On Saturday, May 4, 2013 the Hylton Performing Arts Center of Manassas 3rd Anniversary Gala once again welcomed one of American music’s greatest Bluegrass legends, Dr. Ralph Stanley an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36PMTBG Theatre, Knife Edge Productions, Off Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: Actress Susannah Hoffman makes this play a success, putting her spark of life into a story abou…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:28PMA Killer Story has the trappings of a hardboiled detective yarn, but instead of snappy dialogue you have competing, overlapping monologues that are less about the case in question than the i…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:15PMNEW YORK (AP) — What a thrill it must have been to be present during artistic collaborations between performing arts legends like George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky. &n…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:13PM“Core Values,” a comedy by Steven Levenson at Ars Nova, depicts a team-building retreat set up by the owner of a beleaguered travel agency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Nikolai and the Others,” by Richard Nelson, brings Balanchine, the Stravinskys and other creative émigrés together for the weekend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMRussian intellectuals are hardly a new sight onstage at Lincoln Center, but audiences expecting the skillfull melding of fact and fiction that were the hallmark in Tom Stoppard's three-part …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIs there any other contemporary actor who does middle-aged existential despair as well as Reed Birney? From Circle Mirror Transformation to Picnic, Birney has made a career out of playing pu…
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Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson writes: The Seattle Center theater formerly known as Intiman Playhouse is now under the management of Cornish College of the Arts, and it has a new …
SOURCE: blogs.seattletimes.com at 07:47PMThere’s an honorable tradition of excellent plays based on the lives of historical characters, but also a dishonorable tradition of works in which the writers were unable to limn the lives…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMNoël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence formed a legendary on and off stage partnership, and now a work about the pair, devised by Sheridan Morley with the words and music of Noël Coward, is com…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:23PMChicago Shakespeare Theater CST announces William Shakespeare's Henry VIII, the first professional Chicago production in 400 years since its debut at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Staged by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PMLOWELL — Watching Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross’’ is a double-edged experience.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:16PMThe Broadway Association, the 102-year-old not-for-profit business association that's committed to the betterment, safety and economic prosperity of the Times Square and Midtown West communi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMMaura Donohue invites Marilyn Maywald, Donna Costello, Olsi Gjeci and Lily Gold to contribute their thoughts from inside VIcky Shick's "Everything You See."
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:00PM
Broadway’s brightest stars flooded the red carpet on May 5 for the 13th annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, the season’s only major awards voted on by the fans. Hosted by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:50PMExtending this season's hot streak of productions that make bold artistic statements, Asolo Repertory Theatre will present Noah Racey's Pulse. A song and dance celebration that harkens back …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMJon Robin Baitz's play Other Desert Cities is, perhaps, ideal for San Diego audiences. Even though it's set in the desert playground northeast of us, we know Polly and Lyman Wyeth.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:34PMOpening night photos for the world premiere of Marco Ramirez' "The Royale" at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:34PMWhen "the good old days" become a religion all their own, can the eager rebellion of modern minds be very far behind?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33PMA CAT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a tricky play even before it leaves the page. Nearly sixty years after its first performance, Williams’ brilliant poetic language and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PMAfter the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards ceremony, winners, presenters and guests were ready to have fun—even if it meant donning oversized glasses, mustaches, wigs, hats and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:30PMThere’s disagreement on exactly what mood House Theatre is trying to achieve within its campfire concert, “Ploughed Under: An American Songbook.” The upstairs theater at the Chopin is …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:20PMScore one for Shia LaBeouf.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:18PMWhen we tell you that the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards are the wildest, craziest, most outrageous theater awards show of the year, we’re not kidding around! The 14th annual cere…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMTony nominees Orfeh and Montego Glover had a serious belt-off at the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards! Watch them perform the ceremony’s powerhouse 11 o’clock number &quo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, will be closing early and play its last performance …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:01PMSoprano Susanna PhillipsI first heard the soprano Susanna Phillips (at left) four years ago at Boston Lyric Opera, as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. And I knew immediately I was listening …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:01PMRodgers amp Hammerstein's Oklahoma premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago Saturday, May 4. The new production, which includes the original choreography by the legendary Agnes De Mille, will hav…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 562013.
