“The Steadfast,” written by Mat Smart and directed by Wes Grantom, tells stories of soldiers from eight eras in American history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMA UNIQUELY ENTERTAINING MISSED OPPORTUNITY The concept of Happy Face Sad Face is an intriguing one that consists of two one act plays; the first a drama, the second a comedy. Now before you …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:46PMWhat drives 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 play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:42PMKurt Chiang, creator of the upcoming Neo-Futurist Prime-Time show, Analog, will present a sneak preview reading of the original script this Sunday, January 27th, at 9:00pm, after Too Much Li…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 07:24PMKurt Chiang, creator of the upcoming Neo-Futurist Prime-Time show, Analog, will present a sneak preview reading of the original script this Sunday, January 27th, at 9:00pm, after Too Much Li…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 07:24PMThings are about to get ridiculous on Manhattan's Lower East Side. A new revival of Charles Ludlam's Camille will play downtown bar and art space Casa Mezcal from January 27 through
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:18PMThe work is a phantasmagoric and often elusive blend of theater of the absurd, dream play and guided tour.
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Laurie Metcalf's performance in <em>The Other Place</em>, which capably depicts both the brittle defenses of a woman facing illness as well as the deep tenderness she feels for h…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:52PMLaurie Metcalf's performance in The Other Place, which capably depicts both the brittle defenses of a woman facing illness as well as the deep tenderness she feels for her husband and daught…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:51PMFROG KISS stars Stephanie Rothenberg, who plays Princess Clementine, and Curtis Holbrooke, who plays the frog, were in the WGNT studio recently to perform selections 'live' from the musical,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PM'Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,' now at Freud Playhouse, tells a captivating tale of the Indian deity descending to reclaim the swastika from the Nazis.Many of the elements that make up "Gan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:23PM By: Susan Hasho Phil Geoffrey Bond has conceived and directed an evening of Joni Mitchell songs performed by six exciting singers. And Mark Hartman, as musical di…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:19PMHow cold was it Tuesday night? So cold I remember nothing of my trip to see yet another fantastic collection of Broadway veterans gracing the boards for a standing-room-only crowd at 54 Bel…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:15PMTickets are now on sale for Vineyard Theatre's production of Rajiv Joseph's new play The North Pool. Starring Stephen Barker Turner and Babak Tafti, the drama will play the off-Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:14PMHenry Goodman is to star in Lindsay Posner's new production of Terence Rattigan's 1946 play The Winslow Boy, beginning performances at London's Old Vic March 8 prior to an offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PMNo composer in the last forty years has had more of an impact in the musical theater industry than Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Love him or loath him, Sir Andrew has created some of the most p…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:09PMNext month, the Academy Awards ceremony will pay homage to movie musicals of the last decade, including special celebrations of “Chicago,” “Dreamgirls,” and 2013 Best…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:09PM“The Future Is Not What It Was,” by Michael Rabe, playing at Walkerspace, refers to the future but is set “in a world not unlike our own, where society’s moral compasses have been br…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMFROG KISS stars Stephanie Rothenberg who plays Princess Clementine and Curtis Holbrooke who plays the Frog, were in the WGNT studio to perform two selections from the musical. FROG KISS is …
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:58PMShe enters from the back of La MaMa’s First Floor Theatre while the house lights are still up, tentatively descending the riser stairs in black heels and a tasseled black coat that lar…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:45PMOn the stage in front of us, a Moscow theater company was performing Tolstoy. It was opening night, and Mikhail Baryshnikov was there. Also in the audience: a man who loudly, repeatedly lec…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:41PMJulie Taymor, Oscar-winning director widely renowned for her innovative Broadway production of The Lion King and as the driving force behind Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, will appear at Pace…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMMarie-Henri Beyle, better known by his singular pen name, Stendhal, was a masterful and complex novelist who furthered the romantic fiction of his day into the development of the psychologic…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:36PMThe Muny in Forest Park has received a $3 million donation to its endowment from the JSM charitable trust, theater officials announced today.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:35PMVIENNA (AP) — Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's Parliament to watch the world …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:34PMSMASH makes its long-awaited return to the NBC lineup for a second season on Tuesday, February 5 9-10 p.m. ET and will continue in its regular time slot on Tuesday, February 12 10-11 p.m. ET…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMA Co-Production between Arizona Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre, Next to Normal is opening tomorrow, January 10, in San Jose, CA. The show features the talents of Joe Cassidy,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West" at TimeLine Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West" at TimeLine …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:26PMOne Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day Shows Creativity on Broadway: Creating a musical in 24 hours has been documented in "One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day."
