The Biennale of Sydney has announced Mami Kataoka as the Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney to be held in 2018. The acclaimed Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in T…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 10:42PMHere I Sit, Brokenhearted
Off Off Broadway, Theatre Row's Beckett Theater
Reviewed by Shoshana Roberts
BOTTOM LINE: Breasts, poop, penises, and other topics normally found written about on…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:41PMDaniel Joseph Lilly is a recent transplant from the East Coast. He has been an actor in many plays including “The Clean House” by Sarah Ruhl, “Unloaded for Bear” by Jack Frederick an…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:06PMSysamone is a mother, event organizer, ghostwriter and founder of an early stage tech/startup. Sysamone has a B.A. in Human Development with a minor in Psychology. She also earned a Master…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:03PMClare Hedin. Clare is a writer, sound-healer, international speaker, protector of the sacred, and educator for the creative potential of humanity. She is also a singer/songwriter, recording…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:03PMHarry Duke is an actor, director, teacher, and theatre critic whose reviews can be seen in print in the the Sonoma County Gazette. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Sonoma State Universit…
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Original London Cast, 2006 (Decca Broadway) Based on the film written by Lee Hall, who did double duty for the stage musical as librettist and lyricist, Billy Elliot tells of a Northern Engl…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:55PMUnfortunately for Genius, film is a visual medium, not a talking heads snore fest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:32PMSome thirty-five years ago I and my buddy Pat O’Brien (Underneath the Lintel) performed the two-hander, Whisper Into My Good Ear for a one-act theater competition in the Twin Cities. It…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2009 (Sh-K-Boom) If Spring Awakening marked the successful comeback of the original pop/rock musical theater score, then Next to Normal helped insure its future. Part…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:28PMWhat do you get when you combine Smokey Robinson, Gavin DeGraw, Kenny Loggins, Team USA Olympians, the National Symphony Orchestra, and more? The incredible production of A Capitol Fourth pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27PMLin-Manuel Miranda raps and Jennifer Lopez sings on “Love Make the World Go Round” a new track to benefit the Orlando victims.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:15PMOne glance at the Statue of Liberty and you instantly understand everything that she, and ostensibly the United States, stands for.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14PMAladdin The Musical will debut in Sydney soon, and the costume team is working tirelessly to make the costumes as colorful and beautiful as possible. It’s even being said that the cost…
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This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 742016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMHey, Hon, leave those dirty dishes in the “zinc,” “worsh” your face with some “wooter,” and drive on over to Toby’s Dinner Theatre to see their b…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:50PMAnna Kendrick may be in six movies this year, but she’s ready to add a Marvel franchise as well: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Always willing to display her acting range, Kendrick said in …
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:45PMNever one to let a holiday go without giving a gift, Lin-Manuel Miranda released a small taste of his song with Jennifer Lopez on July 4 on Twitter. The tune will benefit the Somos Orlando c…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:45PMThe 'Hamilton' creator raps on an upcoming benefit single for Orlando.
SOURCE: USA Today at 05:44PMLONDON (Reuters) - Having made audiences laugh in movies such as "Bridesmaids" and "Pitch Perfect", Australian comedienne Rebel Wilson now sets her sights on the London stage, making her Wes…
SOURCE: Reuters at 05:44PMby Samuel L. Leiter The story of how the Statue of Liberty, the greatest symbol of America’s historical openness to immigrants, came to be built is a great one; however, only fragments are…
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Charles Busch: The Lady at The Mic Accompanied on the piano by Tom Judson
Charles Busch: The Lady at the Mic is an intimate evening of song and stories by two-time MAC Award winner, and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:55AMFrom ping pong to people smuggling, we take a look at what you should be seeing this week
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:50AMTomorrow Turner Classic Movies will be launching what amounts to a survey course in the Hollywood western. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in July they will be showing westerns the entire day,…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:49AMHave you considered taking up yoga but don’t know where to start? It’s an ancient science of wellness, born and largely developed in India. In the past few decades, however, yoga has cau…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:48AMBroadway musicals that take American history as their subject have been called a “vastly underexplored genre”…until recently. Which is your favorite?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44AMIn some circles of contemporary choreographers, the word “formal” has a negative connotation. It implies an adherence to Westernized, balletic ideals like line, shape and symmetry. For t…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:36AMThe future of the Capital Fringe Festival has been uncertain since its brilliant and brave inception in 2006, but back in July 2013 its fate was especially iffy. The festival’s fabulously …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMThe Fourth of July means a lot of things . . . BBQs, fireworks, and of course, the birth of this great (although in an awkward phase) nation. We call it Independence Day . . . the day we ce…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:34AM“The Salesman” (“Forushande”) by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi received the Arri/ Osram Award for Best International Film at the 34th International Munich Film Festival last weeken…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 11:33AMA scheme backed by Andrew Lloyd Webber to give free music lessons to school children has had its future secured for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMFrom man’s beginnings, we danced in community. As cultures evolved and diversified, so did their dancing. Thus, unique cultural dances emerged worldwide. Contemporary dance works somet…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:24AMBosses who operated Lincoln Theatre Royal under three companies during four years have relinquished control of the venue, raising doubts over hundreds of thousands
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMThe number of black, Asian and ethnic minority arts workers has surged by 59% over the past five years, according to new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMChehon Wespi-Tschopp, Season 9 winner of So You Think You Can Dance, has taken his company and brand, I Am Force (IAF), to new heights. Although IAF is still in its early years, the growth …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:13AMAs Tony Award season has just concluded, it reminds us that while one of four brilliant choreographers walks home with the honor, only a handful of choreographers have remained household nam…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:10AMAs previously announced, Beverley Knight returns to the international hit musical The Bodyguard for a strictly limited six month run West End run to play Oscar-nominated superstar Rachel Mar…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 11:06AMJames Marino interviews Sammi Cannold, the director of A Site-Specific Developmental Concert of Songs from Ragtime on Ellis Island, coming up on Monday, August 8th, 2016. Visit RagtimeOnEl…
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Check out how to keep the little ones entertained over the summer holidays
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:56AMThe shortlists have been announced for The Imagination Awards, a new competition launched by the award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to…
SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 10:53AMHappy Fourth of July! Once again we share the famous Trumbull painting to commemorate the signing of the document that made America’s political separation from Great Britain official. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AMI could learn nothing about Jolly Ema beyond what it tells on this postcard, and the weight they give (if it does indeed say 620 lbs) is probably a matter of creative interpretation. But thi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AMDuring the last few months we have been bombarded with referendum discourse and despite it being three years since the Iron Lady’s death, her name still manages to find itself firmly woven…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMSet aside some special fireworks in the CW's honor: The network unexpectedly unleashed some of its best stuff on Netflix just in time to take over your holiday weekend. Jane the Virgin's sec…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:09AMOn the 4th of July, we're exploring #StageFaves' American connections: six musicals and six performers born in the US and onstage soon in London. How many more can you name?
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 10:04AMThis superb production offers audiences a chance to discover or rediscover an American classic.
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Alan Menken will appear in Disney's Broadway Hits at a special event in October
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:52AMEven though the show hardly needs to market itself at this point, the promotional logo for the theatrical sensation Hamilton has become a coveted pop culture symbol by itself. A simple trunc…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:43AMThe Little Gardener by Emily Hughes is a popular children’s story and Eva Sampson has directed an innovative piece of theatre via a clever adaptation. Produced by How It Ended, the show ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMFrom the stage of the Dalton Little Theater to the lights of Broadway, theater has been Shane Marshall Brown’s passion since childhood.
SOURCE: www.daltondailycitizen.com at 09:22AMBy Douglas Mayo
Last night Carole King performed her sell out Tapestry concert in London’s Hyde Park. For the finale she was joined on stage by the cast of the West End hit musical Bea…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:12AMTennessee Williams' fabled folk tale ignites the stage driven by the lusty eroticism of Marisa Tomei's Serafina .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:08AMWhat does the name America mean to these plays? Grandeur, grift, grief, gore, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMI’ve been acting for just over a year. Or perhaps it would be truer to say that I have finished my training
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By Douglas Mayo
Peter Schlemiel is the arresting and haunting story of an ordinary man who foolishly exchanges his shadow for endless fortune and fame, and must face the bitter consequences.…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:57AMAhead of a new production from Wac Arts, the actor describes how the company helped him into the industry and how important places like Wac are for young people
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:55AMPatrick Marber and James Graham tell Vanessa Thorpe why it’s vital performing arts stay on syllabusPatrick Marber and James Graham, two of Britain’s most highly regarded p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWatch a theatrical restaging of Ken Loach’s drama, followed by a panel discussion about homelessness, live from the Barbican in London at 7.30pm BST on Tuesday 5 JulyFifty years ago, Ken L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThe veteran actor was to have starred opposite Kenneth Branagh
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AMBy Douglas Mayo
We are pleased to bring you these great rehearsal room images of Groundhog Day, Tim Minchin’s much anticipated new musical. Artistic Director of The Old Vic Matthew War…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:28AM Mental illness, addiction, and inherited family trauma: these are the ingredients from which Leah Harris spins her solo performance. Working with Director Regie Cabico, she mined her …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM
Van Cliburn and the Fort Worth Symphony perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the ballpark in Arlington, Texas, on opening day of the 1994 baseball season: (This is the latest in a serie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMMemory is the great blessing of a happy life. I have nothing but pleasant memories of my mother’s family’s Fourth of July cookouts, which rank among the highlights of my small-town youth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMBy Douglas Mayo
On 15 July 2016, the acclaimed musical The Bodyguard will return to London’s West End for a limited six month season at the Dominion Theatre. Based on the blockbuster 1…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:45AMRy Cooder sings and plays “Tamp ’Em Up Solid” at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1979: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wedn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AMBy Douglas Mayo
Following its critically acclaimed run at London’s Savoy Theatre, Funny Girl the musical will undertake a major UK tour in 2017. Funny Girl brought global fame to Barbr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:10AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 4 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07AM“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.” Calvin Coolidge (quoted in the New York Times, September 17, 1923)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMThe forthcoming months promise some of this year’s biggest theatrical offerings in London, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Groundhog Day
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM
The Royal Shakespeare Company has revealed its radical new staging of The Tempest will see the character Ariel projected live on to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMBeverley Knight returns to the international hit musical The Bodyguard for a strictly limited six month run West End run to play Oscar-nominated superstar Rachel Marron with Ben Richards as …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:41AMThe actor will take on the role of Ariel in Greg Doran's upcoming production
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:34AMPlans for a £17 million “centre of excellence for culture in north London” have been unveiled, with a 600-seat theatre part of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMThe Hollywood star says she’ll turn on Kettering’s Christmas lights. When she’s in town, she should check out our mummified cat and smell the WeetabixDear Lindsay Lohan, Glad to hear t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22AM“Hamilton” has done wonders to break down stereotypes and open the minds of theatergoers. The cast is almost completely composed of people of color, who are portraying historical…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 06:01AMGrammy-nominated singer Janelle Monae will make her big-screen debut next year in Hidden Figures, which chronicles the work three black women did in the United States space program.
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Happy Independence Day to our American friends. As we charge headlong into July, here are a few hot show openings this month that you need to keep an eye out for: American Idiot, Blanc de Bl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AMMatt Trueman on how recent political events affect our interpretation of theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:32AMThe autumn season will include a play by Noel Coward that hasn't been seen in the UK for almost 90 years
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:32AMAussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to Bad Jews at QPAC on 12 July, 2016. The play has been widely embraced by the Jewish community and, indeed, by audiences in general, in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:18AMIf the secret of comedy is timing, the same can certainly be said of the technical side of touring. All-night fit-ups, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMeet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… Albert
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Ever feel like killing your boss? Worried about being replaced by a machine? The hilariously dark anti-musical ADDING MACHINE, a 2008 Off-Broadway hit, may have the answers. It receives its …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 04:52AMIn addition to the previously announced National Youth Theatre season of new writing, the Finborough Theatre in west London has announced further productions for autumn 2016, including the U…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:43AMThe north and south breed different senses of humour. Johnny Vegas looks at faults in himself while Jimmy Carr deflects outwards. My new gag gets laughs in Hull and nowt in WindsorPicture th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AMWhen he played Bolingbroke in a 1960s Prospect production, West discovered a play divided between his character and the king – and learned that McKellen is a white-wine actor while he’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AMDenmark in the mid-1930s was a great place to be if you were gay. Homosexuality was legalized in 1933 and a thriving club scene allowed gay men to meet and socialize publicly. But as the dar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:20AMToday is the birthday of Bernard “Bunny” Granville (1886-1936). Granville was a comedian in vaudeville; he played the Palace in the very first year of its existence, and again, a…
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Today is the birthday of Anna Chandler (1884-1957). Pennsylvania native Chandler was only 16 years old when she married Keith-Albee booker Jack Curtis Sr. For the next 30+ years she was to b…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:15AMThe comedian relives her teenage years as a fervent evangelical Christian in her new show. As she prepares for the Edinburgh festival, she talks about preaching in shopping centres and comic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMJonathan Pryce brings Liverpool his Merchant of Venice, Geraldine Pilgrim takes flight in the Lake District and Syrian refugees stage Euripides in London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMCurrently on display at Canberra’s National Portrait Gallery Mysterious eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945 is a focus exhibition of captivating portraits by renowned Australian ar…
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Luce (played by Eloise Joseph) and Charlene (Samantha Robinson) are a killer duo. It’s the morning after the night before, and they’re working together in a metal factory. They push thro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49AMThree performers, one microphone and a whole load of cardboard boxes greet the unsuspecting audience as they make their way into the theatre space. It is clear from the very start that Every…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49AMOne of Australia’s most exciting scholarship programs providing financial assistance and industry support to the next generation of musical theatre stars, creators and musicians, organiser…
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 01:03AMThe “show circle” is one of my go-to theatre techniques, no matter whether I’m teaching a drama class or directing a production. Whenever it’s time for class or rehearsal to start, t…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 01:00AMHappy Fourth of July from this Tony-nominated musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMThe duo of Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina take the stage with a host of "Funky" tunes.
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Melissa Reeves has been awarded the 2016 Griffin Award for new Australian writing for her play The Zen of Table Tennis. The Griffin Award, a national competition, recognises an ̶…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:58AMOn March 21, 2016, the Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) debuted Archives of Sound, an interactive audio installation inspired by collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of R…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:34AMJohn Street Theatre, NYC, c. 1791. Image ID: 1650651
A guest post on the research that informed the earliest material in Shakespeare's Star Turn in America, by volunteer (and former intern)…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:34AMA Second Home
Upon moving to New York City at age fourteen to complete my dance training at the School of American Ballet (SAB), I made a very important discovery. My new address, 70 Lincol…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:34AMGeorge Avakian and Anahid Ajemian at Basin Street, watching the Benny Goodman Orchestra
Photograph by Bernard Seeman, 1951
Music For Moderns: The Partnership of George Avakian and Anahid…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:33AMA flyer advertising Anahid Ajemian’s debut recital at Town Hall on November 19th, 1946.
The violinist Anahid Ajemian, who dedicated her artistic life to performing and fostering new music…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:33AMNBC previouslyconfirmed to BWW that Tony nominee Sara Bareilles will perform the Broadway for Orlando song 'What the World Needs Now Is Love' on the network's annual MACY'S 4TH OF JULY FIREW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, July 3, 2016 - Sunday, July 3, 2016.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMThis July 4th, America's national Independence Day celebration kicks off our country's 240th birthday, as A CAPITOL FOURTH on PBS welcomes back Emmy Award-winning television personality Tom …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMWhat does it mean to live and die in the age of Social Media? This is the question at the heart of Five on a Match’s Seen/By Everyone at HERE Arts Center. Set in a limbo-like bar, aptly na…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:09AMFor the third year, the cabaret venue celebrates Independence Day with a concert staging of the historical musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production stars Phantom's Rachel Zatcoff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe family-friendly show, Liberty: A Monumental New Musical, opens at 42West.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first skyrocket goes up at dusk July 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe annual Fourth of July celebration features musical performances and a fireworks display.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs Sara Bareilles rehearsed for the Macy’s Fourth of July Special, she tells Seth Rudetsky why she dropped everything to be a part of “Broadway for Orlando” and chats future Broadway p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway star names the show that changed his life and shares invaluable advice he got from Mike Nichols.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHamilton has altered the fate of a lot of other things beside Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIf you're wondering about the man with the wayward flop of yellow hair who is always in the news, comedian Michael Ian Black offers an explanation in a new off-beat book: "The beasty is call…
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