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Everything about the smart, joyful production of “Guys and Dolls” now at the Hanna Theatre works to pay homage to the Broadway original but adds the fizz of the new.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:59PMTriple-threat Shonn Wiley has all sorts of credits in all sorts of venues, but even if you were to chart his career only in terms of his participation in the City Center Encores! series of s…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PMChicago Shakespeare Theater CST announces William Shakespeare's Henry VIII, the first professional Chicago production in 400 years since its debut at Shakespeare's Globe in London. Staged by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMThe West Side YMCA's Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater will present its 3rd annual benefit cabaret, Little Theater, Big Dreams on Monday May 13th at 7PM. The Off-Broadway hidden gem, located …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMFrom the pages of newspapers to tweets, blogs, chat rooms and twitter, the role of the theatre critic has been changing. Guests Lisa Fung, Charles Isherwood, Peter Marks and Elisabeth Vincen…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:48PMStage and screen stalwart and SEX amp THE CITY siren Kim Cattrall has opened up about her sexy new stage role at Kevin Spacey's artistically directed Old Vic Theatre in the West End - that o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMAfter an incredibly entertaining countrywide search, 13-year-old Ben Rodenmeyer of Jackson, Mississippi, earned the coveted title of Broadway's Biggest Fan. His prize? A trip to New…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMThe Pit Stop Players, a thirteen-member instrumental ensemble composed of veteran Broadway pit musicians, will conclude their fourth season with special guest Cynthia Nixon narrating a new w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMThe Broadway cast of the cirque-inspired revival of Pippin heads into the recording studio April 29 to lay down tracks from the Tony-nominated score by Stephen Schwartz. Ghostlight Reco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMBroadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:37PMLast week’s Broadway box office saw the trends established on the prior week’s sales chart hold true one more time, with a quartet of spring titles still camped out in the millio…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMGeorge Balanchine once said, "See the music, hear the dance." Perhaps Balanchine's successor, Peter Martins, can add, "See the music, hear the dance, Instagram the dogs."
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:26PMConstantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox and the rest of the cast of JEKYLL amp HYDE take their final Broadway bows later this week, on May 12. Get to the Marquis Theatre this week before the reviv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMAfter two decades in the theater, Kristine Nielsen finds herself a first time Tony nominee for her hilarious and touching performance as spinster sister Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PMHistory Theatre has announced the titles among its 2013-14 season, which will explore what it means to be an American "hero" and include three world premieres, including a new work…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMFrequent stage and screen stars Michael Shannon, Amy Adams and Laurence Fishburne all play prominent roles in the new SUPERMAN re-boot, MAN OF STEEL, directed by Zack Snyder, and a new TV pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMNeil LaBute takes on August Strindberg's most accessible work at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:02PMThis week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. In this scene Streep puts a new assistant, who clearly does not understand the fashion …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMNEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award nominations often mean a big bump at the box office, but not this year so far.
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Betcha they're young! Betcha they're smart! Annie fans raised their voices to name the show Favorite Musical Revival at this year’s Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMSparkling, colorful new production of classic show likely a hot ticket.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 04:45PMAcademy Award-winning stage and screen superstar Helen Mirren has proven she can play almost any role over the course of her forty-year career, so that of diva - and queen, no less - is not …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMThe Guthrie Theater today announced that actors Daniel Gerroll, Patricia Kalember and Whoopi Goldberg will appear in BEHOLD A Gala Performance celebrating the Guthrie's 50th anniversary on J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMThe Vineyard Theatre will present one-night-only reunion readings of its acclaimed productions of Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul (June 24) and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive (July 1). The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:33PMAfter the tremendous success of Hatched: New Work in New York (2012) and Rated RSO: College Edition (2011), Ryan Scott Oliver and Pace University’s Musical Theater Class of 2016 pr…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 04:31PMAh, but once that inner censor/critic gets going, it can be pretty hard to shut him down. And that’s when being a playwright feels the loneliest. Because once that dragon of insecurity (as…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMRECOMMENDED There’s no tragedy like a Greek tragedy; outsized bad decisions from deeply flawed characters, combined with unknown information make for eye-popping, head-spinning catastrophe…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:27PMTickets are now on sale for a new production of Surviving Mommie Dearest. With an official opening set for May 8, the off-Broadway drama will run a limited engagement through May 12 at the S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMTony Award nominee Colman Domingo will again star in his latest play Wild With Happy, which will receive its West Coast premiere beginning June 5 at TheatreWorks' Mountain View Center fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMNinety minutes is the preferred running time for most new plays these days. But it’s just not enough for what Marco Ramirez attempts with “The Royale,” now being given its worl…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:26PMEugene V. Wolsk, a longtime Broadway and off-Broadway producer and manager, died Thursday, May 2 at the age of 84. Wolsk, whose career in the theater began as a company manager, first worke…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMThe stars were out in force for the Kennedy Center’s 21st Annual Spring Gala. On the program was My Fair Lady In Concert sung by some of Broadway and the West End’s biggest names like Jo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PMFast, fun and fabulous: The 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards ceremony was packed with memorable speeches, jokes and musical treats. Keep checking back for exclusive video features sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PMA documentary centering upon famed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, titled SHEPARD amp DARK, directed by Treva Wurmfeld, will be appearing in a number of film festivals in the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMTurn-of-the-century Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s naturalistic drama Miss Julie was remarkable in its day for its scandalous subject matter and frank dialogue exchanges. With its …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:18PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMThe 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed last night to recipients in 14 categories and 4 special honors were bestowed. The Lortel Awards were distr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 552013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMLear - Red Tape Theare, 621 w. Belmont, is offering $10 industry tickets to preview performances 5/9-5/11 at 8PM. Tickets are available online with code STUINDP or at the door. For tickets…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:12PMThe Vineyard Theatre announced that it will welcome back original cast members from How I Learned to Drive and The Dying Gaul, including Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker, Tony nominee Linda Em…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PM
Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon star in acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh's swan song, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, a biopic of noted pianist and entertainer Liberace.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMTHEATER REVIEW: "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" at the Goodman Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" at the Goodman Theatre ★★ ... In the first part…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:52PMA mariachi band serenades a Beluga whale at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut in this touchingly surreal vignette. Apparently the mariachis were at the Aquarium to play for a wedding party,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:46PMThe 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were handed last night to recipients in 14 categories and 4 special honors were bestowed. The Lortel Awards were distr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMMURDER BALLAD, the critically acclaimed new musical which has been nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel Awards, begins previews tomorrow, May 7 at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMMusic Theatre International is thrilled to join in celebrating our authors who took home the top musical honors at this year’s Lucile Lortel Awards. Tony-Award nominated songwriters Benj…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:43PMThe Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St. -- currently celebrating its 30th anniversary season -- will present one-night-only 'reunion' readings this summer with the entire original casts of two of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMA week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMA week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMThe Broadway revival of “Jekyll & Hyde” will be a bit shorter than initially planned. Though the production was scheduled to run through June 30, producers recently announced that th…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:34PMKyle Bishop, we hardly knew ye! In a decidedly dark plot twist, the May 4 episode of Smash claimed the life of Andy Mientus’s budding lyricist, who found himself on the unlucky receivi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PM(Minneapolis/St. Paul) The Guthrie Theater today announced that actors Daniel Gerroll, Patricia Kalember and Whoopi Goldberg will appear in BEHOLD: A Gala Performance celebrating the Guthrie…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:26PMAudiences are having a grand time as Bette Midler dishes Hollywood gossip from her couch at the Booth Theater where John Logan's new comedy I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMANNIE, the new production of the classic Broadway musical, won the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Musical Revival of the Year. Broadway.com’s 14th annual Audience Choic…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:22PMBRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL receives seven major award nominations for the 2013 season and, as the competition gets tough, the team is in it to win it.
TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS
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SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:19PMThe world premiere of the powerful, intense new play 'The Royale' by Marco Ramirez opened yesterday, May 5 at the CTGKirk Douglas Theatre. Directed by Daniel Aukin, 'The Royale' delivers a k…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMIn his review of the current Broadway revival of Jekyll & Hyde, New York Times critic Charles Isherwood referred to Frank Wildhorn musicals as "the crab grass of Broadway." Som…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 03:11PMThe Vineyard Theatre will welcome back original cast members from How I Learned to Drive and The Dying Gaul, including Mary-Louise Parker, Linda Emond and Tim Hopper, for two special reunion…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMHarbor Theatre will present an invitation-only reading of The Mask of the Jaguar King, by Stuart Warmflash, May 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMPictures from last week’s IRNE Awards are up on EdgeBoston’s website thanks to photographer Robert Nesti. Be sure to check them all out! Congratulations again to all of the winners a…
SOURCE: StageSource at 03:03PM
Leslie Kritzer – Beautiful Disaster My View Written by Stephen Sorokoff Leslie Kritzer! during her show at Joe’s Pub my first reaction went from …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:56PMMURDER BALLAD, the critically acclaimed new musical which has been nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel Awards, begins previews tomorrow, May 7 at…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:56PMIt is time to look at more imaginative ways to improve revenue flows to cultural organisations that can help expand the UK economy
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:54PMBeginning tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7, MATILDA THE MUSICAL will hold a daily lottery for 27 tickets. Please note that student rush tickets will be discontinued once the lottery begins.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMThey’re dropping like flies on Broadway. It hasn’t been a week since the 2013 Tony Award nominations have been announced and Broadway has already experienced two closing notices …
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:44PMTHE TESTAMENT OF MARY, the controversial play which closed yesterday following just 16 regular performances, is now igniting a very different kind of controversy an ad placed for the show on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMJoey Slotnick, a familiar face to audiences of both stage and screen, is making his Broadway debut as Buddy Bliss in Roundabout's current revival of Clifford Odets' The Big Knife. He…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM(This post is a part of the Audience Engagement blog salon curated by David J. Loehr for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). I really miss A Christmas Carol. It …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:33PMAny search for a perfect Henry Higgins might stop happily with Jonathan Pryce. The “My Fair Lady” gala concert Sunday night at the Kennedy Center was satisfying, not stunning, but it oft…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:27PMOklahoma! feels right at home in one of the world’s great opera houses, showing how the definition of works to be performed here can change even as the institution’s mission remains cons…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:25PMThe Mystery of Edwin Drood alum Stephanie J. Block pulled out all the stops in her powerhouse performance—she cross-dressed, she got murdered, and she even got her adorable dog Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMWhen theater characters pontificate about (capital-M) Making (capital-A) Art, it is hard not to listen for the phony-baloney in their words.