, reminding me, almost begging me to further explore what first occurred to me in the Marquis Theatre that theres a fascinating r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMFreud's Last Session is the longest running Off-Broadway play. The play currently calls New World Stages on 50th St. its home, as does Off-Broadway productions of Rent and Avenue Q. The thea…
SOURCE: www.theramonline.com at 01:53PMA.C.T. Young Conservatory alumnus and Glee star Darren Criss and Tony Award winner Bill Irwin were among the performers at American Conservatory Theater's 2012 season gala, Expect the U…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMWhat I love most about this city, and what I don’t see much anywhere else, is a love for tapping into the extraordinary. So much of the work I see in DC is so true, with a spine intact and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:49PMTony nominee Melissa Errico returned to Joe's Pub April 17 at 7 PM. The singing actress' new show, which features direction by Richard Jay-Alexander and musical direction by John Odd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMTony nominees John Ellison Conlee and Daniel Jenkins, as well as Rebecca Naomi Jones, will perform as part of an April 23 benefit for New York City's investigative theatre company The Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMThe 2012 Tommy Tune Awards winners have been announced To a crowd of more than 2,500 people, Theatre Under The Stars TUTS declared the winners of TUTS tenth annual Tommy Tune Awardson the ev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMUniversity Hospitals Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center is hosting Imagine: A Celebration of Life, a unique musical ensemble on Monday, May 7 at the Highline Ballroom from 7pm-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PMLove it or hate it, it’s nearly impossible to not want to dance along to the disco tunes of the 1970s. On Glee's April 17 episode “Saturday Night Glee-Ver”, the McKinle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:39PMHe did a totalitarian Romeo and Juliet and turned Casanova into a VD nightmare. Now choreographer Angelin Preljocaj has given Snow White a dominatrix for a stepmother Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMAnd here's the whole thing. Wesley Morris will be reviewing shortly.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:27PMSadly, Carry It On is a disappointment.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:25PMFridays, the Jewish Community Center on 16th Street NW is mostly quiet and dark in observation of Shabbat. But still, deep in the belly of the JCC, a theatrical rumbling is building its stea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:23PMNew details for the upcoming April 23 episode of SMASH have been revealed on EW.com. According to the report, NBC's musical drama will be paying homage to 'Bollywood', the colorful movie gen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMThe Road Theatre Company has announced casting for the world premiere of That Good Night, written by Andrew Dolan and directed by Scott Alan Smith. The play will perform at the Lankershim Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMI just came across this picture of actor Michael Douglas , which didn't make my story on him in last Sunday's Arts Section of The Hartford Courant.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PMPixie dust was in the air on April 15 when Peter and the Starcatcher flew onto the Great White Way as headliners Adam Chanler-Berat, Christian Borle and Celia Keenan-Bolger sailed away on a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMTimesTalks just welcomed John Cusack, who was interviewed by NYT reporter Dave Itzkoff. TimesTalks events take place at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City. For additional in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMSwan, Stratford-upon-AvonYou can present Richard III either as the climax of a Shakespeare history cycle or as a star vehicle. But Roxana Silbert's new RSC production, while perfectly credit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMThe Broad Stage has announced its plans for the 2012-2013 season, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times.
