The Confederation of Australian State Theatre Companies (CAST) has issued a statement today in light of the news that 62 arts organisations will be defunded after failing to secure key org…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:37PMThe rape allegations against Cosby didn’t stick until Hannibal Buress made the accusation on stage. Sometimes comedians are able to say what others can’tJudging by the story of the Natio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13PMAs the original production of My Fair Lady is painstakingly reproduced, we should be challenging outdated theatre – not replicating itIn recent years, Opera Australia has begun programming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13PMBroadwayWorld has learned that the first Hebrew production of Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS will have a male actor playing the role of the Witch, while a female actress …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10PMToday, stage legend Chita Rivera ceremoniously turned the Empire State Building tower lights red in honor of AIDS WALK New York, which takes place this Sunday, May 15. Scroll down for video …
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South Coast Repertory has announced its 2016-17 season. The theater’s commitment to new voices in the American theater will be seen through three world premieres and five West Coast …
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LOS ANGELES (May 11, 2016) – The Music Center named 14 outstanding Southern California high school students as Grand Prize Finalists in the 28th annual The Music Center�…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:36PMJust got the sad news that the Musee Conti Wax Museum in New Orleans folded a couple of months ago! It seems like kismet that we got to see it. I’d wanted to check it out for years and…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25PMWho is Cameron Daddo? A guy who treats people as he likes to be treated. A father of 3, a husband, a son to wonderfully loving and kind parents, a brother to a beautiful sister and three gre…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 09:21PMSydney audiences appreciate a jukebox musical. If the crowd on opening night of We Will Rock You is anything to go by, a Queen-inspired musical will always find its support in a raucous audi…
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The Art Gallery of South Australia, in partnership with the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, has launched the country’s richest prize for young contemporary artists. Held every two yea…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 08:34PMNow at TimeLine Theatre, Lucy Kirkwood's "Chimerica" is a sprawling epic drama that takes on the amorality of the atrophying media, the mutual hypocrisy informing U.S.-China relations and th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMOn a pleasant Conroe Saturday night last weekend a parade of young area talent was spotlighted at the Crighton Theatre in a show aptly titled, “Come Fly with Me.” Hosting the program was…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:20PMA temporary London venue will be built specifically to house David Bowie and Enda Walsh's new musical LAZARUS, which premiered last year Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:10PMDOCTOR WHO's Matt Smith is returning to the stage in Anthony Neilson's new play UNREACHABLE at the Royal Court.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01PMThe Daily Mail reports that the West End production of School of Rock - The Musical, previously announced for an Autumn 2016 opening at the London Palladium, couldbe bringing the Gods of Roc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01PMGLEE's Amber Riley has quite the backup power for her nights off in DREAMGIRLS the West End. THE VOICE UK contestant Ruth Brown and THE X FACTOR's Karen Mav will alternate in the role of 'Ef…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01PMWe have a tentative timetable for MISS SAIGON on the big screenAccording to the Daily Mail, Danny Boyle's MISS SAIGON film adaptation will begin shooting in 2018, provided the screenplay and…
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Our staff picks the best things to do this week — with a look ahead.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:48PMGilded scenery, an exquisitely sung classic American songbook score, parades of hoop skirts and exotic Eastern textiles, and an unconventional love story. What’s not to adore in Lyri…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 07:48PMPaul Wontorek and Beth Stevens take #LiveatFive on location to the Waitress Treats Truck to chat with Drew Gehling.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32PMAge: 30
Hometown: Freeville, NH
Current Role: Paul Owen, Patrick Bateman’s slick co-worker whose superior business card drives Bateman to earn his title as American Psycho.
Sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:32PMAn immersive, experiential dance-theater piece is about to take over a 16,000-square-foot RiNo warehouse retrofitted to look like a speakeasy and antique shop.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:02PMStephen Daldry might be one of the busiest theater and film directors, but he still finds the time to mentor students who are interested in becoming filmmakers.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:02PMThe cult musical SIDE SHOW, receiving its London premiere at the Southwark Playhouse later this year, has found its leading twin sisters. The
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:02PMThe three-time Tony winner is hoping to bring the new musical based on the life of Toulouse-Lautrec.to Broadway.
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Megan Hilty is headed back to the small screen - opposite a slew of fellow Broadway alums
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:59PMBrian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Amy Winehouse. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Peter McMaster? No, he didn’t join the “27 Club” but he celebrates the risks and excesses of the age …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:56PMYoung Vic, LondonArthur Miller's 1955 Brooklyn drama is stripped right back to showcase rich behavioural accuracy and high-quality performances• Monroe and Miller's sensational year – in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMAmy Schumer’s sketch comedy show tackles gun control and in New York Janeane Garofalo joins other comedians in benefit show to raise awarenessIncongruous as it seems, comedy and the campai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PM"Strays" is a challenge to describe as it is such a mash-up of traditional theatrical conventions that it doesn’t easily fall into any one category. Directed by Cion, Strays moves as throu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:38PMThe out-of-town Tony voters are in New York to catch up on the nominated shows, and all they’re talking about is a performer who’s not up for anything this year. “Have you seen Heathe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:30PMThis production is shadelessly lit for much of its runtime, evoking the drama’s openness, or at least its frankness.
