The Montreal entertainment company operates 19 shows around the world.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:47PMThere are a couple of things you should know about Robert O’Hara. The newsworthy thing is that he’s one of 14 people who each received a $185,000 playwright residency grant from the Andr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:33PM The Town Hall audience was in great expectations as attendees for a show that features performance only – no acceptance speeches! What a treat. Eleven years ago entrepreneur, writ…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:31PMTina Satter, artistic director of Half Straddle, a five-year-old experimental theater company that’s been gaining enthusiastic attention of late, takes on Anton Chekhov with both impud…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30PMWritten by Gary Lennon Directed by Chris Fields Starring Saverio Guerra, Johnny Messner, Sean Wing, Darryl Stephens, Elizabeth Regen Maria Cina, Andrea Grano, Paul Caramagno Produced for The…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:11PMTheatricality as fluid as “Midsummer [a play with songs]” displays can help or hurt the material. David Greig’s two-hander (he also directed), with music by Gordon McIntyre…
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Check out the recently released commercial for the show below and meet the cast with videos of them from past productions and roles
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53PMProducers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment amp Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures present the all-Canadian cast of the North American premiere of Andre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMThe Israeli theater ensemble Nalagaat, which is made up of deaf and blind performers, tells stories through pantomime and by baking bread.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMWhen playwright Terence Rattigan's beautiful and long-neglected "Flare Path" was first performed in London in 1942, Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" was all the rage. To many Americans, Coward …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:08PMFGriffin Theatre presents the first Chicago production of Terrence Rattigan's masterful wartime drama-slash-love story, thankfully avoiding the potentially melodramatic crisis at the heart o…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:04PMJust like the 2012 event, TEDxBroadway will bring together experts from a wide range of fields to create, share, and stimulate dialogue about making Broadway the best it can be. Limited tick…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMKathleen Rubin had a director's personality, but she was in her 40s before she thought about developing her director's side -- after an acting teacher suggested it. Her current project is Ha…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMIT'S BACK! BE SURE TO VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S "HOT OR NOT"!IT'S THE FIRST ROUND OF VOTING FOR RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA!CLICK THE GLASS SLIPPER TO YOUR RIGHT AND VO…
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Trinity Repertory Company announced today that celebrated stage and screen actor Kate Burton will be honored with the 2013 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts at the 17th annual …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information Director/Choreographer Rob Ashford Takes on CAT ON A HOT TIN …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMLisa Dillman’s marvelous new play, “American Wee-Pie,” now receiving an altogether delicious world premiere by Rivendell Theatre, might very well turn out to be among the smartest and …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:46PMThe NY-based director discusses her collaboration with choreographer/dancer Anne Juren, part of PS 122's 2013 COIL Festival
SOURCE: Culturebot at 05:41PMMULTI-DIMENSIONAL The virtuosic Fleur Elise Noble (performer, director, and set designer) constructs a world of artistic possibilities in 2 Dimensional Life of Her. Across a series of flat s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:39PMIt is rare in Britain to see superb ensemble work, or to find a theatre company working in the almost extinct rep model. It is doubly rare that an audience gets the opportunity to see one c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:27PMPlaywrights Horizons Tim Sanford, Artistic Director Leslie Marcus, Managing Director presents the World Premiere of THE FLICK, a new play by Obie Award winner Annie Baker Circle Mirror Trans…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMOriginal Off-Broadway cast member Lynda Gravátt will be joined by Geneva Carr and Donnetta Lavinia Grays for the the Westport Country Playhouse's "Script in Hand" readin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMMolly Ringwald, famous for starring in the John Hughes films "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty In Pink" and "Sixteen Candles," but with a jazz pianist for a father, a love of music was instilled…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PMSide Effects May Include is expertly written, superbly acted, refreshingly straightforward, and genuinely hilarious. Side effects from attending may include side-splitting laughter and thoug…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:11PMAusterity be damned. The biggest winners at The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, held last night at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, were actually the groups that bring home the most governm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMIn “2 Dimensional Life of Her” the Australian performance artist Fleur Elise Noble has brought puppets (without visible handlers) to the Under the Radar Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01PMThis short video shows a musician creating a hip hop beat out of a giant piece of paper and some scissors. That’s it. If you just listened to the music, you’d have no idea what…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMIt’s hard to pin down why over twenty young theatrical ensembles have formed in New Orleans since 2006, still stand, and are growing when there is exceptionally little money, venue, educat…
