When Finian’s Rainbow opened on Broadway in 1947, it was a scandal. White and black performers shared the same stage, it argued that blacks were full citizens (with rights!), and that whit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40PMWith The Tony Awards and various New York theatre awards still months from now, Broadway gets a tasting of celebration tonight as several shows get to enjoy the honor of being nominated for…
SOURCE: lunerontheatre.com at 11:32PMAdam Grant, in his new book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World writes about the necessity of anchoring new ideas in familiar things. To generate creative ideas, it’s importan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32PMBroadway is getting an extra dose of Grammy Awards love this season. While each year multiple cast recordings receive a nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album, performances by these casts…
SOURCE: lunerontheatre.com at 11:32PMFollowing a performance of HAMILTON'sopening number 'Alexander Hamilton' telecast live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers theater, presenter Seth MacFarland announced that Broadway'ship …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06PMThe Broadway sensation continues its winning streak.
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The forest setting by Ortiz seems to envelop the audience as does the sound design which is created by the actors in tandem with violinist Naomi Florin who plays Edward W. Hardy’s melancho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMWho lives; who dies; who just picked up a gold-plated gramophone? The Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album on February 15. The Atlant…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55PMTonight the world received a special treat and the theatre community cherished it the most. The musical that continues to break barriers, Hamilton, performed live at the Grammy Awards from t…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 10:52PMThere was an audible collective intake of breath among the capacity audience when, towards the end of the first set by Melbourne ensemble Movement 9, saxophonist Joe McEvilly announced that …
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 10:49PMHighlights include a Lillian Hellman festival and new historical plays by Lisa Loomer and Jacqueline Lawton.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:35PMOn tonight's 58th Annual GRAMMY AWARDS, airing live on CBS, the Grammy Award-nominated musical Hamilton ushered Broadway back to the GRAMMY stage after a more than five-year hiatus when GRAM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21PMTuesday 16 February 2016 marks the celebration of Victoria’s annual Theatre Day, but here at AussieTheatre.com we are lowkey pulling for the event to be celebrated nationwide. (#theatred…
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The biblical proverb instructs parents to “train up a child in the way he should go,” with the promise that “even when he is old he will not depart from it.” But what should a fa…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:54PMFollowing a live performance of the show's opening number 'Alexander Hamilton' telecast live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers theater, presenter Seth MacFarland announced that the hip …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:49PMThe Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, has won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41PMA sparkling, colourful homage to the traditions of circus, Cirque du Soleil rediscovers its origins with the company’s eighth Big Top show to tour Australia in KOOZA – opening in S…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 09:40PM The saga of four choir members growing up in the “Buckle of the Bible Belt” and dealing with their sexuality forms the basis for Southern Baptist Sissies that is currently playing…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:36PMJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia were ideologically at the opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench. Despite their dissenting opinions, they were also great fr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:26PMThe hit Broadway musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton also won the award for best musical theater album, performing and accepting their award in Manhattan.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:17PMPlaywright and director Warren Manzi, whose cat-and-mouse thriller "Perfect Crime" is the longest-running play in New York history, died Thursday of pneumonia in Lawrence, Massachusetts, acc…
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Mary Poppins will be flying into Reston CenterStage February 19-March 12, 2016 as the Reston Community Players present the seven-time Tony Award nominated musical. Mary Poppins combines the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMArena Stage just announced an exciting, starry201617 season, which will showcase the theater's mission of American voices and artists.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47PMThe hope of building theatre centers seems one step closer today, as the West Hollywood City Council has earmarked funds to take buy the Coast Playhouse on Santa Monica Blvd. For the full st…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:43PM The sign in the Strathmore ticket booth said a lot about Alan Cumming’s appeal. “SHOW SOLD OUT!” it blared. An hour before the show, the place was filling up with people eager f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMI don’t recall what originally brought it to my attention or caused me to read it more closely, but the Executive Director job search announcement for Forecast Public Art struck me as …
