By Peter Filichia
Now that we’ve celebrated February and Black History Month, let’s move to March, which is Women’s History Month.
Readers are encouraged to spend each da…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:38PMThe wide range of theater available in South Florida – from Matilda to Medea -- was underscored Monday with the announcements of 2015-2016 seasons for two very different but ambitious grou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:38PMMilitary government uses 'lese majeste' laws to silence critics
SOURCE: Variety at 11:19PMI will never, ever stop being amazed by the endless directorial interpretations of Othello. I've lost count of how many I've seen, but Curio Theatre Company's new production, directed by Dan…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:10PMClifford Odets' 1938 play feels like a blast from the past.
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Despite a few casting misfires, this production from Acting Up Stage and Obsidian Theatre is worth seeing, with impeccable performances from the three leads.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:54PMSWEET Unlike much new musical theater, “Loch Ness” is a charming, pleasingly quirky, wholly original concept. Its fine staging at Chance shows that theaters taking a chance on a new, unp…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:39PMAccording to an announcement on the Disney Parks website, this year's OSCARS host, Broadway vet and silver screen star Neil Patrick Harris will be joining Mickey Mouse as host of the all-new…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37PMBeen busy lately, but got a chance to read this humdinger from J-Beers. Dude is writing some of the best theater criticism in SoCal at the moment. This show sounds pretty good too. HereR…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 10:21PMVariety writes that Kathy Bates and Danny Glover are the latest to join the cast of Joshua Marston's first English-language film.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21PMAs bad as weddings can get on “Bridezillas,” they’re way worse in Charles Mee’s play “Big Love.” We’re talking showers of blood. We’re talking a woman pulverizing something i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PMby Samuel L. Leiter Seeing the Peccadillo Theater Company’s production of Clifford Odets’s rarely revived 1938 dramedy Rocket to the Moon, directed by Dan Wackerman, makes one wonder w…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00PMRage infuses this Labyrinth Theater Company production, about a woman with a love of reading and her gun who returns to her impoverished New England home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTina Landau’s frenzied revival of Charles Mee’s 2000 play about sisters betrothed by contract to cousins is at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMLabyrinth Theater Company stages Lucy Thurber's tale of the connection between disenfranchisement and domestic terrorism.
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This solo show from Carmen de Lavallade is an autobiographical look at the octogenarian’s impressive dance career.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 08:58PMJapan Society proudly presents a staged reading of Dancing with the Bird by Japanese playwright Seiji Nozoe, translated and directed by New York-based theater artist James Yaegashi. As part …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMEven before it begins, the astonishing revival of “Big Love,” one of Charles Mee’s most popular plays, surrounds us with a soothing and soaring beauty. The set by Brett Banakis is, per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMI wasn’t aware until recently that airlines have started to strip all the video equipment from their planes and have begun requiring people to bring their own personal devices and headphon…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:17PMNeil Patrick Harris is facing mixed reviews following his first time hosting the Oscars last night on ABC. His response Should've known.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12PMAn English actor whose regal bearing and imposing voice gave life to Shakespearean kings, Mr. Howard was a mainstay of the Royal Shakespeare Company for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07PMDeadline writes that Denis Villenueve's drama SICARIO will hit theaters in a limited release on September 18, 2015, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin. Lionsgate will go …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMArs Nova has announced that tickets are now on sale for Bridget Everett Gets F*cked by Ars Nova, a benefit concert featuring tributes, roasts and send-up performances from celebrity gues…
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He should have seen this coming.
SOURCE: USA Today at 07:57PMAccording to Deadline, stage and screen star Marisa Tomei has been tapped to portray feminist legend Gloria Steinem in HBO's upcoming miniseries MS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:51PMThe New York Times writes that the new musical version of A Bronx Tale, helmed by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks, will debut at Paper Mill Playhouse as part of its 2015-16 season. The product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31PMWe want theaters to take chances and Miami Theater Center has bravely invested its artistic vision into classics like Three Sisters. But MTC has missed the target so badly in its misbegotte…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:26PMThe first thing we know about Sally is that she likes guns. She also likes to read books about four figures in American history with whom she identifies — John Brown, Nat Turner, Harri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PMIn 2007, some very bright people at the University of Chicago decided to examine the recent cultural building boom, looking at the motivations, extent and impacts of the recent and massive w…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:09PMThe new musical version of Chazz Palminteri’s semi-autobiographical story will be directed by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks, as one of five shows in the Playhouse’s new season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:05PMMerritt Janson also leads the cast of the production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PMThe Tony nominee reflects on hard choices, transition, and the gay-best-friend motif.