Among the highlights of the season is a presentation of a production of Ham…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMSeven-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Usher will appear as the lead Running Man in off-Broadway's Fuerza Bruta: Look Up for two performances on April 28. Created by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PMAfter making his Broadway debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Darren Criss proved he can master the sleek moves and fashions of the '60s. On the April 17 episode o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:07PMTim Dolan -- Save The Princess
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PM"The Bad and the Better," a new play by Derek Ahonen, will have a cast of 28 when it opens at the Peter J. Sharp in June.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PMChicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has announced that The Q Brothers' Othello: The Remix will be Chicago Shakespeare's premiere appearance in Germany's Shakespeare im Globe Neu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05PM"Smash" and Broadway star Will Chase will join the Colorado Symphony for its upcoming concert, Shuffle, April 27 at the Boettcher Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMABC Family has given the greenlight to the new drama series BUNHEADS, which s set to premiere on June 11. Executive-produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino Gilmore Girls and headlined by Tony Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMKatie Rose Clarke -- Six O'clock and the Devil
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An unpleasant footnote to Boston's storied racial past is revealed in Kirsten Greenidge's The Luck of the Irish, a world premiere play showcased in a world class production by the Huntington…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:59PMIt’s opening night at Peter and the Starcatcher, and Adam Chanler-Berat is backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre filming all the last minute preparations for the first episode of hi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMWatch the latest episode #3 of CafeMom Studios “On Broadway: With Kids – Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA!” – the exclusive online series that opens a rare and personal win…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:54PM[cross-posted at Huffington Post]
A little over a week ago, I began this series about the flap over This American Life's hour-long "Retraction" of its January broadcast of excerpts of Mike …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:49PMRight Down Broadway will present the premiere of Kari Floren's Revisiting Wildfire, which will begins previews June 1, with an opening set for June 6 at the ArcLight Theatre. Eve Brands…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PMOne of my best friends from college, a remarkable and talented artist, gave me a journal that she made for me the day before she left the Appalachian mountains for Japan. Inside the journal …
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:47PMThe young company is a welcome outpost of classical ballet – but stumbled in its bid to reach out to flamenco-lovers, Apollinaire Scherr writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre will conclude its season with another new play, created and performed by Dael Orlandersmith. Black n Blue Boys / Broken Men begins previews on the Thrust Stage on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PMHow sets and costumes survive the Broadway farce Whether it’s Venice in 1743 or the British seaside in 1963 or Broadway in 2012, you’ve got to have doors. Two of them. And not ju…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:43PMThe off-Broadway show FUERZA BRUTA, has just announced seven-time Grammy Award winning superstar, Usher will join the critically acclaimed cast as the lead Running Man for two performances o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PMIt's our 15th birthday and to help us celebrate three of our favourite West End musical theatre stars have sent us a recording of them singing, "Happy Birthday To You". But who are they???
G…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:40PMAndrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
SOURCE: miami.broadway.com at 12:40PMAndrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PMIf the MAC Awards have become known as the Tonys of cabaret, the Bistro Awards have certainly become its equally-glittering counterpart. Launched in 1985 by the late and legendary cabaret jo…
SOURCE: themartinreport.wordpress.com at 12:38PMJohn Lithgow was born to play roles such as this one in David Auburn's new play, The Columnist, having its world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Lithgow, along a cast of superb…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:38PMTed - Official Movie Trailer 2012 (HD)
The official theatrical trailer for Ted, the upcoming movie from Seth MacFarlane, starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Joel McHale! Ted will be in …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:36PMBroadway veteran Stephanie J. Block (9 to 5, Wicked), who recently
took over as Reno Sweeney in Broadway's Tony-winning revival of Anything
Goes, recently gave Playbill an exclusive peek a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMThe National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) will celebrate their 35th anniversary by welcoming back some notable alumni to star alongside the 2012 Company in a special concert at the West End's …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:34PMGrammy Award-winning performer Usher will hit the treadmill of the Off-Broadway spectacle Fuerza Bruta for two special performances in late April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMThe Heritage Preservation Commission denied Minneapolis' request to demolish the plaza
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:33PMOne hundred cast members from some of the West End's most popular productions congregated in Trafalgar Square, in front of the Olympic Countdown Clock, for a 'West End Warm Up&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMNorth Shore Music Theatre has just announced that this year's season will include Lorna Luft and Gary Beach as Dolly Levi and Horace Vandergelder in the classic musical HELLO, DOLLY Addition…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMYouTube sensation, chanteuse and high-end vocal coach Miranda Sings is making her ninth concert appearance at Birdland on Monday, May 28 at 7pm. This event is part of the Broadway at Birdla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMThe Lion King celebrates another milestone today, as it plays its 6,000th performance at 2:00 p.m. There are only five other shows in Broadway history to have achieved this feat. Coinciding …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:19PMAllyce Beasley and Lynne Wintersteller will co-star in Kari Floren's Revisiting Wildfire, which will begin previews June 1 Off-Broadway at ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMThe company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL welcomed a new leading man -- stage and screen star Corbin Bleu Disney's High School Musical, Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMFresh from its hit run off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, "Peter and the Starcatcher" is now flying high at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 12:06PMGYPSY at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (4/4)
Winner of three Tony Awards, "GYPSY" is considered by many critics to be the greatest American musical ever written. "Gypsy " …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:03PMGYPSY at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (3/4)
Winner of three Tony Awards, "GYPSY" is considered by many critics to be the greatest American musical ever written. "Gypsy " …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:02PMMiranda Sings is making her ninth concert appearance at Birdland on Monday, May 28 at 7pm.
