The Broadway community continues to show support after damage from a broken water pipe.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46PMAmy Madigan, Nat Wolff, Taissa Farmiga, and Ed Harris in Buried Child. Photo credit: Monique CarboniTo be honest, the main reason I wanted to see Buried Child was because I was intrigue…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 09:46PMFollowing the mostly positive responses to our dream casting of Anna and Elsa for the upcoming Broadway production of Frozen, we went ahead and picked our top choices for the male roles in t…
SOURCE: Medium at 09:27PMThree Captivate shows for new Gilded Balloon fringe venue: Edinburgh theatre company Captivate, is to take its three hit "Shakin' Shakespeare" adaptations to the National Museum of Scotland …
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If you’d been at the Sunday, Feb. 21 matinee of PRODIGAL SON, would you have been outraged or tremendously impressed with what Timothée Chalamet did?
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:58PMTheatregoers suffering from First World War fatigue may want to pass on Jonathan Lynn’s merely competent historical drama about two mythic figures: Charles de Gaulle and Philippe Pétain. …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:34PMby JULIO MARTINEZ
October, 1985, highly motivated Artistic Director Bill Bushnell marshaled enough city, county, corporate and public support to move Los Angeles Actors Theatre (founded …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:23PMHappy Friday! We’re sure you have some busy plans this weekend, with Bernadette Peters and Kelly Bishop’s birthdays and the Oscars, but before you order a bunch of balloons in th…
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Through the generosity of Donna MacMillan, the McCallum Theatre presents distinguished American pianist Jeffrey Siegel and his program of Keyboard Conversations® and “Musical Pictures” …
SOURCE: Showbiz So Cal at 06:51PMIt was an esteemed show, if not quite a hit, on Broadway 10 years ago and has been brought to us now by Acting Up Stage
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 06:42PMA puppeteer, Triple J breakfast host and spaghetti lover walk into a bar ... or so the joke goes as a talented new line-up of comedians hit the road this seasonWhen you pay to see a comedian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMLupita Nyong’o sat down with TODAY Show’s Savannah Guthrie recently to talk about her Broadway debut in Danai Gurira’s acclaimed, Eclipsed, diversity and #OscarsSoWhite.…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:29PMUntitled Theater Company No. 61 presents an adaptation of the first novel in Paul Auster’s enigmatic “New York Trilogy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMIn the play, by Simon McBurney at the Barbican Theater in London, audience members are asked to put on headphones and listen closely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMOtherworld Theatre's Messina 3004 is ambitious, colorful, energetic, athletic, sexy, and manages to achieve all of this in a brisk 90 minutes. You don't need to love Shakespearean comedies t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:21PMThe blonde, hilarious star of Something Rotten! stops by to chat about Wicked, Tastiskank and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMRay Mercer of The Lion King stops by Broadway.com HQ for a chat with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMBroadway alum Jason Danieley will return to Chicago on Broadway. He steps back into Billy Flynn’s tux at the Ambassador Theatre on February 29, taking over for NFL legend Eddie George.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Completes Cast
Break out the sorting hat! A whole slew of actors have joined the cas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMWe’ve anxiously waited for months and gone through cast changes but, finally, the moment has arrived. Actor and playwright Colman Domingo’s highly anticipated play DOT officially opened …
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 06:14PMTwo siblings, one highhanded and the other free-spirited, form the core of Dreamcatcher theater’s staging of John Kolvenbach’s work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThe minutiae of the pressures and games among female teachers living in close quarters at a boarding school are revealed in this Irish play from 1938.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMClare Barron’s play at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn recalls the anguishing mysteries of sex and love during adolescence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMLife merely plays on the stones of death in this tale of the star-crossed lovers, with a pit of pebbles like a grave at their feet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMChicago’s Halcyon Theatre announces casting for the World Premiere of Dreams of the Penny Gods by Callie Kimball. Directed by Jennifer Adams, Co-Founder of Halcyon Theatre, the company clo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:00PMRecommended Reviewed by: Stacey L. Crawley Capturing the pathos of life, If/Then is an emotionally transparent musical that follows two distinct storylines for Elizabeth (Jackie Burns), who …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:00PMTony Award nominee Kerry Butler was on a roll in her last appearance on The Road to DISASTER Click here for Kerry's episode.Now, she's putting her DISASTER co-star Roger Bart in the dog hous…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMThe orchestra will welcome several major Broadway stars.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe new play is written and directed by Charles Messina.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
