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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:44PMLOUIS-AND-ELLA, a new jazzical by Trent Armand Kendall reunites The Architect of Jazz and The First Lady of Song for one magical night and will receive a developmental table reading Thursday…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41PMThe First Broadway/Off-Broadway Award Nominees of the Season! “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” Heads the List with 11 Nominations Followed by 8 for “Aladdin,” 7 fo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:28PM“Paul Robeson,” which starred James Earl Jones and opened on Broadway in 1978, was considered by black intellectuals to be insufficiently complex and eventually derailed the writer’s c…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMThe cult rock musical Hedwig And The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask returns to New York with a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:05PMNeil Patrick Harris stars in the Broadway debut of this cult-classic rock musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMTwo people – a man and a woman – in love, in lust or just lost in the space in between?
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UNBEREAVABLE Bekah Brunstetter’s Be a Good Little Widow is awash with structural issues (ambiguous timeline, disconnected scenes), trite themes and relationships, and a refusal to penetrat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:24PMBy fadeout, the actor has given an indelible portrayal of someone mustering the courage not only to drop his gaudy garments but to drop his guard as well.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:17PMAt this point, violinist Xiang Yu sounds like a mature artist ready to commence a major career.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05PMThose of us who first saw Neil Patrick Harris as TV’s precocious young medic, Doogie Howser, could hardly have imagined his greatest artistic triumph might come from portraying an embitter…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:04PMTransformation is tricky, sometimes even painful. But Broadway’s sensational “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” starring a kick-ass Neil Patrick Harris is a reminder that change doesn’t hav…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM“Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” about a transgendered performer with issues, stars Neil Patrick Harris in the title role.
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Geva Theatre Center' 41st Mainstage Season concludes with Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. Directed by John Miller-Stephany, and with a cast led by Tony Award- winner Michael McGrath and Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33PMSpanning a career of four decades, the tumultuous life of the enigmatic Christine McVie is coming to Glen Street Theatre told in 80 music-packed minutes. Go Your Own Way, the acclaimed ca…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMRanee Ramaswamy and Emily Johnson stunned at news of $275,000 awards.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 09:27PMNEW YORK (AP) -- It's obvious from the first moments of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" that star Neil Patrick Harris is doing something special. And it's not just trying on a new role....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:01PMJon Robin Baitz' story is re-told at Second Stage this spring. I didn't know at the time but it was previously a movie in 1996 with a great cast (Sarah Jessica Parker, Ron Rifkin, Timo…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:01PMHarris channels Iggy Pop and Lou Reed by way of the Ramones, not to mention his inner Rockette, in this spectacular revival of the 1998 musical.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMOpera Australia and John Frost’s production of The King and I opened in Brisbane last weekend, marking the professional music theatre debut of many up-and-coming performers. Aussie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMNeil Patrick Harris reigns as the transgender East Berlin rocker who lands on the New York stage via a Kansas trailer park in John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's cult musical.read more
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David Javerbaum, the former head writer on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” — he co-wrote the musical “Cry- Baby,” too — collaborated with God on His memoir last year,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PMSometimes you wonder if there’s anything Neil Patrick Harris can’t do: He switches from “How I Met Your Mother” to singing Sondheim on Broadway, directing a magic show to hosting...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:37PMCreating a Broadway musical is risky business, but two shows this season, "After Midnight" and "Violet," eased the challenge by following the path set by the Tony Award-winning "Chicago": Th…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:33PMNeil Patrick Harris returns to Broadway in the new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMActor-director, who's 'obsessed by Shakespeare,' doing one-night solo show as rehearsals for new musical 'Dog and Pony' begin.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:29PM“You guys, we’re all going to cry tonight, clap louder than that,” says Danielle Puterbaugh at a special “Entertaining Julia” at the Town Hall Pub on Sunday. Sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:18PM For Richard Alfieri’s Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the Laguna Playhouse has cast French film actress, dancer and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award, British Film and Golden Glob…
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 08:14PMThe Tony host and sitcom star is the reigning king and queen of Broadway, thanks to a dazzling turn as the transgendered East German rock star.
SOURCE: NBC New York at 08:05PMI like anonymity, so I cringed at the prospect of being portrayed on stage in work detailing Edward Snowden storyI was glad of the dark at the Donmar, apprehensive about coming face to face …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMThe art world loves the star attention the actor brings so much so that it accepts his ‘art’ without much scrutiny. In his new exhibit, though, Franco goes a step too far.
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 08:01PMIn the video below, the writers of MURDER FOR TWO plays one of the songs they absolutely wrote from the new Broadway hit, Hedwig and The Angry Inch
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Transitioning from child star to adult gay icon, sitcom prince and social-media wizard, Neil Patrick Harris always seemed to be a cultural rock star. But in his latest reinvention, it turns …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:53PMAll of Broadway's biggest stars aligned at the Booth Theatre last night to celebrate opening night ofThe Velocity of Autumn, a 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble. BroadwayWorld's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJames Graham's new play under the direction of Josie Rourke is rich and adrenalin-fuelled but lacks a real intellectual tussleJames Graham's new play deals with the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34PMThe Broadway premiere of the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, opened on Broadway April 22 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29PMThe Helen Hayes Awards found a new home and a new format this year: Making the ceremony a continuous cocktail party from seven to midnight, punctuated by three “acts” of awards p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28PMThe Broadway premiere of the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, opened on Broadway April 22 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:15PMThe Spring Issue of Arts Presenters’ Inside the Arts is out. When I first got the hard copy version, I quickly scanned through to see if there was any mention of my former colleague, L…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:06PMThe event raised more than $4.5 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
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The limited engagement of Hedwig and The Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris and featuring Lena Hall (Kinky Boots, lead singer of The Deafening), opens Tuesday, April 22 at BroadwayR…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:57PMRita Wilson and My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos headed into the cellar this week with star Christopher J. Hanke and playwright Jonathan Tolins at the smash hit comedy and 2014 Luc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMDress it up with all the denim, fake fur, fishnets, and sequins you like, a second-rate talent shouldn't fit easily into a first-rate house.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMAs New York's museums are once again starting to present dance performances, choreographers are finding that they are not easy spaces to adapt to.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:45PMIT KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE. IT TELLS A LOT OF PEOPLE. An artful cloud of insecurity surrounds James Graham’s new, mainly verbatim, play about the reckless modern surrender of privacy…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:28PMI’ve been flying to Charlotte a couple of times a month since the beginning of the year for my day job. Sometimes I’d scan the performing arts listings of Creative Loafing, their equiv…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:28PMThe celebrated Tony-nominated costume designer Carrie Robbins Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS, GREASE, OVER HERE, who has designed over 30 Broadway productions, turns playwright this spring …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMAll of Broadway's biggest stars aligned at the Booth Theatre last night to celebrate opening night of The Velocity of Autumn, a 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble. BroadwayWorld'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMThe late theater titan Moss Hart is in the spotlight in the new Broadway play "Act One," a work based on Hart's autobiography of the same name.
