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SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:51PMA PLAYFULLY PROFOUND MASTERPIECE “Oh my God, I can’t believe we’re doing this. Okay …” Warm laughter of recognition spread across the audience. This thought had undoubtedly crossed…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:33PMTonight on American Idol, the judges rolled into Charolette, North Carolina in hopes to find the next big talent. The episode kicked off with footage of the long speculated feud between Mari…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25PMSome shows leave you scratching your head, wondering when they went wrong. At least “Collision” makes it easy: It goes south in the first minute. And it’s all downhill from there — a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMBy now, most of the world has heard of Pussy Riot, the feminist performance art ensemble that riled Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church with its guerilla-style a…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" and Julie Taymor, the musical's ousted director, are once again ready to settle their long-running court case, a court f…
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:49PM"Rain" is not always easy to follow, and makes demands of its audience, but it also rewards us well for our patience. Its intellectual challenge and refusal to be predictable are what's most…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:34PMEdward Albee is considered one of this country's most influential playwrights, winning three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Who doesn't love Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, right? He…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:21PMThe Poetic License 2013 festival promises "new poetic theater" that features 75 artists in 15 different shows. Produced by Poetic Theater Productions, it is now running at The Wild Project u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17PMAccording to Brian May's website Brian's Soapbox, he has given the go-ahead for a US tour of We Will Rock You, with a stop in New York City, possibly on Broadway. The show is already set for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07PMThe Pulitzer Prize and OBIE Award-winning Theatre for the New City TNC will hold its 10th Annual LOVE N' COURAGE benefit gala on Monday, February 25, 2013 at the National Arts Club 15 Gramer…
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The actor makes his Broadway debut as LaBeouf's younger sibling in Lyle Kessler's play about two brothers trying to survive in North Philadelphia. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:47PMWhat inspires your movie selections? Do you go for ‘Critically-acclaimed Violent Suspenseful Movies'? Or are you more of a 'Dysfunctional Family Drama' type? Whatever your preference, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:45PMNICK JONES (Playwright) Produced shows include: The Coward(Lincoln Center/LCT3; 4 Lortel Nominations) Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova, The Public), The Wundelsteipen (the Flea) The Sportin…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:43PMThe revamped revival of Bare will play its final performance on February 3 at off-Broadway’s New World Stages. Directed by Stafford Arima, Bare opened on December 9, 2012. The producti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:30PMProducers of Off-Broadway's Bare announced Jan. 23 that the coming-of-age rock musical set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school will play its final performance Feb. 3 at New World St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:30PMNew World Stages has announced that its currently running production of Bare, a rock musical about sexuality at a religious high school, will close on February 3, 2013, after 21 preview and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:29PMProducers Randy Taradash, Paul Boskind andMartian Entertainment, and Gregory Rae announced today that BARE will play its final performance on Sunday, February 3rd at 730pm after 21 previews …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMOn 1 July 1916, the battalion of Lancashire volunteers recruited from Accrington was all but wiped out in about 20 minutes as they took on the task of attacking the village of Serre on the o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:15PMA woman with a full bird's nest (eggs and all) wedged inside of her Red Queen hairdo and a man in a bright teal track suit with cowboy fringe, walked to the front of the theater. They announ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:13PM"There's a song where they're in, like a Barney's, and it's called 'You Are What You Wear.'"-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:10PMSince being fired in 2011 from the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," director Julie Taymor has kept a relatively low public profile, her time presumably occupied by the ongoi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:08PMThe Pasadena Playhouse announced that Playhouse 'Angels' and current Board Members Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller are the anonymous donors whose one million dollar gift in May 2010 was …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:03PMNational Theatre Wales has announced its third season, including its first international production – in Japan. The Opportunity of Efficiency, written by Alan Harris and directed by NTW ar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWhen feminism was really cool, female playwrights would write flatshare dramas about a group of women, each of whom was representative of a certain way of life. The play title would just be …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMFor the past eight months, Australian audiences have been scrambling to become part of a 60 year old club — the ever growing group of theatre goers that know exactly ‘whodunit’, and wh…
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ABC Family has just released a behind-the-scenes chat with Broadway siblings Sutton and Hunter Foster In the interview, the duo chat about playing fictional family on the hit series BUNHEADS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMBe their guest! Be their guest! And put their spectacular show to the test! I’m certain it will pass with flying colors as NETworks presents Disney’s Beauty and The Beast. Landing at Hip…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:43PMFormer member of Destiny's Child Michelle Williams will join the national tour of the hit Award-winning Broadway musical Fela when it opens at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, DC on January…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMTom Sturridge is on the road to Broadway. The British stage and screen veteran will make his New York debut opposite the previously announced Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) and Shia LaBeouf (Transf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:39PMTom Sturridge, the British stage and film actor whose credits include the films "Being Julia," "Vanity Fair" and "On the Road," will make his Broadway debut in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33PMFred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein discuss their satirical sketch-comedy TV show "Portlandia" and how the Northwest city's quirkiness compares with San Francisco's.