Stylish: The power of dance, song and big hair are used to heap scorn on all kinds of prejudice as Hairspray returns for a week-long flash of brio and fun at the Edinburgh Playhouse, as part…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:58PMDoes the world really need “Dirty Dancing–The Classic Story on Stage”? No. Is it a guilty pleasure for fans of a certain little 1987 flick? A qualified yes. Faithful to »
The post…
SOURCE: The San Francisco Examiner at 05:47PMJust when you might be convinced that there is nothing more to be said or done with Shakespeare's mighty tragedy, "Othello" - whether as a play, a ballet, an opera or a film - along comes Br…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:47PMIf theatre is a mirror held up to the world, then evidence is increasing that change is imminent. But what form will it take? Will the people rally as in The Caucasian Chalk Circle or will w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:36PMThere are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:28PMOn opening night, the two stars of Hughie, along with director Michael Grandage, talk up the Eugene O'Neill one act classic.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:16PMThe Republican presidential hopeful had too much to drink at the opening night party, resulting in a precarious second performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:07PMJust ask yourself every morning when you wake up, ‘Are you or are you not the luckiest son of a bitch you know?’ It’s funny. Here I was scheduled to meet with cultural ic…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:07PMI first met Sean Elias as an actor for a show I costumed for Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. He was friendly, funny and fun and I liked him right away. I was so happy when I found out he was …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:00PMDanieley will once again assume the role of Billy Flynn.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Ethan Slater will star as the \"absorbent and yellow and porous\" young sponge that lives in a pineapple beneath the sea in The SpongeBob Musical. Here, Slater takes the stage with…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMThe UK announced Joe & Jake as the Eurovision 2016 entry on Friday but also paid tribute to the late Terry Wogan who worked on the programme for 35 years
SOURCE: Telegraph at 04:49PMShowbiz Nation LIVE! Interview with Encore Cast’s TOMMY MENDOZA & CAMERON MATTHEWS from SHOWBIZ NATION LIVE! on Vimeo. TOMMY MENDOZA & CAMERON MATTHEWS discuss Encore Cast Perf…
SOURCE: www.showbiznoflo.com at 04:48PMTributes were paid to Sir Terry Wogan on Friday night before duo Joe & Jake were announced as the UK's 2016 entry to Eurovision
SOURCE: Telegraph at 04:47PMBroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Below, check out his latest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMAccording to an Equity casting notice, Las Vegas is about to get a taste of Baz Luhrmann. Auditions will begin soon for BAZ STAR CROSSED LOVE, with direction by Anderson Davis, and musical d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMThe Visit star will once again step into the Tony-winning revival of Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMby Ryan Leeds The 1930s was not a particularly bright decade for Broadway. Still reeling from the 1929 stock market crash and in the midst of the Great Depression, audiences were not as plen…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:30PMThere are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMThe Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome back Jason Danieley in the role of Billy Flynn beginning Monday, February 29 at the Ambassado…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMThe Off-Broadway theatre will present two new plays as part of its 14th season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMDaveed Diggs who portrays Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway smash musical hit HAMILTON will make his first ever late-night appearance on Comedy Central's 'The Nightly…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMCheck out five rare photos and hear the untold stories from Shear Madness star Jeremy Kushnier's Broadway career.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 04:03PMMembers of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle will teach kids aged 12-18 how to write about the arts.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:02PMThe bracing final moment, in which the servant Firs discovers he’s locked in the house, is a coup de theatre.