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After a public outcry, the National Asian Artists Project has cancelled its upcoming, all Asian-American production of SHOW BOAT. The classic musical, featuring music by Jerome Kern and book…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMWhen Blue Wizard (Nick Coyle), an intergalactic traveller from a crystal planet where everyone is gay and a different colour (the beige Wizards have the gift of renovation, for example, whil…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:57PMNEW MUSICAL IN RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT NEEDS TO UNLOCH MORE Fostered completely under the roof of the Chance from conception to premiere, Loch Ness is a new musical developed specifically for t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:52PMFrom the African-American experience to the choppy waters of international adoption, award-winning playwright Tanya Barfield is not afraid of a challenge. Her courageous writing has been awa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:46PMCatherine Trieschmann's play about a talented but troubled teen plays through Masrch 1 at Oakland's Flight Deck.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:19PMON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY is in previews
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMLady Gaga and Academy Award winner Julie Andrews are fast friends.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMFour time Grammy Award winner Olivia Newton-John will release a two-CD, 22 song recording of her acclaimed concert 'Summer Nights - Live in Las Vegas,' recorded live at Flamingo Las Vegas on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMA production of Show Boat, the landmark musical that addresses romantic and racial relations on a Mississippi River show boat following the Civil War that had been slated for presentation by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09PMBroadway's newest comedy LIVING ON LOVE, written by two-time Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro, based on the play Peccadillo by Garson Kanin, and directed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathle…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMPlan your week of television. We've put together a list of your favorite stars' talk-show appearances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PMPolitical sleaze, arguments over Europe and fears for the NHS — sometimes it feels as if it’s the 1990s all over again. And, right on cue, theatre has been staging a whole shelfload of r…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PMThe box office for the new Broadway production of Gigi at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street) is now open. Previews will begin Thursday, March 19, with opening night on Wednesday, …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:00PMIn Lifeline Theatre's stage adaptation of Amy Timberlake's young adult novel, both the birds and the young women seem to have been in a state of profound upheaval in the town of Placid, Wisc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMBroadway’s Best Shows knows that you want to see the best of the best! To help you out, we’re seeking out raw sales facts so you know what to see to stay current. Weekly grosses and othe…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 06:00PMRECOMMENDED Sharr White’s “The Other Place” begins as something like a memoir. Julianna, a successful scientist turned big pharma pitch woman (played with equal measures of…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00PMThe evening will mark Spacey's 11 years as artistic director
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Brazilian swoon star Paulo Szot returns to 54 Below with a brand new show as he celebrates the centennial of Frank Sinatra with songs from his 1967 and 1969...
The post Paolo Szot to …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:44PMOn The Twentieth Century, starring Broadway superstar Kristin Chenoweth and TV star Peter Gallagher, is now in previews! Check out all the mad-cap fun in their new TV spot! It’s nonstop la…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:37PMOn Sunday night, on the set of Blood Brothers at the Hayes, Geraldine Turner made her Sydney cabaret return after at least a decade away. She walked onto that stage and she started with a b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:36PMMo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone announce the release of The Ensemblist's 43rd episode Understudies.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PM Lyrics & Lyricists: “Here’s to the Girls!” – Hollywood’s Leading Ladies Review by Peter Haas They sang! They danced! They even acted! The…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:35PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, February 23, 2015 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway RT @AtlanticTheater: Go #ATCUncovered w/Atla…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:33PMAmy Timberlake's "One Came Home" has a distinct whiff of "True Grit" in its bones, with a dash of Ian McEwan's "Atonement." But in Lifeline Theatre's world premiere adaptation by Jessica Wri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:32PMThe current revival of Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH, starring Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy, might be heading to Broadway after its sold-out run at BAM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMA new preview clip from THE LAST FIVE YEARS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:17PMTHE WIZ writer, Bill Brown, surprises students at Greenwich Country Day School during their morning rehearsal!
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SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 05:09PMStar-driven plays stormed the Broadway charts this week, with Larry David’s “Fish in the Dark” landing the fifth slot in the Top 10 while Bradley Cooper topliner “The…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Under the assured direction of Cynthia Nixon, renowned actresses Tony Pinkins and Diane Wiest turn Joel Drake Johnson’s "Rasheeda Speaking" in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:00PMDonmar Warehouse, London David Leveaux’s fine production featuring an expertly balanced cast shows Patrick Marber’s play is much more than the product of its time Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins darkly comic melodrama is directed by Sarah Benson.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThe production will be directed by Ken Rus Schmoll at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMJoe DiPietro's comedy also stars Douglas Sills and Jerry O'Connell.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 2232015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMMark Rylance makes his debut in the Globe's indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in his wife Claire van Kampen's play with music
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Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith announced Monday that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan Lori Parks' epic Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1, 2 amp 3 is the 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Eugene O’Neill may be coming back to Broadway, courtesy of producer Scott Rudin.
But first: Bitter cold weather isn’t thwarting theatergoers’ determination to ge…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:56PMAfter two decades of bringing musical theater, acting and dance to the NYC landscape, Applause New York, the city's foremost children's performing arts program, will be celebrating its 20th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Sutton Foster, Alan Cumming & Kelli O'Hara Set for Pops
Broadway vets Sutton Foster, Alan Cumming, Kelli O’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld's The Broadway Ticket Buying Guide. Below, you will find weekly updates on full priced tickets, discounts, availability for the hottest productions, and locations fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMGeorge Takei, Jason Alexander and Bonnie Wright all got lei'd at Broadway's Honeymoon in Vegas this weekend - scroll down for photos of the stars backstage
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMThe new SIDE SHOW cast recording is on iTunes a day early
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMThe small Chicago theatre, newly affiliated with Actors Equity, plans an ambitious slate of new plays by Madhuri Shekar, Charise Castro Smith and Callie Kimball.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:45PMIATSE plans to launch a safety hotline for its members, the latest effort to address on-set safety issues following the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones on the set of “Midnight Ri…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43PMGo inside the Broadway-bound An American in Paris
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMWe Are Giving Away 2 Pairs of Tickets to WSC Avant Bard’s Othello for this Friday, February 27th at 7:30 PM! A story of love, betrayal and uncontrollable compulsions, William Shakes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMStar of Wolf Hall, who used to run Globe theatre, says he has had to cut ‘something very antisemitic’ from Shakespeare’s plays at timesThe actor Mark Rylance has said he has to cut out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMPlaybill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMIt’s obvious what the secret sauce is in Daft Punk’s mega-hit “Get Lucky”: Nile Rodgers’ fantastically infectious guitar riff. The masked Frenchmen know it, too, and they’re retu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30PMBelvoir, February 18 KILL the Messenger is as simple as theatre gets. There’s a bare space – designer Ralph Myers in particularly pared-back mode – and some projected photographs, five…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:29PMReview: Gerald Dickens plays his great-great-grandfather in an inspired new one-man show about the writer’s work on a gospel for children.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:26PMHampstead Theatre's critically acclaimed production Di and Viv and Rose opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on 29 January 2015 and will now close early on 14 March 2015, according to the show's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMSuzan-Lori Parks's Civil War-era epic receives the $100,000 prize for a play inspired by American history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:16PMKlea Blackhurst A Tree Grows in Brooklyn leads the cast of the February 26th staged reading of Jim Piazza's new play Reading Angie.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMLin-Manuel MIranda's new musical has extra-special potential.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:15PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMA modern take on of one of the world's oldest plays — The Danaids by Aeschylus — Signature Theatre Company's Big Love explores independence and the burden of trad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMWhen the Public Theatre announced HAMILTON's third extension earlier this month, rumors fizzled that the show would in fact transfer to Broadway in time for the 2015 Tony Awards eligibility …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMThe adaption of a novel into a stage play is as delicate a proposition as the spinning of a spider’s web. Novels written in the first person may not be as dialogue-driven as those of Jane …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMThe Comden and Green musical will play the Berkshire Theatre Group.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe comedy has proven a hit following its transfer from Bath