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:18PMWelcome to the first episode of Vlogger 24601, a look backstage at Les Miserables with Broadway's Jean Valjean, Ramin Karimloo. This first episode has it all: masks, puppets and Ramin se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:13PMTenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Myra Huang are a superb duo, easily providing one of the highlights of this year's concert season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:00PMRintoul and members of the cast discuss their rehearsal process so far in this exclusive video for WhatsOnStage
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:00PMHow careless are we about the details of our private life? Well, unsurprisingly the answer is “very”. To make this point, playwright James Graham explores the subject not only by means o…
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The 28th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, which featured a host of stars including Idina Menzel, Denzel Washington, Bryan Cranston and Fran Drescher, raised a record-breaking $4,532,129 for…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Boneau/Bryan-Brown Congratulates Our 2013-2014 O…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:58PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of CASA VALENTINA, the play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello is now in previews fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMBy Jonathan Mandell. The most prolifically produced living playwright in New York this season lives in Texas. I saw five works of theater by Kirk Lynn in four different New York venues over …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:47PMThe first National Tour of Motown The Musical begins performances tonight at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago before continuing to cities across the country. Motown The Musical is scheduled…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:47PMEarlier today, Broadway veterans shared the stage with celebrated newcomers as Bryan Cranston, Fran Drescher, James Franco, Idina Menzel, Denzel Washington and more than 200 of Broadway and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMShame on you! You bunch of heathens, rogues and ruffians you! You roughed poor Jimmy but good! The image of the LA Theater Community – or ANY theater community for that matter – …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:36PMRebel Wilson has just tweeted a first look at PITCH PERFECT 2 rehearsals featuring Brittany Snow, directorstar Elizabeth Banks and moreKay Cannon is also returning to pen the script. Check o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMNeil Patrick Harris stars as an “internationally ignored” East German transgender rock singer in the first Broadway production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PMBy Sara Guerrero. The project’s success has been due to a number of factors, including (but not limited to): playwright-in-residence José Cruz González, someone I have looked up to since…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:34PMEarlier this afternoon, Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey joined The Leonard Lopate Show's guest host Anna Sale to talk about his roles as RICHARD III on stage, Frank Underwood in HOUSE OF CA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMWarning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'insertThumbnailRSS' was given in /home/content/52/9380252/html/wp-includ…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:25PMJust last week, James Franco was making headlines for speaking out against New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, because of negative remarks in his review of Of Mice and Men. Now, anot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20PMThe 28th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised an all-time record $4,532,129 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals. That total eclipsed the $4.25 m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMNever underestimate Harvey Fierstein's gift for revealing new worlds within worlds we think we know well.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:17PMSpacey, who was joined by actors from both the international stage show and the Netflix series, also revealed why he wanted to self-distribute the documentary.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:16PMTonight. She returns. Tonight I wish I was in New York. Tonight. And of course in this share-everything-news-as-it-happens world, I absolutely loved reading this as an actual “newsR…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:15PMTOP QUALITY NONSENSE Light as a feather, puffy and sweet as a puffed meringue, this is where complete nonsense meets consummate skill. Not surprising: it is an adaptation of an 1892 Feydeau …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:12PMMCC THEATER will present Greta Gerwig, Max Baker, Jason Butler Harner, Lucy Owen, Cara Seymour, and Scott Shepherd in the American premiere of Penelope Skinner's celebrated play The Village …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:08PMFor its season finale, WestCoast Black Theatre Troupe (WBTT) is presenting Bubbling Brown Sugar by Loften Mitchell, a revue that attempts an overview of American black music circa 1920-1940s.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:06PMRocky star Andy Karl brings us into the world of Rocky Balboa and the three muses that inspire his acclaimed Broadway performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 05:03PMIn the video below, the writers of MURDER FOR TWO as they play you one of the songs they definitely wrote from the new Broadway hit, The Velocity of Autumn. Check it out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMJames Graham's Privacy makes light work of its weighty subject matter, says Charles Spencer
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 05:00PMSome Enchanted Evening! South Pacific, which features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, is now in performan…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 05:00PMBroadway's favorite webseries, 'Submissions Only,' is back for its star-studded third season Below, we are excited to bring you a trailer for Episode 5, which premieres on Monday, April 28.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMSticking with the tried and tested might have its benefits, but a week at the National Student Drama Festival demonstrates the thrill of uncovering new talent
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00PMHand to God playwright Robert Askins will bring a new comedy to the off-Broadway theater as well.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMBelasco theatre, New YorkThe Doogie Howser star dons kinky boots for a revival of the libidinous musical about an East German 'girly boy' rockerPlays based on philosophical symposia don't co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMA series of special events will take place during Jazz Appreciation Month.
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Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for an inaugural filmed Conversations QampA series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMAfter Midnight, Broadway's smash hit Cotton Club musical, and recent 5-time Outer Critic Circle 2014 nominee, will celebrate Duke Ellington's birthday April 29 and Jazz Appreciation Month wi…
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:55PMMelissa Errico previews her 54 Below show, At the Corner of 54th & Crazy, running April 22, 24 & 26 at Broadway's supper club.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:52PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:51PMIn my previous life, I was a nonprofit leader myself.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:47PMThis article is about The Alexander Technique and how it can be used in everyday life (by Betsy Polatin, author of The Actor's Secret).