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Off Off Broadway, IATI, Red Garnet Theatre Company
Reviewed by Regina Robbins
BOTTOM LINE: A sad, funny, and unromantic look at life in a working-class English community, with characte…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:20PMWinners of the 58th Annual GRAMMY AWARDS are being presented live tonight, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
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Warren Mazni, whose name was familiar to few theatregoers, though thousands upon thousands of them had seen his work, died Feb. 11 in Lawrence, MA. He was 60.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:32PMIn its 33rd year of acknowledging excellence in the performing arts on the Melbourne stage, the Green Room Awards Association is proud to announce the nominations for works presented in 2015…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 07:31PMTo millions of fans around the world, Nathan Lee Graham is known for playing a man very comfortable in the fabulous clothes whether that is as Wardrobe Supervisor Peter, opposite Lisa Kudrow…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PMIt’s been nearly a year since “Today We Escape,” Tympanic Theatre Company’s short-play festival dedicated to the seminal Radiohead album “OK Computer.” They return with …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMThe cast of DOWNTON ABBEY stopped by SUNRISE on Channel 7 in Australia to talk about their farewell season and ended up singing along to THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Click below to watch Michelle Doc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00PMA musicologist and the cast album's mixing artist discuss reasons for the need to listen to HAMILTON over and over.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00PM"This is coming from a prejudice point of view, but after being a part of his work for over 50 years, I find it life giving," says Maxwell.
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by: Carole Di Tosti From the moment you settle into your seat, check out the black and white “optical illusion” staging and watch the sequence of quotes scroll on a …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:31PMIt’s the third Tuesday in February, folks! (And we all know what THAT means) It’s THEATRE DAY! (#TheatreDay16) and the official announcement day for The Green Room Award Nominati…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:25PMAND THEY CALL IT PUPPET LOVE…. “Avenue Q meets The Exorcist” claim posters for Robert Askins’ Broadway hit, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. Or “The Muppets play The …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11PMIn this revival, Ms. Smith plays Fanny Brice, the role that sent Barbra Streisand soaring into the stratosphere in the 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThere's nothing wrong with preaching the value of empathy -- but who would argue?
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This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 2152016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMThis Thursday, February 18th, BROADWAY SESSIONS welcomes cast members from Broadway smash ON YOUR FEET The Story Of Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Cast members will be bringing the heat with an …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PM“The situation in 1940s apartheid South Africa is very similar to what was seen in 1940’s America, 1960’s America, 1980’s America, and even what we see in the present day.” I was t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:42PMBroadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce its next season line-up: the Broadway musical HAMILTON, the North American tour premiere of Disney’s ALADDIN, 2014 Tony Award®-Winning Best Rev…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:33PM911 and The Big Reunion star?Lee Brennan?will make his musical theatre debut when he joins the cast of FOOTLOOSE ?from Tuesday 19 April to Saturday 18 June 2016.
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 05:28PMLondon is preparing itself. While the West End has seen American puppets before in Avenue Q come to life on its stage, I’m worried they are not prepared for a new puppet who goes by th…
SOURCE: lunerontheatre.com at 05:27PMThe cast of Hamilton will perform their show’s opening number live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theater sometime during the 2016 Grammy broadcast, which will air starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PMJessica Dickey’s shattering solo piece comes to San Antonio’s AtticRep in the capable hands of director David Connelly and star Sarah Gise.