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:23PMFran and Harvey Kaluzna and Amy Robbins have had some of the best roles on stage that money can buy. That’s because the three suburbanites are annual participants in the Chicago Casting Au…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:16PMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf began performances on Thursday, September 27, 2012 and officially opened on Saturd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMCarrie Coon, who plays wide-eyed professor’s wife Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, shows off dirty needlepoint designs, formulas for fake booze and “Hump the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMIn a week when Carly Rose Sonenclar inched back to Broadway, Rachelle Rak gave us "cha-cha-puus" lessons and X-Men stars and stage greats Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart announced…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMTimeLine Theatre Company’s engrossing drama and five supple players deliver impressionistic variations on the myriad facets of recollections and recovery. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:10PMThe celebrated musical RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella, originally written for television in 1957 by the legendary musical theatre duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, will begin …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMFor Broadway fans, the best thing about Smash is, hands down, the music. Tony-winning composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (now taking questions for a double Ask a Star feature…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMHere’s a hilarious new release from Clint Snyder – The Lord of the Pies. Clint’s a new writer to Theatrefolk and we’re so thrilled to be publishing this script. 30 Mi…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSouth Australian youth theatre companies impress at the 2013 International Performing Arts for Youth showcase, with US and UK engagements secured and a coveted award won. The 2013 Internatio…
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Matt Lauria, Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit will be part of MCC Theater's New York premiere of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, which will debut Jan. 31, 2013, at the Lucille Lor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMVernoica Barron, bassist Tony Leva, and the witches of Vinegar Tom.Caryl Churchill liked to call her script Vinegar Tom (through Feb. 2 from Whistler in the Dark) "a play about wit…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:57PMManhattan Theatre Club announced today that Bill Pullman (“1600 Penn;” The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) will join the cast of The Other Place starting Tuesday, February 5 at MTC’sSamuel J.…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:48PMSMASH makes its long-awaited return to the NBC lineup for a second season on Tuesday, February 5 9-10 p.m. ET and will continue in its regular time slot on Tuesday, February 12 10-11 p.m. ET…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMThe Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera turns the big 2-5 on January 26, 2013. Almost 10,400 performances and the moniker "longest running Broadway show eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMA large black-and-white banner featuring a court jester by the artist George Condo is currently up on the façade of the Metropolitan Opera House, advertising the Met's new production of Ver…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:35PMMatt Reznek and Georgia Beaty (photo: Tim Matheson)A herd of rhinos storms the UBC stageTheatre students do Ionesco’s work justice in a strong and smart productionby Chris Lane UBC Theatre…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:35PMA concert of songs from the new nerd-rock musical Academia Nuts, written by Becca Anderson, Dan Marshall, amp Julian Blackmore, will be presented by Broadway's Future Songbook, on Monday Jan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMPeter Aspden attends the premiere of Philip Glass's new opera, which portrays the entertainment mogul as racist, despotic and megalomaniacal
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:25PMThe Broadway stars of Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus' smash hit musical Mamma Mia, 'Dynamos' Judy McLane, Lauren Cohn and Felicia Finley, performed the ABBA hits 'Dancing Queen' and 'The W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMWhile we're usually fans of Good Day New York hosts Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly, it felt like they were playing a game of Get the Guests while interviewing Who’s Afraid of Virgin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:20PM(photo credit: Tristan Brand)We can build a beautiful cityYes, we can; Yes, we canWe can build a beautiful cityNot a city of angelsBut we can build a city of manby Caitlin MurphySo goes the …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:14PMDuring Smash’s first season the character of eavesdropping assistant Ellis (played by Jaime Cepero) managed to wiggle his way into the television zeitgeist as one of the most desp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:05PM'Where have all the kitchen sinks gone?'Is our theatre now inescapably middle-class? I ask because I recently took part in a debate on Radio 3's Night Waves about the upsurge in working…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMThe 2012 Tony-nominated revival of Evita plays its final performance Jan. 26 at the Marquis Theatre. In celebration of the production, Playbill.com has surfed the web for various performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMBudget cuts and success of Ragtime are the keys
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:00PMTony Award winner Lea Salonga, who will appear in the Avery Fisher Hall concert production of Ragtime, will offer solo concerts Feb. 22-23 and Feb. 26 in Hawaii.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Why wander when potential riches are just ahead to the south?
