How Australia’s children’s authors create magic on a page by Arts Review

For a prime example of Australia’s innovation economy in action, look no further than the humble picture book. Staple of bedtime reading, offering textual delights beyond the verbal, pictu…

To Protect the Poets (The New York International Fringe Festival 2016) by Cynthia Allen

"To Protect the Poets" shows how readily lines can be crossed when “street justice” is employed, instead of the judicial system. This first-rate, timely and intelligent play is a just re…

My Fair Lady to play Brisbane and Melbourne by Arts Review

Producers John Frost and Opera Australia’s Lyndon Terracini have announced that Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews, will play seasons in Brisbane and Melbourne…

Broadway Quality MAME Opens New Windows At Light Opera Works by Bob Sphatt

Highly Recommended Reviewed by: Bob Sphatt Fasten your seat-belts, we are about to take off! [...]

Off the Record: Force Majeure with Dance Integrated Australia by Deborah Jones

Carriageworks, Sydney, August 17. Marnie Palomares has Alex Jones pinned against a wall and is trying to put words into his mouth. Literally. This would be a resonant image under any circums…

This Week In Culture – Some ArtsJournal Highlights by Douglas McLennan

This Week: An artist collective skewers Trump… How Florence’s Uffizi is dramatically addressing its problems… Our fetishizing of “authenticity” doesn’t ri…

Not a Fan: Ben Folds and Sydney Dance Company release new film clip – video by Guardian Music

The American singer-songwriter collaborated with choreographer Cass Eipper and performer Nelson Earle from Sydney Dance Company for his latest clip• Ben Folds and yMusic are touring Austra…

Upcoming Equity Auditions Sunday, Aug. 21 by Audition Roundup

Updated this week Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, August 21, 2016 for both productions in your area and around the country including whatwhenwhere and how to audition

What Now? AEA’s Promulgated Agreement Back in the Spotlight by Steven Morris

At the Town Hall coming up, I think I am most interested to hear how Pro99 will respond to the new Equity Website, in particular its sweeping claims that the minimum wage demand will not aff…

Step Afrika! Announces Free ‘Step Xplosion’ Tour August 24 – September 10, 2016 by John Stoltenberg

Step Afrika! will present free performances in all eight wards of DCAugust 24 to September 20, 2016. The full schedule of 2016 tour dates is available online. Here is John Stoltenberg’s …

TDE Asks Aesha Ash of The Swan Dreams Project by The Dance Enthusiast

"Beauty and grace are not defined by status or race. My hope is that The Swan Dreams Project makes this message ring loud and clear." Aesha Ash, retired ballerina and founder of The Swan Dre…

Jasmin Vardimon imagines Pinocchio as a dance fantasy – in pictures by Tristram Kenton

Forget about the Disney film: Jasmin Vardimon Company’s dance adaptation, which debuts this month, is an altogether darker adventure inspired by Carlo Collodi’s 19th-century novel Contin…

Brisbane season announced for My Fair Lady tour by Erin James

Following yesterday’s ‘Loverly’ news that Opera Australia and John Frost’s production of My Fair Lady will be touring to Melbourne in May 2017, it was confirmed this …

Barbra Streisand Tells Apple to Fix Siri's Pronunciation - Rolling Stone by Daniel Kreps

"I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook, and he delightfully agreed to have Siri change the pronunciation of my name," singer says

Review: Merola Opera singers mount an Olympic-style triumph by Georgia Rowe, Correspondent

Impressive arias, duets and ensembles pile up onstage at the S.F. Opera training program's Grand Finale concert at War Memorial.

Chicago Dance Review: DANCE FOR LIFE 25TH ANNIVERSARY (Chicago Dancers United) by Lawrence Bommer

DANCERS DO GOOD BY MAKING ART For a quarter century—since 1991—one summer night of nights in Chicago has raised funds to fight HIV, assist the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and 30 other ser…

Sacramento Mural Festival brings art outdoors

Across downtown and midtown Sacramento, artists will spend the week at a dozen locations turning blank walls turn into colorful scenes as part of the Sacramento Mural Festival. Festival prom…

Sacramento Mural Festival brings art out in the open

A drab parking lot on K Street turned into one of the more colorful places in midtown Sacramento on Sunday as the weeklong Sacramento Mural Festival began. An artist perched … Click to…

Acrobatic Olympians Spring Into New Career, With Cirque du Soleil by Kelly Whiteside

About 40 percent of Cirque’s performers come from artistic, rhythmic and acrobatic gymnastics, as well as trampoline, tumbling, diving and synchronized swimming.

Review: An Actor's Life by Michael Block

By Michael BlockIn Daniel Reitz's shock-filled insider comedy Pucker Up and Blow, a young actor gets the opportunity of a lifetime by being cast in a Broadway show. The caveat? He will portr…

Tony Award Winner LaChanze set for Trent Armand Kendall Broadway Download 8/24 by BroadwayWorld

Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, better known by her stage name LaChanze Creole the charmed one, taken from her grandmother, was born in St Augustine, Florida.Grew up in Connecticut, her parents nurtur…

STAGE TUBE: FINDING NEVERLAND Cast Says Goodbye in Epic 23 Minute Video by Stage Tube

After 33 previews and 565 performances, the Broadway production of Finding Neverland takes its final trip to Neverland today. Original cast member, Jonathan Ritter, who has been with the pro…

Great Reviews for ITN’s FringeNYC Collection by Rochelle

I’m delighted and proud to note today that the plays in Indie Theater Now’s 2016 FringeNYC Collection are getting terrific reviews! For example: · Theatre Is Easy on THE FURTHER ADVENTU…

Review: ‘Hamlet’ at National Players at Olney Theatre Center by Noah Mutterperl

At dusk yesterday, the stage lights of Olney Theatre Center’s outdoor Root Family Stage shined bright, as the National Players enlightened the audience with their imaginative take on the B…

Leslie Odom, Jr @ Guild Hall by Barry

Tony winning star of Hamilton graces the John Drew Theater stage in East Hampton On Saturday, August 20, 2016 Leslie Odom, Jr, who originated the role of Aaron Burr on Broadway in Hamilton …

BWW TV: Norbert Leo Butz, Tony Danza & More Show What They've Got at Feinstein's/54 Below by Randy Rainbow

It's a big month at Feinstein's54 Below Two-time Tony Award winning actorNorbert Leo Butz,Tony nominated actressCarmen Cusack,Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actorTony DanzaSeptember 8-9, an…

The Aeneid is based on a classic, but it fails to be completely modern by Karen Fricker - Theatre Critic

Olivier Kemeid's award-winning play about immigrants resonates now more than ever with Canada's new arrivals from Syria.

Review: ‘Aliens with Extraordinary Skills’ at the 4615 Theatre Company by Robert Michael Oliver

The 4615 Theatre Company returns to Woolly Mammoth’s classroom theatre with its DC premiere of Saviana Stanescu’s Aliens with Extraordinary Skills. With its touching story, enth…

FROM DOWN UNDER: Curtains by Simon Parris

Brimming with toe tapping tunes and laugh-out-loud puns and punchlines, the Australian professional premiere of Curtains is a fresh, welcome entry to the 2016 Melbourne music theatre season.

ARF Summer Gala by Barry

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons hosted “The Bow Wow Meow Ball” in Wainscott On Saturday, August 21, 2016 ARF friends and supporters celebrated at an elegant evening of dinner and…

Exclusive Podcast: 'Behind the Curtain' Welcomes Broadway Legend Carol Lawrence by Behind The Curtain

For over fifty years, the beautiful voice of Carol Lawrence has filled our hearts. No one will capture the love, yearning, and heart break of Maria, the doomed heroine in WEST SIDE STORY, be…

Making an operatic hajj: A music critic goes to Bayreuth by Sarah Bryan Miller St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The music was superb; the production, not so much

Theater | Westchester: Review: At Penguin Rep Theater, Lonely Neighbors Bust a Move by David Dewitt

The isolated characters in “Dancing Lessons” by Mark St. Germain, one with severe Asperger’s syndrome, are challenged by their limitations.

Theater | Long Island: Review: Dancing in the Aisles to ‘Mamma Mia!’ in Northport by Aileen Jacobson

This upbeat, fluffy production of the jukebox musical is playing at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport.

Artists push $150G campaign to save poet Langston Hughes home by Denis Slattery

Hopefully this dream won’t be deferred.

Streisand delivers 'Music, Mem'ries, Magic'

Barbra Streisand brought it back to Broad Street on Saturday, better than anyone dared expect. We ran out of fingers and toes counting the signature songs and surprises that earned heartfel…

ON BROADWAY: Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour by Jonathan Baz

With Paramour, Cirque du Soleil widen their scope venturing into musical theatre and incorporating dialogue and songs sung live alongside their signature circus wizardry. Set in the Golden A…

ON BROADWAY: Waitress by Jonathan Baz

Move over Mrs Lovett, there's a new baker on the block. Waitress, Sara Bareilles' female-fuelled take on modern Americana, is perhaps the finest example of new musical theatre writing in qui…

Lynne Gagliano obituary by Nick Payne

My friend and colleague Lynne Gagliano, who has died aged 48 of a brain aneurysm, was the head of Young Court at the Royal Court theatre, London. She was instrumental in devising Open Court …

The Casting Controversy Over ‘In The Heights’ Hits Arizona by Artsjournal2

“There is an artist of color who is not Latino being cast in a part of someone who is Latino, which I feel can be just as dangerous because to me, as a Latino, that’s saying ‘b…

Review: The 2016 One-Act Festival Performed by The Montgomery Playhouse on 8/20/16 at Silver Spring Stage by Susan Brall

This weekend two theater companies, Silver Spring Stage and The Montgomery County Playhouse, collaborated to present the 2016 One-Act Festival. This weekend, The Montgomery Playhouse perform…

Tap and modern dance in 'Thrust!' is lively but uneven by Laura Molzahn

Given the chance, most people would choose order over chaos for their own lives. But somehow a bit of chaos doesn't hurt when it comes to art: the theater script that doesn't fit neatly toge…

Review: ‘Ira Glass: Seven Things I’ve Learned’ at Wolf Trap by Marlene Hall

Usually when attending Wolf Trap it is to partake in either a concert or an opera, or a musical. Ira Glass’ unique show shook things up a bit, as he shared Americans’ personal stories an…

Escape the Summer Heat and Binge on TURNING THE TABLES! by Turning The Tables

Need a new show to binge-watchWe've got just what you need.Turning the Tables isa new web series brought to you by the team that's brought you nothing before Find out what happens when Broad…

Shakespeare's magical music box: the sound of rapture at the Globe by Claire Van Kampen

Exquisite harmonies, by candlelight, transported audiences in 1600s London out of filthy streets into a gilded world of kings and star-cross’d lovers. Composer-director Claire van Kampen e…

One-Time Theatre Agent Bilked Friends For Thousands by Artsjournal2

But the play he lied about sounds potentially amazing: “Mr. Scahill, the documents say, falsely claimed to have obtained the rights to the life story of the opera singer Kathleen Battl…

Love is in the Air: Broadway Stars Christine Dwyer and Matt DeAngelis are Engaged! by BroadwayWorld

There must be something in the water over on 8th avenuejust days after fan favorites, Tony-nominated Director Michael Arden and Andy Mientus Deaf West's Spring Awakening, SMASH tied the knot…

Edinburgh Fringe: Macbeth: without words by Laura Kressly

Shakespeare without words. What’s left? In Ludens Ensemble’s Macbeth: without words, plenty. Drawing on the aesthetic of silent films and Victorian gothic with the near-constant use of l…

Women’s Leadership: Research Results and Recommendations by [email protected] (ramona)

By Sumru Erkut, Ineke Ceder. The American Conservatory Theater with Wellesley Centers for Women present findings on a three-year study on the gender equity of leadership opportunities in the…

Trolling Time with...Maddie Sykes by Michael Block

Name: Maddie SykesHometown: Palo Alto, CaliforniaEducation: BFA from NYU TischWho do you play in The Illusory Adventures of a Dreamer: A little bit of everything!Des…

2016-17 Broadway Season by Barry

By: David Sheward We are in the valley between seasons. It's the trough of summer and nothing will open on Broadway until well after Labor Day. The only hot-weather openings have been reviv…

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 8/21/16- LA CAGE AUX FOLLES by Stage Tube

Today in 1983, La Cage Aux Folles opened at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 1761 performances. With a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, it is based on the 1…

Olympic Golds for Half a Sixpence ensemble? by Andrew Wright

The wonderful (fellow Mate) Libby Purves herself had a Sixpence related question, and I quote: “I just want to know IN DETAIL how Andrew Wright gets those actors to do such astonishing per…

Reviewing Hamilton on her 95th birthday by New York Theater

On her 95th birthday, Muriel Mandell reviews Hamilton and other Broadway shows. “I understand a five-year-old has been reviewing theater, and so I thought, well, why can’t I?R…

The night tube is here and so is a magician's ‘levitating’ ring – video by Guardian Staff

On Friday night, the first 24-hour passenger night tubes started to run on London Underground. BBC Three were there to capture this historic moment on the world’s oldest underground metro …

Rose Matafeo review – newcomer turns on the stellar charisma by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVivacious New Zealander whips up a blizzard of youthful energy in one of the fringe’s most memorable comedy debutsThe title of this New Zealander’s first fr…

BWW Flashback: FINDING NEVERLAND Flies Away from Broadway Today! by Marissa Sblendorio

As BroadwayWorld previously reported,after a year and a half of performances, Broadway'sFINDING NEVERLANDwill play its final performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater today, August 21, 2016. …

Photo Flash: Paramour Celebrates 100th Show and Neverlanders Fly Away for Saturday Intermission Pics! by BroadwayWorld

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup This week's edition f…

INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… Steel Magnolias’ Lin Sagovsky by Helen McWilliams

I find Clairee quite a mystery, I was quite unsure about where she was coming from. She’s clearly a woman with heart like they all are, but she does this thing where she pulls the rug from…

Lord Rix obituary by Dennis Barker and David Brindle

Brilliant comic actor and manager best known for his Whitehall farces who became a dedicated campaigner for people with learning disabilitiesBrian Rix, Lord Rix, who has died aged 92, devote…

The Last Class: a Jazzercize Play (review) by Marshall Bradshaw

The Last Class: a Jazzercize Play makes the most of its setting. The story is told in real time during an actual jazzercize routine. The cast’s hard-earned sweat is corporeal proof of thei…

WAR PAINT Starring LuPone and Ebersole Closes Today in Chicago; Is Broadway Next? by BroadwayWorld

War Paint has become the most successful musical in Goodman Theatre's history, extended for a second and final time through August 21.

BWW's On This Day - August 21, 2016

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

New flames: the Edinburgh festival shows that tell stories with torch songs by Lyn Gardner

Torch songs are lighting up the city this year, from Alan Cumming’s take on Adele’s Someone Like You to Lady Rizo’s anthem of a sleep-deprived mum“Extraordinary how potent cheap musi…

Win a double pass to iTAINT 2.0 in Melbourne by AussieTheatre

AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway to Taint at the Hare Hole on 31st August. Somewhere in the warm, wet, liminal place between soft pink comfort and the dark unknown, lies Taint&…

REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Burnt Part Boys at the Park Theatre by Emma Clarendon

This European premiere production of American musical The Burnt Part Boys, running at London's Park Theatre until 3 September 2016, is directed by Matthew Iliffe and follows the story of a …

Wadsworth Atheneum Begins Free Admission For Hartford Residents by Susan Dunne

HARTFORD — The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in a move to open its arms to the city and become a place for its diverse communities to interact, is instituting free admission to Hartfor…

Quizzes: Test your theatre knowledge: Sport and theatre

Following the success of Team GB at this summer's Olympic Games, find out how much you know about sports in stage productions past and present

Todd Murray Can Really ‘Croon’ by Sandi Durell

    by Linda Amiel Burns     There are only two more chances to see the remarkable Todd Murray’s CROON show at The Triad on 8/23 & 8/25. You won’t want to miss th…

Groundhog Day review – less harmony and more anarchy please by Susannah Clapp

Old Vic, LondonMatilda maestro Tim Minchin and team have ingenious fun with his new musical adaptation of the movie classic – but would you want to see it more than once?Groundhog Day has …

Scottish Ballet: Crystal Pite; Angelin Preljoçaj review – one great, one good by Sarah Crompton

Festival theatre, EdinburghPite’s Emergence works wonders with the hive mind, while Preljoçaj’s MC 14/22 visits male bodies by way of the apostlesEvery ballet company in the world curre…

946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips review – carnival and tragedy by Susannah Clapp

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThere’s method in the puppet mayhem of Emma Rice’s Kneehigh musical adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s D-day taleAt the Globe, artistic director Emma Rice an…

Review: Sex, Drugs, and Southern Grit by Michael Block

By Michael BlockBreaking out from stereotypical social constraints isn't always as easy as it seems. Such is the case for the characters in Britton Buttrill's Scratching. Trying to escape th…

Strife review – strikingly modern Galsworthy by Clare Brennan

Minerva, ChichesterJohn Galsworthy’s 1909 drama of industrial woes still resonates in a fine revival by debut director Bertie CarvelA sound montage of news items and politicians’ stateme…

Spotlight On...Jennifer Little by Michael Block

Name: Jennifer LittleHometown: Okemos, Michigan (nope - no one's ever heard of it!)Education: Masters in Applied Theatre from City University of New York; Bachelors in Music from San Jose St…

Broadway Dancer Marcus Bellamy Charged With Murdering Roommate by Robert Viagas

He posted “Forgive me” on his Facebook page.

Final Bow: Final Bow: A Few Heavenly Words From the Angels of An Act of God

David Josefsberg and James Gleason say goodbye to Sean Hayes and Broadway's divine comedy.

My Fair Lady confirms 2017 Melbourne season by Erin James

Directed by Dame Julie Andrews, choreographed by Christopher Gattelli (Newsies) and produced by John Frost and Opera Australia, the 60th anniversary production of My Fair Lady is currently …

The Moon by Monica Reida

I would go to the movies with a guy I dated and as we were leaving, I would notice the moon. I would comment about it and he would just say, “Huh” or “That’s nice,…

Hayley is a Bright Star! by Joy

Meet Broadway Wiz’s first Bright Star, Hayley "Shenanigans" Goldstein from Newton, MA!

2do this week, Aug. 21-27: Cultural events around Pittsburgh by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Michael Cerveris Featured in Tonight's Take Me Home Benefit Concerts by Andrew Gans

The Joe's Pub concerts benefit the victims of the recent flooding in West Virginia.

Audra McDonald and Will Swenson Offer Summer Concerts by Andrew Gans

The singing actors are playing Provincetown and Martha's Vineyard.

Finding Neverland Ends Broadway Run Today by Andrew Gans

A tour of the new musical is scheduled to launch in October.

Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: August 21 by David Gewirtzman

Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole War Paint Ends Run — Is Broadway Next? by Andrew Gans

The Tony winners play rivals in the new production.

How Did Katie Finneran and Darren Goldstein Find Out They Were Expecting? by Whitney Spaner

A silly prank from another Broadway pal turned into a surprise baby announcement!

Look Back at the Very First Playbill Bios of 11 Broadway Stars by Logan Culwell

Straight from the Vault, a look at some of Broadway’s legends, including Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand and Robert Goulet and more, before they made it big.