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SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:19PMStarting this weekend, the Cinefamily and Cinespia on Fairfax are presenting UNDERGROUND USA: INDIE CINEMA OF THE 80’s, running from February 18–April 16, 2016. This exciting
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:19PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth gives the insider look at Disaster! during previews, the crazy backstage gymnastics that go on and his visitors in the first we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PM by Joe Regan Jr. Todd Murray and Sean Harkness were scheduled to do a repeat of his “Croon” show Sunday afternoon February 14 at the Metropolita…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:10PM“Have a hanky at the ready,” said Alan Cumming in his Carnegie Hall debut last week that celebrated the release of his new album, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Carlyle (ava…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:01PMIn what may portend a revitalization of links between the Kennedy Center and major British theater companies, the institution on the Potomac will host a short stay this summer of a productio…
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When Colman Domingo’s Dot premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival last March, Marjorie Johnson’s performance of “Dotty,” the title character, was hailed…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 04:44PMby Michael BlockWe get enamored with origin stories. Just recently, Wicked celebrated becoming the tenth longest running show in Broadway history. And right down the street, another origin s…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:43PMMarc Salem lacks the bouffant coif — and the sex appeal — of David Copperfield. No matter. The grand illusion is not the 60-something Salem's shtick. The son of a rabbi and a pharmacist,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PMGeorge Orwell’s seminal 1945 novel Animal Farm is not the easiest text to dramatise – it’s crammed with metaphors, ideologies and satire that only Orwell himself could write. In a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PMLeave it to Broadway historianauthor Jennifer Ashley Tepper to figure out the rap superstar's recent tweets.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:30PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced it will present Shakespeare's Globe's critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE in five perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMFiled under: Contemporary Variety, Magicians/ Mind Readers/ Quick Change, PLUGS Tagged: Adam RealMan, Cardone, House of Magic, magic, Slipper Room
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:26PMOn tonight's 58th AnnualGRAMMY AWARDS,airing live on CBS, the Grammy Award-nominated musicalHamiltonushers Broadway back to the GRAMMY stage after a more than five-year hiatus when GRAMMY Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMEnough happens in Jessica Hagedorn’s 1998 drama “Dogeaters,” now in a revised version at the Magic Theatre, to make the mind reel. The sprawling and ambitious play about the Philippine…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 04:14PMBrits on Broadway are hardly news. Brits at BAM have been a staple for what seems like forever, returning in March with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a cycle of Shakespeare's kingly maste…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:12PMThe connection between our recent confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves and St. Valentine’s Day may not be immediately apparent, but they are both covered by t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:12PMMonday February 15 “In A Word” at Strawdog Theatre Company. A world premiere from celebrated playwright Lauren Yee following the success of “Samsara” at Victory Gardens. Thro…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM
by: Robyn Knapp –> –> In the medical occupation, more now than ever before, the capability to think critically is important. The Registered Nurse’s responsibilities have im…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 03:48PMYvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. But she won't be guesting on X FactorAn artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthete, Yvonn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMBelow, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for the week of February 15-21, 2016.
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On November 11, 2015,John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C. hostedBROADWAY TOMORROW THE SONGS OF MICHAEL MOTT, featuring Jackie Burns and Brian Justin Crum and directed by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PM1st Stage is a haven from the monotonous gimmicks and kinky signage that perforates the modern DC theatre scene. 1st Stage’s small and cozy theatre features a no-frills stage that sits flu…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:37PMTKTS has been a New York City institution for decades, bringing theatre-goers a last-minute way to get tickets for some of Broadway's hottest shows at a discount. TDF operates three TKTS Dis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMIt was an epic night at Broadway Sessions Thursday, February 11th, as cast members from School of Rock descended from the top of Mt. Rock aka The Winter Garden Theater and invaded the Laurie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMBroadway's KINKY BOOTS made Valentine's Day extra special for one lucky couple.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMMAURICE HINES TAPPIN' THRU LIFE is a swinging, song and dance musical that celebrates the astonishing showmanship of one of the last great tap dancers of a by-gone era still working today an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMWho better to hear from on Presidents Day 2016, than Actors' Equity Association President, Kate Shindle Below, watch as she discusses the challenges of her new position which she took on in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMA British photographer and director's series of videos shows valiant actors trying desperately to stay in character.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMMany of you have probably seen James Whalen onstage before playing some pretty dramatic roles. Recently he appeared in Ghosts at Everyman Theatre and The Intelligent Homosexual’s G…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:18PMName: Leah GabrielHometown: Melbourne, AustraliaEducation: Circle in the Square Theater School, NYCSelect Credits: Tartuffe! with Three Day Hangover, Othello and King Lear with Titan Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:07PMVox: A powerful piece by a Chicago-based black actor who relates what it’s like to be a black actor in both film and theater. So when we yell #OscarsSoWhite, I stand here thinking, &…
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Robert De Niro co-directs this musical adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-man play about growing up on the mean streets of the Bronx. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:42PMNick Payne’s Constellations embraces String Theory and its multiverses as it takes its intimate, in-the-round, Stage 4 audience on an emotional rollercoaster ride through the courtship…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMHell in a Handbag productions, Chicago's campiest theater company, announced its 2016 season on Monday. The season kicks off with "The Divine Sister," (June 4 - July 10) Charles Busch's h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PMTate Modern, London From a femmed-up Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys in a fisherman’s vest, there is plenty of humour in this survey show of artists acting up for the lens – but it’s th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMReleased by Universal Pictures, Sing arrives in theaters for the holiday season on December 21, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMThe play is at best a solid double off the Green Monster at Fenway, or more appropriate, a line drive into the ivy at venerable Wrigley Field.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMIt’s been nearly five years since Robert Battle succeeded Judith Jamison as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As with many changes
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Steven Winter, executive director of the Kevin Spacey Foundation, explains the intentions behind the organisation
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:55PMChristopher Luscombe's production opened in the West End last night
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:55PMCarmen: An Afro Cuban Jazz Musical, co-produced by Olney Theatre Center and Tectonic Theater Project, takes the tragic heroine of Bizet’s 1875 opera and transports her to Cuba in 1958, whe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:52PMby Michael BlockWelcome to paradise. A tropical getaway where your inhibitions are whisked away as you embark on a hypnotic journey, encountering beautiful cabana boys, a family looking for …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:51PMWe enter a mini coliseum and take our seats on cushions of many colors on one of several rows of blue benches encircling the blank stage. The dim lighting feels hallowed; the music, reverent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47PM"Dance is a living art," proclaims Hamburg Ballet artistic director John Neumeier. "If I make a ballet, it's not like I paint a picture and hang it on the wall, or write a book and keep it o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:44PMThe producers of the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof announced todaythat a new block of tickets for the critically acclaimed revival are now on sale through Labor Day. Tickets are av…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMThis tortured play schizophrenically jumps from one style to another and the real trial is making sense of this shallow, pedantic evening.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 12:38PMCongas and mambos are the dynamic devices by which Moises Kaufman’s new Cuban-spiced adaptation of “Carmen” puts its best feet forward. And yet, although this atmospheric version of th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:33PMPaper Mill Playhousepresents the world premiere musical A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL. The musical is co-directed by two-time Oscar winnerRobert De Niroand four-time Tony Award winnerJerry Zaks, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMTonight at Birdland - for the first time since it debuted in Nashville in 2012 - a New York audience will finally have the opportunity to hear Marvin Hamlisch's final theatrical score for Nu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMBelow, check out the new poster for DISNEY'S ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMWith over 11,000 performances, PERFECT CRIME is New York's longest running straight play.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMIn these days of a re-igniting Cold War between Russia and the United States, those old grainy black-and-white films of a long thought dead dictator, Comrade Joseph “Uncle Joe” Stalin ar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:03PMOpera Atelier founders’ love story is inextricably tied to their opera company
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Many people taking their seats for the first time at WNO’s Lost in the Stars may wonder at the production’s stark and formidable stockade, lit but darkly. The leader of the Chorus enters…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMHello, old Friend. The last time Matthew Perry was in the West End, it was for David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," back in 2003. Director Lindsay Posner's production received a dec…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AMTalented a cappella group RANGE cover the hit Broadway musical HAMILTON in just 7 minutes Check out the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMOlivier Award winner Tracie Bennett stars in the titular role
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:38AM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the profoundly moving Broadway show about an extraordinary British teenager, will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a three-week engage…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:32AMAt last night's Pre-Grammy Award Gala hosted by Clive David, AdamLambert andJackAntonoff closed out the night with a tribute to the late singer David Bowie with a performance of 'Let's Dance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMNew This Week Lobby Hero (Theatre Horizon). Kenneth Lonergan's depiction of four lives that collide one night in the lobby of an upscale apartment building. Race, gender, romance, moral dile…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:16AMStars send messages, greetings to celebrate holiday for lovers.