At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:48PMRobert Cuccioli, who recently returned to Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will make his debut at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMBroadway's Eden Espinosa rose to fame as the green-skinned Elphaba in Stephen Schwartz's hit musical Wicked. With some "crazazy" old headshots (she looks older then than she does now!) and h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMActor will replace Stern in the play
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMFulmore Middle School's girls choir participated in a Believe NYC event with Broadway favorite Adam Jacobs on Saturday, January 19. Check out photos from the event below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMA SPECTACULAR AND FASCINATING JOURNEY IN WHICH THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM Cameras have evolved from room-sized camera obscuras, to the box-like contraption of the nineteenth century, to the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:19PMIf there’s a theme to the hefty spring dance roster, it’s that excellence lies in all directions. Rely on the offerings of any single venue at your peril, for in this season — which lo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:08PMIt’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 03:04PMAndy Warhol’s 15 Minutes of Fame opens at La Mama on 30 January. It’s about Warhol in the 1960s, his struggle for success and his attempted assassination by Valerie Solanas in 1968. Acto…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Chita turns 80, STARCATCHER takes its final bow, ROCK OF AGES starts a party in Vegas, and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMAfter two consecutive seasons of losses, the Shaw Festival came out ahead in 2012 with a surplus of $19,000, making a $1.5-million turnaround in its 51st season.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:00PMComplete coverage (with the big chart) in Sunday’s Journal News The last moments of last year’s high-school-musical season saw Archbishop Stepinac High School’s production …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:00PM
Seems like breaking news on & about the Great White Way is in the stars as much as freezing temps are in the weather reports. The latest scuttlebutt concerns Sharr White’s brilliantly acte…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 02:59PMA few weeks ago, I wrote a post defining “independence” for this project. Today, I received an email from John Clancy, the co-founder and Executive Director of the League of Inde…
SOURCE: creativeinsubordination.org at 02:58PMTime is running out to nominate your favorites for the FIRST EVER 2012 BroadwayWorld Tampa Awards.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMWith five nods apiece, “Silence! The Musical,” Center Theatre Group’s revival of “Waiting for Godot,” and South Coast Repertory’s “Jitney” col…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:55PMGlee finally returns! I was so happy to see this come back after the break – missed it! We begin with Sam telling his new buddy Blaine his hypothesis that the Warblers cheated at sectional…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:44PMLike a number of his they-wuz-robbed "American Idol" kin, Constantine Maroulis has done quite well for himself.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:40PMThe writer is dead, but his secretary is still taking dictation. Is she insane? A forger? Or is she a bona-fide medium? The Boulder Ensemble Theatre production of "Ghost Writer" opens Friday…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:38PMAmanda Brown, a finalist on the third season of "The Voice," attended the Jan. 23 performance of Forever Dusty at New World Stages. She met with the cast following the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMLAb²⁴, the new experimental project of 24th Street Theatre, makes its public debut this week with Mike Kenny's Walking the Tightrope, a play about a shared grief between a girl and her gr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:30PMToday I am happy to present an interview with my colleague and friend Hannah Hessel. Since dramaturgs typically collaborate with artists in other disciplines, we do not always have a chance …
SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:25PMBen Moroski initially resisted writing a solo show about his own life, and being specific about the details. But now he has written and performs This Vicious Minute, which focuses on the six…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:16PMThe urban dance festival has gone back to basics with creations big and small, and a selection of perennial favourites, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:15PM"Still on the Road," a documentary following 12 actors as they tour across America during The Acting Company's 37th season, will premiere on PBS stations in the New York metrop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMFanboys and theater lovers rejoice! Two respected classical actors who also happen to be headliners of highly popular science-fiction and fantasy franchises are coming to Broadway. Ian McKel…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:14PMCurious about which topics, people and offerings might achieve hotness in #DCTheater this spring? Here are my prognostications about what’s likely to be trending onstage in the coming mont…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMAfter the successful launch of BroadwayWorld Regional Awards in 2010, we have expanded, updated, and are ready for this year's awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:10PMAre critics bellying up to the Bard for "In Acting Shakespeare"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 02:09PMBroadway Star, ROBERT CUCCIOLI will make his debut at 54 BELOW 254 W. 54th Street between Broadway amp 8th Avenue on Wednesday, February 6th, at 930 p.m. with A Standard Love, featuring Barr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMBy the time Verdi was writing this opera, in his early seventies, he had dispensed with preludes, and this greatest of tragic operas opens with a cataclysmic orchestral explosion.
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PMDavid Hare was spot-on when he said that "there's a sort of line where you can't tell where Wilde ends and Rupert [Everett] begins".