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 02:18PMI had a “where are they now” moment looking back at an entry from 2006 where I mentioned the MacArthur Foundation had given a $250,000 grant to Edward Castronova to develop Arden…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:17PMStand back, kids: Dress-up is a game best left to the professionals. This Side of Neverland, presented by the Pearl Theatre Company, gives two of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie's one-act play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PM“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I’m taking away something from them [designers]. I’m taking away their creativity and their ability to have in…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:07PMProspect Theater Company presents its annual gala, the 2013 Spring Soirée, May 6 at Battery Gardens. Alison Cimmet hosts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PMSierra Boggess lit up the stage as Christine Daae in the 25th anniversary celebration of The Phantom of the Opera this winter, and on May 5, her thrilling performance was recognized at the B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PMIn this latest episode of TDF's Theatre Dictionary video series, Chicago stars Cristy Candler and Michael Cusumano explain the meaning of the term "Kick Your Face."…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
MATILDA THE MUSICAL received two honors at last night’s 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, the only theater awards nominated and voted on exclusively by Broadway fans. Bertie Carvel…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:58PMCinderella sweetheart Laura Osnes had a ball on May 5, when she picked up not one, but two Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards! The Tony nominee went home with the trophy for Favorite Actres…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PM"You know what? Fans are awesome! I’m gonna call Kinky Boots fans 'Kinks' from now on!" Cyndi Lauper joyously exclaimed as she headed backstage at the Broadway.c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMThe Broadway revival of “Orphans” becomes the latest Tony contender to post a closing notice, with the Alec Baldwin topliner now set to shutter later this month. Like “The Testamen…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45PMHow do you connect Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, written in 1936, to contemporary audiences? Director Arden Teresa Lewis believes she's found a way.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:44PMSierra Boggess lit up the stage as Christine Daae in the 25th anniversary celebration of The Phantom of the Opera this winter, and on May 5, her thrilling performance was recognized at the B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMWHO: Roy Arias Studios and Theatres POSITION TITLE: Night and Weekend Manager DESCRIPTION: Looking for a Night and Weekend Manager for a Successful Theatre Complex and Comedy Club in New Yo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 01:34PMThe producers of the Tony Award-nominated play ORPHANS have announced that the Broadway production will play its final performance on SUNDAY, MAY 19 after 27 previews and 37 regular perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMThe Rascals, a New Jersey bred band from the 1960s, completed the limited engagement Broadway run of their new production “The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream” on Sunday, May 5. The s…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:25PMBilly Crudup and Gotham legit vet Shuler Hensley have been tapped to join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in “No Man’s Land” and “Waiting for Godot,” the Harold Pinter-Samuel Beck…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMHelen Mirren reverted to Jane Tennison mode on Saturday when she cracked down on noisy street drummers who disrupted a performance of her West End play "The Audience."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:23PMLizzie Feidelson talks to Jill Sigman, who premieres a new piece at The Invisible Dog this week.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:22PMThe sweet essence of Turgenev’s story struggles to exert itself against the comic machinations.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:22PMFresh from her choreographing stint at the first London revival of Marvin Hamlisch's 'A Chorus Line,' Baayork Lee, 'A Chorus Line' veteran herself, and a co-founder of the National Asian Art…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMThe 11th edition of the Bistro Award-winning series If It Only Even Runs a Minute was held April 22 at (le) Poisson Rouge. This edition featured a cast reunion of the entire original ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMIt’s not often that a company can so completely remake a piece of history and claim it as their own. Gilgamesh is an amazing display of storytelling, and the production is a fantastic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMThe Tony-nominated revival, which cast Ben Foster after Shia LaBeouf exited amid controversy, will close six weeks ahead of schedule due to tepid box office.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:15PMMarion McClinton directs the regional premiere of Lydia Diamond’s Broadway play.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:14PMOne of the big surprises of the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards was the winner for Favorite Play, the short-lived stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s classic novella Breakfast…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMMatilda composer Tim Minchin is the proud recipient of a 2013 Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite New Song! Three tunes from the hit musical made the top five on this year’s ballo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMThe yellow brick road will stretch across the U.S. in the first national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. The U.S. tour will launch at Las Vegas&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMThis week is your last chance to catch Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox in the new production of JEKYLL amp HYDE. The show plays its final performance this Sunday, 512, at the Marquis Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMNEW YORK (AP) — The play "Orphans" has been orphaned on Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:04PMWhat came first: the Mel Brooks movie or the cliché?
The classic Hollywood Sci-Fi spaceship always gets gratuitous screentime from every camera angle. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood spaceship …
SOURCE: PBS at 01:04PMMatilda star Bertie Carvel is making audiences laugh and gasp at the Shubert Theatre as the monstrous Miss Trunchbull. Theatergoers took note of his larger-than-life turn, and on May 5 Carve…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMNEW YORK—The play "Orphans" has been orphaned on Broadway. Producers said Monday that Lyle Kessler's play starring Alec Baldwin will close May 19 after 27 previews and 37 regular p…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:03PMAfter starring in Wicked on and off for seven years, Kyle Dean Massey is more than qualified to accept the hit musical’s Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Long-Runni…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PM
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, is proud to announce Broadway s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMProspect Theater Company presents its annual gala, 2013's Spring Soiree, in the Harbor View Room at Battery Gardens, a beautiful and unique waterside location nestled at the southernmost cor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMFans were outraged when Tony voters snubbed Macbeth and its versatile star Alan Cumming, but the Scottish play and the Scottish-born actor were big winners at the Broadway.com Audience Choic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMFor Mel Brooks the spoofing is in the details.