The post Like a Harp String Breaking: The Cherry Orchard at BAM appeared first…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:02PMWhether you consider yourself a Sondheim fan or have never experienced Sondheim before, director Gary Griffin has staged a production of Road Show that you don’t want to miss. Written …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:00PM
By MJ Halberstadt. Playwright MJ Halberstadt writes about different ways playwrights can address diverse representation in their scripts.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:58PM*This feature first appeared online at Playbill.comI am in awe of performers. ?And I was never as awed as I was last week. ?Phil Birsh called a few months ago and asked me to lunch. ?Aside f…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 03:58PMFalsettos is back on, Hughie opens and seven old Broadway theatres miss their bid for landmark status.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMThe Spring Awakening director will helm the classic musical for Bay Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMBy Sarah R. Warren. Sarah R. Warren examines the placement and function of the I Want Song in musicals.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:43PMIn his Broadway debut in Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, Forest Whitaker dutifuly reminds us why he’s one of the best actors of our generation. In Hughie, which takes place in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayBlack at 03:39PMDuring three months of rehearsals, the students who had just met rehearsed a musical about acceptance while national headlines told of racism.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMDC Actor Terry Nicholetti tells the story of Baltimore’s Bessie Bluefeld, founder of the famous Bluefeld Catering, in Meeting Bessie Bluefeld: Immigrant, Feminist, Entrepreneur on Saturday…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:35PMBy Douglas Mayo
To launch their full scale production company, Buckland Theatre Company are presenting August Strindberg’s Miss Julie in a new translation by Michael Meyer at Camden…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:34PMIn the festival circuit, there’s always that one show that’s not like the others. In the landscape of the 2016 Frigid Festival, that show is Supershock vs. Faust. Billed as a “moviecon…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:24PMRob from the rich, give to the poor ̶ a theme with universal and enduring appeal, at least among 99% of us. The centuries-old legend of benevolent British outlaw Robin Hood has pranced a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMBy HowlRound TV. University of Wales Trinity Saint David's School of Performing Arts in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom presents a performance of Macbeth livestreaming on the global, commo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:13PMPlaybill chats with the cast and creative team behind Broadway's latest revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie on opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMTickets are now available for Manhattan Theater Club's production of Nick Payne's Incognito. Directed by Doug Hughes, the limited engagement begins on May 3 and will play through Jun…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:08PMby DEAN FARELL BRUGGEMAN
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon.
. Seuss would’ve been the last place I’d expect to find inspiration when writing a p…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:02PMThroughout the week, we've been highlighting some of our favorite nominees with theatre backgrounds, and on Sunday, star of the upcoming Broadway musical NERDS, Patti Murin, will have her ow…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMThe two-part work will have its world premiere in London.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMA rarely heard Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick song has been recorded.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMBaldwin gets ready to kick off her new concert series at the Sheen Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Going for the Gold: Chris Rock Hosts the 88th Academy Awards
Telecast Sunday on ABC
By: Ellis Nassour
The 88th Academy Awards will telecast live from L.A.’s Dolby Theatre Sunday, hosted…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:53PMThe SpongeBob Musical will begin performances on Tuesday, June 7th at Broadway in Chicago's Oriental Theatre 24 West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL. This is a limited engagement through Sunday…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMOn today's LIVE with Kelly and Michael's a special Pre-Oscar celebration, Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker talked about making his Broadway debut in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's HUGH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMThe highly anticipated Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE starring Academy Award winner, Golden Globe Award winner amp BAFTA winner Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland, The Bu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMCalling all Broadway producers The next big belter is currently coming to you live on your TV set every Wednesday night
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMDidn't have time to check in on your favorite Broadway stars Well don't worry BroadwayWorld has rounded up some of the biggest stories from this week from Broadway and beyond with BroadwayWo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMDundalk Community Theatre continues its 42nd season with one of broadways most successful comedies…The 39 Steps. This laugh-a-minute melodrama is adapted from the John Buchan novel a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:26PMThe upcoming FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Broadway Cast Album will feature an additional bonus track from co-stars Adam Kantor and Alexandra Silber