The post The Longest Day: <em>Long Day’s Journey into Night<…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:29PMA video retrospective on the Broadway shows directed by Shuffle Along's George C. Wolfe.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 06:26PMAndrew Keenan-Bolger will present student performances May 17 on the stage of the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:22PMIN MEMORY OF WILLIAM SCHALLERT
(July 6, 1922–May 8, 2016)
August 2000, I was invited to the home of actor William Schallert, where he graciously allowed me to mine the memories o…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:21PMI’m Not Jesus Christ is based on the true tale of eleven-year-old, Mihai. He is raised in Romania solely by his mother and prohibited from going to school as she believes he is Jesus Chris…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20PMMs. Simard received a Tony Award nomination for her role as a nun with a gambling problem in "Disaster!," a 1970s disaster movie musical comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:20PMThe brush strokes are broad in “My Paris,” the predictable bio-tuner of Belle Epoque artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, now premiering at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. The chanso…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMSELLER: Alan Cumming LOCATION: New York City, NY PRICE: $2,200,000 SIZE: 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: Scottish-born showbiz hypenate and art world iconoclast Alan Cumming hois…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PMThe acclaimed drama will head to California.
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Titled LIFE IN MOTION AN UNLIKELY BALLERINA, the project is based on Copeland's biography of the same name. REMEMBER THE TITAN's Gregory Allen Howard will pen the film's script.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMJoining the original cast as the Wizard is Tony Award-nominated actor Andr De Shields, Broadway's original 'The Wiz' 1975.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMThe Encores production of Do I Hear a Waltz, the romantic, rarely-seen 1965 musical that marked the only collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, stars Claybourne Elder, Meliss…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMRodgers and Hammerstein wrote 11 Broadway musicals; five remain among the most popular ever written. Rodgers and Hart wrote some three dozen. Rodgers and Sondheim wrote only one, which neith…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:59PMIf his resume wasn’t already unusually diverse for a theater critic, it might seem strange that Terry Teachout is adding “director” to his hyphenated professional description when his …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44PMThe Shakespeare Society will hold its annualPlaying Shakespeare Celebration- a festive cocktail party, fundraiser and awards ceremony on May 23, from 6 - 8 pm, at The Players, 16 Gramercy Pa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMDramatists Guild Fund Board President Andrew Lippa and Executive Director Rachel Routh announce that the organization's annual Gala, Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars, will be held Monda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMBroadwayWorld has learned that the first Israeli production of Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS will have a male actor playing the role of the Witch, while a female actress…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMA re-imagined version of the 1921 musical SHUFFLE ALONG, one of the earliest stage hits starring, written and directed by African-Americans, opened on April 28 on Broadway at the Music Box T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMHAMILTON creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda is the champion of freestyling, so today PEOPLE asked the multiple Tony nominee to freestyle about how his own life has changed since hit musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMFollowing weeks of speculation, The CW has officially picked up SUPERGIRL from CBS, giving the Greg Berlanti-created series a second season, according to Deadline.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMSam Harris, the Tony award-winning actor, recording artist, playwright, composer, director and best-selling author, is bringing his critically beloved one-man show HAM A MUSICAL MEMOIR to au…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PM“Do I Hear a Waltz?” Imagine if Bob Dylan and Keith Richards had made an album together that bombed and sank into oblivion. That’s what “Do I Hear a Waltz?” is to Broadway. The sol…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:37PMWhat can be said is that the results are right up there with some of the best scores Rodgers helped turn out -- and Sondheim's agile words are also among his most devilishly clever.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:34PMSome Like It Pop Episode 2.9 Hello Pop Culture Illuminati! On this episode of BroadwayWorld’s Some Like It Pop Podcast we discuss the recent Tony nominations, our approaches to theatre, &#…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:24PMFirst look at Wendy Beckett’s newest work about two Manhattan residents’ lust for the perfect real estate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:15PMRevival had been announced for this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMThe Know: What not to miss May 12-21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Bryan Cranston Becomes LBJ
Four-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston is reprising his Tony-winning performance of Lyndon B. John…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMSomething’s not right with Georgie. She’s turning 40 and she’s lost her heart, hope and other h’s along the way.
The post Bright Fringe Review: Aphrodite in Flippers, The Warren app…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMAll of New York is currently celebrating the achievements of the Broadway community with the Tony Award nominations. So we decided to turn the tables and have Broadway celebrate New York. At…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:06PMThe federal endowment announces funds for thousands of projects across the nation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:05PMb. sakata garo → Born in Mexico in 1940, longtime San Francisco artist Gustavo Ramos Rivera is known for the idiosyncratic imagery, brilliant color and emotional intensity of his abstract …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:00PMTraveling production tells Berry’s Gordy’s storyMotown founder worked with veteran producer to develop showProduction features more than 50 songs from five decades … Click to Cont…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:00PMKeenan-Bolger currently appears in Tuck Everlasting.