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Plenty of New York City maggots enjoyed their mid-winter recess from school this past week, and shows that catch the eye of younger theatergoers celebrated box office bumps. Among those were…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:53PMGet a look behind the scenes of Finding Neverland
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMThe West End run of Amelia Bullmore's Di and Viv and Rose, which transferred from runs at London's Hampstead Theatre in 2012 and 2013 to open officially at the Vaudeville Theatre Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMAcademy Award host Neil Patrick Harris appeared on LIVE's After Oscar Show today and told Kelly and Michael the story behind his Birdman tighty-whities gag on last night's broadcast.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMThis from David Melville today… I think AEA’s proposal is pretty hardline but at the end of the day I can see why they want to make these changes. The three tier approach will al…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:43PMGuests Ana Gasteyer, Megan Hilty and Ramin Karimloo joined host Seth Rudetsky for the premiere episode of "OBSESSED Live!" This hour-long version of Rudetsky's popular Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMDerek Hough and The Rockettes talk shop in a brand new video interview
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMA packed Byham Theater got a glittery peek at the award-winning new musicals and revamped revivals announced Wednesday night as part of the 2015-16 PNC Broadway Across America - Pittsburgh s…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:38PMThis is going to be a very piecemeal post as I’m getting ready to hustle out to the membership meeting, but did want to highlight a few things from the Saturday town hall sponsored by …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 03:37PMHamilton, the highly anticipated new musical from Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda that fuses contemporary and classic to tell the story of America's Founding Father, may be head…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMTony and Emmy Award winner MARTIN SHORT sits down with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on tomorrow's LIVE with Kelly and Michael.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMMeet the woman behind the mask of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMVaried styles create a range of options in debut of event... Read more »
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SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 03:24PMThe Ensemblist #43: Understudies: Listen: iTunes | PodBean | Stitcher Radio | TuneInA Broadway show is a team, and that team wouldn’t be able to go on eight shows a week without their unde…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 03:23PMActors' Equity Association has created a proposal for a new Los Angeles 99-Seat Theatre Plan contract, which would guarantee actors and stage managers are paid a salary no less than …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMCast Members from the Broadway musical IFTHEN will perform the songs of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning writing team of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey on Monday, March 2 at 54 Below 254…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMGet a new look behind the scenes at Broadway-bound AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMNorma Desmond is waiting for her close-up in Reston Community Players’ sumptuous rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, opening this Friday, February 27, 2015. Inspired…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMWhat do you do as an encore to a marathon of Greek tragedies and a re-envisioned take on Gilbert & Sullivan operettas? Well, if you are The Hypocrites, you try your hand at a rock music…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:12PMAll data provided by The Broadway League
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMThe Vineyard Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Brooklynite, inspired by the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMFollowing her critically-acclaimed drama desk nominated perfor- mance in Horton Foote's, 'The Old Friends' with the Signature Theatre Company and again with the prestigious Alley Theater in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMOver the next two decades, slow-creeping climate change is coming to the arts in America -- the arctic ice on which the creative class stands is melting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 2222015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMThe two siblings will be honored by the New York Pops.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMThe Hypocrites will begin its new season with the Green Day musical “American Idiot” this fall, the theater company announced on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMThe pop star helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film starring Julie Andrews
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Again, not great reporting in my book from Mike Boehm at the LA Times, but hey, this needs to be continuously in the public’s eye, so ultimately it’s good that the Times at least…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:58PMThe Irish playwright talks about the 'supernaturalism of the everyday,' and about structure and ghosts and Dickens.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:57PMWednesday Addams is one of the most loved characters in The Addams Family, but there have actually been several different versions of Wednesday over the years. If you’re a fan of The Addam…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 02:51PMRob Hinderliter and Dominick LaRuffa, Jr. of R&D Theatricals will present an invitation-only reading of Craig Ricks and John Olson's Wonderful — A New Play Feb. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMThe DVD will be available February 24 from PBS Distribution. The documentary is now available to view online.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's production of 'Love's Labour's Lost' will be screened internationally starting in March. In anticipation of the screenings, we bring you an exclusive clip fro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMAs news of choices for the 2015-2016 theater season continues to roll out, we learn that the Kravis on Broadway series at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts will feature th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:36PMIn The Beginning Jim Parsons was all about The Big Bang Theory...but then Broadway beckoned and he's become the ultimate proponent of Creationism! Tickets are now available to see the Em…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMAfter a marathon hosting gig on last night's 87TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS, Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka Broadway's 'It Shoulda Been You joined good friends Kelly Ripa and Mark …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMOn Monday, May 4, 2015, The New York Pops marks its 32nd birthday with a grand gala evening celebrating the work of music honoree Kathleen Marshall and music honoree Rob Marshall. Serving as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PM54 Below just welcomed a slew of stars to preview their upcoming shows, including Tony Award-winning songwriting team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty with Rose Hemingway March 15 The stars …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMThe Addams Family - Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 North Southport Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, is offering a limited number of $15 Industry tickets on Thursday, February 26th at 8pm. Discounte…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:12PMDidn't get to Canada last year to see Feore play Lear No problem, catch it in the cinema as the Stratford Festival launches film releases of its stage shows.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:07PMGet to know Matt Dengler, the new star of off-Broadway's Avenue Q, as he talks his Muppet spirit animal, personal Q lrycis and missing out on ski lift make-outs.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:05PMAwards shows can tell us a lot about ourselves, which is why I insist on watching them, even when I haven't consumed much of the entertainment content being awarded. Last night was a case in…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:04PMI try to accentuate the positive in even my most negative reviews, but seeing as how playwright Marc Camoletti is long dead and likely buried far from Newcity’s target readership, I’m go…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PMJason Watkins and Monica Dolan lead the cast of John Tiffany's production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PMOther winners included Linda Bassett, Drew McOnie and Secret Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:00PMLike many viewers of last night's Oscars, I immediately felt cognitive dissonance when Lady Gaga suddenly showed up as Maria von Trapp.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:00PMCheck out the stars who will take the stage at 54 Below in March.