Miranda Sings is an internet character created by Colleen Ballinger, and proliferated via YouTub…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMGYPSY at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (2/4)
Winner of three Tony Awards, "GYPSY" is considered by many critics to be the greatest American musical ever written. "Gypsy " …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:00PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Hold the front page: Vaudeville Discovered Alive and Well... and living uproariously in Nicholas Hytner's joyous production.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMBroderick and O'Hara create a new classic in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," directed by Kathleen Marshall.
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GYPSY at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (1/4)
Winner of three Tony Awards, "GYPSY" is considered by many critics to be the greatest American musical ever written. "Gypsy " …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:58AMForrest Leo
Hometown: Talkeetna, Alaska.
Current Town: Brooklyn, New York
Q: Tell me about Friend of the Devil.
A: It’s a farce about a young poet who marries …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:58AMOscar winner Olympia Dukakis will star as the Chorus Leader in Elektra, a specially commissioned new translation by London playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, in the 2012-13 season of San Fra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMMulti-Platinum, Grammy Award winner Usher will perform with the New York cast of Fuerza Bruta at the Daryl Roth Theatre for two shows on April 28 at 7pm and 10pm.
Usher will perform as the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMMad Cat Awards Scholarships Mad Cat Theatre Company has presented its first Nine Lives Scholarship Awards to Arielle Hoffman for outstanding high school senior and Emilie Paap as outstanding…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:55AMNick Jonas has leveraged his gig on Broadway in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" into a mini-album.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:54AMA new song by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q and Book of Mormon songwriter Robert Lopez will be featured on the April 29 episode of "The Simpsons."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM by: Sandi Durell How delightful to have been chosen to be part of the current Lincoln Centre Noel Coward Festival in New York City! The Noel Company, which is Keith Merrill, …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:50AMDo they look temperamental? Not really.Sigh. I admire the Lyric Stage for taking chances on scripts with a political dimension - really I do - and I wish I could back that admira…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:50AMFor 25 years the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism has highlighted in-depth, investigative reporting. It was established in 1987, through a gift from Joseph Bernstein …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:48AMAmerican Conservatory Theater A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced the lineup for the companys 46th subscription season, which includes an eclectic and unforgettable world premie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMSally Struthers and Jennifer Cody will emcee Theatre Communications Group's 50th Anniversary Gala, to be held at Espace(635 West 42nd Street in New York City) on Monday, April 23. The e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMWith a resume packed with Tony-caliber work (three nominations; one win) in a list of distinctive musicals and classic plays, Michael Cerveris has a hard time singling out six roles to spotl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMLa Mama E.T.C., currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, will present the American Human Beatbox Festival, May 3-6, with events in both the Ellen Stewart Theatre and The Club at La MaMa. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMNot only does Jesús Daniel Hernández posses a beautiful tenor voice, he also has a remarkable story to tell about his life, his training, being discovered, and his career. Jesús tells us…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMDrama Desk nominee Bryan Batt (La Cage Aux Folles) and Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray) will be among the cast of the South Florida premiere of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMNew star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Nick Jonas, headed to the studio February 19, to record a new Broadway cast album of the 50th anniversary revival of the product…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:38AMName: Sheila JoonHometown: SeattleEducation: The school of Life and a B.A. from Western Washington University in Theatre arts (acting/directing)Select Credits: Two Gentlemen, Love's Labor's …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:37AMLiza Minnelli will appear on Access Hollywood Live on Thursday, April 19 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Cabaret. Minnelli is the winner of four Tony Awards, an Oscar, a special Legends…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMA few unrelated thoughts: 1. I find the whole "people should stop forming arts organizations" conversation to be interesting. It's interesting because people make a very logical case for not…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 11:31AMTwo-time Tony winner Sutton Foster is bringing her Broadway moves to the small screen in the forthcoming ABC Family TV series Bunheads. In Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMDance Showdown Episode 3 - 30 Minutes Before Performance