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:32PMTom Sturridge, the British stage and film actor whose credits include Being Julia and On The Road, will make his Broadway debut this spring in ORPHANS. This production, which will begin perf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:27PMLyle Kessler’s “Collision,” presented by the Amoralists troupe, follows a college student’s efforts to enlist others in a plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMTom Sturrdige will join previously announced stars Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf in the upcoming Broadway production of Orphans. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the Lyle Kessler play will run a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:15PMCAP UCLA imports Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, which depicts Ganesh trying to re-claim the use of the swastika from the Nazis, to the Freud. It's a "devised" work by Back to Back Theatre Co…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:10PMTom Sturridge, the British stage and film actor whose credits include Being Julia and On The Road, will make his Broadway debut this spring in Orphans.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that Andy Richardson will replace Andrew Keenan-Bolger as 'Crutchie' in Newsies, which is currently playing at the Nederlander Theatre. As BroadwayWorld previousl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMLongtime Rocklander returns to Broadway after a decade away Ellen Burstyn likes to keep sharp. “I exercise my memory at every opportunity,” says the newly-minted 80-year-old, cal…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, January 23, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information Catch Broadway’s MAMMA MIA! stars Judy McLane, Lauren…
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What a bummer! The one and only Barry Manilow has had to cancel performances of his new Broadway gig as he battles a bout of bronchitis. As we pondered how to spend our suddenly free evening…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:59PMEven suspected murderers celebrate birthdays. The cast of Broadway's The Mystery of Edwin Drood surprised star Chita Rivera with an onstage 80th birthday party after their Wednesday, Januar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:53PMTony Award winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King) will direct and longtime collaborator Elliot Goldenthal (The Green Bird) will compose original music for a new fall 2013 production of William …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMBock and Harnick's Fiorello, the opening musical of the Encores 20th Anniversary season, will star Kate Baldwin, Erin Dilly, Jenn Gambatese, Shuler Hensley and Emily Skinner, with Danny Ruti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMLong-time partners Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal will collaborate on a new production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to inaugurate Theatre for a New Audience's first home, l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:49PMTwo-time Tony-winning director Julie Taymor is set return to the New York stage in the fall with a production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Taymor's par…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PMBy now, most of the world has heard of Pussy Riot, the feminist performance art ensemble that riled Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church with its guerilla-style a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:46PMNEW YORK (AP) — Apparently, some people can be easily persuaded to arm themselves and take aim at the world.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:44PMThere's just one problem with presenting gorgeous rehearsal photos of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s hot drama Really Really: We can't reveal anything about the plotline of this ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMNot even icon Barry Manilow is safe from the plague of wintertime illness sweeping through New York. Following doctors' orders, the crooner rescheduled his January 23 performance of Manilow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMOPENING THE ART OF MURDER. Fox Valley Rep presents a murder mystery involving a frustrated artist, his wife, their insane art dealer and the odd housekeeper. Directed by Jason W. Gerace. Pre…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:44PMIn The World of GlassGoing back to the source of a well-known Williams work at McGillby Élaine CharleboisIn a word, Rowan Spencer’s take on Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie was f…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:43PMThe title says it all: “Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan.” Since 1990, when the former Olympic gymnast first played the boy who never grows up, Cathy Rigby has been inextricably entwined with th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:42PMThe roller derby is "a Godless place," a Catholic priest warns early in The Jammer, Pulitzer Prize finalist Rolin Jones' high-octane new comedy, now at The Atlantic Theater Company's Stage T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:40PMOn Jan. 21, Broadway performers, including Lucille Ball's daughter, paid tribute to late composer Marvin Hamlisch at the McCallum Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the event below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMSutton Foster’s real-life brother (and Tony nominee!) Hunter is joining the cast of ABC Family’s Bunheads on January 28, playing Michelle Simms’ visiting brother Scotty. Wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PM(photo credit: Fairen Berchard)Ride the Cyclone is one roller coaster worth riding Anything’s possible in a show where all the characters are already dead.by Chris LaneRide the Cyclone beg…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:22PMHeadlong will return to the Almeida Theatre following the critically acclaimed 2008 co-production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. The collaboration will continue in autumn 2013 with a ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMLost in Havel's untranslatable idiom.Václav Havel, who died last year, was one of the few playwrights who can claim to have had a larger role on the political stage than the dramatic one.Bo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:17PMThe singer, fighting bronchitis, cancels two preview performances leading up to opening night on Thursday.