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PM By Diana DiCostanzo (@DianaNYC18) If jazz, spoken word poetry, Shakespeare, and a High School-centered TV drama all had a baby, it would be Seven Fragments. Accompanied by a jazz soundtra…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 02:19PMThe Broadway Records cast recording will feature two special bonus tracks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMBANG THE DRUM FOR THIS ONE: AN INTIMATE EPIC OF WAR AND FRIENDSHIP This premiere for the Park is a cracker: a serious, grownup, constantly entertaining light on history with fine-dr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:17PM by Joe Regan Jr. Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller returned to the room where they did “Sin Twisters” in 2014, a show title a spooner on “twin sisters” on F…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:12PMWe’ve heard stories about people getting involved in religious cults but we never imagined it could happen to us. Why does it happen? How does it happen? That’s the story Diana Brown is …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:12PM“‘Yeah,’ I said, ‘I heard the speech. But they don’t give a damn about that. Hell, make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em think you’re their weak erring pal, or make ’em …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:09PMRehearsals have begun for the eighth Harry Potter story
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:09PMThe new, computer-generated musical opens this evening
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:09PMNeed some hot stuff, baby, this evening? Look no further. The cast of Disaster! stopped by The Today Show this morning to offer up a earthquake/flood/piranha-free taste of the new jukebox mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PMCongrats to our Facebook fan Lesley Logan on being selected as this weekend’s winner for the best shot of the Theater District. Want your photo featured on our home page? Submit your b…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:07PMBy Douglas Mayo
As rehearsals begin, Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender are delighted to announce that joining Jamie Parker (Harry), Noma Dumezweni (Hermione) and Paul Thornley (Ro…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 02:05PMAndrew Keenan-Bolger leads the cast of the musical stage adaptation.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMNew plays by Sofia Alvarez and Lucy Teitler join the lineup.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
The Watershed, Annabel Soutar’s acclaimed documentary play about the politics of science during the Harper years, will kick off a national tour at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre in September
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:45PMPlaywright Samuel Beckett, prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn and comedian Tommy Cooper are to be featured on commemorative blue plaques, in a raft
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMCulture minister Ed Vaizey has labelled a potential EU exit “irresponsible” for the UK arts sector – despite culture secretary John Whittingdale
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMSky has launched the fifth year of its arts scholarship programme, which will include comedy and film categories for the first time.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMContemporary dance company White and Givan has been appointed dance company in residence at Edinburgh University, in association with the Traverse Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMThe House Theatre of Chicago has announced a four-week extension of "The Last Defender."
Created by artistic director Nathan Allen and D.C. Comics artist Chris Burnham, the live-action puzz…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:43PMSpring training is underway and another baseball season is upon us. There's no better time to revisit a historical event that happened in Hartford in 1918: Babe Ruth visiting for an exhibiti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:42PMHughie, the Eugene O’Neill one-act play, opened at the Booth Theatre on February 25 for a limited run through June 12. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) makes hi…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:38PMIain Mackintosh writes: Diana Rowntree tells us Derek Sugden believed that meetings of more than seven people were a poor means of communication. The creation of theatres usually involves la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMThe revival of the Tony-winning musical Falsettos is set to begin preview performances at the Walter Kerr Theater on September 29, 2016, in advance of an October 27 opening. The show, to be…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:32PMThe annualEaster Bonnet Competitionwill return this spring to celebrate its 30th anniversary on Monday, April 25 andTuesday, April 26 at theMinskoff Theatre 200 West 45th Street, NYC. Perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMBikini Bottom is in turmoil. Mount Humongous could explode at any second. And The Mayor has just declared Code Aqua, trapping SpongeBob and Patrick inside without access to the outside under…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:28PMWatch the Tony-winner's full master class from this month's Athena Film Festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMThe highly anticipated Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE starring Academy Award winner, Golden Globe Award winner amp BAFTA winner Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland, The Bu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMThe cloaking spell has been lifted HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD has found its full West End company.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMComplete casting has been announced for the anticipated London world-premiere stage production of J.K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMRavi Jain at Factory Theatre reminds us why David French's play is a classic.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:10PM