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:25AMWriter-director Frank Galati has once again brought an E. L. Doctorow novel to the stage, and like Galati's earlier Doctorow project, 1997's Ragtime, his adaptation of The March, now in its …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AMNew plays by Theresa Rebeck, Laura Lacqmin and Dominic Taylor will be developed this summer at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMThough Nash's play is romantic and fanciful in the way the con man saves the spinster from loneliness, his characters are grounded in reality.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:24AMYouTube sensation Miranda Sings will make her ninth concert appearance at Birdland May 28 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMBroadway's George Dvorsky, Sara Jean Ford, Aaron Lazar, Rebecca Luker, and Ron Raines will be among the performers featured on the four CD set Victor Herbert: Collected Songs, to be rel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMAddressing a multi-hundred million dollar pension and health funding shortfall required instituting premiums for dependents.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:21AMToday in 2002, Thoroughly Modern Millie opened at the Marquis Theatre, where it ran for 903 performances. Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMWith 100 days to the start of the London Olympics, 100 cast members from West End shows including Ghost the Musical, Phantom of the Opera, Chicago and Shrek the Musical assembled in Trafalga…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:20AMPop Up theatre company Theatre Delicatessen is to take over a former BBC office block and transform it into a theatrical ‘pleasure garden’ this summer.
The Marylebone site - for…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:19AMSpend a two-show day at The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess on Broadway, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald. Bryonha Parham, who stops the show with her rendition of "My Man's Gon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMA revival of a drama written in 1977 with “astonishing relevance” to contemporary Britain opened in South London this week. Barrie Keeffe’s Barbarians is a trilogy of plays about disaf…
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:17AMDisney’s blockbuster musical The Lion King, which recently became the highest grossing Broadway show of all time, is now celebrating another Broadway milestone. The April 18 matinee ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMPaul Bogart, a prominent television director who brought a number of well-known plays to the screen, died April 15 in Chapel Hill, NC. He was 92.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMDIsney's THE LION KING Celebrates 1 Million Fans
On Wednesday April 18, 2012 Disney's THE LION KING will perform its 6,000th performance on Broadway and be the first Broadway musica…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:14AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara may star as Anna in a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical The King and I, according to the New York Post. The potentia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMOff-Broadway's Gotham Stage Company has announced the lineup for its second annual SPRINGboard New Works Series which will be held at The Players Club on May 7 and June 11.
The May 7 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMLovers of conversatin’ playwrights, gather round for happy news! We’re thrilled to announce that the next installment of our TCG Playwrights in Conversation series on Monday, May…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:10AMThe newest edition of The Meeting*, a gay romp through politics, social news, music, comedy skits and more, will be presented April 19 at the Duplex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMChicago Dramatists, the venerable, 33-year-old Chicago institution known for its support of new plays, has announced its 2012-13 season of three world premieres.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:09AMThe leaders of Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, are reaching out to the local community following an April 8 fire that left a housing unit for visiting personnel uninhabitable. There we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMMike Bartlett’s Chariots of Fire will transfer from Hampstead Theatre to the West End's Gielgud Theatre beginning June 22. Directed by Edward Hall and adapted from the 1981 film of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMYesterday, Playwrights Horizons began rehearsals for the world premiere production of RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Gian Gionfriddo, dir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMAmong Nine Writers At National Playwrights ConferenceThere will be a mixture of nine veteran, mid-career and new writers working this July at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:01AMIn their most recent edition of Market Notes (their monthly email to the industry with tips and tricks on how to sell more tickets), the Shuberts were kind enough to open up the treasure che…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
American Conservatory Theater has announced the lineup for the company's 46th subscription season, which will mark the 20th anniversary of Carey Perloff as A.C.T.'s artistic direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMCorbin Bleu, the "High School Musical" star who made his Broadway debut as charismatic narrator Usnavi in In the Heights, returned to The Great White Way April 17 in the current re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMIn commemoration of Yom Hashoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present Traces of Memory, a photo exhibition on loan from the Galicia Jewish Museum …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:43AMIn its new, deliciously naughty adaptation, RC Theatre has gone to town in shaking up Mozart’s opera, subverting genders of everyone but the Don himself and supplanting Giovanni’s Spain …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:40AMLorna Luft will be matchmaker Dolly Levi opposite the Horace Vandergelder of Tony winner Gary Beach in the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of Jerry Herman's Hello, Do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMMatt Cavenaugh and Jenn Gambatese will appear in concert with Maestro Robert Moody and the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra April 21 at the R.J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium in North Carolin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMCast members from the Broadway production of Mamma Mia! will kick off the annual Times Square Alliance Earth Day celebration with a special live performance of "Dancing Queen" in t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AM"I just want you to be entertained and prepare for an unforgettable time. There are no clean getaways."