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:13PMThe Broadway stars of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, “Dynamos” Judy McLane, Lauren Cohn and Felicia Finley, will perform the ABBA hits “Dancing Que…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:11PMThe Broadway stars of Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus' smash hit musical Mamma Mia, 'Dynamos' Judy McLane, Lauren Cohn and Felicia Finley, will perform the ABBA hits 'Dancing Queen' and 'Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:08PMThe stage version of Aladdin will fly to Toronto before opening on Broadway. The Disney-produced show is scheduled for a nine-week run at the Canadian city’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from Nov. 1…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:06PMIrish tale of sibling battles transposed for a Québecois audience The sharp Irish-English playwright is one of the best of his classby Sarah Deshaies@sarahdeshaies Quebec is often accused o…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:06PMComposer and singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik is heading in a new direction with his musical adaptation of American Psycho, according to Gothamist. While American Psycho w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMEmma Hunton, Nikki Renée Daniels, Noah Weisberg and Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte will be part of the La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Work Series presentation of Chasing the Song…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PMIf the Pasadena Playhouse had decided to adopt a theme song when a dire economy and long-standing debts forced it to cease operations for most of 2010 while it tried to claw its way back to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:01PMWould you like to be part of the Spirit of Christmas this year? Or how about perform with the Queensland Pops Orchestra in the Best of Britain? The QPAC Choir want you and your talent. The g…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMLast November, playwright Eliza Bent had a reading of her play The Hotel Colors at the Bushwick Starr. She felt good about the reading. She felt good about the play. And afterward, when she …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMMultiple Tony Award-winner JULIE TAYMOR will direct and ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL will compose original music for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the inaugural production in Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMEpisode Twenty-Five: What You See is What You Get Believe it or not, today’s podcast is inspired by the difference between Disney World and Darien Lake. How does their atmosphere and c…
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Noted Chicago playwright Rebecca Gilman’s spot-on script uses clever but realistic dialogue to the fullest, exploring not only the crime of stalking itself but the fraught issues it raises…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:57PMFree Performances of Asking For It by AMAS Musical Theatre: Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Artistic Producer) will present three performances of “Asking For It”, an autobiographica…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:55PMJay Dodge (photo credit: Karri North)Harrowing Stories Grab You By The EndMulti-Media and Acrobatics!by David C. JonesBoca Del Lupo is one of Vancouver’s most celebrated theatre companies.…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:55PMNewsies ensemble member Andy Richardson will assume the role of Crutchie in the Tony-nominated musical beginning March 11. Richardson will replace Andrew Keenan-Bolger, who is leav…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMWhen Ellen Harvey isn’t keeping the corps de ballet in line as Madame Giry in The Phantom of the Opera, she’s hanging out backstage at the Majestic Theatre with her marshmal…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMIf looked at for what it actually is, a student production for a first time writer and actor, this play passes muster. It doesn’t do much more than that, but an artist has to start somewh…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 04:42PMBarry Manilow Gets a Street Named After Him and Loses His Voice: Considering he has never performed on Broadway except in his own concerts, I find it odd that the City of New York has honore…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:39PMBack in 2010, word spread that Duncan Sheik would be writing the music for an American Psycho musical. Now we finally have some info on what exactly those Psycho jams will entail.
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:38PMSinger-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the Jan. 23 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole world si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMBarry Manilow has canceled the January 23 preview performance of his concert engagement, Manilow on Broadway due to a continuing bout of bronchitis. The performance has been resche…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMThe “Spider-Man” and “Lion King” director will return to the stage with an Off Broadway production of Shakespeare’s play at Theater for a New Audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PMOn doctors' orders, tonight's performance of MANILOW ON BROADWAY has been rescheduled. A makeup performance has been added on Wednesday, February 27 at 700 pm to accommodate ticketholders. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMDestiny's Child star Michelle Williams will join the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Fela! as Sandra Isadore when the production returns to Washington, D.C. Jan. 29 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMAlan Menkin has quite the full plate. The Oscar and Tony-winning composer of Newsies, Leap of Faith and the upcoming Aladdin musical is working on two new musical projects, accordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMTheater stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:14PMWhat a disappointment! I went to Clive because of two actors, Ethan Hawke, who was outstanding recently in Ivanov at Classic Stage, and Vincent D’Onofrio whose superb acting I watch with f…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:13PMDavid Cromer, the longtime Chicago director whose New York career was launched after his production of “Our Town” (starring himself as Stage Manager) is returning to Chicago to a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Bud, Not Buddy" by the Chicago Children's Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Bud, Not Buddy" by the Chicago Children's Theatre ★★½ ... If anyone calls t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:05PMIt could have been my head was cloudy from taking in everything new from tech, or maybe it was because I was trying so hard to learn my understudy roles, but when I saw on our daily schedule…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMPutting on a play is never easy nor cheap, at least if you're aiming for high-quality professional work presented in a major performing arts center. Alliance Theatre Lab is in the midst of a…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:03PMThe Book Of Mormon's Maia Nkenge Wilson sang an impromptu version of Once On This Island's 'Waiting For Life' at Broadway Sessions on November 29th, 2012, complete with impromptu back up sin…
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Years after her death, the memory of Nellie Stone Johnson still commands attention in the story of Minnesota politics, unions and civil rights.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:59PMDue to popular demand, SILENCE! THE MUSICAL resumed performances on January 19th at the Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMFind out what fans have to say about ‘EDWARD ALBEE’S WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’!
