The world premiere of Marco Ramirez's new play The Royale opened May 5 at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55PMAccording to the Associated Press, Chuck Lorre, creator of 'Two and a Half Men' and 'The Big Bang Theory' is teaming up with Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello to write a new musical based on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52PMAussieTheatre is thrilled to be giving away 2 DOUBLE PASSES to see the internationally acclaimed theatrical spectacular Cavalia under the Big White Top at the Entertainment Quarter, Sydne…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:21PMJames Whitmore was a noted character actor. His son and grandchildren carry on his love of theater with Whitmore Eclectic, which is staging 'Proof.'Prolific character actor James Whitmore ap…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15PMAmid the cacti and tennis courts, betrayal lies in wait. The comfortably arid retirement of Lyman and Polly Wyeth — impeccably groomed survivors of Old Hollywood and California Republican …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:14PMSpeaking with The Hollywood Reporter at the New York premier of the film on May, Luhrmann said he next wants to tackle the classic HAMLET - with Leonardo Dicaprio in the title role.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10PMThe following are raw notes from Monday Night's mayoral forum at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. It's a lot of info, but I bolded the things that stuck out to me.
John Liu
…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:09PM What a great opportunity to support the Artists in Partnership in Long Beach, NY and many of our favorite cabaret personalities as they honor the Great American Songbook. The followin…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:03PMIn “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance),” a mind-bending play by Richard Foreman at the Public Theater, an aging man sifts through past encounters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM
Wining and Dining your Way Through the Tony’s.: On June 9th, 2013, 5931 theater folks – primarily Tony nominees, their sisters, their cousins and their aunts plus any members of their cl…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:54PMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36PMWhat’s the price of betrayal? In Peter Nichols’ 1981 play it’s a painful splintering of the psyche. The betrayer mentally compartmentalises in order to be both affectionate husband and…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:30PMAccording to Deadline, Ben Walker is nearing a deal to star opposite Chris Hemsworth in Ron Howard's THE HEART OF THE SEA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17PMNEW YORK, May 6, 2013 – RIOULT Dance NY announces its partnership with Molecule Communications in support of the Women’s Education Project fundraising event, Fashion Fiesta for a …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:04PMRichard Foreman has been trolling the New York theater scene for a very long time. His instantly recognizable style of busy sets, nonlinear and often nonsensical dialogue, disorienting light…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PM
What price a woman’s liberation? And what price a man’s self-defined honour? By pitching one against the other and against the backdrop of wedlock (the emphasis being on the “lock”),…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:57PMGlynn Turman won an Ovation for a previous August Wilson role, but he thinks he's finally ready to tackle Wilson's work, in the Taper's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:53PMFrederic Franklin was the repository of much of the tradition of 20th century ballet, and he carried on these values by personifying the essence of the genre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:52PM"Brantley is viewed as some odd, shriveled, bitter Dickensian clerk."-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:46PMA guide to area performances, including “Glengarry Glen Ross,’’ “Amadeus,’’ “She Kills Monsters,’’ “Thoroughly Modern Millie,’’ and “Pippi Longstocking.’’ …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:40PMTony and three-time Emmy Award-winner Amanda Plummer will return to the New York stage after a 15-year absence, along with Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif One Flew Over the Cuckoo'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMPlaying to sold out houses since 2011 and newly minted Australian Cabaret Showcase runner-up, Amelia Ryan is a force to be reckoned with — and she’s bringing her show to Gingers on Oxfor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director will present the world premiere of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, directed by Scott Ellis. The cast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMBroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet amp Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMYou readers are in for a treat because this week's interview is with Christiane Noll! I was lucky enough to chat with this Tony nominee back in February and in the hour or so that …
SOURCE: www.broadwaymasterchat.com at 07:17PMEarlier today, the cast of MATILDA THE MUSICAL got the chance to speak live with an astronaut on the International Space Station via satellite hook-up provided by NASA. During the event, Ast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMJAMES CHEN-NY Theater: The New Testament (59E59); The Nanjing Race (Abingdon Theater), ChingChong Chinaman (Pan Asian Rep), Joan of Arc (Gorilla Rep T…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:09PMShout Broadway has announced that the New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording for ANNIE is available for purchase at the Palace Theatre 1564 Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets, beginning tonigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:03PMJOE JUNG-As Artistic Director of Project: Theater, Joe Jung has staged the world premiere of Michael Hilliard’s The Florentine, J.B. by Archibald MacLeish, The Secretariesby the Five Lesbi…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:03PMHarold Pinter didn't think much of his second play initially. "It was heavily satirical and quite useless," he wrote later. "I never began to like any of the characters, they really didn't l…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Jacqueline E. Lawton’s “The Hampton Years” is about as local as local can get: The D.C.-based playwright’s world premiere got its start at Theater J’s first Locally Grown Festival.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:56PMKen Ferrigni is the resident playwright at Project: Theater. New York plays include Mangella (“A virtual, LOL hoot" NY Post) and ANGEL/BUDDY (Backstage Magazine Critic's Pick, New Yor…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:55PMNEW YORK (AP) -- One of television's most successful sitcom writers is joining with Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello to create a musical based on the artists' 1998 album "Painted From M…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:54PMIn a press conference held at Popular Community Bank Headquarters in Lower Manhattan, Madelyn Lugo, the Parade's President, announced that this year's Grand Marshal is legendary actresssinge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:49PMBWW is excited to spend a year on the road on the bus with the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT In Episode 12 of our On the Road series, Taurean Everett brings us along for their advent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMI thought many happy childhood musical theater memories last night while I attended the Dutch Treat Club's Annual Gold Medal Tribute Dinner and Show at the Harvard Club in honor of the legen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35PMRECOMMENDED People who live in the kind of twisted families only Tennessee Williams could write must look at Neil Simon families and think, “well, that sounds nice.” While neither type o…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:35PMI REMEMBER THE AMUSEMENT PARK BUT FORGOT WHAT THE RIDE WAS ABOUT The more I think about the Hypocrites’ latest theater spectacle, Ivywild, the more entranced I feel about the imaginative p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PMVandals whitewashed a nude portrait outside White Flag Projects.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:31PMBroadway favorite Sierra Boggess takes home the Favorite Replacement prize for her turn as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMGhostlight Records will unveil the original Broadway cast recording of Cinderella, the new Rodgers and Hammerstein production starring Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana and Victoria Clark, with a…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:16PMAn exclusive chat with the newly-crowded Season 5 winner of RuPaul's Drag Race who has big Broadway dreams.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:14PMArthur Miller’s parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and subsequent generations of American mass hysteria – up to the present. Through this sa…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:10PMOn Tuesday, May 21, composerlyricist Janine McGuire will present an evening of her original music in 'Let's Make Noise The Music amp Lyrics of Janine McGuire.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMBeginning May 7 Matilda The Musical, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, will have a daily lottery for $27 tickets. The production, currently playing at Broadway’…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:05PMTheatre Ventures has announced that the first North American Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s new stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz will begin September 10, 2013 at The Smith Center in…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:04PMDuke of York's, LondonIt's a well-known fact that Peter Nichols's play, which first appeared in 1981, forms part of an unofficial trinity of dramas about infidelity: it came after Pinter's B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