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:00PM
The Dallas Opera has announced that Broadway legend and Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning director, producer, playwright, and lyricist Jack O'Brien has been engaged to direct the company's w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMAre critics bracing for "Collision"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:52PMPulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright will premiere his new play Fallaci, about the last days of legendary journalist Oriana Fallaci, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Performances will begin M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMAre critics embracing "Life and Times: Episodes 1-4"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:40PMEnglish lecturer stumbles across 'nonexistent' screenplay in British Library for film scuppered by financial problemsFor more than 50 years it has been one of the great questions of British …
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PMYou guys, there’s a play about roller derby. We saw it last week at the Atlantic Theater Company and it was pretty great. Herewith, please find a short list of stuff that kind of rocke…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:36PMSierra Boggess is back on Broadway! The Phantom star chats with Show People host Paul Wontorek about hanging with “the Lord” Andrew Lloyd Webber, her Little Mermaid birthday cake…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMAfter the successful launch of BroadwayWorld Regional Awards in 2010, we have expanded, updated, and are ready for this year's awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMThe York Theatre Company has joined forces with Marymount Manhattan College to launch "Bespoke Musicals," a program that pairs teams of emerging writers, chosen by The York Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMGet ready for more naked Lena Dunham! HBO has given the official go-ahead for a third season of the smash comedy Girls, created by Dunham and co-starring Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams and n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:25PMAfter the successful launch of BroadwayWorld Regional Awards in 2010, we have expanded, updated, and are ready for this year's awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMThe Broadway stars of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, “Dynamos” Judy McLane, Lauren Cohn and Felicia Finley, performed the ABBA hits “Dancing Queen�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:02PM‘X Factor’ teen to attend Sunday parade, has been recording Carly Rose Sonenclar and her brother, Russ, record a song in producer Brian McKenna’s Btoven Music studios in Ma…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:00PMTweetTomorrow is a huge day for both Broadway and BroadwayReviewed.com. Tomorrow the Phantom of the Opera turns 25 years old. I remember seeing it when I was younger and being amazed. …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 01:00PM
Tony Award-winning Newsies composer Alan Menken, Tony-nominated director Jeff Calhoun, Tony-winning Disney producer Thomas Schumacher and cast members Kara Lindsay, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMOlivier Award winner Henry Goodman will star as Arthur Winslow in the Old Vic's production of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy. The revival will open on March 19.
Directed …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMBroadway director-producer Harold Prince, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, and dancer-actor Chita Rivera are the recipients of the 2013 Jerome Robbins Award, the Jerome Robbins Foundation…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:54PMHe's never run a major company, and his chief claim to fame is Black Swan. Can Millepied cut it at one of the world's most famous dance troupes?The Paris Opera Ballet is only a Eurostar ride…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMI am creating an on-line course/project called “Strategies for Becoming an Independent Artist” that will focus on pulling together ideas and resources for creative people to have…
SOURCE: creativeinsubordination.org at 12:46PMThe actor and Rocky Horror Show author talks about his familyMy father, Alec, was an intelligent, kind man, but not a committed father. Me and numbers just don't get along, and when Pythagor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMWhile in Louisville, Rachelle Rak and her Flashdance co-stars go on a ziplining adventure through caves. After arriving in Grand Rapids, stars Emily Padgett and Matthew Hydzik chat about the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMLinbury Studio, LondonWriters have a thousand ways of portraying end-of-the-world angst: Shakespeare's Lear ranting into the storm; Beckett's Winnie, chatting blithely into the void. For dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMAlmeida, LondonYou can see Henry James's masterly, much-adapted short novel either as a classic ghost story or as a study in sexual hysteria. But Rebecca Lenkiewicz's overheated new version,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMThe LADCC (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle) has announced its choices for the 44th annual awards that will take place on March 18 at the Los Angeles Theater Center. French Stewart (3rd Rock…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PMLife can be found under any stone, in any crack in the sidewalk. But I admit I yearn for being taken on a grander voyage, higher, deeper than any sitcom can take me.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:33PM Phantom's 25th Anniversary Was a Night to Remember By Ellis NassourThe Phantom of the Opera. Already the longest running show in Broadway history; and no…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:32PMREVIEW: Gender-bending, nudity, voguing, a Prince song — all part of transgressive Walker show.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:30PMTickets are now on sale for the world premiere production of Lucky Guy, the final play by Nora Ephron and the Broadway debut of Oscar winner Tom Hanks. George C. Wolfe directs the play, whic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PMOur roundup of the performances you've seen and what you thought of themDo plays have sell by dates? Kickw suggests perhaps they do in his/her comment about A Taste of Honey, currently being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMDo you have a few hours a week to spare Are you a theater enthusiast Tech-savvy Want to help BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater site on the net, continue its expansion of valuable theate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMStill on the Roada documentary following twelve actors as they tour across America during The Acting Company's 37th season 2008-09premieres on greater New York PBS stations beginning Sunday,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jeremy Irons has a suggestion for "Downton Abbey" fans: Give William Shakespeare a try, too....