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Story
On the campus of a small New Englan…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:58PMOn Tuesday, January 22nd, members of the Broadway company of Evita joined forces with Sing For Your Seniors to bring a very special performance to the seniors at Village Adult Day Health Cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION RETURNS TO CARRIE HAMILTON THEATRE ON VALENTINE’S DAY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Impro Theatre (Dan O’Connor, Artistic Director) has announced a return enga…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:51PMThe eagerly anticipated Broadway production of Matilda The Musical will begin airing its newest television promotion this week. The story of Matilda, originally adapted from the 1988 childre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMApplications are now being accepted for the third annual Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, which provides a secluded summer getaway for writers of new musicals in the Hudson Valley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMIn celebration of its 20th anniversary, New York City Center Encores! opens its 2013 season with Fiorello!, the same musical that kicked off its inaugural season back in 1994. This Pulitzer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMEddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie), Sarah Steele (Slowgirl), and Drew McVety (Cyrano de Bergerac) are among the actors who will trade their movie queues for live theater when they star in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMHollywood hounds are on the heels of the current Marquis Theatre bound revival of Jekyll and Hyde before it has even completed its pre Broadway national tour. The New York Times has reported…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:33PMFriends and colleagues of late composer Marvin Hamlisch performed his pop, film and stage hits in a Jan. 21 concert at the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, CA. David Zippel, Hamlisch's c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMOn Sunday, February 3 at 5 p.m., in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, Carnegie Hall gives Broadway fans the exclusive opportunity to sing along with the brightest stars of tod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMThe Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated actress Estelle Parsons will be honored at La Mama's annual benefit fundraiser, along with longtime La MaMa board member Peter Swords on Wednesday, Febru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMEarly in 2012, an unlikely series of events led two of the world's most gifted sleight-of-hand artists, Derek DelGaudio 2011 Close-Up Magician of the Year and Helder Guimares 2011 Parlour Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMThe world premiere of Liz Flahive's The Madrid — featuring Seth Clayton, Brooke Ashley Laine, Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie"), Tony n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMDavid Wiener, best known for Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, returns to an earlier play in a very different style with Cassiopeia, at Boston Court. It was inspired by personal communic…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PMKrysta Rodriguez (Smash), Corey Cott (Newsies), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening), David Austin, Jenni Barber (The Performers), Jeff Blumenkrantz (A Class Act), Andrea Burns (In the Heights), E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMFor generations, musical theatre writers have come to New York City to change the world. 'Once Upon A Time In New York City' is a concert series about the people who have changed THEM. After…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMLAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Strip is already home to casinos that mimic the canals of Venice and the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Now Sin City is getting an events center modeled on an eas…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:05PMThe hit series "Glee" continues its fourth season at 9 PM Jan. 24 with an episode titled "Sadie Hawkins." In the following Jan. 31 episode, "Naked," the glee club "puts together a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMEven as his latest book attracts international attention, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright premieres his new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. A reporter renowned for his work with Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMTheatre Works final show for Midsumma is Margie Fischer’s most recent work, The Dead Ones, and she has a chat to Anne-Marie Peard. Margie is a writer and performer who founded Feast, Adel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMThe Smiths, a dead sparrow, heading home on the top deck of the 192 bus … Simon Stephens on writing Port, about the town he thought he'd left behindOne Monday morning before Christmas, I s…
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The mirror ball has relocated to the cellar with MICHAEL MUSTO'S 70s DISCO EXTRAVAGANZA at 54 BELOW. Sunday, February 17, starting at 930PM, join downtown legend, disco diva, and Village Voi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMThe music icon met the press earlier yesterday, where he chatted with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge about the importance of musical theatre throughout his life, how it influenced his career,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMRemember the first time you grasped the idea that some people are blind? Didn't you shut your bright-child eyes really tight -- didn't we all? -- and try to imagine how it might feel to walk…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 02:58PM“Broadway Bares,” the “Mystery of Edwin Drood” Broadway cast album, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, a screening and discussion with “Lincoln&rdqu…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:54PMBroadway.com is hitting the road! We’re highlighting five exciting productions happening all over the United States right this minute. Hop aboard for a cross-country tour of the best r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:51PMHEDY WEISS: One woman’s memoir shakes up an ideologically divided family in Jon Robin Baitz’s fascinating and often surprising meditation on American politics.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:44PMIf you could live forever, would you? That’s the eternal question of TUCK EVERLASTING. In a small New England town, a young girl dreaming of adventure stumbles upon a family with a fabulou…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 02:33PMRolin Jones’ comedy THE JAMMER, directed by Jackson Gay, opened last night at the Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director). The production…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:32PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce a one week extension for The Madrid, the world premiere play by Liz Flahive (From Up Here, “Nurse Jackie”), directed by Leigh Silverman�…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:31PMA brand-new commercial for the eagerly anticipated MATILDA THE MUSICAL begins airing this week. Follow the link to watch: http://www.youtube.com/user/MatildaBroadway. MATILDA THE MUSICAL beg…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:25PMAs part of our On The Boards podcasts in cooperation with Arts Radio Network, Florida Theater On Stage's Bill Hirschman sits down for a conversation with Arts Garage Artistic Director and fo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:19PM By Karen Feld Bridges take many forms; some are more functional than others. They vary in strength and aesthetics as well. The multi-talented Ann Hampton Callaway expanded …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:17PMAt some point or other in their careers, all performers have had the paralyzing dream of freezing on stage, of blanking on their lines before the curtain rises. Add to this the mounting pres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMA brand-new commercial for the eagerly anticipated MATILDA THE MUSICAL begins airing this week. View it below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMHighlights - David Tennant returns to the RSC in the title role of Gregory Doran’s production of Richard II - World premiere of Wendy & Peter Pan by Ella Hi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:08PMNewsies star Corey Cott and "Smash" actress Krysta Rodriguez are among the performers set for Once Upon a Time in New York City 2, a Feb. 3 benefit concert featuring new mater…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM By Susan Hasho – January 20, 2013 When you open a show and sing full-out,” I Wanna Be Rich, Famous and Powerful,” in a way, you have nowhere else to go but mor…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:04PMJoe Calarco’s groundbreaking play Shakespeare’s R&J breaks new ground again when it opens in the theatre more accustomed to the sights and sounds of Sondheim. Signature The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:02PM
On Twitter Watch, Alan Menken wrote 'LIDSVILLE is underway...FINALLY. Back to the 60's. Peace, love and psychedelia And DreamWorks is pretty great. So many old friends there.Just recorded a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMThe proliferation of old plays made new again by virtue of casting with actors who are box-office magnets …
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SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:46PMRolin Jones’ and the cast of his new comedy, The Jammer, celebrated the play’s off-Broadway opening on January 22. The 90-minute romp stars Patch Darragh, Christopher Jackso…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMShock value is no stranger to entertainment. In fact, it’s become more and more customary in order to keep the masses engaged. The Amoralists too, are no strangers to presenting gritty the…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:36PMBroadway stars Kate Baldwin, Erin Dilly, Shuler Hensley, Danny Rutigliano, Emily Skinner and more offer an advance look at Encores!’ 20th anniversary production of the Tony and Pulitze…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMThe New York Philharmonic will welcome Tony Award-winning baritone Brian Stokes Mitchell for A Broadway Christmas this December.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMNEW YORK (AP) — Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto" would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of 1960, not 16th-century Ma…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:28PMBeginning this Friday, January 25th, Jeffrey Kuhn will assume the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter's nemesis, Dr. Chilton, in Off-Broadway's smash hit SILENCE! THE MUSICAL.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PM"Marty Thomas Presents DIVA," a weekly display of vocal fireworks, each Monday at Industry Bar in Midtown Manhattan. On Jan. 21, DIVA featured special guests The Skivvies (Nick Cea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMWell this is a charming little piece of fluff. An unusual story. Some great lines. Excellent acting. This cast is having so much fun that Patch Darragh is almost unrecognizable. Every s…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:23PMDavid Tennant is to return to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Richard II, five years after audiences and critics hailed his performance as Hamlet.