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Oscar loves movies about show business, the conventional Hollywood wisdom goes, and the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday was no exception as "Birdman" took home four prizes, including the aw…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:53PMThe two-time Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes PRIVATE LIVES, THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN and composer David Amram scores for the films SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDAT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMBrooklyn's Gallery Players has announced casting for The Baker's Wife, the Stephen Schwartz-Joseph Stein musical best known for producing the driving ballad "Meadowlark,&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMTheFiled under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Broadway Brassy, burlesque, La Flaca, Temple of the Virgins
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:37PMIt’s been three years since Broadway.com Resident Artist Justin “Squigs” Robinson took a trip to Uganda, so we sent him on a mission with new The Book of Mormon stars Gavin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMIt is difficult to write about a flamenco concert without spewing clichés about the passion, the emotional intensity and the infectious rhythms: I’ll try to keep them to a minimum but I m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMName: Karsten OttoHometown: Dallas, TexasEducation: BFA: NYU- Atlantic Acting SchoolWho do you play in Kapow-i GoGo?: Mr. SmiiiiilesDescribe your character(s) in three words: Cute but danger…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:31PMEd Miliband has promised arts policy will be ‘at the heart of the government’ if Labour come to power in this year’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMIn January, twenty of the brightest talents on Broadway were featured in Broadway Sings PNK, the latest concert in the Broadway Sings concert series. The tribute concerts take the music of w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMBowery Ballroom, New YorkThe voice of Comedy Central delights in the unsophisticated, but underneath the lowbrow crudeness there’s considerable charm, technique and wit Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMFree readings of Mr. Doctor, a new musical co-written by Tony winner BD Wong, will be presented Feb. 27-28 at 5 PM in San Diego State University's Experimental Theatre, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMWilliamsburg is filled with artists and dreamers and drinkers. It’s a utopian land where whiskey flows and the past is forgotten. Well, at least that’s how it’s described in the bizarr…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:19PMNEVERMORE - The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, a unique theatrical experience combining haunting music, poetic storytelling, and stunning stagecraft to tell the fasc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMTouretteshero: Backstage in Biscuitland was part of the FIRST 2015 festival of solo performances at the Tristan Bates Theatre. This production had me smiling throughout, and contains some g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:15PM"If you see one God this year, make it him."
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe Broadway favorite took home an Oscar last night for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMPS Classics will release the new two-disc set.
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LOVE tells the story a man who posts an unusual personal ad: he is seeking someone to make love to him firstly, but then to kill and finally eat him. Petar Miloshevski plays both ‘X’, th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PMGet a taste of off-Broadway’s Big Love, starring Bobby Steggert and Rebecca Naomi Jones. The new play by Charles Mee opens February 23 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMName: Leslie GauthierHometown: West Hartford, CT (but I’ve been in NYC 7 1/2 years so, can we just say NYC, now?)Education: Fordham University - Acting & Directing. I highly recommend …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:55PMThe Wongs are American as apple pie. But when an indentured servant home one day, their world turns upside down. An irreverent new comedy by Lauren Yee that skewers every cliché about Asian…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 12:45PMBelow, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for the week of February 23- March 1, 2015.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMThis post is by Caleb Ryan
The fabric of the community of a small Jersey shore town is torn apart in the wake of the mysterious disappearance of young Leonard Pelkey. At first this one-man s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37PMI knew I would be bummed if I missed the Round House Theatre production of Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn. Everything I read told me, “John, you gotta see this.” So when I ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMA very rare Shakespeare First Folio discovered in a French library last year is making its way back to the UK. The book, which contains 36 plays including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and The Te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMThe course of Shakespeare’s comedy at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre, never did run smooth. “A Midsummer’s Abbey Nightmare” ran the headline of one review of the com…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PM“By the time the meeting broke up it looked as if a civil war were at hand and that, in an extreme rarity for the U.S. labor movement, a substantial force within a union was mobilizing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PMManhattan Theatre Club presents The World of Extreme Happiness, the new play by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, directed by Eric Ting. The World of Extreme Happiness opens tomorrow night, Tuesday, F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMThis just in from TEDxBroadway 2015, longtime social media superstar and BroadwayWorld.com contributor, BroadwayGirlNYC revealed her previously anonymous identity this morning at the industr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe box office for the new Broadway production of Gigi at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street opened this morning, February 23 at 1000 AM. Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMDid Ariana Grande rip off a classic funk song from the ’70s?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:17PMThe Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to b…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:17PMWelcome to Meet the Theatre, our film series about interesting theatre companies in New York City! Today we’re featuring Lesser America, which celebrates the USA’s cultural under…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:14PMLong before he became a major international stage actor with three Tony Awards under his belt, Mark Rylance used to run Shakespeare’s Globe. No surprise that he should be keen to try out i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMTo be or not to be? That’s not quite the question in this animated Hamlet video from Harry Venning, long-time illustrator of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMArs Nova announces tickets are now on sale for Bridget Everett Gets Fcked by Ars Nova, a one-night-only blow-out concert celebrating everyone's favorite badass btch, alt-cabaret priestess an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMUtah playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett talks about his new play, "A/Version of Events," about a Mormon couple at a crossroads.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 12:06PMHailed as the launchpad of the American theater, the two-time Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is responsible for developing more than 1,100 new works for the stage. Each sum…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMMatt Doyle, Ann Harada, and more star in the production.
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A PASSION PLAY FROM PLACID Like a baby on a breast, Lifeline Theatre thrives on adaptations of “coming of age” novels. Like many memory-rich predecessors, Jessica Wright Buha’s clear a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:58AMEvery year, Goodspeed is home to the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed, which brings together writing teams from across the country – often with collaborators l…
SOURCE: backstagebloggers.wordpress.com at 11:53AMClick for photos from Brooklynite, starring Matt Doyle, Nicolette Robinson and Nick Cordero. The new musical opens February 25, 2015 at the Vineyard Theatre!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTickets go on sale today for a spectacular one-night-only gala celebration to honour Kevin Spacey and recognise his 11 years as Artistic Director of The Old Vic. The event will take place on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMThe Dramatists Guild of America will be holding its annual award ceremony tonight, February 23, at The Harvard Club with David Henry Hwang as host. Several playwrights and composers will be …
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 11:47AMVirginia's Signature Theatre has just released the first trailer for the world premiere production of Soon, a new musical by Nick Blaemire Glory Days, A Little More Alive. Directed by Matthe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AM“The impetus was from both of us,” Greg Pierce said about the new musical Kid Victory, currently in previews at Signature Theatre. Pierce wrote the book and lyrics, to music by John Kand…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMThe Skivvies are back at it The duo returned to 54 Below last week, February 20, with special guests Randy Harrison, Lesli Margherita, Kirsten Wyatt, Erik Altemus, Max Crumm, Tori Scott, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMGaga turned to Twitter to share her joy and relief following her memorable Oscar performance
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMManhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of The World of Extreme Happiness, the new play by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, directed by Eric Ting, opens tomorrow night, Tuesday, February 24 at MTC�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:31AMDame Helen Mirren made her regal return to Broadway earlier this month in The Audience as—who else—Queen Elizabeth II. The Oscar winner reprises her Olivier-winning performance a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMThere's nothing quite as special as a daughter paying tribute to her late mother, which is exactly what Melissa Rivers did during the LRC Countdown Show, a pre-Oscars special broadcast on E
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AM'Our newly commissioned adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Jeffrey Hatcher Tuesdays with Morrie, Columbo will have its world premiere mid-February at t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMIt is the week before “Between,” Attack Theatre’s 20th anniversary dance piece that premieres Thursday, and four company members are in the midst of rehearsal ... seated around a table.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:25AMThe comedian Stan Laurel saw himself as a geordie after growing up in north-east England. Now his home town is celebrating his life with a new playShortly before he died, Stan Laurel reporte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMFelix Cross is stepping down as artistic director of theatre company Nitro after almost 20 years. Cross took up his post with the company in 1996, and will now focus solely on Nitro Australi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMRob Hinderliter and Dominick LaRuffa, Jr. of RampD Theatricals All the Way, On The Town, An American In Paris announced today that Carla Gugino Desire Under the Elms, Watchmen and Tony nomin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMLiverpool Everyman’s chief executive Deborah Aydon has said arts access for people from all backgrounds is essential to avoid “a set of monochrome, monotone voices”. The theatre’s Yo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMBefore he makes his Broadway debut in Allegiance, George Takei got “friki-friki” at Honeymoon in Vegas on February 22! The Star Trek favorite stopped by to catch the new musical …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMTickets are now on sale for the new Broadway comedy An Act of God starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons. The strictly limited engagement begins performances on Tuesday, May…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMNEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks' historical trilogy set during the Civil War has won a theater award honoring the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, one of the largest prizes given for dramatic w…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:07AMThe show-stopping number made us hope that it's only a matter of time before the 'Born This Way' singer graces the stage of the Great White Way. And if that wish were to come true, which mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMYes, my blog and subsequent podcast is called The Producer’s Perspective. And yes, as crazy as it sounds, I haven’t had a Broadway Producer on the podcast! Until now! And how fit…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMRECOMMENDED Brazil’s Grupo Corpo visits Chicago for the first time, adding some welcome fire to our cold winter months. The brothers Rodrigo and Paulo Pederneiras have created a muscular m…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:00AMRedmayne added to his Golden Globe and BAFTA last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMOur critic shuns booze at the theatre, and suggests more of us should do the same
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMLauper will be honored along with fellow 2015 inductees including Toby Keith and Jerry Garcia.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMSteppenwolf delves into the huge hair and severed heads of the 1790s.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play begins performances tonight.
