I was really grateful for Aaron Overton’s very first post on ArtsHacker last week. Aaron is a programmer with a lot of experience in website development for performing arts organizat…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42PMDominique Salerno is a New York based actor, director, playwright and improviser. Her one-woman show, The Box Show, won the "Overall Excellence in Solo Performance Award" in the 20…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:03PMThis past weekend, The Arlington Players opened a solid production of the dark comedy, The Lion In Winter, by Playwright James Goldman. For those unfamiliar with the play, it is a work of fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01PM
Call Answered: As a former stand-up comedian myself, I'm always intrigued by other comics. When British comedian Josie Long's show "Something Better" was presented to me, I had to find out m…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:53PMIn the swinging 60’s, the phrase “too much of a good thing” was not often heard. This is the setting for the comic and highly enjoyable “Boeing, Boeing,” now pl…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:38PMThe movie musical opens March 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38PMActing Human in the Valley by Jeremiah Wall We have all heard by now that automation will replace many more of today’s jobs. This startling fact is announced as if the matter were entirely…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:35PMSo much depends on where you begin a play. Do you start when character A is behaving well? Or when character B is? Do you start at the foundation of their relationship or in media res? In Yo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:32PMThe Princesses are throwing a ball, and you're invited After eight sold out shows, Broadway's Cinderella, Tony nomineeLaura Osnesand music directorBenjamin Rauhalareturned to host Broadway's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23PMSee theall-new final TV spot forWalt DisneyStudios' live action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, hitting theaters on March 17th
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PM85 year-olde Broadway actress, Patti Karr, 85, suffered minor injuries this week after being struck by a discarded, flying Christmas tree
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PMOn January 20, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump became the 45th Commander in Chief. Some Americans are joyful at that fact, while others are distressed. Politics and partisanship aside, ar…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:09PMThe barking dog locked in the next room isn’t the only animal neglected in Anna Jordan’s bleak, brutal yet surprisingly tender play “Yen,” making its American premiere in a powerfull…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM
Justice is served in this out-of-the-box rendering of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:42PMThe arts and entertainment communities — anticipating government cutbacks, harmed by a presidential travel ban, alarmed by an atmosphere of divisiveness and invigorated by mass protests �…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:35PMWhat's going on inside Hench's head? There's no way to be sure, but boy, do you ever want to find out.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:16PMAmerican audiences are ravenous for more and more daddies, ever more daddies. According to Deadline, the sequel to Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's 2015 comedy Daddy's Home is hoping to add …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:14PMDavid Ives, Stephen Sondheim's collaborator on a new musical and author of the seductively manipulative "Venus in Fur," also has a singular fascination with classic French plays. He is back …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 08:12PMEarlier this month, Broadway's high-heeled hit, Kinky Boots, which opened on April 4, 2013 and has played more than 1500 performances,surpassed Evita to become the 50th longest-running Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03PM
The little-musical-that-could has eclipsed Josh Groban as Broadway's hottest ticket.
SOURCE: Forbes at 07:47PMJackson Pollock’s iconic painting, Blue poles, (1952) will today return to the walls of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra. The approximately two metre by four metre artwo…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 07:30PMThere’s no avoiding politics these days. Not even a thrilling stage adaptation of the great American novel set on the high seas can offer complete escape. At Saturday’s matinee of “Mob…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMAlexis Michelle drops by Broadway.com HQ to chat about her Feinstein's/54 Below show It Takes a Woman with Beth Stevens.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PM The 32nd Annual Bistro Award Winners have been announced and will be honored on March 13 at Gotham Comedy Club at 6:30 pm. Darlene Love / Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award Car…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:05PMIn 2004, Melbourne Theatre Company, where I worked at the time, asked me to write a short history for their 50th anniversary. A battered box was duly wheeled into my office, containing mater…
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 07:05PMI found everything to love about the Grey Art Gallery’s current exhibition Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City 1952-1965. It’s not the world’s most e…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:03PMFiled under: CULTURE & POLITICS Tagged: New York, Rally Against Hate, Tompkins Square Park
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:03PMOn January 29, Emma Stone (“La La Land”) took an important step in the march towards Oscar by winning the SAG Award for Best Actress after what looked like a nail-biter against N…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:00PMIn A Sneak Peek of Dance on Camera Festival 2017 at Walter Reade Theatre in Lincoln Center Plaza: A documentary about Brooklyn-born flex-artist Storyboard P, a short featuring an ice fishe…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 07:00PMIn Impressions of L-E-V’s OCD Love at The Joyce Theater, "Obsessive, repetitive gestures such as splayed, clawing fingers and punching fists convey the agony of love gone wrong."