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:23PMBob Costas will host the Garden of Dreams benefit, Garden of Laughs, on January 26 at the Theater at MSqG, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Wanda Sykes, Robert Klein, a…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:21PMTony and Academy Award winner Alan Menken has two new screen musical projects in the works: A musical episode of the television series "The Neighbors" and a new film adaptation of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMFormer member of Destiny's Child Michelle Williams will join the national tour of the hit Award-winning Broadway musical Fela when it opens at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, DC on January…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17PMAtlantic Theater Company has just announced that the New York premiere of Rolin Jones' comedy The Jammer, directed by Jackson Gay, has now been extended through Sunday, February 17 in advanc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMMusic legend Barry Manilow is expected to been given the go-ahead by doctors to resume performances of Manilow on Broadway after cancelling the January 22 performance due to bronch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMArtistic director Gregory Doran says he has perfect actor in mind to play lead in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the BodiesGregory Doran has a good idea of who could play what will be one of the mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMTwo-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is only a few weeks away from making his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, and on January 22, the Broadway newbie got a lesson from the pros…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PM
References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot is a production from Troupel Theatre Company, a company which traverses two continents, and this international influence is at the heart of this produ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:51PMSinger-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the 7 PM Jan. 22 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMDirector John Nasca does an exemplary job in bringing to stage this teenage-boys-come-to-grips-with-their-orientation-and-fall-in-love story. Let's just hope that this play will remain a cla…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:40PMThe plays, adapted by Mike Boulton from Hilary Mantel's prize-winning novels, will begin in repertory in December.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PMTony nominee and three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep will return to her PBS roots to narrate the second installment of the documentary series Pioneers of Thirteen on New York’s public…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMJamie Harper’s site-specific performance evokes the Spanish civil war through words, food and wine, Natalie Whittle writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:38PMJamie Harper's site-specific performance evokes the Spanish civil war through words, food and wine, Natalie Whittle writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:38PMReady for a sure-to-be-hilarious, no-holds-barred Ask a Star feature? Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman have agreed to take a seat on the Broadway.com studio couch to answer your questions! The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:35PMLauren Molina and Nick Cearley’s near-nude band The Skivvies will welcome a host of Broadway stars to their January 28 concert at the Highline Ballroom. Tony winner Alice Ripley w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:35PMBEST NOT TO SEE THIS PLAY ON A FIRST DATE The Raven Theatre is celebrating 30th Anniversary Season with the return of Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, which debuted at the Goodman Theatre i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:35PMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh There is much that is extraordinary about Shelagh Delaney's debut play: that it was written by an 18-year-old after watching something by Terence Rattigan and thinkin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMThe New York Philharmonic's 201314 season will include Tony Awardwinning vocalist and Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, making his NY Phil debut with A Broadway Christmas, a special holid…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMKudos to Broadway Records for starting the 54 Below recording series, capturing various cabaret acts by Broadway stars. I hope the series proves successful, since most of us don't live…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:30PMManhattan Theatre Club's The Madrid has extended its limited run before opening. Liz Flahive’s play, which was originally schedule to play through April 14, will now run throu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMFox held its Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour Jan. 8 at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Cast members from shows such as "Glee," "American Idol," …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMFox held its Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour Jan. 8 at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Cast members from shows such as "Glee," "American Idol," …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMRespected actor Sam Waterston, beloved singer-actor Betty Buckley and prolific director Trevor Nunn are among this year’s inductees to the Theater Hall of Fame. They will be honored on Jan…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:25PMWe are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting applications for the next round of MetLife/TCG A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It. This program for TCG Member Theatres supports creative th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:19PMAtlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce that Tony Award® nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, Who’s Af…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:18PMThe Broadway League and Latin Trends will host the first official VIVA Broadway community event, VIVA Broadway Fiesta, a pre-theatre party on January 29th from 500pm to 700pm at the legendar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMThe intersection of arts, culture, education, advocacy, technology and politics.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:15PMIthaca, NY's Hangar Theatre will stage the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Clybourne Park, Amy Herzog's intimate work 4000 Miles and the musical classic Gypsy as part of its 2013 summer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Sound of Music’ to follow ‘In the Heights’ Bob Funking and Bill Stutler, the men behind nearly 40 years of song and dance at Westcheste…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:07PMOctagon Theatre, Bolton: A combination of the Octagon's in-the-round intimacy and cladding the auditorium walls with wood fencing not only corrals the audience within a ranch-style encl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Tony Cownie's new production for the Royal Lyceum Theatre of Shelagh Delaney's late 50s hit is strangely evocative, amidst a shrillness of tone. Tr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMThe Broadway League announced that Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, co-hosts of Emmy Award-winning talk show 'LIVE with Kelly and Michael,' will serve as the 2013 KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY Nati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMThe Crazy Coqs, London: Janie Dee is billed as "one of the most versatile performers on the British stage", so it is perhaps understandable that her new cabaret show Satin Doll is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Mary Testa and Newsies' Capathia Jenkins are among the artists who have joined the long lineup of Broadway stars for From Broadway with Love: A Benefit C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMTony Award nominee Sean Hayes, who will appear in the second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash," will produce and star in an upcoming comedy pilot for NBC, according to Deadli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce a one week extension for THE MADRID, the world premiere play by Liz Flahive (From Up Here, “Nurse Jackie”), directed by Leigh Silverman (In …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:01PMOff-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company celebrated the opening of Rolin Jones' roller derby play, The Jammer, on Tuesday, January 22. Following the performance at Atlantic Stage 2, the compa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMFEBRUARY 4, 2013AT FORD'S THEATRE
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SOURCE: fords.org at 11:57AMThey had me for Episodes 1 and 2. I was hooked and fascinated by this bold presentation. This co-production of Soho Rep and the Public Theater is my first experience with Nature Theatre of …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:57AMAs BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, Barry Manilow postponed last night's performance of Manilow on Broadway, playing at the St. James Theatre 246 West 44th Street due to illness. Now accord…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMThe York Theatre Company is dusting off and giving voice to two short operas, Mardi Gras and The Last Word, with book, lyrics and music by Mildred Kayden, best known for Ionescopade, in a wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMTo me it’s not really a question of “what have they done to Wonder Woman??” because I’ve come to terms with the fact that this ain’t her.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:44AMMusical will close in February
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMRock of Ages, the Tony Award-nominated musical that continues at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, began performances in Las Vegas Dec. 18 with an opening Jan. 5 at the Venetian Hotel &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM A writer takes Broadway and Off Broadway at the same time After more than 30 years of West Coast sun and valet parking, playwright Lyle Kessler would be forgiven for slowly re-enterin…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:27AM The creative vehicle that drives the Tricycle Theatre’s production of Don Evans’ 1982 play One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show is that the show assumes the format of a classic 1970s s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AMJeffrey Kuhn will step into the role of Hannibal Lecter’s nemesis Dr. Chilton in the off-Broadway hit Silence! The Musical beginning January 25. He replaces current star James Moy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMThe second annual TEDxBroadway, a day-long event where artists come together to discuss the future of Broadway, will be held Jan. 28 from 11 AM-6 PM at New World Stages. Actor George Takei, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMBare bums and bricks, some rock and roll, elaborate drop cloths, even a shower of bodily fluids reminiscent of in-yer-face theatre. Director Stewart Laing manages to pack in everything you m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:20AMWATCH A NEW SIZZLE REEL FROM BROADWAY’S TONY AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL ONCE!
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:18AMThe West End transfer of the Hampstead's production of The Judas Kiss opened at the Duke of York's Theatre last night (22 January 2013).Starring Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox, David Hare…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:17AMTweetI never post anything that isn’t directly related to broadway, but this video had me cracking up and it is about a movie, but not a song so I kind of had too. Thank god she wasn…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:17AMHappy Birthday, Chita Rivera A two-time Tony Award winner, Rivera made her Broadway debut in 1953 in Can-Can, launching one of the most celebrated and long-lasting Broadway careers. Her elec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMThe New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — opened Jan. 22 following previews from Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMONCE won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. The production was also named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critic Circle and Lucille …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMEach 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 11:01AMOne might call "Mama," one of the classiest horror films in years, a case of shock and awww ...
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:01AMFinally caught the Broadway folk phenom Once last night, and I liked it, but what impressed me most was the endearing fragility and directness of its sound; there are some well-chosen reverb…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:01AMFor an org with one of the biggest brands in the Broadway market, Playbill sure ain’t resting on its hind heels. In the past 12 months, the company behind the familiar program-with-t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFrom page to screen and now to stage, a musical version of Tuck Everlasting, based on the award-winning novel by Natalie Babbitt, will make its world premiere at the Citi Performing Arts Cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, who currently stars in Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, celebrates her birthday Jan. 23. In honor of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMSuperstar Beyonce sang The National Anthem at President Barack Obama's 2013 Inauguration earlier this week on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington DC. The performance has become c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMIain Glen is set to join the previously announced::E8831357306076 Tamsin Greig and John Sessions in Longing at Hampstead Theatre, which opens on 7 March 2013 (previews from 28 February).