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Just last week, stage and screen legend Liza Minnelli made a special appearance at the Los Angeles Italia closing night ceremony at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood, California. BroadwayW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMThis Lerner and Lowe tuner has found its wand’rin’ stars! Two-time Tony nominee Keith Carradine (Hands on a Hardbody, The Will Rogers Follies) and Alexandra Socha (Fun Home), alo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMLast year, Mikael Bucknavage was unrecognizable in a sea of green latex as the title character in “Shrek.” This year, the Rye Neck senior is 17 and decidedly less irritable. In f…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:48AMThe old saying “timing is everything” is definitely the case in Marc Camolettis’ Boeing, Boeing a comical show based on the story of an unsettled bachelor living in Paris. The show is …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:47AMThe following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 22nd, 2015.
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SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThe producers of the first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles are pleased to announce a general rush policy. A limited …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:44AMAfter selling out three upcoming concerts at the St. James Studios, where he will be joined by The Color Purple’s Cynthia Erivo, composer-lyricist Scott Alan will offer a solo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMThe American Masters documentary "August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand," which premiered on PBS Feb. 20, is now available for online viewing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMNew spins on old chestnuts, from the Greeks to the French golden age, mingle with contemporary tragedies, tete-a-tetes and a few tunes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:40AMDi and Viv and Rose will end its West End run more than two months early. Amelia Bullmore’s play – which stars Tamzin Outhwaite, Jenna Russell and Samantha Spiro – was originally booki…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMRatings for last night's 87TH ACADEMY AWARDS, which aired live on the ABC network, fell by double digits from last year's broadcast.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMAt last John Travolta has given us the real reason for that name flub at the 2014 Oscars—it was all Goldie Hawn's fault! The Grease and Saturday Night Fever icon explained it all t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:35AMJoely Richardson, who recently starred as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, will be featured in a film about another historic figure, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMAt last night's 87th Academy Awards, Lady Gaga stole the show with an impressive performance honoring the 50th anniversary of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. She sang a medley of songs from the movie in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AM大きな買い物のときなんかに、カードローンを使ったことのある人は多いだろう。これか … Continue reading →
SOURCE: The Backstage Buzz at 10:20AMKeke Palmer, who made history with her Main Stem debut as the first African-American woman to play Cinderella on Broadway, has teamed up with the the anti-bullying and girl-empow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMToday in 2006, The Pajama Game opened at the America Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 129 performances. The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7 Cents by Richard Bissell. It featu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMIn an interview first published on 24 October 1998, shortly after the great dramatist was voted playwright of the century, Roy Hattersley found the 83-year-old Arthur Miller relaxed and chee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMKevin Spacey’s 11-year tenure as artistic director at the Old Vic will be marked with a special gala performance featuring performances from Sting and Annie Lennox. The show, on April 19, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMLady Gaga's rousing musical tribte to THE SOUND OF MUSIC, a film celebrating its 50th Anniversary, dominated social media during last night's broadcast of the 87th Annual Academy Awards.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMMaureen McGovern, last on Broadway opposite Sutton Foster in Little Women, will bring her new concert act, Sing, My Sisters, Sing!, to 54 Below March 10-14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMGuests Ana Gasteyer, Megan Hilty and Ramin Karimloo joined Seth Rudetsky for the premiere episode of "OBSESSED Live!" An Iranin-born Canadian citizen, Karimloo currently stars …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMShakespeare’s Globe’s executive producer Tom Bird has stressed that London theatre must continue to draw influence from outside the city to avoid becoming a “bubble”. The Globe recen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:02AMMark Rylance swaps Thomas Cromwell for Philippe V of Spain
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that oversees the Academy Awards, issued the following statement today to explain Rivers' absense from the tribute
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMToday’s Highlights: * The Nether, by Jennifer Haley, directed by Jeremy Herrin, featuring Amanda hale (Morris), Ivanno Jeremiah (Woodnut), Stanley Townsend (Sims), David Calder (Doyle), a…
SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 09:55AMScreenLive will soon present on Thursday 23rd April 2015 a unique and ground-breaking evening in cinemas worldwide when the incomparable Elaine Paige brings her sell-out 50th Anniversary Far…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM"Dial 'M' for Murder" and "Philadelphia Story" open this week in Playhouse Square.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:51AMOn the next episode of HBO's LOOKING titled 'Looking for Gordon Freeman,' Patrick throws a Halloween party, but his revelry is thrown off by past and possible future loves.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMMark Rylance's many triumphs at Shakespeare's Globe are legendary. Now, just as a wider television audience is waking up to his genius through Wolf Hall, he makes his acting debut at the the…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:38AMYOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, the Pulitzer Prize-winning revival by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, played its final performance yesterday afternoon, February 22, 2015. The show began preview…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38AMImage by Darrell Berry It all started with Judy Garland. The American starlet may have found it impossible to escape her cracked past until her untimely death at only 47 years, but Judy Spea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:38AMThe film remake of "Annie," which garnered a mostly negative response from critics, received the Razzie Award, satirizing the worst achievements in film for 2014, for Worst Remake,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMPorter’s, CardiffWith brutal depictions of sexual violence and suicide in a venue this intimate, it’s sometimes as much as you can do to look at the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMThe first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, following the life of feminist art historian Heidi Holland, has ann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMCasting has been announced for The Twits, a new stage adaptation by Enda Walsh of Roald Dahl's story, that will begin performances at London's Royal Court April 7 prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMOn last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE Post-Oscar broadcast, Neil Patrick Harris got a visit from Jimmy who barged into his dressing room immediately after hosting the Awards show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29AMSaturday night's annual TWC Oscar Nominees Dinner previewed several performances from upcoming projects produced by Weinstein Live Entertainment. They included selections from Finding Neverl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AMA Meditation on Fear and Mass Hysteria How the twist of a current event can bring a work alive. Far from being an opera about how faith put to the ultimate test offers a path to redemption, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMAli MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal will star in the upcoming national tour of LOVE LETTERS, celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances. Following a cr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMJohn Travolta appeared on last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE post-Oscar broadcast and finally revealed the story behind why he mispronounced Idina Menzel at the Oscars last year.