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 07:00PMIn Impressions of: Bobbi Jene Smith's A Study on Effort at The Invisible Dog Art Center as part of the 2017 COIL Festival, "GoGwilt strokes and plucks strings to manipulate the sound wit…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 07:00PMThe event, held by The Museum of Jewish Heritage and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene included a reading of Wiesel's memoir Night.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00PM
To celebrate the cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival ofWilliam FinnandJames Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical FALSETTOS. the production held a release party last week a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMThe Comrades' Prelude to a Kiss is acted with resonance and skill, along with lots of laughs, and clever use of popular music along the way. Aptly directed by artistic director Derek Bertel…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:24PMSizing up the Long Wharf Theater’s sharp and unsettling production, starring Brian Dennehy, and the meandering “Imogen Says Nothing,” at Yale Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMDear Evan Hansen, the new show by the lyricists of La La Land, had a record week on Broadway as their movie musical got 14 Academy Award nominations. With music and lyrics by Benj Pasek an…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:16PMHere is your first look at Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” the live-action adaptation of the animated classic directed by Bill Condon. A previous Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenp…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:15PMEdward Albee’s bitter masterwork is a tough nut for a company to crack as well as a hard play to watch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PMI like to see dances that are somehow all of a piece. Hope this doesn’t mean I'm sinking into some kind of retro-fogeyism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PMWe had such a blast with you guys at BroadwayCon 2017, and this year's Great White Way lovefest is only just beginning! Check out our latest hot shot roundup for pics from our booth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PM
According to MacRumors, Apple has released the first beta of watchOS 3.2 for developers this morning. Included in this update is a new 'Theater Mode' which is designed to allow users to disa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMEarlier this month, Broadway's high-heeled hit, Kinky Boots, which opened on April 4, 2013 and has played more than 1500 performances,surpassed Evita to become the 50th longest-running Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 1302017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMBroadway had a ho-hum week typical of January — save for one new show that’s performing at a Hamilton-ian level in terms of ticket sales and bodies in seats. That would be Dear E…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:34PMThe Whitney Houston musical is set to premiere down under this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PMThe season will feature a combination of plays and musicals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:25PMCheck out the latest production photos from the Tony Award-winning musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMWhile the jokes may be hoary, Unger’s production has cut down on the show’s sentimentality and given it a sharp edge which elevates the material. As the heroine Ruth, Runofsson is genuin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:15PMIn 1902, when Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths premiered at the Moscow Arts Theatre, Russia was a sprawling and unwieldy empire in flux. The revolution of 1905, lead in part by the ‘lower …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12PMThe Texas theatre will present a mix of both classic tuners and new musicals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:06PMThousands of theater fans, many dressed as their favorite characters from Broadway shows, descended on the Javits Center for a weekend of fan fun.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMThe Broadway box office barely budged last week, as a small slate of about 20 shows held steady in the days before the spring’s stars — among them Glenn Close, Sally Field and Ja…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMDavid Epstein's new play will be the first in the Directors Company's monthly reading series.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
The revival of The Front Page, starring a plethora of stage and screen favorites (including Nathan Lane, John Goodman, John Slattery, Holland Taylor and more) played its final performance on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today and over the weekend.