Before his all ALW concert, Tony nominee Josh Young creates his ultimate Lloyd Webber playlist.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 12:56PMThe show is the first in Paul Hart's inaugural season as artistic director
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:50PMNicole Kidman, Eva Noblezada and Matt Henry make this week's picks
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:50PMThis week Adam Kantor talks to the Fiddler and takes a few fans backstage.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMOscar winner Forest Whitaker made his Broadway debut opposite Tony winner Frank Wood in Eugene O'Neill's short but potent play Hughie. Whitaker plays small-time gambler and big-time …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMThe Broadway.com staff is crazy for Culturalist, the website that lets you choose and create your own top 10 lists. Every week, we’re challenging you with a new Broadway-themed topic t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMForest Whitaker made his Broadway debut in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's two-hander drama Hughie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMThe annual event will be held at the Minskoff Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has announced a new program expressly for teenagers. Their Student Arts Reporter program commences on Saturday, March
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:38PMPorter appeared as 'Bebe' in the 2006 Broadway revival of A CHORUS LINE and will compete on this season of NBC's THE VOICE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe Manhattan Association of Cabarets amp Clubs has just announced the 2016 MAC Award nominees and complete list of honorees for the 30th Annual MAC Awards.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe company just shot a new TV spot, created and produced by eyeball and Serino Coyne Advertising Agency, which you can check out HERE. Below, we've got some behind-the-scenes footage from t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMKATE BALDWIN amp FRIENDS,a concert seriesfeaturingKate Baldwin, is set for thisSunday, February 28 at 730pmat The Sheen Center.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe House Theatre of Chicago has announced a four-week extension of "The Last Defender." Created by artistic director Nathan Allen and D.C. Comics artist Chris Burnham, the live-action puzzl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:26PMTwo-time Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan understands how the pressures of being famous can impact young women harder than men, she tells Jane Pauley in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNIN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMActors' Equity Association's National EEO Committee will celebrate Black History Month withWe Love You ShirleyonMonday, February 29th. The event is open to the public and will be held in Equ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMNew Haven Theater Company has had some success with ensemble-based shows about American small-town communities, including "Our Town" and "Almost, Maine." William Inge's "Bus Stop," about a b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:06PMHearing the word ‘vagina' aloud before 1996, outside of a medical setting, was a bit startling. Encountering it in an article was likely to cause many readers more than a bit of surprise. …
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:02PMThe Tony-Award winning comedy begins tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMTom Higgenson of The Plain White T's and Ethan Slater sing from the Broadway-bound show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMLuker will play an engagement in the Tony-winning musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
You won't regret clicking play on this Music Man classic.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 11:57AMThemes of accessibility and technology drove this year's conference about the future of Broadway.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:53AMMark Rothko, the acclaimed abstract expressionist painter returns to Philadelphia in Red, the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan, at the tiny Independence Studio black box of the Walnut S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMTony Award nominee Rebecca Luker will step into the Tony-winning Broadway musical for a limited time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMTony nominee Rebecca Luker will join the cast of Fun Home for a few days and days and days. She steps into the role of Helen Bechdel at the Circle in the Square Theatre, taking over temporar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMThe 9th season of New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series launches on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at The Cell. The evening features pre-premieres of two new musicalsLuna and the Gold River Docks…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMTUCK EVERLASTING is brought to life in a sweeping production which features a book by Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear Dirty Blonde and award-winning author Tim Federle Better Nate Than Ever…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMSeth Rudetsky, Kerry Butler, Adam Pascal, Kevin Chamberline, Faith Prince, Rachel York and more cast members from Broadway's DISASTER stopped by this morning's TODAY on NBC to perform a medl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMGhostlight Records has released the original cast recording of the world premiere musical FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE -- written by Michael John LaChiusa and directed by Kirsten Sanderson -- in dig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMProducers Fox Theatricals (Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson) and Barbara Whitman are thrilled to announce that three-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker will join the cast of Fun Home, the gr…