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:21AMA murderer comes to the door and asks whether a friend of yours is in the house. You either tell the truth or lie; either way you can’t predict the outcome exactly, but in Kant’s theory …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMCirque du Soleil invites you to embark on a journey through the world of cinema - IRIS - Live At Kodak Theatre. Exclusive Offer For Los Angeles Locals - Buy Two Tickets Now And Save 110
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMCasting has been announced for the film The Way, Way Back, according to a report in Variety. Jim Rash and Nat Faxon are directing the project.
The film will center on a teenage boy who is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of world-renowned conductor Riccardo Muti is performing in Russia for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:12AMTheater veterans Morgan Karr, Lexi Lawson, and Arielle Jacobs will be among the artists who will participate in Love Letters to LA, on Thursday, April 26 at 8:45pm.
Over a dozen Los Angeles…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMAt This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, will continue April 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMContemporary opera is supposed to be a rare and endangered species. Robert Wood, Artistic Director of UrbanArias, says otherwise and believes fervently that it’s a cause worth pursuing. Hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMAnna Braybrooke takes a look at Squint's unique style of performance and collaboration with Artistic Director Andrew Whyment, an exciting fusion of Kevin Spacey and Alan Sugar.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:09AMThe fast-paced British farce One Man, Two Guvnors celebrates its opening night on April 18 at the Music Box Theatre. Nicholas Hytner helms the production, and James Corden stars.
Guests e…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AMYou know what really sucks more than anything? Picture this… You’re at a show on Broadway, or any show really, settled into your seat for the next two hours, you’ve read yo…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
Bay Street Theatre will present Ana Gasteyer and Brian d'Arcy James: One Night, Two Voices, Three Cheers, featuring the two Broadway veterans, on Saturday, May 26 at 8pm.
Gasteyer&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMDiana DiMarzio, who starred as the Beggar Woman in John Doyle's Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, opposite Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, will re-create her perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMThe main image on the cover of the Playbill for Regrets, the new drama playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club through the end of the month, is of a smiling All-American family, circa 1954.&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:50AMHere’s today’s New York Times story on the Bronx middle school students who won the prize. And what better way to celebrate a chess championship than with a video of “Nobod…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:46AMComing back from my trip to Israel, I'd say the biggest religious conversion I had was in becoming a writer," said budding playwright Michelle Rosenfarb about her Birthright-like trip s…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:46AMAfter the Final Curtain with Noreen Heron & Associates at MOTHERHOOD THE MUSICAL
After The Final Curtain is a new web-series developed by Chicago based Public Relations, Marketing and A…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:44AMHow director/professor Eve Muson took a Nottage play from a college production to the professional stage I remember, somewhere at the tail end of the Regional II version of the Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMTony and Academy Award-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli, who will be honored with the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award at the June 4 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, will appear on &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMBlack Books star claims to have become the first professional English-speaking comedian ever to perform in Russia after two St Petersburg gigs last week Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMThe lineup of authors who will take part in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has been announced. The event will run April 21-22 at the University of Southern California.
