The Joffrey Ballet's spring program of "New Works" has come with a rare change of venue (with the NFL draft being staged at the Auditorium Theatre, the company has had to move to the Cadilla…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:56PMChita Rivera returns to Broadway in her first original role in more than two decades as the star of Kander and Ebb's The Visit, which officially opened on Broadway April 23 at the Lyceu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10PMThey are the hardest working, most resourceful, and most poorly paid people in Chicago show business. And that just might be why the annual list of nominations for Non-Equity Jeff Awards is …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:06PMSean Graney's epic production of “All Our Tragic,” a 12-hour adaptation of every Greek play, emerged at the top of the heap of nominations for the Joseph Jefferson Awards honoring excell…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:05PMUPDATE: Here is a full list of the nominations for the Joseph Jefferson Awards honoring excellence in non-Equity Chicago theater during the 2014-15 season. These nominations were changed Apr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:05PMChita Rivera takes another turn on Broadway as Kander and Ebb's muse.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMManhattan Theatre Club brings New Orleans revelry to Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PM
Chita Rivera triumphantly returns to Broadway at an ageless 82 in The Visit
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:54PMThe Visit
Broadway, Lyceum Theatre
Reviewed by Dan Dinero
BOTTOM LINE: Likely one of the most divisive shows of this Broadway season, Kander and Ebb’s unforgettable The Visit is a must-se…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:45PMAnother opening.... another show.... and this one is another chosen investment. No matter what they say, I could not be prouder of this production. Here's what all the real criti…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:38PM“My God, it’s even worse than I remembered.” What an entrance line! And Chita Rivera relishes every nuance of it in her elegant turn as the mysterious woman in “The…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMas Stephen Belber sees it, every community needs a touchstone. And his title character brings that touchstone home. In Duff we trust
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:21PMArtistic Director Darko Tresnjak, the Tony Award winner for Best Director of a Musical for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, will anchor Hartford Stage's 2015-16 season from May 12-Jun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19PMwell-structured, skillfully drawn, and slyly entertaining. If only it were less hollow
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10PMThis Kander& Ebb musical finally makes it to Broadway. . .and it's a triumphant landing as piloted by John Doyle and starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees .
SOURCE: at 10:09PMNot enough. An interesting show, to be sure; but in this crowded April, with at least ten intriguing new productions on view, I wonder whether this Visit is quite worth the visit.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04PMChita Rivera stars in the Broadway debut of Kander and Ebb's 'The Visit.'
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:03PMLisa D'Amour's new play arrives on Broadway, directed by Joe Mantello.
SOURCE: USA Today at 10:02PMIt’s Chita Rivera’s world: We just live in it. This works out very well for the Kander and Ebb musical “The Visit,” in which the charismatic star plays a billionairess...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMHungry for clichés? “Airline Highway” is chock full of them. A hooker with a heart of gold, a gruff handyman, a sassy gender-bending African-American, a lonely stripper: Every character…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMIn Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy, the characters would rather not think about the unhappy past or the foggy future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMs. Rivera stars as a wealthy woman who returns to her Swiss hometown with a tempting proposal of murder in this macabre, long-gestating musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMNEW YORK — With most of its stellar original cast from the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago intact, Lisa D'Amour's "Airline Highway" moves to Broadway as an affectionate updating of Lanfo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMSixteen-year-old Zoe has come to New Orleans with her mother’s boyfriend, Greg, to visit the Hummingbird Motel. When Greg lived there, before he cleaned up his image and moved to Atlanta, …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM"Beware a woman scorned" are words to heed when it comes to Chita Rivera's character in "The Visit."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00PMIn Lisa D'Amour's "Airline Highway," named for the home to the motel, a group of misfits take care of each other and hold one another back from the vices that tempt them.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00PMNEW YORK - When I first saw "The Visit" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2001, I wrote that here was a strange, difficult, slow-to-build musical that could still pierce the skin with its…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMNEW YORK — With most of its stellar original cast from the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago intact, Lisa D'Amour's "Airline Highway" moves to Broadway as an affectionate updating of Lanford …
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Review By: Sandi Durell If you were the richest woman in the world, would you spend your lifetime strategizing on how to wreak...
The post Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:49PMThe Visit opens on Broadway tonight, April 23, at the Lyceum Theatre! Congrats to our guests Mary Beth Peil (Sondheim Ensemblists & Half Hour) and Elena Shaddow (Les Miserables) on their…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 09:38PMThe Daily Mail writes that GYPSY's Stephen Mear has joined the new production of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG as choreographer.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37PMCameo seeks fringe participant partners:
The Cameo cinema on Home Street is looking for Edinburgh fringe participants in an innovative programme to help curate this August's season of films.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:34PMLisa D'Amour's colorful mosaic of a community of down-and-outliers living in a cheap motel on the edge of New Orleans comes to Broadway via Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:15PMThe “Troubles” of Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s bring out the troubles faced by the residents of Belfast in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Nate Rufus Edelman’s The B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMA new stage musical version of “Anastasia,” the story of the youngest daughter of the last emperor of Russia, will premiere next year at Hartford Stage with a team of Broadway ta…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMDeath becomes her. Or not. Chita Rivera returns to the stage in Kander and Ebb’s The Visit, a dismally depressing one-act musical adapted from the Swiss play by Friedrich Dürrenmattthat t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00PMBroadway legend Chita Rivera reunites with the equally celebrated team behind some of her signature shows in this final collaboration between John Kander and Fred Ebb.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed earlier rumors of Cats' return to the London Palladium. The Daily Mail reports that the musical will run from October 23, 2015 to January 2, 2016 at the ven…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54PMAirline Highway, Lisa D’Amour’s loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is fu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PMProducer hopeful for Edinburgh dates:
Leith-based musicals producer Music & Lyrics Limited has announced a new touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with West Yorkshire Playhous…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:48PMColin Donnell and Patti Murin, who recently starred opposite each other in Encores LADY, BE GOOD, will return to the stage in Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN at The Muny in St. Louis beginning J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45PMAirline Highway, Lisa D’Amour’s loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is fu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Shahid Parvez Khan comes from a long line – seven generations – of musicians and sitar masters. This fact is emphasized in both the musician's own an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:37PMKillian Donnelly and Matt Henry are being measured up for Kinky Boots, as the two actors have been picked to lead the award-winning Broadway show into the Adelphi Theatre, writes BAZ BAMIGBO…
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:31PMWhen the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from “Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!” to “half-Jewish, half-gypsy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMOne of the unrecognized ironies of the whole Actors' Equity brouhaha is that the union representing actors seems to understand better than most that the Los Angeles theater scene cannot rema…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMNicole told me she will portray Rosalind Franklin, a pioneer of DNA research in London in the Fifties, in the UK premiere of Photograph 51, writes Baz Bamigboye.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 08:28PMManhattan Theatre Club's presentation of Steppenwolf TheatreCompany's production of Airline Highway, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour Detroit, directed by two-time Tony A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27PMThe Visit, the final musical ever by legendary Tony Award-winning duoJohn Kanderand Fred Ebb, celebrates its opening tonight, April 23, 2015 at the Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street. Let's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22PMThe Daily Mail writes that West End and Broadway vet Rafe Spall is in final talks to join his father, Timothy Spall, in Harold Pinter's THE CARETAKER, directed by Matthew Warchus at the Old …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMLisa D’Amour's Airline Highway, a story set on the colorful fringes of New Orleans' skid row, opened on Broadway April 23 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre following perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19PM Review by Marilyn Lester From the outset, John McDermott’s bifurcated set is a tipoff. A gritty, grey area of brick wall and barbed...
The …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:13PM“Clear the flop wall at Joe Allen! We’re going to need the space!” That’s how one wag sizes up the situation on Broadway this week. To accommodate the coming bloodbath,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:11PMClaire Zachanassian (Rivera) fled her dreary European town a disgraced, ruined girl, and she returns to Brachen a vengeful billionairess, planning to exact revenge on Anton Schell (Rees), th…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:09PMBrooklyn Studios for Dance launches on Monday, April 27th. More information, including a full schedule of events, can be found at bksd.org.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:09PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Killian Donnelly as Charlie and Matt Henry as Lola will lead KINKY BOOTS in the West End.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Trust a John Kander-Fred Ebb musical to make the sunny color of vitality and youth positively menacing....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:07PM JOHN PIZZARELLI RETURNS TO CAFÉ CARLYLE WITH STRICTLY BOSSA NOVA II, FEATURING DANIEL JOBIM, APRIL 21-MAY 2, 2015 by: Susan Hasho &…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:07PMTragedy and comedy share a tighter bond than is usually assumed. After all, doesn't laughter make the dark more devastating, and immense anguish find an unparalleled release in laughter?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMPerformer and writer Naomi Livingston will be joining the AussieTheatre team from next week as a regular columnist. An actor, musician, composer and first time mother, Livingston is current…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMOutcasts and losers link The Visit and Airline Highway, the two final entries in 2014-2015 Tony Awards sweepstakes (the nominations for this year’s awards will be announced on Tuesday …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM
THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND ITS END What do you do after a revolution? Tyrant toppled, lives sacrificed, people feeling entitled to reward, reformers aflame with rapidly diversifying ideas. M…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PMWhen the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from “Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!” to “half-Jewish, half-gypsy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PMJoin designer Danielle Nicole and the cast of Beautiful - The Carole King Musical for some kind of wonderful
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMWe've been shivering with antici...pation about Fox's new reboot of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so we asked you to pick the top 10 actors you'd like to see tackle sweet transv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:30PMGlee star Billy Lewis Jr., Adam Kantor Rent, The Last 5 Years, Emily Padgett Side Show, pictured, Amma Osei Rock of Ages, Ryann Redmond Bring it On, IfThen, Heather Brorsen Avenue Q and Ashl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMFull disclosure: I have known and loved Chita Rivera and her talent since we were virtually toddlers. I was then (we’re talking the early 1950s) a baby agent and she had just emerged f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01PMA new musical inspired by the legend of a surviving member of the Royal Romanov family will make its world premiere at Hartford Stage in the spring of 2016, making it the theater's first ori…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM
Broadway Records has announced that the newest addition to its Live at 54 BELOW series, 'Marin Mazzie Make Your Own Kind of Music - LIVE at 54 BELOW' will be released on May 12th, 2015. The …
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Set in South Wales in the 1950’s, "The Unexpected Guest" (first produced in London in 1958) is a mystery surrounding the events that led up to the death of Richard Wa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:57PM (see video by Sandi Durell) Nominations for the 2015 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this afternoon at 54 Below by previous Drama Desk winners Judith Light...
Th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:56PMGloria Allred: press conference intentionally held before Cosby’s last tour dateCosby has never been charged in more than three dozen allegations Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PMNew Orleans without Mardi Gras is like a New York day without traffic, right?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PMSee Academy Award-winnng actress Helen Mirren, currently starring on Broadway in THE AUDIENCE, describe her experience watching the new Broadway musicalFINDING NEVERLAND, currently playing a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMThe cult classic musical Reefer Madness, with book and lyrics byKevin Murphyand book and music byDan Studney, was presented in concert at 54 Below on April 19 and 20, featuringoriginal cast …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMIn the 1940s and ’50s summer theatres popped up all over the place, particularly in New England, where every other town boasted of one. Westport, Ct. had two; Hyannis, Falmouth, Dennis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMWatch Video | Listen to the AudioIn our NewsHour Shares series, we show you things that caught our eye recently on the web. What about you? Leave your suggestions in the comments below, or t…
SOURCE: PBS at 06:15PMH. relies on clever editing manipulations and pithy reaction shots rather than on flashy special effects.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:11PMA 2015 edition of NYPL's ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMIn Lauren Gunderson’s bittersweet drama, two high school students are thrown together to work on a school project about Walt Whitman’s poem Leaves of Grass. Gradually the pair forge an u…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:02PMA UK stage smash hits the big screen
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:01PMThe trouble with the general election is that while everybody talks about money, nobody talks about ideas. We know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. This might seem to be a …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PMGo inside the announcement ceremony at 54 Below.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
Bottoms up! Brian d’Arcy James and Christian Borle welcome the stars to the Renaissance at the Something Rotten! opening night.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMFar from detached or academic, the work on offer at the Santiago a Mil festival showed theatremakers in the thick of politics, race and culture.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:49PMThe festival founder talks about keeping theatre vital in a country recovering from dictatorship and facing new challenges.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 23, 2015 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway RT @AaronMeier: Video: How many #Bro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:48PMMichael Riedel's theatre tome is set for release at last
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMSome companies that have made U.S./Mexico theatrical exchanges central to their work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PMThe word “modern” has confused and polarized arts patrons for centuries. Rarely a simple delineation between current and historical work, it refers to a stylistic
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:41PMLucia Cox is a director, writer and producer. Her one-woman show, Blackbird was a 2012 Manchester Theatre Award Nominee which then transferred to New York in 2013 with Schmucks The…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:40PMA dance legend talks AN AMERICAN IN PARIS with its directorchoreographer
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMOliver Devoti's journey into acting is an unconventional one, taking him from the British Army to the Hollywood film set, with more in-between. He graduated from the Manchester School of The…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:35PMHelen Mirren, "thespian royalty," as Tina Brown described her, appeared at Brown's Women in the World summit on Thursday afternoon. Unlike the serious dialogues about sexual violence…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:34PMAge: “My grandmother doesn't have her birthdate on her tombstone and my mom lies about her age on doctor's forms, so I have to keep up with tradition.”
Hometown: New Yor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMBucks County Playhouse BCP announces 'Galavant In The Garden,' a spring garden party benefiting the theater on May 9, featuring a special preview performance of Tony Award-winning actor Alan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the national awardees of the 47th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival KCACTF, which was held April 13-1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PMMy play about the 1915 genocide, seen and developed on U.S. stages, is now being presented in the language and home of my ancestors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:23PMFor those who witnessed the stunning Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics hosted by China in Beijing, the artistic talent and cultural splendor of those memorable Chine…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:22PM926 guitarists gathered at the Ed Mirvish Theatre on Thursday to sing and play "Falling Slowly" with the cast of Once.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:22PMThe new Broadway-bound musical ONE FOR MY BABY, which features the music of celebrated composer Harold Arlen,will have a special one-night-only abridged version of the show on April 30th at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMThe Ensemblist podcast’s Nikka Graff Lanzarone and Mo Brady visit Paul Canaan, Sean Patrick Doyle, Joey Taranto and the ensemblists of Broadway’s Kinky Boots.Listen to Joey Taranto on th…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 05:15PMKinky Boots’ Joey Taranto, Bring It On’s Gregory Haney and Hairspray’s Blake Hammond talk about being “DRessed as A Girl on Broadway” on The Ensemblist podcast. Download on iTunes…
SOURCE: theensemblist.com at 05:13PMJudith LightTwo-time Drama Desk and Tony Award winner, Other Desert Cities, The Assembled Parties andJessie MuellerDrama Desk, Tony, and Grammy Award winner, Beautiful TheCarole KingMusical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMDarren Criss is preparing for a glam Broadway return
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMHamilton, the smash hit Off-Broadway musical about America’s most controversial founding father, is at the top of the list for the 2015 Drama Desk Awards, reaping 13 nominations including …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:09PMChita Rivera returns to Broadway in her first original role in more than two decades as the star of Kander and Ebb's The Visit, which officially opened on Broadway April 23 at the Lyceum…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PMA new block of seats to the musical HAMILTON on Broadway go on sale Friday, April 24 at 10 a.m. Tickets are available for purchase through March 27, 2016 via phone, online or at the box offi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:07PMSundance Institute has announced the nine projects selected from 827 submissions for its highly sought-after 2015 Theatre Lab. The program has nurtured such projects as A Gentleman's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMIan McKellen is one of the great Shakespearean actors of his generation. His portrayals of Macbeth, King Lear, Iago and Prospero are legendary in theater circles. And yet most of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:05PM1) “Don’t you want to pay actors?” sounds to me a lot like “Don’t you love your country?” 2) Speaking of paying actors, one of the “big liesR…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 05:00PMDan Lauria's brand-new comedy gets its off-Broadway premiere.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMSt. Louis' most-Shazamed tracks, brought to you exclusively by Go! Magazine and STLtoday.com.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:00PMOther highlights of the 2015 Proms include Seth MacFarlane performing a tribute to Frank Sinatra
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00PM
You get an award! You get an award! Everybody gets an award! Well…not really! Another set of nominations for awards for the New York theatre 2014-15 season have hit the press! We’…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:56PMAn intriguing and sexy new video spot for THE VISIT
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Defaa’s direction is imaginative and is aided by the sensational choreography of Rayna Hirt, in creating precise, amazingly arresting production numbers with …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:52PMFinding Neverland sails onto Broadway at last, with the reviews to prove it
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMMatthew Rodin, host of YouTube's 'Broadway News Bulletin' and soon to be featured on a BroadwayWorld exclusive web series, was at the opening of the completely new original musical comedy So…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMBITTERSWEET Unlike the hunt in “Bengal Tiger In The Bagdad Zoo”, Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, I found myself on the hunt for some rhyme and reason to be excited or enthralled …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:44PMIf you’re a fan of The Walking Dead then you will absolutely love The Generation of Z. This site-specific and immersive experience is set in 2015 London, where a highly contagious vir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:36PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Amanda Seyfried Tapped for Hurlyburly
The Way We Get By's Amanda Seyfried and Marin Ireland will join original 2005 rev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMUte Lemper contains worlds, and moons, and each time she comes to Washington, she brings a different world, a different song with her. Lemper is in most circles considered a cabaret singer, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PMThe completely original new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Grammy Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMA talented pair make beautiful music together
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMThe 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards nominations were hosted by Jesse Mueller and Judith Light on April 23 at 54 BelowJesse Mueller, Judith Light: Photo: Barry Gordin
The 2014–15 Drama Desk…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:30PMFacing competition from that red hot up-and-comer down the street, one Will Shakespeare, the Bottom brothers have to come up with a new hit or see their troupe out on the streets. The amusin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMCelebrity stylist George Brescia – who co-hosted Dress Up! Live: The 2014 Tony Awards Red Carpet, presented by Playbill.com and Stage17 &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMCheck out this exclusive blooper reel from season of Supreme Tweeter, starring Game of Thrones' Harry Lloyd.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:24PMScreen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for filmed Conversations QampA series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the union…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMNominations for the 2015 annual Drama Desk Awards (which includes Broadway, Off Broadway and 'Off Off Broadway" productions) were announced Thursday afternoon at New York's 54 Below by previ…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:23PMFollowing a year of severe financial problems and with an inability to fill London’s largest theatre, it is perhaps unsurprising that English National Opera’s 2015/16 season is a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMThe New Group has announced that Amanda Seyfried, who will make her New York stage debut later this month, will join Bobby Cannavale and Ethan Hawke in the one-night-only reading of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMHow big of a hit is Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway-bound show Hamilton? The rap musical about "the ten-dollar founding father without a father" has been so busy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMGood things come in tidy packages in the Joffrey's "New Works" program. Taking advantage of the Cadillac Palace Theatre's relative intimacy, through May 3, four chamber pieces offer a unique…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PMEarlier today,Judith Light and Jessie Muellerannounced nominations for the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a chart that illustrates the number of Drama League …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMPegged as Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! is a neat balance of slapstick gags, drunken mayhem, impromptu verse recitals, and most pertinently, a grand display of ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00PMThe company will kick off in September with Greek Festival.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThinking of taking a trip to the world's largest arts festival and don't know where to start? Read our handy guide
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:00PMThe annual event benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
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Growing up in Akron, Ohio, Lisa Howard always loved listening to musicals and was constantly singing. “I liked to perform, and I discovered that I was actually good at it,” she r…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:58PMMezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, a native of Rome, Georgia, is singing the role of Fricka in the Houston Grand Opera production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. “Die
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:57PMAlso making strong showings were 'An American in Paris,' 'Something Rotten!,' 'The Visit' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:52PMCast members from the original 1968 Broadway production of Hair were part of a multi-generational concert retrospective of the landmark musical at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Zen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMRuthie Henshall needs scant introduction as one of the West End’s leading musical theater lights, with credits spanning the Atlantic that include Chicago, Miss Saigon, Putting It Toget…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:50PMFull Given Name: Rusty Ross. Was I given this name? Yes. At birth? Yes! Oh, you mean, is it printed on my birth certificate? Funny, I don't have that document in my pocket just now...Home…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 03:49PMShock Treatment is like The Rocky Horror Show’s underachieving younger sibling. Sure, it has its own charm and can be quite entertaining but it will never leave its older sibling’s shado…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:47PMKelsey Grammer stopped by today's LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL to chat about his new musical FINDING NEVERLAND
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMDon't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events!
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMPure Theatrical Magic. Review will appear in North Jersey Media Newspapers and northjersey.com
SOURCE: cervellionstage.blogspot.com at 03:43PMStar casting and Dianne Paulus may make this Peter Pan back stage fiction critic proof . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:42PMby Kelly McInnisBox Office Manager"All the world's a lie, and all the men and women merely liars."- Dorante in David Ives' The LiarView image | gettyimages.comWho knew that 38-year…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 03:41PMMatt Bober revealed that his storyline will be intertwined with that of series starLady Gaga.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMClassic Stage Company has announced its 49th season: Among the artists who will be part of the season are Tony winner Tonya Pinkins, Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham ("The Grand B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMNominations for the 2015 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced April 23 at 54 Below. Previous Drama Desk winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller made the announcement, which included 13 no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMComedian, who plays the Danforth Music Hall on May 3, says she doesn’t like to hurt people’s feelings.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:32PM“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered” (Corinthians 13:4-5)…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:31PMMost critics despise adding a letter grade to their review. But watching Broward Stage Door’s admirable production of A Chorus Line kept bringing up over and over the idea of a “B” and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:30PMWith the 2014-15 Broadway season coming to a close today (April 23 is the cut-off date for eligibility for the 69th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a look at the current sea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMBelow, watch Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and more cover Beyonce in this brand new clip from PITCH PERFECT 2
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PM'Hamilton' and 'An American In Paris' are among top nominees for 2015 Drama Desk Awards.
SOURCE: USA Today at 03:19PMAt one point in his Chicago show at Thalia Hall in Pilsen Wednesday night, Simon Amstell, the popular young British comedian known for the quiz show "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" and now on a k…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:19PMName: Dena BlizzardHometown: Moorestown, NJEducation: I have a bunch of degrees in biology and gerontology, none of which help my current career in stand-up and theatre. My husband is bitter…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:18PMBroadway and film star Liza Minnelli traded her microphone for a pen April 23, writing an op-ed for the newspaper USAToday to mark the end of a Broadway era.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMLin-Manuel Miranda’s Off Broadway buzzmagnet “Hamilton” dominated the Drama Desk Awards nominations, with the musical landing 13 bids on the organization’s 2015 list.…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10PMTheatre legend Chita Rivera returns to Broadway as the revenge-seeking star of the new Kander and Ebb musical The Visit. The Tony-winning actress-singer-dancer, who has been …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMGrammy Award winner Brandy Norwood is getting so excited to make her Broadway debut in the hit musical Chicago that she posted her R&B version of "Roxie" on her official Fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMBroadway history is usually made by stars and writers, but a record is being set by set designer Scott Pask April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM"Hamilton" and "An American in Paris" were 1-2 in nominations for the 2014-15 Drama Desk Awards, announced Thursday afternoon, with 13 and 12 respectively. While those sh…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:00PMSomething Rotten! and The Visit are also in the running in several categories.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMHathaway plays The Pilot in George Brant's new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMSam Yates directs the UK premiere of Joh Patrick Stanley's 'quietly exquisite' drama
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:00PM
The generosity of the American theatre community shined brightly as six weeks of spring fundraising raised another record-breaking grand total for Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS. The 29th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMAward season continued this afternoon when Broadway actresses and Tony Award winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller announced the nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards at 54 Bel…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 02:49PMDame Edna, uber-megastar, told a packed house in Washington's National Theatre that she had been eagerly looking forward to performing in "the intellectual capital of the United States" -- b…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:44PMSundance Institute today announced the nine projects selected from 827 submissions for its 2015 Theatre Lab at Sundance Resort in Utah, July 6-26. Under the supervision of Artistic Director …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMNEW YORK — As Shakespeare would say, "We have seen better days."The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has found that less than 8 percent of the nation's top universities require Eng…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:43PM(This post is a part of Josh Friedman’s Leadership U[niversity] Continuing Ed grant activities.) Several years ago, my wife and I were getting tired of the same date night conversati…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:38PMNominations for the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on April 23 by Tony winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller. Hamilton topped the list with 13 nods, with An American in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:37PMMatthew Morrison, Laura Michelle Kelley and the cast of Broadway's FINDING NEVERLAND performed the hit song 'Believe' on this morning's 'Good Morning America.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMThe completely original new musical comedySomething Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winnerCasey NicholawThe Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Grammy Award wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PM2015 DRAMA DESK AWARDSNOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEDAwards will be presented Sunday, May 31st at The Town Hallwww.DramaDeskAwards.com(Thursday, April 23, 2015) - Nominations for the 2015 Annual Drama…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 02:34PMMiriam González Durántez’s Inspiring Women campaign paired girls from 15 comprehensive schools with artists, directors, actors, authors and designers Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMAfter William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.”
April 23 is believed to be the day of William Sha…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:29PMNominations for the 2015 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced April 23 at 54 Below by previous Drama Desk winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMLisa D’Amour’s Airline Highway officially opens tonight on Broadway. The show takes place in the parking lot of The Hummingbird, a faded motel on the highway in New Orlean…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:25PMDisembodied hands — or so they seem — reach up from the floor. Sheets draped over rows of seating transform into a turbulent sea. An enigmatic pink-robed figure reinforces the brooding a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:22PMStateside companies form collaborations with theatres based in Mexico, and vice versa, creating a fertile dynamic for art and change.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:18PMThe Drama Desk Awards celebrated their 60th anniversary today with the announcement of the 2015 nominees. Recognizing outstanding work on, Off-, and Off-Off-Broadway, the awards are a signif…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:18PMDC AREA SHOWTIMES. LINKS Kyle Osborne’s website entertainmentordie.com Watch Kyle Osborne’s other Movie Review Videos in his column The Reel Deal.
The post The Reel Deal: Watch Kyle…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMDavid Elzer takes a look at the numbers going forward… 3RD GRADE MATH with DAVID ELZER! So, truth be told, I never made it past High School, lots of reasons why that was the case, but …
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 02:12PMThe musical “Peter Pan” is having a moment -- several, actually -- mostly on the screen, so you have to crow when a stage production comes along to remind us of the first time Peter make…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:10PMKylie Myers, a 12-year-old aspiring actress form Georgia, was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, on April 9, 2014. Since then, Broadway stars, companies, and thousan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PM(Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York is my TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow host theatre. Geva produced a world premiere production of my proposed project Katherine’s Colo…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:07PMADRIENNE HAAN'S DEBUT OF ROCK LE CABARET! CALLED A "SUPERB SUCCESS" Romainian UN Ambassador Simon Miculescu, Adrienne Haan, German UN Ambassador Harald BraunAdrienne Haan, one of E…
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Working from Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon’s 1995’s original concept, Patrick Barlow’s adaptation is a witty, tongue-in-cheek, homage that recreates the p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:02PMThe new musical comedy Something Rotten!, starring "Smash" co-stars Brian d'Arcy James and Christian Borle, opened on Broadway April 22. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMVerge gives us an unconventional “painting” show. It expands the viewer’s notions of painting into conceptual realms. The exhibit also includes several paper tapestries. … Click…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:00PM
Along with plays by Sarah Ruhl, August Wilson, Howard Brenton, Ayad Akhtar and Elizabeth Irwin, MTC will premiere Rachel Bonds's 'The Swimmers.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:59PMWelcome to the ‘90s — the 1590s — long before the dawn of premium tickets, star casting and reminders to turn off your cell phones. Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to writ…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 01:57PMDates at Edinburgh Playhouse cancelled:
The touring production of Anything Goes is to close before arriving at the Edinburgh Playhouse where it was originally scheduled to play June 22 - 27…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:52PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, today announced plans for its 20152016 Season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMHamilton and An American in Paris received the most nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PMSometimes you go to see a production and you can’t help but think the whole time you are watching it, “Gee, this reminds me of…” This is the feeling I and you might get as you watch …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:42PMWith the long-awaited normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, theatre artists may be uniquely poised to make the most of the new climate of exchange.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:35PMNEW YORK (AP) -- As Shakespeare would say, "We have seen better days."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:34PM'Man of La Mancha' plays at the Westminster Arts Center in Bloomfield through Sunday, April 26.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:32PMBruce Willis made his 64th appearance on CBS's LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN last night. During his visit, the actor spoke about making his Broadway debut in an upcoming stage adaptation of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMThe Public Theaterrecently announced a one-week extension today for George Brant's Grounded, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Julie Taymor and featuring Academy Award winner Anne Hatha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMThe completely original new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Grammy Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMAlso offered will be 'Mother Courage' starring Tonya Pinkins and the seldom-seen 'Nathan the Wise' starring F. Murray Abraham.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:19PMIn the Drama Desk Awards nominations announced Thursday, Off and off-off-Broadway productions account for 86 bids while Broadway fare reaped 78 across 26 categories for plays and musicals. L…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:18PMIn honor of Kander and Ebb's final show, The Visit, opening tonight on Broadway andstarring the legendary Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli has penned an op-ed piece for USA Today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMAnna Ziegler’s 'Photograph 51' tells the story of the unsung hero of the DNA double-helix's discovery.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:13PMDo you fondly remember that Taming of the Shrew episode from Moonlighting, back in 1986? Whenever blue, do you stream Shakespeare in Love for succor? Are you a fierce partisan for Blackadder…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:09PMThe Visit, a new musical starring Chita Rivera, officially opens tonight on Broadway. Broadway legend Rivera stars as Claire Zachanassian, a widow multiple times over who has inherited great…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:08PMA dialogue on dance, theater, and intuitive responses centered around David Neumann / Advanced Beginner Group's 'I Understand Everything Better' at Abrons Art Center through April 25.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:01PMDiversity in the arts has ever been in the slipstream of the immigration debate, rising to prominence whenever elections are due. Campaigns
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMManhattan Theatre Club's presentation of Steppenwolf TheatreCompany's production of Airline Highway, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour Detroit, directed by two-time Tony A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMChris Goode's verbatim piece comes to BAC
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMThe actress is reportedly set to star in a play about British scientist Rosalind Franklin
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PM30 Million Minutes sees French reflect on her career in comedy
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00PMThe evening will include an alfresco dinner and a special performance of The Tempest.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
In a cafe on the Upper East Side this week, incoming Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Anna D. Shapiro sat down to talk about her new job in Chicago. For the past year, Shapiro, her husb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59PM ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC ANNOUNCES THE CAST OF OLIVER! FEATURES YOUTH PERFORMERS AND HELEN HAYES AWARD RECIPIENTS & NOMINEES Adventure Theatre MTC is thrilled to announce the cast of this…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMThree-time Tony nominee Dee Hoty reveals the many inspirations that helped her create her Gigi scene-stealer, Aunt Alicia.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:55PMBy Doug Mayo
It was announced today the Women On the Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, currently playing at the Playhouse Theatre will close on May 23, 2015. Based on the 1998 Pedro Almodovar fi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:53PMIt's the most wonderful time of the year for New York theatrelovers — awards season! And, one question everyone on or off Broadway is asking themselves is who will host the 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMTheater union Actors’ Equity Association has taken the latest step in its controversial bid to restructure the employment arrangement for actors working in Los Angeles theaters of 99 seats…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMRECOMMENDED In college, the old adage goes: sleep, work, social life; choose two. For Anton Chekhov, a similarly triangular logic exists: happiness, knowledge, safety; choose two and constan…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:45PMName: Victoria MelodyHometown: Brighton, East SussexEducation: MA Fine ArtSelect Credits: Creator, PerformerWhy theater?: I used to make films and have exhibitions but after opening night I …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:45PMOscar winner F. Murray Abraham and Tony winner Tonya Pinkins are on board to appear in Classic Stage Company’s 2015-16 off-Broadway season. The lineup kicks off in August with a festiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMMultiple sources tell The Wrap that actor Tom Cruise is eyeing the title role in Disney's upcoming musical comedy BOB THE MUSICAL.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PMMultiple award-winning actors Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones will appear together on stage for the first time in almost 50 years in a new Broadway production of D.L. Colburn’s Pulitzer …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:40PMGrounded, George Brant's new Off-Broadway solo play starring Academy Award-winning "Les Misérables" star Anne Hathaway with direction by Academy Award nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMClick for photos from the Public Theater’s Grounded, starring Anne Hathaway. The new off-Broadway production opens April 26, 2015 at the Public’s Anspacher Theater.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:33PMThe Visit is a tale of love, greed and revenge. John Kander and Fred Ebb's final Broadway musical stars Chita Rivera as the world's wealthiest woman who returns to her hometown to ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe Visit is a tale of love, greed and revenge. John Kander and Fred Ebb's final Broadway musical stars Chita Rivera as the world's wealthiest woman who returns to her hometown to ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe gangsters in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate implore the audience to "Brush up your Shakespeare." In honor of William Shakespeare's 451st birthday, Playbill helps readers d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMSkip the lobby and head for the alley out back. Show your I.D. and see if your name’s on the list. Get your hand stamped and then trek up the stairs to a rowdy bar on the fourth floor, bec…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:25PMIt was — and fortunately remains — quite the weekend for intriguing theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:25PMWith several Vanyas to choose from this spring, Round House Theatre is celebrating its take on the Chekhov classic as one of the more authentic — a version of Uncle Vanya that would ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMTony-winning "In the Heights" brings rap and hip hop styles to the annual outdoor festival... Read more »
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SOURCE: Sarasota Herald-Tribune at 12:13PMSave 20 on all performance of this critically acclaimed production of one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most beloved musicals. Critics are loving Carousel, calling it 'transcendent,' Huffingt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMNEW YORK — This season on Broadway features multiple musicals that are based on iconic films. One of the most sublime among them is surely "An American in Paris," inspired by the multiple …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:09PMNEW YORK - This season on Broadway features multiple musicals that are based on iconic films. One of the most sublime among them is surely "An American in Paris," inspired by the multiple Os…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:09PMA painter, landlord, and gymrat walk into a bar… … Sounds like the beginnings of an overwrought and predictable joke but it’s actually the premise of “Earshot,” a theatrical so…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:08PMCelebrated young writer Dominique Morisseau came to plays in a roundabout manner.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:07PMAlmost 30 years after it was created, Pina Bausch’s Ahnen is being performed in the UK for the first time. Take a look at the choreographer’s ‘completely crazy’ cactus-filled show Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMThe completely original new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Grammy Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMGlaring repertoire gaps will be filled at the Coliseum and Covent Garden
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMThe one-night-only reading of David Rabe's play will benefit the New Group.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
A muddled show samples a century of photography from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:56AM Review by Sandi Durell Things haven’t changed much from the off Broadway productions of “Hand to God” for the foul-mouthed hand puppet Tyrone, the al…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:48AMSomething Rotten! officially opened on Broadway on April 22, 2015, and after the show, stars Brian d’Arcy James, John Cariani, Christian Borle and the cast headed to Tavern on the Gree…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMCapping a spectacular career spanning nearly 60 years of bravura showmanship, legendary 81-year-old Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist and author Barry Humphries performed as his …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AMThe Bottom Brothers need to write a hit play, but they're stuck in the shadow of Renaissance rock star William Shakespeare in an over-the-top comedy from the director of "The Book of Mormon."
SOURCE: NBC New York at 11:38AMAuthor, essayist and UConn professor William Jelani Cobb will speak at a free Salon at Stowe event on Thursday, April 30, at 5 p.m. at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 77 Forest St., Hartfo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:38AMTheMichael Grandage Companytoday announce the UK premiere ofAnna Ziegler'sPhotograph 51, with Academy award-winning actressNicole Kidmanas Rosalind Franklin.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMWarwick Arts CentreJean Baudrillard and benshi – the performers who supplied live narrations for Japanese films in the silent era – are the guiding spirits of this surprising piece Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMAn empty shop in Clevedon, north Somerset, has been converted into a studio theatre as the centrepiece for a month-long arts festival
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMThe New Group has announced that Marin Ireland and Amanda Seyfried will join original cast members from the company's critically-acclaimed 2005 hit revival of Hurlyburly Bobby Cannavale, Jos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMThe Visit, the final musical ever by legendary Tony Award-winning duo John Kander and Fred Ebb, celebrates its official opening tonight, April 23, 2015 at the Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th St…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMSomething Rotten!, a new musical set in Shakespearean times, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater, on April 22. The show is directed and choreographed by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw (T…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:25AMTyne Daly, Chip Zien, Josh Grisetti and other cast members from the new Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You appeared on NBC's "Today" show April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMBroadway's Alan Rickman has revealed that he recently married his longtime girlfriend,Rima Horton, an economist. The 69-year-old actor shared the joyous news withBild.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMDisappointing, but Still Satisfying Revival of a FavoriteBy Lauren YargerWhen it comes to Broadway musicals, it doesn't get much better than The King and I for me. There's a longer story abo…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 11:20AMIt was announced today that The Visit, which will open tonight, Thursday, April 23rd as the final musical of the 2014-2015 Broadway season, will record its cast album. The Visit is the final…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMActors’ Equity Association imposed Tuesday a $9-per-hour minimum wage for actors on Los Angeles’ mid-size theaters. Equity’s national council voted to move ahead with the p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:17AMWhen a project has circled Broadway in various incarnations for as many years as "The Visit," one may be forgiven for lowering expectations. When the score is the last one written by John Ka…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 11:14AMTMZ caught up with legendary performer Liza Minnelli last night as she was leaving one of her favorite restaurants, Lisa Vanderpump's PUMP.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMNEWSIES, the Tony Award-winning 'critics' pick' Broadway musical smash, is touring the country. The production featuresDan DeLucaas 'Jack Kelly',Steve Blanchardas 'Joseph Pulitzer',Stephanie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMThe completely original new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, with music and lyrics by Grammy Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:03AMThe principals Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae, and Natalia Osipova will be among the cast members when the Royal Ballet comes to Lincoln Center in June.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AMYoung people’s festival GERMANY/BERLIN Assitej, the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People, is celebrating its 50th anniversary at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMWe get a lot of script submissions. Sometimes they are emailed to us. Sometimes they get mailed to us. Sometimes they get pressed on us when we’re at an industry event (I don’t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMGreg Hicks and Clare Higgins star in Mark Jagasia's debut play
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AM1927's production has transferred from the Young Vic to the West End
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe screen-to-stage musical stars Tamsin Greig
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe Kander and Ebb musical is directed by John Doyle.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe new musical also stars Christian Borle and John Cariani.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Last Tuesday, the New York Festival (NYF) International Television & Films Awards announced the World’s Best TV & Films winners at their Gala in Las Vegas. Taking home the Gold…
SOURCE: www.samuelfrench.com at 10:58AMThe Audience's Dame Helen Mirren recently took a break from reigning over the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and stopped by the neighboring Lunt-Fontanne to catch Finding Neverland. So did sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57AMNicole Kidman will return to the West End this fall in the U.K. premiere of “Photograph 51,” Anna Ziegler’s play about the female scientist who had a crucial role in the d…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:55AMFiled under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Doc Wasabassco, Littlefield, Naked Detective, The Case of the Falling Starlet, Wasabassco Radio Mystery Hour
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54AMNicole Kidman is set to return to the West End stage for the first time in 17 years to star in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMLONDON (AP) -- Nicole Kidman is returning to the London stage in a play about the woman who helped unlock the secrets of DNA....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:53AMComedian Dawn French will bring her acclaimed 30 Million Minutes to London’s West End. Directed by Michael Grandage (who is also behind Nicole Kidman's return to the boards), …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMDerek Hough turned to Instagram to thank his fans for their support and give an update on injuries he sustained while rehearsing for an upcoming Anniversary Edition of DANCING WITH THE STARS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMBears can roller-skate...all you have to do is believe! And watch this performance from the cast of Finding Neverland. Matthew Morrison, Laura Michelle Kelly and their fellow believers …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:45AMToday in 1997, Titanic opened at the Lunt-Fonatnne Theatre, where it ran for 804 performances. Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that won f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMNicole Kidman (AKA theatrical Viagra) is returning to the boards! The Oscar-winning actress will star in the U.K. premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51, directed by Michael Grandage…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:43AMThe Fells Point Corner Theatre is burning to announce its eagerly anticipated 2015-2016 Season; #FIREintheHOUSE. Playing with fire (both literally and figuratively), this season promises to …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:39AMIt's hard not to root for "Airline Highway," Broadway's only serious new American play in a spring season obsessed with light comedies and British imports.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 10:38AMThe Visit, the final musical ever by legendary Tony Award-winning duo John Kander andFred Ebb, celebrates its opening tonight, April 23, 2015 at the Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street.The c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMThe Barden Bellas are back to pitch slap the world. Pitch Perfect 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the smash hit and platinum-selling soundtrack, Pitch Perfect,will be available for pre-o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMFor over 30 years the Capitol Steps have been putting politics and scandalto music. They began when Reagan was president and ketchup was a vegetable,and onMay 4, The Capitol Steps plan to br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMRECOMMENDED “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” a new play by Emmett Rensin now premiering with First Floor Theater, takes its name from a famous 1964 essay by Richard Hof…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:35AMThe final dramatic film featuring the late Robin Williams will head to cinemas this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMTyne Daly and the cast of Broadway's IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU stopped by this morning's TODAY to perform 'It Shoulda Been You' from the hit Broadway musical. Watch the performance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMTheatre-makers often develop their craft under the wing of caring venues. Comedians learn theirs by finding out how bad it feels to not be funny on stageI was struck by how many comedians li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMDavid Hyde Pierce and the cast of It Shoulda Been You stopped by the 30 Rock plaza on April 23 to take part in The Today Show’s Best of Broadway week. This marks the Great White Way di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:14AMRachel Esther Tate might be the sanest thing on stage in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which is currently playing at Arena Stage. Rachel portrays the spunky willing to do anything st…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:13AMBryn Terfel is to star in a concert production of Fiddler on the Roof as part of this year’s BBC Proms. This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMBillboard.com reports that Lady Gaga will be the recipient of the inaugural Contemporary Icon Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 19.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMBroadway.com catches up with Broadway newbie Tam Mutu, leading lady Kelli Barrett and the creators and cast of the new musical Doctor Zhivago on opening night.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:10AMWonderful news, possums! The megastar, psychic and spiritual guide, Dame Edna Everage, is at The National Theatre in Washington, DC for (another) final bow in Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye:…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:06AMOrange Tree, RichmondThough it touches intriguingly on female empowerment and liberation, this political drama of the 1950s is painfully stilted and lacks momentum Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMLike You Like It, the award-winning musical based on the Bard's As You Like It set at a mall in the 1980s, recently wrapped vocal recordings on the upcoming Studio Cast RADcording, coming fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMWe take a look at some of the theatre and dance highlights at this year's festival
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AMThe season will also see the return of Of Mice and Men and Beryl
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM
What’s better than a standing ovation at the end of a Broadway show? A standing ovation halfway through the first act. Just ask the cast of musical comedy “Something Rotten.̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:52AMThe winners of the 2015 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards will be announced Monday, May 4,2015 at 6pm. The selections will be made at the organization's 80th annual voting meeting, at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMGood 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 Chita Rivera returns to Broadway in TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AMSinger-actor Steven Brinberg, in his alter ego as Simply Barbra — Streisand, that is — will return to Don't Tell Mama cabaret April 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMIn honor of Earth Day and the five-year anniversary of the BP Oil Spill, Jimmy Fallon and guest Russell Crowe performed the protest song about tarballs 'Balls in Your Mouth.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMKristin Scott Thomas has begun her reign over the West End, starring as The Queen in the West End revival of Peter Morgan’s The Audience. The play, which premiered in the West End in F…
SOURCE: 1644 at 09:38AMStage and screen star JK Simmons has landed the leading role in "Counterpart," a new series for Starz, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMAwards Season is Off and Running as Nominations Are Announced �…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30AMRevenge is a dish best served on iTunes and in stores. John Kander and Fred Ebb’s The Visit will record a cast album. The Broadway Records and Yellow Sound Label album will be rel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When the Metropolitan Opera closes out its HD broadcast season this Saturday, tenor Marcelo Alvarez will be doing double duty. In a relatively rare feat, he'll sing the …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:23AMThe complete creative team has been announced for the Drury Lane Theatre's upcoming Chicago-area production of Beaches, the new musical adapted from the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMScreenLive presents tonight 23rd April 2015 a unique and ground-breaking evening in cinemas worldwide when the incomparable Elaine Paige brings her sell-out 50th Anniversary Farewell Concert…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMThe 69-year-old, who won the best actress Oscar eight years ago for 'The Queen,' is now in the running for the best actress in a play Tony for 'The Audience.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:19AMHad they not had interesting and flourishing careers already in place, Elizabeth Schumann and Gloria Chien could give many full-time piano duos a run for their money.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMToday, April 23 200pm, Judith Light Two-time Drama Desk and Tony Award winner, Other Desert Cities, The Assembled Parties and Jessie Mueller Drama Desk, Tony, and Grammy Award winner, Beauti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10AMManhattan Theatre Club's presentation of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Airline Highway, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour Detroit, directed by two-time Tony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMThe Visit, the final musical ever by legendary Tony Award-winning duo John Kander and Fred Ebb, celebrates its opening tonight,April 23, 2015atthe Lyceum Theatre 149 West 45th Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMBright sunshine gives the giant eggs on Pushkin Square an extra glitter. Cheerful Muscovites are making the most of the Easter weekend.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe Bard's big day prompts thoughts of exciting new seasons from Kenneth Branagh and Matthew Warchus
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:00AMIt really shouldn’t be all that surprising when seasoned actors become directors. After all, the most famous lament in Hollywood is "... but I really want to direct.”
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:00AMToronto Symphony Youth Orchestra's birthday present to be announced at Koerner Hall concert April 23.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
ROLEXpresentsCareer Transition For Dancers'30THANNIVERSARY PEARL JUBILEE A STAR-STUDDED RETROSPECTIVEon Monday, September 28, at 700 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street btwn. 6 am…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:53AMThe winners of the 2015 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards are scheduled to be announced May 4 at 6 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AMArcola, LondonGreg Hicks is hilarious as a demonic newspaper editor in Mark Jagasia’s scorching satire on the anti-immigration rhetoric infecting parts of Fleet Street Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMThe national tour of "Camelot" is playing Hartford this week. Great score, sparse production, and an outstanding performance by Tim Rogan as Lancelot.
SOURCE: thewestfieldnews.com at 08:50AMWith only three weeks until the finale, the pressure is on Last night, host Ryan Seacrest revealed the AMERICAN IDOL XIV Top Five finalists - Clark Beckham, Nick Fradiani, Jax, Tyanna Jones …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMIn my last post, I told you about the stereotypical picture of Paris we can find in musical theatre. Fine, but then what kind of MT can we actually find in France? In this post, I will only …
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 08:33AMShort but most definitely to the point, the BSA MA Acting showcase delivers a fresh selection of diverse solo performances and challenging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMCheck out exclusive photos from opening night of Something Rotten! at the St. James Theatre on Wednesday, April 22 by BSG's Jenny Anderson!
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 08:26AM'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Written by John Ford
Directed by Jesse Berger
Red Bull Theater, The Duke, NYC
April 14-May 16, 2015
Red Bull Theater reliably mounts excellent produ…
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 08:25AM Something Rotten opened at the St. James Theater last night April 22nd and Theater Pizzazzz’ JK Clarke was …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:15AMCall Redialed: "Call Me Adam" catches up with actor Jay William Thomas. This time around we talk about Robert Shearman's "Easy Laughter" which is presented by Dirt [contained] Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 08:00AM RECOMMENDED Playwright Kristine Thatcher has written an important play, and it has landed in the hands of exactly the right theater company for its world premiere. Commissioned and pr…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
By Doug Mayo
It has been announced that the current national tour of Anything Goes will close four months earlier than planned. Anything goes was a co-production between Sheffield Theatres a…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:41AMIn the second of three season-wrapping drama columns that will appear in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review two new musicals, Doctor Zhivago and Something Rotten! Here’s an excerp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMDespite seams of absurd sentimentality, you can't help but root for the protagonists of this Irish drama, says Claire Allfree
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:28AM‘Write what you know’ has never been more apt. When a former Daily Express entertainment editor writes a play in which the showbiz section of his lightly fictionalized newsroom i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMProducers in an ad said Wednesday that the “Mad Men” star’s turn as Wendy Wasserstein’s heroine will end after the May 3 show after only 80 performances and disappoin…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 07:25AMLyric Opera of Chicago’s stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel runs May 3 at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago. Tickets start at $29, and are avai…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:16AMHere’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMGwyneth Paltrow? Hit! Daryl Hannah? Miss! As Nicole Kidman prepares to return to the West End, see how other Hollywood actors have fared on the London stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMRecent announcements at the National, the Garrick and the Old Vic show that casting the management is as important as contracting the actors In theatre companies, as in all organisations, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AM“The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables
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Theatre Royal Stratford East has named its dress circle in honour of a former patron, after receiving a donation in her memory
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThe Stage newspaper comes out once a week and is brimming with industry news, advice, analysis and reviews from all over the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThe West End premiere run of a revised version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the same na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:42AMThe West End premiere run of a revised version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's 2010 Broadway musical version of the 1988 film of the same na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:42AMAttending the theatre is more popular with 18 to 24 year-olds than with older generations, a new poll has revealed. The research,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThis political play appears to hark back to the Gordon Brown era, says Dominic Cavendish
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:01AM“Fury Over Sharia Law For Toddlers!” No, not a prime example of spoof headline generator Daily Mail-o-matic, but the latest piece of fantastical scaremongering from the Clarion, a 125-ye…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AMShould directors run theatres? This question has been a bone of contention in the theatre industry for some time now, but has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMusical continues at Ed Mirvish Theatre until June 28.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMNEW YORK - In a cafe on the Upper East Side this week, incoming Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Anna D. Shapiro sat down to talk about her new job in Chicago. For the past year, Shapir…
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In the hands of Declan Donnellan as director, very little can go wrong. I've been many times to the Barbican and elsewhere to see his Cheek By Jowl company perform Shakespeare, Chekhov and o…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:58AMFrom the archive: The first night review, published on 23 September 1998, for The Blue Room, David Hare’s version of Schnitzler’s erotic masterpiece La Ronde at the Donmar Warehouse Cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMBy Stephen Collins