Betsy Polatin is a movement specialist with four de…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:46PMPlaybill.com offers a behind-the-scenes look at opening night of Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMIt is set on the stage of a Broadway theatre during rehearsals for the opening of an anti-lynching Broadway play (Chaos in Belleville).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:44PM"Lift" is set in an elevator in a large building which is owned and occupied by a large corporation which encompasses varied businesses and financial institutions.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PMMulti-Academy Award-winning writer and director Quentin Tarantino completed a preliminary draft of new screenplay THE HATEFUL EIGHT last year and subsequently sent it to a few friends and co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PMWhat happens when you lock an elderly woman and her estranged son in a brownstone full of Molotov cocktails? Find out in The Velocity of Autumn, starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:39PMThe Broadway musical revue After Midnight, inspired from Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club, will celebrate Ellington's birthday (April 29) and Jazz Appreciation Month with a …
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:35PMThe independent films of Jim Jarmusch have always held a quiet cool. For his latest cinematic venture, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jarmusch delves into the melancholy and decaying world of a pai…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:28PMOn April 25, a pop-up shop featuring Tony merchandise and fan experiences will open in the Paramount Hotel on West 46th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. It will remain open through th…
SOURCE: Crain's at 04:28PMThe Velocity of Autumn is a 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble that stars Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde, 'Roseanne' and two-time Tony Award winnerStephen …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMApril 22-23: BOOGIE STOMP!, boogie woogie piano duo, w/ Bob Baldori & Arthur Migliazza at PianoForte, Chicago.
SOURCE: www.chicagobluesguide.com at 04:18PMThe world premiere of Neil LaBute's The Money Shot will kick off MCC Theater's 2014-15 Main Stage season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The 29th season will also feature the New…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMMeryl Streep was honored with the 14th-Annual Monte Cristo Award at Edison Ballroom last night, presented by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMA slew of Golden Age major movie musical stars headline the classic HIT THE DECK, now available on Blu-ray for the very first time.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMYork critics have weighed in on Eric Coble's new play "The Velocity of Autumn"
and the reviews are mixed.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:13PMOn Twitter Watch, Neil Patrick Harris wrote ' Calm before the glitter storm. Sitting alone on a quiet stage before the hedwigonbway opening
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMName: Jack DellaTorriHometown: Staten Island, NY / Tucson, AZEducation: BFA in Musical Theatre from University of ArizonaWho do you play in The Mysteries?: A punk rock angel.Tell us about Th…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:11PMThe Public Theater's production of David Byrne and Alex Timbers' smash hit musical, Here Lies Love, has been recorded and will be released on May 6. The album was previously scheduled to be …
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:05PMWitness the fantastic production of iLUMINATE in New York City! In their first ever Broadway show, watch the electrifying story unfold through its combination of cutting edge technology and …
SOURCE: kudago.com at 04:04PMAtlantic Theater Company has announced the first production of its 20142015 season - the world premiere new musical FOUND, directed by Lee Overtree, featuring a book by Tony Award nominee Hu…
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:00PMAnthony Quinn and Laurence Olivier starred in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe plays are based on the historical short stories of surgeon R.D. Robbins.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThis racy montage features a surprise special (green) cabaret host.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe new musical features a book copenned by [title of show] Tony nominee Hunter Bell.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMJames Lapine
directs his own adaptation of Moss Hart's
classic autobiography that chronicles his struggle to escape poverty and forge a career in the theatre, which led to his collaborat…
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Check out production photos of Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire, starring John Noble and Halley Feiffer. See the new Second Stage production at off-Broadway’s Tony Kiser T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, today announced the nominees fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMAt first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking New York City Ballet member Justin Peck is just an up-and-comer in the chorus; soft-spoken and hipstery-looking, the dancer seems too young.…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:52PMMCC THEATER has announced its four-show 2014-15 Main Stage Season, which runs Fall 2014 through Summer 2015. All productions will be staged at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMLast night, the Helen Hayes awards took place at the National Building Museum, a new venue for the annual ceremony, now in its 30th year. The format was also quite different, but one thing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:44PMAre critics bringing "Violet" to light?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 03:38PM'How does a slip of a girly-boy from Communist East Berlin become an internationally ignored song stylist?"
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:37PMAtlantic Theater Company has announced that the world premiere of the new musical Found, featuring a book by Tony nominee Hunter Bell and Lee Overtree and a score by Eli Bolin, will kick off…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMThe African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, a polarizing activist blacklisted during McCarthyism whose roles ranged from "Othello" to "Show Boat," is the subject of this one-man bioplay …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:28PMThe hit Fox series "Glee" continues with weekly Tuesday installments. Here's a first look at the April 22 and April 29 episodes, entitled "Opening Night" and "Back-Up Plan."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMThe original Off-Broadway cast album of the Public Theater's world-premiere production of the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, starring Ruthie Ann Miles and Jose Llana, wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMIn his review of Of Mice And Men in Wednesday, April 16th's edition of The New York Times, Ben Brantley says Curley's wife, portrayed by Leighton Meister, "provides no evidence" of being eit…
SOURCE: www.daisyeagan.com at 03:19PMColumbia Pictures has released the first photos from director Antoine Fuqua's THE EQUALIZER, starring Denzel Washington in the title role as well as Chlo Grace Moretz.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMIt treads the path cut by Samuel Beckett: It's funny, but it's all about death and decay; it's absurd, but it still feels like the people you are watching are real. Even so, Coble, who is 44…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:09PMName: Lena HudsonHometown: San Diego, CAEducation: BFA NYUSelect Credits: Debutante (Ars Nova), Folk Wandering (Joe's Pub/Ars Nova)Tell us about Debutante: It's a wonderful, exotic bird of a…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:09PMFor the world premiere of his new play, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, Kirk Lynn, an artistic director with Austin-based Rude Mechs, returns to New York for a third time this …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:08PMPioneer Theatre Company's just-announced 2014-15 season in Salt Lake City will include "...Spelling Bee," "The Music Man," a concert of "The Rocky Horror Show," "The Crucible," "One Man, Two…
SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune at 03:07PMMCC Theater will stage the world premiere of Neil LaBute's The Money Shot and Robert Askins' Permission as part of its 2014-15 season, which will also include the New York premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMBy Peter Filichia