The classic Hollywood Horror film is always black-and-white and includes scene transitions like iris outs, wipes and fades to black. Mel Bro…
SOURCE: PBS at 12:53PMThe Broadway revival of Lyle Kessler's Orphans will end its run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on May 19, producers have announced. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the Tony Award-nominated re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMWhen Renée Fleming was announced as Lyric Opera’s creative consultant in December of 2010, she related that the company would have an “annual commitment to American musical theater” b…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:48PMIt’s nearly certain that most aficionados of the American musical theatre would agree that Jerome Kern (Music) and Oscar Hammerstein II’s (Book and Lyrics) Show Boat, based on Edna Ferbe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMI’LL EAT YOU LAST, Bette Midler’s critically acclaimed return to Broadway by Tony Award winner John Logan, directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, has broken the box office record at…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:44PMPodcast with Mary Arrchie Theater’s THE BRIG from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:41PMIt can be a special experience when students make contact with primary resources. I have written previously about a class visit to examine documents from the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. A…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:39PMIn 2002, Brian Childers wowed DC area audiences with his spot-on and high-energy performance as Danny Kaye in Danny and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story, first at The American Century Theatre …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMThe Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Orphans, starring Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, will end its run on May 19 at the G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:38PM(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). A ragged teenage girl selling cooking…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:37PMBeginning Tuesday, May 7, Katrina Lenk will join the cast of the Tony- and Grammy Award-winning musical Once. She will be taking over the role of Reza in place of Claire Wellen, who was play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMPodcast with Mary Arrchie Theater’s THE BRIG from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. THE BRIG director Jennifer Markowitz and cast members Connor McNamara, G. Riley Mills, Aaron Norman, Mike Ne…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:36PMLyle Kessler's three-person drama Orphans, which officially opened on Broadway April 18 following previews that began March 26 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, will play its final …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMHow Jeff Calhoun stays connected to his hit show On a hit Broadway show, a director’s job is never quite done. Working with a team of associate directors and stage managers, directors …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:33PMRECOMMENDED Following six years in the complex relationship between an established writer/professor and her aspiring protégée, Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories” is a study in men…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:30PMShuler Hensley also has joined the repertory cast of "No Man's Land" and "Waiting for Godot," with previously announced leads Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:28PMTim and Charlie's Farewell Tour, an evening celebrating the composer and lyricist team Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, was presented April 28 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMMel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn’t upend.
The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood cowboy is black. And his Indian chief speaks Yiddish.
SOURCE: PBS at 12:26PMBilly Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart for the repertory run of Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” thi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMTony Award-winning Broadway producer Scott Rudin, a lead producer on the short-lived 2013 Tony Award-nominated Best Play The Testament of Mary, criticized New York Times theatre reporter Pat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMCasting has been announced for Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera Summer Season. The festival of musicals, which runs May 31-Aug. 4, will include productions of 42nd Street, Seven Brides for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThe best part of Aaron Tveit’s concert at 54 Below on Friday night was a moment he never expected. In fact, if I were to wager a guess, it’s a moment he dreaded and possibly wish…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:15PMTheater stars put on their cocktail party best for the 2013 Audience Choice Awards, the season’s biggest and best party at the gorgeous Allen Room. Who looked especially great on this …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMSadler's Wells, LondonWhen London hosted the first Breakin' Convention a decade ago, hip-hop was widely assumed to be worlds away from mainstream dance. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMPoet and rocker read excerpts from her National Book Award-winning memoir “Just Kids.”
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:11PMKatrina Lenk will join the cast of the 8-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical ONCE at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre beginning Tuesday, May 7. Ms. Lenk will take over the role of 'Reza' from …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMThe New York theatre awards season is in full swing! With all the nominations out for the 2012-2013 theatrical season, the actual presentation of awards is already beginning to happen! While…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:06PMAcclaimed 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 12:00PM
Everybody did say yeah when Kinky Boots star Billy Porter picked up the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Actor in a Musical for his role as Lola in the rocking new tuner. Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMAnnaleigh Ashford’s hilarious performance in Broadway’s Kinky Boots garnered a shiny 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award on May 5, and although it may not be a surprise to he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMTickets are now on sale for SNL veteran Colin Quinn's new comedy Colin Quinn Unconstitutional. Performances begin at the Barrow Street Theatre on May 3, with official open…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AM"Bloody Bloody" Lucas Near-Verbrugge is loose on the streets of New York as a new star of the acclaimed web series WALLFLOWERS. Also starring Sarah Saltzberg, Christianne Tisdale and Gibson…
SOURCE: snobbyrobot.com at 11:55AMJacki Weaver and Julian Sands have joined the cast of the film adaptation of Richard Alfieri's "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," which will star Cheyenne Jackson and Gena Rowla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThere have been many variations on Neil Simon’s successful Odd Couple formula, most of them perpetrated by Neil Simon, who knows a good thing when he cashes it in. There was the fem…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:53AMKen Ferrigni
Hometown: St. Louis, MissouriCurrent Town: Astoria, QueensQ: Tell me about Occupation.A: OCCUPATION takes place a few years from now. A series of ec…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:52AMA Utah favorite demonstrates its seemingly eternal popularity, relevance. Starring Joe Cassidy, Josh Davis, Kelly McCormick, Dale Hensley and Christianne Tisdale.
SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune at 11:48AMProducers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment & Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures announced May 6 that the first North American tour of Andrew Lloyd …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMWhen the Tony Award nominations were doled out on April 30, we knew that some of our favorite Broadway stars would finally receive their first nod for theater’s top honor. As fate woul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMNEW YORK (AP) — Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will get some high-caliber help onstage this fall — Tony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:41AMNEW YORK—Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will get some high-caliber help onstage this fall—Tony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:39AMSo among the fine, entertaining evenings and afternoons in theater this trip, the highlight hands down was watching a brilliant cast under Nicholas Martin’s direction make Christopher Dura…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:34AMTony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMToday is the birthday of Frank Nelson (1911-1986). You just THINK you don’t know who he is. He’s that guy who had endless cameos and guest shots on sit-coms and commercials, who …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:34AMHelen Mirren, during intermission, appears in her costume as Queen Elizabeth to berate a group of marching drummers who disrupted a performance of “The Audience.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:31AMKatrina Lenk is set to join the Broadway cast of the Tony-winning musical Once as Reza, taking over from temporary replacement Claire Wellen. Lenk will step into the violinist role (which ea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMToday in 2008, Glory Days opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran for one performance. Glory Days is a musical with music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire and a book by James Gar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMEugene V. Wolsk, a theatre veteran who rose through the Broadway ranks from company manager to general manager to producer, died May 2. He was 84.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMTony winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart for the Broadway repetoire mounting of No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot. Directed by Sean Mathi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:29AMPlaybill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMComing up this week, 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54thStreet, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMProducers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment amp Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures have just announced that the first North American tour of Andrew Lloy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMKatrina Lenk (Spider-man) will join the cast of the 8-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical ONCE at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre beginning Tuesday, May 7. Ms. Lenk will take over the role …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:19AMINTERVIEW: RICHARD McCABE The Olivier winning actor talks to Heather Neill about playing Harold Wilson in The Audience, Peter Morgan’s superb new play about the Queen’s audiences with he…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:16AMMaura Tierney and Aasif Mandvi hosted the 28th annual Lucille Lortel Awards May 5, when The Whale, The Piano Lesson and the musical Dogfight were honored in production categories. The Off-Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMExperience the highly-anticipated new musical MURDER BALLAD starring John Ellison Conlee, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Caissie Levy, and Will Swenson. Paper Magazine says, 'Go see it, its fantastic …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMKatrina Lenk, who most recently starred in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Once beginning May 7 at the Bernard B. Jaco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The catchy tunes, outlandish costumes and shimmering boots that made ABBA a global phenomenon all feature in a new museum dedicated to the band, but rumors the exhibiti…
SOURCE: Reuters at 11:13AMToday is the birthday of Harry Einstein, a.k.a Harry Parke, a.k.a Parkyakarkus (1904-1958). Einstein got his start on Eddie Cantor’s radio show, playing a comical Greek. He appeared in…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:13AMBroadway's Leslie Kritzer, currently starring in The Memory Show with The Transport Group through May 18 returns to Joe's Pub with her all-new extravaganza Beautiful Disaster for four perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMBarefoot Theatre Company will present a free reading of Welcome to the White Room, a new play by Trish Harnetiaux, May 13 as part of its bareNaked Reading Series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMI got in a very interesting discussion with a reporter the other day about our beloved Tony Awards. She hypothesized that the awards were mostly a marketing exercise for Broadway and the s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMYou care. I have been asked a lot of questions about connecting lately and the more I do it and the more I help, the more I find that the most important factor in it all is caring about the.…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 11:00AM
The theater community celebrated Off-Broadway on May 5 at the annual Lucille Lortel Awards. The ceremony was hosted by Maura Tierney and Aasiv Mandvi at New York University's Skirball Center…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMTony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Wai…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:52AMThe American Repertory Theater has announced additional productions for its 2013-14 season, including a new adaptation of The Tempest, featuring music by Tom Waits, which is directed and ada…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay .* Join us Thurs…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:47AMThe Hall of Hams is my series on some of my favorite actors who have brought the art of melodramatic acting into the modern era. Today is the birthday of George Orson Welles (1915-1985). Bec…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AMMaria Friedman’s production, transferred from the Menier Chocolate Factory, is likely lead to more inductions into the cult of Sondheim, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:46AMA newly commissioned ensemble-driven Boléro has grand visual effects, but lacks choreographic urgency, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:46AMOrphans on Broadway with Alec Baldwin
© Orphans
Producers of Orphans starring Alec Baldwin have announced the Broadway production will close early.