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:19PMOpening on February 7th at the Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford, the 2008 Tony Award winning musical In the Heights takes a local stage for the first time. Directed by Westchester's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThis week's guest blog comes from Alex Mallory of Poetic Theater Productions. I have been a huge fan of their work and have really enjoyed getting to know Alex and her team. Here she tells t…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:18PMOlivier Award-winner Henry Goodman will star as Arthur Winslow in the Old Vic's forthcoming revival of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy, which opens on 19 March 2013 (previews from 8 March…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:17PMSusan Hight Denny, who starred on Broadway in the original production of Guys and Dolls and later taught musical theatre vocal performance at American University, died Jan. 20 in Silver Spri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMBill Pullman (“1600 Penn;” The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) will join the cast of The Other Place starting Tuesday, February 5 at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theat…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:14PMJohn Waters’ classic cult film Hairspray is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. After the huge success of the film-based musical on Broadway – which won several Tony Awards, spaw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:11PMBill Pullman will join the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's The Other Place beginning February 5. Pullman will play Ian, replacing Daniel Stern, who will leave the show to atte…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMScreen and stage veteran Bill Pullman (The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) will join the Broadway cast of Sharr White's The Other Place, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, begi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMThe upcoming revival of JEKYLL & HYDE arrives on Broadway in April with a new look and a new sound, but perhaps the most striking difference comes with its two stars: "American Idol" st…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:06PMWhen Jeff Calhoun was tapped to helm a new production of JEKYLL & HYDE, the Tony nominated director and choreographer came to the project with what he calls "baby eyes." "I had never ac…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:05PMNo musical has ever held you like JEKYLL & HYDE. Win a pair of tickets to see Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox star in this classic tale of good and evil. It's fast and free to ente…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:05PMAmerican Idol star and Tony Award® nominee Constantine Maroulis joins with multi-platinum recording artist and Grammy® nominee Deborah Cox to inject new life into the classic tale of good …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:05PMThey wouldn't trade Broadway veteran Declan Bennett (American Idiot) and Croatian actress Zrinka Cvitešić (Three Sisters) for gold! The pair will lead the upcoming West End production of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMManhattan Theatre Club announces that Bill Pullman (“1600 Penn;” The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) will join the cast of THE OTHER PLACE starting Tuesday, February 5 at MTC’s Samuel J. Frie…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:01PMThe “At This Performance…” Series, celebrating its 9th anniversary this year, takes understudies and standbys and puts them where they belong: in the limelight. The most recent …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 12:00PMI once did a book report on The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 8th grade because I procrastinated and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Frankly, I don’t remember much, except that the…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 12:00PMHello readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Snake Can, now playing at the Odyssey Theatre in West LA. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page and scroll…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PM
Atlanta lost a big NFL football game this past weekend, but it certainly emerged victorious in musical theater. The eighth annual Junior Theater Festival once again took over the Renaissance…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:58AMThough best known as one of the preeminent pop singers of our time, Barbra Streisand made a powerful statement in the classical music realm when she recorded Classical Barbra in 1973. Origin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMPlaying in repertory. Classic plays given regular top-tier productions. Film stars taking on challenging stage parts without making a big to-do about it. It's all very English, and Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMThe Showstoppers will be taking on a new Monday residency in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall this spring.
Being entirely improvised, the Showstoppers create a new musical at every p…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:55AMTickets are now on sale to the general public for Lucky Guy, the final play of three-time Academy Award-nominated writer Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle). Two-time Academy Award winner Tom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMChrista Hinckley went on to play the part with only four hours of rehearsal.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:55AMFifty-six years after it was written, "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" arrives on the Great White Way this week to begin previews for a run at the Broadway Theatre. Producers have tried …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:54AMA.R. Gurney's Pulitzer-nominated play Love Letters is a play built for two.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:47AMLancaster counts down to The Zero Hour, Mare Rider gallops into London and Laurie Sansom bows out of Northampton with One for the RoadNorthImitating the Dog go out on tour with Pete Brooks a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMBill Pullman of TV's "1600 Penn" and Broadway's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Oleanna, will step into the role of the worried husband, Ian, in the final month of the Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMJames Corden and Dominic Cooper, both alums of The History Boys on Broadway and in the West End, will reunite at London’s National Theatre in a new project yet to be announced, accordi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMPeter Aspden attends the premiere of Philip Glass’s new opera, which portrays the entertainment mogul as racist, despotic and megalomaniacal
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:43AMObie Award-winning playwright Corinne Jacker, best known off-Broadway for her ‘70s-era plays Bits and Pieces and Harry Outside, has died of a stroke at age 79. The playwright and tel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:43AMNominations for the 37th Annual Carbonell Awards, representing excellence in southeast Florida theatre for the 2012 calendar year, were announced Jan. 25. Resident productions of The Music M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMTony Award winning director Michael Mayer is about to make his Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of "Rigoletto".
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:38AMTony Award winning director Michael Mayer is about to make his Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of "Rigoletto".
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:38AMThere’s all kinds of documentaries about the making of musicals, but on January 30, Fathom Events is having a special showing of One Night Stand, a documentary about The 24 Hour Musicals, …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:35AMMatt PelfreyHometown:
Los Osos, California.
Current Town: Pasadena, California.
Q: Tell me about The Pilo Family Circus now playing at the New Ohio. How did you come to…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:35AMAnn Harada has got some fierce competition! Tony nominee Montego Glover (Memphis) has booked a role on Smash as Marissa, a compassionate, authoritative stage manager who may or may not run t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMGlee returned from its winter hiatus on January 24 with the disappointing, trying-too-hard-to-be-romantic “Sadie Hawkins” episode. Let's break it down: Tina wants Blaine; Bla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMManhattan Theatre Club announced that Bill Pullman 1600 Penn The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia will join the cast of THE OTHER PLACE starting Tuesday, February 5 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - What is your favorite Phantom Song
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMAndy Karl is set to rejoin the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys on February 12, revisiting the role of Tommy DeVito. Karl can currently be seen in the revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and w…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:22AMThe Star-Tribune (Mpls) 01/25/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMThe long-awaited musical adaptation of Sleepless in Seattle will make its debut this spring, with Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Sheldon Epps at the helm. Epps (Baby It's You!) replace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AMTony winners Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald and Jane Krakowski are are among the stars slated to perform at Roundabout Theatre Company's 2013 spring gala. Alan Cumming will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AMThe 2013 Carbonell Award nominations announced today mirror the changing face of South Florida theater. There are farewells for three companies that closed in 2012 and recognition of five tr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:11AMIt’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 11:10AMBest New Work (play or musical) Baby GirL, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project A Measure of Cruelty, Joe Calarco, Mosaic Theatre Moscow, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Off Center of Nowhere, D…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:10AMThe Tony-winning director Julie Taymor will return to her Off-Broadway roots for her next project, a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which will also be the launch o…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:07AMOn Sunday, we’ll kick off the 2013 high-school-musical season across the Lower Hudson Valley with our annual look at who’s doing what between now and May. A marathon of 63 musica…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:07AMThe second half of the Broadway season is kicking into high gear, and we’re prepping ourselves for loads of great productions coming down the pipeline in early 2013. In this week&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AMVIENNA (AP) — Austrian parliamentarians and invited guests are gathering to watch the premiere of an opera depicting how Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:02AMTony nominee and Smash star Sean Hayes will be dancing up a storm with Broadway alum Gena Rowlands in 6 Dance Lessons in 6 Weeks, a forthcoming film adaptation of Richard Alfieri’s com…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:01AMAfter completing 23 episodes of the backstage web-series known as 'Rock of Ages Productions', Mitchell Jarvis has completed the final work in the series, 'A Rockwork Orange'. This dark and z…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMActor wants to cap tenure as artistic director by securing theatre's long-term future before he steps down in 2015Kevin Spacey will seek to secure the future of the Old Vic by raising £20m …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMI may be a little late to the dinner table on this one, since the video below was published in July of this year, but with all the Les Miz hoopla these days I couldn’t resist sharing (…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 1252013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThe 1994 Broadway revival of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's Grease ended its run Jan. 25, 1998. In celebration of the production, Playbill.com looks back at the Broadway productions of Gr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
If most teenage girls described their brother as a beast, we would chalk it up to youthful exaggeration. In Ariadne’s case it is literally true since her half-brother is The Minotaur, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMNikolai Tsiskaridze questioned along with Bolshoi Theatre staff and relatives as Sergei Filin battles to regain sightA star dancer at the Bolshoi has been questioned by police over a brutal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:56AMAt BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing theater content submitted by our regional contributors from all corners of the globe. Get all your theater news at a glance each Friday with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMThe Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive in Lincolnshire, presents an all-star cast in the World Premiere of NOW AND FOREVER The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, featuring the legendary composer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMTony Award nominee Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises), who will appear in the second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash," is finalizing a deal for the lead role in the independent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM The secrets of “Picnic’s” set design Madge disappears in the house, and the next time we see her, she’s sitting in an upstairs window, primping. A couple of me…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:46AMWriting a book is "a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," George Orwell once said. The literary giant behind "1984" and "Animal Farm" was comparing his l…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:46AMBroadway's new production of The Heiress will end its limited engagement with the 7 PM Saturday, Feb. 9 performance rather than Feb. 10, to enable Jessica Chastain, who plays the title c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, PICNIC is Roundabout's newest hit. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Mare Winningham and Elizabeth Marvel, PICNIC plays a limited engagement thru February 24 on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMSilent Opera comes to the Docklands and Metamorphosis transforms the Lyric Hammersmith. Meanwhile, Onegin is on again in Covent Garden – but this time as a balletTristram Kenton
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44AMTomorrow at 1pm: “Quo Vas Is?: The Impact of German Immigration on 19th Century American Popular Culture.” In sheer numbers, Germans were one of the largest American immigrant groups du…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:43AMThe Amoralists' world-premiere of Lyle Kessler's college-set drama Collision opened Jan. 22 Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMThe first West End revival of A Chorus Line will tour the U.K. after its West End run, according to The Stage. The production, starring Scarlett Strallen as Cassie and John Partridge as…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AMThis week's topics Casting actors in roles of the opposite sex, Should they bring alfie boe to broadway, the best Eva Peron biography, American Psycho, Max Von Essen Appreciation, NEWSIES N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AM'The Language Archive' opens at Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:33AMIn this week's 'School in the Spotlight', we feature the theatre programs offered by Binghampton University in New York
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMThe producers of the new Broadway revival of THE HEIRESS have announced that the production will now play its final performance on Saturday, February 9 at 700 p.m. note the new early curtain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMHe may have written one of the most critically praised revivals on Broadway this season, but the playwright Edward Albee sees the theatrical thoroughfare without a lot of romance or regard.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:31AMThe Broadway revival of The Heiress, starring Dan Stevens and Jessica Chastain, will close one day early on February 9. The final performance, which was originally scheduled for February 10,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:29AMThe Jerome Robbins Foundation announced dancer-actress Chita Rivera, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director-producer Harold Prince — who worked with Robbins on West Side Story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMAre critics making room in their hearts for "Bethany"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 10:25AMThe world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, Sunset…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThe West End production of Once has found its Guy and Girl. Broadway alum Declan Bennett and Croatian actress Zrinka Cvitešić are set to play the romantic leading man and lady in the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:17AMSeems like the avant garde is in an arms race of running time.
When I saw The Lily's Revenge, I thought Taylor Mac did a great job managing it's five hour running time by breaking i…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:15AMLocal and national leaders, joined by members of the DC area theatre community, will take part in Saturday’s March on Washington for Gun Control in support of President Obama’s plan for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AMTony nominee Diane Paulus, who will soon be represented on Broadway with the revival of Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, will direct a New York City workshop of the new musical Witness Uganda,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMInstead of Cats being labeled “Now and Forever,” that catchphrase should have been saved for The Phantom of the Opera. On Saturday, it celebrates the unprecedented milestone of 25 years…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:08AMMariah Carey was brought to tears last night when AMERICAN IDOL hopeful Burnell Taylor sang a stirring rendition of 'I'm Here,' from Broadway's The Color Purple. Burnell was the final contes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMOscar is breaking out his dancing shoes. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of the 85th Academy Awards, announced the upcoming telecast will feature a special tribute to movie musicals of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AMBarry Manilow has cancelled opening night of his new Broadway show “Manilow on Broadway,” along with three other performances due to a case of bronchitis. Manilow began previews …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMBroadway veterans Brad Little, Sandra Joseph and Danny Zolli have been cast in Neil Berg’s The Phantoms of the Opera, which will make its world premiere April 4-5 in Texas A&M Univ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
A very bluesy birthday day — not only is it the birthday of Florence Mills and Sleep John Estes, but also Etta James (Jamesetta Hawkins, 1938-2012). Born to a teenage single mom, she w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMMel Brooks musical set for Westchester premiere in May Spotlight Theatre has announced auditions for the Westchester premiere of Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein,” to be pre…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:54AMBloomsbury theatre, LondonIt's hip to be square at the moment, as science claims centre of the light-entertainment stage. We've got Dara Ó Briain's Science Club on telly – and we've got t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMCole Porter wrote “Love for Sale,” but that’s not what Miranda Huba will be auctioning off in Candy Tastes Nice, her one-woman show about a young woman selling her virginity to help pa…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:52AMSean Mathias will direct pair in revival of West End production and in new version of Pinter's No Man's LandOnce again, nothing will happen twice after it was announced that Ian McKellen a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMThe Broadway premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic take on Cinderella begins performances at the Broadway Theatre on January 25. Starring Tony nominee …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:46AMThe touring production of the musical “Sister Act” has arrived at the Boston Opera House, presented by Broadway in Boston, and darned if it isn’t kind of a kick.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:44AMSheldon Epps, artistic director of Pasadena Playhouse, will now direct Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical, taking over for the previously announced Lonny Price, whose other commitments…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMTony Nominee Diane Paulus Porgy and Bess, Pippin is directing the workshop of Witness Uganda. Witness Uganda is the winner of the 2012 Richard Rodgers Award for Staged Readings, administered…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMThe box office at the Broadhurst Theatre, which will soon be the home of the Broadway premiere of late writer Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy — starring Academy Award winner Tom Hanks &mda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with James Kautz, rising actor and Artistic Director of the Off-Broadway theatre company The Amoralists. This time around we discuss the future of The Amorali…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:32AMToday is the birthday of the great Memphis blues man Sleepy John Estes (1899-1977). Born into a shrecropping family he was a field hand himself until the 1920s when he began playing and reco…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:27AMComplete casting has been announced for the Yale Repertory Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, which will play the University Theatre March 15-April 13. Opening night is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMHave you heard of the 24 Hour Plays It's a simple concept that is ridiculously complex to pull off. Every year, a big group of actors, playwrights, and directors volunteer a single day -- 24…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMThis musical pastiche, put together with bits and pieces of a dozen old musical comedies, opened 9 months ago at the Imperial on Broadway, and it’s very much still there, doing busines…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMThe Fever by Wallace Shawn. Directed by Lars Norén; adaptation by Norén and Simona Maicanescu; lighting by Jean Poisson; costume by Chatoon; sound by Sophie Buisson; artistic collaboration…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:17AMToday is the birthday of the Scottish national poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). Despite the fact that he is the poet of My People, I’ve only dabbled in him; frankly I’ve found it t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:10AMCraig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of the upcoming Academy Awards, have announced that this year's telecast will include a special celebration of movie musicals from the last decade.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMThe musical as a motion picture genre has had a remarkable renaissance in the last decade, said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. We are excited to showcase three musical films -- 'Chica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:05AM“A Chorus Line” will tour the U.K. at the end of its upcoming West End revival, whenever that end may come. Director Bob Avian revealed to The Stage that a tour is “built i…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMUpfront Inc. PRESENTS A ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE BY MULTIPLE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER TONY BENNETT “Inaugural Week Celebration” TOMORROW NIGHT: SATURDAY, JANUARY 26TH AT 8 PM At Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMLowe's character is based on the "master of disaster" Chris Lehane.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