SOURCE: breakingcharactermagazine.com at 11:28AMJust announced, three-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker will join the cast of Fun Home, the groundbreaking and Tony Award-winning Best Musical, as Helen Bechdel, for a limited time from …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMEd Harris stopped by NBC's TODAY this morning, February 26th, to discuss his new off-Broadway play BURIED CHILD. 'It's really beautifully written,' says the actor of Sam Shepard's work.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMThe cast album of Michael John LaChiusa's First Daughter Suite is now available to download.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMToday in 2004, Fiddler on the Roof opened at the Minskoff Theatre, where it ran for 781 performances. Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMBroadway Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2262016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMLiverpool PlayhouseWith lyrics from Armitage and showstopping arrangements by Iain Johnstone, Told By An Idiot fashion an irreverent musical about a 17th-century atheistTold By An Idiot’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMPolonsky Shakespeare Center, New YorkTrevor Nunn turns one of Shakespeare’s least-loved plays into something sumptuous and spectacular – though the seafaring plot remains ridiculousPeric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMJudith Malina and Daniel Sacks's books both wrestle with revolutionary truths---one via poetry, the other through theory.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:07AMA TV adaptation of the Off-Broadway comedy may be in the works.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMREVIEW BY KELLY GREEN (special to VC On Stage) Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley was at it again with another superb production. With three separate play production classes (musical, c…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:04AMThe Oscar winner stars in Eugene O'Neill's drama alongside Frank Wood.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Busch pays tribute to five much-missed women.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMThe programme for a performing and visual arts festival taking place across Norfolk and Norwich has launched. The Norfolk and Norwich Festival celebrates performance, theatre, music, visual …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AMBy HowlRound TV. Suzan-Lori Parks livestreams Watch Me Work from the Public Theater in New York City on Monday, February 29 at 2pm PST (Vancouver) / 4pm CST (Austin) / 5pm EST (Toronto) / 22…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:47AMSome days feel like we're running HamiltonWorld, and other days you get to publish a story about Hamilpeeps and everything just feels right.
Check out Michael Dale's hilarious…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMby Samuel L. Leiter The f-bombs are so frequent in Charles Messina’s A Room of My Own, an often fabulously funny autobiographical family farce-drama, that even a 10-year-old kid gets to fr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:45AMVeteran director Andy Sandberg's newest project is the play STRAIGHT, which he is bringing to life Off-Broadway. Straight tells the story of Ben, a 26 year old investment banker, and his rel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AM
The highly anticipated Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill'sHUGHIEstarring Academy Award winner, Golden Globe Award winner amp BAFTA winnerForest WhitakerThe Last King of Scotland, The Butler…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMDaniel Goldstein will direct the Cole Porter classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMCaitlin Moran’s sitcom Raised By Wolves returns, Macbeth is a cheesegrater at the Barbican and Sacha Baron Cohen’s gallingly un-PC Grimsby hits cinemasTV Raised By Wolves Continue readin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMFor your inconsideration, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE presents a special movie star edition of MeanTweets featuring Christoph Waltz, Patricia Arquette, George Clooney and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMPresident Obama led a sing-along to Ray Charles' classic song 'What'd I Say' at the White House. Among the performers at the event were Usher, Demi Lovato, gospel singer Yolanda Adams and T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AM"All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AM The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs is pleased to announce the 2016 MAC Award nominees and complete list of honorees for the 30th Annual MAC Awards. The awards pr…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:49AMCharles Messina write and directs a play tapping into his memories of growing up in Greenwich Village in the late '70s. Too bad it's only intermittently poignant or funny. .