Last September, when I wrote about the re-release of Speaking of Love and With Love from Hollywood – two recordings made in the ‘50s by Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy �…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 03:03PMLet the games begin! And by games, we clearly are talking about the theatre awards season now officially underway in New York! Earlier this morning, Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams proudl…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 03:00PMRobert Lopez, Joe Grifasi, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Preston Whiteway were also present at the event.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMAtlantic Theater Company will begin its 2014-15 season by presenting the world premiere of the new musical Found.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMNorfolk is sometimes characterised as a backwater, but a century ago the village of Burston made its mark as the scene of the longest-ever strike in British history.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:00PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most theater musicals are based on prized, cherished things. Now comes one that uses the trash we toss away....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:52PMJim Taylor reviews the unique theater experience (Tuesday, April 22, 2014)
SOURCE: www.podtrac.com at 02:48PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
BROADWAY REVIEW: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" ... Born of the rubble of the Berlin Wall, Hedwig Schmidt surely would never have imagined her tir…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMMeryl Streep was honored with the 14th-Annual Monte Cristo Award at Edison Ballroom last night, presented by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Check out a look back below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMMother West Records is proud to introduce REVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW OF RAGNAR AGNARSSON FURNITURE PAINTER from the incomparable, imaginative Icelandic composer, Ívar Páll Jónsson. The recor…
SOURCE: www.abc12.com at 02:42PMThe Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway announced the nominees this …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMRyan Murphy turned to Twitter today to reveal character posters for HBO's highly anticipated upcoming presentation of THE NORMAL HEART, which will air on Sunday, May 25, at 9pm on HBO.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMThe La Mirada Theatre has assembled a cast of triple threats for their production of CATS. They sing, they dance, they purr.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 02:23PMPulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks' drama Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) will be staged in January 2015 as part of the American Repertory Theater's upcoming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMVienna Theatre Company presents Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, and adapted for the stage by Leslie Bricusse and Tim…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:20PMThis week The Public Theater announced its 2014-2015 season. We were thrilled to see many of our favorite active artists on the schedule, including Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:15PMAfter Midnight featured showstopper Jared Grimes tackles seven questions about dance.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:15PMIn 2010, Tony winner Menzel co-created A Broader Way, an arts centered program for urban girls.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMGet a first look at Alan Cumming, Michelle Williams and the cast of Cabaret!
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:12PM"Dr. Anonymous" is redeemed through stirring work by director and cast and a text which, despite its flaws, comes through in a heartfelt way.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:06PMWarning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'insertThumbnailRSS' was given in /home/content/52/9380252/html/wp-includ…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:04PMFan gifts, celebrity visits, and pre-show rituals.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:02PMJean-François Regnard is not a name that has been on everyone’s lips in recent years. But leave it to comic playwright David Ives to resurrect him and use one of Regnard’s plays…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMHow did an auteur who started out working with Tarkovsky end up being fired from Tango & Cash? Andrei Konchalovsky talks about $90m flops, being mentored by Billy Wilder and killed by D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:57PMSay goodbye to the Palace Theatre as you know it! According to the Wall Street Journal, the upcoming Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me will bring major changes to the theater in the form…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of CASA VALENTINA, the play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello is now in previews fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52PMChoreographers Ranee Ramaswamy and Emily Johnson are honored with Doris Duke performing arts awards, as well as puppet-maker Michael Sommers.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:49PMI dunno, guys. Sometimes you see a kind of wonky musical and you just love it anyway. A recent example of this? Violet – the story of a disfigured young woman on a pilgrimage for a cure, w…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:49PMBard's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, puts playwright's anniversary centre-stage on patron saint's dayMost adults have only the haziest idea of who St George was or when his feast day fall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMPlaybill's newest weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMBroadwayWorld recently chatted with featured performer Laura Bell Bundy about her upcoming appearance in the special celebration
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMMeet the cast of Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike! Greta Gerwig and the stars of MCC’s new production took a break from rehearsal on April 22, 2014 to meet the press and pose …
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:32PMBy Lindsay B. Davis On April 14, 2014, Broadway Battles Bullying presented on a benefit concert to raise money for the family of Michael Morones, an 11-year-old boy who attempted suicide af…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:29PMCecily Tyson and Vanessa Williams Announce Outer Critics Circle Nominations : Broadway,Stage and screen stars Cecily Tyson and Vanessa Williams reunited to announced the (11AM) nominee's of …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:24PMHeritage of Pride, organizers of NYC Pride and the annual New York City Pride March, today announced the Grand Marshals for 2014. This year's marshals are Rea Carey, Executive Director of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMAt last night's boozier, extra-festive, less-emphasis-on-the-awards-part Helen Hayes Awards at the National Building Museum, Signature Theatre walked away with the most trophies, a lot of pe…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:20PMLauren Molina and Steel Burkhardt star in the regional premiere of the Off-Broadway rock musical Murder Ballad, which began performances April 17 at TUTS Underground in Houston, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMPut down the knitting, the book and the broom and check out video footage of Alan Cumming, Michelle Williams and more in Cabaret at Studio 54.