SOURCE: USA Today at 11:15AMBroadway In Chicago has announced its next season line-up the Broadway musical HAMILTON, the North American tour premiere of Disney's ALADDIN, 2014 Tony Award-Winning Best Revival of a Music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMDue to high ticket demand, Idle Muse Theatre Company has added an additional performance of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, newly adapted by Althos Low and directed…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:08AMIn Episode 404 of 'Something New' -- a podcast that interviews multifaceted theatre artists and premieres original songs -- award-winning musical theatre writer Joel B. New sat down with Mar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMHand to God opens in the West End on February 15, after a successful run on Broadway. The play revolves around a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMFINDING NEVERLAND has welcomed its new leading man Tony Award nominee Tony Yazbeck On The Town recently took over the role of Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie in the smash hit, record-breaking …
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RECOMMENDED Many musicians stir hearts, some are worshipped, but few have been literally canonized as jazz great John Coltrane was after his brief life of inspired saxophony, destructive add…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AMAn Oh-Yes-We-Can in Paris COP21 and what it means for the arts By Stan Friedman This past December, representatives of 195 nations came together in Paris to forge a landmark agreement design…
SOURCE: www.broadwaygreen.com at 10:56AM“Perfect Crime” logged its 11,824th performance, despite the fact that critics often did not like it and theatergoers often did not understand it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50AMFrom Chicago to Get Carter, we take a look at the major openings this week
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMRhum and Clay's production is a beguiling take on film noir detective thrillers
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMThe actress was praised for her performance in Jessica Swale's new play
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMMatt Trueman looks at what we need to do if we're serious about gender parity
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AM"From Broadway to Hollywood — A Chat with Her Friends," a panel discussion on the life and work of the late Tony-winning actress Madeline Kahn, was held Feb. 10 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM"From Broadway to Hollywood — A Chat with Her Friends," a panel discussion on the life and work of the late Tony-winning actress Madeline Kahn, was held Feb. 10 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM"Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "The Bodyguard" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" are among the lineup for Broadway In Chicago's 2016-17 season, joining the previously ann…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:30AMA Broadway comedy and two British created musicals arrive in the West End this week – one from last summer’s season at Bath’s Theatre Royal, the other after a long stage li…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:27AM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the profoundly moving Broadway show about an extraordinary British teenager, will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a three-week engage…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:24AMEXCLUSIVE: Frank Rich recently had an email conversation with Deadline’s Jeremy Gerard about his upcoming HBO documentary, Becoming Mike Nichols. In addition to executive producing th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AMBroadwayWorld has just learned that Rodney Dennis Hicks will direct an industry reading of his new play, NC-17,onMonday, March 7. A reading was presented at Portland Center Stage and Seattle…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMAfter its phenomenal run on and off Broadway, the critically acclaimed five times Tony Award nominated play HAND TO GOD including Best New Play and Best Director makesits way to London's Wes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMPaper Mill Playhousepresents the world premiere musical A BRONX TALE THE MUSICAL. The musical is co-directed by two-time Oscar winnerRobert De Niroand four-time Tony Award winnerJerry Zaks, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMDEFYING GRAVITY the songs of Stephen Schwartz played at Sydney's Theatre Royale February 12-13. The event, celebrating the composer's incredible body of work, was headlined by two-time Tony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMGood 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 NUTTY PROFESSOR makes its NYC debut, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMJackson Harris recently released a new music video for his original song, 'Dance with the Devil,' featuring and choreographed by Hamilton's Jon Rua. To capture the passion and sentiment of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMBroadway's new musical comedy Disasteris currently in previewsat the Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street and already the casthas welcomed a slew of Broadway friends backstage. Over the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AM“But the theatre isn’t glamorous”, I’ve heard my friends say countless of times. “Film is so much more powerful, naturalistic and international.” Don’t get me wrong, film is al…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:04AMPrincipal photography on Star Wars: Episode VIII began today at London’s Pinewood Studios, Disney said, adding that Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran had joine…