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DO I HEAR A WALTZ will run for seven performances atCity Center, now through May 15. Let's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMFive-time Emmy Award nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson makes his highly anticipated return to Broadway as nearly 40 outrageous characters in the smash hit comedy, FULLY COMMITTED by Becky Mode, d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMBroadway's Tuck Everlasting just announced that Andrew Keenan-Bolger, who currently stars as 'Jesse Tuck' in the new musical, will host The Shubert Foundation and Music Theatre International…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMRodgers and Sondheim wrote only one, which neither of them liked. Do I Hear A Waltz? is a perfect selection of the Encores! concert series at New York City Center. The late Richard Rodgers s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PMThe theater director Robert Wilson pulls out the stops — and pulls in a pig — for a collaboration with the French luxury-goods company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMTo search for the author of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” in today’s Rome is to explore the vestiges of that heady period after the fall of Mussolini.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMEncores! revives a 1965 romantic work that features music by Richard Rodgers on the wane, and Stephen Sondheim on the rise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PM by Alix Cohen The second show in Michael Feinstein’s Jazz & Popular Song Series for Lincoln Center was both more swing than blues and less illuminating than that to which we�…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:38PMScoBar Entertainmentis proud to present Oscar-nominated actress/singer SALLY KELLERMAN for two performances onMay 12 at 8:30 & 10:30 at Iridium.Her acclaimed show, A Little, Jazz, a Little B…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:38PMNiteLife Exchange is bringing back this Sally Kellerman interview by Penny Landau, for Kellerman’s May 12th performances at Iridium, “A Little Jazz, a Little Blues, a Little Rock & Roll.…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:38PMThe acclaimed director insists we should not write off the power of the musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:30PMHBO has just released a new featurette for its television adaptation of the Broadway play ALL THE WAY, starring Bryan Cranston, in which the makeup team turns the Tony-winning actor into fam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:30PMSo just how funny is the president of the United States? It's surely time for a critical assessment, given Barack Obama's extensive recent foray into the world of arts and entertainment. In …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMMelissa Errico stars in a rare revival of the Rodgers & Sondheim musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMWho says that actors cannot play sports? The Broadway Show League, featuring the casts of several shows currently playing on Broadway, opened at Heckscher Ballfields in Central Park on May…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:06PMSet to broadcast May 21, Robert Schenkkan's drama charts LBJ's battle to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMThere are so many songs. But when I was in high school, I would record the Tonys. And this is so nerdy. But I would record the Tonys on a VHS tape and then bring the tape into my math class,…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:04PMA daringly naked exploration of body image, love and friendship. By Joel Benjamin Blessed Unrest, the adventurous theater company is currently in residence at the New Oh…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:01PMRossmer steps in to the production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMThe new play will run at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
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In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Silhouette Stages Next to Normal, meet Christie Smith. Joel: Please introduce yourself. Christie: I am Christie Smith, and I graduated fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMThe Perfect Palette recently interviewed Jessica Boskoff of Twenty Three Layers to find out the looks that most inspire her. Twenty Three Layers is a New York-based event and design firm tha…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 03:48PMAs we reported earlier this week, the national tour of HAMILTON will be included in the Kennedy Center's 2017-2018 season. Today it was announced that the tourwill play the Kennedy Center Op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMWho’d have thought that a musical based on a couple of murder cases set in Prohibition-era Chicago would turn out to be one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time? Especially on it…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:43PMJune is coming up and that’s when L.A. explodes with hundreds of fantastic indie theater productions.
Now in its sixth year, the 2016 Hollywood Fringe
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:40PMLast weekend, tucked away in the Northwest Side offices of a company that makes socket screws and industrial fasteners, a small film crew assembled. The retro, dusty ambience of the place �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:40PMJulie Halston will be Mistress of Ceremonies at T. Schreiber Studio and Theatre's 2016 Spring Benefit and Performance Monday, May 23, 2016, which will span the StudioTheatre at 151 West 26th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMThe dramatist has a new play, How Black Mothers Say I Love You, about an emigrating Caribbean mother who is separated from her daughters for years
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMThe annual luncheon featured performances by co-stars of the six-time Tony winner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMIt's the five cancellation commandments.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMIt's the last Killing Time vlog. Thanks for the great series, Jenn!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMDavid Rossmer is about to check in at Broadway’s Les Miserables. Beginning May 13, the stage alum will assume the role of innkeeper Thenardier, taking over for Gavin Lee at the Imperia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMGet inside the room where it happened! Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alfie Boe, Megan Hilty, Rachel Tucker and cast members from Hamilton, Wicked, Spring Awakening and more celebrated the 2016 Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMThe cabaret queen takes us on a stroll down memory lane.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMBrian Stokes Mitchell, Ben Whishaw, Lupita Nyong'o, and more helped toast the six-time Tony-winning star of Shuffle Along.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