NEW YORK (AP) — One of television's most successful sitcom writers is joining with Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello to create a musical based on the artists' 1998 album "Painted From Memo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:57PMThe musical neophyte discuss his love for the Kids in the Hall, what its like to be a misfit among the singers and why Mormons are such nice people
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:54PMInnovation is in the doing. Does innovation come tiptoeing into the room, one small step at a time, or charge in full blown from the head of Zeus? Does it hit you in the face or insinuat…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:52PMThis summer, graduating actors from LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) will present three exciting productions at the Lyric Hammersmith: Bruce Norris’s provocative Clybourn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:52PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway So excited to have Cherry Jones back @MTC_NYC sta…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:51PMKinky Boots writers Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein accept their Favorite Musical trophy with stars Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford and producer Daryl Roth.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMBerkshire Theatre Group Company Member, Jayne Atkinson, who appeared as Edith Bolling Galt Wilson in last summer's world premiere of Edith, will join the cast of The Lion in Winter, in the r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMThe small Fiasco Theater ensemble is bringing its stripped-down approach to the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Into the Woods.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMInternationally recognized stage and screen icon Helen Mirren made quite a scene in London on Saturday when she took to the streets to silence a group of rallying street performers participa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMArtistic Director of the Naked Angels Theater Company Liz Carlson is directing a production of Sydney Michaels' Dylan at the City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater. Based on Dylan Tho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PMVisit the Tony Awards room on iTunes to get music from this year's nominated shows.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 05:33PMLa Jolla Playhouse announced today that nationally-renowned scenic designer Robert Brill has been named the theatre's inaugural Artist-in-Residence. This new, multi-month residency program, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMA modern couple experiments with a 1950s lifestyle.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:30PMYou've already read about all the shenanigans that occured onstage at the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, but pretty soon, you can witness them for yourselves!
The complete …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:22PMBroadway’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 05:09PMNEW YORK (AP) — Scottish author and playwright J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan and Neverland, also wrote intelligent comedies for adults confounded by the fast-changing Edwardian era.&nb…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:03PMAnother competition I hear you say…yes, you better believe it, we have another competition for you and it’s a good one: we are giving away three pairs of tickets to see Happy New…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:01PMA revival of the Hammerstein-Kern classic showcases once again the rich tapestry and timeless themes of an American saga that changed the course of musical theater — and confronted audienc…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01PMToday we’re pleased to welcome a guest post from Starshine Stanfield. Starshine writes about the amazing transformation of a school that shunned security guards in favour of more reso…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM
Nominees have been announced for the 31st Annual Fred amp Adele Astaire Awards taking place on Monday, June 3 at 730pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Selec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMAnything Goes and Merrily We Roll Along leading man Colin Donnell performs a new song from the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park world-premiere musical Love's Labour's Lost.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMA central HIT LIST song sequence from a musical-within-the-series on NBC's musical drama series SMASH has just been released, with Katharine McPhee leading the plucky HIT LIST composition 'P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMRocco Sisto, Stephanie Hayes, Alenka Kraigher, Nicolas Norena and David Skeist star in the Public Theater world premiere of Richard Foreman's Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance), …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMWhat would the Metropolitan Opera (and its audiences) do without its production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, which opened for the season with Saturday's matinee, May 4? As…
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 04:43PMEmmy Award-nominated "The Office" star Jenna Fischer, Josh Hamilton, Leslie Bibb and Fred Weller will be part of the world premiere of Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMJujamcyn Theaters and True Colors Theatre Company Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director have announced that Thembisile Gxuluwe from West Mifflin Area High School near Pittsburgh has won …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMThe hot duet between two prominent players on NBC's musical drama series SMASH has finally been released - Katharine McPhee and Mara Davi's scorching 'I'm Not Sorry'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMLAS VEGAS (AP) — Michael Jackson spent his life breaking music industry records. Four years after his death, the pop star's estate has delivered another first: Jackson is now the only pers…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:36PMThe second installment of the five-week Love's Labour's Lost sneak preview is in. Continuing our anticipation of the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production, Michael Friedman is offerin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMLike most critics I’m sure, I think of myself as open-minded; in my more prideful moments, I even call myself a champion of the little-known. But one recent show, Theatre Rhino’s A Lady …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:30PMFor the first time ever MTV and Doron Ofir Casting are seeking aspiring chefs to fulfill a lifelong dream in the culinary arts that will lead to the job of a lifetime and launch a career of …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Tea with Edie and Fitz" by Dead Writers Theatre Collective at Greenhouse Theater Center ★★½
KERRY REID reviews "Tea with Edie and Fitz" by Dead Writers Theatre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:24PMA new Marc ShaimanScott Wittman gem for NBC's musical drama series SMASH has been unveiled, the sexy and sassy 'Grin And Bare It'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMBack in 2012 Trevor O’Donnell posted 10 Deadly Sins Marketing Clichés., one of which was anniversaries. He pointed out that while milestones were once of some value as hooks for news …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:20PMWell, Peter Pan, I -- speaking as a mother -- never liked you much either. So I retorted, inwardly, upon hearing the title of Michael Lluberes' new play, "Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mother…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMAbout the author:
Over the past 16 years, director Michael Wilson has become one of the premiere interpreters of Horton Foote’s vast catalogue of plays depicting family life in Texas.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMThe New-York Historical Society will honor supporters of musical theater education Myrna and Freddie Gershon and Manhattan P94M principal Ronnie Shuster during the fifteenth annual American …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:16PMTony and Emmy Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) met the press on Tuesday, May 7 to preview the upcoming off-B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMAmerican Idol star, Clay Aiken, is returning to the stage as 'Man in Chair' in North Carolina Theatre's production of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE along with Tony-Award winner, Beth Leavel, who will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMTwo-time Tony winner Chita Rivera will serve as the Grand Marshal at the 18th Annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City on June 9.