Orphans tells the story of a young ma…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 10:39AMShe's played the royalty several times, but according to some reports her recent public address may not have been in the Queen's EnglishAge: 67Appearance: Regal; commanding.What, just becaus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMThe charming musical style of Cole Porter comes to life on the stage of Prince George’s Little Theatre as they close out their 53rd season with You Never Know. Directed by Roy Hammond wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMTony Award winners Billy Crudup (Arcadia) and Shuler Hensley (The Whale) will join Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the upcoming Broadway double bill of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AM“This is a very pleasant room,” the garrulous Mr. Spooner (Christopher Henley) says to his host, the silent, opaque Mr. Hirst (Brian Hemmingsen), and indeed it is, as it is festooned eve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMTony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join the previously announced Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the upcoming repertory production of Harold Pinter’s No Man&rs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM"Dogfight," "The Piano Lesson," and "The Whale" took home the top awards for best musical, best revival, and best play at the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, which were presented in a ceremony a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:25AMBarrington Stage Company has announced principal casting for the BernsteinComdenGreen musical On the Town from June 12 through July 13 on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMRatings of NBC's "Smash," the Emmy Award-winning musical drama about the creation and inner workings of a Broadway musical, increased following the show's May 4 episode.&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending May 5, 2013: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm ANN $261,380 3,549 39.86% $73.65 ANNIE $648,007 8,284 60.63% $78.22 CH…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:06AMThe cast of Christopher Durang's Tony-nominated Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike will offer a special performance to benefit The Actors Fund next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM
On May 5, Maura Tierney (Lucky Guy) Aasif Mandvi (Disgraced) hosted the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theater. The Playwrights Horizons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMDame Helen Mirren publicly remonstrated a party of 25 gay drummers who were playing outside the stage door of the West End's Gielgud Theatre during a performance of The Audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMOscar nominee Jacki Weaver Animal Kingdom - 2011 and Silver Linings Playbook - 2013 and Julian Sands have been added to the cast of SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS, the feature film based on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMThe new off-Broadway drama Nikolai and the Others will officially open at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on May 6. Written by Richard Nelson with direction by David Cromer, the play began pre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:47AMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, recently seen as Fosca in Classic Stage Company's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion, will release her latest solo recording…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMThe Signature Theater Company’s much-lauded revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” scored with four Lucille Lortel Awards at Off Broadway’s annual kudofest. The Playwrig…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34AMRooting around my back pages, I happened to come across a 2004 post about a number of religion-themed shows I'd seen at the time in L.A. (Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God, the Very Merry Un…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:30AMPassajj Productions will present A Musical: Madame Bovary, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert, beginning May 17 at Roy Arias Stage IV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMWhat would the composer Jerome Kern have made of Woodstock? That question was asked but not answered on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:21AMSignature Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson took home four Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement off-Broadway in a ceremony held on May 5. The Wha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:12AMMy dear readers, I am so, so, so sorry. After my praise of last week’s episode, I have to imagine that a handful of you, or perhaps even one, responded along the lines of, “Oh, h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:09AMThe return to the standard repertoire, which, since January, has been the orchestra’s primary focus, is safe, unassuming, and (potentially, at least) creatively stifling.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AM
One of the most harrowing final scenes in all of opera is the ending of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites," when the nuns condemned by the French Revolution walk one by one to the scaff…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:53AMIn our latest podcast Adam R. Burnett and Jud Knudsen discuss their unique method of touring a show across the country. “NIGHTMARES: a demonstration of the sublime” premiered at …
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 08:47AMWith the Green Rooms Awards over and done for another year we have all the results for you. The big winners for 2013 were The Production Company’s Chess with 7 awards and Opera Australia�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:47AMAs promised, the final HOT or NOT poll of the 2012 - 2013 season will be posted today. Unfortunately, I cannnot post the poll until later this evening, due to a formatting error that c…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:40AMTheatre types are agog at the arrival of a David Hare parody account on Twitter. Who's behind it?Forget Helen Mirren getting regally stroppy with drummers interrupting her West End play. The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMA regular on Broadway for more than decade starting in the 1940s, Gibson received a Tony Award nomination in 1957 for best featured actress in a musical for her work in Happy Hunting opposit…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:35AMOpera Lafayette bounded onto the stage at the Terrace Theatre this week offering a “post-modern” baroque opera that was both elegant and fresh. Artistic Director Ryan Brown teamed up w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMChain Theatre, Variations Theatre Group, Off Off Broadway
By Jordan Swisher
BOTTOM LINE: Variations Theatre Group solidly delivers Neil LaBute’s signature naturalism.