Gl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:46AMBetty Buckley has graced the London stage periodically for more than 40 years, and the Broadway diva, now 65, returns this season to play Countess Aurelia in Jerry Herman’s little-seen…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:46AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2013 winter season will include productions of Richard II starring David Tennant, Wendy & Peter Pan and adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s Wo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:45AMIn the world of arts grants, there seem to me to be three different kinds. There are the specific project-oriented ones, the ones that reward great ideas of a finite nature. Yes you can devi…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:45AMBy Byrne Harrison
I was lucky enough to have attended the first Poetic License Festival and was amazed both by the creativity of the participants, and the way they integrated poetry into th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:43AMPaul Ainsley, who created the role of King Herod in the original Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, died in Los Angeles from heart-related complications. He was 67.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMMarilu Henner attended FREUD'S LAST SESSION at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica this past Sunday, January 20th. Afterwards, she stopped backstage to see her "Taxi" co-star, Judd Hirsch, who h…
SOURCE: offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com at 10:40AMIain Glen will star in a new London production of William Boyd’s Longing. Glen joins previously announced stars Tamsin Greig and John Sessions in the play, which will run at the Hampst…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:40AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:34AMAladdin and his magic carpet will play a pre-Broadway engagement this fall at Toronto's Ed Mirvish Theater. The musical will run November 13 through January 14, 2014 before opening on Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMSinger/songwriter will be joined by Broadway veterans Nick Blaemire (Godspell), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening), and Andrew Kober (Hair) as well as Molly Hager on January 28 at Joe's Pub for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AMMacbeth, Jamie Lloyd's inaugural production in a season of work for Trafalgar Transformed, will be staged at Trafalgar Studios from 9 February until 27 April, with press night on 22 February…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMAndrew Keenan-Bolger will star as the pan-like Jesse Tuck in the pre-Broadway world-premiere staging of Tuck Everlasting, which will play Boston's Colonial Theatre this summer. Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMWhat is it about modern Ireland that produces so many playwrights intent on cutting through that charming Gaelic sentimentality to expose the human brutality underneath?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:20AMWorking for a tyrannical boss is no fun. Neither is Leslye Headland’s tired attempt to wring comedy from the situation.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:19AMThe play earned 66 per cent of its maximum potential gross, soon after the actress earned accolades for the movie "Zero Dark Thirty."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThis week's retro post is all about when things go wrong. What experiences have you had like this? Feel free to comment below. Excelsior! July 05, 2011 How their biggest mistake can become y…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:15AMProducers Broadway Across America Beth Williams, Howard amp Janet Kagan and Barry Brown just announced casting for the world premiere production of the new musical TUCK EVERLASTING at Bosto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMThe National Association of State Boards of Education NASBE is collaborating with the Arts Education Partnership AEP to create an online arts education resource designed to help state boards…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMMarking the 25th anniversary of the John Waters' original film, Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly brought together an all-star cast of Broadway, film and TV stars for the full symphonic p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMAnyone who loves theater had a blast with the dreamers and schemers on SMASH Season One, in spite of its time-bending and asinine aspects, and will treasure the DVD, which sets the scene for…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:08AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AMAndrew Keenan-Bolger and Carolee Carmello will star in the new musical Tuck Everlasting during the show's pre-Broadway world premiere in Boston. Keenan-Bolger will play Jesse, while Carm…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:04AMThe Tricycle Theatre has been successful in the first stage of application for the Arts Council's capital funding programme.
Over £3 million has been pledged to the Kilburn ven…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:02AMLyric HammersmithIt's almost seven years since David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson's highly physical version of Kafka's short story premiered at the Lyric, and it returns better than ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMTheatre leaders in Newcastle have described a recent public consultation meeting about the proposed 100% cuts to arts funding from the local council as “frustrating” and “redundant”.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM
'Ye Olde MZ' found plenty of scandal at the Music Hall Royale. The actors' behavior, complete with scandals, meltdowns, and showmances practically cried out for a league of light chemists so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AMFollowing its premiere at Soho Theatre last month, Jack Thorne's Mydidae will transfer to Trafalgar Studios 2 in March.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Keir Charles will recreate their performance…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:34AMOff Broadway outing will christen TFANA venue
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34AMThe Wolf Hall author on seeing characters that have been 'fighting to get off the page' put on stage
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMŽeljko Lučić in Rigoletto
Years ago, when I first arrived in New York, I was up for an editorial position at the fine Met-produced magazine Opera News. I was in the running but it wasn't…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:30AMIt has been a little more than a month since tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School and our nation mourned with the residents of Newtown, CT. As the town continues to recover, Broadway …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:26AMToday is the birthday of Jean “Django” Reinhardt (1910-1953), one of the greatest jaxx guitarists of all time and considered the first important jazz musician to come our of Euro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AM My View written by Stephen Sorokoff I have this musical dream lots of nights. I’m back in the early sixties. It was the tail end of the “golden age of nightclubs.”�…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:20AMIt’s Phantom Week at Broadway.com! In honor of the musical’s 25th Broadway birthday on January 26, we’re unveiling exclusive interviews, fun facts and surprises about The P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:19AMA gorgeous new space deserves an equally stunning production. Everyman Theatre has pulled off this challenging feat with its sparkling renovation of the old Town Theater movie palace and i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:19AMIn an age where technology has made the improbable perfectly plausible, squeezed out spontaneity, and raised skepticism about the nature of reality, how can we still believe in miracles? Thi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AMNEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Rolin Jones is not one to really brag, but he thinks he's made history with his latest work.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:11AMNEW YORK—Playwright Rolin Jones is not one to really brag, but he thinks he's made history with his latest work.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:09AMThe Nature Theater of Oklahoma has recycled that antiquity known as oral history into an epic bio-drama .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:05AMDavid Tennant on returning to the RSC to play an 'extraordinary, enticing, unknowable' king
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMNo one cares that you can't make a full time living from your art. No one cares that technology has segmented audience and made it incredibly difficult for even well made art to achieve crit…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:00AM
Damascus Theatre Company presents Cabaret. Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Book by Joe Masteroff; Based on the play I Am A Camera by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Ish…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58AMIain Glen is to join the previously announced Tamsin Greig and John Sessions to star in William Boyd's debut play Longing, based on two short stories by Anton Chekhov, that begins perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:51AMDuke of York's, London: Even the usually irritating noises outside now seem to conspire serendipitously to create a pitch perfect production of David Hare's 1998 play.