SOURCE: www.curtainup.comroomofmyown16 at 09:33AMWhat could be staid and stuffy – under the careful and illuminating guidance of Jenn Thompson isn’t.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 09:30AMGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it This weekend's big news SCHOOL OF ROCK is on the lookou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMAbingdon Theatre Company, under the leadership of Artistic DirectorTony Speciale, presents the world-premiere run ofA Room of My Own. Written and Directed byCharles Messina,Off-Broadway perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMThe Broadway League's internship exposes New York City high schoolers to new sides of the industry and brings diversity to the biz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMThe Tony nominee is creating and headlining concerts showcasing musical-theater composers first up LaChiusa.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMThe highly anticipated Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill'sHUGHIEstarring Academy Award winner, Golden Globe Award winner amp BAFTA winnerForest WhitakerThe Last King of Scotland, The Butler…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11AM By Sandi Durell One of theater’s most lauded playwrights, John Patrick Shanley (Doubt), puts forth his own life in Prodigal Son (as author and dir…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:10AMJust as Stephen Daldry reinvented An Inspector Calls for a new generation in the early 1990s, director John Dexter changed perceptions of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWithin a year, we’ll have had a Malvolia and a Queen Lear to add to the female Hamlets, Julius Caesars and Henry
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Breakfast At Tiffany’s | Kiss Me Quickstep | Così Fan Tutte & Cosi | Up Down Man | Table Top Shakespeare | Opus 7Pixie Lott plays Holly Golightly in Nikolai Foster’s revival of Trum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMDane Baptiste | Russell Howard | Omid DjaliliOver in the States, talking about the supposed differences between white and black people is such a staple of stand-up that it’s become a clich…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMPrint Room at the Coronet, LondonDancers’ limbs twist and thread in this highly atmospheric conclusion to an elemental trilogy that veers between the airy and the groundedThe tiny Print Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMThe company’s latest production can feel costly, couply and a tad contrived – but its playful pageantry ensured that even a sceptical visitor was lost in a world of communist conspiracie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMAkram Khan | Immortal TangoIt was back in 2002 that dancer and choreographer Akram Khan presented his first full-length work, Kaash, with designs by Anish Kapoor and a score by Nitin Sawhney…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMSCHOOL OF ROCK - THE MUSICAL is holding an open casting call for a new wave of pint-size rockers, offering the once-in-a-lifetime chance to join the most famous kid band of all time.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52AMReturning for its 17th season, Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbookcontinues to broaden its scope in celebrating the best in American singing and songwriting as interpreted by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44AMAnna-Jane Casey and Laura Pitt-Pulford are to star in the premiere of Flowers for Mrs Harris at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre. Based on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMRichard Jones's production returns to Covent Garden in its first revival
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:25AMWe take a look in the dressing room of Beyond the Fence star Laura Jane Matthewson
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:25AMThe Mary Poppins star tells us about meeting Prince Harry, her ambitions of being a sketch writer and what it's like at Christmas in the Strallen household
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:25AMChorus members at English National Opera will strike for the first time in 13 years in response to proposed changes to their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMWould be playwrights, actors, directors, lighting, sound, set and costume designers (as well as producers) of both sexes should make a point of seeing the MINT Theater Company’s excellent …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:18AMThe following statement was issued by English National Opera’s management: “We are extremely disappointed that Equity have balloted members of the ENO
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National treasure Maureen Lipman (Oklahoma, Outside Edge, See How They Run) and Olivier-award winning Katie Brayben (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, King Charles III, American Psych…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:55AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I report on Forest Whitaker’s Broadway debut, in Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, which also stars Frank Wood. Here’s an excerpt. * * * What ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: February’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:45AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Let’s COPE…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:39AMDaniel Evans today announces the full cast for the world première of Flowers for Mrs Harris by Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff – the final production he will direct as Artistic Directo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMThere's plenty to do this weekend and next week around St. Louis.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:38AM'Brilliant', 'riveting' and 'astonishing' are only a few words our contributing writers have used to describe the local theatre scene. This week, we go around our Broadway World to featureth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:35AMHello Pop Culture Prognosticators, it is time to turn your Office Oscar Pool in to Gary in Accounting. If you still haven't finished filling out your sheet, don't worry, 'Some Like It Pop' h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30AMThe Mint once again fulfills is archeological mission with Hazel Ellis's all female play nodding to diversity in action with a female director and all female crafts team. .