Some Girl(s)…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:32AMThe Telegraph (UK) 05/06/13
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AMMontgomery County native and drummer extraordinaire, Allison Miller played at the Mansion at Strathmore on Friday night to a Standing Room Only crowd. Miller, who grew up in Olney and is a g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMAt 8 p.m. ET, NBC's SMASH scored a 0.5 in the all-important adult 18-49 demographic compared to 0.4 on 427 and delivered its biggest overall audience to date among five Saturday telecasts wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26AMNiall Ferguson is wrong: writing on Lopokova, Keynes' wife, I found evidence of a warm and loving relationship in which both wanted childrenIt's hard to count the ways in which Niall Ferguso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
2012 Green Room Awards - And The Winners Are:
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SOURCE: Theatre People Australia at 07:59AMDame Helen Mirren tells a troupe of drummers to keep the noise down
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMFiled under: Music, PLUGS Tagged: David Mallamud, Laurie Beechman
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:53AMThis multiplier effect has been discussed for decades. We know that arts organizations are critical for local restaurants, parking, taxis, hotels, etc. Yet it is equally clear that the eco…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:39AMGuest contributor Jason Mitchell reviews I’m a Stranger Here Myself. When the curtain speech finished with “All Aboard the S.S. Weimar” and the lights rose on an interest…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:26AMTheatre for the New City, Off Off Broadway
By Bradley Troll
BOTTOM LINE: Eduardo Machado's exploration of Cuban gay hustler culture comes across as an exercise in missed theatrical p…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:24AM“There were a few 'thespian' words used," she says about the rant she delivered in her Queen Elizabeth II costume during a performance of "The Audience."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:04AM
To mark the start of the festival season Tom Wicker finds out how this year’s Brighton director, Michael Rosen, has thrown his heart and soul in to the role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47AMTo dance is one of life’s great gifts. It is the physical metamorphosis of emotion too intense to contain within the body. Be it joy, sadness, fear or pain, to dance is to be free, and tho…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:17AMEvelyn Teachout, my beloved mother, died a year ago. This is what I wrote about her the next day. Today...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Koto Song," composed by Dave Brubeck and performed by the Brubeck Quartet in 1966. Paul Desmond is the alto saxophonist,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home, I was in a better...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMBroadway veterans Clyde Alves (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hands on a Hardbody), and Tony Yazbeck (Gypsy) will lead the cast of Barrington Stage Company's season-ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM
Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, May 5, 2013 - Sunday, May 5, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMBroadway fans have spoken, picking their favorites of the season at the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, which were presented May 5 at The Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center's…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08AMDreamgirls: Karen Holness, Aurianna Angelique, and Starr Domingue. Photo by David Cooper.When shows appear at Montreal's Mainline Theatre you know there is going to be a bit of funkiness abo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMThe Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace presents Thunder Knocking on the Door, a rhythm and blues musical written by Keith Glover, with music and lyrics by three-time Grammy Award winner Keb’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMA Week in The Nation's Theatreby Chris Lane@chrislanetweetsMontreal on the world stage: New York’s Drama Desk Award nominees have been announced, with Cirque du Soleil’s Totem up fo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMFinding the Seed of a Playby Estelle RosenJeffrey Blatt graduated from the writing and directing program at York University with specialized honors, where his thesis film had its world premi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, May 5, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMBarrington Stage Company will kick off its 2013-14 season with the Bernstein-Comden-Green musical On the Town June 12 on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage. The cast includes Tony Award winner Micha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBilly Porter and Stark Sands, the leading men at the heart of Broadway's Kinky Boots, each earned a 2013 Tony Award nomination for his performance. Playbill catches up with the nominees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJay Manuel, known for appearing on television's "America's Next Top Model," hosts The Broadway in South Africa 5th Anniversary Celebration, which is held May 6 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNikolai and the Others, the world-premiere play from Richard Nelson that imagines a weekend shared by Russian artists George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Nabokov and more, officially…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSteven Levenson's new play Core Values, about workplace team building, officially opens Off-Broadway May 6 after previews that began April 24 at Ars Nova. Reed Birney (Blasted, Circle Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway's Future Songbook Series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — continues May 6 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNick Adams, Corey Mach, Kate Rockwell and Wallace Smith are among the performers taking part in Broadway Backs Boston, an evening where Broadway performers come together to support thos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway theatre company Playwrights Horizons holds its annual spring gala May 6 at the event space 583 Park Avenue. Tony Award winners LaChanze and Shuler Hensley as well as Tony nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"I think I'm the fourth Swedish person to do Broadway," says Peter Jöback over coffee at the Intercontinental Hotel, just up the road from the Majestic Theatre where he is currently making …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM8220;Made Here” is an online documentary series now in its third season. (The entire series can be viewed at madehereproject.org.) In it, we meet a variety of performing artists living…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMBurt Bacharach, award-winning songwriter and composer, talks about his life and music—from his tumultuous marriages and the tragic suicide of his daughter to his collaborations with Hal D…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMOn today’s show: Songwriter Burt Bacharach talks about his life and career in music. Greg Bellow looks at his complex relationship with his father, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Be…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM 