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMLONDON — Catherine Hardwicke will helm comedy drama “Miss You Already,” which is to star Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette. Morwenna Banks has penned the script, which centers…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PMNominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, celebrating excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre, were announced this morning. APPROPRIATE has been nominated for Outs…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:09PMBrian Yorkey, the lyricist and book writer for "If/Then," was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk abouy the new Broadway musical. he also told us what he's listening to and what he's…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:06PMThe Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway announced the nominees this …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMThe Encores! Off-Center production of Violet has transferred to Broadway this spring after a critically acclaimed run this past summer! Sutton Foster stars as Violet, a young and bitter girl…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 01:02PMWhen Sarah Jessica Parker says she plans to help inject a modern, fresh feeling into the New York City Ballet by marrying the worlds of fashion and ballet, it’s a wild idea that immediatel…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMWhen you think of the brilliant, bad-ass women in entertainment and media in New York, it’s hard to know where their quirky genius begins and the city ends. From Clare Boothe Luce to Helen…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSome celebrities have one charity they offer their name or their time to. Susan Sarandon is virtually awash in them. At any given time, she’s involved with Habitat for Humanity, City Harve…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSummer camp was always a magical time for future Broadway star Idina Menzel. “I loved being able to reinvent myself during the summer, and not be judged by the same group of kids I saw in …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMBroadway newcomer Michelle Williams joins the ranks of this year's nominees for her leading performance in Cabaret.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe annual ceremony honors the best of off-Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMAccusations of child abuse fly in this intense and unsettling drama
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PM
Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare? Here are some of the conspiracy theories
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:50PMLinbury Studio, LondonThis trio of dancers proves captivating, whether in Johan Inger's tender portrait or Matthew Dunster's angry choreographyTimes are hard for small dance companies, as fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMIn pics: from Laurence Olivier to Lego figurines, it's the best of the Bard
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:45PMMichael Greif was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about directing the new Broadway musical, "If/Then." He also told us what he's been reading, listening to, and watching recently. What ha…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:44PMAs the curtain rises on Eric Coble’s The Velocity of Autumn, directed with much heart by Molly Smith, we find Alexandra, played by the phenomenally spunky Estelle Parsons, under “e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMCity decides to examine plans for a new performing arts venue to replace the aging Community Center Theater
The Sacramento Ballet's "The Nutcracker" performance at the Community Center …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 12:36PMA developmental lab of the musical Amelie will be held in New York this summer, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMClick for photos from the opening night of Sharr White’s Annapurna, starring husband-and-wife stars Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally on April 21, 2014. See the New Group production at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMArthur Migliazza, star of Off-Broadway's upcoming BOOGIE STOMP!, will be this week's special guest on the popular new weekly program "Hudson Valley Jam" on New York's Area24 Radio.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMCongratulations to all our nominees so far this awards season! Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations: Cabaret - playing through August 31 Outstanding Revival of a Musical Outstanding Actres…
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 12:27PMNominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 22, with A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder leading the group with 11 nominations. This was foll…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMNominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 22, with A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder leading the group with 11 nominations. This was foll…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMRoundabout Theatre Company's revival of Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb, featuring three-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams for the first time on Broadway as Sal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”, “Aladdin” and “Fun Home” had the greatest number of nominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13PMA touring production of Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” and local revivals of “Hello Dolly!” and “Glengarry Glen Ross” were each multiple winners April 21 at the Helen …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:10PMWolf Trap has announced programming for its summer 2014 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMCBS has announced that the cast of the new Broadway musical Rocky will be performing on LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on Thursday, May 1.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMDenzel Washington, James Franco, and Daniel Radcliffe came to Broadway looking for love. But the Outer Critics Circle, the first group to Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:07PMAURORA — Ignite Theatre's "35MM: A Musical Exhibition" is a multi-media revue, 22 songs strung together like beads on a necklace, with a powerful vocal ensemble and a gifted band.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:04PMShakespeare would have turned 450 this month, if he’d been cryogenically enabled, and as part of the celebrations Radio 3 poses the impudent question: Is Shakespeare’s genius beyond ques…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMJust last night, April 21, Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde, 'Roseanne' and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella Angels in America, Lincoln, '24' celebrated openi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 4152014 - 4222014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMWith the Broadway season thundering to a close, The Wall Street Journal has given me an extra column this week...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PMChicago will honor the work of its non-equity theater artists in a ceremony on June 2.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe Sharr White play is directed by Bart DeLorenzo.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMPenelope Skinner's drama is directed by Sam Gold.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe star of BBC drama Hustle will narrate the production which opens at the Park Theatre next month
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PM
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:57AMP.J. Griffith Rocks The Bad-Guy Role There's something about P.J. Griffith that keeps him being cast as the bad boy. The Hartford-born, South Windsor-raised actor and singer most recently st…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:57AMThe Dramatists Guild's Anti-Piracy Committee just hosted their first-ever Anti-Piracy awareness event yesterday, April 21. During the event, established and up-and-coming musical theatre wri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMPioneer Theatre Company has announced its 2014-15 season, which includes two musicals, a world-premiere play, the Utah premiere of One Man, Two Guvnors and a new concert series that will lau…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMEmmy Award winner Megan Mullally and her husband Nick Offerman co-star as estranged lovers in the New York premiere of Sharr White's Annapurna, which officially opened Off-Broadway April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMCicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams announced the nominations for the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards — celebrating productions both on and Off-Broadway — April 22 at the F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMTony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, "Orange Is the New Black" actress and activist Laverne Cox and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Rea Carey have been named t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMGet a glimpse at the star-studded opening night of Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd; the production that Variety calls “A brilliant revival!”