Among the h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMThe Playwrights: Deb Margolin, Jason Lott, and Helen Pafumi _____ Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award and what was your first react…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMEdward Hall's staging of Chariots of Fire, which will play The Hampstead Theatre May 9-June 16, will then transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End, with that run beginning June 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AMLena Dunham’s HBO series has been hailed for its sharp, insightful snapshot of 20-something young, white, straight women navigating their New York City lives in a post-Sex and the City mom…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 09:28AMPuppet Underground, the DC collective of politically minded puppeteers, is hosting NYC puppeteer Erin Bell this weekend at La Casa. They call it “Puppet Underground Cabarette”, d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMOff Sides Entertainment, Inc. will join forces with Long Island Crisis Center — Long Island's oldest suicide prevention and crisis intervention agency — and its LGBT youth in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMThe company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL welcomed a new leading man -- stage and screen star Corbin Bleu Disney's High School Musical, Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMThe Night of 1000 Voices returns to Royal Albert Hall on 6 May 2012 with a "Best of British" evening celebrating the year of the Olympic Games and Diamond Jubilee.
The event, which has been…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:09AMStage veteran Anna Paquin and her husband, actor Stephen Moyer, are expecting a child, according to a report on EW.com. As previously reported, the couple, who met while filming HBO's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMToday is the birthday of Dewey “Pigmeat” Markham. For the full story on this hilarious character go here. And here he is in a vintage burlesque sketch from 1949, “The Love-…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AMBroadway Singer/Songwriters by Morgan Allen One of my favorite things about Broadway is the plethora of talent it possesses and the wide range of voices that are present. I love cast recordi…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00AMCrown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus, written by Jason Gray Platt and premiering at Round House Theatre, is witty and surprising. Gray Platt, at twenty-seven, is already quite accomplished…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Five-time Emmy Award winner Paul Bogart died on Sunday, April 15, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to The New York Times. He was 92.
Bogart directed the film adaptation of Harvey F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:58AMAfter ten years as one half of a singing duo with her sister, Stella Tanner began a successful 40-year career as a television actress.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMWilliam Friedkin's film version of Tracy Letts' play Killer Joe will open the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) on June 20. The EIFF will continue through July 1.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AMReview of the Sunday, April 15 matinee at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. Starring Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff and Jeff Bowen. Book by Hunter Bell and…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:43AMThe Bush Theatre has got a new artistic director, and now we are pleased to see they’ve also got some student and under 26′s nights ahead. So get your Butlins dancing gear on an …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMEvery third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For April, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:29AMFirst presented at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in January 1977, directed by John Ashford and designed by Terry Jacobs. With Catherine Kessler (Syl), Nigel Terry (Jack), Anthony Milner (…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:19AMAre critics feeling "Regrets"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:08AMPop-up company Theatre Delicatessen is to take over the former BBC London offices in Marylebone for an immersive staging of Henry V this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMAlso: Surflight Theatre's new battle
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Tony Award-winning star discusses her roles in Classic Stage Company's production of Shakespeare's comedy, her new CD, Porcelain, and returning to television.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMBrett C. Leonard’s “Ninth and Joanie,” directed by Mark Wing-Davey at Labyrinth Theater Company, struggles to establish compelling action.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Ivoryton Playhouse gets a bit adult in its presentation of the stage adaptation of "The Graduate" which opens Wednesday, April 18 and runs through May 6.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMWicksteed Park, Kettering: Wicksteed Park has made it something of a speciality to stage seasonal musical spectaculars, featuring a team of singers and dancers, often with West End experienc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMThere'll be no avoiding Chariots of Fire this summer. The Olympics being shortly upon us, Hampstead Theatre are soon to launch a stage verison of the Oscar-winning 1981 film. The success of …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:32AMDaniel Buckroyd and Theresa Veith have been appointed artistic director and executive director of Colchester's Mercury Theatre respectively.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMThe new stage version of Chariots of Fire will transfer into the West End this summer, following its run at London's Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMCatch Tony award-winner Zoe Caldwell at Pace University's "Masters Series" at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, April 23 at 6 p.m.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:07AM...that, every once in a while, I need to remind myself to NOT perform while drinking. Unfortunately, the only reminder that sticks is performing while drinking. Vicious cycle......that, i…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:03AMThe multi-Tony Award winning musical ‘The Book of Mormon’ is set to be transferring across the pond, arriving at the Prince of Wales Theatre in early 2013. Although the show was …
SOURCE: Cheap Theatre Tickets at 06:00AM
In 1989, the famous Irving Berlin tune ‘What’ll I do’ (sung by Berlin himsel) rang out across the UK for 102 episodes of TV sitcom Birds of a Feather. The show charted the live…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:57AMIn a time when everyone wants to be famous, with shows such as Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor showcasing younger and younger talent each series, you can’t help but imagine a pushy…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44AMThe Broadway revival of Godspell welcomed Corbin Bleu to the company Tuesday, April 17 with a post-performance celebration at Tony's di Napoli Restaurant.