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21AMMichael Jackson died tragically six years ago. But did he ever really go away?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:19AMStraight from the smash show 'Beautiful The Carole King Musical', Tony winner Jessie Mueller and Tony nominee Jarrod Spector perform Broadway favorites and pop hits of the 60s and 70s togeth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMLast night's Academy Awards ceremony paid tribute to Hollywood's finest who passed away over the previous year.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AM“Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” by Suzan-Lori Parks wins the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for a theatrical work inspired by American history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMWhile those who study organizational development and psychology have developed myriad ways to analyze the culture of institutions, I have my own simplistic way of evaluating culture: I find …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:05AMThis post is by John Hoglund
The eclectic world of cabaret is unique in the entertainment industry. It allows artists' to connect with an audience in an intimate setting. Today, the clubs a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:00AMAn international tour of Mamma Mia! will visit Israel later this year, despite the musical’s director – Phyllida Lloyd – pledging a cultural boycott of the country. Lloyd is among …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Are Patricia Hodge and Janet Suzman right to suggest audiences are less intelligent than they once were? Vote now in our poll.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMGöran Rosenberg has written a calm yet passionate account of events after Auschwitz, a memoir marked by great intelligence and equally great emotional intensity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AMThe 87th annual Oscars took place last night, Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood amp Highland Center in Hollywood, and were televised live on the ABC Television Net…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMAt the 87th Annual Academy Awards, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson took the stage to perform during the ceremony’s in memoriam segment. It was a touching moment, but we couldn’t hel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:46AMMove over, Carrie, it's Gaga's turn! At the 2015 Oscars, Lady Gaga paid tribute to The Sound of Music in honor of the film’s fiftieth anniversary, surprising us all with plenty…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:42AM Review by JK Clarke Hope. It’s at the core of so many of our value propositions like the American Dream and religious faith....
The post Wr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:30AMA burst of colour, movement and song herald the opening of the Glasgow Academy Musical Theatre Arts showcase, which this year is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMDirector Abderrahmane Sissako wants the viewer to have the golden-age city in mind when, today, 2015, we see how terrible life has become there.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMConsidering so many of the world's greatest actors have played the title role in Shakespeare's "King Lear," I had to ask Colm Feore if he was intimidated about tackling the role — which he…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:07AMGood 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 MAD MEN's Elisabeth Moss leads THE HEI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMJoshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which received its U.K. premiere in a season at Bath's Ustinov Studio in 2013 before transferring to London's St. James Theatre, where it is currently r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM“A roughly $21 million balance exists on the total purchase price of $24.75 million.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMToday is the birthday of the great silent comedy actor Henry Bergman (1868-1946). Originally from San Francisco, he began acting on stage around 1888, making it to Broadway (where he appea…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AMAn impassioned, two-hour, open-mike meeting about the future of Los Angeles County's small-theater community Saturday at the Renberg Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center in Hollywood drew …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMAlso: Tony and Pulitzer winner Craig Wright has a new play off-Broadway
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM
Below is a transcript of the speeches by the writers of the Oscar-winning song “Glory,” from the film Selma: Lonnie Lynn (Common): First, I would like to thank God, who lives in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52AMYou may have noticed we’ve made a few changes to The Stage website. It’s much more than just a lick of paint,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMTHR's awards analyst performs a post-mortem on the winners, the show and his own predictions.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:19AMCriterion, London: A burst of colour, movement and song herald the opening of the Glasgow Academy Musical Theatre Arts showcase, which this year is celebrating 21 years of preparing students…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMThe promise of Jennie Lee’s 1965 white paper has yet to be fulfilled. But we must make the arts central to everyday life – and with the election so close, it’s the perfect time to lobb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
The new musical TABLE, penned by New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik and Academy Award winner David Shire, begins a month-long 'lab' workshop today, February 23. Under the wings of the Long W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonClaire van Kampen mixes story and song superbly in a tale about the celebrated castrato Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMJanuary and February are AYT Career Central months with guest blogs and features from arts professionals. Our fourth feature in this exciting series is from Amber Massie-Blomfield, Execu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15AMThe box office for the new Broadway production of Gigi at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street will open today, February 23 at 1000 AM. Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's bel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07AMRichmond’s Orange Tree theatre was the big winner at this year’s Off West End Theatre Awards, winning in five categories. The winners were announced yesterday, with Orange Tree artistic …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMJames Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
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There’s wondrous magic going on at Dixon Place in James Lecesne’s astonishing one-man…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:07AMCelebrating its 10th year, Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW, under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director David Staller, presents its 101st production, Shaw's 1892 comedy Widowe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06AMWith its PACE program and a tradition of performing arts excellence, Mamaroneck High School is an arts-centric school. But for years, if a Mamaroneck kid wanted to be in a big-book musical, …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:05AMPhoto by Brinkhoff Mögenburg It is not characteristic of an actor to wish to shun the limelight. Stereotypically acting professionals are renowned for craving their names in lights or stan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:04AMThe annual conference that brings together innovative minds and industry experts to help shape the future of Broadway -- TEDxBroadway -- begins today, February 23, 2015 at New World Stages 3…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03AMWhether on Broadway or at a local high school, theater is full of tradition. Some schools have senior circles where the about-to-graduate cast members bid a tearful farewell at the final cur…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:01AMRichmond’s Orange Tree theatre was the big winner at this year’s Off West End Theatre Awards, winning in five categories. The winners were announced yesterday, with Orange Tree artistic …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMHere’s are glimpses of what I saw at a recent rehearsal at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where Chris Briante is filling the considerable shoes of the now-retired M.A. Haskin. When…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00AM