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In this episodeMichael Goddard talks about his dreams of being in the 'tall man' track in a Susan Stroman show and how he got to achieve that dream on Broadway and a 1st National tour. He al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMLin-Manuel Miranda and his extraordinary cast will perform a number from the acclaimed musical via satellite from the legendary Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:57AMGemma Arterton shines wonderfully in West End outing for jolly, if rather superficial, Restoration romp.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:57AMIn a period of comic book action dribble, 45 Years shows the world that films can probe reality, with enormous beauty and depth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMOne of the most powerful musical dramas of the 20th century has just opened at The Kennedy Center, home of the Washington National Opera, for a one-week run. And theater lovers who long for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AMHappy Presidents Day! Officially this is a day on which to celebrate George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but I’m viewing it as a good opportunity to write about several others in ad…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:34AMThe much-lauded production will book at Wyndham's Theatre until June 2016
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:34AM“Hamilton” the musical currently presents three U.S. presidents every night – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison – but nearly every one of the 43 presidents has be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMWrapping up a weekend of festivities, on Monday, February 15, Discovery Family Channel celebrates President's Day with a special presentation of BROADWAY AT THE WHITE HOUSEat 800 PM and 1130…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07AMBroadway leading ladies LaChanze Tony Award winner for The Color Purple and Lindsay Mendez Wicked, Godspell lead an all-star lineup forINSPIRATIONAL BROADWAY, a dynamic and soulful evening o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMWhile Torbens are probably two-a-penny in Denmark – Betts was named after a Danish tennis player named Torben Ulrich that his mother
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Manilow appeared at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party last night, and performed a set which included his classic hit, 'Mandy'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMIt was every music theatre nerd's dream come true Broadway legends from Australia and the States converging in Sydney to give intimate treatment to the songs of one of our generation's most …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMToday in 1905, Harold Arlen was born. Having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is best known for writing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, inclu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:56AMTonight, February 15 7PM, the Broadway at Birdland concert series presents the award-winning cast of the 2012 world premiere production of NUTTY PROFESSOR, THE MUSICAL.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:53AMSchaubühne, BerlinSimon McBurney’s production, based on Stefan Zweig’s 1938 novel, brings past and present together in a desperate vision of failed empire Related: Rereading: Beware of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMBy David Dudley. In this installment, David Dudley interviews Ping Chong and Sara Zatz from Ping Chong + Company.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:45AMThe new production of Thomas Kyd's bloody tragedy runs until 5 March
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:38AMThe new theatre space will help to promote new work
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:38AMFollowing his critically acclaimed update of Oresteia, which opened the Almeida Greeks season before transferring to the West End, writer and director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMThis President's Day, we salute the men who served a term or two in the Oval Office---and the theatre they inspired.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM
Hundreds of young people will help to produce a large theatre and arts event across London. The Third Tricycle Takeover will feature over 50 events, screenings, performances and masterclasse…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:55AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:55AMThe Yard, LondonCressida Brown’s return to the venue of her 2006 verbatim piece, Home, is insightful, but has a whiff of cultural tourismTen years ago, Cressida Brown and Offstage Theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMRoyal Opera House, LondonThis Christopher Wheeldon programme includes the premiere of one-act ballet Strapless, whose scandalous heroine Madam X is all attitude and frocks Christopher Wheeld…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMBy Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) A cast of 20 Broadway stars will sing completely new arrangements of Piano Man Billy Joel’s greatest hits when the popular Broadway Sings concert series…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:40AMBecause I have been off pursuing my MFA, I haven’t been focusing on my performing career for a little while. Lately, though, I have been going to more auditions and callbacks, preparing my…
SOURCE: newmusicaltheatre.com at 07:22AMDuke Ellington talks with Goddard Lieberson about his version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite in a 1960 Columbia Records promotional film: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMWhen people sing in musicals, are they conscious of the fact?