“I have many great memories of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:11PMThe Centre for Economics and Business Research has just published research into the economic value of arts activity, entitled Arts & culture’s economic contribution – An analysi…
SOURCE: creatingtheatre.com at 04:11PMThe cast of Broadway's Matilda received the unique opportunity to talk with an astronaut on the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 7. Via a live satellite hook-up provided by NASA, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PM InFusion Theatre Company is proud to announce its second collaboration with award-winning playwright Qui Nguyen with the Midwest premiere of Fight Girl Battle World, directed by InFusion…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:10PMIn a fascinating new interview with USA Today, world renown stage star, recording artist and concert performer Sarah Brightman discusses her upcoming space journey as well as aspects of her …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PM Written by Paulanne Simmons Many people know Kevin Bacon by his roles in “Footloose,” “Apollo 13” and “Mystic River,” along with many other films. His brother,…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:01PMCoincidentally got word about two great new books by two different friends that are now available to pre-order. Most astounding of all, they aren’t by ME! Steve Massa, from the Silent …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:00PMLet's Make Noise: The Music & Lyrics of Janine McGuire, featuring the original music of composer-lyricist Janine McGuire, will be presented May 21 in NYC. Janet Krupin and Jarrod Spe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker will record the role of Clara for an ailing Melissa Errico on the PS Classics two-disc Off-Broadway cast album of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMA potentially groundbreaking production of the new musical ORPHAN TRAIN is set to play in one of New York City's most well-known and beloved landmarks in October, Grand Central Station.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:53PMWashington, D.C.— Ford’s Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault announced today that Betsy O’Brien Anderson will join the company as Director of Development in June 2013. As Director of De…
SOURCE: fords.org at 03:46PMLooking for a reason to be happy this spring? Well, we’ve got four: Jenna Fischer, Leslie Bibb, Josh Hamilton and Fred Weller, the stars of Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Happy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera has been announced as this year's Grand Marshal of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, set to take place on Sunday, June 9. With over 80,000 people marching…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMLynne Meadow (Artistic Director), Barry Grove (Executive Producer), and Mandy Greenfield (Artistic Producer) are pleased to announce Emmy and two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones will ret…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:35PMInternational stage and screen star Idina Menzel has officially confirmed five dates down under for her ongoing concert tour, scheduling shows at venues throughout Australia in June.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThe first single from Matthew Morrison's upcoming theatre-themed solo album WHERE IT ALL BEGAN has just been released - a jazzy, syncopated cover of 'It Don't Mean A Thing'.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMThe second show of The Public's free Shakespeare in the Park season, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, A NEW MUSICAL, directed by Alex Timbers, with songs by Michael Friedman and book adaptation by Alex…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMRichard Nelson’s latest play Nikolai and the Others, which examines Russian art at the beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the ballet Orpheus, officially opened at Linco…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMWith the closing of H Street Playhouse, Theater Alliance moves into what they call their “itinerant” phase, planning future productions in one, possible two theatres, and renewin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:10PMMCC Theater's REASONS TO BE HAPPY, starring Leslie Bibb Iron Man, ABC's 'GCB' and Jenna Fischer NBC's 'The Office' making their New York City stage debuts opposite Josh Hamilton The Coast of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMLynne Meadow Artistic Director, Barry Grove Executive Producer, and Mandy Greenfield Artistic Producer just announced Emmy and two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones will return to Manhatta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMRobert Petkoff, most recently seen on Broadway as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes, is in Denver originating the role of Colonel Brandon in the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
The Weinstein Company TWC announced today that James Ponsoldt has officially signed on to write the big screen adaptation of the beloved musical PIPPIN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMAmerican Idol star, Clay Aiken, returns to the stage as 'Man in Chair' in North Carolina Theatre's production of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE along with Tony-Award winner, Beth Leavel, who will be r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMThe word is Entertaining. Could you use it in a sentence please? The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Spelling Bee) is funny and entertaining. Entertaining. E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-I-N-G. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMBelow, get a first look at Jessie L. Martin as Marvin Gaye in Julien Temple's upcoming biopic, SEXUAL HEALING, from Focus Features International.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMThe producers of the Tony Award-nominated play ORPHANS announced yesterday that the Broadway production will play its final performance on May 19 after 27 previews and 37 regular performance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMTony and Emmy Award winner Cherry Jones will return to Manhattan Theatre Club next summer in the world premiere of Sarah Treem's When We Were Young and Unafraid. The play will have a lim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:39PMThe revival of “Orphans,” starring Alec Baldwin, made quite a few headlines before it opened because of an apparent conflict between Baldwin and his former co-star in the production, Shi…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:32PMA new show evokes the old feeling of a troupe we still need to consider seriously.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:31PMAfter a shocking live surprise proposal on last year's AMERICAN IDOL, Ace Young proved to his bride-to-be that he is a master of the unexpected. Click here to check out the performance .