Mozart in the Jungle Gets Another Season
Mozart in the Jungle has been renewed for a fourth season on A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM“Her Opponent,” at the Provincetown Playhouse, reconsiders the 2016 campaign had the candidates’ sexes been flipped.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMThe Directors Company has announcedits monthly reading series in The Directors Studio. The first reading in the series is Desperados a new play by David Epstein, featuring two-time Tony Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMJon Hamm post–Mad Men is kind of like a newly retired suburban dad. He really loved that old job. It gave him everything he has, and while he’s excited to focus his time on the things he…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:40PMJONAH AND OTTO, a two-hander set to play New York City’s Theatre Row, follows two men — one 26, the other 57 — as they navigate a conversation and realize they have more in common than…
SOURCE: www.hollywoodsoapbox.com at 04:31PMI was fortunate to recently spend some time with accomplished acting coach and Director Larry Moss to talk about his new role as director of the play Breathing Under Dirt. Moss is well known…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PMFOUND IN THE STARS Lost in the Stars is quite possibly composer Kurt Weill’s magnum opus for the American Theater. The score is prime Weill, characteristically mixing high operatic sty…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:26PMMargaret Edson's "Wit," which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1999, is the best play ever written about cancer. In fact, I'd say it's the best play ever written about hospitals, too, and…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:25PMWhen it comes to surprise guests, choose wisely.
SOURCE: USA Today at 04:20PMJoseph Meli was a director for firm that partnered with StubHub, SeatGeek, other exchanges.
SOURCE: USA Today at 04:14PMIf you wished to come back as a Greco-Roman God, you could do far worse than to opt for Dionysus (Greek), also known as Bacchus (Roman), the god of wine, fertility and agriculture as well as…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 04:14PMThe bunker theatre is buried in an unused car park, mysteriously hidden away on Southwark street. With a winding and sloping entrance, the audience are met by friendly staff members who welc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:06PMThe Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to belatedly announce that the final seven interviews documented with the Mertz Gilmore Foundation grant to record African dancers and choreogra…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:06PMSaturday was the first night of the two-week celebration of the Chinese New Year. It is, by that country's calendar, year 4,715 (Year of the Rooster), and all that 11 young men from Beijing …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:05PMTo celebrate HAMILTON public booking opening today we've got the the third and final part of our countdown of great new musicals coming to London in 2017! Make 2017 your #YearofTheatre...
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 04:00PM
Ann Hamilton's latest work centers on a series of photographs taken through a substance called Duraflex.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:49PMOscar season is in full swing, and this year's roster of acting nominees has got us breaking into song and dance La La Land style! A few of the nominees are New York stage…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMPaul Ritter was a 2009 Tony nominee for his superb performance in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests and now the British stage and TV stalwart is appearing with Rufus Sewe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMPaul Wontorek sits down with Glenn Close, returning to the role that won her a Tony Award, fading silent film star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 129201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1292017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMAre you a fan of NASA and the scientific output of our national laboratories? Better enjoy it while our open scientific culture lasts. President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty. Pre…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:24PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS - read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 1/29…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMWeen returns to Morrison's fabled amphitheater this summer.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:24PMThe upcoming publication of "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," the first children's book ever published by Mark Twain, will be "a huge springboard into Twain's novels" for youths, say…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:19PMThe Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts will open in March.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMLeigh Fondakowski writes and directs the new testimonial play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
The Arden Theatre Company's production of Annie Baker's 'John' is unconventional and difficult to categorize, but worthwhile. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:58PMLady Gaga will take center stage at Super Bowl LI and EW has the scoop on what to expect.
SOURCE: USA Today at 02:56PMDoug Wright says the elimination of federal arts funding is an attempt to silence artists, who he defines as truth tellers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMBen Platt and the cast sing “You Will Be Found.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMBen Platt and the cast sing “You Will Be Found.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMA familiar voice was heard at the Broadway musical In Transit January 28. Charlie Pellett, the voiceover actor named “the most recognizable voice in New York” by The New Yorker m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMThe 32nd Annual Bistro Awards will be held March 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PMThe lavish new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, featuresCharlotte Maltbyas the new Maria Rainer, who began her national tour debut on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMSince Trump announced his executive order banning refugees and creating a de-facto religious test for immigrants on Friday, signatures on George Takei's petition have skyrocketed. As of this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMThe Israeli production of BILLY ELLIOT, one of the big winners of the 2016 BroadwayWorld Israel Regional Awards, made a special thank you video in response to their winnings announcement. In…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMThe original cast recording for the hit Broadway musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN will be released digitally on February 3rd, and will be available on CD in stores and online on February 24th. Below…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMRepurposed since 1968, the Hudson Theatre will relight in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMAn updated classic that rocks! Shakespeare’s comedy, As You Like It, is the icing on the Folger Theatre’s 25th season and its observance of the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s passin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMPuppet designer Blair Thomas explains how he created talking puppets for the Lookingglass Theatre production.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:11PMThe choice dish: Folger’s ‘As You Like It.’
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMWith fouettes as liberation and Odette as action hero, American Ballet Theatre’s staging is right for these times.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PM
In a chilly sleek courtroom as clinical as a laboratory dissection tray, thousands of human lives, morality, principles and the law are piled on opposite pans of the scale – except it’s …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PMWe know you miss having Falsettos' tight-knit family on the Great White Way—but don't break down! The cast recording is available for fans to listen to again and again (and aga…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMI ask you, thinking of The Founder: is it just a coincidence that the name Donald is imbedded in the name McDonald’s?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMThis week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth explains how Sean Hayes ruined things onstage while working stage crew, and shares more details about the Concert for America series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMFrom Richmond, Va., to Honolulu, Hawaii, from the boxing ring to a hidden garden, here is what is onstage this week.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:38PMLike many people on that Saturday after the presidential inauguration, I saw a woman walking to a demonstration carrying a peace sign.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 01:36PMTo coincide with the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective, Trisha Brown's dance piece 'Set and Reset' (1983) is being performed at Tate Modern, with set and costumes by the Ameri…
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:36PMThe Royal Ballet's dance-opera by composer Philip Glass is based on the writings of Jean Cocteau and directed and choreographed by Javier De Frutos
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:36PMThe season will include plays by Roundabout Underground alumni Joshua Harmon and Lindsey Ferrentino.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:29PMJust this weekend, the cast of In Transit welcomed a very special guest to the Circle in the Square Theatre. Charlie Pellett the voice wehear every day on subway,reminding us to Stand Clear …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMCompany will continue to produce musicals and plays in midtown
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:24PMNew agreement reached nearly seven months before the old one expired
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:24PMThe Actors Fund and Mount Sinai Doctors announced plans today to open a new health center for the performing arts and entertainment community in New York City. Scheduled to open in March 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMIn a setting that will be familiar to anyone who relied on the MTA to make it to the show, In Transit uses a subway station as a jumping off point, launching into the interconnecting lives o…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:18PM Theater Pizzazz’ Mark Ryan Anderson had the opportunity to speak with Tom Kitt at recent press previews about Tom’s upcoming show at 54 Below scheduled for February 9 and …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:08PMVoiceover actor Charlie Pellett got to deliver his famous warning in person.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PMJackie Chan's Long Yun Kung Fu Troupe from Beijing - Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E Congress Pkwy, is offering $25 industry tickets on Saturday, February 4 at 7:30PM. Celeb…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:03PMAbby Mueller will be the second from her Chicago family to lead the Broadway company of "Beautiful," it was announced Monday. Abby will play the title role in the Carole King jukebox mus…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:03PMMueller originated the role of Carole King in the show's first national tour.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
This theater’s $2 ticket increase is a similar response to market pressures that eventually sent some Off Broadway prices into the stratosphere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMThe Royal Court Theatre has announced that Gary Beadle, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Lashana Lynch, Shvorne Marks and Meera Syal have been cast in new play a profoundly affectionate, passionate de…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMHaving long gotten “the short end of the stick,” Sex Pistols founding member Steve Jones decided to write his autobiography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMScenes from BroadwayCon 2017 Previews of Anastasia, Amelia, Come From Away, Significant Other etc.; A surprise Q and A with Lin-Manuel Miranda via live video from London, followed by the int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMAs our Regional Theatre Focus in Leicester comes to an end, we meet some of the people who work at Curve
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:36PMThe playwright’s concerns over European directors ‘infecting’ British theatre are misplaced – the two-way traffic between the UK and Europe has benefited us allWith a hard Brexit on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThe new production of 'Fantastic Mr Fox', about a clever fox who outwits three farmers, is the latest Roald Dahl story to be turned into a musical
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:32PMThis awards season is shaping up to be one "theater nerds everywhere" can be proud of! The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards took place on January 29, and stage alums (and fiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMSchool of Rock's Steven Booth shows off five of his favorite dressing room items and proves he's one of the biggest kids in the show!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMAnother Muller is about to feel the earth move under her feet on Broadway. Abby Mueller, who headlined the national tour of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and sister of Jessie Mueller, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMDoreen Montalvo will head from the ensemble into the spotlight in On Your Feet!. The original cast member will assume the role of Gloria Fajardo—Gloria Estefan’s mother—beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMUp-and-coming English actress Jade Anouka, who plays Ariel in the Donmar Warehouse’s acclaimed production of The Tempest at St. Ann’s Warehouse, graciously allowed me to chat with her on…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:27PMBelow, The Hollywood Reporter has shared an exclusive first look at Tony winners Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in THE WIFE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMNBC has greenlit a pilot order to an untitled medical drama from Tony award-winner Warren Leight, Paul Haggis Crash and Sony TV. Leight will pen and executive produce the project.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMProducers Paul Blake and SonyATV Music Publishing announced today that Abby Mueller will play the title role in the Broadway company of Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, beginning March 7…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PM“La La Land” producer Fred Berger will produce Max Minghella’s directorial debut, “Teen Spirit,” alongside Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (“Midnight Special”) under their Automatik bann…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:22PMLocal version of Tony-winning musical a milestone in the establishment of a vibrant musical theatre culture in the GTA.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:20PMIn recent episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, several characters have been about to sing the praises of period sex when another character abruptly stops their musical flow. During last Fri…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:17PMCanadian actress has been playing role on Broadway for almost two years.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:07PMA Year From Now is everything you hope it would be. It’s very clever, it sounds good, it looks good, it has philosophical messages. A true delight.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMListen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to cast member Martin Jacobs about “The Present,” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Class Notes actively covers New York the current theater season…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMOriginal Broadway cast member Doreen Montalvo will take over the role of Gloria Estefan's mother.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMTheatre star Chilina Kennedy is taking a brief reprieve from New York to grace Toronto with her portrayal of American singer-songwriter Carole King
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PM
The announcement was made by Todd Fisher.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMAbby Mueller will join the cast of the Broadway musical as Carole King.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMBruce Springsteen slammed President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban during a concert in Australia on Monday, saying that the move is “fundamentally un-American.”
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:51AMIn December, 1940 the bodies of two prominent American writers who died within a day of each other, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel West were shipped cross country in a railcar. The stra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMIn the Italian countryside circa 1920s, some cheerful socialites are buoyed by the engagement of Corrado (Ashley Stillburn) to our female protagonist, Grazia (Zoe Doano). Headed for Grazia�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMIn most brilliant ‘will they, won’t they?’ stories, we kind of know that they will. But that doesn’t in any way soothe the special kind of aching frustration that bre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMI have seen few plays whose subject matter ranges from calorie counting to Bolshevism through Everton’s Youth Academy to The A-Team. I have seen even fewer which manage to remain entertain…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMBroadwayCon 2017 included several excellent panels, with topics ranging from defining success in the industry, to the importance of women’s writers, to tales from one of Broadway’s mos…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:36AMDirector Luis García Berlanga entertainingly but ruthlessly lampoons the cruelties and absurdities of Spanish life under dictatorship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMTwo Shakespeare plays resonate with particular intensity in the current moment in Groundling Theatre productions.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:32AMThe actor will return to her Olivier Award-winning role in Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places & Things at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMIn its 27th season, the venue presents works with messages of hope and social action.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMThe West End cast join the previously announced Tyrone Huntley and Ria Jones
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:24AMStephen Karam's comedy gets its UK premiere at Trafalgar Studios
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:24AMHer successor in the role of Gloria Estefan’s mother has been named.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMBelow, check out a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the show entitled 'Making of the NEWSIES Movie Event Return to Rehearsals' and check out a first listen to an all-new song perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMToday, producers of the smash-hit musical ON YOUR FEET announced that Original Broadway Cast member Doreen Montavlo In the Heights, Giant, Flashdance the Musical will take over the role of G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMAl Pacino, Miley Cyrus, and Keira Knightley are among those allegedly promised.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMMarried couple and Broadway actors Sebastian Arcelus and Stephanie J. Block were cast as husband and wife on the January 29 episode of CBS’ Madam Secretary. On the broadcast, series re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMLeight won a Tony Award for the jazz-themed Side Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMFour out of five theatre professionals who answered a poll by The Stage claim to have been left unpaid by an employer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMTony winner Close returns to Broadway next month in the revival of Sunset Boulevard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMGuardian theatre critic Michael Billington has claimed the National Theatre’s forthcoming season represents a “staggering dereliction” of its duty to stage classic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMThe Lyric Hammersmith has announces the cast of veteran stage actors who will take on the role of a group of teenagers in the European premiere of Australian hit play Seventeen, which runs f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM Ghostlight Records celebrated the cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of William Finn and James Lapine’s Tony Award-winning musical FALSETTOS – based on the Li…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:00AMI first met Stacey Mindich when we were both co-producers on 13. It was her second Broadway show, and it wasn’t long before I realized that she was a Mindich on a mission. I watche…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMDirected by Michael Unger, the Musical in Mufti production will run through February 5.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
A sing-along of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical Hamilton will be held the day before President’s Day.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMStarring in Fault Line Theatre’s production of Bekah Brunsetter’s new play The Oregon Trail, the wonderful Liba Vaynberg brings the show’s humor to life with her portrayal of “now Ja…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:53AMPatience Malarkey was alive and kicking and under the new direction of award winning Director Larry Moss, at the January 24th industry reading of Breathing Under Dirt at Cherry Lane Theatre …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMThe real-life husband and wife played a married couple on CBS’ Madam Secretary.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMThough Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may be on the other side of the world — they're currently performing in Australia —they haven't distanced themselves from the chaos that's …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:36AM“I’m the only woman in the show,” whispers Hannah Ringham’s voice wryly, “but I’m in charge.” Dancing Bear, Dancing Bear offers an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMRupert Simonian talks making his off-Broadway debut in Jonah and Otto, being a child actor, and the perfect way to spend a sunny afternoon in London.
SOURCE: BroadwayBox at 10:27AMAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMA world-premiere song from Bandstand, performances from Amélie, Come From Away, and more in this first look at the 2017 spring season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMThe improv show returns to Upright Citizens Brigade in Chelsea.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMToday is the birthday of Elise Cavanna (Elise Seeds, 1902-1963). Originally from Philadelphia, Cavanna took art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy before studying dance with Isadora Duncan.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMAs theatrical haunt Joe Allen celebrates its 40th birthday, Alun Hood raises a glass to the place and looks at what makes it so special
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:18AMThe producers have implemented a paperless ticket system in an attempt to combat touts
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:18AMMichael MustoMichael MustoIn the '70s and early '80s, Cindy Bullens emerged as a spunky rocker belting vividly created songs and earning a Grammy nomination in the process. On the road to su…
SOURCE: Out at 10:15AMPLAY - The Subterranean Season takes in plays 23-26 in their ever-growing programme of short plays, devised in just two weeks by a collaboration of writers, directors and actors up for the c…
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The New 1934 Live from Broadway Broadcast Revue is held at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMInterAct's premiere of Mary Tuomanen's 'MARCUS/EMMA' presents two fascinating characters but traps them in a tedious limbo. Mark Cofta reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:43AMBy Samuel L. Leiter Damon Chua’s Incident at Hidden Temple, a world premiere at the Clurman, kicks off the 40th season of the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, an accomplishment for which compa…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:42AMBy Daniel Alexander Jones. Daniel Alexander Jones talks about the women who raised him in theatre, and encourages artists to not lose sight of the power of imagination.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:37AMJohn Boyega will be joined by Sarah Green, Nancy Carroll, and Steffan Rhodri.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMStefan Bednarczyk, Claire-Marie Hall, Dale Rapley and Simon Willmont star in the world premiere of new Bateman and Conley musical THE SORROWS OF SATAN, which has a limited season starting ne…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 09:31AMBy Michael Lueger. A conversation with Alejandro Garcia-Reidy about discovering a previously-unknown work by Spanish Golden Age playwright Lope de Vega.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:25AMBelgrade, CoventrySatinder Chohan’s compelling play about a woman desperate to become a mother draws intense performances from its castWhen Satinder Chohan commenced work on a drama set in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThe idea that President Trump might bring a sledgehammer to federal arts and humanities agencies and public broadcasting has set off a furious response.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThis drama about a French diplomat who has a lengthy affair with a Chinese opera singer will be revived on Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThe nominations event on March 6 will also be carried live online.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMCLIVE OWEN TO STAR IN DAVID HENRY HWANG’S TONY AWARD®-WINNING PLAY M. BUTTERFLY IN A NEW PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY TONY AWARD® WINNER JULIE TAYMOR OPENS ON BROADWAY OCTOBER 26, 2017 AT A TH…
SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 09:18AMScreen star Clive Owen will return to Broadway this fall in a revival of David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning M. Butterfly. As previously speculated, Julie Taymor will direct the revival. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:12AMBelow, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for the week of January 30- February 5, 2017.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11AM Sarah Stiles does a lot of things. She sings, she dances, she acts, she crochets cozy hats and scarves in her spare time. And she’s picked up quite a few fans (and a Tony nomination) pl…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 09:00AMWest End musicals Kinky Boots and Wicked have both announced new booking periods.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMRichard H. Blake made his Broadway debut at the age of 12 and his long resume is very impressive. After playing a slew of bad guys, he finally gets to tackle the role of a good father in A B…
SOURCE: broadwaywiz.com at 09:00AMDavid Henry Hwang's Tony-winning play will be directed on Broadway by Julie Taymor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
By Barbara & Scott Siegel The British called their working class theater “Kitchen Sink Drama.” One is tempted to call the new American play created by the Neo-Futurists, “Ev…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:52AMListen: Clive Owen to Lead “M. Butterfly” on Broadway, Roundabout Announces Off-Broadway Season, Schuyler Sisters are Going Super! “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Mon…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:30AMClive Owen will team with director Julie Taymor on a new Broadway production of “M. Butterfly,” the 1988 play about a romance between a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMProducers Nelle Nugent, Steve Traxler, Kenneth Teaton, Benjamin Feldman, and Doug Morris CEO, Sony Music, announced today that Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Clive Owen …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:30AMThe fall 2017 revival of David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning drama will mark visionary director Julie Taymor's first Broadway project since 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.' read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30AMDavid Henry Hwang’s Tony winner is headed for a revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AMA chill permeates Ashes. It’s a melancholic, mournful portrait of obsession that doesn’t try to explain the destructive acts it depicts. Instead,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMThe NT usually manages a balance between revivals and new work. Now, classic plays are disappearing from its stages – and from regional reps tooDavid Hare has made the headlines with a dam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is Simon Stephens' charming adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel of the same name. The story of Christopher Boone is one that has touched man…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM
Brandon Uranowitz spoke to Theater Pizzazz’ Mark Ryan Anderson about his upcoming debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below: Tony Award nominee Brandon Uranowitz makes his F…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:52AMStar Wars star John Boyega will be joined in the cast of Woyzeck by Sarah Greene, Nancy Carroll, Ben Batt and Steffan Rhoddri at London's Old Vic Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:46AM by Carol Rocamora “We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” says Prospero in The Tempest. Two fearless women of the British theatre share a passionate dream – to …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 07:40AMWriter Julian Fellowes has claimed that period productions, such as his musical Half a Sixpence, have less of a responsibility to cast
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMLittle about Margaret, Duchess of Argyll was in moderation. Beautiful, wealthy, flamboyant, sexually voracious, she was the epitome of upper class 1930s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMTraverse, EdinburghFisk, a meditative evocation of mental breakdown onboard a paper boat, is a highlight at the festival of animation, puppetry and movementThere’s a turntable in the Trave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMJulian Fellowes has claimed period stage productions have less of a responsibility to employ diverse casts than shows set in the modern
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMBill Nighy has been honoured with a special award for his services to radio at the BBC Audio Drama Awards, which also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMNow in their 28th year, the annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards take place tomorrow (Tuesday 31 January 2017) at the West End’s Prince of Wales Theatre. The Awards, founded in 1989…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Broadway legend Lillias White makes her London stage debut in THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN', the concert show celebrating - and radically reinterpreting - the music of jazz icon Fats Waller, which c…
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 06:45AMPuccini’s beloved La Boheme is founded on a combination of grim reality and romantic pathos that is either glorious or problematic depending
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMClive Owen is set to star this fall in the first Broadway revival of the 1988 Tony best play M. Butterfly, with Julie Taymor (The Lion King, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark) directing.
Last s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30AMLip-synced verbatim is a new experience for this reviewer, and if you’re not used to it there is a brief moment where you need to get on board with the style. Luckily Red Belly Black are s…
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Jack Thorne's new version of Buchner's play opens at the Old Vic
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:54AMSend in the clones. Javier de Frutos splits the characters into multiples in Philip Glass’s operatic interpretation of Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMMichael Matus and George Rae will play Dionysos and Xanthias in the UK premiere of the latest Broadway version of rarely performed musical Stephen Sondheim musical The Frogs, an hilarious se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:18AMWe always suspected specs-tacular #StageFaves Michael Matus and George Rae were Greek gods - and here's the proof. They'll play Dionysus and Xanthias (well, ancient Greek characters anyway) …
SOURCE: Stage Faves at 05:18AMAward-winning lighting designer Lucy Carter is rarely restricted in her art. Though best known for her collaborations with choreographer Wayne McGregor, she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAlmost five years after its award-winning run at Soho Theatre, Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna’s autobiographical two-hander returns to London, now at the Arts Theatre on the West End. The p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com 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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Vienna State Opera, Vienna presents “Tosca,” an opera to be performed on January 31, 2017.Giacomo Puccini’s opera will be directed by Plácido Domingo and conducted by Margarete Wallma…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:31AMVienna State Opera, Vienna presents “Salome,” an opera to be performed on January 30, 2017.The opera originally composed by Richard Strauss will be directed by Boleslaw Barlog and conduc…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 03:20AMBeginning in 1926, organizations across the country celebrated Negro History Week, first established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson to “raise awareness of African American’s contributi…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM
Vienna State Opera, Vienna presents “Don Giovanni,” an opera to be performed on January 29, 2017.The opera originally composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be directed by Jean-Louis M…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:59AM“We still need to get into position where you can go to the chemist, say you’re having a panic attack, ask if they mind you meditating for a bit and no one will bat an eyelid, ju…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54AMLoren O’Dair describes the making of a show that combines art and activism – and challenges you to join them in taking control and re-shaping the public narrative around the refugee cris…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54AMBlue Herons and Other Good Omens Come to Roost in the Castaways Repertory Theatre’s Current Comic Delight If you aren’t familiar with Christopher Durang’s popular comedy Vanya and Soni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52AMSandi Toksvig debuts a new comedy, Crew for Calais take over the Vault festival for a good cause and Bristol’s Tobacco Factory hosts a double bill from Manipulate about a doomed romance an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMPress performances for David Ives' sharp and funny verse comedy THE LIAR began just around the time when political headlines were being made about the phrase 'alternative facts.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32AMLillie Flynn has worked mostly in musical theatre, and juggles her career as an actor with one as a musician. She talks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe new year never feels like it has really begun until The Stage Awards come around. It’s one of the best annual
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMEast Asian actor Eugenia Low has just finished playing Ariel in The Tempest at the Cockpit Theatre, having studied under and worked
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