Bleu, who was last seen on B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44AMThe first time I saw Richard III was the now iconic National Theatre production with Ian McKellan. I remember the experience vividly – and recall very clearly that I left the theatre u…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMThe Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors opens at the Music Box Theatre on Wednesday, April 18.
Nicholas Hytner directs Richard Bean's comedy, which is based on Carlo Goldoni&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:15AMBy Matthew Murphy (Photographer) Choreographer Avi Scher just finished his third New York Season at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater and I was on hand to capture all of the world class danc…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:01AMBy Matthew Murphy (Photographer) This week I was lucky enough to see the EVITA revival currently taking Broadway by storm. And it got me thinking about this particularly zany performance of …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:01AMHow a play goes from someone’s brain to a stage in New York City. Part 5: The Space. By Pam Quinn (Writer) Hunting for a theatre space in NYC is murder. Finding the right size, for the rig…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMUsing The Theatrical Process Outside The Theatre By Gregory Jacobs-Roseman As you may or may not know, I’ve spent the past few years in sommelier training. I should probably stop here and …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
"Prepare the way…" -- a supernatural admonition given to a young man in 1985, new to his first lesion of Kaposi's sarcoma, a devastating indication of the AIDS virus. Meanwhile, a va…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:21AMBroadway’s biggest and most aggressive vulture right now has hoofs, flanks and a mane.
He’s called Joey, but don’t be taken in by that gentle-sounding name. This creature is stalking S…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMLyricist/Book Writer Claverack, New York USA I love theaters almost as much as I love theater, especially old theaters, especially endangered old theaters. I was arrested standing next to Su…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThe creation of Jupiter's Eagle for Stratford's upcoming production of Cymbeline directed by Antoni Cimolino."Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:and so, away: no further with yo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMBroadway theaters are bucking tradition with the start times of their shows. In the past few years, many theaters have moved up their weekday curtains to 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. from the usual …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMEdgar Lee Masters' The Spoon River Anthology receives a new production, conceived and directed by Jimmy Maize and featuring a cast of 100 performers, beginning April 18 at the Riverside …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA host of theatre favorites take part in The Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Revue, featuring the work of composer Don Breithaupt and lyricist Jeff Breithaupt, April 18 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDisney's The Lion King, which recently surpassed The Phantom of the Opera as the highest-grossing Broadway show in history, plays its 6,000th performance in New York City April 18 at 2 P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Media Theatre's production of the Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening plays the Philadelphia venue April 18-May 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley, who recently thrilled the Broadway Backwards audience with her medley of Sweeney Todd tunes, brings her critically acclaimed concert act, Ah, Men! The Boys o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlexander Gemignani is part of the world premiere of Patrick Link's drama Headstrong, about the risks associated with one of America's favorite sports, which begins previews April 18…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNew York audiences are treated to Chekhov's Three Sisters, performed in its native Russian by the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, beginning April 18 at the Brooklyn Acade…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe long-running Off-Broadway thriller Perfect Crime, which first opened in 1987, celebrates its 25th anniversary April 18 at the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite — opens April 18 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBob Glaudini and Kevin Corrigan are a father and son grappling with their past, present and uncertain future in the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Philadelphia-set drama Ninth and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois, living on the fumes of the romantic past, is back on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire. It seems a perfect time to choose five of our favorite Will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAnnalee Jefferies and Nicole Lowrance co-star in William Inge's Off the Main Road, presented April 18 at the Inge Theatre Festival in Kansas. Michael Wilson (Broadway's The Best Man)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1936 In Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead the task becomes impossible as the six dead soldiers refuse the grave. This one-act protest against the war will run three months at the Ethel Barrymor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook Page"Tonight brings back a lot of memories," said Michael Douglas as his wife, Oscar and Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMShe first told you not to cry, Argentina, back in 1978. Now — and how can it be 34 years later already? — Evita Perón, along with Juan and Che, are back for the very first Broadway revi…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AM