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMThis is extraordinary news! Writer and director James Ponsoldt will pen the script for a new big-screen adaptation of Pippin as previously speculated, according to Deadline.com. Pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PMTony Award winner Nikki M. James, who stars as Nabulungi in the Tony-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, will offer two evenings of song this June at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMRestaurant tales are on the menu at Delicious Reality, a TeAda Production at Miles Memorial Playhouse.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:17PMKing's theatre, EdinburghYou'd like to think The Sash had passed its sell-by date. It would be nice if, as it approaches its 40th anniversary, Hector MacMillan's taut domestic drama about se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PMNew-York Historical Society to Celebrate its 15th Annual American Musicals Project Benefit with an Evening of Music from Broadway’s Golden Era Myrna and Freddie Gershon and Manhattan P94M …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:15PMThe cast of Steven Levenson's The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin met the press at their rehearsal studio on Tuesday, May 7. Directed by Scott Ellis, the Roundabout Theatre Company p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMActing Showcase 2013 (BA Honours Acting students) : Pitching straight into the West End's Criterion for the first of two showcase performances - the second being back in their 'hom…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02PMEmma Degerstedt, Matt Bauer, Lowe Taylor, Natalie Storrs and John D. LeMay will lead the cast of Cabrillo Music Theatre's Legally Blonde, which will begin performances July 19 in Thousan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMMs. Jones will return to the theater’s Off Broadway stage next spring in a new drama by Sarah Treem, “When We Were Young and Unafraid.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMCherry Jones, the Emmy winner (“24″) already lined up for a fall Broadway stint in “The Glass Menagerie,” has also locked in a 2014 run in the Manhattan Theater Club&…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMManhattan Theatre Club will present the world premiere of Sarah Treem's new play When We Were Young and Unafraid at New York City Center – Stage 1 beginning May 22, 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMAfter returning to Broadway in the fall in "The Glass Menagerie," the two-time Tony winner will head the cast of Sarah Treem's world premiere play.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:00PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones (Mrs. Warren's Profession) will join Manhattan Theatre Club this month in the world premiere of When We Were Young and Unafraid, written by Sarah Tree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Stars from the Great White Way and beyond united at Avenues: The World School in New York City to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Broadway in South Africa. The organization teams up youth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PMStars from the Great White Way and beyond united at Avenues: The World School in New York City to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Broadway in South Africa. The organization teams up youth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:58PM"The clock is ticking," is not necessarily a phrase a feminist writer likes to hear, but when discussing the upcoming production of <em>'night, Mother</em>, an exceptio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55PM"The clock is ticking," is not necessarily a phrase a feminist writer likes to hear, but when discussing the upcoming production of 'night, Mother, an exception can be made. In thi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55PMSee a whole new side of The Silence of the Lambs with the very smart and hilarious parody SILENCE! The Musical at the Elektra Theatre.
SOURCE: ny-offers.timeout.com at 01:54PMAmerican Idol star, Clay Aiken, will be returning to the stage as 'Man in Chair' in North Carolina Theatre's production of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE along with Tony-Award winner, Beth Leavel, who…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PM(This post is a part of the Diversity & Inclusion blog salon led by Online Curator Jacqueline E. Lawton for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas. This post wa…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:50PMNominees have been announced for the 31st Annual Fred amp Adele Astaire Awards taking place on Monday, June 3 at 730pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Selec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMTom Wells' Jumpers for Goalposts, which premiered at Watford Palace Theatre in April, will embark on a U.K. tour, culminating in a run at London's Bush Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMPreston Manor, BrightonStep through the door of Brighton's Preston Manor and you step into a lost world. The house, with a history stretching back to the Domesday Book, was last occupie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMThe New-York Historical Society will honor musical theatre education supporters Myrna and Freddie Gershon during the May 20 American Musicals Project Benefit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMBroadway.com’s sizzling hot video features offer something for everyone, and the week of May 1 through May 7 was no exception: Fan favorite Darren Criss made a surprise appearance on S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:34PMHenry Winkler will return to the U.K. stage to reprise the role of Captain Hook in a pantomime version of Peter Pan that he has previously played in four seasons across the U.K. from 2006-09…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMIt took 10 years – and 9/11 – for Ayad Akhtar to realise what he needed to write about. As his play Disgraced comes to London, he reveals all Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMIt took 10 years – and 9/11 – for Ayad Akhtar to realise what he needed to write about. As his play Disgraced comes to London, he reveals allThere are some people you interview you feel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMChronic underinvestment in historic West End theatres should be investigated by the government as a “matter of urgency”, according to a report looking into the problems affecting the e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22PMThe curtain is almost up on the final show of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2012-13 season, Steven Levenson’s world premiere drama The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:21PM“Pippin,” just revived on Broadway after 40 years, and a smash hit, is going to the movies. Harvey Weinstein, unbeknownst to anyone, has owned the right for the last ten years. (…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:21PMPreston Manor, Brighton: "You'll die in hospital with wires all over you," says Peter Reder, looking us each in the eye as we stand around a four-poster in the bedroom where L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PM By Alix Cohen May 19th Help Is On The Way Today, a non-profit that assists children and youth living with HIV/AIDS, will honor Peter Leavy with the “Cabaret Cares Rut…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:17PM(Photo of Danza Abierta by T. Charles Erickson. This post is part of a series reporting back from TCG’s Cuba Exploratorium for World Theatre Day). Between a nasty respiratory virus th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:14PMHosted by Paula Zahn and under the baton of music director Steven Reineke, the New York Pops celebrated their 30th anniversary with a gala performance featuring Broadway stars of today celeb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMNikolai 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 01:11PMA small band of misfits, thrown together in one man’s shabby rooming-house abode, makes desperate swipes at connection in “Almost Blue,” an absorbing thriller now playing in a Theatre …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:10PMVariety reports that Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Jane Birkin and Dominique Pinon are set to star in the comedy drama MY OLD LADY. The project will be a big screen adaptation of the stage pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMMidtown Direct Rep will present a reading of the play Imaginary Love by Kait Kerrigan as part of Midtown Direct Rep's recently launched play development series focused on new and innovative …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
Jenna Fischer (The Office), Leslie Bibb (GCB), Josh Hamilton (Dead Accounts), Frederick Weller (Still Life), the full cast of Neil LaBute's new play, Reasons to Be Happy, gathered to m
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMThe 2013 Honorees for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance, the 5th Annual Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater for an Outstanding Performance in a Broadway o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMThirteen years after its world premiere, glory|struck productions will present the Los Angeles return of the Damon Intrabartolo-Jon Hartmere pop opera bare, reviving the material for the fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMInside Richard Greenberg’s 10th visit to the same theatre By now, it’s hard to imagine Manhattan Theatre Club without playwright Richard Greenberg. After all, his Tony-nominated …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:51PMA sizzling performance from Bad Taste Cru was among the highlights of this annual explosion of popular dance, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:46PMThe 2013 Theatre World Awards, which recognize outstanding Broadway and off-Broadway debut performances, have announced their recipients. The awards will be presented by Peter Filichia at a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMAaron Tveit is in the midst of a concert series at 54 BELOW, which continues Thursday, May 9th at 930pm, Friday, May 10th at 1100pm, Saturday, May 11th at 1100pm, Friday, May 17th at 1100pm …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will celebrate the theater's past, present and future at its 45th Anniversar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMThe legit awards season has barely begun, but Tony nominee Tom Hanks has already notched one trophy to take home with him once his toplining stint in Broadway play “Lucky Guy” en…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:40PMHeroines was the theme of Playwrights Horizons annual spring gala benefit. The event was a celebration of the company's long history of work with many of today's most celebrated female playw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMLast night, Tony Award-nominated playwright Richard Nelson celebrated the world premiere opening of his new play, Nikolai and the Others, at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMThe recent, glowing obituaries of Roger Ebert raise the question in my mind about what makes a good critic, which Ebert hardly was. What gives the question some importance is the possible in…
SOURCE: John Simon at 12:33PMAlex Johnson simply wanted to direct a Tennessee Williams one-act play last year when 'suddenly a festival was happening,' and she was producing it
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:33PMNominations have been announced for the 31st Annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film. The ceremony will be held June 3 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMThe Peccadillo Theater Company will present the first major NYC revival of Sidney Howard's 1926 play THE SILVER CORD this summer, directed by OBIE Award winner Dan Wackerman. Performances ar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMChoreographer Peter Schaufuss’s Hamlet, which was due to run at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London later this month, has been cancelled. A spokeswoman for the show confirmed that “due to t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMNatalie Wilson, Theatre Centre’s Artistic Director, gives AYT an idea of what to expect from its forthcoming conference… On 20 June, Theatre Centre will host Write Lines, a conferenc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PMWinners of the 69th annual Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or off-Broadway debut performances during the 2012-2013 theatrical season have been announced. The Theatre World Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:27PMWinners of the 69th annual Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or off-Broadway debut performances during the 2012-2013 theatrical season have been announced. The Theatre World Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:27PMThe 2013 Theatre World Award Winners for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance during the 2012-2013 theatrical season have been announced! The ceremony will take place on Mo…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 12:27PMBertie Carvel, Laura Osnes, Sierra Boggess, Aaron Tveit, Billy Porter, Alan Cumming and many more were on hand May 5 at the 13th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, "the only ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMI don't understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:23PMClassic Stage Company, led by Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will celebrate the theater's past, present, and future this Friday, May 10, in its 45th Anniv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMWhen a play gets six Tony nominations, the celebs start coming, and that’s certainly the case with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. On May 3, comedy icon Joan Rivers and 1950s movi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMMay is inevitably one of the busiest times of year on the Latin, gospel, and R&B concert calendars as promoters hold Mother’s Day’s events and try to lure audiences indoors one last …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18PMBilly Porter, Patina Miller, Rob McClure and Laura Osnes are among the nominees for the 31st Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which will be presented June 3 at the Skirball Center for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMNEW YORK — A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill.Tambi …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:16PMVariety reports that Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Jane Birkin and Dominique Pinon are set to star in the comedy drama MY OLD LADY. The project will be a big screen adaptation of the stage play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMTony winner Sutton Foster is officially back in New York, headlining a solo concert at the Cafe Carlyle. The Broadway favorite is slated to play the legendary cabaret venue from September 10…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMRational, enlightened, modern man that I am, I certainly ain’t afraid of no ghosts. But a good ghost story should chill your bones whatever your beliefs. The Ghost Hunter, at The Old Red L…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:11PMTheatre World's 2013 honorees for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance, the Fifth Annual Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater for an Outstanding Performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMExtending 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 12:02PMThe 2013 Theatre World Award winners, given to 12 performers making their Broadway (or Off-Broadway) debuts are: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Carrie Coon, Edward Albee’s Who’s Af…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMThe title of The Play That Goes Wrong is a knowing wink to the audience from a company which gets everything right. Whodunnit? Who cares when it is this funny? Charles Haversham has been fou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:00PMNEW YORK (AP) — A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill.&n…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 4302013 - 572013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMKeala Settle, a 2013 Tony Award nominee for her performance as big-hearted and big-voiced Texan Norma Valverde, confessed that bringing down the house at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II" with powerful skill…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:58AMClassic Stage Company will celebrate its 45th Anniversary Bash at the Edison Ballroom May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonMatthew Prospect, eldest son of a Bermondsey clan, has always been a runner. Coached and bullied by his dad, his athleticism got him signed for Millwall f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMRuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon is storming into the New York theater scene. The Season 5 champion will make her off-Broadway debut in The Vaudevillians, a new musical comedy c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:49AMLocal theatres must engage with their communities through education and participatory initiatives, thereby creating an army of advocates governments can't ignoreIs the conversation around ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMYou know you’ve made it when you get immortalized by Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson, and the stars who participated in the 2013 Broadway.com Audienc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMTom Hanks is Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy: Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy with Tom Hanks is worth the hype.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:43AMJust as William Shakespeare did with his history plays, Friedrich Schiller did with Mary Stuart and others have done...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42AMReed Birney and Susan Kelechi Watson; Photo credit: Ben AronsI went to see Core Values at Ars Nova this weekend because I will see Reed Birney in anything. I can now add Erin Wilhemi, S…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:42AMJay Manuel, known for appearing on television's "America's Next Top Model," hosted The Broadway in South Africa 5th Anniversary Celebration, which is held May 6 at Ave…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMMatilda or Miss Trunchbull?: I never read other reviews before I write mine but a friend insisted I read the New York Times Review.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:34AMThe members of Boston Ballet's Next Generation - Photo: Igor Burlak.There is one dance season event I always look forward to - Boston Ballet's "Next Generation" performance, which showcases …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMBERLIN (AP) — A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" is causing a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and members of a fa…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:31AMThe performance lineup has been announced for ANT Fest, Ars Nova's sixth annual festival of "All New Talent."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMAn End To Radio SilenceWell, that was a very unpleasant two weeks. Usually when I lapse in my blogging like that it's due to travel. No such luck. I was in fact sick. A nasty cold similar to…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:30AMThe show: "Looped" at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMI was in search of a place where I would be surrounded by nurturing and supportive women where together we could create and share our stories free of fear and judgement. When I could not fin…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:15AMOff-Broadway theatre company Playwrights Horizons held its annual spring gala May 6 at the event space 583 Park Avenue. Tony Award winners LaChanze and Shuler Hensley as well as Tony nominee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM(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). It’s 9pm. Truth be told, I am torn betw…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:12AMIn the capable hands of director Jay Irwin, the story of four adult men with various mental disabilities and their devoted but exasperated social worker comes through as the tender valentine…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMLincoln Center Theater presents Betsy Aidem, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Anthony Cochrane, Lauren Culpepper, Alvin Epstein, Kathryn Erbe, John Glover, Jennifer B. Grace, Katie Kreisler, S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMAs someone who loves to connect, I receive and give a lot of introductions via email. Sometimes the intros are fantastic and other times, they have been awkward or a waste of time for both p…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 11:09AMStudio Theatre, Brighton Dome, Brighton: What does it feel like to live with the mystery of a missing loved one? Is a body, in some ways, better? It's hard to imagine a more simple yet …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AM Please Join Us For the FREE Chain of Fools Launch Event Wednesday, May 22, 7-9 pm at the Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave, Willismaburg Brooklyn Trav S.D. launches his new book…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:04AMRobert Johnson was arguably the greatest blues guitarist to ever roam the South or anywhere on this good earth. In fact, most folks don’t argue that he’s the best. Rather they argue abou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMAsk Sam: Those Creative Types: Award shows like the Tony Awards celebrate the stars of our beloved Broadway.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:03AMRemember that time Mamma Mia announced they were moving down the block (and it caused that big traffic jam for those producers out there hunting for theaters?) Well we now know that the musc…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Finally got my hands on a rarity last weekend. Long about 1935, when the smoke cleared from Buster Keaton’s final blow-up with MGM and no other studios were stepping in to sign him up,…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:59AMThe Memory Show or The Things We Do Not Say: As one season ends another begins. The Memory Show is sure to be a contender on next year’s lists for best musical.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:59AMSalgado Productions just presented the first staged reading of Carlos Mendoza's 'Valencia' musical at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater as part of the 2013 Playwrights Unit Festival of Read…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMCan Megan Hilty and Aaron Lazar Can-Can? Find out on July 15, 16 and 17, when the stars will lead a new staged reading of the 1953 Cole Porter and Abe Burrows musical in New York City. Featu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMCan Megan Hilty and Aaron Lazar Can-Can? Find out on July 15, 16 and 17, when the stars will lead a new staged reading of the 1953 Cole Porter and Abe Burrows musical in New York City. Featu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMRich Cotovsky, the veteran artistic director of the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company on Chicago's North Side, is to receive a special Joseph Jefferson Award at the upcoming Non-Equity Jeffs awar…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:53AMBroadway is coming to Los Angeles this summer, giving local musical theater actors the chance to take the stage in productions ranging from a rock musical to a Prohibition-era crime satire t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:50AMBroadway dancer-choreographer Noah Racey will premiere his new show Pulse, staged by two-time Tony Award nominee Jeff Calhoun, beginning May 23 at Florida's Asolo Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMBroadway’s Tony contenders have yet to experience the typical box-office boost following last week's nominations.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMCasting has been announced for The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming revival of Sidney Howard’s 1926 play The Silver Cord, which will begin performances June 5 at Theatre at S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMReason #4: Ain’t No Party Like a Texas Party… Those of you who’ve been to conferences past know that Friday’s Late-Night party, traditionally hosted by our local Host Committee, is t…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:41AMLONDON — Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Jane Birkin and Dominique Pinon are set to topline in “My Old Lady,” a Paris-based dramatic comedy marking the feature film directorial …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38AMJohn Tiffany will direct the National Theatre of Scotland and Marla Rubin Productions's stage version of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN at Dundee Rep Theatre, opening June 8, and running through June …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMUPDATE: May 7, 2013—Producer Jonathan Burrows has announced that Drama Desk Award nominees Megan Hilty (Smash, 9 to 5) and Aaron Lazar (A Little Night Music) will star in a staged reading …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMDue to overwhelming critical and popular response, The Studio Theatre has extended Amy Herzog’s compassionate and unsentimental drama 4000 Miles a third, and final, time. The company h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMTwo-time Tony winner Sutton Foster, most recently on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes, will kick off the fall season at the Café Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMFirst and foremost: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens is a very, very long novel and play, and is filled with some difficult Dickensian language, numerous plot…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMThe Washington National Opera’s new production of Show Boat, the 1927 musical, opened only a few weeks after the release of “Accidental Racist,” the misbegotten country-rap duet in whi…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:22AMTime-Lapse | Earth from Bruce W. Berry Jr on Vimeo.I never tire of looking at the Earth. Particularly from space. If I were younger, stronger, and quite a bit richer, I'd be in l…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22AMVariety reports exclusively that Megan Hilty and Aaron Lazar are set to star in an industry-only staged reading of the Cole Porter 1953 musical CAN CAN. The event will take place in New York…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMThe London theater scene is taking on a decidedly American tone: Playwrights from Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill to David Mamet, Stephen Sondheim and Annie Baker are among the names…
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 10:20AMA documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his friend Johnny Dark will appear in the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 15-26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMWHO: RWS and Associates POSITION TITLE: Social Media PA DESCRIPTION: RWS and Associates is an Emmy Award Winning Entertainment Production Company based in New York City. We are currently se…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:15AMThe Poof Downstairs was, well, downstairs in the Visy Theatre at the Brisbane Powerhouse, oddly surrounded by a photography exhibition of middle aged lesbians going about their daily lives. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:13AMThe new off-Broadway drama Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) officially opens on May 7 at the Public Theater. Written and directed by avant-garde theater pioneer Richard Foreman, th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:07AMLike Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s Passing Strange, The Lisps’ Futurity features the band that wrote the show onstage performing the show, and as such it provided Exhibit A—literally, as i…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:00AM
Things are getting steamy at the Union Square Theatre! Murder Ballad, starring Caissie Levy, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Tony nominees Will Swenson and John Ellison Conlee, begins performances o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:59AMThe mythmakers at Constellation Theatre Company, who previously produced The Ramayana, The Green Bird, and Metamorphoses, have now gone after the world’s oldest story. Gilgamesh, the a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AMBroadway Musicals; A Jewish Legacy is a must see for two reasons. First, it features interviews with some of the most prolific musical theater composers and lyricists ever to set pen to pa…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:56AMDeaths threats to comedian prompt calls for nationalists to raise the tone. Plus, Fringe gets new venue and Trump takes revengeThis week's comedy newsAnd this week – a comedian influences …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMNikolai 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, opened Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMHelen Mirren's castigation of a group of drummers on Saturday (see video below) has made headlines round the world, prompting an outpouring of responses from the online community.Mirren appe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:47AMThe stars dazzled on the last night's red carpet for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala benefit in honor of the museum's latest exhibit, PUNK Chaos to Cout…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMIan Kelly has been awarded this year’s Theatre Book Prize for his biography of playwright Samuel Foote. He was presented with the prize for his book, Mr Foote’s Other Leg, at the London …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AMPaines Plough’s production of Tom Wells’ new play Jumpers for Goalposts is transferring to the Bush Theatre in November following a national tour.
The production marks a return t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:39AMBERLIN (AP) — A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" has caused a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and a family having…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:36AMThe Media Theatre's production of the classic musical 'Mame' is currently playing through May 19. The show stars legendary Tony nominee Andrea McArdle in the title role. Jesse Clinedirects t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMGod’s in his heaven, All’s right with the world – Browning, Pippa Passes Today is the birthday of the poet Robert Browning (1812-1889). Though he never knew it, Brownin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:34AMTickets to the 2013 Tony Awards, which will be held June 9 at Radio City Music Hall, are now on sale to the general public.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMBelow, BWW gives you a first look at all-new production shots of Cheyenne Jackson in HBO's upcoming biopic BEHIND THE CANDELABRA. The film, premiering May 26th, stars Michael Douglas as Libe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20AMMy View written by Stephen Sorokoff If the walls of the Friars Club could tell their stories, the history of show business would come to life. Luckily this history is accurately retold and…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:13AMMegan Hilty of "SMASH" & Wicked
© Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images...Read Full Post
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:12AMAs previously reported, a staged reading of the Cole Porter classic Can-Can will be presented in Manhattan in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AMTweetIf we all remember the movie version, we fell in love with the theme song sung by Madonna for one of the Austin Powers movies and the video of her riding in his car singing. She then …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 09:01AMMegan Hilty and Aaron Lazar have been tapped to star in a staged reading this summer of “Can-Can,” the Cole Porter tuner gearing up for a Broadway revival helmed by TV vet David Lee. A t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMZach Braff is trying to raise money on Kickstarter to fund a movie he wants to make. Zach Braff is a good actor and a fine filmmaker. GARDEN STATE was a terrific movie. But I wouldn’t …
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 09:00AM
The Finborough Theatre will stage three revivals of plays from the 1980s this summer, in response to the recent death of Margaret Thatcher.
The season opens with the first London performanc…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:58AMA major star of the post-Diaghilev Ballets Russes, he was celebrated for his romantic rolesFrederic Franklin, who has died aged 98, was one of the best loved figures in the dance world. Alwa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AMSince the first series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, a new wave of dance shows has hit theatres across the UK. Here, we look at the current crop of shows that can attribute the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:55AM By Paulanne Simmons From the moment Jessica Walker, dressed in top hat and tails, walks on stage and announces “Good evening. Very early in my career, I realized that …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:46AMProduction images have been released for David Leveaux's revival of Peter Nichols' Passion Play, which opens at the Duke of York's Theatre tonight (7 May 2013).
Oliver Cotton (Jim), Samant…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:24AMNEW YORK (AP) — Cinderella wasn't sure where her prince was. She could hear her stepmother, but they couldn't see each other. And her fairy godmother? Waiting in a hallway in jeans. &…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:17AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Cinderella wasn't sure where her prince was. She could hear her stepmother, but they couldn't see each other. And her fairy godmother? Waiting in a hallway in jeans....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:15AMJeff AugustinHometown: Miami, FL Current Town: La Jolla, CA (For only another year. Currently in grad school at UCSD) Q: What are you working on now?
A: I’m working on two pla…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:06AMThe actor plays Lady Macbeth in a scene from this new version of Shakespeare’s tragedy on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
The Tony Season has officially begun. Last week’s announcement of the nominees in twenty-six competitive categories set off an avalanche of opinion, prediction and bragging that will c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AMWhile reading Andre Maurois' "Climates" you feel your world narrowing in uncomfortable ways.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:52AMI feel I’ve had to do almost as much research as the actors who perform in the Lincoln Center Theatre’s production of Richard Nelson’s Nikolai and the Others. That’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:25AMYvonne Arnaud, Guildford: On one side of the stage, Morgan Deare as Billy Glason lectures us on Las Vegas slot machines. He's there to try to sell jokes to Tommy Cooper, without much su…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMDame Helen Mirren has admitted being "more Duke of Edinburgh than the Queen" when she scolded a group of street drummers outside a London theatre.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18AMThere's nothing wrong with The Play that Goes Wrong, which has transferred to Trafalgar Studios following its run at the Old Red Lion. This is effortless slapstick that Keaton and Chaplin wo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:17AMThe Broadway production of Matilda has been named best musical of the 2012/13 theatre season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. The NYDCC also named Christopher Durang’s come…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMIvannow Wladislaus von Dziarski-Orloff (1864-1904) was billed (among other things) as the Transparent Man, or the Human Window Pane. In addition to completely atrophied limbs, he had skin yo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:09AM
If you’re too ADHD to make a habit of seeing Shakespeare on the stage, there’s now a special show for you. The We Happy Few DC theatre company has bought a rollicking, movement-based, ce…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AMToday is the birthday of Joe Fox (Joseph Monahan, 1852-?) With William H. Ward (1852-?) he formed minstrelsy’s longest-lasting duo. Having started in Cincinnati in 1868, they were stil…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:50AMVarious venues, Halesworth, Suffolk: The HighTide Festival, held in a picturesque corner of Suffolk, is now in its seventh year. With a focus on new writing and the championing of emerging p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMJohn Tiffany, currently represented on Broadway by his productions of Once (also West End) and Macbeth, is to direct the U.K. premiere of Let the Right One In, a new stage adaptation by Jack…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41AMBrighton Dome: Following the success of his previous show, iD, Cirque Eloize CEO/artistic director Jeannot Painchaud now teams with Dave St-Pierre - whose dazzling choreography lends everyth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThe Albany, London: Bola Agbaje's engaging play about faith and family has a tendency to swing between outright comedy and something more questioning, never quite settling on a tone of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMWhile billed as a comedy this new play explores a serious and timely theme, the effect of a drastically changing workplace on American enterprise and on the lives of both its employers and w…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:32AMLakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham: New Perspectives have an unerring instinct for what will strike a chord with the rural audiences into which the company takes its high quality theatre. Bren…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AM
Arts Council England (ACE) has published an independent report claiming that the arts and culture sector provides a "significant return" on the government subsidy it receives.
The report, c…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:44AMArts Council England has published the findings of an independent report claiming that the arts and culture sector accounts for 0.4% of gross domestic product, with £5.9 billion worth of gr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AMThe Olivier Awards are always an exciting time for the theatre community and there was great anticipation as ITV were showing highlights of the award ceremony, the first time they have been …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMWhen he played Falstaff at the Globe, and the weather turned nasty, Roger Allam sidestepped nimbly into a bit of King Lear (“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks…you cataracts and hurrican…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:41AMAngelin Preljocaj’s new dance version of Arabian Nights rushes headlong into the sexist soft porn clichés it was previously sneering at, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:35AMThere have been so many advances in the use of puppetry and music in mainstream theatre recently that it's slightly disappointing to find the dear little Polka Theatre still using cut-out ca…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:27AMSamantha Bond stars opposite Zoe Wanamaker, Owen Teale, Annabel Scholey and Oliver Cotton in David Leveaux's revival of Peter Nichols' Passion Play, which opens at the West End's Duke of Yor…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:05AMWell, the second day AYT spent at Gateshead International Festival of Theatre certainly lived up to the first. Sunday was the last day of the festival and, just like the others, was jam pack…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00AM
Decadence is glamorous. This holds true in depictions of the decline of the Roman Empire, the gin-fueled Roaring Twenties, and in Quintessence Theatre Group's slick, sumptuous production of …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMMURDER 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 tonight, May 7 at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMGhostlight Records will present the Original Broadway Cast Recording of RODGERS HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella with a digital release today, May 7 and the CD in stores on June 4.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMinutes after two bombs detonated April 15 at the Boston Marathon, hundreds of images of injury, chaos and terror began circulating on the Internet and television.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15AMBROADWAY BOX OFFICEWEEKS 45 and 462012 - 2013 SEASONThe NanceWEEK 45: APRIL 1 - 7:I'll Eat You Last played 3 preview performancesJekyll and Hyde played 5 preview performancesKinky Boots…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 01:15AMA group of British teens hang out in their school library, discussing Skittles as a lunch choice, worrying about which university they’ll attend in the fall, talking about the music they�…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:12AMIt’s not fun being the newbie at a party where the other guests already know each other. You watch them chat about their jobs, laugh at old anecdotes, exchange updates about relationships …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:02AMFrom 2006: One of my mother's most treasured heirlooms is a copy of the second edition of Our Baby's First...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"He who is everywhere is nowhere." Seneca, Epistles...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMJason Derulo's Tips to Getting to "The Other Side"
It's reunion time at the Studio when our good friend Jason Derulo returns to pay us a visit and get us caught up on his big comeback follow…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMSarah Jessica Parker & iJustine at the AOL New Fronts
We are at the AOL New Fronts event in NYC where the topic of conversation is online digital content and what it takes to be a viral sens…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Adventure Theatre MTC presents the world premiere of Big Nate, The Musical, based on the comic strip and books by Lincoln Peirce, with Book by Jason Loewith, Lyrics by Christopher Youstra an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46AMThe accents are unimprovable (but not always comprehensible), the casting well-targeted and the pace brisk enough, considering the overlong second act that seems to be desperate for an endin…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:33AMIn keeping with my latest trend of being asked to write stuff really, really quickly and then immediately present it to an audience – see last post about the Instant Play that I helped…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:19AMThe Goldilocks ConundrumValerie Cardinal@vscardinalSome time ago in this column, I discussed the issue of length of reviews. In the end, I concluded that reviews work in any length; it all d…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMSolo-FlecksThe Fringe has changed a formby Gaëtan L. CharleboisIt began with this article and one quote from it. "Don't be afraid of doing a real play. They are a nice break from all the on…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMAnnaleigh Ashford, a 2013 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Kinky Boots, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, May 6, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AM"American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken, who was seen on Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot, plays Man in Chair in North Carolina Theatre's production of the award-winning mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy," which was previously broadcast on PBS stations around the country, debuts on DVD with bonus features May 7 from Athena.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe original Broadway cast recording of Cinderella, the new Rodgers and Hammerstein production starring Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana and Victoria Clark, is released digitally May 7 from Ghos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Critics' Circle, the U.K.’s only professional association of critics of drama, music, film, dance and visual arts, is celebrating its centenary in 2013 by awarding Services to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar is released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMurder Ballad, the new musical that played an acclaimed, sold-out engagement at Manhattan Theatre Club's The Studio at Stage II, transfers to the Union Square Theatre beginning May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe show: "The Dining Room" at Westport Country Playhouse
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM 