For this week’s At Rise, writer Jamila Reddy sat down with theatreWashington’s President and CEO Amy Austin, to get the inside scoop on the Helen Hayes Awards, being celebrated M…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 02:54PMThe old cliche is that you’re supposed to grow more conservative the older you get. “A Democrat, huh?” Joe Flaherty rants to his daughter Linda Cardellini on Freaks and …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:54PM It was a busy morning at the Marriott Marquis on May 10th when the 2016 Drama Desk Award Nominees came out in droves to proudly collect and showoff their Award Nomination Certificate…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:50PMAlice Ripley, Nathan Lee Graham, Gay Marshall, Carol Lipnik, Rob Maitner and Gabrielle Stravelli have joined the cast of the sixth annual “Night Of A Thousand Judys” – the …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:49PMDavid Rossmer will assume the role of Thenardier in Cameron Mackintosh's production of Claude-Michel Schnberg amp Alain Boublil's legendary musical Les Miserables tomorrow, Friday, May 13 at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMThe updated policies will help insure that fans, not scalpers, will have access to same-day seats made available at the last minute.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMThe new production of Shuffle Along presents the original 1921 musical with additional new story elements about the creation of the show. George C. Wolfe provides the new book material. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMDavid Rossmer is set to assume the role of the ”Master of the House.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMBy HowlRound TV. Breaking the Binary is a half-day symposium focused on building trans*/ gender-non-conforming/ non-binary inclusive theatre, co-presented by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and C…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:42PMIn the past ten years, Danny Burstein has wooed audiences with his Tony nominated performances as some of Broadway's most beloved characters- Buddy, Aldopho, Billis... the list goes on. Now …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMLupita Nyong'o is in discussions to take on the role of Chad Boseman's love interest in Marvel's upcoming superhero film THE BLACK PANTHER.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMMusic, plays, poetry — and a very modern, very big version of the Celtic harp.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PMThe Orange Is the New Black star is cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMShe starred on Broadway in On the Town.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMLupita Nyong’o is in talks to play the love interest of Chadwick Boseman’s superhero in Marvel’s “The Black Panther,” sources confirmed to Variety. “Creed…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:15PMA FAIRY TALE LEAPS INTO LOVE Rossini, Walt Disney, Rodgers and Hammerstein—they all wanted a piece of Perrault’s fairy tale. Cinderella has become Cendrillon, Cenerentola, and, by Jerry …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15PMFrom a fine arts major turned playwright to a spoken-word artist inspired by gardening, here are some stage folks to keep your eye on.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:07PMAfter 309 performances at the Davenport Theatre, Daddy Long Legs will play its final off-Broadway performance on June 6. The production, starring Megan McGinnis and her husband Adam Halpin, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMName: Sarita FellowsHometown: Freetown Sierra LeoneEducation: MFA in Design for Stage and Film, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.Favorite Credits: Fabuloso and Bug, with the Boundless theat…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:06PMGIFs of how Tony nominees feel inside when they see or hear a cell phone in the theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 02:06PMThe BBC will reveal the names of all talent currently earning more than £450,000, in moves put forward in the government’s white
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:03PMProducer Kenny Wax is introducing a new ticketing scheme for several of his West End plays, in a bid to help theatregoers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:03PMTheatre director Jenny Sealey has claimed deaf and disabled theatre workers are shut out of press nights because they aren’t fully accessible.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:03PMThe UK’s regional producing houses should be dismantled and reassembled with a greater focus on collaboration and less emphasis on the current
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:03PM The irreplaceable Sheldon Harnick and writing partner Jerry Bock have been immortalized on 53rd Street and Broadway as “Harnick & Bock Way,” as Sheldon Harnick is sim…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:02PMNyong'o may have her next screen role lined up.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMWendy Beckett's new play is now running at the Duke on 42nd Street.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe Drama Desk-nominated musical will end its run at the Davenport Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Cast members imply that they could be making the trip across the pond with the hit show
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:54PMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell explores the gender politics of Broadway offerings such as American Psycho , Waitress , Eclipsed , The Color Purple , and more.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:52PMTheatre 2016 is billed as the largest ever UK-wide theatre conference. It opened today (May 12) at the Piccadilly Theatre, with sessions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMIn 1975, a two-story building at 197 Asylum St. in downtown Hartford with an upholstery shop, an appliance store and a sheet-music store on the ground floor became the unlikely epicenter of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PMThe Off-Broadway musical will give its final performance June 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMWAITRESS composer and Tony nominee Sara Bareilles will be joined by Tony-winning actressJudith Light THERESE RAQUIN, on tonight's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE, airing on Bravo at1110c.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMRead on to catch up on this past week's trends May 6-12, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that the first preview ofBroadway-bound ANASTASIAhas been canceled due to technical problems.The show is still scheduled to open onFriday, May 27 and runthroug…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMThe rapper talked with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric and shared the scoop on his HAMILTON co-stars. Check out the appearance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMInitially, none of the actors nor administrative employees were willing to reveal their names when commenting on the incident.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PM No matter our age, we can all enjoy a good fairy tale with a happy ending to brighten our lives. Pleasantly, the touring production of Beauty and the Beast produced by NETworks Presen…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:24PMBy Irene Loy. In this first installment, Playwright Irene Loy discusses how the Hero’s Journey traditionally exists in Western dramatic form and advocates alternative ways of portraying he…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:21PMCheck out this great article from American Theatre about the League of Professional Theatre Women granting Gender Parity Seals of Approval to 12 NYC Theatres.
Cal in Camo produced by Rat…
SOURCE: The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation at 01:20PMLeading theatre consultant Ian Stickland has claimed theatregoers should be using phones in the theatre as part of an interactive experience. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMPHILADELPHIA — Trayvon Martin has often been in the thoughts of playwright and activist Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj in the four years since the 17-year-old unarmed black boy was shot and kill…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:17PMBeing mocked for one's looks or unconventional point of view; stirring up crowds against a perceived threat to society — sounds like just another day in contemporary politics. But such edg…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:17PMIt’s time to pick your winners!!! Every year I have a Tony Award Pool right here on my blog. And this year is no different. Actually that’s not true. This year is different. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 01:17PMOpera is a big-picture art form, less concerned with the moment than the millennia, and holding in the highest regard titles that date back centuries by the likes of Handel, Monteverdi, Moza…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:17PMUPDATE 10:15 AM with more information and photos from the presentation.