The Royal Court Theatre has announced that Ken Alexander will be the venue's first artistic director. Chief executive Kevin Fearon told the Liverpool Echo: "Ken's appointment will broaden th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:47AMDeclan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitešić will lead the cast as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End transfer of Broadway's Tony-winning musical Once, which begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27AMCelebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Jonathan Harvey’s award-winning play, BEAUTIFUL THING, is coming to London in a new production, starring Suranne Jones directed by Nikolai Foste…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:26AMHenry James's story has spawned some persuasive and genuinely disturbing adaptations – foremost amongst them, Britten's opera and The Innocents, Jack Clayton's great 1961 black-and-white m…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:20AMSoho Theatre and English National Ballet will be among those groups set to lose funding from Westminster City Council following a proposal to phase out all of its arts budget by 2014/15. A r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMRebecca Lenkiewicz's adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw opened at the Almeida Theatre last night (24 January 2013).Running as part of Michael Attenborough’s final season …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:06AMBeam me up, Broadway.
George Takei, aka “Star Trek” helmsman Hikaru Sulu, is passionate about a personal enterprise.
The 75-year-old actor has had a longtime dream of t…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMIt was a missed connection. Or so Jeff, the protagonist of Paul Bomba's new play, ''The Man Under,'' believes.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
By Mark A. Newman
Another year has passed into posterity and since everyone else has been making “Best of” lists, I thought I would get into the act. Thankfully, 2012 saw more hits th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:31AMCasting 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 tonight, January 25,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMAbingdon Theatre Company - which has produced more than 78 new American plays in its 20-year history - continues its 2012-2013 Season with the world premiere of BODEGA BAY by Elisabeth Karli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMFans of the 1992 “Sister Act” movie starring Whoopi Goldberg will find the touring musical coming to the Opera House this week moves to a different beat. Out with the Motown pastiche, in…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:27AMThe Fucking A-Teamthis is not a recording from some starving prompter who stuffed a primitive recording device down his pantsby Shannon ChristyI would like to preface this by saying on I am …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMWords, Words, Wordsby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonInvariably, the first thing that anyone that has never been on the stage says to someone after seeing a show is, "How do you remember al…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review two Latino-themed productions, GableStage's abridged version of Hamlet and the New...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"A poem is like a painting." Horace, Ars Poetica...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMSelections from the new Alex Davis musical Shaving are presented Jan. 25 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHarold Prince, the visionary director who helped change the face of musical theatre with his productions of Cabaret, Company, Sweeney Todd and more, reflects on his staging of The Phantom of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMinita Gandhi, Behzad Dabu, Kamal J. Hans, Arya Daire, Teresa Kuruvila, Owais Ahmed and Debargo Sanyal populate the American premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar's Disconnect, a drama about…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA nontraditional cast takes on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDancers know that the shoes they shake in Broadway choruses are called "character shoes." But why that name?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPS Classics artists who are heard on two different releases that feature the music of Broadway composer Jerome Kern will appear 5 PM Jan. 28 at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side Locat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEncores! artistic director Jack Viertel shares the history of Fiorello!, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that launched Broadway songwriters Bock & Harnick in 1959, tied for the Best M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Alabama Shakespeare Festival offers a gritty version of the William Shakespeare classic Macbeth, set in a post-Apocalyptic world, beginning Jan. 25, prior to an official opening Jan. 26.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe McCarter Theatre Center's starry production of Edward Albee’s award-winning A Delicate Balance officially opens at the New Jersey venue Jan. 25 following previews that began Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSelections from the new Alex Davis musical Shaving are presented Jan. 25 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYale Repertory Theatre's production of Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets, about a movie being made in Ireland, arousing the passions of the locals, begins performances Jan. 25 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEthan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi and Trevor Nunn are among the artists who host a six-part PBS series exploring Shakespeare's classic plays, which debuts Jan. 25 across the nation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA longtime wish comes true Jan. 25 as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, arrives on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