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Casting is set for the upcoming one-night-only world premiere performance of selections and music from Shaving, a new musical by writerperformer Alex Davis, at Joe's Pub on Friday, January 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMAccording to USA Today, 'Argo' star and Broadway veteran Victor Garber, 63, has officially come out. 'I don't really talk about it, but everybody knows,' he told blogger Greg Hernandez last …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PM“I, Malvolio,” a one-man show by Tim Crouch (with a little audience assistance), takes a “Twelfth Night” character out of context for the fun of it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMI’ve always wanted to meet the great countertenor Russell Oberlin, since we have the same first name (before it was fashionable, mind you) and since he shares his last name with that o…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:43PM Broadway leading lady Christine Ebersole and the Yale Whiffenpoofs – the world’s oldest and most famous collegiate a cappella group – are singing on Saturday, Janua…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:40PMIn full festival hangover, we crawled out of bed early Monday morning to kick off day two of KCACTF. With our usual Starbucks in hand, most of our group headed to campus to see FOR SALE, by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMThe 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Water by the Spoonful," recently made its New York debut courtesy of off-broadway's Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:37PMNOTHING HOLLOW ABOUT IT Is it possible for a person of color to have a “neutral narrative”: A story untainted by race or gender, disentangled from the ghosts of the past, unaffected by t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:34PMJoe Calarco's popular all-male Shakespeare's R&J, refracting Romeo and Juliet through the story of four boys at a boarding school where the classic is banned, has been revised by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PMPhilip Sneed will leave his position of producing artistic director at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the end of January, the Camera has learned. Sneed, who has helmed the festival sin…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:32PMThe Pantages Theatre has added an asterisk or two to its claim in October that "The Book of Mormon" had set a new record for the biggest single-week box-office take in Los Angeles theater hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:30PMKen Page's new play, set in a wartime club in France, takes us to a place that seems familiar, but�perhaps with a little extra help from some great old songs and Upstream Theatre's curiously…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PM By Karen Feld It’s obvious that four-time Tony nominee Gregg Edelman revels in spending his evening off performing Broadway love tunes at 54 Below, a cabaret unlike …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:28PMWhen stage fans want in-depth coverage of favorite shows and stars, they know exactly where to go: Broadway.com! Our most-watched videos from January 9 through January 15 include a tease of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMUnsungMusicalsCo.'s production of The Fig Leaves Are Falling, starring Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jonathan Rayson, Matt Walton and Morgan Weed, opens Jan. 13, following previews that b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMBroadway veteran and Sirius XM radio personality Seth Rudetsky (The Ritz) will host The Concert, a kick-off event for David Sisco and Lorene Phillips' Directory of Contemporary Theatre Writ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMOn January 20, 2013, the Monroe Theatrespace is set to host the 'Broadway in Hoboken' benefit. An impressive collection of Broadway performers will come together in Hoboken for an incredible…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMFive-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will guest star on the fourth season of the CBS drama "The Good Wife," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMTune in this Friday through Sunday to get a glimpse of the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ MicroFest USA: New Orleans, live on #NEWPLAY TV! Since Katrina, much has happened in New Orlea…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:14PMJemma Kennedy’s comedy The Grand Irrationality raises a number of perplexing questions. Why is a British writer’s play, which was developed at the National Theatre in London in 2009, mak…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:13PMNo menu necessary at the world's greatest restaurant, the Caf du Grand Boeuf in Paris. Why 'Because we have everything,' headwaiter Claude Matthew McGee admonishes waiter-in-training Antoine…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMLooking for some free musical entertainment for your children during the holidays? What better than a visit to the Melbourne Recital Centre where the Music Play Children’s Festival is in f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00PMThe new Broadway revival of Anything Goes, Cole Porter's timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, is playing SHN San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre through February 3, and Bravo produc…
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Cabaret fanatics – and you know who you are – invariably suffer a persistent worry: What if there is some amazing live gig out there I don’t know about?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:55PMA dashing drifter, a beautiful girl and the last day of summer… sounds romantic, no? Passion and propriety collide in William Inge’s Picnic, the 1953 dramedy that’s receiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:49PMUh oh, get ready for McDonald vs. Margulies! Audra McDonald will make a guest appearance on CBS' The Good Wife, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The five-time Tony winner will play A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:41PMJessica Chastain (The Heiress) won a Golden Globe last weekend and Ed Asner probably isn't happy about it. Chastain received the Best Actress honor for her role in Zero Dark Thirty, a milit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMFollowing a 6-year run playing the title role in Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular, Tony winner Anthony Crivello is back on Broadway after a 12-year hiatus, appearing in Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMIf you have never been down to The Last Refuge in Peckham then here is your chance! We have a wonderful 2-for-1 ticket offer for you to see Blues in the Night. Featuring 26 of your favourite…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:33PMIt was perhaps inevitable that Aaron Thielen, the lead artistic director of Lincolnshire, Illinois' Marriott Theatre would one day produce a revue of the work of English composer Andrew …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMHere is what makes this production of “Annie” by the Open Door Theater autism friendly.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:20PMTanaquil LeClercq was one of Balanchine's most famous ballerinas from the late 1940s until 1956. Unfortunately we don't have much footage of her in full length ballets, so here's one that s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMThis is part two of the series on the show biz ancestry of Cynthia Fujikawa, which we launched here last week. Lottie Burke (1883-1939) was on all fours when she made her stage debut. She …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:07PMIn an Oscar season that has lacked a firm frontrunner and been full of surprises, there have been only two sure things: Anne Hathaway will win best supporting actress and Daniel Day-Lewis wi…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:04PMOutgoing Arts Council England chair Liz Forgan has used her farewell speech to launch a heartfelt plea to education secretary Michael Gove not to rob the next generation of its “birthrigh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMThere comes a moment in a treasure trove of films starring the likes of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts when a depressed, frazzled character wallowing in her own complacency, willingly or by …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PMIf you’re looking for a terrific show for fussy audiences, Oh Suivant at the Arts Centre won hearts and kept everyone’s attention – even the grown ups! This two-person circus from…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMEmbarrassing experiences are usually unpleasant, to say the least, but talking about them later can be fun. So says Jennifer Sorenson, who first wrote about them on her blog and now turns so…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PMI’m fascinated by the problem of knowledge–the idea that we can never directly know anything. We’re only seeing light reflecting from objects, not the objects themselves; we’re not a…
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Ghost and Hair star Caissie Levy and her composer husband David Are unveiled their new musical projects in a big bash at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space on January 14. Levy sang selecti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:55PMIn another excellent Playwrights Horizons production, director Carolyn Cantor and playwright Amy Herzog create a beautiful mood piece about memory from Herzog’s latest play, The Great God …
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 02:53PMAt Westport Country PlayhouseDonnetta Lavinia Grays, Geneva Carr, Lynda Gravátt, Billy Eugene Jones, Paul Anthony Stewart and Susan Kelechi Watson are cast in Westport Country Playhouse…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:49PMVotes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated This was our BIGGEST year yet After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, five-time Tony Award winning actress Audra McDonald will guest star on the CBS legal drama THE GOOD WIFE later this season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMTony Award-winning actress, singer and philanthropist Phyllis Newman will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox Jan. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe cast is set for the U.S. premiere of 'Backbeat,' the dramatic new play with music about the birth of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands in history, the Beatles. 'Backbeat' will have…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMFor musical theater fans, the place to be on January 14 was the Pershing Square Signature Center, where original stars of Grease, Nine and Grand Hotel took the stage for a reunion concert ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMAccording to the man himself, "Blazing Saddles" may actually get the musical treatment. At a PBS panel, Mel Brooks stated that he's seriously thinking about turning the western comedy into a…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:17PMAmas Musical Theatre will present three staged readings of Casanova, a new musical featuring music by Martin Sylvestri with a book and lyrics by Joel Higgins, Feb. 6-7 at The Players Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMBad theater is a gift. I genuinely believe that. I know plenty of people who only go to see shows that they're already pretty sure they're going to like, or that have received strong reviews…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:11PMDon't want to hear "final call" at the onstage bar in Once? No problem! Audiences will be able to catch Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti and the cast of th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:10PMThe violinist Itzhak Perlman and Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, the cantor from the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, have scheduled a show for Feb. 28.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:08PMTwo decades of fantastic concerts! This year, The Jazz Bakery celebrates 20 years of presenting great music as a non-profit organization. They will be producing many special events throughou…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:01PMNow Available: Applications and Guidelines for TCG’s International Grant Program GLOBAL CONNECTIONS ROUND 2 • CYCLE B ONLINE REGISTRATION & APPLICATION POSTMARK DEADLINE MONDAY, …
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Podcast with LIAM BENZVI from Michael Roberts on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:58PMPodcast with LIAM BENZVI from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. Actor LIAM BENZVI discusses his role as Gabe in the Goodman Theatre’s World Premiere production of TEDDY FERRARA by playwright C…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:56PMOn the heels of Jodie Foster’s buzzy coming out speech at the Golden Globes, four-time Tony nominee and Argo star Victor Garber has quietly come out.
“I don’t really tal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:55PMFor nearly six decades, the world has been infected with cat scratch fever. Every actress would kill to play Maggie the Cat in Tennessee Williams' classic and oft-revived Cat on a Hot Tin Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMPrince Music Theater, the Philadelphia venue that seemed a new hope for American musicals when it opened its doors in 1999 —but has been largely dormant in recent years — emerged…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMThe Book of Mormon is back in the top spot at the box office for the week ending January 13. Longtime favorites The Lion King and Wicked follow with Spider-man and Once rounding out the top …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:45PMIncubator Arts Project’s Other Forces presented the return of Nellie Tinder‘s Evelyn, now Evelyn in Concert, this month. I would say, “Go!” like Andy did when …
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 01:28PMBare star Missi Pyle will take a break from patroling the halls of St. Cecilia's to make her solo show debut at Joe’s Pub on February 16.
Pyle's show, quite appropriately ti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMRoundhouse, LondonReligion and theatre have much in common. Both require their followers to believe what seems to be unbelievable; and Catholicism in particular has truly fantastic cost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMBeginning this Saturday, January 19th, Broadway favorite Sean McDermott will star as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Off-Broadway's smash hit SILENCE! The Musical. Following the announcemen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMEveryone knows Molly Ringwald from her iconic 80s films Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, but don’t miss your chance to get to know the sultry jazz singer inside …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMAbout the author:
Christopher Jackson has left the world of musicals behind this winter to join Atlantic Theater Company's rollicking new roller derby comedy, The Jammer. The actor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PM
The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild IATSE Local 600 will present iconic actor Kirk Douglas with its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 50th Annual Awards Luncheon …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMJoan Collins is set to return to the London stage with her one woman show One Night With Joan, which runs at Leicester Square Theatre for just six performances between 12 and 28 April 2013. …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:55PMTrafalgar Studios 2, LondonI can see why the 1942 French novella by Vercors, on which this play is based, made a great movie: Philip French called Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film a "claustr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMCanadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe final instalment of the Donmar’s Trafalgar season is a sparse, skilfully acted adaptation of Vercors’ French Resistance text, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:47PMThis showcase featured young choreographers whose work is quirky and refreshingly local, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:47PMA show that puts children’s words into adults’ mouths proves surprising, funny and poignant, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMThe cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Once will perform a special concert of original material and songs cut from the Broadway production Feb. 17 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMRe-Revised Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1132013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMThe Whistler in the Dark production does right by the gaunt power of "Vinegar Tom" -- if only dramatist Caryl Churchill hadn't served up such a tidily edifying coven of alleged sorceresses.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PMA Belfast Native Tackles Tennessee By Barbara Chai In person, actor Ciarán Hinds has large, friendly eyes, and his Irish accent lends his words a gentle musicality. But that’s not wha…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:36PMThis is the first in what I hope will be a series. I talked a bit with my friend, Devan Sipher, playwright, journalist and novelist. http://www.devansipher.com/
http://youtu…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 12:30PM“This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:29PMTom Hooper's adaptation of hit stage show surpasses debut landmark set by Mamma Mia! to put Life of Pi in the shadeThe winnerGiven the huge popularity of the long-running London stage show, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMThe good people at VAI – Video Artists International – continue mining the gold of old kinescopes of early television shows much to the delight of musical theater lovers. Four new discs …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMGreat Performances catering company is trying to raise $12 thousand through Kickstarter for its upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors. Yes, I said catering company. The New York Cit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMThe national tour of Looped has rescheduled its opening in Hartford following an announcement that its star, Emmy Award winner Valerie Harper, underwent hospitalization in Manhattan. The act…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMGolden Globe Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway may star in a new film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, according to the Wrap.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMA Sunday marathon at American Realness instigated thoughts about consent, the public sphere and collisions among artists. The refined schedule and pace of Ben Pryor’s festival feels welcom…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 12:19PMPBS will air concerts from Kristin Chenoweth, Josh Groban and more as part of its Live From Lincoln Center series. As previously announced five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:11PMTony winner Sutton Foster is back on TV’s Bunheads as Michelle Simms, a Vegas showgirl-turned-ballet teacher-turned-magician’s assistant-turned-ballet teacher (stop switching job…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08PMMy friend Eric Frith, who has died aged 90, had a love for music that found its fullest expression in the field of drama. From the late 1940s he was involved in the theatre run at the Wilder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM"Call Me Adam" chats with Britian's iconic singer/songwriter LuLu about making her NYC debut at BB Kings on February 16, songwriting including writing Tina Turner's #1 Grammy nominated hit "…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:00PM
Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, who was last seen on Broadway in Exit the King, celebrates her birthday Jan. 15. Here, Playbill.com looks back at Martin's career with clips from her Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMBIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will open Sunday, October 6, 2013, at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 11:54AMRECOMMENDED When Terence Rattigan’s chronicle of the lives and loves of British airmen debuted in 1942, England had been at war with Germany since 1939. While American audiences might view…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:54AMWhat is the story of your path to directing ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
I’ve known Edward now for 12 years and Woolf is the 9th production of 6 plays that I…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:49AMNBC has released new photos of the highly anticipated second season of SMASH including shots from the premiere episode, 'On Broadway', and episode 2, 'The Fallout'. The series returns Tuesda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMOn Twitter, Broadway veterans Clay Aiken and Constantine Maroulis are having a twitter battle, after Aiken posted a photo of the Jekyll amp Hyde set, but apparently never showed up for the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMEnglish National Opera has blamed a cut to its arts council funding and poor ticket sales for a £2 million loss made last year. According to the company’s accounts for 2011/12, ENO’s ov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMBobby Cannavale, Zosia Mamet, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Rock and Daphne Rubin-Vega were part of the Labyrinth Theater Company's "Celebrity Charades" Jan. 14 benefit at Capi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMA combination of whimsy, romance and political satire, FINIAN’S RAINBOW JR. is a new take on the classic Broadway musical featuring some of the wittiest, most heartfelt and memorable s…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:35AMWinners have been announced for London's Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, with the Menier Chocolate Theatre's revival of Merrily We Roll Along and Lucy Prebble's The Effect ta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMCushman: I’m philosophically opposed to the idea of casting shows by TV talent contests, but it works out as well here
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:33AMJapan’s Eiko and Koma bring their installation dance-art to Manhattan If you’re visiting the MoMA this week, then you’ll undoubtedly encounter a living installation on whee…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:31AMThe names of 35 established and emerging writers, composers and lyricists representing teams for 20 developing shows -- including the creators of "Urinetown" -- will converge on the Goodspee…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AMANN, a new play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor, will begin previews on Broadway at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street Monday, Feb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMThe 11th Annual Nightlife Awards were presented by Max Weintraub and Scott Siegel Jan. 14 at Manhattan's Town Hall. The evening honors the best in cabaret, comedy and jazz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMRobin de Jesus, Mary Testa, Elizabeth Stanley and more will join radio personality Seth Rudetsky at The Concert, an event that will commemorate the launch of the Directory of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMRobin de Jesus, Mary Testa, Elizabeth Stanley and more will join Seth Rudetsky at The Concert, an event that will celebrate the Directory of Contemporary Theatre Writers. The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMThe national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording editor, will kick off Feb. 26 in Fort Lauderdale rathe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMRevised Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1132013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMEvery show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. Adam Chanler-Berat, who has been on the Peter and the Sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMEach week Joe's Pub at The Public presents some of New York City's most eclectic programming ranging from world to classical, pop, singer-songwriter, jazz and more. At the center of Joe's Pu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMMedicine Show Theatre Ensemble's acclaimed production of Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, which was presented in October and November 2012, will return to the New York stage fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMTony and Academy Award-winning writer Tom Stoppard will be honored with the Writers Guild of America West's 2013 Laurel Award for Screen Feb. 17 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMThe cinematic auteur responsible for some of the biggest on screen belly laughs of the last decade is writing a play. Yep, everyone’s favorite 40 Year Old Virgin, Judd Apatow, could be…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 182013 - 1152013.
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Yesterday marked the one month anniversary of the massacre of 6 teachers and 20 school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Last night, on The Rachel Maddow Show, parents of 6 year old …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMThe winners were announced today of the 2012 Critics' Circle Awards, with winners Adrian Lester, Lolita Chakrabarti, Simon Russell Beale, Lucy Prebble and Hattie Morahan among those collecti…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:57AMRendering of one of the casino proposals for outside Boston.This is an important date in the future of the Bay State's cultural landscape. Today is the deadline for casino developers to…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 10:57AMBeginning this Saturday, January 19th, Broadway favorite Sean McDermott will star as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Off-Broadway’s smash hit SILENCE! THE MUSICAL.
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:46AMJason Alexander and Tovah Feldshuh are set to star in Two By Two, the season opener of the York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti series. Directed by Martin Charnin, the musi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:44AMCanadian disco singer France Joli will make her off-Broadway debut in My Big Gay Italian Wedding, when she will appear as the wedding officiator for one-night-only on January 19. Directed by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AMTony winner Jason Alexander (Seinfeld, Jerome Robbins' Broadway) and Drama Desk Award winner Tovah Feldshuh (Irena's Vow) will star in The York Theatre Company's production of the Richard Ro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMArcola, LondonGerman playwright Dea Loher's 1992 drama about Olga Benario, the German Jewish communist who was active in Germany and Brazil in the 1930s, is hard on both performers and audie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMAnne Hathaway is going from tackling Victor Hugo to taking on William Shakespeare. The Golden Globe-winning Les Miz actress may star in a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:33AMDerek Klena (Dogfight), Arielle Jacobs (In the Heights) and Jessica Hershberg (Baby It's You!) are among the artists who have joined the lineup for Rated RSO: MT-17, featuring the w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMIt’s far from official, but Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles musical may be inching closer to reality—and Broadway.
At the TCA panel (representing PBS’s American Master…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMJulie Reyburn will host A Memorial Cabaret Tribute to Michael Nelsen Jan. 19 at Etcetera Etcetera Restaurant in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMRiverside Center Dinner Theater presents Disney’s High School Musical Jr. as part of their Children’s “Lunch ‘n Show” musical theater program. With a book by David Simpatico and m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15AMThe Old Globe celebrates the 100th anniversary of Pygmalion with a lavish new production of George Bernard Shaw's masterwork. When speech professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with a fellow sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMTheater Works – Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company invites you to experience the dramatic stories of a real-life legendary hobo in Dale Wasserman’s Bu…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 10:11AMWilliam Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic returns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar. Academy Awa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMWho has her Tony acceptance speech memorized already?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:06AMTwo-time Tony Award nominees Mary Testa and Robin de Jesus are among the artists who will take part in The Concert, which launches David Sisco and Lorene Phillips' Directory of Cont…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMAt exactly this time last month, I hosted the first ConnectorCon. It was a pretty incredible experience with people from completely different backgrounds getting the chance to meet one anoth…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AM
Veteran writer, director, producer and actor Carl Reiner, along with seven-time SAG Award winner and 18-time nominee Alec Baldwin, will present the SAG 49th Life Achievement Award to Dick Va…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMWest End Review, Dec 2012-Jan-2013: Mark Shenton and regular guests Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Matt Wolf cast a critical eye over some of the major London openings of the past month or…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:50AMThis item is from Michele Farbman Venus Theater Festival: For Women Playwrights and Directors (in NY, NJ & CT) accepting submissions between now and March 1st. Venus runs from March 15th…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 09:49AMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is thrilled to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Dance Company of the Week To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMThe new musical “Big Fish” has itself reeled in a big catch: the Neil Simon Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40AMSouth Florida impresario and veteran Broadway producer Zev Buffman foresees a future for stage theater -- in radio. Not just for any theater, but orphans like the Parker Playhouse that are t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:39AMFlorida Theater On Stage Editor and Chief Critic Bill Hirschman will speak about the past, present and future of South Florida theater at noon Tuesday and Friday as a guest on Jason Fisher a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:38AMAir dates have been announced for six upcoming Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts, including evenings with Tony winners Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald; the latter will host all of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMIn 1853, the Czech scholar Karol Jaromír Erben published "A Bouquet of Folk Tales," which became a source-book for artists and composers, and “one of the three foundational texts of Czech…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMThe Orange County School of the Arts OCSA, a nationally recognized arts school that provides bright and talented students with a creative and challenging educational environment, is pleased …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AM"Call Me Adam" chats with playwright David Koteles about his new play "My First Lady" in the Metropolitan Playhouse Founders Festival from January 14-27 at the Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC,…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:28AMVeteran writer, director, producer and actor Carl Reiner, along with seven-time SAG Award winner and 18-time nominee Alec Baldwin, will present the SAG 49th Life Achievement Award to Dick Va…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMLondon’s Young Vic theatre has completed a hat-trick of wins at the 2012 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards in a year that saw subsidised venues pick up all but one of the prizes. The venue …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMThere's nothing gloomy about the pyrotechnic dancing that Glover and his sidekick, Marshall Davis Jr., offer to the memory of the departed.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:04AMOver the first half of January, box-office grosses dropped sharply from their high points in late December, which is traditionally the most lucrative time of the year for Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:01AMThe U.K.'s Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, presented Jan. 15 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, saw husband and wife Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti both win awards for th…
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Votes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated This was our BIGGEST year yet After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:58AMPodcast With Young Rapscallions from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. The Young Rapscallions: Taylor Messersmith (Bass), Jonathan Sanders (Vocals), Chris Mintz-Plasse (Drums) and Nick Chamian (G…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:55AMBroadway's Nathan Lane returns to guest star in the CBS drama series THE GOOD WIFE on Sunday, January 27th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52AMAnyone who sits through Jemma Kennedy's "The Grand Irrationality" can probably come up with a pretty good reason why this new comedy had its world premiere at the Lost Studio and not 5,500 m…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:49AMLike his good friend Geoffrey Rush, Brown was a gifted comic. Each grew up in small-town Queensland. They met doing student theatre at university. In a statement yesterday, Rush said: "We ha…
SOURCE: www.theaustralian.com.au at 08:46AMA lightly edited-for-the-web version of an open letter Ben Pryor wrote to Alastair MacAuley in response to an email exchange Q&A about the American Realness Festival. The full version a…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 08:29AMHere’s Part 3 of Meeting the cast of Bravo@KAT’s The Music Man, Jr., playing next weekend at Olney Theatre Center’s Historic Mainstage. Today, meet Zachary Conneen. My na…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AMThe Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht. Written 1938-41; premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus on 4 February 1943. Text: In Collected Plays: Six: London: Methuen, 1994. A new produc…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:28AMSheffield Theatres, The Stage’s regional theatre of the year, is facing a 20% cut to its funding from its local council, which the organisation says could damage its work with communities …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMPhilip Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher, a gothic horror story which blurs the line between the real world and the supernatural, opens Chicago Opera Theater‘s 2013 Season, ti…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:16AMThe Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive in Lincolnshire, will present an all-star cast in the World Premiere of NOW AND FOREVER: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, featuring the legendary co…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:09AMFounding Artistic Director Richard Kuranda and Williams Street Repertory have announced that John Michael Coppola of Chicago’s Jersey Boys will star as Bobby in their upcoming production…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:04AMMultilingual Globe to Globe season recognised with special prize while Young Vic, National and Tricycle sweep the boardShakespeare's Globe has received a special award from the Critics' Circ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM
Today on TCM at 2:30pm (Eastern), I’ll Cry Tomorrow, the 1955 bio-pic based on Lillian Roth’s eponymous memoir. The focal point is Roth’s descent into alcoholism and accomp…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:52AMEdinburgh Festival Fringe is to reduce the commission it charges companies and producers on ticket sales from 6% to 4%, starting at this summer’s event. Commission on ticket sales has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMHubbard Street Dance Chicago and San Francisco–based Alonzo King LINES Ballet — currently celebrating their 35th and 30th anniversary seasons, respectively — perform together in f…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:50AMProfiles Theatre announces the final extension of their hit 20th Anniversary production ofHellcab by Will Kern, directed by Profiles Co-Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox. All cast memb…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:39AMSouthbank Centre, LondonThe Mayans got it wrong – the world didn't stop spinning at the end of last year – but circus company My!Laika play out their own distinctly quirky form of catast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMContinuing its 25th Anniversary Season, Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Ensemb…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:31AM“Well, for all of you ‘SNL’ fans, I’m 50! I’m 50! You know, I need to do that without this dress on, but you know, maybe later at Trader Vic’s, boys and girls. What do you say? I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #423: Loïe Fuller (for full article on her go here). This incredible short film from 1902 opens with her transforming from a bat! To find out mo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AMWilliam Inge is one of those mid-20th century American playwrights who started late (he was 30 when his first play, Come Back, Little Sheba arrived on Broadway). It was a success, and ulti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Lester, Russell Beale among U.K. stage winners
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53AMTrafalgar Studios, London: "I annihilate you," observes Leo Bill's faltering German officer Werner to the old man who has been forced to take him in to his cottage during the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThe Roundhouse, London: Three Cardinals come together in prayer as their stage manager intones "All Cardinals to the stage please, this is the five-minute call". They are about to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AMToday is the birthday of Dick Hilburn (1918-1971). billed in the sideshow world as “the Quarter Man”. The name sprang from the fact that he had but one fully developed limb (his …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:10AMWe know what you're up to Broadway... By Joanna Syiek (Director/Producer/Blogger) What do the following photos have in common: Talented folks? Assuredly. Veterans of stage/screen? Without a …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMA letter from the Bureau of Musical Theatre Affairs to Usnavi de la Vega By Rob Shapiro (musical theatre writer/reporter) Detective Jake MacLeod Bureau of Musical Theatre Affairs Dosodo Flow…
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The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2012 have been announced, with husband and wife Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti, playwright Lucy Prebble and Simon Russell Beale among the winners.
T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:46AMThe Guardian (UK) 01/09/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30AMLondon Evening Standard 01/10/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:22AMNearly every interview and promotion has highlighted the fact that Les Misérables was sung live on set but was it worth it?
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:22AMThe Guardian (UK) 01/14/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:22AMBetty Buckley talks about London, Cats, and being inspired by Gillian Lynne...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15AM"Now that Django Unchained has literally used the N-word, I think I’m in the clear."-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:13AMThis has been a fine Donmar season of “foreign” plays by “new directors” in the smaller of the Trafalgar Studios; Arbuzov’s The Promise and Strindberg’s T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:08AM
THE ACTORS’ GANG’S TARTUFFE RETURNS FOR THREE NIGHTS BEFORE NATIONAL TOUR The Actors’ Gang, the critically acclaimed Los Angeles based ensemble theatre company, will present hi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMSeinfeld's Jason Alexander and Tovah Feldshuh Star in Two By Two: The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) has announced that Broadway veterans Jason Alexander (…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:59AMby Victor Garber's coming out. Because how was Victor Garber not out?He seemed surprised by the question but said: “I don’t really talk about it but everybody knows." P.S. I love yo…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:37AMWhat do you want to bet--I pride myself on my instincts. I can tell my roommate is avoiding her chores by her walk. My predictions of early television cancellations are always on the money…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:17AM
Since the very beginning of the blog, I have been keeping an eye on the intersection of performing arts and religious communities. A recent NY Times article seems to include quite a number o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:39AMSchool shootings have nearly become an American commonplace - always awful but no longer remarkable.
Commentators labeled the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Con…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMThough it has been laid low in recent years by litigation and bankruptcy, the Prince Music Theater, led by founder Marjorie Samoff, once held a handsome national reputation as a creator of a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:31AM
For those craving a show after the show, 54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, offers its Today night cocktail partysongfest…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMIn a magical World Premiere, Virginia Stage Company will present the new pre-Broadway musical Frog Kiss, tonight, January 15-February 3, 2013 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, Virgin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMDo you hear the people sing the songs of my childhood?How I grew up with Les Mis…by Joe Vermeulen@YYZatcboyIt’s 1989, and I am at the Royal Alexandra Theatre with my parents. I am three …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThe Paradoxes of Canadian StardomCanadians have strange attitudes to their celebritiesby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisMy significant other is francophone so we watch lots of French-langu…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMAri Brand, who plays the title role in Off-Broadway's My Name Is Asher Lev, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFrom 2004: I was channel-surfing the other day and stumbled across Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam, which opens with...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Speeches measured by the hour, die with the hour." Thomas Jefferson, letter to David Harding, Apr. 20, 1824...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM1622 Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by the nom de plume Moliere (1622-1673), one of France's greatest playwrights, who will go on to write Tartuffe, School for Wives, Scapin, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe third season of the PBS Emmy-nominated series "Pioneers of Television" — featuring interviews with legendary stars and never-before-seen images about iconic television sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Memory and Mayhem," the new live album from two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, is released Jan. 15 by Broadway Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new live album "Patti LuPone Far Away Places," which was recorded during the two-time Tony winner's engagement at 54 Below last summer, is released Jan. 15 by Broadway Reco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFormer The Secret Garden co-stars Howard McGillin and Rebecca Luker join forces for a Broadway Romance Jan. 15-26 at the Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Virginia Stage Company's production of the new musical Frog Kiss is presented Jan. 15-Feb. 3 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen star Valerie Harper's memoir, "I, Rhoda," is released Jan. 15 by Gallery Books.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company, which is led by producing artistic director James Morgan, has announced that Tony winner Jason Alexander and four-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh will star in the …
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