EARLIER: NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo hopes to broaden its reach with plans unveiled to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMBack in January, when some comedic masterminds assembled the "Trump Vs. Bernie" tour, showcasing the absurd, ignorant, belligerent, jingoistic, narcissistic preening of the one prominent can…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PMThe new musical, which involves a technically ambitious physical production, has canceled its first preview.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM'Gypsy,' South Bay Musical Theater's latest production, examines theatrical life on and off the stage.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:08PMMonique Hafen is extraordinary in delightful production at Hillbarn Theatre
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 01:08PMThe internationally acclaimed thriller starts its run this evening.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe 1965 collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim gets a hearing at Encores!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe North Shore Music Theatre production opens next month.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMThe Team's RoosevElvis dissects the myths of two national heroes during a dizzy dream ride through the American West.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Donald Sutherland might win the award for most complaints at a Cannes press conference. “I can tell you I’m freezing up here,” he said on Wednesday afternoon, teeth chattering in the a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:59PMRichard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim’s Do I Hear a Waltz?, starring Melissa Errico and Claybourne Elder, is lighting up the stage. Click through our gallery to see the perfectly lovely…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMWith a 2016 Tony nomination and a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award under his belt, Hamilton rhyme-spitter Daveed Diggs has been making the media rounds. The curly-haired beat dropper recen…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMLast month, at the Steppenwolf Theatre press opening for Tracy Letts’ new play, “Mary Page Marlowe,” a man in the audience blurted out what some of the more restrained members in the h…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:56PMThe lineup will include leading ladies Hedda Gabler and Phèdre, who both defy societal rules.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:52PMWith the news that Jeff Bridges will be 'E-appearing' in a show in London, here's five other times technology and theatre have clashed
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:50PMName: Isaac ByrneHometown: Granbury TexasEducation: BA in English, Schreiner UniversityFavorite Credits: The Other Mozart is probably the most successful and the most important show I've bee…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:50PMA new play with music, written by Paula Vogel, created by Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, began previews at The Vineyard Theatre April 27. Take a first look here!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMCheck out this sneak peek at the sets and costumes for the Chicago tryout.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMThe ABBA musical plans stops in Boston, Philly and two dozen other cities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMCo-conceiver and director Tina Landau, scenic and costume designer David Zinn and choreographer Christopher Gattelli gave an up-close look at the vibrant, colorful and wholly original design…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMBill Hanney's award winning North Shore Music Theatre NSMT is announcing full cast and creative team is being announced for the sparkling new production of FUNNY GIRL. They will be joining S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMA typical Mom is folding laundry, shouting tasks to kids upstairs and handling day-to-day issues on an ordinary day as An American Daughter opens. Only when she listens to an interview on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMThe seeds of Sir Frederick Ashton's mercurial "Cinderella" are buried in its Sergei Prokofiev score. Listening to the overture, with its quicksilver transformations from major to minor keys …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:33PMMelissa Errico stars in the Encores! production of the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean's classic film "Summertim…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:31PMBroadway's onetime Elphaba in Wicked will play Fanny Brice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMMedia reports to the contrary, Javier Munoz says he hasn't signed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMHAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA to talk about the new educational program eduHam
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMBikini Bottom will soon surface in Chicago, and in anticipation of The SpongeBob Musical's first performance on Tuesday, June 7th at Broadway in Chicago's Oriental Theatre, the production ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMDirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage will launch the third year of its North American tour at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, TN, September 13 - 18. Following two successful years on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMYesterday marked the nextEduHam, a series of Hamilton Wednesday matinees made available to New York City schools with a high concentration of students from low-income families for the ticket…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMBenny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, will embark on a final farewell tour in the 2016-17 season, which also marks its 15th year on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMRebollarDance, described by Erica Rebollar as “a modern dance collaborative where multi-genre artists can make innovative work,” has cooked up a truly unique evening of offerings for the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:20PMThe National Endowment for the Arts will award more than $82 million to artistic projects throughout the country in the second grant announcement of its 50th anniversary year, including $954…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:12PMAgainst the Grain Theatre’s reworking of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte is set in a TV reality show where two couples win weddings.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:11PMWhen celebrities play struggling artists, the outlook is always optimistic.
SOURCE: lettersfromthemezz.com at 12:06PMThe Bard's histories are infused with music and inventive storytelling at Chicago Shakespeare Theater starting tonight.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMA peek at how the Broadway-bound production is building an underwater world onstage.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMRebecca Taichman is cocreator and director of the historical production.
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The new theatre will be modeled on downtown’s New York Theatre Workshop.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMLin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash Hamilton has nabbed a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations, 11 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards and even a Pulitzer Prize for its mastermind a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMPolish pope musical POLAND/KRAKOW A new musical based on the life of Pope John Paul II, aka Karol Wojtyla, the Pole who became
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMA new dinner-theater show based on a happily sadistic and slapstick Japanese game show is coming to Chicago, offering Midwestern revelers the chance to eat Sushi in the company of a quartet …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:47AMSmith has pulled out of the Funny Girl musical for up to a month with 'stress and exhaustion'
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:31AMThere's a new thread on BroadwayWorld's message boards regarding 'Under-active composers', a term coined to describe writers that we'd all love to hear more from. Mention…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMAndrew Baughman has a way of making whatever he touches cool. Remember those grade B musicals Landless Theatre used to do on DCAC’s tiny bedroom size stage? Shows like Cannibal! The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AMHelen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are set to star in Italian director Paolo Virz's English-language debut film THE LEISURE SEEKER.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMDidn't make it to the Nederlander Theatre before the show closed Check out the performance that everyone is talking about in glorious HD below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMThe show from Strangemen & Co. explores the origins of the Tin Man from L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
SOURCE: Broadway Style Guide at 11:26AMThe director approaches his Star Wars interviewees with obvious glee, but he's also on a quest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22AMThe production’s publicists cited “stress and exhaustion” as the reasons for her departure; Natasha J. Barnes will replace her temporarily.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:22AMThe newly minted Drama Desk nominees met the press just yesterday and BroadwayWorld.com was there to meet all of them
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMThe Drama Leaguetodayannounced the new team to replace longtime artistic directorRoger T. Danforth, who departs the storied company this summer.Travis LeMont Ballengerhas been named to the n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMHAMILTON's Daveed Diggs stopped by this morning's TODAY to share video of himself finding out he had been nominated for a Tony Award.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMOn May 4, the 2016 Tony nominees flocked to the Paramount Hotel, where they met with the press for the first time since getting the big news. BroadwayWorld will be bringing you coverage from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMAhead of her new work, which is based on a profound real-life tragedy, the sought-after choreographer discusses dancing with William Forysthe, motherhood and why there are so few women at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMNinagawa, who won acclaim for a samurai-style Macbeth at the Edinburgh festival, had been suffering from pneumoniaYukio Ninagawa, the world-renowned Japanese stage director known for his ada…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMBased on a classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this production presents a fascinating story – but just lacking a slight touch in the details.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:20AMThere are always community gems we rarely hear about, but Encore Chorale, which was founded in 2001, has become a treasure chest of talent. They began as a study to see what the impact of pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMThe theatre responds to a controversial backstage incident during the run of Kimber Lee’s brownsville song (b-side for tray).
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe actress, nominated for a Tony for playing an office manager and mother from Scranton, Pa., knew from an early age that she wanted to be onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AMThe new musical will launch its tour at Paper Mill Playhouse.
Appleton, Wisconsin; Memphis, Tennessee; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Charlotte, North Carolina; Durham, N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical ships up to Boston.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMphoto by Alan Roche
Matt OpatrnyHometown: I grew up in Shelton, CT. Current Town: New York City is home now, and so is a tiny mountain village in Italy, Anversa degli Abruzzi.Q: Te…
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Get a first look at the world-famous Rockettes tapping for their lives in "Singin' in the Rain".
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:53AMAfter much speculation in the British media, Sheridan Smith has taken a two to four week break from the London revival of Funny Girl due to "stress and exhaustion." Natasha J. Barn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:45AMOn May 3, Marin Mazzie and Daniel Dae Kim joined the cast of The King and I as Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam, respectively. The show won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMThe tour will launch this fall at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMThe 1965 musical version of Arthur Laurents' THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO is the only Rodgers and Sondheim musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMMichael Harrison, David Ian and Nederlander Presentations, Inc. have announced the 2016-17 U.S. National Tour route of the hit musical THE BODYGUARD. Directed by Thea Sharrock, the tour will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMEW has shared an exclusive first look at Emmy Award-nominated actress Laverne Cox ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACKas Dr. Frank-N-Furter in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, which is set to air Fall 2016…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMFiled under: BROOKLYN, Contemporary Variety, Indie Theatre, Magicians/ Mind Readers/ Quick Change, PLUGS Tagged: Corn Mo, magic, Tanya Solomon, Truth Assassin, Voorhees Theater
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:31AMA public memorial tribute hosted by Ray Romano will be held for Doris Roberts, the beloved Emmy-Award®-winning actress, on Monday, May 16 at 12:00 p.m. at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:28AMThe PhoneShop actor discusses missing the buzz of theatre and why it's an important time to update and stage The Suicide
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:28AMComedian and movie star Kevin Hart will perform at Jokes and Notes on Sunday in a one-night-only stand-up performance. The 21-and-over show is set for 8 p.m. at the South Side comedy club, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:22AMThe actress has been struggling through a particularly tough time in recent weeks
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:21AMOn May 16, Jason Gotay, Max Crumm and George Salazar will reunite with fellow members of David Eric Davis and Sam Forman\u2019s Brooklyn Crush (formerly titled F#&king Up Everything) to cele…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMChristopher Gattelli will choreograph.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMTime to get your dancing shoes on for the third installment of the Center Stage franchise with the world premiere of Lifetime's original movie, CENTER STAGE ON POINTE, premiering Saturday, J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMNBC's new comedy series MAYA amp MARTY premieres Tuesday, May 31 at 10 p.m.From executive producer Lorne Michaels, the incomparable Maya Rudolph and Martin Short join forces for an all-new c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMThe Encores production of DO I HEAR A WALTZ, the romantic, rarely-seen 1965 musical that marked the only collaboration ofRichard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, stars Claybourne Elder,Melissa …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMToday in 1988, Carrie opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 5 performances. Carrie The Musical is a musical with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AM Hazel March 31 – May 29, 2016 at the Dury Lane Theatre Book by Lissa Levin; Lyrics by Chuck Steffan; Music by Ron Abel; Directed and Choreographed by Joshua Bergasse Photo: Bret…
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There are many theater awards, which makes the most talented performers extra busy in May, appearing at ceremonies and receptions, such as the one for the 2016 Drama Desk Award nominees ye…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMThe season will include a mix of new plays, classic musicals, and theatre for young audiences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:58AMThe Oscar-nominated actress and producer is looking for the “perfect material.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMEven though City of Angels was a Broadway smash in 1990, taking home Tony’s for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score, here it is 26 years later and it’s still ye…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AMNatasha J Barnes plays the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre for a short period whilst Sheridan Smith takes two to four weeks' leave of absence from the production due t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:16AMSheridan Smith is taking a leave of absence from FUNNY GIRL over the next few weeks. We know there will be many Sherifans out there disappointed that they won't get a chance to see her in th…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 09:16AMStar of West End show taking two- to four-week leave of absence due to stress and exhaustion, producers saySheridan Smith is to miss up to a month of performances as Fanny Brice in her West …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMSome audience members seem to think their ticket guarantees an autograph too, but actors are well within their rights to miss the late-evening salutationsWhen the Duke of York’s theatre fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMA rare opportunity to see -- on the big screen -- a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMDaveed Diggs speaks about HAMILTON backstage dance parties that go down in the wings during 'The Schuyler Sisters' numberand reveals that castmate Okieriete Onaodowan haskiller dance moves
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMElton John guest stars on the next episode of ABC's NASHVILLE titled 'It's Sure Gonna Hurt.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:05AMZanzibar is that rare thing: a land that has forgotten theatre – or possibly a land that theatre has forgotten. Either way,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIn 2013 the Center for Puppetry Arts partnered with Texas A&M University‘s Department of Mechanical Engineering, which was awarded a four-year grant from the National Science Found…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:00AMSoft power has become part of the arts funding lexicon: culture as integral to Britain’s international standing. Counter-intuitive though it may seem,
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“Stress and exhaustion” were cited.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AMNew National Theatre Wales artistic director Kully Thiarai has criticised the Conservative government for its treatment of arts in education. Thiarai was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AMSheridan Smith is taking a leave of absence from her West End role in Funny Girl due to “stress and exhaustion”. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMLondon is becoming an even more dominant force in the UK’s theatre sector, according to a new report. The research, which looked
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMGlasgow’s Tron Theatre and the Theatre Royal Winchester are among five venues to receive a share of £27,980 towards repair works caused
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMTwo audience members have been left requiring hospital treatment after falling down stairs in the main auditorium of the St James Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMBlack actors are being asked to do their own hair and take their own make-up onto television sets, because productions are not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMThe Tony nominee, known onscreen as Taystee in 'Orange Is the New Black,' uses police brutality, prayer and balloon animals to play the fiercely independent Sofia on Broadway.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30AMDo you remember which play or musical made you fall in love with theatre? Yesterday, Jonathan Mandell attended the Drama Desk Awards reception and asked this year’s nominees – m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25AMRick Younger is an actor, stand up comic, singer and producer originally from Baltimore, MD. Television appearances include "AXS TV'S Gotham Comedy Live",” “It's Showtime at t…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:24AMShe’s made hair weaves from family photos and dresses out of cake. Now Selina Thompson has criss-crossed the Atlantic ocean on a freight ship to bash a giant rock of salt to bits – and i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMJury’s Inn, BrightonPatrick Sandford’s candid play about the abuse he suffered as a nine-year-old at the hands of a teacher shines much needed light on dark placesThe Brighton festival h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMRambert, the UK's biggest contemporary dance company, present Macbeth, mystery, samba and skateboards
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:19AMThe theatre festival's co-director Matthew Austin explains why you need to see these shows
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:16AMSarah Crompton reflects on Liam Scarlett's dismaying Frankenstein and how the Royal Ballet should help to find effective ways of storytelling
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:16AMFormer Royal Shakespeare Company head Vikki Heywood has called on theatre companies to work together and share more resources or risk a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMThere are a lot of new faces for this year's Tony Award Nominations. Celebrate these bright stars at this year's upcoming ceremony.
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Natasha J Barnes plays the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre for a short period whilst Sheridan Smith takes 2 - 4 weeks leave of absence from the production due to stres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMTony nominees talk about their preferred styles of bowing at curtain call and how they came to adopt them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:39AMGeorge C. Wolfe and Savion Glover Bring in 'da Noise (and 'da Funk) to a 95 - year - old musical
SOURCE: time.com at 07:24AMWyndham’s theatre, London Mark Strong, Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox star in a menacing, meticulously conceived production. It’s like watching a runaway train hurtle towards youThere have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMBrighton festivalThis disturbing piece of immersive theatre shines a light on the morality of police surveillance as audience members get to play undercover agentsAt what point, if any, is p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMThe actress will take some time out from the show due to stress and exhaustion
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:16AMAs experimental Bristol theatre festival Mayfest kicks off, co-director Matthew Austin explains why artists no longer need to head to the capital to make their name
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:16AMToday's big news The new, Broadway-bound ANASTASIA musical starts tonight in Hartford, and the New Dramatists honor Audra McDonald at today's luncheon
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 12 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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The first Theatre 2016 conference is taking place on May 12 and 13. Leading figures from the industry are gathering to give
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMActress Rebecca Charles has been part of the cast for the UK premiere production of Florian Zeller's The Father, now on a new tour, since it began, and she’s still getting something differ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45AMPLAYS Jude Law is to star in a stage adaptation of the 1943 film Obsession directed by Ivo van Hove, as part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMNatasha J Barnes plays the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre for a short period whilst Sheridan Smith takes 2 - 4 weeks leave of absence from the production due to stres…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 06:33AMThe first public preview of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, which took place last night, went so smoothly that I canceled today’s rehearsal. With one final p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30AMIf anyone has the lowdown on all things Broadway, it’s Lena Hall, winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance of Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inc…
SOURCE: www.instyle.com at 06:16AMThe Big Lebowski actor will virtually appear in Off the King's Road
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:04AM“The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it’s trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren’t supposed to be in tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:00AMListen: @Lin_Manuel Calls Out Photogs, @taylizlou gets #Clueless, @TheAAshford’s Prego too! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top t…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 06:00AM
Simon McBurney and Complicite have made plays about many things – maths, circuses, immigration, Japan, old age – but, at core, they’re all really about the same subject: storytelling. …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56AMThe Buskers Opera, set during the London 2012 Olympics, is inspired by John Gay‘s 1728 The Beggar’s Opera which, amongst other works, has also inspired Brecht’s 1928 piece…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:18AMRecent research by nationwide audio description charity Vocaleyes, reported in The Stage, found that fewer than half of theatres programme for blind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMOne of the most exciting changes Rufus Norris has made since becoming director of the National Theatre is the merging of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWe talk to the designer of Dante or Die's new show Handle with Care
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:00AMThe British Theatre Repertoire report is an absolute treasure trove of insights and information about the UK theatre industry. I would recommend
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As his play The Local Stigmatic is revived 50 years after its debut, the reclusive playwright looks back at the London underworld, the rise of celebrity culture and the debt he owes to Harol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMBy Douglas Mayo
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice will be the last production presented at the Union Theatre at its current location. Leading the cast is Charlotte Gordon (Memphis, Viva Fore…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:41AMOne of TV’s hottest shows is a 12-year-old prime-time soap. Hospital drama “Grey’s Anatomy” has often been listed as “critical” over its long run — but then creator/mastermind …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:15AMTwo fascinating new theater projects are taking shape in Chicagoland: one in Lake Forest and the other in the Edgewater neighborhood. Let's start in the north suburb, where a real estate ent…
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Museum Victoria in Australia takes on Canada’s Chrysler Museum of Art in the finale of an international dance competition exclusively for museumsIf you made a Venn diagram of museum staffe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50AMNew shows and old favorites will be presented
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:10AMGretchen Wagner will research prints, drawings and photos
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:10AMDance science is a new discipline related to, but different from, sports science. I have to admit I hadn’t really heard of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWhile the BBC waits anxiously for the Whittingdale lash of the charter renewal white paper, and its senior levels seethe with dissent,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI have already named the Barbican as one of my top venues, and this week it has no fewer than three entries in
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Based on the 1980s classic cult movie which starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, XANADU The Musical kicks off its strictly limited season this week at the Hayes Theatre. Xanadu fol…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:44AMVerdi’s rare gem Luisa Miller will have its first full professional production in Victoria in over 150 years, with Melbournian Nicole Car in the title role, at Arts Centre Melbourne from 1…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:31AMThe Ultimate Gamer Face with Sky Williams
The YH Studio welcomes gamer and YouTube star Sky Williams (minus shoes!) who chats with us all about what drew him to video games in the first plac…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMMeghan Trainor’s British Accent is “Untouchable”
YH sits down with the lovely and talented Meghan Trainor at Sony Music to get the scoop on her second album, 'Thank You', including how…
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by Brian Scott Lipton Like a number of City Center Encores! productions, Evan Cabnet’s staging of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Lau…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:45AMHartford Stage presents the Broadway-bound musical ANASTASIA, starting tonight, May 12, for a run through June 19, 2016. The official opening will be Friday, May 27.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMAs part of its 15th anniversary celebration, Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York welcomes New York City's most innovative cultural leaders for a panel discussion on di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMNBC welcomesHAMILTON star and Tony nominee Daveed Diggson TODAY, this morning,May 12th, to talk about his hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMLyssa is sitting in her living room with her father, Senator Alan Hughes. He reads to her a letter from their ancestor, General Ulysses S. Grant, to his own daughter Ellen Wrenshell. In the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31AMNew Dramatists, TonyHonor recipient and the nation's premier playwright development laboratory, will celebrate six-time Tony Award winning actress, Audra McDonald with their 2016 Distinguish…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28AMBricolage Productions was bustling amid the smell of freshly cut wood and the carpentry sounds of putting on a show. All senses were on alert in preparation for “Welcome to Here,” an imm…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe play about making a tough choice, sexually speaking, was not called “The Cockfight” when it won the Olivier Award — England’s version of the Tony — in 2010. But when it came to…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe 2016 Tony nominee recalls meeting the late, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Prince.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe annual luncheon features performances by co-stars of the six-time Tony winner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway-bound stage adaptation of the Ahrens and Flaherty animated film musical, featuring a new book by Terrence McNally, debuts tonight in Hartford.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBefore turning 20, Tavi Gevinson became a magazine editor and star of two Broadway shows. How does she find the time?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFrom An Act of God to Shuffle Along take a look at the 39 shows that visited Broadway this season.
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