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 07:07AM“Men act through self-interest; and if they do things you wouldn’t do, you’d better not assume it’s because you have a nobler character. There are noble and disinterested actions don…
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Shakespeare's daughter comes under suspicion in this domestic drama by Peter Whelan
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMJake Smith directs the first professional UK production of Andy Capp The Musical in more than 30 years
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMFollowing hit play Two, Jim Cartwright's follow up Two 2 receives its world premiere
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMUncle Johnny instead of Vanya, a passing reference to sharia law, and nary a samovar in sight: surely this can't be the Uncle Vanya that has long been a cornerstone of the British theatre, e…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:50AMMarion Abbott is a graduate of Musical Theatre Performance at Sheridan College and was named one of the Twenty Most Successful Graduates of the program. She also holds her Grade Ten Voice an…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 05:45AMRandom and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:14AMSome lighting designers call themselves artists, while for others this type of work is more accurately described as a craft. Given the
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Ana Villafañe and Josh Segarra, the stars of Broadway's On Your Feet!, are taking a breather from doing the conga to answer your questions. That’s right; we’re letting…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59AMThe New York premiere of Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People officially opened Feb. 10 at Second Stage Theatre, following previews that began Jan. 27. Directed by Tony winner Kenny …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMCarmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical, in its world premiere at The Olney Theatre Center, is worthy of an endless stream of accolades including ‘dazzling,’ ‘amazing,’ &#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AMProve you could win Final Jeopardy using only musical theatre as your tutor. Name the president referred to in the lyric and the musical in which the lyric appears. Note: the president does …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Grammy Awards show will welcome back musical theatre this year. The cast of the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton will perform their show's opening number on the Grammy broadcast Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway comedy Hand to God, which recently closed at the Booth Theatre after a run of nine months and 337 performances, opens officially at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre Feb. 15…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw, which is under the leadership of artistic director David Staller, continues its 11th season Feb. 15 at 7 PM with a reading of George Bernard Shaw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway company of the international hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked welcomes two-time Tony winner Judy Kaye to the cast beginning Feb. 15 at the Gershwin The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn honor of Presidents' Day, RANGE a cappella put together a seven-minute Hamilton mash-up. Watch the exclusive music video and find out why the group took a hold of their own su…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe ultimate theatre-lover's vacation boasts Broadway’s biggest stars, both on the stage and on the guest list.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThere is a long history of our commanders-in-chief appreciating the limelight — and sometimes even treading the boards themselves. In honor of Presidents' Day, we look …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichael McElroy and The Broadway Inspirational Voices' Feb. 15 concert, Inspirational Broadway, begins at 7:30 PM with a star-studded line-up of performers that includes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMComposer Marvin Hamlisch's final complete stage score is performed in New York City for the first time Feb. 15 when the cast of the 2012 world-premiere production reunites for a conc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSchool of Rock — The Musical, which recently opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, will hold an open casting call for replacements, described as "a new wave of pint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn celebration of Presidents' Day, we asked Hamilton's George Washington, aka Christopher Jackson, to fill out our questionnaire. The stars confesses his favorite&a…
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