Roberts is immaculate in playing both parts: the sour, rotten, old Wallis who, despite her bitterness, wants to save Diana from the dreary drudgery of joining the monarchy…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:43AMScreenLive presents a unique and ground-breaking evening in cinemas on Thursday, April 23rd when the incomparable Elaine Paige brings her sellout Farewell Concert I’m Still Here from the …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:33AMNicole Kidman, whose West End debut in 1998 was described as ‘pure theatrical Viagra’, is to appear in a Michael Grandage production of Photograph 51Her briefly naked performance in Davi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AM“The latest iteration of intimate, in-home performances – think home concerts – Salon Ariel hopes to fill a void in the theater world.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AMNewYork.com has kicked off their annual Ultimate Broadway Fan Showdown and is challenging contestants to submit a 30-second video that demonstrates their passion for Broadway for a chance to…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:11AM“Religious drama is one of the oldest forms of British theatre, with the incorporation of performance into worship recorded from the time when Christianity was only 500 or so years old…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:09AMImage: Marc Sethi, from Latitude Festival website Dozens of theatre, dance and performance art acts have been announced for Latitude Festival. The Suffolk festival claims to be the “fine…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01AMA world premiere from Paines Plough will be staged at this year’s Latitude Festival, with Kneehigh, Sadler’s Wells and Clean Break also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMI’m the first to criticise schools which rip off wannabe students by charging high sums for just a few minutes of audition
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMCaryl Churchill, the most experimental of our major playwrights, keeps a famously low profile. Actor Samuel West explains why she has endured
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 04:00AM
The Fairy Princess has been staying out of the 99 Seat Theater Contract Debates. The reason being that she no longer works those contracts because it is not financially viable to work for a …
SOURCE: fairyprincessdiaries.com at 02:57AMA fresh breeze blew into town last night and she was wearing rhinestone-encrusted cat eye glasses out to there, and a hot pink fringe gown glittering with Swarovski crystals. Yes, you guesse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33AMI haven’t had such a good, silly time at the theater since “Spamalot” or maybe “The Producers” as I did last night Categories:
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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:03AMRufus Norris’ regime at the helm of the National Theatre gets its first official launch from the starter’s blocks – after the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAfter 80,000 miles, 96 countries and more than 150 shows, the two-year worldwide tour of Hamlet has reached its halfway point in Spain – on Shakespeare’s birthday. Here’s a taste of so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
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SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:59AMBroadway hits have a kind of white-hot energy: Everything from story to song clicks into place, the actors are firing on all cylinders — and the audience knows it’s watching...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:45AMThe Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter the Chapter is now selling tickets to today'sApril 23, 2015benefit performance of Broadway's It Shoulda Been You. This hilarious and heartw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNext month, the Wexner Center for the Arts will present the world premiere of the theater is a blank page, an immersive performance created by renowned visual artist Ann Hamilton and theater…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents the multi-award winning performer Jennifer Sheehan in 'STARDUST A Night in the Cosmos' -- a show that goes where no show has gone before, traversin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAfter an over-sold concert this past summer, Amy Jo Jackson returns to Broadway's hottest concert venue tonight, April 23rd at 1130PM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMArtsBridge Foundation, the arts education outreach arm of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, presents the 2015 Georgia High School Musical Theater Awards - Shuler Hensley Awards.Twenty …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThere is something so entrancing and utterly irresistible about the new musical “Finding Neverland” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater that you almost wish it would never end.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:22AMRiver Vale's Seth Kaplan, left, plays the role of George in 'Stop Kiss' at Studio Playhouse, 14 Alvin Place, in Upper Montclair.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:22AMFair Lawn High School received five awards for its production of “A Man Of No Importance” at the 47th Annual Bucks County Playhouse Student Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:22AMTake a trip down the rabbit hole this weekend as the Haskell School presents Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland Jr.” in two performances at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 and at 1…
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 01:22AMNicole Kidman, whose last West End performance was memorably described as "pure theatrical Viagra", is back in play about British scientist Rosalind Franklin
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:00AMNicole Kidman will return to the West End in Photograph 51, 17-years after her theatrical debut was described by The Telegraph as 'pure theatrical viagra'
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:00AMToday we are commemorating the anniversary of the Broadway opening of THE PRODUCERS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMThe Kander and Ebb musical, directed by John Doyle, opens tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMRichard Strand's new play begins performances tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMThe burlesque-flavored comedy officially opens tonight after a run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM"Fresh Off the Boat" Star Constance Wu on Bunnies & Dream Guest StarsThe lovely and talented Constance Wu stops by the YH Studio to chat about her hit fish-out-of-water sitcom "Fresh Off The…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
The inaugural season of the Northern Virginia International Film Festival, at the Angelika Film Center in the vibrant, youthful Mosaic District of Fairfax County, just wrapped up. Fernando A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42AMNews of the British ballerina’s detention, and the discharge of pop star Terry Dene from National Service, make for a lively debate in the House of CommonsDame Margot Fonteyn: the ballerin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AMWith less than a week until nominations are announced for the Tony Awards next Tuesday (April 28), our dozen Experts have been busy updating their predictions. But it is Gold Derby Users &nd…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30AMThough it features a twerking Bard and a song called I Hate Shakespeare, this new comedy about his rival playwrights is too nice to be truly iconoclastic Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10AMWhere the cast of the Broadway play Airline Highway pursued their college studies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMElaine Paige's sell-out 50th anniversary farewell concert I'm Still Here, which was filmed in October 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall, begins worldwide screenings April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChita Rivera returns to Broadway in her first original role in more than two decades as the star of Kander and Ebb's The Visit, which officially opens on Broadway April 23 at the Lyceum…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBolin Schmolin, featuring the songs of comic musical theatre writer Eli Bolin will be held May 1 at 54 Below. In anticipation of the concert, members of the cast pick theatre songs that make…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA cast album of the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit starring two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, will be released in late June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway actresses and Tony winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller will announce the nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards 2 PM today, April 23, at 54 Below cabaret in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1564 Okay, no one's actually certain that April 23, 1564 was William Shakespeare's birthday, but that's the accepted date. Over the next 52 years, the Bard would pen such works a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLisa D’Amour's Airline Highway, a story set on the colorful fringes of New Orleans' skid row, opens on Broadway April 23 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre following perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, we honor of the Tribal Love-Rock musical Hair's anniversary opening on Broadway in 1968.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIrish Repertory Theatre presents the New York premiere of Nate Rufus Edelman’s The Belle of Belfast, which officially opens April 23 featuring Patricia Conolly (Rasheeda Speaking, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe spirit of New Orleans comes alive at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre as Airline Highway opens on April 23. Tony winner Joe Mantello directs the vibrant play, written by Lisa D’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe Visit, by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally, opens officially at the Lyceum Theatre on April 23. The John Doyle production stars Tony winners Chita Rivera and Roger Rees. To cel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMPeter Coyote began his work in street theater and political organizing in San Francisco, and went on to act in over 140 films and win an Emmy for narrating the documentary “Pacific Centu…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMBen Miles, Nathaniel Parker, and Lydia Leonard talk about their roles in “Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2.” Adapted from Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize winning novels, Wolf Hall is based…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMIf you had the time of your life, you owe it to Eleanor Bergstein. The woman who wrote “Dirty Dancing” created a piece of mythology as rich and beloved as any sci-fi epic — “Nobody p…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:00AM 