The Cutting Room NYC presents Wendy's Shadow in Concert, tonight, Feb. 23. Doors open at 630 with show at 730.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59AMThe critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year series fifteenth season will bring 100 years of Broadway history in four incredible evenings.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Ashley Page, one-time artistic director of Scottish Ballet, makes his Scottish Opera debut directing a deliciously abstract and dance-orientated production of Orfeo e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMSignature Theatre's production of BIG LOVE by Charles Mee, directed by Tina Landau, began on February 5, 2015. The production runs through March 15, 2015 with an official opening slated for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44AMThe first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles begins performances tonight, February 23, 2015, with an official opening o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: This production has moments that are utterly transporting: the combination of the human voice at its most dizzyingly pristine and the glitter of candlelight …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMElaine Paige's sell-out 50th Anniversary Farewell Concert I'm Still Here, held as part of her national U.K. tour at the Royal Albert Hall last October in her eighth appearance th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17AM
Capitol theatre, SydneyInspired by another royal love story, Graeme Murphy’s bold and daring update of the Russian classic tells a deeply human story, swans or no swans Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:56AMAll those months playing German wannabe rockstar Hedwig on Broadway paid off big time for Neil Patrick Harris, who scooted during the 87th Oscars ceremony from his dressing room to the stage…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30AMDuring its original record-breaking run at the New London Theatre, Cats used to advertise with the tagline ‘Now and forever’. Nothing, of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMDuring its original record-breaking run at the New London Theatre, Cats used to advertise with the tagline ‘Now and forever’. Nothing, of course, lasts forever – except, perhap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFrom a Belgian circus debut to the climax of Secret Theatre, here’s what’s opening and closing this week Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
In The Heights won the Best Musical Tony in 2008. Melbourne independent company StageArt presents the Australian premiere and it’s an absolute winner. It nails the tone of a show that…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:43AMFind out all about the Broadway-bound AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMHelen Mirren, who will begin performances of Peter Morgan's THE AUDIENCE tonight, February 14th, will be a guest on LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMGraham Moore, 33, in accepting the 2015 Oscar for adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game, gave the following acceptance speech: “When I was 16, I tried to kill myself because I fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29AMFirst-time Oscar host jokes, but with no traditional opening monologue
SOURCE: USA Today at 12:29AMThe hills were alive with the sound of Gaga on “The Sound of Music” at Sunday’s Oscars.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:20AMAdele Dazeem, meet Glom Gazingo.
SOURCE: USA Today at 12:10AMWant an Oscar? Make a film about Broadway (preferably shot to look like one take). Birdman, starring Michael Keaton and practically Broadway itself, took home the Academy Award for Best Pict…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06AMBIRDMAN has won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04AMThe ONE NIGHT STAND contest is heating up and new bonus features are now available on Vimeo, as well
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMWendy's Shadow, a musical based on the novel "Peter and Wendy" by J.M. Barrie — which had a reading Nov. 24, 2014, at the Irvington Town Hall Theater — is p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs Michael Sottile (Inappropriate) collected real journal entries written by teens over several years, he found one thing in common: They all used the phrase "one day." The raw, sc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe annual TEDxBroadway conference, bringing together innovative minds and industry experts to help shape the future of Broadway, is held Feb. 23 at New World Stages, beginning at 11 AM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA revival of Patrick Marber's 1997 play Closer opens Feb. 23 (following previews that began Feb. 12), for a run through April 4, with a cast that includes Rufus Sewell.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM“Blue-collar” and “Broadway” are not words you immediately associate with one another. While one brings up images of the grit, dirt and sweat that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCat, a one-man show about a former member of the Cats cast who was fired opening night, begins performances at the Courtyard Theatre in Northern Ireland Feb. 23 following its sold-ou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAaron Clifton Moten and John Douglas Thompson star in the premiere of Young Man Langston, a dramatic reading from the letters of Langston Hughes, Feb. 23 at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe West End transfer of Jennifer Haley's The Nether, which received its U.K. premiere at London's Royal Court in Jeremy Herrin's co-production with Headlong Theatre last sum…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway’s Future Songbook Series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul — continues Feb. 23 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Dramatists Guild of America's annual awards ceremony is held Feb. 23 at The Harvard Club in New York. David Henry Hwang hosts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe annual Broadway By the Year series, which is created and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall, kicks off Feb. 23 at 8 PM with The Broadway Musicals of 1916-1940.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw, which is under the leadership of founding artistic director David Staller, continues Feb. 23 at 7 PM with a reading of George Bernard Shaw&rs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office for the new Broadway production of Gigi, starring Vanessa Hudgens in the title role, opens Feb. 23 at 10 AM at the Neil Simon Theatre. Broadway performances are scheduled to b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1960 The Dublin Gate Theatre will hear Chimes at Midnight. Orson Welles directs his adaptation of Shakespeare and Holinshead.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRob McClure, who stars in Broadway's Honeymoon in Vegas, returns to New Milford High School for a benefit concert Feb. 23 in New Jersey.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, following the life of feminist art historian Heidi Holland, begins …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGoing through Mad Men withdrawal? Yep, us too. While you patiently wait for the last seven episodes, see Elisabeth Moss in The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway, beginning performances Febru…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM"Following the example of many a ballet gala, the crowd-pleasing nature of duets set a tone for a high octane anniversary program." Deirdre Towers, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM 