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:38AMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMDCTS writer Robert Duffly is presently studying in Moscow, under a program from Harvard University The Russians are not coming. Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theatre announced the cancellat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMJENNIFER HOLLIDAY-the original Dreamgirl-is scheduled to make a special appearance with the Back To The Eighties Show at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMAct One, the greatest Broadway story ever lived, is now playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:27AMEstelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, stars of the Broadway two-hander The Velocity of Autumn, celebrated their official opening night on April 21, 2014 at the Booth Theatre. Click for photo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMWhatever has come over the folks at the Pleasance Theatre? They might be known for their diverse programming of comedy and theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but was it really nec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMLessons Learned by Bebe Neuwirth will be featured on the next THE ARTS PROJECT WITH MADDIE ORTON, airing Wednesday, 423 at 8pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMBallet Hispanico: 2014 Joyce Season
Off Broadway, The Joyce Theatre
Reviewed by Jane Sato
BOTTOM LINE: An enjoyable dance show highlighting Latino culture and the company's talented dance…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:12AM By: David ShewardChris O’Dowd, James FrancoOkay, we all know that James Franco can do just about anything well-star and direct movies, wr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:10AMThe Palace Theatre has been given a $200,000 renovation for Holler If Ya Hear Me, the new Broadway musical inspired by the lyrics of Tupac Shakur that will begin performances May 29 towards …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMAccording to the Wall Street Journal, audience members seated in the orchestra of the upcoming Broadway musical, 'Holler If Ya Hear Me,' will have a movie-theatre-esque experience. The produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMPumpkin Theatre’s new show, Jack & The Beanstalk – The Story of Jack and Daisy, opened April 19, 2014 to a large and enthusiastic crowd. Written by Jimi Kinstle, Music by Ryan Haas…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:06AMThe cast and creative team of the hit Off-Broadway musical Murder for Two are teaming up with some of New York's brightest up and coming composers and BroadwayWorld.com every Monday night fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMEric Coble's new family drama The Velocity of Autumn, starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella, opened on Broadway at the B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMSome of you out there probably read the subject of this blog and thought, “Only 3?” And you’re right, I could probably write another 4,000 posts on my issues with the stat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSo, we all know how much time I spend tinkering around the internet – particularly, that vast vortex we all get sucked into known as YouTube. If you guys think I’m a YouTube junkie n…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 11:00AMFrom 2004: A reader wrote to ask if I'd consider posting a list of books and other works of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AMOliver Gomm shines in this Victorian comedy directed by Auriol Smith
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe Frozen playwright discusses the inspiration behind her latest play that opens at the Tricycle Theatre this Friday
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMSarah Paulson will also be featured in the cast of the Bay Street Theatre production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Inside her new cabaret at 54 Below — Recently, on a chilly April afternoon in her downtown studio/office, Broadway veteran Melissa Errico prepared for At the Corner of 54th & Crazy…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:59AMLas Vegas Broadway Bares will return for its fifth year with Got Wood, presented May 2 at the Planet Hollywood Showroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMBroadwayBox is highlighting eight reasons—through animated GIF (duh)—why everyone should check out Broadway's Violet.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:55AMNeil Patrick Harris returns to Broadway in the new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical with book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, directed byM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMBroadway vet, TV host and comedian Rosie O'Donnell turned to Twitter to share her new fit and healthy physique following a remarkable 50 lb. weight loss.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMUpcoming guests have been announced for the week of April 28 for two CBS programs: "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMDundee Rep theatreStuart Paterson's free-form poem of a play about an ailing woman reflecting on her life is more evocation than drama, and it deftly avoids the maudlinImagine a bedbound Pee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMHere are this year’s Outer Critics Circle Award nominations: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY Act One Casa Valentina All The Way Outside Mullingar The Realistic Joneses OUTSTANDING NEW BR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThe Velocity of Autumn is a 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble that stars Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde, 'Roseanne' and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMLeave it to the New Group to show us a side of Nick Offerman we haven’t seen before — his bare butt. In “Annapurna,” the new play by Sharr White...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:42AMBroadway's Future Songbook Series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — will continue April 28 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMThe 30th annual Helen Hayes Awards were presented April 21 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, the Washington Post reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThe New Group presents the New York premiere of Annapurna by Sharr White, directed by Bart DeLorenzo and featuringMegan Mullally and Nick Offerman, in a limited Off-Broadway engagement throu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMEaster Bonnet Competion Soars to New Fundrasing and Entertainment Heights By: Ellis NassourBroadway Cares/Equi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:35AMAmong the revivals and West Coast premieres that dominate our theatrical offerings, the startling phrase “world premiere” implies an exhilarating, possibly risky novelty: You can…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMAt an anti-piracy awareness event hosted by the Dramatists Guild, famed Broadway composers including Stephen Schwartz, Jason Robert Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amanda Green, Stephen Flaherty,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:29AMGreenwich Council has granted planning permission for a multi-million pound refurbishment of its Borough Hall venue, despite national advisory body the Theatres Trust raising “substantial …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AMUnderneath the Lintel is a deceivingly simple story of a librarian tracking down the patron who borrowed and returned a long overdue book which transitions into an unanticipated life journey…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMAfter being highly praised for her portrayal of the Jewish heroine in The Diary of Anne Frank (1956-57), Perlita Neilson was invited to star in Hollywood’s film version of the play. But sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AM"Pride," the new Matthew Warchus film based on the true story of gay and lesbian U.K. activists who raised funds to support striking members of the National Union of Mineworkers, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMTo celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, Gregory Doran presents some startling facts
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:19AMAriana Grande turned to Instagram to share a preview her upcoming single, 'Problem.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMBay Street Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of Carey Crim's Conviction, which will begin performances May 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMBay Street Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of Carey Crim's Conviction, which will begin performances May 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM It’s time for a Ticket Give-Away!! Our friend, Drew Gasparini, is putting on a concert at one of our favorite venues, 54 Below on May 3rd! He and some special guests will…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMThe first ever UK performance of Noel Coward’s 1920s comedy This Was A Man is to feature as part of the Finborough Theatre’s summer season. Coward’s play – a portrayal of adultery in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMFrom May 5 – June 9, 2014 Culturebot founder Andy Horwitz will offer five lectures on live performance in the 21st century.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:00AMWhen you think of the brilliant, bad-ass women in entertainment and media in New York, it’s hard to know where their quirky genius begins and the city ends. From Clare Boothe Luce to Helen…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMEleanor Turney of A Younger Theatre explains how next month's Incoming festival will help elevate a new generation of theatremakers
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AMThe latest members of the Fox and Redgrave dynasties take to the stage in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde's novel
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature." Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Machiavelli"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM
Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally and her husband Nick Offerman co-star as estranged lovers in the New York premiere of Sharr White's Annapurna, which officially opened Off-Broadway April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM Today’s Highlights: * John Cameron Mitchell & Steven Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by Michael Mayer, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall, opens a…
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 09:55AMHip-hop has gotten a bad rap, according to Psalmayene 24 (Psalm), the writer and director behind Cinderella: The Remix, the final installment of a three-part Hip-Hop Children’s Trilogy run…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AMThe Lieutenant of Inishmore is a biting, dark comedy that makes quite a splash – most of it crimson. It is a theater event that needs to be fully experienced with all senses ablaze rather …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:48AMMeryl Streep was honored with the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Monte Cristo Award last night, April 21st, at a gala held at New York City's Edison Ballroom
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMPeccadillo Theater Company, in association with La Femme Theatre Productions, will present the first New York revival of Pulitzer Prize winner William Inge's A Loss of Roses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMThe world stage premiere of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, adapted and directed by Jethro Compton from the original short story by Dorothy M. Johnson, will feature a recorded narration by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMTickets are now available for Tony winner, two-time Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Jim Dale’s solo show Just Jim Dale off-Broadway. Directed by Tony winner Richard Maltby, Jr, th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AMRose, KingstonSally Cookson's production has some magical touches but it stays too faithful to the script, with the red-haired heroine ultimately outstaying her welcome Hetty Feather review …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:35AMIf there is ever any argument as to whether, in 2014, cinemas are still necessary, the BAFTA and Oscar multi-award winning feature Gravity demonstrates why they most definitely are. Here is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMEric Coble's new family drama The Velocity of Autumn, starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella, opened on Broadway April 21 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMGreen Day's "American Idiot," the musical, has been called a rock opera that embodies the fight of millennials to understand their place in the post 9/11 social and political lands…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:29AMTickets for the world premiere of the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Sarah Treem’s When We Were Young and Unafraid are now available. Starring Cherry Jones and directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:29AMVelocity of Autumn Dealing WithThe End of Someones Life: Most of us are parents and all of us are children, so the subject matter of Velocity of Autumn will in some way come into all of our …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:22AMThe 30th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, were held by theatreWashington April 21 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AMHuzzah! Today is the release date of the landmark new DVD release The Mishaps of Musty Suffer. “Musty Suffer” was a screen character developed by vaudeville comedian Harry Wat…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AMView the Full Article on NewYork.com
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:17AMBig Magic Returns to New York with Rob Lake at Resorts World Casino By: Ellis NassourNew York's never been a welcoming city for magic - the "…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:05AMTony Award winner and 'Les Mis' star Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness launched a charitable foundation for performing arts in their native Australia this week.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, starring Ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMEric Coble's new play is directed by Molly Smith.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMMr. AprilJames SnyderWHY HE'S MR. BROADWAY: On the face of it, it may seem that his matinee idol looks and easy on the ears voice would be reason enough to name this guy Mr. April. But…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:00AM
Nominees for the 63rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 22. (Read full report here.)
Winners will be revealed on May 13 and feted at Sardi's on May 22. …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:50AMNominees for the 63rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 22. (Read full report here.)
Winners will be revealed on May 13 and feted at Sardi's on May 22. …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:50AMEight days before the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced, the Outer Critics Circle have weighed in with contenders for their kudos. Winners will be revealed on May 13 and fe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:40AMEight days before the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced, the Outer Critics Circle have weighed in with contenders for their kudos. Winners will be revealed on May 13 and fe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:40AM Today is the anniversary of the release date of the great Wheeler and Woolsey comedy So This is Africa (1933), directed by Eddie Cline, written by Norman Krasna. Esther Muir plays a lad…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AMTheater review: Recap of the singer, actor and activist's life respectfully covers all the bases, but its educational tone overcomes any sense of drama.Theater review: Recap of the singer, a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMTheater review: Recap of the singer, actor and activist's life respectfully covers all the bases, but its educational tone overcomes any sense of drama.Multi-hyphenated celebrities are all …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30AMWhat makes "The Wholehearted" compelling is how it examines the metaphor of fighting as both a pubic career and as an aspect of domestic violence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMKing's Theatre, Glasgow: Scottish Ballet's revival of Krzysztof Pastor's Romeo and Juliet sits well with the recent tenure of Christopher Hampson as artistic director. Created for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AM Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious Laurel and Hardy comedy Me and My Pal (1933). Hardy is a rich young executive who has worked his way all the way to the to…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AMCelebrations across the country mark 450 years since William Shakespeare's birth
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
"Stupid FUCKING Bird!"
Anyone who got to announce the name of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's "sort-of" adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull did so with devious relish last night at the 3…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 07:48AMBurnett Thompson Saturday , May 10, 2014 | 7:30 PM Featuring Pianist Burnett Thompson If you are looking for a very special way to celebrate Mother’s Day, look no further. Nation…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:27AMThe sprawling mountain vistas lurking just at the limits of your vision loom large over Annapurna, the play by Sharr White that just opened at the Acorn Theatre in a production of The New Gr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22AMIn his monthly column, Richard Eyre makes an entrance at the Olivier Awards
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:15AMOrange Tree, RichmondThis lively revival of Boucicault's play starts promisingly, but his assault on speculative capitalism soon turns into a convoluted comedy about aristocratic marriageA k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMCuyahoga Arts and Culture, one of the biggest local public arts funding agencies in the U.S., distributed more than $16 million in 2013, supporting programs that reached millions and employe…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:05AM
Starring Estelle Parsons as an elderly woman who barricades herself in a brownstone.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:57AMOur Helen Hayes Awards coverage continues. Last night, John Dellaporta’s Twitter account lit up with social coverage including a dance video. He signed off at 1:30am, as he hopped an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:43AMArthur Miller's classic gets the Ivo van Hove treatment at the Young Vic.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AMhe play gives the formidable Parsons ample room to switch emotional gears and sway our affections without missing a beat, even as we can also sense the stirrings of her character's impending…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:28AMAn engaging new play by Sharr White but not on a par with his The Other Place. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:27AMBoca-based Slow Burn Theatre Company plans to expand during its sixth season this fall by producing a second series of shows in connection with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:13AMSt James Studio, London: It's a slight paradox to put a pair of songwriters who didn't write for the theatre at the centre of a theatrical entertainment, even if two of the biggest…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMTS Eliot's Gus isn't the only theatre cat. Plenty of playhouses have their own resident moggy: they're not just useful as mousers but also keep up the company's spirits and make the occasion…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMOur Town opens in New Brunswick and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra plays The Wizard of Oz
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Royal Opera House, London: The first of two casts takes to the Covent Garden stage in the latest revival, by Daniel Dooner, of Sir Richard Eyre's production - new in 1994 - of Verdi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMLinbury Studio, London: For a small, fledgling (founded in 2012) and modestly funded dance company, HeadSpace Dance is making progress in leaps and bounds. Its founders, one-time Northern Ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMOrange Tree Theatre, Richmond upon Thames: As the curtain falls on Sam Walters' 43-year reign at the Orange Tree - Paul Miller takes over as artistic director in July - this little know…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMPark Theatre, London: Produced three years ago in Spain, Coromina's tale of a swimming instructor who may or may not have inappropriately touched a child receives its UK premiere.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMIt took the producer of "American Beauty" and "Pushing Daisies" 10 years to get the adaptation onstage, four months for it to close and a few days to write about his experience.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:34AM“Really emotional and quite magical,” says Director Peter Glanville about Skitterbang Island, an opera for very young children, collaboratively put together by Polka Theatre and the Litt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:33AMJohn Frost’s Tony Award winning production of The King and I premiered in Adelaide, Australia in 1991 starring Hayley Mills. Twenty three years later, with successful transfers to Bro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:22AMI did some research this week about the best family shows for the Easter holidays. I’ve recently written about why the activity of dance is good for children, but this was more about why v…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMPlans to lease the Byre Theatre to the University of St Andrews have been challenged by Equity, which also condemns the proposal as “catastrophic” for professional theatre in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AM(Preface: After a two-week, medically-necessitated hiatus, I’m able to resume my learning blog challenge – with a serious topic. I urge you to read this one, especially if you ha…
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Are critics giving a big break to "The Cripple of Inishmaan"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 04:57AMNick Offerman wears only a filthy apron and an oxygen tank in a backpack when Sharr White’s Annapurna begins. But that physical exposure is nothing compared to the emotional one awaiting h…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:40AMIn one area, Kirk Lynn's ambitious Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra is explosively efficient: namely, at getting its audience to cringe. Even before the plot's erotic games begin, Lynn's…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:39AMIn case its telegraph title didn’t clue you in, The Velocity of Autumn is about aging. As 79-year-old Park Slope resident Alexandra (Parsons) repeatedly moans, the sunset years are no picn…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:39AMI’ve long said that once is not enough for Once, the stage version of the 2006 Irish indie movie that transferred from Broadway and is now in its second year at the West End’s Ph…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:31AMAs the lights went down on "The Velocity of Autumn" and the actors left the the stage, the intimate, 766-seat theater erupted, pulsing like the Q during a Cavs game when the home t…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:09AM
Sometimes, all you have to do to get a laugh is have the curtain rise on Estelle Parsons in a room full of Molotov cocktails.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52AMIf you're a local theater aficionado, Pearce Bunting probably has been at the top of your must-see list since the Yale Drama School grad won a best-actor prize for one of his initial plays h…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:36AMVirginia's Tony-Award winning Signature Theatre announces the cast for The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's cutting and enduring critique of capitalism and corruption. Direc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents 9 Songs...By James Harvey, tonight, April 22nd at 1130pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMHollywood actor Tom Skerritt is coming back to where his remarkable 50-year career began. The Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance presents 'A Conversation with Apple Award Recipie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Public Theater's production of David Byrne and Alex Timbers' smash hit musical, Here Lies Love, has been recorded and will be released today, April 22nd, just one week into its open-ende…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Walt Disney Company recently announced a unique new endeavor via the release of a teaser trailer for a new music compilation titled DCONSTRUCTED, which will feature EDM renditions of a v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMAcademy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts discusses her preparation for HBO's stage-to-screen adaptation of Larry Kramer's acclaimed Tony Award-winning play THE NORMAL HEART, directed by R…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMBroadway headliner and GLEE breakout star Darren Criss explains his own personal songwriting process as part of a new fan interview.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMJohn Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask's punk-rock heroine is making her Great White Way debut.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMLarsen plays Weil on Broadway in Beautiful — The Carole King Musical. Both have written work for the stage, but only one of them considers herself a "writer."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMJason Derulo: Backstage Diaries
Join YH as we head to Jason Derulo's 'Talk Dirty' album listening party and catch up with the man of the hour himself! The R&B star shares with us his memorie…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMLarsen plays Weil on Broadway in Beautiful — The Carole King Musical. Both have written work for the stage, but only one of them considers herself a "writer."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- By now, some young musical theater fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop illegally downloading sheet music from any of his shows. Or anyo…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:59AMOne aspect of commercial Broadway theater not really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-office grosse…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:37AMon our crowdfunding campaign for The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, which means I can actually update this page for a change. I suppose I could've done it before, but I figured I'd leave it …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:35AMA Walk-Out and a Pile-OnLeaving, staying, reviewingby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI don't know which wise person said this about social networks, but I learned it the hard way a couple of weeks ago…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, April 21, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThe cat’s out of the bag, or rather, the wig’s out of the box! The much-anticipated Great White Way debut of Hedwig and the Angry Inch opens on April 22 at the Belasco Theatre, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe national tour of Motown The Musical, which stars Clifton Oliver and Allison Semmes as Berry Gordy and Diana Ross, respectively, launches April 22 at Chicago's Oriental Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams announce the nominations for the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards April 22 at the Friars Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJerry Dixon, who returns to Broadway in the new musical If/Then, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe U.S. premiere of Lisa Tierney-Keogh's Four Last Things, the story of a young woman struggling with her life, begins performances April 22 Off-Broadway at The American Globe Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRed-Eye to Havre de Grace, an action-opera about Edgar Allen Poe's last days alive, begins performances at the New York Theatre Workshop April 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway premiere of the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, opens on Broadway April 22 follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe George Street Playhouse's 40th season-ending production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town begins performances at the New Jersey venue April 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGeva Theatre Center's 41st Mainstage Season concludes with Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, which begins performances April 22 on the Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winner Idina Menzel discusses her role in the musical “If/Then,” with director Michael Greif and Brian Yorkey, who wrote the book and lyrics. “If/Then,” is an original new…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMKevin Spacey discusses collaborating with director Sam Mendes and the Bridge Project Company to document their staging of Richard III across three continents and in over 200 performances, re…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMShakespeare scholar James Shapiro reveals the ways Shakespeare has influenced the United States’ literary heritage. His anthology Shakespeare in America reveals how, for over two centuries…
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