Read the full rev…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMToday is the birthday of William Desmond (William Manion, 1878-1949). Born in Dublin and raised in New York City, he got his start acting in vaudeville and on the melodrama stage before maki…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AMA former Welsh National Opera principal oboist has been awarded £73,000 compensation by an industrial tribunal which found he had been unfairly dismissed by the company after a long-running…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMWho am I? I am a person who likes to create; whether it’s a role in a play, directing or designing for stage or screen, or making a piece of art. As a result I have worn many different…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38AMDavid Tennant will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company, of which he is now also a board member, to play the title role in Richard II in October 2013, as part of the inaugural season unde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:37AMDavid Hare was wittily spot-on when he said recently that “there's a sort of line where you can't tell where Wilde ends and Rupert [Everett] begins”. And Hare is not the only person to…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:35AMRupert Everett returned to the West End stage last night as the Hampstead Theatre's acclaimed revival of David Hare's The Judas Kiss, featuring Everett as Oscar Wilde, transferred to the Duk…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:31AMCoventry’s Butts Theatre is set to reopen with a new name following a local campaign to save the venue along with donations of expertise, labour and materials totalling more than £100,000…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:21AMThis co-production between the Lyric and Icelandic company, Vesturport, began life in 2006. It has since become an international hit. Catching up with it for the first time here, I have no d…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00AMArtistic director Gregory Doran has announced the Royal Shakespeare Company’s winter season, including David Tennant as Richard II and a stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
One of the nice things about being married to a woman who's exactly your age is that you rarely have...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:55AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone is set for Bravo's 'What What Happens Live' today, January 23, according to the show's listings.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMSunday’s performance of “Life and Times: Episodes 1-4” started at 2 in the afternoon and petered out shortly before midnight. If only its events were as epic! There are no Norse gods a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMA Brooklyn lug dreams of roller-skating to stardom in “The Jammer,” a new comedy that strains so hard for laughs, it makes “Starlight Express” seem weighty by comparison.
It’s the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM‘Viva Forever!”?
If producer Judy Craymer has anything to say about it, it’ll be “Viva, at Least for a While!”
“Viva Forever!,” the much-ballyhooed Spice Girls musical, opened …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AMThe documentary 'One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day' follows four creative teams given 24 hours to conceive, rehearse and stage a 15-minute show.NEW YORK — As the continued popu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:20AMBecause they are amazing!My spirit soars with the knowledge that I will be able to help to facilitate the professional development of some of Canada's finest talents.Ray Hogg received his fo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMActor Matthew Hyde said that some of the best acting advice he’s had is: “Grab it by the balls darling and act the shit out of it” – and he sure does so in Here Lies Henry, the seco…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:02AM January 26, 1988: It was one of New York's coldest, windiest nights, but outside the Majestic Theatre, there was nothing but hot excitement as hundreds of media captured the arriv…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:01AMLove Makes the World Go 'Round, a new book musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, gets i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAn exceptional promo video for an exceptional play: the Crow's Theatre production of Kristen Thomson's Someone Else.(Read our review)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMYou probably won't recognize Claire P. Gordon's name unless you happen to know a great deal about swing-era jazz, and...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMA rare TV interview with Christopher Isherwood: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMMovie star Scarlett Johansson made a very successful Broadway debut in 2010, so successful that she won a Tony Award for her work in Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge.” Three yea…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMCenter Stage features workshop readings of three of Thomas Bradshaw’s controversial and thrilling plays, Southern Promises, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist, and Mary, on consecutive nights …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe Full Circle Dance Company’s Moving Passages: Dances Inspired by Writing relies on speech almost as much as it does on music. The challenge for the program’s 13 dancers is to find a r…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMAfter spending the late spring hitchhiking and much of the winter touring with a spoken-word Christmas show, local auteur John Waters is back in Baltimore to celebrate the 25th anniversary o…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe Mountaintop
Written by Katori Hall; directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Through Feb. 24 at Center Stage
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMPrimary Stages' 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' All in the Timing, featuring Carson Elrod, Jenn Harris and Matthew Saldivar, begins performances Jan. 23 at 59E59 Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSteve Alpert and Ken Greiner in association with Slant Theatre Project present the world premiere of Mat Smart's The Steadfast, a multigenerational view of wars throughout American histo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
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