SOURCE: at 07:29AMLauded film star Forest Whitaker is making his Broadway debut
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:29AMAs his TV series returns to our screens, comedian Stewart Lee talks to Will Self about his prickly stage persona, how social media is changing comedy and why you won’t see him on Mock the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMDue to unprecedented demand, a three-week extension is announced today for The Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Doctor Faustus. Full casting has also been announced with Jenna Russell (…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:22AMJoan Baez sings Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” on the BBC’s In Concert in 1965: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMAccording to a tweet from the official Miss Saigon account, the show will tour in 2017
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:13AMAnna-Jane Casey and Laura Pitt-Pulford will star in Daniel Evans' final production at the Crucible
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:13AMJenna Russell and Jade Anouka have joined the cast of Doctor Faustus at the Duke of York’s Theatre, as the show also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMOpera North has named Aleksandar Markovic as its new music director. The Serbian conductor, who worked with the company for the first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMBy Louis DeVaughn Nelson (@hokum_arts) Photo credit: Jonathan Staff There I sat listening to stories about the history of the theater, looking at all the relics of former times – all the o…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:07AM“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMIf the term up-and-coming actor needed a poster child, last year I would have said Eddie Redmayne would be a perfect match, owing to his Oscar win as Stephen Hawking in the acclaimed film TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Happiness is a Cup Of Tea was a definite highlight of the Camden Fringe last year. As a drastically shorter piece of work, the one woman play performed and written by Annie Mckenzie left a l…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:42AMShe was a last-minute lead in the three-hour Linda and will play JK Rowling’s grown-up Hermione Granger in the West End. Now Noma Dumezweni is making her directorial debut with a South Afr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMJust when we got used to Millennials and their quirks and buying habits, the next generation is already here. The Founders generation aka Generation Z were born after 1995 and have a diff…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AMWho else but Dianna Cuatto, the Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s Artistic Director, could make a three hour ballet seem like a short dream that you never want to end? For one weekend only�…
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As the early morning anchor leaves BBC Breakfast, watch Bill Turnbull's best moments on the programme
SOURCE: Telegraph at 02:40AMIndependent theatre company BONTOM will present new Australian drama, Unfinished Works, from 23 March to 2 April at the Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre. Delivering an incisive portrayal of …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:17AMAs part of its four-month national tour, shake & stir’s production of Emily Bronte’s much-loved gothic masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, will storm into Riverside Theatres on 22 and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:13AMEleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany In the fall of 1939, at 9 years old, Eleanor and her family left New York on the SS Hamburg bound for Germany. A new job and a secur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:07AMOff-West End theatre is the richest, most diverse part of London’s theatre ecology. Labels such as ‘fringe’ do it a disservice. For
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEven by the standards of today’s much-diminished independent bookstores, New York’s Drama Book Shop is a fairly intimate boutique, with narrow frontage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMNo city outside London is quite as well provided for, theatrically speaking, as (to quote a song from the musical Hair) in
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Trevor Nunn directs “Pericles,” one of Shakespeare’s tumultuous late romances, in a Theater for a New Audience Production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36AMLegacy Recordings has just released SUMMERTIME WILLIE NELSON SINGS GERSHWIN, available today, February 26, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMToday, February 26, Masterworks Broadway releases THE ESSENTIAL STEPHEN SONDHEIM, celebrating the 85th birthday year of the legendary theater composer and lyricist.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMEd Harrisstops by NBC's TODAY this morning, February 26th, to discuss his new off-Broadway play BURIED CHILD.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMBroadway veteran Matt Doyle THE BOOK OF MORMON, WAR HORSE, SPRING AWAKENING will release his first full-length album -- UNCONTROLLED -- today,February 26th, 2016. He is thrilled to celebrate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThe massive open call is being held at the Winter Garden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe recording of the Broadway musical is available in digital and CD formats.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMRevel in the talents of these Broadway and cabaret stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArian Moayed embodies fully developed characters, regardless of ethnicity.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVaudeville was all the rage when the Manos Theater opened in Greensburg in 1926. This weekend the venerable entertainment space, rechristened The Palace Theatre in 1977, will celebrate its 9…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMA cappella — once a college fad hyped up by the “Pitch Perfect” film franchise — now exists as a established high school pastime. And one local school has made it to the regional sem…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM